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I'm a full-stack Java and Rails developer as well as a published mobile app developer.

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I'm working very hard to be a strong woman in tech and support other women in tech. I don't understand why I shouldn't be taken seriously.

I don't understand why you think that because some women are sexist, I can't talk about it. This post wasn't targeted at men or women, it was target at HyperMac, which includes men and women.

Women are half of the population. We don't work as a group and we don't have a hive mind.
We welcome people who have written (or plan to write) Haskell tutorials and exercises to post them on the School of Haskell, if they find its features useful. By now you've probably seen the Active Haskell demo in the beta screencast video? https://haskell.fpcomplete.com/beta

We also welcome good organizers (like yourself perhaps?) to write tutorials that consist partly or entirely of links to other materials. The role of editors and organizers is sometimes undervalued, but not by us!
Love it. If anyone would like roughchart.com or tensecondreview.com hit me up. Address in profile (or reply here), first come first served.

Note: domains are on Dyn so you'll have to cover the transfer fee but that's it.
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I can write about sexism in female-dominated industries all day, and there are most certainly sexists pigs of all stripes and all genders. The fact is that the tech industry is a super-easy target for people to jump on, and this is wrong on so many levels it is barely worth writing about anymore. I could write long screeds about being a male in marketing and other industries, but what does it accomplish but upping my view-count?

Honestly, I'm not sure what the Africa thing is about.
> Google has agreed to create a €60 million Digital Publishing Innovation Fund to help support transformative digital publishing initiatives for French readers.

While I disagree in principle with Google having to pay at all, this doesn't seem as bad to me as some kind of revenue share that I was expecting. If it takes a one-time payment to just get this out of the way, that seems less evil.

> Second, Google will deepen our partnership with French publishers to help increase their online revenues using our advertising technology.

This part worries me though because it's ambiguous.
Also he got stuck on the Internal Tools team, which is basically the gulag as far as getting noticed by the higher-ups and promoted.
This is hilarious. The product video is awesome. If only it was actually possible to have a service where police officers brought you condoms.
Thanks. One of our design points in fact is that you can use the School from a tablet. We're still a bit concerned about Safari performance on the iPad, but we're on the case!
There is no dependency of having unique identifiers in order to be able to encrypt data.

A patient could have multiple identifiers that's only known to him/her.

Think a model like 1Password.
The OCaml version of the same tutorial is so much nicer http://llvm.org/docs/tutorial/OCamlLangImpl1.html
I've made deals with restaurants/bars/chefs/etc before and one piece of advice I can share that could be a huge help is to find an 'insider'. Not sure where you're living, but in certain scenes (food towns) there will be an abundance of foodies. Find one to help you.

I was in NYC when I was working on a marketplace in the food/social space and we got an intern who was awesome. He was a food blogger and knew the lay of the land better than I ever could. He knew restaurant owners by first name and they knew him. He afforded us instant trust and he knew the best prospects based on what we were wanting to accomplish.

Unless you're that guy who knows everybody, do this. Email me if you ever have any questions. Happy to help.
In Theory. In Practice it's often simply the statement of a vauge end result.
I would think most bots wouldn't have JavaScript and therefore not register on GA. I think a lot of people are bored and do click the articles on the New page. That said, even clicks from the front page are often not actual readers (as you can tell by many of the comments).
I'm not sure about the MCAT/GMAT/LSAT but the GRE is a pretty bad indicator. For example, everyone who goes to grad school for computer science or engineering gets minimum a 750 on the quantitative section. The math only tests high school level ability.

While I don't have any links, I think that there are many studies showing that SAT/GRE type scores don't mean very much.
Would love to give some feedback. I like Riak and I believe in it - over the long haul I'm 100% sure it will be an amazing product.

Let's grab beers at Erlang Factory!

Chad
not true- I was on the Google Analytics team and the Google Offers team before that.
The atmosphere is a problem but there is an interesting effect in computational photography [1] where you take many pictures of the same thing through interference and you remove the interference. In theory each camera could provide its GPS co-ordinates (accurate to 20m or so), the time of day (accurate to the second at least), camera orientation with respect to the gravity vector (3 axis accelerometer), and possibly the orientation of the magnetic field. The million dollar question then is how much can you use that information, and the image data, to construct a computational model of the light field as it is incident on the planet at a particular time, and from that identify and display sources of that light.

Clearly you'd need a significant chunk of computer power to post process that data. But it might be interesting.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational_photography
Why I am so bullish on health technology
Points 2 and 4 are frankly just wrong. I know the idea of a peace loving utopia is a fun one, but claiming that there is no need for a military and just out of hand dismissing the US as "corrupt" without any quantifiable evidence is frankly just lazy and ignorant.
But Warren Buffet gave his money to Bill Gates to spend; and may be been goaded into it by Bill Gates, so influence is hard to compare there.
It's also always amazing to me how few people upvote an article. Like something on the front page getting tens of thousands of votes, that people clearly like, and usually only a few hundred can be bothered to click a little arrow.
Ooh pretty.

We don't necessarily need to match up to colours if we're going strictly with isobars. Though a heatmap style, again, would be great looking.
I am not surprised to not hear anything about the developments in Iceland.
IMO, the ShareBuilder model works well for folks with less capital to invest. The problem I have with it: it lets you automatically dollar-cost-average IN to a holding, but it doesn't let you automatically dollar-cost-average OUT of it. Solve that problem too, please ;)
She didn't just "point out" an idiot. She posted the receipt with his name on Reddit, and ended up inciting an internet mob against him: http://www.reddit.com/r/atheism/comments/17i382/my_mistake_s...

I agree the guy was a jerk, but it should be common sense for any employee that they can't expect to keep their job after revealing private customer information, publicly humiliating that customer, and in this case very likely damaging that customer's career. Duh?
I submitted stuff that never got upvotes for months and thought I had just become out of sync somehow with the interests of the rest of HN. Then I realized that my submissions had apparently been banned! I can see them when I'm logged in as myself, but when I hit the site without logging in they're nowhere to be found.

Not quite a hell-ban, since people (apparently) still see my comments, but still frustrating.
TechStars takes Chicago, merges with Excelerate Labs incubator program
Tom - you're certainly not writing to yourself. Thank you so much :-)
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If you want people stop blaming others, start with yourself.
I've had the same experience. My blog posts not getting any upvotes, but still quite a few page views. However, GA tells me the views from HN have an atrociously high bounce rate and an average time on page of like 8 seconds. :P
I think that is wildly optimistic. I'd be surprised if 2% were not drinking, though there may be some overlap.
I've been wokring with Angular for several months. John showed me in 3 minutes what "transclusion" is, something the documentation has failed to do even after numerous readings. The format, examples and explanations in these tutorial are perfect - keep'em coming
Sorry about the short wait -- we've had literally thousands of applications in the first day, and we are letting people on by groups of 100 (and that step size itself will increase).
Quora must have a unique login protocal because it keeps me logged in over several weeks of non-use.
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I've got experience programming with 3D models, working with YC startups and am familiar with a very large range of programming languages.

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So you assume it protects privacy from children?
> So, next time you write something, make sure you submit to Hacker News, even if you don't get upvotes, people will still read it.

Sorry, I have to disagree. It is not "awesome" to get pageviews for the sake of getting pageviews. What is awesome is if 1 out of those 100 people who gave you the benefit of the doubt gives you an upvote because you gave them something interesting to read.

Instead of "Still awesome to submit", it should be "Still awesome to write/create". Don't tie the point of your writing to some nominal number of random readers.
Well, none of them offers a pony, either. I think that only one of these (data privacy) is a right; that (2)–(5) are conveniences; and that true unlimited data is impossible (assuming you mean "… at a fixed price").
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XNA was a POS and honestly, DOA. Microsoft tried to simplify game development on top of C# but even indie-developers opt'd to go the C++ route with a 3rd party cross-platform engine.

Plus as a game developer, if your game is successful enough to need to build a bigger engine, wouldn't it make sense to just rewrite it on top of C++/Direct3D anyway?

Otherwise a few fixes here and there to a game you've written in XNA will still continue to run on Windows/Xbox. I mean, you can still run VB6 apps for example and that runtime DLL is almost 15 years old :-).
Very neat technology, and I think it could be of value in the developing world and sparsely populated areas, but is there that much need for this data in many parts of, say, the US or Europe? Here in San Francisco, I've got highly accurate weather stations at SFO and OAK, plus dozens of other stations on Weather Underground around the city. The variability of these readings over, say, 10 miles is quite low. Are there specific ways in which a more dense grid of barometric pressure measurements can give us further insight into weather patterns?

This would be a great augment in areas where the density of observations stations is much lower. Wind speed, which does vary a lot more due to terrain and structures, would be neat to map this way, but it's hard to measure the wind through our pockets on cell phones.
Why NYC startups are winning the engagement race
When I clicked on that link, my "device" contacted Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Omniture, and CBS Interactive. These sites attempt to compile information about me, track me, and make that information available to others - I'm assuming. Of course, I don't know because they don't tell me.

By using the web, my device is serving others (rather, serving me to others) on a massive scale, every day.
I was more thinking of the ability to import my greenbutton data to gain insights
take a couple days out to write something interesting for the sake of sharing it, definitely. but in the long run, not programming in your spare time is fine. no one wishes they had spent more time programming on their death bed. go out, travel, fall in love, do stuff, etc etc
Excellent point. The word "change" is totally amoral!

Also, it doesn't really express degree, either. Either everything changes the world, or nothing does.
What you see a lot in discussions about welfare is that people are confused about the distinction between the financial sphere and the real sphere. This confusion is occasionally created maliciously, but certainly most of the time it happens out of sheer ignorance.

I don't think there is any doubt that Sweden has enough access to resources and manpower to care for 100% of the people. So in real terms, they can certainly afford it.

Add to that the fact that Sweden currently has an unemployment rate of about 8.1%. This indicates that there are in fact real resources (certainly manpower, but most likely more than that) available that could be used to care for everybody, without taking anything away from anybody else, simply by activating those real resources that are currently left unused.

(TANSTAAFL, but sometimes you should just eat everything that's on the table instead of throwing it out while some go hungry.)

However, in order to activate the real resources that are necessary to achieve that, money has to be set in motion, and a government deficit may be necessary - and people believe that this is not possible in the long term, hence "unaffordable".

But the Swedish government is monetarily sovereign. They are using their own currency, are not borrowing in foreign currencies (that I know of), and so can in principle spend whatever it likes. The only limit is the inflation that would be created if spending pushed past the limit of what is available in terms of real resources - but we've already established that plenty of real resources are currently available but unused.

I really liked your statement that making life good for 100% of the people is an incredibly hard problem. It's a great way to put it. I believe that it is hard mostly because of political opposition, and the political opposition in turn can only be so strong because people in general are not used to cleanly separate the financial sphere from the real sphere. Put simply, our understanding of economics is shamefully bad.

(Disclaimer: I am not an economist myself. The above is based on my understanding that I obtained from reading mostly blogs - and the occasional research article - from Modern Monetary Theory economists and those who challenge them; if you are interested, a good but lengthy starting point is this series: http://neweconomicperspectives.org/p/modern-monetary-theory-...)
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> Honestly, I'm not sure what the Africa thing is about.

There is an argument that people make that you're not allowed to complain about first world problems (for example, the NDAA) until we've fixed things like world hunger.
> what does it accomplish but upping my view-count?

Same thing any form of political writing accomplishes. It tries to convince the audience to change their view.

> Honestly, I'm not sure what the Africa thing is about.

To paraphrase your original comment, "you shouldn't talk about this problem, because that problem isn't fixed." This maps well onto the an argument I've heard that "you shouldn't worry about homeless people in America while so many are starving in Africa."
That's not what I got from your article. I saw HyperMac responding to the people who said the display was degrading and dehumanizing, not to the ones who "passed it around the twitter-verse, rolling our eyes and having a good laugh." This part especially seemed odd: "What HyperMac failed to realize was that all the community wanted from them was acknowledgment and support." Really? Then why did the community boycott and attack them instead of asking for acknowledgement and support?
Thank you for writing that post. You're not crazy, you're right. Hell, I would feel awkward too if some painted up butt-naked guys became the norm at tech conferences. Unfortunately some people just don't get it, because they fail to see outside themselves. Keep writing more about this. People need the perspective.
It is not just a matter of being foreign born. The US is a very large country and different regions have markedly different cultures and societies with their own histories. Some of these regional cultures have a long history of not being able to cooperate, which is part of why the Federal government is often dysfunctional.

There is a tendency to treat the US as a homogeneous culture when it is far from it in practice. Despite a common language and currency, there is probably a greater cultural distance between e.g. the Pacific Northwest and deep South in the US than there is between many European countries. People identify with their regional culture, whether it is Southern, Cascadian (aka Pacific Northwest), New England, the Sagebrush (aka Mountain states), Midwest, or California.
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That's a nice distinction but how does it proctect children?

You being unwilling to submit personal information also makes you banned from almost all the web, including e-mail services.
> > Also, for a dynamically typed language, I thought it had too many different types.

> You can also used a typed dialect of Racket if that's easier

I'm not sure that proposing a move to a typed dialect will solve a problem with too many different types. :-)
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Sweden has successfully defeated low birth rates by making it more attractive for professional working women to have children. How? By not only giving maternity leave, but also instituting "use it or lose it" paternity leave. This has in a way made it almost as "inconvenient" to hire a man, because the majority of men who never took any paternity leave (even when they could) now do, thus reducing discrimination.
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I'm not sure if you're being intentionally facetious, but I'm pretty sure Iceland is a sovereign nation, and not a US territory.

That might have something to do with it.
Khitchdee looks for a musician that enjoys processing streams of numbers a la Digital Signal Processing. We have the ability to digitize sound cleanly through sound-proofing and high quality signal paths. We need the ability to process the digitized sound to recognize the soundscape. At the same time, we need the ability to augment the soundscape with synthesized soundstreams that will play out the speakers in our recording room.

We are currently producing a piece of music titled "Fat lie kebab -- it's a big fat lie" to commemorate the Kumbh Mela that is in progress, here at Allahabad. If you're planning to attend the mela, it's a great time to check us out. We're holding an open house during this time. See http://khitchdee.forumatic.com/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=21

We expect you to write code and jam with us over obscure musical rhythms so you should be into the music. We can help you understand the algorithms if you're not familiar with DSP, but you have to pick up the programming. It's initially in C on Windows.

For a full time position, we can offer up to 7 lakhs p.a. + a small amount of equity. Part-time positions and internships are also available.

Allahabad is a great place to be working on music.
At the moment, only the newer, high-end Android devices have barometers in them. A regularly available data or wifi connection is also necessary for the data to be real-time. So, this should work just fine right now in the major cities of India and the more developed countries of Africa, but for the most part it's probably a bust. Their lack of one infrastructure mirrors another.
They have split ratings, schools that only provide an undergrad are in a separate category.
Corrupted in sense of companies ruling it. Most of those countries that are red are military controlled.
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I wrote a post last year which stuck around on the front page for a while - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3554206

It got 28,000 pageviews, but 92% of visitors stuck around for under 10 seconds, according to Google Analytics.
I don't recall suggesting that Instagram made a mistake. I was responding to the idea that right now, apps other than games exist which take advantage of the OS in ways the browser can not.
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Making life good for 100% of the people is an incredibly hard problem to solve.

There just needs to be a lot of money and not very many people. Not sure about Sweden, but Norway could pull it off.
I look through the 'new' page archives every few days, and reblog interesting posts. They're usually so old that upvotes wouldn't matter, but the signal-to-noise ratio for submissions is high enough that I can usually find some neglected gems.
What stance would they take once they're grown up?
US states are comparable with smaller countries like Sweden. So area / population is not a reason, why good policies from e.g. Sweden can't be copied – just implement them on a state level. The main problem is different culture – individualism, guns etc.
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Fair enough, fire-sales happen all the time.

Perhaps I should have written 'puts a floor under your acquisition price until your company fails.'
Because they got an apathetic, arrogant, selfish, shitty response, that's why. You respond to people like shit, you get shit back. It's not rocket science.