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> 1- A large portion of the marketing industry is based around the "objectifying of women." Women should go out in droves and write long screeds against marketers (pigs?) instead of flooding the marketing companies with their resumes.

It's not that simple. Societal pressure can cause people to behave in ways that are detrimental to their own well-being (especially in a situation where the actual effects are extremely subtle). Question: which job would be more appealing to the average person who identifies as female: a job where she gets to work with other women and not face any criticism, harassment, or judgement for doing so, or a job where she is surrounded by men who (on average) get paid more and hold all of the higher level positions?

Take it a step further: if I'm a women, and I was being objectified, I would prefer to be objectified by women rather than men. I'd prefer to be in a career and a position that allows me to control how I am perceived, if I am going to be objectified regardless of which career I chose.

The current power structure favors men, and it's more the responsibility of those with power to make positive change. It doesn't mean women aren't responsible for their own well-being, but it means that men are more responsible for any detriment we cause when power is in our favor.
The iPad killed Silverlight, not Microsoft.
just curious who you think is more generous?
Path fined $800,000 by FTC over iOS privacy breach
I feel bad for the lady losing her job over pointing out an idiot.

I'd boycott Applebees for this except... I never eat there anyway because a random TV Dinner from the grocery store is better quality and taste and I don't have to go sit in a poorly controlled environment to do so.
2 years isn't such a short time in the Valley. At some places, those are the old-timers.
Is it possible to find mp3.com-era stuff in some archive?
> I think you give to much credit to the manufacture of academic sausage.

I don't understand what you mean by that. I merely point out it needs to be done and most discussions about open access publishing neglect to mention it.
I think that some in the development world may be less indiscriminately social.

I'm plenty social. And I'm not a snob -- I can talk with most anyone, about genuine interests (interests on either party's part, not just my own). Or just sit around drawing spirals in the pancake syrup, for a while.

I don't particularly enjoy discussing the latest Hollywood movies and actors ad nauseum, whose existence and which conversation seems to serve significantly to reinforce established, simplistic stereotypes. Especially when the conversation ranges in exactly that direction.

I don't enjoy conversations that "get personal", looking for ways to pick apart those not present (behind their back). Or that look for ways to pick apart those present, in active, emotionally manipulative pursuit of a pecking order.

On the team I described, we socialized, although people were on average fairly reserved. A good part of that socialization reflected people actually paying attention to and remembering what each other were interested in and doing, and what was going on in their lives.

Again, this is just an opinion, but I think some of the "anti-social" attributed to "nerds" and "geeks" is rather an active dis-interest in much of the lowest common denominator of what we consider "social".

(Some, not all. I've met plenty of intellectual assholes, too.)

Another, personal example: I rather enjoy playing sports. I couldn't care less about watching paid professionals doing it. (This does vary somewhat by sport and event. Also, if anything, I tend to find amateur games more interesting; they bear a closer relationship to my life than the over-produced, over-medicated thing that professional sports has become. Upon reflection, maybe this is a somewhat arrogant or avoidant attitude on my part; I received a lot of abuse as a kid for not being "sports-wise" -- something my father wasn't and never passed on to me.)

I've spend too much time and energy on self-doubt, as it is. A lot of places and people have told me that I'm the one who needs to change. They love my work, and how do I do that? But, you know, "We all work in cubes."

If you are outperforming your peers (and, not infrequently, management) and otherwise succeeding, then, well, who has the problem?

The following may take the interpretation a bit far, but: The bully will always insist that it's "your problem".
Thanks for the additional context. My thought on seeing this was "Neat. Now what on Earth is this information is useful for?"

I've always thought a herd of smartphone sensors could have great use in public safety.
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The big government/big corp/big law collusion makes this almost impossible in the USA.

I would argue that it's impossible to do in the USA because the US is a very heterogenous culture whereas countries like Sweden are a very homogenous culture. Solidarity among people is much easier to achieve with individuals that have existing and reasonable bonds with each other.
> If you think that the display was sexist, it is incumbent on you to explain why and not act as though it is obvious to everyone under the sun.

Uh, when someone does something wrong, its not up to the oppressed to explain everything. This is classic victim blaming mentality that seeks to take the blame off of the company putting out sexist messaging and advertising and to place it on women at large. People have a right to be upset at this company and if you feel that people don't you are implicitly endorsing sexism.

EDIT: If you are occupying the position of privilege, you have a duty to go read about why this is sexist and to listen to the perspectives of the people affected (in this case women). You can Google, so don't sit there and demand an explanation before you are satisfied.
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I have no problem targeting Silverlight because Silverlight is not the "stack" in that case. XAML and .NET are, both of which are viable for the foreseeable future.
Any other examples?
Oh, OK, this is about some kind of misunderstanding upthread. I didn't mean that women are universally less sexist, but that including women on the team means the "message" of the booth is less likely to be offensive to women.
I know it's not what you mean, but that implies there's not much to learn in the Valley.
Really awesome app/idea. I have been waiting for someone to do this. One suggestion, create hourly(or w/e increment would work best) maps(heatmap esk) of this data.

I understand this is (probably) meant as a scientific tool for data retrieval but adding something like this would give a lot to the users of how the data is being used and what it actually means in comparison to everyone else.

Great work tho!
Too simplistic. There are a lot of things that bring bias into the equation if the question is about the effectiveness of teaching/education and not about the ability of a school to create (rather than select or influence) 'success' outside of it actually succeeding at teaching or educating.
Presumably that deal involved this http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2013/02/google-creates-60m-di... so it's possible that there may not really be much caving at all involved here.
Doesn't that just mean that the first (#10) article got more upvotes/comments than the other (#11) recently (AKA velocity)
Why does the stench of power always smell the same?

It's all so predictable.
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So, just to clarify my own confusion. It's not actually "2D" it's that it's one atom thin, so that it might as well be 2D? Or am I mistaken, and it is actually 2D? Because what I am understanding is that it would still be a 3D atom? Or is there something that can explain this better. Thanks.
Here is the issue I'm having.

"Tech" is considered by the mainstream to be full of socially maladjusted overgrown boys who spend far too long in their mother's basement. They are cold and unemotional and they took engineering classes in college; perhaps one is the cause of the other. Sexism in programming teams made up primarily of this stereotype is a common topic here, and it is almost universally agreed that it is a major problem.

So I guess it annoys me when a bunch of marketing people use sex in their advertising, as they do in every other industry imaginable, and we use it as an opportunity to flog tech some more. Where the exact people who made this decision selling umbrellas instead of hard-drives, would this be on HN? I don't think so.
There are very few things that are "universally offensive." As nollidge accurately pointed out, just because women were involved doesn't mean it's not sexist.

The fact is that this was widely considered offensive and unnecessary, and the CEOs response only made it worse. No one has the right not to be offended, but everyone has the right to speak out and not buy a product for whatever reasons they choose, which is exactly what happened.

Personally, I don't have a problem with naked people in body paint as part of a display; it does everything you want a display to do, it catches eyes and it sticks in memory.

But why did they only choose naked women? There are no painted male models in their staff photo from the event.[1] Was it decided that including naked men would somehow hurt the effectiveness of the display, and if so, why? Certainly there were willing male models, so it seems that HyperMac just steered clear of hiring men. The accusations of sexism (or more accurately, objectification) all springs from that, and the unwillingness of the CEO to even acknowledge that as a concern is honestly disturbing.

[1] http://www.hyperblog.com/2013/01/thanks-for-an-amazing-ces-2...
> The real problem about women being objectified is that women are ready to be objectified - either for money or for some other form of compromise. This is the real problem. As long as such women exist, the product makers and corporations would obviously use them. So, if you want this to stop, you have to revolt when someone from your own gender (male/female) is ready to represent your gender infront of a public audience and accept to be objectified for money. Don't go after the corporation that hired them, instead ask these people why they let them objectify you, on behalf of you/your gender in the first place. This is the real problem

Either you think objectifying women is wrong, or you don't. If you do, then it's absolutely logical to go after the people deciding to run their marketing campaign this way. You will always find people ready to do whatever if you put enough money on the table. It doesn't mean it's not wrong.
Seriously, it should be called "Google-Style Bootstrap Theme". The title makes you think it is some new project.
> Most security nerds find app signing and sandboxing a good idea.

Those same security nerds have been doing both on FLOSS operating systems (BSD, GNU/Linux) for years, so that point is irrelevant to the original discussion.
> I'm just interested in your experience of doing just that. I've found very little reference material on it, except some comments by professors and people currently working in industry that people are courted by companies once they finish their qualifying exams.

There are tons and tons of companies that come to a school every year. If you have a linkedin profile or some sort of web presence, you will be courted. It doesn't necessarily happen once you finish quals or whatever, but it will keep happening.

> This may be off topic, but what's your experience with this? Were you courted before you decided to leave? How far did you get? What affected your decision? What was the salary difference? What do you do now? Was it worth it to even go for a little?

I do data science (machine learning, scalability engineering) stuff. Lots of people have PhDs, I presume they make a good 20% or so more than I do. However, keep in mind that they have spent 3+ years finishing a PhD so I can probably make up. Honestly, if you are going into industry, I don't think you'd need a PhD. Companies these days think it is fancy to hire someone with a big name degree but a master's degree hasn't hampered me. I miss school terribly mainly because I felt stupid there (I know how silly this sounds) and the problems were terribly hard.
What's so strange? Angular is the best thing that has ever happened to mankind.
“Six strikes” boss insists new system won’t harm public Wi-Fi
It isn't letting me edit my post, but I think I may have misremembered about you being a lawyer. Oh well.
I just realized all the common message board/forum platforms seem to have that checkbox built in. Never realized why that was the age cutoff.
The fact is that a teacher making a bunch of copies of something as hand-outs for their class is so common and benign a use case as to be mentioned in the statute, just to ensure that it could not be precluded by factor #3. Educational use itself is part of factor #1.

In any scenario where a teacher was copying educational materials for a class, I would have a hard time seeing it as anything but fair use barring unusual circumstances. Which was, I think, the point they were trying to make.
Mostly "this is stupid and I'm going to sign up anyways". My daughter created her own fake Facebook accounts twice before she was 10 and has had one we allowed since she was 11. She original did it to play Farmville and the other Facebook games all her friends were playing.

She also got her GMail account locked out after Google+ launched when she innocently entered her actual date-of-birth when they prompted for it one day. This is the email account that all of her teachers expect her to have - just like all of her fellow students have.

I'm all for protecting kids' privacy, but there should be a parental override available to allow under-13 users onto services.
I know this writer, and she's about as "objective" as any journalist can be.
Thanks, I didn't think of that.
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As one of those people myself, I certainly didn't mean to suggest that all straight white males are oppressors, but rather quite the opposite: that all or most oppressors of civil rights in this country appear to be straight white males.
This is very interesting to me and my work on tracking health issues and pop culture on social media. I'll email you to see if someone else hasn't already gotten to it first!
Welcome Crindy!

HN is great for some topics, but on the issue of women, get ready to cringe. In the same thread where I said I didn't want kids I was told that I would live a miserable life where I would always wonder what I was missing on top of being told that I shouldn't have a problem with not getting a certain job or making less money because the potential for maternity leave is a liability to the team (I don't disagree with the latter in theory, but I'm an individual, not a gender, so if something doesn't apply to me, I shouldn't be reprimanded for it).

There's also at least one member (with a decently large karma score) that goes around downvoting (and often times insulting) every female-looking username in these types of threads. For this reason, many women use gender-neutral names and don't bother engaging in these conversations.

Very embarrassing for the community, we need to do better.
That was my meaning -- I'm not really attached to my karma score. I use it as a barometer of what kinds of feedback is valued on HN. I've been greatly disappointed by the amount of downvotes volleyed against "let's have a frank discussion about sexism" comments.
I disagree. I think working at a large company for long periods of time can actually stifle your ability to be a great founder. You learn bad habits and your intuition can be deformed by things which help you become successful at Big Co but are useless in early stage companies.

Also, I'm at Google and I know John and his work really well. It's almost laughable to imply it was involuntary. John is an all star. The guy actually wants to do a startup because he find the challenge interesting.
I love this project and the idea of linking together the sensors on so many devices. I wonder if something similar could be used for earthquake detection using motion sensors in the phone, since many phone rest on flat surfaces at least part of the day (most of the day for me). It could be activated when phones are resting on a flat surface with no movement.
I love the unintentional imagery of feminists as rebels against the system, with the implication that the rebellion is unjust and the correct behavior would be to know one's role. The term "rogue woman" about someone standing up for equality is so offensive it almost makes me laugh.
The complaint in the article was that the display was degrading to the women. Including men in the display just would have degraded men as well as women. It's not a numbers game.
Presumably this will matter more in places like Africa, India, etc. which lack the same level of highly developed weather forecasting sensors as the US. It seems likely low-end Android phones could be just as pervasive there at some point, and would make a huge difference to farmers, public safety, travel, etc.

I'm not sure how you go from here to there.
Some of Riemann's code is very much like Java, especially where I interoperate with Java libraries. Other parts of the code are... definitely not Java:

(defn where-partition-clauses
"Given expressions like (a (else b) c (else d)), returns [[a c] [b d]]"
[exprs]
(map vec
((juxt remove
(comp (partial mapcat rest) filter))
(fn [expr]
(when (list? expr)
(= 'else (first expr))))
exprs)))

I wouldn't categorize Clojure as a "pure lisp"--it relies heavily on the JVM type system, for starters--but idiomatic Clojure feels closer to Lisp than Java, to me.
One of the absurdities of the various college ranking systems is that reputation is a large component of the ranking. So if you have a good ranking, you get a good ranking.
Yes, but having your currency tied to the Euro isn't a problem. (Quite the opposite, if the majority of your trade is to the Eurozone. It's what Switzerland ended up doing to prevent the CHF from getting too strong and killing exports). Actually being in the Euro means having to take over an ever increasing proportion of debts of other, possibly mismanaged countries. That's what's going to kill the few remotely healthy Eurozone members.
With all due respect, that's between a parent and their child. At the very least, the name COPPA is disingenuous and misleading - I'm pretty sure if it was called the Ban Kids From Facebook law, it would not have the same level of public support.

Also, the MPAA rating system is not a legal requirement. AFAIK, there is no law which prevents 13 year olds from watching PG-13 movies, either in theaters or at home: http://www.theclyde.net/TheClyde_Ratings.htm
I don't buy that you can draw conclusions about individuals or their trade from what a company that happens to employ them does. This incident reflects poorly on the marketing people involved, and the executives involved. That tech is also in the company is irrelevant.

If Uber started putting out sexist advertising, would that reflect poorly on professional drivers?
This news explains a lot about St. Gaben's new found love for Linux. Combine Microsoft's attempt to embrace and extend* into reselling software on its platform, with MS not keeping DirectX ahead of OpenGL; and it is no wonder Gaben jumped into Linux development the way he did.

*gobble up and monopolize
Can anything exist in "2D" considering we live in a "3D" world?
Super Bowl to handle 30,000 Wi-Fi users, sniff out “rogue devices”
Nordic companies have coped well with globalisation, but need new blood
We are very excited about this acquisition. Awesome to see what ideas are coming out of colleges.

The tech world should watch these students: Joshua Ma, Zachary Dearing, David Guo, Arkady Blyakher, Joshua Dhaliwal, Carolyn Zhang and Dmitrij Petters. Congrats guys.
There's historically been three hurdles to EHR adoption.

Doctors make purchasing decisions. They're very conservative. Younger doctors embrace the computers. So it's just a matter of the old guard retiring.

Who pays? A paper medical record is fine for a clinical practice. Electronic records are good for interchange. But that doesn't help the doctor or the hospital. The early adopter hospitals of our RHIO system were motivated by attracting their area doctors, so used our system as a loss leader to encourage admissions.

EHRs suck. Huge. Imagine a whole universe of suckage and multiple it by infinite suckage. They're expensive, super complicated, and have no ROI. If it weren't for the federal push for electronic medical records, the carrot of block grants and "meaningful use" stick to punish non-participants, no one would adopt an EHR without a business case.
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> 1. It's not "being born" but identifying with a group. Gender, race, sports team, etc. You're more likely to act favorably toward people in your group.

Gender is a performance, not a thing. You act in alignment with what you portray to others as your gender.

> 2. Clearly not everyone has the same opinion of what's sexist.

While this is true, the vast majority of disagreement about what sexism is are deflections that serve to discredit actual instances of sexism or to pretend that sexism doesn't happen.

> 3. If women were not "sensitive" to this, then they wouldn't be complaining so much. They are complaining, therefore I conclude that they are sensitive to it.

This is totally true, women are sensitive to sexist depictions of their gender that are objectifying. Who wouldn't be?

> 4. Women can be mean to other women, but why would they be sexist against women on purpose?

Sexism is more than just conscious actions taken against others, it is about cultural and social contexts and structures. The same misogynistic messages in our culture are heard by men and women and that means everyone is affected by them to some extent. Misogyny isn't limited to men against women, some women may have internalized misogyny: http://finallyfeminism101.wordpress.com/2007/10/20/internali...

> 5. Women being sexist to men is not relevant to this context. We're talking about treatment of women.

Women cannot be sexist against men in a systemic way. Advertising that objectifies men's bodies doesn't increase the rhetoric that devalues men nor does it contribute to a culture where sexual assault against men is the vast majority of occurrences.
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Since being renamed from OpenStep, Cocoa has gotten hardware-accelerated graphics, two new (one since-deprecated) semi-automatic memory management schemes, 64-bit support, a hardware-accelerated animation system, a new fine-grained security model, closure-based concurrency, and cloud storage support. And yet it's still largely compatible with and recognizable as the framework with which the first web browser was built. And it's still a first-class citizen that Apple uses to write their own apps - it's not just being kept around in maintenance mode.