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OK, you're right, maybe I'm interpolating her argument because it is the only thing the article mentions her saying about why women don't join the gaming industry (or become engineers in general). Saying the problem is that there aren't enough women to hire is just another way of saying that only few women want to join that industry. That is not a problem analysis.

So I read the actual article in Forbes: She argues that the level of sexism in the gaming industry is similar to other male dominated industry and that the game industry just has a bad reputation. She then goes on to encourage women to join the gaming industry. That makes more sense then the sensationalist title/article on gamasutra.
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Hi glennos! Nice to meet you here!

We are now getting FDA approval too. Good fun.

Regulations are a bastard, but there for good reasons. Imagine getting a med which wasn't tested and which is made in someones bathtub…
Exaggerated but you get what I mean?
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He's technically still in Québec's equivalent of a US high-school 12th grade. Since he's 20, he can wait a year and be accepted to a University.
I hope to see a follow up with details on what exactly they've done, in the near future.
Common Lisp on .NET?
Since it's up and down, intermittently, I'm guessing that it might be a load balancer or network switch problem. Worst case would be a DNS issues.
Completely agreed.

Amongst my non-computer literate friends, many of them adopt the "click next quickly until the install starts or it stops working" tactic.
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I'm sure Aaron was aware of that his suicide would bring a lot of attention to his causes and this will have played a part in his, as I consider it, decision. He was also aware of the practical problems, including depression, he faced including that there is a chance of them getting worse and that he could prevent that.

I'm not against curing depression and investing more resources into getting better at it. My worry is that people with depression are portrayed as slaves to disease, as opposed to healthy people who are free to make decisions based on their interests.

That encourages limiting the choice ill people can make. Aaron is no longer suffering from a mental illness. For him, ignoring others, it was a rational decision that he benefitted from.
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It was a reference to Zuck
I think most OEMS would rather do without the very real technical advantages that Intel brings, than be stuck with Intel. If they could switch to ARM for PCs easily they would, and there's no way they're going to sign up for Intel chips on mobile devices, at least not unless it starts making ARM itself.

Say Intel is a process generation ahead of everyone and has fancy tri-gate transistors and what have you first. Is it really worth abandoning all that ARM gets you--the ability to design custom silicon, bid different foundries against each other, etc?
I guess that's why it runs at 7pm, to ensure that people in an area are online at the same time?
But not troubled enough to not make money off them.
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"but many commenters here are demonstrating"

I don't find it surprising at all that people have an immediate emotional reaction to something and perhaps initially will be irrational and jump to conclusions. We all do that occasionally.

What is unfortunate though is that after that immediate perhaps irrational reaction, I would hope that they would then give it some thought and say "ok you are right I haven't heard all the evidence (or may never)". Now if you are friends or family it's possible that emotionally that might never happen. You are to close to the situation.

This happens also with trials. People end up disagreeing with the jury (and I'm not saying juries don't screw up) but at least the jury was privy (if not sleeping or swayed by others) to normally much more information then someone only reading summary reports (keeping in mind that there are people that might watch the trial from gavel to gavel).
As per my link to a direct article by the makers of the scanner he used, it is invasive. What more do you want?

Yes, passive scanning is fine with me, it's probably legal in most countries, but this is not certain (See Google and wifi). But I don't see the relevance to the conversation.

Passive automated scanning is fairly useless so it's not really used.

Fact is he broke the law at a criminal level and caused damage, if you can't see this, you really have no idea of the reality of the technology he was using.

But what should happen to him for it is a discussion for a different thread.
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I like the approach of a compact satellite. if phones can fit into your hand its about time a satellite should fit into the trunk of a car.
(Normally) women don't initiate, even if they're interested.
Combined with health issues that can occur during birth (and a 9month spell of vomiting all day everyday), exactly the same here. Some things are worse, but the depression is lifting now, 2 years on.
Proper sleep is so important.
I really like how most browsers have a very usable webdev tool, so I just changed the font, line-spacing and document width until it was good. I don't always go through that trouble, but ihn this case the page was simple enough and the content seemed worth it.
I suspect it was more the "I know UNIX!" child hacking that threw him off. :)
what happened with your first company?
I think that the author was attempting to note that the similarities between these techniques/models/tools are far greater than the differences.

For me, machine learning is a particular model set atop the edifice of statistics mixed with coding. I don't agree that big data poses unique challenges, I was reading a psychometric book from the late eighties where a lot of the material was familiar from the big data stuff we read about lately.

Logic is a way of deriving conclusions from propositions/data. Probability is a method for introducing uncertainty into logical reasoning (IMO, clearly). I don't understand your point about probability in culture, can you explain? I would suggest that your last statement in your second last paragraph is rather proving the author's point, but as my perception is noisy, I can't be sure.

And seriously, both probability and logic are related to natural intelligence (or whatever we want to call ourselves) far more than AI. In fact, the reason they have been applied to AI is because they are useful tools for humans. When you say bayesian logic networks do you mean Bayesian belief networks (as put forth by Pearl et al) or something else?
I read that "book" is also a good one.

I need to buckle down and write an RSS reader. Or find one that fits my use case.
A lot of the elitism (or at least what I consider elitism) from Gruber, Arment, Siegler et all is incredibly off-putting to me -- and I own a MacBook Air, iPad, and iPhone.

That being said, I think this is an incredibly well-reasoned and well-crafted explanation of the massive chasm between Apple 'fanboys' and Apple 'haters' -- and explains to me why, as a current zealot of the iOS ecosystem, I nonetheless find so much Apple commentary off-putting. Really great job by Marco and makes me much more inclined to subscribe to the Magazine.

Nothing's perfect for everyone. Some things are perfect for some people.
Just a polite critique: the blog seems a bit lacking in tact. I would think twice about using the service given the tone of the other articles.
It seems to be what grown ups call their boy/girlfriends.
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Can't agree enough. iOS 7 is the make it or break it decision for me.
> Apple learn how to write efficient concurrent code

Sorry but what ? Apple has one of the best concurrency implementations on ANY platform. GCD is superbly designed and combined with blocks makes concurrency trivial.

The biggest problem is that developers often try and over optimise.

> which I have timed to usually clock in at 8-9 seconds, but which can take as long as 20 seconds

This is definitely not normal.

> iOS software is fucking slow.

No. It really isn't.
"So there you have it. It’s really not a pretty picture. But, again, I do hope that if you ever are unfortunate enough to experience these cognitive dynamics in your own mind—and I, for one, very much have—or if you suspect you’re seeing behaviors in others that indicate these thought patterns may be occurring, that this information helps you to meta-cognitively puncture suicidal ideation."

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. But since we're already on the subject, I share this article. Bering articulates very well the experience of wanting to do yourself in. For folks who don't experience it, this might help you understand. For folks who do, maybe understanding it better will help you get past it. Don't let your depression win.
Static types are great, but I don't use them in practice
Reminds me of the ElemiDate[1] app (not launched yet):

"ElimiDate is a fun and new approach to dating. We all know how girls like getting guys` attention, and how guys are ready to show off to be the only ones in the horizon. This is what ElimiDate is all about. A girl sets up the game and creates the first task, perhaps "Take a picture of your shoes". Then five guys join the game and compete against each other to make the best impression. After each round the girl elimidates the worst-performing guy. At the end of the game the girl has to make a final decision: whether elimidate or date the lucky winner and connect through a chat." [2]

[1] http://www.elimidateapp.com/
[2] http://betali.st/startups/elimidate
Did a horse with blinkers write the article?

> "I’ve noticed a very clear trend among tech sites I read: Android fans are unusually quick to fill the comment box with rage on articles that mention anything positive about Apple or its products. The reverse — Apple fans leaving angry comments on pro-Android articles — is almost completely absent from the sites I’ve seen"
I recently (~2010) had good experiences with HSBC's card gateway in the UK. XML based integration. Fast. Global. Full access to fraud information.
Clickable link to the Learn in Freedom site home page:

http://learninfreedom.org/

Thanks for your comments.
Agreed. Maybe make it so women don't even have to send the first message, and instead just click an "I'm interested" button, which then notifies the guy so he can send a message if he wants. This addresses several problems: if women are going to be screening/filtering anyway, might as well have them do it upfront and only get messages from people they are interested in (instead of being bombarded with crap), and men would be incentivized to write better messages instead of sending a high volume of low-quality crap. This is also in line with some (possibly bogus) social psychology research[1] that suggests that women are the ones who usually initiate courtship by signalling through non-verbal cues, even though the first "overt" move (like going up and starting a conversation) is usually by men.

On the other hand, there's a real question of whether women would be willing to put in the time/effort to view profiles and mark them as interesting or not interesting, but I bet that on current dating sites women do browse profiles pretty regularly but stop short of actually messaging people they're interested in. (Can someone with access to actual data confirm/deny this?)

1. Stuff like this: http://evolution.anthro.univie.ac.at/institutes/urbanetholog...
You do understand that this is an app right and not part of iOS.

Here's a thought for you. How about using another podcast app ?
> To value other people's judgement over his own?

I was probably not clear enough. What I meant to imply was that judging those who clean their desktop as "fearful" and "irrational" is disingenuous, precisely because there are different kinds of people, who approach desk cleanliness in a different way.
The problem is that even raising the point (at least in the way you did) that a victim whose only fault was being too trusting when she was young and stupid (imagine!) is partially at fault comes across as callous and serves no purpose. It's obvious she screwed up and undoubtedly regrets it. Also, it's obvious to anyone who reads the story that she should have been more careful.

So what's the point of making these observations? At best you may get a few head nods, but at worst you come across sounding a lot like the guy who says "I know she got raped, but hey, she was wearing a short skirt...".
The NYC subway doesn't have good cellular coverage. It's starting to appear in a few of the larger stations but there are no plans to extend it to the tunnels in the near future.
There are a bunch of people who believed that YC was somehow different from/better than tactics and behaviors exemplified by firms like Bain Capital. Some of those people are starting to wake up.
Which bit was that Toshio? I can't see any MS defending, the post essentially said "This is what's happening, here's what to expect, these are some of the considerations". Whether what MS has done around OS and browser integration is wrong or right is not the issue, what we're all going to do about it is.
Most people don’t care about technology choices as much as we do.

And this is where he lost me.
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If this sort of stuff intrigues you, as it does me, check out "Gulag" by Anne Applebaum. I listened to it in audiobook form (27 hours!) and it was both fascinating and devastating to hear how the Soviets imprisoned, tortured, and, frequently, killed millions in such encampments.
Some nigger trying to claim my work?

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I'm all for people shipping. Age isn't really a part of it. What I'm not all for is people creating an account, posting the thing they're looking to promote and only posting in that thread - otherwise completely disengaged with the HN community.

You can argue that lurkers form part of that community. My counterpoint would be that if you create a specific account and post the thing you're trying to promote in the first 10 minutes, you haven't lurked enough.

Yes I know you can lurk without an account, but to reach the stage where that's considered acceptable you have to travel through if they felt they couldn't register an account for more than 5 minutes, if they felt they couldn't comment and plenty of other ifs, yet somehow they can create an account and post what they're promoting in 10 minutes, then only interact with people in their thread?

Young people should be encouraged. Aaron Swartz was 14 when he worked on RSS. But being young doesn't give you a free pass at being a spammer, and that's what kicked this whole thing off.
>.. because I believe that I can handle using mobile devices expecting users to be able to think critically.

And this type of attitude is why the general public think developers are assholes.
> People have been saying PC's are dying for the last 10 or so years

And they have been, losing sales first to consoles and then to smartphones and tablets. Children are growing up on Xboxes and iPads, not PCs.

Desktop PCs will be like pickup trucks, to reference Steve Jobs's famous analogy. Someone will always need them, but most people won't have them.
The UK isn't as bad as the US, which brings the (often unknown) customer's location (present, domicile or claimed?), the (set of all) vendor locations, and the classification of the good under some all-encompassing system in to play as additional variables.
Though not a "start up" in the sense of how we use the word now, I can think of a couple people who have started solo before as well:

1. Donald Trump: say what you want about him, but the man knows how to make money. I am sure his father helped him, but his first commercial building that launched him to wealth was done by himself.

2. Hugh Hefner: got tired of his job, and started the first "gentlemans" magazine.

3. Joe Coulombe: started a chain of grocery stores in the LA area. Later became Trader Joes.

4. Andrew Carnegie: one of the richest people who ever lived. He was helped by people certainly (traditional educations weren't as popular back then, but he started working in railroads young and was helped by his boss, Thomas Scott, who was the founder of The Pennsylvania Railroad Company) but he made his money by himself.

5. Howard Schultz: Went on a trip to Italy and fell in love with Italian coffee and the coffee shop atmosphere. So inpired by what he saw in Italy he came back and opened up a coffee shop which later turned into Starbucks.

6. Tony Hsieh: started his first company, Link Exchange, by himself. Once the company got going he brought in a college friend. Sold to Microsoft for 265MM, later founded Zappos.

7. Sara Blakely: mentioned in comments on the article, but she was frustrated by her panty hose that rode up her legs and wanted something to slim her in her favorite jeans (apparently a common girl problem). Took her 5k savings, started knocking on manufactures doors, hacked her way into a meeting with a Neiman Marcus buyer and became one of the few women billionaires.

8. Mark Hughes: from a disrupted childhood and born to a single mother who later passed and was later raised from grandparents, he got involved in the MLM business. After one of the companies he was working for went under, he started Herbalife.

I could go on and on, but the point I'm trying to make and what others seems to say, is if you think you can handle your shit and are passionate enough about your idea, go ahead and start a company by yourself. More equity for you, and once you get going you can always find other people to help you out.
Can you explain what you mean? Do "this" how? Like when a Themeforest theme is free or something? Or just a better gallery of Themeforest themes?
I don't know that mandatory touch is going to be a limiting factor on price. Take a look at the Asus x202e. Reasonably slim, core i3 processor, touch screen, almost ultrabook/battery life and size (didn't quite make the spec)... 500$.

If anything it tells me even more that Intel is looking to gradually morph the ultrabook brand to mean slim, powerful hybrid/convertible as the technology makes it possible. ie: they're trying to evolve the notebook computer in such a way that it encrouches on the 'tablet market', just as tablets have made their way into the pc market...

More significantly: simply because the ultrabook exists, the other 'normal/cheap' laptops are getting slimmer, cheaper and all-round better.

I think the mac/windows drama is still on on -- with the ipad and devices like it marketed to consumers an entertainment device, and Wintel keeping the productivity market.
"We asked IM to switch to uploading hashes of the IP and MAC address instead, and they are going to start doing that." ... c:
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The way I read it was that Shin only knew the virtues are betrayal and of being betrayed until he met the man who nursed him back to health and told him stories of freedom. Although these stories led him to "wake up", he was still steeped in the economy of betrayal when he used his naive friend's writhing body as a staircase to freedom.

I read elsewhere that a post-Juche NK would need one or two generations of special oversight before full reunification could take place due to the amount of mental trauma inflicted on the population (of ~20 million).
"Sheltering them from the real world."

Indeed. Why don't we just thrust 14 year olds into the worst sort of soul-sucking office job for a year or so. That'll give 'em a good taste of the "real world".
I took we to mean his blog readership, not Apple users.

Maybe I was incorrect, but I hope I wasn't.
I'm the same with my 'partner' (hetrosexual relationship).
She finds the terms girlfriend / boyfriend a little uncomfortable for whatever reason.

I'm similar really. It's a holdover from my annoyance at people in school that used to say "me and my boyfriend blah blah blah", "my girlfriend told me blah blah blah", etc.

So now I use my partner's name whenever possible, otherwise introducing her as my partner in conversation. Not saying that's what the reason is here, but that's my personal reasoning.
Not on the HTC Evo LTE (Basically the One X). When it got Jellybean battery life too a nose dive. I often see Maps accounting for 70% of the battery usage with Google Now.
My comment wasn't edited -- I think the critic just realized that PG isn't holy or perfect ...
As much as I kind of hate to admit it ...

The cost to a hobbyist of an 8-pin 555 timer[1] is not significantly different to the cost of an 8-pin TinyAVR[2] -- and the TinyAVR gives you a lot more options -- so that's the way kids these days blink their LEDs :-)

[1] https://www.sparkfun.com/products/9273

[2] https://www.sparkfun.com/products/9378
There was a time when many people looked forward to a faster CPU, because it meant you could open Word documents more quickly.

That time is long gone. As a developer, laptops have been fast enough for my purposes since around 2000.

Coding Horror, 2010:

CPUs? All stupid fast at any price, with more cores
and gigahertz than you'll ever need unless you're one
of those freaks who does nothing but raytracing and
video transcoding all day long.

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2010/09/revisiting-solid-st...

Excluding servers and scientific computing, the only groups I know of that still want more power are hardcore gamers and video editors. Even for these, the bottleneck is frequently somewhere else than the CPU.

I think my mother and sisters represent mainstream computing better than I do: The check mail, watch YouTube videos and look at pictures of the family. There's nothing there that requires more computing power than what tablets have today.

The Google Nexus 7 is $200. It has enough computing power for what most of my family uses computers for. It still has other limitations that may make it unsuitable as a wholesale PC replacement - say ports for plugging in a large monitor, options for printing, drivers for various USB devices - but those limitations do not primarily call for a faster CPU.

If you disagree, I'd be curious to know where you see a mass market for significantly more CPU power than what we expect from the natural evolution of ARM.
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I'm in. Let me know when you get started with this, I'll help build it.
You should have listed all those products...another way to promote! Great to hear stories like this.
>I'm sure Aaron was aware of that his suicide would bring a lot of attention to his causes and this will have played a part in his, as I consider it, decision.

I'm not sure: http://www.quinnnorton.com/said/?p=644

>We used to have a fight about how much the internet would grieve if he died. I was right.
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The Department of Justice seems to want his fate determined by those same people, does that make it better? Note all the major news stories calling him a "hacker," just add stonewalling and you have mission accomplished.