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I think the problem exist due to a peculiar sound that doesn't exist in european languages,

Van is simple: As in Can
Gogh is: Go as in "goggles" and gh as the sound of letter gain in Urdu/Arabic. That sound is so peculiar, that even wikipedia calls it gain, when the sound is similar to kh as in "khan"

the kh sound in dutch, is the nearest sound to gh in Arabic.
And how, pray tell, is a government solution (which is not only monopolistic, but uses violence rather than shady business tactics to maintain its monopoly) any better?
The lack of actual Android developers commenting on the issue (and testing/debugging) is astounding.
When it's done, of course!
Not my point at all. If AOSP worked like, say, the kernel (or KDE, or gcc, or any other big project) this "fix" would have been submitted to and vetted by a functioning group of experts who would have immediately said "Dude, no." and it would have died silently.

No such thing exists with AOSP. Google does their development internally. External patch submissions (if acknowledged at all) end up appearing in a usable release only months after the fact.

So the poor excited hacker here (who, let's be clear, really didn't do anything wrong other than, well, being wrong) had nowhere to post a fix somewhere where it would be useful to people. So s/he threw it up on XDA with all the other junk, and we're now having this discussion.
What comment do you find offensive here? The most dismissive comments I see seem to be arguing that sex should not be a factor in selecting panelists. Maybe that's a debatable stance, but I think it's a little extreme to declare it offensive...
Thanks, that was the answer I was looking for.
Panels should include speakers with the most relevant input in regard to the topic under discussion.
Thought this was an interesting topic. It is sort of mind boggling to think there is no central database for NYS (or any other state for that matter).

It's 2013 and we still can't come up with a data retrieval standard for governments?

Maybe too many players (lawyers and lobbyists to name a few) have too much to loose if anything changed. Too much transparency?
I recently used Slick a bit in combination with Play.

On one hand I was really impressed by its capabilities, on the other hand the documentation is unfortunately lacking...

I think Slick has great potential and hope that typesafe brings the documentation onto a quality level similar to Play. If you want to try it out today and get stuck, after some time I found it quicker to look at their test cases first before googling, much more info there than in the docu and example projects.
You say that as if letting race/sex/religion influence selection is always wrong. It's not.
Cable Industry Draws Scrutiny For Putting Internet Users On A Scale
This follows a pretty well established format for Kottke. He usually extracts a "hook" from the content he posts. It gives you some idea of what's contained therein, which is often not present at the source. I hate wasting 2-3 minutes watching a video when a simple excerpt could have shown me that it's not in my wheelhouse.

Another nice thing about Kottke's site is that he frequently posts updates to previous entries. It's likely that with popularity, more information will be uncovered about the subject matter. Jason posts "digests" with summaries of updates to previous entries, which often contain useful insight you wouldn't gain without allocating a not insignificant amount of attention to this single piece of media.

Yes, it has "some ads", but please, let's try to be rational about this. Since when are we waging war against anyone displaying advertising anywhere? The amount of advertising on his site seems more than reasonable to me.

I feel a little more inclined to stick up for Jason because I've been following him for so long. He was literally one of the first blogs I ever followed, and I have learned to trust him over the years. I love the fact that he's able to do what he does full time, because I get the benefit of his curation.

I absolutely get where you're coming from. I hate when someone posts a link to content that is obviously re-hashed from somewhere else with no additional value, but if you spend some time with Kottke.org, I think you'll see that there are good guys and there are bad guys in this scene. Jason is one of the good guys.
There are other fixes for the entropy depleting in that thread which do not affect CPU frequencies, and still get reports of improvements.
There are plenty of cases where the cost and complexity of sending code to the GPU means that you use processor intrinsics to speed up your code.

As far as I know, most people still do encoding/decoding of audio/images/video on the CPU, unless there's a hardware codec available. Audio DSP is mostly done on the CPU too, I think. Audio is a bit more demanding than graphics in terms of bit depth — the "highp" precision should be taken as a minimum precision for audio work, it's not always available in the fragment shader, and it's definitely not enough precision for audio production apps like Garage Band.
"The idea that I can be presented with a problem, set out to logically solve it with the tools at hand, and wind up with a program that could not be legally used because someone else followed the same logical steps some years ago and filed for a patent on it is horrifying." -- John Carmack
Same post, easier on the eyes (particularly on mobile): http://gist.io/4454814
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I'd say its easier to impact the local community because you can get real offline feedback and compare it to your web analytics. Just focus on giving people value. Do something that is not available locally. Then promote the hell out of it in churches, clubs, schools, businesses, and depending on what it is, niche stores that cater to that specific market. Though it will require for you to hit the pavement. And most hakcers are allergic to that.
True, but the stuff on my molars feels similar to the stuff on my incisors after skipping brushing for a few days.
When analyzing data in stages, algebra saves you from repeating work you've already done. It also makes implementing the library's back end easier.
Reconcile your weird semantics of "laws" and "regulation" with the constant screams of "oh no regulation" every time there is an attempt to pass laws preventing harm to people?
What ... no NHL? Oh ya.
Gender imbalance is an issue, but forcing panels to be unrepresentative of the fields they're discussing is hardly going to fix it. The fundamental issue is that notable people in technology are almost entirely male. We need to encourage girls to come into technology fields at the bottom. Perhaps ensuring public panels contain notable female role models would be a way of doing that, but if the panels purpose is for very specific technical discussion arbitrarily increasing female participation to levels significantly above what is representative of the field being discussed isn't really going to help anything.
I hope it is not buggy, but nice one!
"Best" is very hard to quantify when it comes to people.
You could always ask agl, he might have some suggestions.

What I've seen in the past is that Chrome occasionally gets over aggressive in caching (in an attempt to be "fast" I guess). Clearing all the caches out, flushing DNS etc. usually fixes it for me.
Yeah, I found the athlete metaphor was a little bit abused as well.
And how do I keep up with your blog? Should I subscribe to RSS, reload the page a few times in the next days or look if it made to HN?

You see, the problem isn't about getting the information quickly. It's not stock information. It's about getting it complete. If I'm reading, I'm allocating time for a precise matter; and when I don't get the result, my time was probably lost.
I nearly stopped reading after this phrase: Conrad Black, one of the most consequential public intellectuals and businessmen of our era

This guy is a CEO who raided his own company's coffers, to the vast enrichment of himself and the impoverishment of his shareholders.
All of this is true. But it's not the choice between two extremes. Google doesn't have to wall off community development in order to develop new features in secret. There's no reason they couldn't curate an AOSP project where submissions like this one (although obviously not this particular one!) could be made in a way that was truly useful to the community. It would cost money and time, and maybe they don't have that. But it's something that other FOSS players do, so it's not an impossibility.
This thread and patch are silly, but running out of entropy can be a real performance problem sometimes. I've seen it on embedded Linux systems that I've set up to be headless servers. After turning off lots of device drivers, I noticed that SSH was incredibly slow sometimes. The problem was a lack of entropy, causing reads to /dev/random to block. Like in the article, the quick hack is to redirect /dev/urandom to /dev/random, but that isn't a real fix because of the security implications. The right fix was digging through the available devices and figuring out where entropy could be legitimately captured.
This confirms everything I will ever know and believe.
I'm no historian, but I don't think more wars would have been the problem - they had plenty of wars before their downfall. If anything I thought things got worse once they were expanding less, because they no longer had an influx of resources from conquered territories.
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I have worked in defense. Getting a patent was like "Oooh, that's cool". Finding out if there were patents in the way to do anything was weeks of supporting legal's searches.

I'm sure someone, somewhere, at some level, likes patents. I don't think it's engineers though.
I think the ratio of female speakers at a conference should be equal to the ratio of women in the industry. Otherwise, you're dumbing down your speaking qualifications just to allow women speakers. That doesn't help anyone. If 1% of people in the tech industry are women, then 1% of the speakers at any conference should be female. No more, no less. Doing it any other way would be unfair.

At Pycon next year I will skip all the women speakers because I know they got that speaking spot because the Python Foundation is on a crusade to get as many women speakers as possible, not because their proposal was great or interesting. It won't just be me though. Whats going to happen is that these women will be treated differently than the men, not because of their gender, but because their talk just wasn't interesting. I go to those conferences to hear interesting talks, I don't care about gender. But the end result s that people like me in the community end up looking sexist and overall makes the problem worse.
[meteor dev] The `spiderable` package is just our hack to let search engines index our own website. It works surprisingly well for that, but it's certainly not the long-term solution.

There's a fuller explanation of our routing / REST plan here: https://trello.com/card/page-model-server-side-rendering-res...
If that's what makes you look stupid, I guess it's still pretty good.

Facial recognition doesn't work for everyone nor everywhere. As you put it it's "magical" and when the next guy unlocks your phone with it's face it's also part of the magic.

It reminds me a lot of the same discussion was done for the Bump app, where just bumping two devices together transferred your contact infos. Magic. Except it might not be your contacts but the ones of some random guys bumping roughly at the same time at the next table, or a few kilometers from you. It was part of the magic too. It still worked out 90% of the time, but that's not a feature I'd feel stupid not to have when better, simpler and more reliable ways were available.

Android has really good basic things. I personally don't think shiny magical features are what's to be the most envied.
good one "staunch"
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> The only need might be some bit-banging code for interfacing with external hardware.

Atomic primitives are another reason to do inline assembly, though since recent GCC (and probably LLVM - though I haven't looked into it) provides CPU-agnostic atomic ops this isn't as big a deal as it used to be. (C++11 also probably would help, though I'm not sure how the adoption has been in mobile SDKs.)

Pretty sure inline asm is also still common for SIMD ops. Although the sane approach there would be to have a generic C implementation to fall back on if there is no optimized one present.
I've taken this drug, the potential side effects are definitely scary. I was lucky enough to only suffer from dry skin and increase sun sensitivity (which is still existing to this day).

I know that when I was taking it (that was 12 years ago), the dermatologist would only prescribe it as a last resort, and, in case of a girl/woman, would always proceed with a pregnancy test first.

I personally am happy I took this drug but I can fully understand it's not your case.
What's your point? Are you saying the crime here is not posting a profile because they were waiting on a photo (which is now posted)?

The author of the post is asking panelists to protest all male panels but this is not one, so I'm not sure what she's asking. To protest less than X women or less than X% women? What line are we asking not to be crossed?
Something the author didn't mention is that a lot of science-related python code relies on third party libraries to support devices they use. SR Research's Eyelink device, for instance, is accessable through API's provided by SR themselves, which are provided in C and in a number of Py2.x flavors. They don't provide it in 3.x, and so the experiment cannot be written in 3.x either. The scientists have no control over this, because its not an open source project, it all relies on whether or not the company producing it wants to upgrade.
"I think that's an unfair characterization of women as marketing types. Don't forget HR and recruiting!"
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If you think people are being sexist, condescending, dismissive, or offensive, then you should respond to those people and point out how they are doing so. Otherwise it is you who's being dismissive.
Girls are less likely to go into a field if they don't see women representatives of that field.
In India, we have Cafe Coffee Day (CCD) instead of Starbucks. I have noticed that the concentration of CCDs in certain regions of Bangalore is much higher than that of Starbucks in Manhattan (I've been to both). At some places in Bangalore you find a CCD for every hundred square meters.
I think it's probably okay to go over on the percentages for awhile to try to correct this.

You can't get women in at the bottom if their perception is this is for men only. That said, I think more in the top of the funnel is probably the most important step.
If you are saying that this statistic proves bias, then you don't know enough about statistics.

If you are saying we should introduce bias towards women, then you don't know enough about programmers (man or woman). Would you really want to be the lone woman on a panel, who was picked not because she is the best speaker, but because she needed to be the token presence? Do you think you're going to get the best female programmers to do that? How do you think people are going to respond to that?

If you think that the panel already is biased, then that may be the case but in order to prove that you'll have to point out people who were not asked to talk that should have been, that are more prominent in the community than those already speaking.

You actually have to have statistics and data to back up your argument, and not just emotion. I'd love to see a 50/50 panel at a convention, but it's not likely to happen - I'm impressed when I see one woman presenting at a convention. Like it or not, programming is still a sausage fest.
Stronger: If you are using Erlang for anything real and you aren't using OTP you are almost certainly doing it wrong.
At present installing your own pod is indeed a difficult task, and is too involved for an average user. However Diaspora is working on simplifying this.

Yes, encryption with such access scope is complex, but I was referring to the cost of running it, not to the cost of developing the architecture. Development can indeed be hard and costly, but many things are, and open source still tackles hard problems successfully.
So maybe the best way to encourage adoption is to convince a researcher in the field to implement their new math algorithms in python 3. Anyone who wishes to use these new algorithms would be forced to upgrade.
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What? That post says nothing about going without caffiene, that's a pretty bad headline.

Anyway, sounds like he was self-medicating.
Very much enjoyed your story.

I also moved to BC and started working from home. I did it for a few years and although I didn't have kids I also found reasons to go back to an office. I did this and within 6 months I realized I needed to be back working from home and managing my time so I could be more productive and spend the rest of my time on other things.

So here I am, week one of being back at home trying to get all my routines in order so I can be productive at the level I enjoy. Its taking a little time to get my routine back in order but I very much love being able to skip lunch to take my dogs for a quick walk with my wife who also works from home. It's very much the type of distraction I expect and enjoy.

I think working remotely is the way of the future, and I'm not sure I'll ever be able to properly work in an office environment again to be honest. I feel like taking little breaks where ever you work is important, but when you work from home it's so important to time box those breaks and really implement discipline or you'll just be stressed out about not getting things done, which is the exact opposite of the goal in mind.
Probably because you expect HN to be as sexist, condescending, dismissive as you usually find it to be.
This post is actually better than most. Granted its only been an hour.

Its fair to point out that going out of your way to get a female speaker simply because she is female is not the way to go about things. I don't think this is what the article is proposing so much as making a valiant effort to have a more diverse panel.

Frankly, to all out boycott all male panels seems counter productive and a bit extreme. Some conferences have an open call for presenters, and sometimes women just don't apply. At what point is that the fault of the organizer? I can see invitations posing an issue, but not all conferences operate that way.
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It simplifies the parser and can resolve syntax ambiguities.
Which is fine, but it doesn't make IRC any more effective than mailing lists for getting answers for open source projects.
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There is a study somewhere where subjects consuming up to 1.5kg of xylitol per month and up to 430g/day, for two years, didn't experience any harmful effects (other than the expected laxation, which subsides with time).

edit: here it is http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/783060
Same here. I'm pretty sure he isn't talking about actual athletes, but is using that term to describe "self-directed generalist workers", because that's the only way the text makes sense.

But then the whole issue is confused by "athletes" being a a terrible term for "generalist" because while real athletes are certainly self-motivated, they tend to be extremely narrowly focused on a very specific role in a very specific activity (with a few exceptions that prove the rule), which doesn't mesh well with what the article is saying about hiring them as generalists for startups.
Software patents are here to stay. Don't fight a battle you can't win, the Patent Office is not going to throw away the billions of dollars they make on this... But you can make it so they get to keep their revenues, but we get to add rules that help invalidate patents, or limits how much the troll gets.
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> If something was useful enough and available enough for multiple parties to invent/discover/exploit it independently

What makes you think the technologies in question are invented independently? Take the Motorola Mobility patents, for example. Most of the patent licensees aren't in a position to hire all the experts and do all the R&D it took Motorola to develop that technology. They just use the end result of all that R&D produced by Motorola. If there was no patent system, they would just use the end result without compensating Motorola for all the work of developing the technology.
"multiple sources have told us that the company was valued around $200 million in its last funding round, and current investors were aiming for a higher price, somewhere nearing $1 billion."
Very true.

I only noticed all this after I quit smoking and subconsciously replaced a few smoke breaks with coffee breaks, causing me to massively overshoot my caffeine levels on a daily basis.

Whether it's good to keep an even level of caffeine in your bloodstream is another question of course.
I've had a very similar experience and am also figuring that on my next "greenfield" project I'll try Marionette.
These are always fun, but don't address the need that many game developers (ok, at least "I") have - the need for detailed backgrounds - preferably ones that can mesh well with each other. That can really help set the "world" for the player, and while a developer can often do their own sprite artwork, backgrounds tend to be an art to themselves.

I usually end up going to either one of my 3D tools or my photographs, and then playing with filters in Photoshop to get an artistic look that isn't too jarring.
There will always be some who want to keep a broken system around if they can earn revenue from it. If money can be extracted, you can never get an complete 100% unanimous vote in fixing the system.

For people who owns land, some do not like regulations that forbid dumping toxins into it. But most societies know that forbidding the dumping of toxins are preferable over allowing it because of the ecological damage the toxins causes to society.

Patents causes an ecological damage to the software community. It might be profitable for a few, but for society as a whole it is a net loss. So long the cost-benefit analyze shows that, patents should have no place in software. Considering that patents are granted monopolies given by the government and enforced by the state, if society can't get more from software patents than it cost, society should not be in the businesses of granting said patents.
> Well, in a sense that's an inherent risk of customizability, a tradeoff you have to make.

What? No, it's an inherent risk of customizability that requires violating the companies ToS to achieve.

You really are suggesting that the 'inherent risk' of any kind of customizability is about the same, regardless of whether the vendor intends to support it as a feature, or intends to _prohibit you_ from doing it and does everything they can to prevent it? Really?
I'm impressed people can drink that much coffee in a day; period. If I had that much coffee, I'd be a nervous wreck! Probably would have a flat out panic attack.

Too much caffeine started giving me anxiety. So I cut back to only 1 large cup of in the morning, and that's it.

Seems like a good balance. I never have coffee after 10am, and if I do, I can't sleep. On Sundays, I take a break and don't have any coffee at all. I sleep much better when I give my body a break.
I'm shooting for a weekend followup, Mz.
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