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Now I want to try it.

I mean, I used to regularly got initial e-mail screening answers from candidates for various positions that were cut and pasted from Google (very obvious because they were so far out of what we expected that we cut and pasted a line here and there and got back "their" answer word for word - often wrong). And these were people already in developer jobs, which makes me wonder if they'd used that method in their jobs or to get them...
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Real-world A/B testing in action :)

This is pretty much the founding myth of Innocent though: it's the story everyone tells about them.
So would washing it in fresh water just after dropping it in the sea before it dried possibly have saved it? It doesn't seem like it could damage it more anyway. Perhaps also it was an insurance issue...
I've noticed that once the wheels of conversation have been greased (via beer and a few presentations), during the interval people really seem to mingle and chat. To my mind this is the golden 10-15 minutes of the hacker news meetup.

Here's the rub, there's usually only a 10-15 minute break. I'd argue that these conversation are largely the point of the whole meetup. Dmitris' introduction quiz was a good idea, and I think worked well. However ultimately people need time to develop and evolve a conversation.

My suggestion would be to cut one of the talks in the second half and let the mid-session break stretch on for 30 minutes .
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As a non-American who occasionally attends conferences in the States, this entire incident is rather frightening. I really could not imagine a similar reaction in Europe. It reminds me of the situation last year where a British ruby conference had to be abandoned after negative publicity resulting from tweets, made by non-attending Americans about the entirely white male lineup of speakers.

I don't think this cultural difference is because women and minorities are more oppressed here. I think it's more a result of the simplistic view some Americans take on issues of discrimination.

Or maybe I'm wrong, maybe people do feel oppressed here and there's just less of a culture of complaining. I'm not convinced though.
My favorite place in Lausanne was the cafe in the museum downtown. It was also a favorite place for studying, though it completely lacked wifi.
The reason you can't get offended by any of these is that they're in no way offensive.

Did you read the conversation around that first tweet? It in no way degrades anyone, with the possible exception of TSA agents.

The one "about autism" is a comparison in which someone is compare to someone autistic because they're good at something.

It seems to me that you've basically gone looking for stuff to beat her up with and still come up with a bunch of stuff that by your own admission isn't offensive.

Do you seriously think those are comparable things?
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"Teachers are trained to assess children in classrooms using independent tests they create themselves."

So, they do testing. They probably test more often than standardized testing.
Paying millions of dollars for the rights of Fifa/NHL/NFL etc, etc, may have something to do with it?
Or Scandishake which appears to be a popular brand in the UK. I always remember trying to get my grandfarther to drink some when he was in the hospice, I used to bribe him by talking about an analogue circuit from the Art of Electronics, as he was mostly still in the mind of valves, but only if he finished the drink. :(
2-3cents/gram of protein is usual if you shop by price. The whole shake comes in around $2 with a scoop (25g protein) of whey.

Been getting ~50% of calories from this for the last year. Blood panel so far looks very very good, but I'm due for another one.
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Do you find the screen back light inverter and/or that little ribbon cable between the base and the display are a particular cause of trouble with your T42s?

But I know what you mean about the build quality.
I'd like to know on where the notion that removing features used by only a fraction of the user base is what should be done comes from ?

It is brandished right and left as if obvious, but it is never explained.
If anyone wonders how bad things are they might want to think about the fact that creating an environment where this sort of thing doesn't happen is seen as a lofty goal.
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and it tastes good! in fact i like all their products :)
What a coincidence, I'm travelling to London this Sunday. I was hoping to go to node.js group meetup the same evening, but this seems much more interesting. See you there.

edit: Is there some way to pay via credit card or wire transfer, as PayPal is not available in my country?
Don't make sexual jokes in professional environment period. It is wrong and it is an act of hostility.
East Palo Alto exists.

Also, there are the Oakland hills, Rockridge, Claremont.

Poverty and wealth exist near each other because one depends on the other.
I agree with in you principle, but the way this is being handled is simply not designed to alleviate any of the problems. It's sad that the only socially acceptable way of shutting up obnoxiously giggling douchebags during a presentation is by invoking the sex card.

It's true that I have never been to an American tech event and I cede that I can't really know how endemic threatening male group behavior has become in these settings. However, the example at hand does not strike me as such an instance. It may well be the straw that broke the camel's back in the author's case, but on its own this affair just leaves everyone involved in a very bad light.

My instinct is to look at the more basic failures that make situations like these possible, and I listed a few that struck me off the top of my head.
Panasonic is a viable option too, with their AX, SX and NX series. With no trackpoint unfortunately, but they have a unique round trackpad with a number of useful additional functions. Real keyboard (no chicklets) and case you can jump on.

And there is at least one (German!) startup (kupaworld.de/en) making (in China, of course) laptops for people who make money using computers - their first product, Kupa X15, have no keyboard although. But in 10" and 1.7lb you can get: 16:10 1920x1200 IPS 10-point multitouch and active stylus, detachable battery, Ivy Bridge i7 with 8GB RAM, dock with keyboard, extra battery, Ethernet port, VGA port, SD card slot, and USB port, modular design, BT+3G, front and rear camera, 128GB SSD, two USB 3.0, HDMI, etc.
And with no marketing "features" and artificial limitations.

Basically that's the way it should be these days - Lenovo is just too big to target niche customers - people interested in productivity with their laptop are minority now. That wasn't so back in X31 days, but now it is - majority of people don't know nothing about trackpoint and don't want to know. I hope such small manufacturers (design + contract manufacturing China) targeting a niche customers will arise in next couple of years.
> Why ruin that?

According to the article, it's a move to protect their brand from looking bad when kids click around.
Either the "ethical" marketing was always just that, or Coca Cola offered them one of those old-school Microsoft "take the offer, or we use our distribution network to crush you" style deals.
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'Be careful about what you say when at PyCon. Otherwise someone might hear you, report you to the authorities and post your photo on the internet resulting in you losing your job'.

You have a truly strange concept of welcoming.
I second xedarius's suggestion above (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5399845) to have more 'meetup' time.
Every time I go to Thailand or Bali, I want to do this, but my wife has instituted a no laptop rule for our vacations :( Honest, I found Tokyo and Osaka to also be quite nice for coding, but I would usually wind up in one cafe or another.
Well that seems thoroughly unreasonable.
The break this month is scheduled for 20 minutes but I have been keen to extend it. I'll have a chat with Dmitri and I'll see what we can do.
Very interesting but given the brevity of the post and the recent post regarding advertising disguised as other content on reddit I do have to look at this article with a certain amount of cynicism.
> But apparently the bags are durable enough to last for
> years, so the materials and craftsmanship can't be that bad.

As a recently-converted believer, I recommend you take a look at a five-year-old version of each and then make your judgement. The difference is significant.

> which is only considered to be worth that much money because
> of the brand.

Perceived value isn't less real simply because it is all in our heads ;)
If it should be "simple" and internal, no it wouldn't fit well. I wouldn't recommend it for any type of in-app communication actually. Depending on the architecture of the app you're about to build I pretty sure there are tons of more reliable and scalable solutions.
As a non-profit, won't the PSF have to disclose the expenditure somewhere?
Ask HN: like HN, for other disciplines/topics?
I love Hacker News and the discussions it has, but programming isn't my only interest.

Google faileth, so can you help? I'm after similar specialised news sources for other subjects. I know of Reddit et al, but the discussions aren't as knowledgeable and have too much noise.
If necessary you can pay in cash on the night but obviously we'd prefer if folk paid via meetup as we won't be carrying change or taking many on the spot payments.
I've got a strong feeling this is about RND projects that never launch. Those projects are real but can make you feel useless.

Unfortunately I did a lot of those "never launch" projects and they make you wonder if the company is testing your loyalty.
My grandmother spent the last 1.5 years of her life on some high-calorie nutrient powder/drink. Even put on a bit of weight for a while.
Hmm, I imagine that this is a complete scam. Or am I too skeptic? Where is the proof that this is 100% legit and not some mumbo-jumbo psyche stuff?
Yep. in my view, if the product is already profitable at a lower segment, and they manage to sell it to the pros for a higher price, then the company is making undeserved money, rightly so, bears the anger of their customers when found out.
> The real challenge here is finding somewhere shaded so I’m not blinded by the glare of my MacBook.

You could have said "Laptop", but said "MacBook" instead. Why?
I only played it a bit, but it seems interesting enough that I may return to it this weekend. Even with the "hint" in the other comment about the movement, it was still confusing the first time i saw it.
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1. This is so impractical that I switched to opera as my main browser where it is a press on F12 and a click to enable/disable js

2. When your product does such a bad job that it has to rely on a third party extension to provide functionality to users, maybe you should consider the possibility that you should include these features in your product.
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Since 4chan threads are thrown away, it lacks the "hereditary" trait of the variation/selection/heredity trio. Unless you include one of the sites that archives popular threads I suppose.
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As far as more demanding resources go, that's not always the case but in a lot of them it would be. Think then about the various versions of Visual Studio or even Windows (Pro/Home) etc. The argument is still the same.

And with this nvidia case, the hardware hack only lights up new features in the drivers. It's exactly the same principle, and one others have shown is acceptable market practice.
Does this improve gpgpu performance?
I believe the GFX range were crippled in this regard, has anyone tried bitcoin mining?
There is very few who still deals with physical cash. Employers has to go through the same procedures, so salaries are almost exclusively paid through the bank.

For stores, most push customers to use personal card bounded to your bank account. The trains/buses uses a personalized travel card, and most has stopped taking physical cash altogether. Supermarket stores and gas stations has their "member" cards, but has also tried to move to smart phone apps (they get positional data on their customer through this method). Everyone else mostly takes both credit card and physical cash, but some towns have tried to move to credit card only.
You should put a way to contact you in your profile like an email so that anybody who does have plans can let you know.
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Could you (or someone) expand on this?
For me it was Hoi An, spent better part of a month there with my friends, about two weeks at their farthers family home, which did create a nasty 3G bill.

Was able to get a small project finished ahead of my estimates, that has never happened before!

However I found Chiang Mai in Thailand to be very good as well, can easily take a day out to Pai if I want something quieter, and it still has a lot of big city facilities!
It's a very nice anecdote, but the title is basically a random string of words that makes no sense.

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We have to get better at this.

None of the jokes were remotely funny to me, and none of them were acceptable to me. I would have called them out. But many, most even, women don't feel safe or empowered enough to call these out, and the majority of the posts on this page speak as to why.

It has to stop.

I understand that the HN community has a large number of younger people, and understanding appropriate behaviour is one of those things we need to learn over time. The older people should be helping though.

We also have a large (ok vast) number of people who find social situations awkward, and perhaps make the wrong choices in these events.

Welcome to the entire country of New Zealand, where I am from and live. (And the UK is the same for that matter.) Over here we find every single social situation awkward. We don't tell each other our names, we are intimidated by everybody and we think it is embarrassing to speak in crowds. As a society we rely far too heavily on alcohol to loosen our social behaviour to, and sadly then well beyond, acceptable levels.

There are hacks to deal with these situations.

One, as I stated, is alcohol. That's almost certainly going to lead to trouble at a work conference, and certainly as you age society expects you to leave earlier and partake in less. But it does work at the after-parties, and many deals are struck under the influence. But not everyone enjoys the booze-fests, so smart conferences offer alternative gatherings.

Secondly, there are the codes of behaviour. That means understanding what sorts of statements are unacceptable and staying away from them. We never have to talk about not using the racist "N" word on HN, and similarly we should be at a place where it's alarmingly obvious that we never have to talk about not using sexist jokes and misogynist behaviour. It's a code - we need to live with it.

Thirdly we can call this out individually, and support those who do. This blog poster did, and the conference response was superb. A large group of us in New Zealand decided, at an unconference, to do so as well. And within 5 minutes of me sitting down at the next conference, organised by a group I help govern, I was the one loudly interjecting at some very poor MC choices. Since then a large number of the people in the room, male and female, have thanked me for that intervention, making it easier next time.

We need to realise that as founders, contractors, consultants, funders and employees that everything we write here is exposed to be read by not just YC, but also other people who can do business with us. Those words will last forever.

We can do this. We must.
Nope, it isn't an overreaction.

It isn't hypocrisy either.

You appear to have confused the difference between active and passive involvement in a conversation.

The tweets were an active response. The problem was directing a "suggestive" / "lewd" conversation at a 3rd Party with no active relationship.

As a representative of a company (their name is on your badge), unless you have a personal and independent connection with someone, everything you say "represents the organization". And, even if you have a personal connection, you can still get in trouble.
Feedly is a good alternative, but not great. Those guys should prioritise a bit more functionality over designs (and remove all those CSS animations!!!)
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How does this compare to compojure or other clojure web frameworks?
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if it were as simple as that where would the appeal be? Having read articles that investigate in depth the amount of research that such companies do in how their food looks, tastes, and even feels, it becomes obvious that at home recreation is not possible for all people.

The number one reason it is not, most are lazy. People will drop steps, drop ingredients, and such, because "it doesn't matter" or "I don't care". Whatever justification meets their current mood. These companies on the other hand live and and die by their consistent delivery.

A Coke is a Coke, Minute Maid Orange juice tastes like Minute Maid and not Tropicana, McDonald's French Fries are all so much different from Wendy's and so on. We expect this so in turn for many people they become comfort items. Day went to hell, well I am going to get some X because it always satisfies me.

I am always amazed at how something simple in appearance can have so much behind it, the recent article here about orange juice was a prime example.
Yes. We evolved to cope better with bubonic plague in a matter of decades. It all depends on the amount of evolutionary pressure.
Nexus 4. First purchase outside the Apple ecosystem and aside from the size, I couldn't be happier.

Mind, if I could've got an iPhone 5 cheaper without a contract I might've done that anyways (mostly for the convenience, size and a slightly better camera).

But aside from pricing, I was getting a little annoyed by the experience of having to wait a long time for a jailbreak, and now that I actually have an Android device I became aware I'm more of a tinkerer and like the freedom much more than I thought I would.
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That any forking joke was motivated by the fact Richards would hear is not established by your excerpt. (Richards merely says that jokes were made.) Additionally, Richards' interpretation of the fork comment is somewhat disputed by one of the conversation participants: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5398681

It's certainly possible a fork comment was intentionally creepy, a first statement made to a new, female conversation participant, and with an inappropriate tone. But it's also possible two friends were continuing an "I'd fork that repository" riff from earlier, with negligible sexual intent, and the tone was misunderstood by Richards.

It's your definitive conclusion of ill-intent, from incomplete evidence, that people may object to.
You can pay with a debit/credit card almost everywhere. And most do. Local hot dog cart? Sure!

At least in the big cities, like Stockholm, Göteborg (Gothenburg), Malmö, Uppsala - cards are the main way of paying. You don't often see bills/coins changing hands.

Want to know something else that's funny in Sweden regarding debit/credit cards? There's almost no cards that give a percentage/cash back - and if they do, there's a high yearly fee - or a low pay out.
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The common type of expenses is almost exclusively done through credit cards. Food, travel, gas, and bills have gone so far that its difficult (and often more expensive) to use physical cash rather than something bound to the bank account. Its perfectly viable to live/visit stockholm and not have any physical cash on you. Of course one would have to live with the fact that the bank takes transaction fees (if your not using a Swedish bank), and that any purchase is logged.
I don't think that's the cause. I think that's just some middle class bias in the debate.

I think the real reason is that food generally costs a lot less than it used to cost, relative to housing and other expenses.

Poor people often know how to cook, out of necessity, and make the food taste better by retaining more of the fat, adding carbs like rice, and plenty of meat.

Food is sustenance, culture, entertainment, and reward all in one experience. And the price is relatively low. If you have $10, you can dine very well if you can cook.
It's important to remember Mark controlled the board (I guess he still controls now). So it was down to his decision. However, lets admire him for not selling at that time. He could have earned quarter billion at that time but his reasoning was spot on!
>> The problem was directing a "suggestive" / "lewd" conversation at a 3rd Party with no active relationship.

There is nothing in the source material that suggests that the conversation was directed at a 3rd party. Person A was having a conversation with Person B, and made a comment that Person C overheard and got offended at.

The twitter conversation analogy fits perfectly.

How is a joke about socks in pants less sexual in nature than a joke about a big dongle?
Both Coca-Cola and Pepsi don't have great track records launching home-grown premium smoothie/juice offerings. Many of the premium brands they run - Naked, Odwalla, etc - came via acquisitions.

Given that Coke started with a ~15% stake in Innnocent before building it up to 90% I think it's rather more likely they simply rolled up with a huge barrow of money. It's hard to maintain your 'ethical' stance when somebody is trying to give you millions of dollars (see also, Ben & Jerry's).
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They're not just spending the development time on advanced features. NVidia appear to have intentionally crippled stuff like data transfer speeds to and from the GPU on their consumer models (but only for OpenGL/OpenCL and DirectCompute - you still get full speed when doing the exact same thing through DirectX) on the basis that it mostly only screws professional users.
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Is the number of attendees limited? If so, I'd like to somehow book it.
Same here. I'm ok with NewsBlur because it does what I needed from google reader: lists of feeds, lists of posts, and keyboard shortcuts to navigate between both. I actually paid for NewsBlur over Feedly just for the keyboard feed navigation.

What I miss from the keyboard shortcuts is the n/p and shift-n/p where you navigate without opening an item.

I'm currently ambivalent about the commenting/social part, but I can see it work and take off.

As long as the interface does what I want, I can ignore the fact that it's rather ugly, a bit odd here and there, and doesn't properly show the 'active' item. But I really think there should be a 'minimal' theme that emulates google reader's.

And, of course, it's currently a bit show. But I can forgive the guy for that :).