skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When Steve Jobs referred to him as a "good friend" and blew a lid internally when Mossberg wasn't "writing good things" about MobileMe, you can see where the perception comes from.
Freelancer.com CEO here.

I think your anger is a bit misplaced given that from reading of your case it appears that all the trouble you've had is a bit self inflicted.

Your complaint, if I can understand correctly, is that you've hired a developer to build a website, for which you've paid 75% already - and run into trouble on the last 25%, for which the developer has returned your money.

First of all - we make this abundantly clear on the site - you should never, ever pay funds unless the deliverables are complete and you are 100% happy. This is the real world, and just like eBay there are good, average and not so good people participating in the marketplace. Luckily, we provide protective mechanisms like our Milestone Payment system which works a bit like escrow. If you use it properly you will always get all your money back if something goes wrong. If, however, you make payments in advance of finished product then you are really assuming the risk here.

Secondly - NovaStudios has 406 feedbacks, and from their profile it looks like they have a degree from Harvard and come from Cleveland, Ohio. Having run Freelancer for 4 years I can say for certain that you don't get that far on the site being a bad developer and if I could hazard a guess I would say the relationship broke down more than anything.

Thirdly - you are wrong about your 2nd lesson. The system is not prone to abuse if you follow the guidelines. You are also free at any time to file an "incomplete" report which is an extremely negative review if you think it is justified.

Finally, I may add, the first I heard of this issue was an abusive email from you at 6am this morning. It's 7am now. Given you had my personal email address I would have been more than happy to look into this but instead you went off and posted this here without giving me a chance to look at your case. If you expect customer service, at least give someone the chance to deliver it.

Regards
Matt
Incidentally, this is Hitlerian argumentation style. Instead of making a straightforward argument, you load it with emotional baggage to support your Stalinesque worldview.
> Americans drink a ton of it. It is one
> of the very few foods in the US which
> Europe simply cannot approach.

Just like coffee, I presume.
I don't said that they did not talked about more pool of people.

I said that what was mentioned was specifically talking about that, not wanting more diversity.
Freelancer has exactly the same thing.
I wonder what LA startups think about this?
Antifragility and tech start-ups
Who would've then proceeded to ship it with crapware pre-installed. No, thanks.
The fundamental problem with most stereotypes is that there is generally much more information available by asking the individual.

eg. Instead of assuming women are more conservative, just ask the candidate, ask questions surrounding their risk profile.

There are great tools one can use from the finance industry to assess an individuals risk profile and tailor an employment package that meets their profile. Some candidates like myself (a guy) want more time off because we'd rather spend time with family than coding.

If you can create a tailored work environment you'll have no problem attracting talent that's diverse, instead of just a bunch of people who like to work 80 hours a week.

If you offer one size fits all employment you will hire people only for who that size fits. If you offer bespoke employment you'll hire bespoke individuals.
Outside of the fact that there have been studies that show having more women on a team increases productivity and communication, I don't think just knowing a change needs to happen is enough for a lot of people. A few men I've worked with have been completely oblivious to women's issues and wouldn't otherwise make an effort to do anything about that. Just having a woman on the team can adjust perceptions about capability as well as make some of the issues we deal with more "real".
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Yes because it does not make sense to pass it to some commands. For instance, what would `gem list --no-rdoc --local` mean? You will get a lot of invalid option errors.
If it doesn't have all of Ruby's weird features, claims of speed don't matter, because it's those weird features that make Ruby slow and hard to optimize.
Nope. [0] However, on unlocked phones you can load whatever image will work.

[0] http://us.blackberry.com/support/apps-and-software/desktop-a...
Currently, the server maintains the backup key to recover data in case of lost/forgotten credentials. In the PRO version, users will be able to choose not to store this backup key on our server and will be responsible for maintaining it on their own; in this case data would not be recoverable without this backup key.

Thanks,

-V.
It's fine if you don't respond--the strange thing about ideologies is that any two followers of them are largely interchangeable due to the lack of original thought involved.

Given recent events though, I'm surprised you're still going around setting yourself up as some type of moral authority. Someone who bullies women programmers doesn't really have much credibility on this issue, does he?
Where to join a startup? Analyzing 'Who is Hiring' posts on Hacker News
That you are unable to distinguish between an instance of sexual discrimination (called sexual discrimination) and systemic sexual discrimination (called sexism) does not mean anything political or Orwellian is afoot. Words have meanings. Ignorance of the meanings of words is easily solved. Stubborn refusal to recognize your own errors is rather less so.
Glad you like it! (My brother is the author. :])
A sleeping Nasa spacecraft catches a monster comet 800 million km away
The Coaching Architect (Video)
I hope you find this video helpful. I talk about what I think is the true role of an architect, and what it means to be a leader.
I sat down with a handset a few months ago with a QA guy at BlackBerry and had basically the same feedback for them. Apparently, it is something they're working on. I haven't seen the OS since launch so I don't know if this was addressed, at all.

They're hardly alone in this regard. iOS/Android suffers from the same problem.
Are you going to let the dictionary makers know?
The moment either Chell or Gordon Freeman open their mouths one of their defining character traits will be effectively destroyed, and it'll just be downhill from there.
Your argument is that providing government services to outlying regions isn't justified because those people "chose to live there".

You (presumably) chose to live somewhere other than Washington D.C.

The exact same argument applies.
Well, if the incentive is there (I haven't researched much into the SDK yet), I'll develop for BB10. I really see the potential here and how this OS can really make an impact on the mobile landscape. I hope other developers will share the same sentiment after using the phone itself... Really, what isn't to love about it, judging from the reviews? It's a great platform and I'm planning to buy one as soon as it's released.

I think other developers will see the value in BB10 as well and create apps for it. We all know the big companies like Rovio, Facebook, Amazon, and Mojang will obviously at one time or another port their apps to work with BB10, but if we can get the smaller, part-time developers on this bandwagon, we have a very viable contender here.
That's kinda true. It explains why women outside of the tech industry would look at the tech industry and say "there should be more women doing that kind of thing", when they wouldn't say that about garbage collection or being in prison. But I don't think the opinions of people outside of the industry are really what we're talking about here - this thread is discussing efforts within the industry to recruit more women.

I'd see it like this: 20 years ago, being a geek was Not Cool. Being a female geek was Very Not Cool, and it's still not something that society feels able to celebrate in the way that, say, being a female lawyer or doctor or CEO is regarded as good.

20 years ago, the average man would have been given shit by people for being a software developer, and some of these stereotypes still linger. Now things are different. Software developers are now highly paid, influential and respected. We've removed a lot of the stigma from being geeks, and this is a good thing, but the program is not complete yet. Being a proud, successful geek is still hard for women, in a similar way to how it used to be for men.

What people are trying to do here is not harm the interests of men in favour of the interests of women, but advance the interest of geeks against those who think that being a geek is something bad, and that being a female geek is unacceptable according to their idea of what women should be like.
A company increases its woman engineers by 450%.

But they're getting dinged on the language they use to discuss the problem they were trying to solve?

It's almost as if some people are more concerned with policing language than with actually getting anything done.
Imagemagick is alive and well. You just need to know where to look. Post something at http://www.imagemagick.org/discourse-server/ and you'll see a response within a few hours.
In this light, the surprising thing is that we don't hear about firmware bugs more often. Have manufacturers have been doing a great job of keeping things simple and exhaustively testing, driven by the fear of the losses an incident and recall would cause?
BUT WHAT ABOUT TEH MENZ!!!

(Often in feminist spaces, when people talk about removing systematic disadvantages against women, someone'll suggest how it's really men that are disadvantaged now. This has morphed into a meme-like joke of "WHAT ABOUT TEH MENZ!")
You said that nursing is only talking about increased male participation in terms of benefits for the industry, not the men - implying (perhaps unintentionally) that this is different to CS, because CS is focused on benefits for women. I pointed out CS talk on diversity also talks about benefits to the industry (/company), specifically in terms of increasing the pool of available workers.

If I misread your implication, then I'm sorry, but I don't know what your point was.
I once had a job interview at a small software consultant firm. 30 or 40 employees in 6 offices. They also had a demanding policy, probably not strict 'up or out' like at McKinsey or Deutsche Bank but they do fire people when they don't perform well enough. One of the guys who interviewed me was one of the 2 or 3 highest ranking people there and a technical person.

That was their deal: you start out as Junior Developer and when you are there for 5 or so years, you can decide whether you specialize into technical stuff or people stuff. From phone calls with recruiters I had the impression this is not an unusual model.
I'm not sure if you're being facetious about "latte drinking culture" or not, but I will tell you that there are plenty of people who order a Venti Bold coffee (actually less caffeine than a light roast) from Starbucks on a daily basis and don't add sugar or cream.
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(from the reddit thread: http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/180alb/bitcoinwirel...)
I think a lot of it is about interview anxiety and, if in general you are in a market where the perception is that you may not be as good as other candidates simply because of your gender, the baseline interview anxiety for women might be higher so you would expect to see worse performance just because of this.
Amazing link, very clear and well-written description of how PyPy works and great background for understanding this announcement, thanks!
Given that the original article thanks the author of that post (Charles Nutter) by name, I think it's likely that Alex is aware of it.
Examining the popularity of Wikipedia articles
Ask HN: How does EDIS(free RPi colo) store/rack RaspberryPis?
Hello HN,

Back in October it exploded all over the web that EDIS GMBH will host your RaspberryPi for free. (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4636374)
Ive been fascinated by trying to figure out how they would mount/rack and connect the massive influx of RPis they got from this announcement.

Does anyone know or have speculations on how they would mount/rack/hookup such a large number of small boards?

Thanks,

-Maze
Are you going to let them know that they don't have the Computer Science definitions of 'object' in there?

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/object

According to this line of argumentation, anyone doing OOP is calling it the wrong thing.

(This particular dictionary has a reference to a 'computing dictionary' waaaaay down at the bottom. But if you picked up an actual dictionary, or went to a different one, it wouldn't be there. Dictionaries have different things for the same words!)
How would something like this compare to a product like New Relic?
The Challenges and Pitfalls of Building a Startup
I find it interesting that having significantly more male than female engineers is regarded as problem that needs to be proactively 'fixed'. There are a vast number of occupations where the gender ratio is skewed one way or the other. The tech industry seems to be obsessively fixated on an issue that doesn't seem to bother most other professions where such a disparity exists.
It would be interesting to see what the actual error in the NIC firmware source was.

This invalidates my assumption that a shop like Intel probably uses formal verification in firmware development.

Its also scary to consider how many very important (nuclear/damn control, etc) systems while themselves might be formally verified are dependent on services of lower level software (OS, drivers) and hardware (firmware) that are not...
Isn't the EEPROM "patch" with ethtool simply sending the inoculating packet (the one with the "40" value) through the network stack?
It's not a trick. Giga = 10^9 for 100% of everything except memory. Bandwidth, Disk Space are measured in SI units.
This comment on Oracle's MySQL bug database is a perfect example: "Moving to the internal bug DB so the issue doesn't get lost."

http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=68250
Windows exec : Surface Pro isn’t expensive — you’re just thinking about it wrong
Why I don't see lots of other industries that are male dominated bothered by the fact that they don't have a "diversity"

Sure you do. Often the industries tackled this years ago, and is a acknoledged problem.

Just picture the TV show Mad Men, set in the 1960s USA. The advertising industry moved from being male dominated then to a better now. How do you think that happened?
Popehat is trying to find a trade mark attorney to help out Hogarth. If you know a lawyer who does this, see if they'll help.

http://www.popehat.com/2013/02/06/the-popehat-signal-help-an...
Have you heard of the fccx? People are really trying to throw the post office a bone.
They've known for some time http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/ism .
Quick how-to:

1. (optional) install PyPy "JIT compiler" binaries [0]

2. get and extract the PyPy source[1] from bitbucket release packages, which includes the RPython translator, written itself in Python and, although working on CPython, best run under PyPy as installed on step 1.

3. write a (R)Python module including a def target returning the entry point function[2], and call the translator upon your module, like so:

python ./pypy/pypy/translator/goal/translate.py example2.py

I wish getting the translator was more 'packaged' and did not involve getting the whole PyPy source but I hear this is in the works, and it is reasonably easy already. The hardest part is actually figuring the translator is not part of PyPy binary release, and that it's available straight from bitbucket.

[0]: http://pypy.org/download.html

[1]: https://bitbucket.org/pypy/pypy/get/release-1.9.tar.bz2

[2]: http://morepypy.blogspot.fr/2011/04/tutorial-writing-interpr...
Being able to earn some money on the internet does not make you any smarter from any other profession. So it's just the internet what makes you feel so special. Good luck software engineering your bilion dollars without it.
I've been wondering why the tools the PyPy people have been building are not used to implement more languages. It's nice to see this happening. And it will be interesting to watch where this leads.
And I'd say that's a bit sad. As someone whom uses the WP platform I have to say as far as software goes, MS really developed a great product. Everything just WORKS, whereas with my Android phone it ends up being the platform to 'tinker' with because things randomly crash, or run slow, etc.

In my experience WP has been well integrated and there's not really any need to tinker with anything (which I suppose some don't like, but for me I just want my phone to work).
Alex3917, MP3 versions of Macaulay archival material have been placed online over the past 12 years or so, as groups of cataloged items on 1/4" mag tape have been digitized. So I'm confused about what you mean by "not making the archive publicly accessible". Word of advice: before giving people "shit", make sure you aren't full of it! ;-D

The real news is that everything previously cataloged and on tape is now ALL digitized to 96kHz/24-bit digital audio and on the web as MP3.

You can request 44.1/16 or 96/24 versions of MP3 material you hear on the Library website. The material is copyrighted, yes, but not priced to make a lot of money. Contact the library for more info.
Don't follow this advice, it is missing the point. Work on creating something with strong single-user value. When that works, work on connecting those users together and creating value through network-effect. When that works, then think about these kinds of things. You'll likely already have some kind of organic growth, but all the techniques and analysis mentioned in this article are catalysts, not solutions to creating viral growth.
How Congress is killing the Post Office
Admittedly, if you haven't read 1984 the Orwell reference probably went over your head. "Manichean" is a word you should just look up, as it is quite useful.
"Most technical interviews suck - fundamentally
interviewers ask the question, “Quick, prove
to me how smart you are!"

I think this is an important point.
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Just to be on the safe side I just checked all my machines, the majority have broadcom cards, the three that have intel cards are all another type. I think I'll sleep soundly tonight but I felt compelled to check.
The Palm Pre hardware was far from incredible unfortunately. The slider was notoriously broken. The case would crack with any wear. It wasn't exactly a premium platform to showcase the software innovations.

I think you really should look at Blackberry financial statements and revenue targets which have been very realistic if you believe the company is not going to be around in two years. You are making some pretty forward looking predictions that are not at all in line with either market analysts or blackberry estimates.

HN should be about facts and well-considered opinion not FUD. Just my $0.02.
Microsoft hints at future Surface covers that could charge its tablet
I think it is not the device but the ecosystem that supports the device that is more important. Like a certain CEO once said "Developers Developers Developers .. ". I would be curious to know how successful Blackberry has been in wooing third party developers. What is the ETA for Skype, Netflix, snapchat, and Uber for BB 10 ?
The problem here is the pressure of the time limit which is only compounded by starting off easy in the beginning where there is more time and then ending with the hardest problems which take the longest to solve. Then the question as was raised in the original point 4 is what are you really trying to interview for - speed or the ability to develop a solution in a collaborative manner given a minimum expectation of intelligence?
Or it was done once, and the "inoculation" byte came first.

There were 4 buggy bytes. 3 would crash the card. 1 would fix the card ("inoculating" it). If they only fuzzed once, or fuzzed with the same dataset (random.seed(1) // seed chosen at random), then they wouldn't catch it.

Even then, it's pretty sloppy.
Because there's a nonzero risk the judge won't order Warhammer to pay the defendant's legal fees. Meaning that even if the author of the book "wins" in court, he might still lose a lot of money.

And if he doesn't have a corp or LLC set up to sell the book, or hasn't jumped through all the bureaucratic hoops involved correctly, there's a nonzero risk that the Warhammer people could get a multi-million dollar judgment on him and take his house, cars, kid's college fund and most of his future salary. (The fact that he says he's using the proceeds from the book to pay for his daughter's schooling actually implies he doesn't have one of these legal structures set up.)

That's how the US legal system works, unfortunately.

Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer and this is not legal advice.
> If I give Linus Torvalds a job to make me Facebook for cats, he will deliver FB for cats

Actually, he likely will deliver a poor product, as his field of specialty has nothing to do with developing web apps.

Regarding your second paragraph, it sounds like you've never worked with good founders.
thanks for the plug guys =)
That's not the impression I'm getting from the article or the author's comments.
I only saw one entry on the first page of those results that had the term and wasn't a GW license.
Google-designed touchscreen 'Chromebook Pixel' concept revealed in leaked video
yeah, working on it, sorry :/
ALA is not representative. That's a site run by people whose entire reputations and fortunes are built on evangelizing web technologies.

Here's a more neutral example - http://readwrite.com/ - the entire right column ends up removed.

Modern mobile and tablet browsers don't really need much if any special consideration beyond 'no flash'.
Hitler and Stalin reference in one comment! Surely there is some kind of achievement for that.
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