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No it doesn't. Those were two categories of people you would give very different feedback. You would give a 50 year old beginner advice more like the teenager, probably, but still not the same. For one thing, you'd expect them to be a bit less brash about what they've done, because we rightly expect adults to have a bit more perspective on their place in the world. And in fact, we see lots of posts here saying "I've been programming 6 months, look what I did." And when we do, the tone is usually quite different on their part. They know they have a lot to learn, etc.

In my experience as a teacher, I would say that the most success I've had with teenagers was when I was able to show them that I trusted them to do a good job, and that I acknowledged that they could function on a higher level than a child. That doesn't mean I treated them the same as adults, because they're not. Let me give you an example:

When I was in high school, I was among the best young musicians in my state. I was twice ranked principal in the All State Orchestra, and I ended up going to one of the top music schools in the country. I won awards and scholarships and was praised by all, yada yada.

And yet, when I listen to recordings of myself play from that time, I am struck by two things -- one, that I was amazingly self assured, and two, that I sounded terrible. I couldn't hold a candle to any pro in any orchestra you could name. When you're a teenager, you suck at everything that is worth doing. You also suck at recognizing that fact, and are hormonally hard wired to not be able to examine your weaknesses. There are exceptions to the rule, always, but anyone in any kind of advisory capacity to a young person needs to recognize that and treat them accordingly. The last thing a kid who loves doing something needs is to be shown that they suck. Once they have a bit more skin in the game, the self examination can start.
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Very true, I just checked to see if I can edit but I can't, so mea culpa.
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On the low end of 5'11".
I tend to think there's not a lot of value in talking publicly about suicide due to the Werther effect (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copycat_suicide), and I know that for my own part reading about suicide tends to reinvigorate some pretty unfortunate cognitive patterns.

This x 1000. Personally I would love to and end to the recent deluge of articles touching on / talking about suicide. Awareness of the issues surrounding the aaronsw case are important, yes, but too much suicide talk is not healthy, IMO.
I forgot entirely about the Imnam Dam. Thank you!
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I like the design of your site very much (I am a web designer), most of the people who complain about design here - are just programmer - don't ever let a programmer to tell you how a proper design should look like...
Perhaps against my better judgement I am going to give you the benefit of the doubt here. You seem to be misunderstanding the situation with IM and YC; according to what PG has said so far, the IM team did not "pivot" while in YC. Again, just to be completely, perfectly, totally crystal clear: nobody at YC was aware of IM. That's not what the team applied for, and it's not what they were accepted for. YC applications do not ask for work history. You are not required to share your resume. They do not ask for references. If I had in the past built a business on exploiting Wordpress installations, it would be largely irrelevant to YC (until such time as someone found out about it, posted it to HN, and triggered the predictable witch hunt).

And, again, even if someone knew about IM -- even if it was mentioned on their application as a past project -- there is absolutely no reasonable expectation that YC's principals should have looked far enough into it to come to the same conclusions that other people here did.

Furthermore, I'm not sure where people are getting the notion that YC funds things on some moral basis. As far as I know, there has never been any statement to that effect, nor is it supported by data. At most I would say only that YC looks for startups that "make something that people want". You seem to be on some kind of mission to "expose" YC, except that all you're really doing is exposing what you have imagined YC to be. This makes you look silly, not them. Every single batch, there is at least one thread on HN wondering why YC funded some company or another, usually because people disagree with the business model. Yet, people are still surprised when YC funds something they disagree with.

I did not at all misunderstand what questionable means. I used it exactly as I meant to.

Finally, your continued comparison to Murdoch is beyond absurd. You are performing a slightly more contemporary version of Godwinning this thread. I shouldn't dignify it with a response, but, Murdoch was found to have been willfully ignorant of what was going on, all while there were widespread (and well-founded) allegations that in fact the top-level executives of his various companies were (and still are) carrying out his wishes in spirit, if not in letter. The News of the World incident was only the one that they happened to get caught at. Only the most imaginative mind could find some kind of allegory between that situation and this one.
Maybe, but no. Anti-Apple anger can also come from people like me who prefer open protocols, open markets, open ecosystems, and are saddened to see people naming themselves "hackers" using tools that are obviously handcuffing them.
Ironically, Josh (the author) references The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo when criticizing Hollywood's choice of using nmap almost ubiquitously.
> the kids parents are already half men, half women.

Biologically yes, but there is a wide range of single/mixed parent families and I disagree that the similarities are far different in terms of the need to make an emotional call for attendance.
There's something about that last statement that blew my mind. your own personal composer, writing your own personal theme music, specifically designed to catch your current mood, or even modify it.
One thing you can be sure of is that integrating North Korean refugees is an impressively expensive endeavor. From having little to no useful modern education, to having literally no exchangeable currency.

They need job skills training, housing, clothes, everything. These organizations can use donations of all sizes, enough to buy socks to enough to bribe border guards, buy plane tickets or put down a cheonsae [1].

Here's some information on the typical escape path for many of the refugees.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cVOrUMWaJ0

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chun-say
In my opinion, suicide is an evolutionary trait design to unburden the group when the self is no longer felt to be of any worth; e.g. contributing positively. If this were true, then placing the suicidal individual in a completely different environment; one in which they might be more successful, might be therapeutic. For example, relocated to another country with a foster family. More easily said than done.
Let me introduce you to the ad hominem fallacy...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem

The group think on HN is getting bad.
I've found the opposite. Granted, Scheme is an exceptionally productive language. However, I recently worked on a project in Racket and then moved over to Haskell. I've found Haskell to be more productive even in the very short term.

Now, admittedly, not all the productivity gain is from types. However, they certainly help me, not just in making the code robust but also in writing it in the first place. And typeclasses actually do make the language concretely more expressive in certain ways.

Admittedly, Haskell is very different from other languages and requires a good investment to learn in the first place. However, I think it's well worth it.
I'm not arguing about the semantic validity of the name. Brands are about more than their semantic meaning, namely, the perceptions they generate. Developer Auction makes me think of Slave Auction. That's not good.
A pretty slow death in my opinion. It's not the massive coronary rupture we've been told it is, more like an untreated paper cut very slowly but surely bleeding. I might not be in the majority then, but the thought of using a tablet tethered to a screen doesn't feel like it'll ever be a decent alternative (well at least not an Apple tablet). Tablets as they stand aren't going to kill anything, much like phones and consoles because they're so heavily restricted in what you can do as well as what storage capacity they have and storage capacity as an avid Bittorrent user is important to me.

The day that providers start releasing tablets with 1TB of storage and ability to add-on additional storage with ease is the day a tablet can compete with a computer. We live in the day and age of extreme data consumption, tablets with their minuscule 64gb of storage aren't enough to store the modern day PC users information. Cloud storage might eventually fill that gap one day, but the Internet even in some of the most developed countries is still unbelievably behind and bandwidth still expensive (and I would know, I live in Australia and people in New Zealand pay even more for less) not to mention cloud storage as proven by Amazon's constant downtime isn't reliable enough to store information that is guaranteed to be accessible all of the time nor can you access cloud data without an Internet connection and wireless Internet connection options like 3G or 4G are very expensive for so little in data allowances.
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Indeed. This is the Web Crypto API. It includes access to a CSPRNG: http://www.w3.org/TR/WebCryptoAPI/
Could they be more vague?

Related: Not sure why HN needs this; if you know Twitter is having issues, all this does is confirm it. No additional information or relevancy, except maybe an updated "This issue has been resolved." message.
> there is virtually only one "elite" brand and that is Apple

Bzzt, thank you for playing.

What sticks in my craw is that they're not even "elite", they just do things differently, and not always better than the competition/Android, even for things like UI.

And if Apple are found to have done or said something stupid (Nexus 7 vs. the iPad mini springs to mind here, along with the early 'supercomputer' G4s being hamstrung by their PC133 memory bus), then history is revised, instead of people learning from their mistakes.
Woah. This is so off, so disappointing. Petty defence on technicalities, while stepping around absolutely bloody obvious ethical issues. Wow.
You would only really need a reference point every octave. I've always felt that having "sharp notes" on, basically, their own row of the piano was silly, and I've speculated on how one could design a sane keyboard that puts all (musical) keys on an equal basis... In short, the black (physical) keys are part of the madness. ;)
"diversity at the conference level can go a long way to showing girls in middle school that STEM careers are viable for them"

When was the last time you saw middle school students wandering around at a conference?

"We know that a lot of the reason girls drop out along the way just is the perception of STEM as a male dominated field"

Yes, clearly that's part of the problem. So why didn't the organizer of this conference go out of her way to invite middle school girls to see all the women she managed to get into the conference?

When I was an undergrad, the EE department had a problem: the policy of doubling female enrollment each year had to be revised to having female enrollment at all. Part of the solution was to print new admissions pamphlets that showed equal numbers of men and women, and equal numbers of white, Asian, and black people (none of these proportions even remotely reflected the reality of the department) smiling while working on their breadboard projects (also somewhat disconnected from reality). This is forgivable, of course, for the following reasons:

1. It is an advertisement. Advertisements always paint a rosier picture.
2. Nobody received any sort of career boost from being featured in the pictures.
3. The pamphlets were sent to high schools, which is exactly who the department needed to target to meet the goal of increased female enrollment.

Compare that to the conference:

1. Conferences are not advertisements for a field or job (usually)
2. Being invited to speak at a conference is a career-booster
3. The demographics at a conference have no impact on middle or high school girls' attitudes about math and science.
"WTF is a "natural gender split"?"

When I said "natural gender split" I meant the real gender split amongst the population of capable speakers and not the wider (world) population.
It's not true. And yes, for equivalent bits of security, you need much larger keys with the RSA algorithm. The main reason it's not used for much beyond key-exchange is that it's thus exponentially slower.
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I agree that the correct response is definitely not being rude and aggressive, and that is true in pretty much every situation anyone ever comes across.

The main problem I think we have is that posts will continue to be 'link-baity' and some of those will be related to age. Each time one of these hits the front page the community will need to respond to it, and for the near future that response seems likely to be a reignition of this debate.

How do we educate 'drive-by-posters' who create an account simply to post an article (potentially with a link-bait title)? Is it up to moderators to change the title? Users to flag it? Should we just keep arguing about age in post titles?

I don't know the answer, but I think reasonable application of the posting guidelines is appropriate, and for me that means keeping the post title as relevant as possible. Most of the time, the age of the poster/developer is not relevant enough to be in the post title.
When I saw the headline, I was wondering how it would compare to Dustin's original take.

I think they've done an amazing job of the new site, but I wonder if they'll be able to keep the cleanliness over time or if they'll just start adding 'features' until it gets crowded like the old site again.

Sadly, the clean design doesn't extend into the booking pages, and I think the colour choices are strange on those pages as well.
It was pretty obviously only tested on OS X: http://i.imgur.com/g1thFBk.png

The OS X rendering is ugly, but the windows rendering is unreadably thin.
>This is definitely not normal.

I don't know if it was because I was running out of disk space, but taking photos and texting became absolutely terrible on my iPhone 4. iOS 6 made it even slower.
I'm not going to say that Bitcoin will never win, but why do you think Bitcoin has already won? I've never even seen it as an available payment method on a site, and people employed outside of the tech industry generally haven't heard of it.
Ring-shaped molecules of nitrogen and oxygen sound really cool, but what are they actually useful for?
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I've been dreaming of a home server revolution for years myself, but sadly due to the fact in Australia the Internet is slow and we're only just now rolling out a national 100mb fibre network which won't be finished for quite a few years and will be expensive with little guarantee of a decent data allowance doesn't give me much hope. Cloud storage is definitely not ready for the prime-time yet, I don't trust it and as Amazon has proven even they haven't even quite worked out how to reliably provide cloud services.
So far I have read nothing about this except for pg's post creating this thread.

Having read only that, I am certain that I am not in whatever target market might appreciate IM's software (“A lot of the world's most popular apps and sites seem like junk to us”) and that I would hope that I never encounter it myself.

That said, I would likely enjoy an encounter with some other software from “this industry” far less still.
I don't think ending discrimination is a simple thing and that in this case increasing the visibility of female experts in an area can have nontrivial antidiscriminatory effects (e.g. encouraging young women to go into an area, making women feel more comfortable at a conference, etc.) even if it involves positive discrimination.

Anyway, I'd still be interested to hear from you how (following your metaphor) you would suggest to dismantle the white car directly.
Dude. F. You. Intel.
So you are saying that this child's friends were mostly from single-parent homes? Are you denying that most of the child's friends had both a mother and a father?

Can you claim that the demographics here are even remotely close to the demographics among tech workers?
Absolutely decimated. And the remaining 90% was unscathed.
Are you saying that talking with your closest friends about the girls you've been with is negative and disrespectful?
I suppose you are not talking about disproportionate representation of women in tech here?
Why not do these with SVG?
This is pretty fucking stupid actually.
If you're saved from competing against a certain number of potential competitors in getting accepted to a conference, you have an advantage. If you're saved from such competition because of historical demographic imbalances, you have an undeserved advantage, and removing that advantage is not discriminatory, any more than forcing the conference organizer's nephew to go through the blind judging process is discriminatory. Or do you think systemically mitigating nepotism is discriminatory to those with familial connections?

Perhaps a different question is in order: If men have an advantage in getting selected for conferences because they're men, then do you think the blind judging is discriminatory? After all, it removes an advantage they have.

I've responded elsewhere about how diversity at conferences assist in addressing the root cause of the imbalance. I would observe here that your prescription to address it in middle school rather than at conferences is too cute by half: lack of female participation at conferences is part of the lack of participation in STEM generally that serves to dissuade girls in middle school from continuing in STEM.
There is a problem with this theory: it hypothesizes a benefit to a group, but no benefit to the individual who commits suicide. Individuals who do not have the gene(s) that predispose toward committing suicide would therefore be more fit than individuals who do, and these gene(s) would never become widespread.

I believe this was one of the main points of Dawkins' The Selfish Gene: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Selfish_Gene
Disagree. Anti-Apple crowd has at least partly a very solid and rational ground to stand upon.

Apple's much admired and followed direction is pointing exactly to the opposite way that most hackers should prefer and push towards.

Look at an iPhone 5 and a Raspberry Pi: one goes North and the other goes South. One had a heavy marketing and costs a lot, and cannot be opened without breaking it. The other the opposite: it isn't even sold in a "box"!

So, now, objectively, all things being equal, tell me frankly which one in an iPhone 5 and a Raspberry Pi should have the preference of hackers (in the wide sense)?

And don't tell me a Pi can't be used as a phone: I am well aware of that. My question is general, which device is more akin of hacker culture, and why?
Let's be honest here... Nearly everyone who is passionate about one platform or another lives in some kind of glass house. Why does Arment feel it's necessary to throw stones like this? I realize some are reading this as a more "balanced" post, but I have to side with those considering this to be yet more elitism as I've come to expect.

Just as anecdotally, but no less data-driven, there is an obvious counter argument to his claim. I will concede his notion that Apple people don't spew anti-Android on pro-Android posts. That is because, from my own informal observations, Apple fans are too busy defending their own gates on the Apple support forums. It is unequivocally the most combative and abrasive "help forum" I've ever experienced.

As a person who owns and really enjoy Apple products (the MacBook Air, for my needs, is hands-down the best computer I've ever owned... and what I'm typing on at this moment), they're still far from perfect. Numerous times I've tried searching for resolutions to issues, and naturally, discussions.apple.com is typically a top result on Google. Even when finding an OP that precisely describes the issue I'm experiencing, more often than not, responses are along the exact lines of how Arment describes Apple's response:

"You don’t need that. Here, try this partial workaround or alternative solution instead."

Except, they usually don't "just work." And yes, I really do need what Apple broke. It took until 10.8.2 for Remote Desktop to work reliably again after Mountain Lion's initial release. I spent hours researching and found no reasonable workaround to get an piece of software written by Apple to work with Apple's OS. But yet, there were plenty of people asking why that was needed. I merely had to setup this convoluted alternative and I would be back in business... oh, wait. That still didn't work.

In my mind, this is worse than Arment's claim, as it's Apple people getting attacked by other Apple people for the heresy of wanting something to work. He's railing against the anger from Microsoft and Android, but he is okay with the cannibalism in the Apple camp?

I could go on, but I feel like I've already written a disproportionate amount more than I actually care about this guy's hypocritical, fact-less editorials. I guess my opinion finally got dragged low enough with this post to finally speak up. I would suggest he looks a little closer to the mothership before trying to paint this kind of picture. However, I can't fool myself into thinking he'd be the slightest bit open to the feedback.
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I agree on the CPU power front. My core i7 machine will easily last another 5 years without needing to upgrade, because in my opinion Intel have reached a point where they can't better themselves at this point in time. But what about storage? An iPad for a 64gb model is super expensive, about as expensive as a laptop with at least 500gb, sometimes 750gb of space and a decent screen + CPU. Sure not everyone needs space, but we are living in a day and age where more people are downloading than ever. A 64gb tablet vs my 3.5tb of PC storage with option of buying another $70 1tb drive and adding it in when I need more, tablets can't quite compete on that scale.
> Professional technology workers are not half women.
> If disproportionate representation is not discriminatory, what exactly is it?

You seem to answer your own question.