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This article misses two absolutely critical points to the gender neutral debate.

1. Removing (or reducing) fixed gender stereotypes allows individuals to express themselves withut fear that they are different, or that some how their behavior is wrong. Weather girls prefer Barbies and boys prefer GI Joes is not relevant here. There are a significant number of kids who don't conform to gender stereotypes, and this is expressed through out someones life. The harder we make it for them as a kid to express preferences the more repressed they will be. The fact that some (but not all) of us break through this (women in technology...) is evidence of this problem.

2. That gender stereotypes are detrimental to the world, and the less we subconsciously enforce them, the easier it is for us to create a world where gender is not a factor in equality any more. We attach huge value to the gendered attribute of things, and we do it subconsciously because of the immense amount of gender biased media we have been exposed to over the years. The shock that (some) people express when they hear that a man they have met is a nurse, or that the woman they have just met is a truck driver causes fear of self identification.

You don't have to make a boy play with a doll, but you absolutely should make dolls available to him, without biasing the media he sees so that he thinks only girls play with dolls. Only then can he make a decision on what toy to play with without the influence of millennia of patriarchy.

I'd like to think that most HN readers are enlightened and are intellectually sensitive enough to not see gender biases by default, or at least work hard to over come them. And that this is a symtom of the uneducated, but I know that is not that case with everyone. I have seen it a thousand times in technology, and the only way we can ever change this is by starting young and eradicating gender bias where ever we see it.
That reasoning assumes that the number of subscriptions is going to be the same regardless of the change in their policies. If including a more reasonable plan for higher priced purchases allowed a greater volume into the store, then that could help make up the difference.

I also question the assumption that they continue to need this level of revenue. If the app store was a little more than breaking even two years ago, they should be able to take advantage of growth and better efficiencies since then.
I cant figure it out either, but I think it just means that you will always need shelter, so prices going up is bad for you.

At first I took "shorting" literally, and thought it meant I borrowed a house, sold it, and now I need to buy it back at some point. It probably just means "in need of", with a bit of financial connotation?

"Define short"

7. low in amount; scanty: short rations.

9. below the standard in extent, quantity, duration, etc.: short measure.

10. having a scanty or insufficient amount of (often followed by `in or `on ): He was short in experience.
I found the author's style engaging and simple enough for the broader audience. I'd like to see more of this, perhaps continuation of the thought and description of mortgage backed bonds and CDOs ?
Like with any other language, I've found that frequent interaction with financial terms improves your literacy and helps you make better connections between ideas. For instance, a few years ago when Southwest Airlines seemed to have much lower prices than everyone else, I read that they had bought futures contracts back when oil prices were low. Right there you have a company that's 'naturally short' oil, who 'hedged' against rising prices by buying 'futures', etc. A couple of good sources for financial news are the APM Marketplace podcast and Felix Salmon's blog on Reuters, and you can look up terms on Wikipedia when needed.

Keep in mind that a bunch of the commonly recommended finance books are either a bit pop-finance (Liar's Poker) or somewhat outdated (Intelligent Investor), which is OK if your goal is to be entertained or well-versed, respectively. Most authors have a thesis, and if you were to only devote time to one book and it happened to be something like Fooled by Randomness, you'd find yourself with a very skewed view of things. That's why I'd suggest current news if you're only interested in financial terms as they relate to your job.

And finally, like with any other jargon, realize that while it's useful to know and can help formulate ideas, a lot of people overuse it. Not saying this article does it, but I've seen finance people go "short" undesirable menu items at a restaurant. Don't let the gratuitousness make you think these terms are more important than they are :)
That single check could potentially be a branch mis-predict.
I recently did Angelhack SV with a friend, and knew Singly was going to be big because almost every single team with a login feature was using Singly.
this happens when you die, universe segfaults, or it continues running in hell, limbus or heaven. depends on where it lands. hell has 9 rings. goal is to end up in ring 0 . heaven
Sorry for my delayed response. I haven't read those links yet (I am planning to, but don't want to forget to comment) but... if AMD lost out because Intel had deals with the OEMs, AMD should have made those kind of deals, even if they had to pay a pretty penny, or AMD should have created it's own end-to-end PC business, or AMD should have purchased an OEM, or whatever. It's just business strategy. At the end of the day, if AMD could not make it happen, they should have let their IP be acquired by someone else and let someone else have a go at it. Or they should have diversified their business (which I guess they did do, successfully) and then waited for a better opportunity to go after the CPU market later.

Ultimately, it's barbaric for the government to use guns to stop Intel from making its own business decisions in the market, which is what people are directly advocating whenever they accuse Intel of being "anti-competitive" or a monopoly.
Stanislaw Lem actually has a story precisely on this subject.
This is especially valid as the Google server sends a far-future expires header (see below), so as soon as the browser has the file in its cache it won't even try to contact the Google server for a new version of the file.

So even if Google's servers go down, the browser will still use its locally available file (even without a possible delay, when waiting for a timeout).

$ curl -I ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.7.2/jquery.min.js
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
[...]
Expires: Sat, 07 Dec 2013 05:29:17 GMT
[...]
Thanks for the feedback! Surveys have their limitations, of course, and after years of experience I have found that (depending on the goals) it is sometimes better to allow the respondent to "interpret" a little for themselves rather than restricting them too much. Thanks again (and I have noted your encryption comments too).
Does Stripe have product managers?
If you can afford to, get as close to the action as possible (I take it in this case it would be to join a startup).

In my personal opinion, startups aren't really a viable business strategy. The general idea of a startup is to attract investors to your idea with no reasonable timeframe regarding profitability, instead focusing on fast tracking the creation of a product/s. I really prefer the small business approach of prototyping and reworking to reach profitability and with every action taken to keep in mind the most important question: how will this directly make me money?
All about Two-Phase Locking and a little bit MVCC
Normally you use an HDD without any write cache and if you do use a write cache along the way (on the HDD or on the server) you make sure you are battery backed.

SSD is a bit different since even if you do not use write caching on the SSD there is a non-trivial amount of meta data that is kept in RAM and needs to be written safely to the media. You need quite a bit of juice to do all this work which is entails keeping most of the hardware working.

Even the HDD has enough capacitor power to park the head back and lock it safely. But I believe that you don't really need all hardware operating at full capacity, only enough spin to rotate and to pull the head back and the spin continues even if you don't power it for the parking time.

Both HDD and SSD do not guarantee much about an IO that was started writing but an acknowledgement wasn't sent about it. SCSI standard from which all disks derive requirements doesn't require anything in such a case and leaves it as undefined.
Because everyone needs to live somewhere, if they don't own a house, they are hurt if house prices (and 'therefore' rents) rise.

To avoid being affected by something external (like house price fluctuations), it makes sense to own a property (or invest in property-related stocks). But only enough to cover your needs.

If you buy a too-big house, or several houses, you'll be in the situation of hoping for house prices rises - meaning that you'll benefit if prices rise - beyond the additional cost that you'll face in the current property markets.

The surprising point of the article is that it is natural to assume that no property = no exposure. But that's not true in the case of housing.
I too thought it was fuzzy. In fact, I'm still reasonably sure that the implementation still doesn't actually guarantee it reserves that space, despite how the documentation is now worded, although I am not an authority on this subject. It might be interesting to check out the CFArray implementation on opensource.apple.com and see what that does (although CFMutableArray treats capacity a bit differently than NSMutableArray to begin with).
I think same can be said about almost anything vastly popular.
EU identifies 6 issues to modernize digital copyright
How about an office with "cubicles." Problem solved.
taxes on 100m are not 10m more like 45m as the top tax rate in germany is 45%. The 100m a year is gross revenue also not net profit so he is probably pulling in a lot less after operating costs. People just get greedy and dont want to pay their taxes
"most porn websites today are usability hell"

How do you know :)?

They are scripts for almost every successful model out there but the problem is reaching mass user adoption. For under $1000 you can have a site done, logo and all but if not enough people submit their videos...
It kind of is/kind of isn't.

Without this rule, it makes it easy to circumvent Apples payment altogether.

And of course, there are some things that Apple should be be getting 30% for.

It is not black and white. I wonder how Microsoft will handle this in their store? I would be surprised if they did not copy Apples model, as they already have.
When to Utilize Indie Game Bundles During Your Game's Lifespan
I'd like to look at btrfs, but right now I really want a raidz. I understand btrfs cannot (can it?) help me in any way here.
So I take it you've reviewed the source? Sat and watched a packet stream? The thing is I've heard lots of complaints about it infringing privacy, but not from someone who's also reviewed the source, it's all just second hand information.
You can't, because apple rejects your app, if it is in any way connected with a website that offers payment. In other words, apple doesn't allow you to circumvent this "30% tax" by accepting only website payments. If you accept payments, you have to accept them also on iOS. At least that was the case with our relatively new app.
Ubuntu Is Evil?
Ditch my laptop for a tablet with a portable keyboard?

Well, maybe, but not before I have a suitable replacement for my desktop (Bluetooth keyboard, wireless Logitech mouse, 30" external monitor), which is currently also my laptop. I do travel from time to time, but I try to minimize it.
Yeah, it's a good idea to learn Python well. And perl.

But... sitting here in this cubicle, in front of a PuTTy window working on a production server for a large financial institute to manipulate text files and I don't have access to either of those. Ruby is not installed.

Most of the time cut, comm, paste, diff, tr and ed|sed does my job. When they aren't, then there is an old awk binary. So, it depends on the job and the tools you have. IMO every developer should learn the bare minimum about UTP utilities. It won't hurt.
If Apple allows in-app purchases freely, what may happen is that every app is a free app, and the first screen is a screen asking you to buy the paid app. I have already experience a similar experience in some apps like NYT where basically you need in-app subscription. As a user, I felt that I was faked into thinking that it is a free app. On the other hand, it is also crazy for Apple to prevent any sort of in-app upgrades.
Where is the cell, I am down in mtv?
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I hope no one goes has an epileptic attack watching that.
Presumably, they'd 'invest' that $1M @ 2.5% to get 25K/yr, nicely paying off their rent, and keeping the capital in place.

And if they invest it at 2.5% + inflation, they'd never run out their capital either.

So your conclusion is incorrect.

The way I see it, land (+ house) provides inherent value - ala equity in a stock, and unlike gold or cash. So buying a house, is an investment, since it'll presumably last beyond your lifetime, and continue to deliver value.
Remove the '/' from the end of the link.
Yep, that's the reality of app store. Want to push a serious bug fix? Be prepared to wait 2 weeks or more. Could be up to a month, if reviewer decides that your app violates some rule that previous reviewer didn't notice or didn't care about.
Bad customer service all around, then.
I think this may vary by state. A friend gave 2-weeks notice and was fired immediately (from a non-tech-sector job) and said that, according to the state, he wasn't eligible for unemployment, because he had resigned.

Probably there was some kind of paperwork that the office had to file to make him eligible, which it didn't occur to them to do in this case. I'm willing to bet that its something they should have done, although I could definitely be wrong.
Same here.

Is there an app with traction that helps people like us find fellow hackers to collaborate with. If not, sounds like an idea right there. Want to help build it?
It seems like you think that baddox might be trying to make a "point" that is more complicated than what they have written in their posts.

baddox>>>All patents, and in fact all forms of intellectual property protection, by definition apply only to abstract ideas.

Looking at his posts, I'm not sure that baddox was "leading anywhere". Baddox may have just been making a simple statement of fact.

AnthonyMouse>>>Take any given patent and you can find some degree of abstraction in it. The question is in some sense whether there is anything else there too...

Correct! This is what is addressed in the lengthy amicus brief, which is summarized by the fine blog poster. Here is a quote that the blogger felt was representative of the amicus position:

>>>Many computer-related patent claims just describe an abstract idea at a high level of generality and say to perform it on a computer or over the Internet.

>>>... describe an abstract idea at a high level of generality...

I suspect that the key here is the phrase "high level of generality", not "abstract idea". So a more accurate article title could be "Companies ask courts to reject patents that are described at a high level of generality". According to current patent law, patents must be useful - a vague, broad, or general idea is not useful or difficult to create. According to current patent law, patents must be new - which currently means "non obvious to an ordinary person in the inventor's field". Patent law has changed over time as a result of legislative action and Supreme Court action, and will presumably continue to do so.

The reason why these companies signed and submitted this amicus brief is to influence the court into taking some action that will benefit them. Private citizens are permitted to submit amici as well.

There are some links about copyright below. The summaries are very accessible, but are overly simplistic. The actual text of the legislation is also overly simplistic. The Legislature may pass a law that seems fairly readable, but this is deceptive because the Judiciary and the Executive are the interpreters and enforcers of these laws. When you notice that you vehemently do not agree with an interpretation or enforcement of a law, you must communicate this in some way to the government. Citizens generally communicate by voting, direct communication(such as amicus briefs or visible protests), and civil disobedience(nonviolent but illegal actions).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Title_35_of_the_United_States_C...

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

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_Clause
My guess is that you are more likely to have shops selling charging as a service where mains power is problematic. Also http://biolitestove.com/
Thanks for posting this. It's going right on my weekend to-do short list.
JavaScript PDP-1 emulator running the original code of “Spacewar!” from 1962
Your answer on gold has definitely made me think.

If the 'store of value' argument is obvious to you, it's also obvious to a lot of other people.

I don't know, I mean, there's lots of smart people who think gold bugs are just nutty libertarian types, and then there are other smart people who aren't particularly bullish on gold (such as yourself).

But it seems kind of backwards to just "do the opposite of what everyone thinks is a sure thing" (as you said) or "do the same and jump on the bandwagon". Ultimately, in many cases, there will be economic fundamentals (and not just other people's sentiments) that will drive the value of things over time.

Which leads me to a more specific question: What kind of event would cause a major "correction" that would drive the gold price down (either over time, but a significant downward trend, or suddenly, like a bubble popping)? I can't really think of one. Can you?

I mean, one would be if everybody "sentimentally" just decided gold was in a huge bubble, but that seems quite unlikely without an underlying factual reason. Another would be if there were lots of much better investment opportunities, that would drive wealth stored in gold into factors of production... e.g. a very major, capital-intensive global economic boom. Right? Which is something I would be willing to bet against, at least over the course of the next decade.
Just one note: 45% is the top marginal tax rate. No one is actually taxed such that they lose 45% of their income through personal income taxes. The effective (average) tax rate will be much, much less.

EDIT: not to mention lower taxes due to deductions, capital gains, legal tax shelters.
Or "endorsed".
Stocks, Bonds, Options, Futures.

Simple, yet effective.
Yeah, pretty old news tbh. This happens because Spotlight's index has indexed those texts from when they came. To clear the index, go to Settings > General and uncheck Messages.
Umm would you also pay to watch my live coding session?
I'm sorry, I didn't mean you'd calculate some value once for all the drives. It's definitely something you measure over the lifespan of the SSD itself with the rest of your QoS subsystem.

Reads, program/erases, controller ecc/ read disturb management, the g/p list mapping of the blocks... This all has to be taken into account in a dynamic way. And yes, some people are doing this at a higher level than the SSD controller.
Do not wanting to pay 45m out of 100m (or even less) is not a greed, it is a common sense.
It peeves me to no end when people respond to my posts with what seems like some kind of pre-programmed response. I never called the anti-GMO movement "pseudoscience," never said I disagree with the concept of organic food. "The linked article" which you refer to has nothing to say about Monsanto or GMOs, except a one line bullet point that GMOs are a "red flag topic." Yet you implied otherwise in your post.

Are you actually reading what I'm writing, or just responding to what you think "someone like me" would write? Do you actually think critically about the topics at hand or just pick up the banner of some political movement and treat the debate like a football game?

If you're so concerned about food safety, then surely you are in favor of irradiation, which would prevent many e-coli deaths every year? And surely you are upset that lead and DMSO are still permitted in cosmetics by our archaic laws? Haven't heard of it? Don't come to the debate empty-handed. We're not interested in hearing your prejudices.
I'd pay for you to do this in higher volume.
>I tried to explain that, if given space that had 12 units now has 200, the overall affordability rises, but she totally didn't or wouldn't get that point.

I don't know what your friend's reasoning was, however, I can see an argument on her side.

If the 12 units that were torn down were worth (and able to be sold for) 200k each and they were replaced by 200 units worth (and able to be sold for) 500k each, then that neighborhood is about to change character, and it probably won't continue to be affordable for the people who can't afford a 500k unit.
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As someone who's an Apple user and will soon be an iOS developer, I'm all for a curated App Store (I actually think Apple should reject more apps! Some apps have been rejected unfairly, and I think they should change their policies slightly to include them), and I'm 100% for this 1-party payment. My only gripe is the 30% cut. Why not make that 15%, or 10%? It would make things sooooo easier for everyone. That %20 is so negligible (for Apple) that I'm sure it falls within error margin...

30% is just too much for a lot of developers/companies.
Non-deterministic Turing Machines, specifically. NFAs are obviously much weaker.
I once smashed two clocks together and a butterfly came out.
Personally I think you've made one of the most invaluable contributions to web development, and your article is very sincere and genuine, well done on taking the time to put together such a great project.

While other framework's exist, bootstrap is packaged fantastically well, and provides excellent documentation
I find your reaction fascinating. You find the topic of porn so disturbing that a mere (very dry) discussion of its business side ruins the entire experience of HN for you?

On a side note, you may be naif about hacker culture. On one hand, a lot of hackers consume porn (by virtue of the fact that a large percentage of the general population does). On the other, we tend to be curious about stuff, even stuff that is considered a "poor subject" by conventional social norms. We're not that big on conventional social norms...
Our decedents might have a certain level of technological advancement that Moore's law works a lot faster for them. If it is above a certain level, we would not fast enough to detect that limit.
I got an error when I tried to submit our two-letter dot com domain, sans www or protocol.
Isn't the more sensible solution just a solar panel + outlet apparatus for charging anything? They could keep it at home.
I filed this serious bug in btrfs about 2 months ago, and nothing has been done about it. This worries me.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=863978
Yeah, and it will be you who dictates what "gender bias" means or whom?
Slamming it with HN front-page traffic isn't going to help.