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Interesting suggestion. I've never thought of trello as an platform for sharing but more as a task manager.

Thanks, I'll take a look at it.
Agreed; I'm using the same approach of my own 'recovery keys'.
Usually it's possible to provide them in a recovery UI online. And in the case you need to talk to an actual human being, it's easy enough to explain the reason behind it.
They probably shouldn't but I had an instance with an ISP back in the day where they wouldnt accept my answer to a security question because the answer was ridiculous. The question was "in what city was your high school?" I put "Upyourassville." The ISP thought there was a problem and wouldnt accept the answer. These days I use my grandmother's maiden name as my mother's maiden name to answer these questions. There are people in my own family who dont know the answer to that.
One guy doing one weird thing with one computer is best served by Debian. A 10 guy team doing standard stuff with hundreds of servers are much better served by the Redhat model.
Another fun one:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/iptables/+bug/9829...

The Precise (LTS) fix for those two iptables modules has still not been released.
"I hate security questions. I do not understand the need for them, or how they keep anything secure, when the questions they asks are always public knowledge."

Like with most things, security questions create a facade of security. Just like the "at least one lower case letter, one uppercase letter, one number, and one non-alphanumeric character" requirement of some sites: more often than not, the resulting password is "easier" to guess (many people put the numbers at the end, etc)
Norms don't necessarily get weaker over time. Some, like computers being for men, have gotten stronger.
Thanks, I appreciate it: I'm just not a fan of people not getting the credit for or benefits of their creative works. While I don't have an opinion on the use of the images, I can definitely understand where you're coming from and what you were trying to do.
> Except that it is a "club" with absolutely zero obligatory social interaction.

That might be a strike against it. If there's only contexts where you're a faceless entity on the other side of the Internet, or you stick out like a sore thumb when you are present in the boy's club, then I could see why some would feel it daunting to get involved.

> It is really hard to understand what is making it harder for women to do a job like mine. (My guess is that the education <15y/o makes all the difference, because that's when my male programmer friends started being interested in it.)

I've met three different women who started programming in grade school, but who didn't become programmers because they didn't want to.
"And despite the so-called high number of Asian males in CS in the US, I rarely see them in C-level positions in tech companies (say as CTOs) even compared to females."

Seeing as Asian-Americans are about 5% of the population while women are roughly 50%, all things being equal you would expect to see far more women than Asian men in any given position.

But I agree with the sentiment that these events are fighting exclusion with more exclusion. I would even go so far as to say that some companies seem to have a policy of positive discrimination in favour of women when it comes to hiring. And that is just unfair.
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I see it as a systemic problem. There isn't one root cause, but a lot of factors.

For example, the "hacker" archetype really rooted in people's minds is mostly a product of movies, TV and books. At the same time, those movies, TVs and books draw inspiration from each other, and new ones are made by people influenced by them. Its a mess of feedback loops.

In the same messy feedback-loopy kind of way, they afect how ALL software engineers are represented in media, how other characters react and interact with them, and all the conclusions people might get from them (most classic e.g.: programmer = awkward nerd, so If i'm neither awkward nor a "nerd" then I shouldn't be a programmer)
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Python FFI with ctypes and cffi
If it's served from a webpage, then it's insecure.

Either the publishing server can replace it with a malicious version, or another server might inject javascript that modifies or replaces it with a malicious version.

This particular point hilariously broke a crypto protocol project of mine, so I guess I'm touchy about it.

Shipping as a browser module is more secure.
I use gibberish for the answers.. but once (forgot the name of the company.. a few years ago) I lost the answer to the question... so I said "I can't find the answer, but I know it's a bunch of random letters"... and the customer service rep, said 'Ok', and accepted it as the answer.

So maybe use real words in the future
There was a time in the early days of the 'net where using your actual name (and by extension your mothers maiden name) would have been considered perverse- "It's the internet, we can be whoever we want to be". Sadly the powers that be have shifted that away to the point where you are a misfit if you are using accounts that are not linked in some way.
But you can't force an interest in CS down people's throats. Holding "women for CS" events only makes the women in CS feel even more isolated from their male peers and does nothing to promote CS to women who do not know about it.

Like you say, kids are very perceptive. The only way to truly eradicate the stereotype is to create a world in which the stereotype doesn't exist.

And that is done by giving all kids, regardless of gender or race, the __opportunity__ to learn about the value of computer science. The ones that like it will participate, those that don't, won't. And gender will be irrelevant.
Yes but surely Garriot isn't completely naive as to think we won't judge the graphics and the game poorly as a result, as he doesn't choose to mention or confirm that said graphics are placeholder.

I think the graphical engine they're using, the shading, the models, are trite, including the UX design - and it sucks, because if it doesn't improve the game won't be worth most peoples time. Runescape, graphically, in 2013 doesn't seem too appealing!
what if "woman in CS" programs can help to get woman with intellect and passion into CS?
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Are you her father? (As opposed to mother? Can't tell from the comment). If so, does her mother not program (and maybe find it boring?) Could it be as simple as "programming is a boys thing because that's what daddy does"?
A lesson we can take from this is just because they are supposed to be security questions based on private and personal information, doesn't mean you should play along.

Why should the answer to where me and my spouse met really be where we met? Why couldn't my answer be where Lucille Ball met Ricky Ricardo? Why couldn't my childhood street address be Evergreen Terrace?

Add a layer of security by creating an entirely different alter ego with a whole history behind it, and use their birthday, maiden name, etc, instead of what somebody can look up in public records, or find out from people close to you.
I don't know dakimov and what his history may be (maybe it's even a language issue or that he simply doesn't "speak HN" yet - I also sometimes find myself out of touch with the culture on this site like he seems to be), but I can vouch for what he's saying. I find it difficult to read discussions about C on HN. A lot of the discussion is as if to read a bunch of kids who seemingly just learned javascript or ruby yesterday, then they go way out of their element talking about C. An experienced and competent C programmer would not be surprised by anything in these slides, except perhaps the slide about the novel use of "static", because it's an obscure C99 feature that nobody really uses (in the same way that most people would also not recognize that, for example, C99 specifies compiler support for complex numbers).
Mashable isn't responsive enough
Hey, I'm a follower of mashable.com and like their content. Recently, was checking out their code and found a bug.
Go to mashable.com and re-size the browser to a minimum of 640px in width. The media query kicks in and the site re flows itself to the mobile ui. Clicking on the left top corner icon reveals other navigation menu options.
Now, maximize the browser or increase the width to be more than 640px. The page re flows back to its original form. But, the already visible mobile version of the navigation menu doesn't slide out giving the user with 2 navigation menus..!
To slide it out, one has to click on any of the options on this mobile version of the navigation menu or this should lose focus or execute $('.icon-reorder').trigger('click');
Pete Cashmore and team - some tweaking required here in your css.
> I'm not sure that's true, or - if it is true - that it's relevant. For one, because programming was very female centric in the past.

I'm not sure that's relevant. It wouldn't be the first time a bunch of women were in a field, then that field got taken over by men. Society was very different in the 50's and 60's.
Can a fortune 50 company be innovative?
Can a fortune 50 company be innovative or are the structural aspects of companies that big that prevent it?
I understand and even agree. The problem is that while you continue to not fight exclusion with exclusion, the original exclusion tends to strengthen and grow - not always deliberately, but the lack of intent doesn't change the net result. The original exclusion continues.
This is true. There are ways to transact which don't compromise your identity. They are a pain; it's a trade-off.

To your point at [1], I am not aware of any way which mining can compromise PII.
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Exactly, they could have mentioned that at $431 AAPL is over 100x larger than its opening price (Google is mentioned as 10x), or AAPL is still 1/3 larger by market cap, or infintely larger by the size of dividend paid (damn that divide by zero!) Or that Apple made more profit in 1 quarter than Google did all year. But then it would take the whole shine off the "whose got the higher stock price today, lets pick that number" analysis :-)
Saying it's trivial is kind of ridiculous; it's not. It's worth considering that rolling back the API like this will bring a lot of users back to the site to actually see those ads.

Regardless, as a developer it sucks to see companies take away fun tools, but as an entrepreneur I like seeing them at least try and execute an actual business plan.
this is not cracking, the guy has brainwallets and told all the clues to get into to them.
While I agree that they are useless, I don't mind the security questions that are used to reset one's password, provided that proof of email ownership is required. These are just a minor nuisance.

The dangerous ones such as this allow someone to use the security questions in place of your password. These are less secure than if you were to use your place of birth and address as your password.

Their thought process probably goes something like "we can't have users giving us their password over the phone, anyone could overhear that and they would think it is insecure. Lets have them give us something less confidential instead".

Services like this that require verbal authentication via the telephone should generate a passphrase and email it to their uses upon signup.
Perhaps checking out a compound in Belize that recently came on the market :-)
Here's the video of the most recent SpaceX Grasshopper flight:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=2...

(via: http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=30708.msg10... . May not be available in some areas due to music licensing.)
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I cannot as a user say that I've seen anything cool added, plus I've watched tweetdeck have things removed with no other company able to replace it.
"Binders full of asians"
Subculture is relevant. Sometimes the borders of subcultures can follow gender lines. Sometimes such borders are arbitrarily hostile.
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I usually just generate additional random passwords to put in those fields, and store those in the password manager right alongside the primary password.

Sure it defeats the purpose of those fields as a secondary layer if you should lose the password (if I lose everything in my password manager I have bigger problems) but at least an attacker has no more chance of guessing those than of guessing the primary password.
In 2012, I replaced an often-hotlinked image with a picture of something gross, just on principle.

Be ready to be surprised, the next link to a meme you click could be a gore-fest.
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I would answer pop culture, if she's watched any Disney show or movie ever, it immediately shows her exactly what is "acceptable" for a girl to do (Grrr, I hate Disney and that is gonna be the one channel I will never let my children watch, not to say there aren't worse channels but Disney is consistently bad).

Someone (in the HN community) should do an in-depth blog post about how pop culture screws up our children's perceptions of what is appropriate and acceptable for them to reach for.
As long as (0) and (not 0) are opposites; and (1) and (not 1) are opposites, there is nothing wrong, inconsistent or surprising.

But I think I see what you are trying to say. You want the == operator to coerce its operands to the same type before comparing (like JavaScript's == operator), but Lua's == operator doesn't do that, it simply compares. And that's why other languages need an === operator and Lua does not.

(JavaScript, by the way is the inconsistent one in this regard: the == operator does coerce its operands, but if(something == true) doesn't do the same thing as if(something). Try it with an empty array)
I think that's the solution. . .helping her rise above the bias. The bias will always be there - or at least for the next few generations. At 7, I wouldn't necessarily address the biases and where they come from - just teach her to rise above them. It's a good life lesson, anyway. . .not to worry about what others think, just do what you want (as long as there is nothing unethical or illegal about it, obviously.) When she's older, you can acknowledge that the biase exists and give her more concrete examples of how to handle it going forward.
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Do you think they will result in fewer women in CS? Or is it some other kind of harm?
Because it was horribly written, even for a random blog post; and because the time spent reading it could have been better spent reading the Wikipedia article, which would have been both more informative and more pleasant.

Basically, the author wrote a rehash that is worse than its source in every possible way. The only reason to do that is when you're forced to do it, as with an essay in school, or, in this author's case, an arbitrary requirement to write something for Pi day. But that's still no reason to post it on HN.
My sense is that most of the time people say those things ironically, as well as certain harsher catchphrases. But new people to the "internet culture", or those with less self-confidence, are likely to take it more personally than it's intended.

It's a shame that such "silly" things can push people out of good industries, but there you have it. It's not the first or the tenth time someone says something like that, but if a girl gets a "no girls allowed" vibe all the time (implicit or explicit), it takes a will of iron to really resist that kind of environment.
Echofon for OSX is no longer functional since API 1.0 was deprecated.

I've moved to another native client, but as a user who likes to see multiple avenues for engineers to subsist (i.e. not just working for bigco), it's saddening to see.
This raises a question I have: Why on earth would you use Ubuntu on a server instead of Debian? I've always seen Ubuntu as a desktop-oriented distribution, and never seriously considered it when I chose Debian very many years ago. The only advantage I can see to using Ubuntu on the server is for the more up-to-date packages, but if you're on LTS that advantage vanishes, right?
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Physics solutions can be get partial credit, according to the proclivities of the grader. So yes, it's more forgiving (and I say this as a person with a BS in physics.) I would argue that even medicine is more forgiving, since a) most mistakes do not result in immediate death, and b) malpractice insurance. Get back to me when CS gets malpractice insurance!

You also missed entirely the self-deprecating irony. I don't blame you though because, assuming your a programmer, you've taken on the too-literal qualities of that infernal machine you spend all day trying to please. I'm sorry.
Untappd is lovely on Android, sounds like it's some way ahead of this app. I use it in New Zealand and it works great. Nothing else mentioned in this thread is close.
The attitudes in this thread seem a little disturbing to me. Let me illustrate with a different example:

There are a number of other fields that are consistently dominated by women in the way that programming and CS are by men. Teaching, especially at the elementary-school level and younger, nursing, HR, administrative assistants, and others. Why is there no effort to bring more men into these fields? Is there some "old-girls club" that's keeping the men out? Do we need to set up some affirmative action programs at employers, outreach programs to men in high school and college, men-only nurse clubs, etc? It doesn't happen, because nobody seems to care. Just try and see how much googling it takes to even find out what the actual gender ratios in those professions are. After a little looking around, I found that, according to one article, teaching is 67-86% female, and according to Wikipedia, nursing in the US is 94.6% female (!).

There are a lot of other fields where men are heavily dominant. Firefighters, soldiers, police, etc. I don't see anywhere near the level of pressure to bring women into these fields as there is for CS/Programming.

The whole CS/Programming field is just another field heavily dominated by a particular gender. Why is it different or more special than any of these other fields? Why does this field need specific efforts to address the gender ratio? Why is this a Problem that demands all sorts of high-level money and attention to address?

I have nothing against any person trying to get into any field they care to. Programming can be a tough field, but if a woman, or anybody else, has the interest, brains, and drive, then more power to 'em. Anyone who tells a girl that they shouldn't get into the field because girls can't do it or it isn't feminine is a jerk and should be ignored, and should be sacked if they take action to block her progress.

So the gender ratio in CS/Programming is heavily male-biased. So what? Maybe women just don't tend to be interested in it. I don't see this as a problem that we need to work on solving. Let people do what they want to do, and if that leads to a gender imbalance in some fields, that's okay.
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After an exciting launch on HN 6 weeks ago (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5127400) garnering 18.5K visits on launch day and 30K visits to date, I'm excited to present the iPhone version of Stack-Ed.

With this update I've taken advantage of the amazing, consistent StackExchange API and included access to all the sites: Stack Overflow, Server Fault, Super User, Game Development, Mathematica, User Experience, Programmers, Ask Ubuntu, the list goes on.. I have also updated http://www.stack-ed.com to reflect this change. The iPhone version renders LaTeX appropriately, so for those interested in the Mathematica or Computer Science sites, Stack-Ed is finally usable. (have yet to bring this to the web version)

FWIW it took 6 days before undergoing review, inline with http://reviewtimes.shinydevelopment.com/. Also Apple just approved it a few hours ago, which is nice to know that apps are approved over the weekend!

Hope you like it!
That attitude/meme exists because a large portion of people who go out of their way to appear female on the internet are actually male.

5 years ago it was an extremely easy way to get free stuff in games.

If you're representing yourself as a girl online, people will assume you're doing that specifically to get preferential treatment - of course stereotypes like that aren't universally true, but enough people do that to reflect negatively on anyone else.

edit: this is mostly about gamers.
I would rather see that from a blog post than someone trying to look like a fortune 500 when it's just a guy and a site.
Because the word has its origin in the Greek metron, and has nothing to do with Germanic languages whatsoever.

Besides, there are countless precedents of English words with a mute final "e" and a schwa inserted between two consonants, e.g. "little".
> The arrogance is a craving for the kind of exceptionalism that any wannabe astronaut (the author and myself included, of course) understands quite well.

I think those attitudes are now harmful at least as often as they are helpful. Even better than the type of person stuck in one mode or the other would be someone who can switch depending on the situation.
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Citing week-old Supreme Court precedent, the President Barack Obama administration told a federal judge Wednesday that it should quash a federal lawsuit accusing the government of secretly siphoning Americans’ electronic communications to the National Security Agency without warrants.
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Hey, HN! I don't know if it is proper to use the "Show HN" moniker for this situation so I apologize if that's the case.<p>I've spent about a year now working part-time on an idea to improve the level of debate and discussion on legislative materials like bills, laws, regulations, and other public documents. I've got an early proof-of-concept for the annotations that was built a few weeks back and I'd like to expand to a private and then public beta.<p>Please check out my page for the Knight News Challenge where I'm hoping to gain a grant for some funding and hit "applaud" if you like the idea. The video explains broad strokes and then the blob of text expands on the idea that a 3-pronged approach of education/debate and discussion/and creative solutions is an optimal route.<p>Also, please take special note that I'm looking for a technical cofounder or two as I don't have anyone else permanently in the job at the moment and I'm a total newbie outside of the legal context.<p>PS - it's not a popularity contest so "applaud"s mean little more than letting me know that people are down with the concept
I suspect the conversion rate will be horrendous.
Well, I can't speak from a girl's perspective, but I can tell you about my great aunt, Betty Jennings Bartik, (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Bartik) one of the first female "computers," and original programmers on ENIAC. She passed away a couple of years ago, but she'd be the first to tell OP to suck it up and forge her own path in the world. Aunt Betty didn't take shit from anyone and she made that clear, by her intellect and attitude. And if a smart woman in WW2 can earn the respect of male colleagues, then I'm sure the same can be said of women today. Quit waiting for the red carpet treatment because it ain't coming.
My point as that "Needs" and "wants" and "desires" are totally different. While no one may need a 20 acre backyard, many will love it.