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This is a great story. I think javascript is very likely the future of app development. At the least, JS is the new Assembly with other languages compiling to it. It will be nice to maybe have the dream of write once run anywhere come true for app development. Swing got close but for any number of reasons failed.

Side note: I am disappointed to not see this make front page. It's one of the better stories today. There definitely needs to be some HN algorithm tweaking here. Rest assured, if Gnome sent out an email urging people to upvote this, it would be on page 1. That's why we see so many mediocre low-content company blog posts in our news.
i think this with good indexing/search capabilities, and tagging (like gmail) and PGP support with a clean web-UI that supports multiple screen sizes (devices) is an ABSOLUTE HIT!

run one on my phone! and/or over https on _MY_ server. then build calendar-chat-etc in.

wow..
If you haven't heard of these, may I suggest:

http://www.roominatetoy.com/
http://www.laurenipsum.org/

And, you know, a zillion other things, but these are the two I'm most familiar with at the moment for girls at your daughter's age.
I certainly think it's true that popular culture has a disturbing fondness for making boys and men out to be bumbling idiots and Homer Simpsons.

But, sticking with a Simpsons theme, far more of our media projects female role models closer to Jessica than Lisa.
> How is the theory not disparaging to women?

Think about it. If men have a wider standard deviation from the norm, that means there are more criminals and morons among men than among women. I think that's consistent with everyday experience, and suggests that women are more likely to be mentally balanced and law-abiding. Public records support this conclusion.

It's all in how you look at it. The theory says that, on average, men and women have the same mental abilities, but in the extreme, there are more criminals and mentally challenged people among men. That is also supported by public records.

> Society is run by people at the edge of the bell curve ...

No, it isn't. Look at the average politician, or military leader -- these people aren't in any way extraordinary, to put it diplomatically. These are the people who steer society, not scientists and Nobel Prizewinners.

> ... if you say that there are less women at the edges than you are saying that it's no big deal we have less women in high-ranking positions.

Very intelligent people don't get into "high-ranking positions". They don't because voters don't trust them. The last genuinely intelligent person who ran for U.S. president was Adlai Stevenson (in 1952 and 1956), but the voters rejected him largely because of his obvious intelligence.

Also, please, say "fewer women", not "less women". The latter describes physically short people of the fair sex.

http://oxforddictionaries.com/words/less-or-fewer
This is great, thanks for making it! Definitely will save me time.
no, the OP believes that the politicians should be sued too - right now it's a case of the pot vs the kettle.
Could you clarify about the GPU compute tradeoffs on desktop versus mobile? Why is it different between the two?
View as one page: http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/atlarge/2013/02/11/130...
It only deletes the file from the apps and server, obviously it can't delete arbitrary files you store on the phone.
Since OpenCL is not available in Android yet, Renderscript seems the only GPU compute game in town. So when will Renderscript apps start appearing?
I certainly wouldn't presume to tell someone close to the situation what the cause was, but that doesn't mean I uncritically accept their view. Having a history of depression and having made a couple of suicide attempts in the (now-distant) past, here are some things that come to mind while reading her argument that Aaronsw didn't exhibit the typical clinical markers of depression:

a) having a list of symptoms doesn't fully equip someone to make clinical decisions about their presence or absence, especially when one is trying to wrap one's head around them in the wake of a tragic event. Psychiatry is nowhere near being an exact science, but a list of symptoms doesn't put one the same plane as a psychiatrist who is familiar with the terms of art, statistical methods and so forth that go into the development of evaluation scales. Psychiatry may grope its way through the dark, but it does attempt to do so in a systematic fashion.

b) one might argue that the 'the Aaron she knew' didn't exhibit the typical symptoms of exhaustion either.

c) depression isn't some amorphous thing that follows one around like a personal raincloud independent of circumstances, but is rather a factor that weights a person's thought processes to varying degrees depending on time and context. Phrases such as 'pessimistic arrogance' loom large to me, as does this example:

Sam gave Aaron a quick overview of Australian politics; Aaron expressed astonishment at how easy it would be to “take over Australia”, but concluded that a country of only 20 million probably wouldn’t be worth it.

Self-esteem, needless to say, was definitely not Aaron’s problem.

Sometimes, statements tell you more about the person making them than the ostensible subject. This doesn't mean that the person is lying or concealing their feelings, but that those feelings are unconsciously attached to external subjects in order to give them an outlet. Arrogance is not a good proxy for self-esteem at all in my own case; quite the reverse.

d) What people tell you and what they do don't always match; sometimes they may conceal the truth about their feelings of activities for reasons ranging from embarrassment, to pessimism about the ability of others to understand, to not wishing to be a burden. When one is depressed, even other people's expressions of love and support can be exhausting to deal with and it may be preferable to avert them by cultivating an air of positivity. This isn't a case of dishonesty so much as trying to think oneself healthy again.

e) profound capacity for pleasure in everyday life...finely honed aesthetic sense Again, I don't find this incompatible with the presence of depression. The stars shine particularly brightly at night, so to speak.

There are a lot of factors that lead into a person's choice to commit suicide, and they're not IMHO amenable to simple binary decompositions. Just as the number of people with depression vastly exceeds the number of people who commit suicide, so does the number of people who are confronted with alarming legal burdens, both civil and criminal.

Please consider the points above as an attempt at supplementation rather than disputation.
Really handy tool, thanks! I second the suggestion of allowing the background to be applied to another element.
If Google does it, you can be sure every other company will jump on the wagon as quickly and haphazardly as possible.
"female sexuality is framed as something which exists for the pleasure of men."

I must say I have never noticed this, so I am not sure what to say. I can't really make sense of it either. My impression was sex exists to create babies, not to pleasure men. I don't say that to try to be funny, just to express that it seems a very long way from that to "female sexuality exits to pleasure men".

Or do you mean the use of women in advertising, their sexiness associated with chocolate or cars or whatever? I guess it could be interpreted like that, only I wouldn't have referred to a woman's presentation in a (supposedly) sexy way as her sexuality. With "female sexuality" I thought about what arouses women. Maybe I misunderstood.

My interpretation of women is advertising is simply that men desire women, not that women's purpose is to pleasure men. Actually, isn't it rather the other way round? You want that car because supposedly it helps you get the woman, it seems to be more about pleasing women than men?

Edit: also, my apologies, I am getting tired and HN is probably not well suited to this kind of discussion. I am interested in it, though.
Thanks for the links :-)

I am indeed familiar with lots of options for girls her age, and I work with her to keep her interest level high with this stuff. I think if you're an engaged parent it's easy to find ways to enjoy science and technology with a daughter and ensure she learns this isn't just "boys stuff".

But I also see her peers and their parents and I see a far bigger push towards less empowering role models and less science-minded interests.
Right...but isn't there some value in comparing populations at a country level? I don't think the OP is making the argument that girls are flat-out better at science. Rather, I think the OP is raising the question: if boys are more naturally inclined toward science, shouldn't we expect them to be relatively better at it in most countries? At the very least, it shows that the gender gap does not have to be an intractable one.
Provide Green Card to overseas grad students with a job offer
The tone/aggressiveness of your response makes it read like you're projecting a bunch of subtext you're bringing into the conversation onto me. I respect you but/so/and I'm not going to play that game.
Solid walls with a high thermal mass could have been moderating the temperature by themselves responding slowly to temperature change.
Facebook creating Find My Friends rip off
Well, there is still one use case where IE is indispensable:

http://www.bourkedesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/ie-po...
I remember 1 or 2 were from UXMovement.com and others from all over the place, usually developers who run A/B tests and report their results on the site's blog.
"In contrast, YAML’s foremost design goals are human readability and support for serializing arbitrary native data structures."

- YAML Spec: http://yaml.org/spec/1.2/spec.html#id2763035

It isn't an issue with Ruby's implementation, but rather the spec itself.

You're splitting hairs here, and ignoring the rest of the article. YAML isn't evil or a "problem" per say. It's only when you pair YAML with un-sanitized user input that we get into problems.
I think it's pretty cool how after 23 years a group of guys who were friends in high school each went on to be a CMO, a lawyer, a H.S. teacher and a priest, respectfully, and still stay in touch and have a way to have fun.
Expand on the Rothschild connection, will you?
Ever hear the saying, "Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery"?
Machines don't pay taxes. Companies won't be donating the lost wage taxes to the government either. :P
Apple Doomed, According to News at 11
For what it's worth, I kinda agree with what I think you're getting at -- that the diagnosis for depression needs a lot of work and the DSM isn't infallible -- but your comment here is easy to interpret as a skepticism of the existence of depression, which might be why it's getting downvoted.

Fortunately, there have been some recent advancements in neuroscience that can give us hope for improved diagnosis in the future (once the field is able to agree on what depression is, anyway).
I could live with that, but is that a promo deal for a few months or the going rate?
Any system - especially a justice system - unable to take into account peoples' circumstances is not only wasteful, but dangerous. Neutrality does not transcend doing the right thing. Justice isn't a product that is packaged and sold, it is a service, rendered on a case-by-case basis. It is done that way so that the context can be understood sufficiently well in each case. In this case it either wasn't, or they simply didn't care, or were negligent. This is wrong and it needs to be fixed.

What is your agenda? It seems as if you think the system is fine, and cannot and should not improve. Why?
"civil disobedience is not about sticking it to The Man, but about getting into the sort of vulnerable position that makes it possible to win people over with dialogue."

I find that really beautiful, thank you.
We'll have to agree to disagree. I think short of being faced with someone who is such a high suicide risk that he should be committed for his own safety, prosecutors have no special duty to treat possible suicide risks specially.

What I find odd is that you think it "incomprehensible" that anyone would disagree with you. I think lots of people would disagree with you on this point. Indeed, I think the majority of Americans would disagree with you. We put people in jail for stealing to feed their kids, we put people in jail for killing abusive husbands, etc. We go out of our way to treat defendants uniformly.
Woohoo! I loved the site but felt limited by the fact that I couldn't just "edit-source" and fix things. It's great that this feature is finally in.
The constraints of the time shouldn't be confused with their recognition of the power of notation.

Also, based on the poor advice of this thread's subject, surely one should always write /almostall in one's DCL script for clarity and to lessen the chance of ambiguity as the command evolves? grep's -i is only ever going to mean -i.

VMS died, DCL was often ridiculed, its over-verbose style was a part of that. Its lack of power played a larger part.
>>>Given that the telco industry is 100% made up of government-granted regulatory monopolies, this act clearly did not implement deregulation.

I do not think it is controversial to say that deregulation is the act or process of removing or reducing state regulations. I have checked several dictionaries and encyclopedias, on line and dead-tree.

So a slight reduction in the regulatory laws that contributed to the formation of "government-granted regulatory monopolies" is deregulation. Therefore, the 1996 telecommunications Act of 1996 is deregulation, since it reduced and removed some, but not all, regulatory laws.

If we can agree on this, I will reply to the rest of your comment. If we disagree I can still reply, but the definition is really important to my argument.
Its definitely more often beautiful than historical truth or personal truth. Either way, you deserve to wear the uniform.
tl;dr So many variables it is impossible to give you good advice without a lot more information (some of which is probably sensitive). Anybody who pretends otherwise is lying.

The generic advice you get will be stuff you've probably heard already or common sense.

Best generic advice: Imagine you are in your employers position, and figure out what the best possible outcome you can get is by giving him/her one or two concerns at most.
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A passion for technology and the ability to learn things quickly is key, as you will be given the opportunity to develop on multiple platforms and in a variety of languages. You will also have a chance to participate in discussions with our product and design teams to build the next generation of Airtime.

We are hiring for our satellite office in the SoMa district of SF. Our main office is in NYC. We're currently under 10 people. Our SF employees also enjoy the opportunity to take occasional business trips to our Manhattan office.

We are not currently sponsoring H1-B visas.

To apply, please complete the Airtime Coding Challenge at http://challenge.airtime.com/instructions. Once you have done so, please submit your resume and your challenge solution to jobs+hn@airtime.com. You may want to include instructions on how to run your solution. Please put the coding challenge answer in the subject line of your email.
Holy fT%!#, that's a hard question to answer, because there are so many great candidates. If I had to pick one though, I guess I'd start with my dad. No, he's not rich, not famous, you've never heard of him, he doesn't do anything really technology related, and he couldn't spell "venture capital" if you spotted him the "venture capit" bit. In fact, he dropped out of school in 8th grade to go work and never really learned to read well. I expect the Internet is about as useful to him as a skateboard is to a blue whale.

That said, he's one of the smartest people I know, and he has a couple of things that allowed him to become fairly successful over time: an entrepreneurial spirit, great work-ethic, and absolute pigheaded determination. To the extent that I have any of those things, I credit my dad's influence, whether it's a genetic thing, or just social influence during my formative years, or both, or whatever.

All through my childhood, my dad made attempt after attempt at starting and running various businesses. From memory I can recall: running a pulpwood truck, cutting down trees and hauling logs to the paper mills; making handmade crab traps; building docks and bulkheads; a shrimping business, selling fresh shrimp to seafood wholesalers; a business running a bush-hog, clearing lots and what-not; a fill-dirt and land grading/levelling business; and probably one or two more that I'm forgetting. In between those, he made a living working back-breaking manual labor jobs, mostly on dredge boats. But after many years, he started a business pouring and finishing concrete... doing foundations, slabs, driveways, etc. And that one finally "caught" and he makes a nice living doing that now. He's at the stage where he has crews working for him, and he just does what we would call "business development" and "prospecting".

Outside of my dad, if I had to cite some influential figures, I think Nicola Tesla would be on the list, as would Elon Musk, Larry Ellison, Linus Torvalds, rms, Kevin Mitnick, Lou Gerstner, Tom Siebel, esr, rtm, and our very own pg. I'd also have to give a nod to my current $DAYJOB boss, acoliver. Oh, and Bob Young, of Red Hat and Lulu fame. I guess Mark Zuckerberg would count as well, even though I'm not a huge Facebook fan. Oh, Larry Page and Sergey Brin from Google, also.
Except that "in those days" the vast majority of women also worked -- just not in white-collar occupations.

http://letterbyafeminist.blogspot.com.au/2008/04/myth-of-non...
That makes no sense. In Australia the government will happily hand you the best loan you can get for a University education. The loan is indexed at inflation and you don't need to pay it back until you earn a certain amount of money. It doesn't cost anywhere near $45k/year to study here and the cost of living in Australia is significantly higher than almost all places in the US.
You don't know that the person harassing her is a man, so why assume it is?
Me too... why is it that Forbes and Wall Street are such awful websites.
Damn, I wish I would have known I would have donated the domain "AfterStarter.com" to you. I ditched it a few months ago and someone else nabbed it.

I was going to use it to make a site that lists all the links to stores where you can buy Kickstarter products after they're done with Kickstarter. Got busy with other things and it never went anywhere.
The attacker has an unknown plaintext byte P, and due to the way CBC mode works (together with the timing attack), is able to test if (P xor X) is a valid padding byte with X chosen by the attacker. Once the attacker finds an X that makes a valid padding byte, she can trivially determine P.
On Awful Online Job Application Systems
Well your response implies the reason is stubbornness, and definitely not, as you say, fashion. The parent makes a great point and there are so many times when we're exposed to articles like this that promote a certain view as being the one true way. The original article makes some great points but so does your parent. If there's any wrong take on the labels vs. no labels debate its taking any one side at all. The right thing lies somewhere in the middle.
I forgot to ask, have you ever downloaded and listened to or watched any music or movies you didn't pay for? Not saying you did but just checking.
I would expect Google Hangouts to use webRTC when available and use the Talk plugin only as a fallback.
Universities here are subsidized to a degree. Not as heavily as they used to be, which is where a large part of the cost increase comes from.
Desktop: high-end consumer GPUs have about 10-15x the single-precision FLOPs and 4-6x the bandwidth of a single Intel CPU socket. At this point, usually connected via PCIe Gen3. There are two real vendors (NVIDIA and AMD), and what comprises a system is generally the same (CPU + some number of GPUs).

Mobile: GPU has 3-5x the FLOPs of the CPU and no bandwidth advantage because of the shared memory pool between CPU and GPU. GPUs have very wide ranges of functionality. Even the CPUs behave very differently (Krait in Nexus 4 sometimes chews through code that the A15 in Nexus 10 chokes on and vice-versa). What comprises a system varies tremendously--CPU, CPU + GPU, CPU + GPU + other processors, etc.

A developer shouldn't be expected to have to tune for 20 different processors and system architectures in order to ship an app on the Android market. That's the problem we're trying to solve, not simply exposing access to GPU compute.
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I downvoted because I have no interest in seeing stock trading tips on HN. This is not a stock trading forum, and those kinds of comments don't belong here.
Nassim Taleb on the the gap between theory and practice
I know nothing about this theory nor about the biology of human intelligence, but someone suggesting a scientific hypothesis is doing science whether or not you like the implications. Go yell at Darwin for implying that a Creator is unnecessary. Someone saying "women are dumb and therefore don't get jobs" would indeed be disparaging women, but proposing a hypothesis about the biology of intelligence is not.
There are remarkably few web designs that have much permanence. Sites that were designed 5 years ago can look very dated today.

Since the web is a place where things are very easily copied, it stands to reason that good ideas will be emulated and this is to be expected.

It would seem quite contrary to the idea of the web to give a single entity a monopoly on laying out a page in a particular way.
What would you be expecting for your $2-3K? One day, a weekend? Group sessions, one-on-one instruction or both? Would you travel to something like this or want it local?

It's not too hard to weed out the pick up artists. They are usually not at all shy about giving advice on how to get to and what to do in the bedroom. Their methods are also mostly centered around the concept of dominance.
Where here "sanitize" means "disable most of the features of the YAML parser".
I expect it heavily depends on the application, context and user role. So it's a great thing to offer developers the choice of whether to mirror or not.
I'm not 100%, because I do audio-only rather than video, but I think Trillian will handle that for Skype, and its a little bit more stable. I agree that Skype is one of the worst apps out there.
Most of the bailout dollars were not loans, they were equity ownership stakes. To the extent the loans were "paid back in full" the dollar amount represents only a fraction of the total bailout provided.