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All MRAs I’ve ever heard were downright weird in their worldview. There are some problems worth fighting for (nothing comparable with what women faced and still face), sure, but that doesn’t seem to be their focus. Their focus seems to be demonizing feminists and derailing. (Let’s quickly talk about custody: feminists and MRAs could actually be marching in exactly the same direction: The root cause of the problem are strict gender roles, women are for taking care of children, men are for working. But no, feminists are to blame. MRAs also love using warped statistics, but that is very much besides the point. There is no reasonableness in that movement.)

The text implies that some sort of MR movement would spring up as a widespread reaction to feminism (and it doesn’t have any comparable issues to fight for, it doesn’t have the numbers, it doesn’t have the intellectual depth nor the academic backbone). It did spring up as a tiny reaction to feminism. Wikipedia tells me that the movement has its roots in the 1970s, so it’s not like this would have been something completely new in 1987. It’s hard to say, but I see no reason to believe that the MR movement is that much bigger than it was in 1987. And it still defines itself as a reaction to feminism. Which makes about zero sense. All the issues they are fighting for were not caused by feminism. Far from it. Many feminists will be perfectly capable of recognizing them as valid problems. (But, again, that’s very much besides the point.)
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In response: the danger of purely self-guided reading is that you may pursue your own inclinations too far without reference to what else is out there. Autodidacts are notorious for strangely uneven knowledge, knowing everything about some small topic, and not much about large areas of common knowledge.
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The problem is that the people you'd most like to hire probably have little interest in taking a programming test. So you're just filtering them out and left with the dregs. For this to work you need one of the following:

* Problems that are so interesting that people would hack on them just for the fun of it, even if they have no interest in the job.

* A company that's high profile enough (and in a good way) that they can have slightly abusive hiring practices and still get an abundance of good candidates.

* You're looking for inexperienced or desperate people.

The canonical example of using programming problems as a pre-filter was ITA software, who had both of the first points covered. There's some great discussion on this in the HN archives, e.g. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3429231
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Parent is probably not a native English speaker - I can see that behaviour in myself too. I'd typically think about some words the way I'd read them in my native language, even if I'd never actually pronounce them that way. That makes it easier to make a spelling mistake that's keeping the word close to the original spelling (for example the "s" is pretty strong when I "think" Louis, even if I would never pronounce it).

There are some benefits to that - there's no way to make a mistake with they're/their... they're two completely different words!
I've noticed this over the years when reading developer blogs via sites like Planet GNOME.

In the first half of the last decade, there seemed to be highly motivated, talented groups of contributors who helped build and maintain momentum in many popular open source projects like Gnome. I'm not saying there aren't top notch developers still working on FOSS, but many of those big-name 'rockstar' contributors seem to have either been lured to a competing/alternative platform, or just simply lost interest.

I often wonder if age plays an important role, with many former wide-eyed, young, idealistic developers possibly adopting an attitude along the lines of "meh. Maybe I should just buy a Mac and worry less about ideals and philosophies" as they get older and priorities change.
The page doesnt change while your viewing the samples, I believe this is a feature of enyo, more pages with less HTML, it is all based on JavaScript with HTML and CSS working in the background to render the buttons and other widgets.
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This bug doesn't only happens to the homepage, but also to old threads, where when you click "More" at the bottom of the page to read the next page of comments, you get such error message instead. If you wait a bit, go back to the previous page, refresh and click on "More" again, it goes away, but it is certainly annoying.
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Just to chip in on the tiling window managers: i3[1] is a really nice one which doesn't need a lot of configuration. Since switching from Window Maker, which I had been using for 10+ years, it has been the only window manager that didn't make me switch back.

(I tried out Xmonad, Awesome, Stumpwm and some other window managers over the years. Awesome was pretty close to awesome.)

i3 has a couple of issues I like to see resolved but all-in-all I'm very happy with it.

[1] http://i3wm.org/
Yes, and putting a CDN node where the fiber terminates seems much much simpler (they might already do it for TV feeds anyway).
I like how the bad examples all come from previous versions of Android!
Well... http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/opensource/rip-compiz/3402

Sooo, all others move away from compiz (which is poorly maintained anyway).
While I agree it's a feature, I'm pretty sure it works the opposite way. The idea is that you want the second page to be "stale": if you've just spent time reading the front page, when you click to the second page you should be getting all new links.

This comes at a cost though, because the server must cache all the possible second pages that might be requested. So HN makes a compromise and caches them for an hour or so. If you wait an hour, it will have been evicted from the cache and the error will appear.
I think they'll be showing these comments both in person's wall in the Facebook and on the app's page in the App Store.

And also keep in mind that YouTube commenters don't talk like that all the time. It's just YouTube bringing the worst out of them! The same is true for Facebookers (although FB is much better than YT); people's "tone" will change when they know they're writing this "review" for their friend on Facebook (or at least, they know their friends will see them attached to their username). Some people might actually write better reviews (less anonymity), but I think most will write worse reviews.
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I really did want to like Gnome 3 but just nothing about it made me want to use it over Unity. I'm a fairly new Linux user who has used quite a bit of Unity, Gnome 3 and Gnome 2. Gnome 2 is great, I wouldn't hold onto Gnome 3 just because I want to stay away from Unity. Without add-ons of some kind Gnome 3 was completely unusable for anything I wanted to use it for.
Curious why they don't have another mid range offering, 5Mb/s free then 1000Mbs at $70 are the only options? I would love something in the $15-$25 range.
It used to be "by hackers for hackers". Now it's "by enthusiasts for hypothetical everyday users".

Personally, I moved away from gnome when 2.4 (or maybe it was 2.6) took out the "launch a terminal" option from the desktop right-click menu.
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First of all that's a straw man as obviously all Free software developers don't feel the way he does. Secondly, it occurs to me that maybe people don't use Gnome 3 because, like me, they just don't like it. I don't like the way it looks, nor do I like the way it works. These days I go between Gnome 2, Unity, and an Open box/fbpanel setup on my different computers. I'm not in love with any of my desktops at the moment but I like them all better than Gnome 3.
>The problem is that the people you'd most like to hire probably have little interest in taking a programming test. So you're just filtering them out and left with the dregs. For this to work you need one of the following:

That may be the case if you're trying to headhunt experienced developers who are currently in good jobs.

But if you're an unemployed programmer, or an employed programmer actively looking for a different job, why wouldn't you take a programming test? Programming tests and technical interviews where you have to code are normal and expected for coding jobs, at least in my experience.
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Gnome 3 shattered the experience and momentum.

While Gnome 2 was gradually approaching ultimate goodness with its essential configurability (not too many knobs but an explicit set of gconf properties that you could tune if you wanted to), consistency, ease of use, and ten years of GTK2 providing a platform for applications that look and behave uniformly, it was certainly lacking in the integration side (networking, messaging, etc.) for which Gnome 3 is a response.

However, Gnome 3 broke so many little things that it doesn't matter what the new features do. This is one of the cases where Microsoft has been right: when you're big enough, don't muck with backwards-compatibility.
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> I'm fascinated that all the real innovation going on in desktop environments (gnome3, unity, windows 8) seems to be taking a hammering.

Envy-driven development is not a good model. Desktop environments do not need tablet features in the first place...

> This is possibly just a case of the vocal minority and normal resistance to change but it will be interesting to see it all shake out in a year or two.

Or the opposite can be true - a powerful minority (project/company leaders), envious of other companies' success on tablets, decided to spend a lot of resources to try to enter this space, to the detriment of the majority of their (desktop) users.
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Interesting to see that P2P has gone down 6% and downloads up 3%, whereas physical media has stayed the same. It's clear where the growth market is, now the RIAA just has to read their own numbers.

The one thing that puzzles me is that the numbers for burning have gone up. Who in the time of wireless networking, huge disk drives and USB sticks burns a DVD? I just can't see this segment growing 6% in a year.
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12per hour with benefits is right in line with what payscale reports as the average for admin assistants in Manhattan.

Which is just slightly more than average pay for baristas.
"being able to make a simple CRUD app" does not mean the person has learned "to code".
The reality is that the classical concept of copyright, where it is illegal to make a copy of a covered work without authorization from the rightsholder, cannot be enforced in a digital world. The further reality is that people are not motivated by the moral argument that consumer-facing copyright law is an intrinsic good that must be universally respected.

Together, this means that no one is going to heed that aspect of copyright law. We have to adapt. There are still plenty of ways to make money on intellectual property, but it's time to just let go of this concept that piracy can or should be fought. It's an outmoded idea that has been shown irrelevant in a world of instantaneous, perfect replicas.

Big media is throwing a fit because it doesn't know what else to do and causing all kinds of collateral damage to both legal and technical systems in the process. We need to face facts and just tell them to calm down, grow up, and accept that their old business model doesn't work in the new frontier of widespread content digitization.

I think there is still a place for commercial copyright. I think that one can still make a bunch of money selling access to copyrighted material. It's still enforceable and reasonable to sue Studio A if they use content from Studio B in their latest blockbuster without a license. This is much, much different than downloading a movie instead of driving to the rental store.

Old media is constantly screwing themselves over by choosing to pour money into legislative influence and lawsuits instead of innovative content delivery platforms that could be bringing in $50+/mo/user. Right now, all that potential revenue is lost because the studios are so busy hoarding their material that often unauthorized channels are the only places that content is easily available.

The attempts that have been made suck; the TV people don't want to let go of ads as a revenue stream, prohibitive DRM and lockdown everywhere and on everything, forced to use Flash Player to watch video, forced to use special adapters to access content as desired, etc. It seems these people are just incapable of an objective analysis of the consequences and realities of digitization. Are there any ways we can help inform and create meaningful distinctions, or do we just have to wait until everyone with an irrational attachment to the old tricks of the trade retires?
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I would like to posit that the vast majority successful open-source projects are successful precisely because the developers are avid users.

Motivation goes beyond money.
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I think they are missing the point here: each track was paid for, but shared twice (on average). Perhaps music rentals and broadcast would paint a fuller picture?
For what it's worth, I've been very pleased with Gnome 3 and the new direction and focus in Gnome interface and design.
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> Filter values based on filter types (supported are: email, striptags)

Striptags is not a security tool, it is a presentation tool.

> Output filtering on all values (preventing XSS)

I'm still trying to figure out how you've implemented this.
> this is a good question: how to deal with surplus labor that gets displaced by robots? We might want to move more slowly for the sake of social stability

I doubt the answer is to move slowly. But you've put your finger on a very real problem that needs to be addressed. To use a household analogy, innovators can be like cooks who produce wonderful meals but don't give much thought to the resulting mess in the kitchen.
While I'm not a PHP fan, I sincerely wish the average web developer were more security conscious and so I applaud the effort here. Having been the grouchy security guy on more projects than I can remember, I can attest that it's a thankless and tiresome job. The better you do, the less it will be appreciated.
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Now that's true. Talk about competing with your critical partners..!

But I'm not 100% convinced Zuckerberg isn't playing Steve Jobs here. I guess we'll see.
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Or not, site appears to be down for me.
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Yes, it is a feature, a feature that leads to a terrible user experience, so while it may not be a bug due to it being by design, its still a really big defect.

In my personal instance: I would be much more of a contributor to HN If I didn't have this problem on a daily basis.

Usually it happens after I have tabs open, go get some food, come back, and I need to start my browsing on HN all over again as a result, usually this only happens once, because I say fuck it and go elsewhere.

What are the pro's that make this con worth it? I'm not seeing it, its just a big massive pain in the ass.
By making the low tier free, they avoid many costs. Billing. Tech support. Compared to their gigabit-chewing neighbors, the free tier isn't even using bandwidth of any significance.

Supporting a middle tier would cost as much as the high tier in everything except bandwidth. The one-time payment of the free tier helps pay for the infrastructure in the neighborhood, but doesn't incur any real costs after that. (I expect customer support for free will consist of a web form to report an outage, and a wiki.)
Looking at the changelog and the pace of releases is very heartening!

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We were used to building stuff in static, strongly typed languages. We had powerful IDE support, stable libraries, old and proven frameworks. There was always the right tool, the right library, the right idiom, the right way.

There was confidence and security in the well known world of stuff you already tried and built. The confidence that came from the knowledge of how difficult or easy something could be. The skill of estimation was fine tuned, and the feeling for effort was strong.

It was not the fact that nothing could go wrong that was comforting. It was the power to know what, when and where could go wrong.

An anxiety-neutral condition, with limited set of behaviors to deliver a steady level of performance, usually without a sense of risk.

A true comfort zone.

Then we chose Node.js for a project. We are yet to see how wise a decision that was business wise, but it was certainly good for the soul.
This isn't true for everyone. I like making nice things. That's the "itch" that I'm scratching, not a hole in my life that I'm trying to fill.
tl;dr: we tried something new, namely node.js. We liked it. You too should try something new from time to time.

What's newsworthy about this post, beyond being positive to a project that everyone seems to like (including me)?
I've rewritten entire python codebase of my company in node.js several weeks ago.

I like the 'purity' of it all now. It irks me still that js isn't really comforting at actual scripting.
I like your explanation of this feature. I guess it rarely works for me because I open dozens of tabs when I start and some of them inevitably become stale if I do something else in between and then go back to read some hacker news discussion.

I often and up just closing discussions having a "more"-link since it tends to frustrate me one way or another. I wish there was an option to disable "more"-links entirely (or is there?) I can see how it's useful for small screens but full-size on a 27"+ screen or in portrait mode (my preference for browsing the web) I think seeing 500+ comments on one page would be totally fine :-)

(Ideally, after reloading it, new submissions would be highlighted, one can only dream)
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Using the camera would remove a step - have you seen word lens? http://questvisual.com/us/ (though it doesn't seem to support kanji).
I know that unemployment is high but how does a shift from say 6% (arbitrary number as I'm not american so don't know the numbers) to 9% have such dramatic effects, if you spin it round and say that employment has dropped from 94% to 91% the stats sound pretty good - wrong direction change granted.

Jumping from 6% to 9% means half as many more are now looking for work.

I must be missing something somewhere so if someone can explain this I would very much appreciate it.
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What about the app automagically saving the linked content in a cache and if the link ever goes dead, or content vanishes, to present the cached version to users?
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If you want to be hit over the head with great design work then you should head to Dribbble at least once every few days. Head to the Popular section to see what the community has voted as the best designs for that day, or search for things like "icon" or "iPhone" to see a wealth of not just great work, but also people that you can contract design work out to. I'm a designer and I think most of my inspiration now comes from browsing Dribbble.

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