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Go read any thread here touching on sexism, feminism, or gender equality. You get all the standard anti-feminist arguments ("it's not really a problem"; "men are oppressed too"; "she should have just asked nicely"; "my wife doesn't think that's sexist"; "it's just a joke"; etc. etc. etc.) I'm not sure I'd lump HN in with the MRA jerks wholesale, but in all HN reeks of privilege. There are several things HN does very well; gender equality really isn't one of them.
Is there some tech law that states that when someone does a benchmark or comparison, it is almost always incorrect?

There should be.
> "A fan logs into the app, which determines through geolocation the user's exact position within the venue..."

In terms of the indoor venues/stadiums/etc. I have ever been to (honestly, quite a few), I ALWAYS have absolutely HORRIBLE reception on my iPhone (AT&T). I feel like this could be a massive issue for this sort of app. How can I use it, if it can't even figure out where I am or display the data inside the venue?

Possible solution: It would be nice if the venues that they teamed up with started offering free WIFI to help with this problem of poor reception or no data. Almost always, the venues have WIFI, but it is password protected. Maybe there are security concerns for having public WIFI at places like this that I am unaware of?

EDIT: I will also add more of a "real world" example of this. When I use Foursquare, I always have to "check-in" outside of the venue, because it can't even find where I am when I'm inside. Luckily, Foursquare's model allows you to do these "check-in's" manually (by searching), or before/after you attend the event. I think that is why they can get away with it, unlike an app like this. It seems like a big problem they would need to figure out before they launch.
well, everything has a risk. If someone wants to break, he will break it even with ssh tunneling....

The user 'root' was just an example.
These two sentences seem contradictory. Why admire an entrepreneurial Don Quixote?

It's not quixotry. Quixotry is when you're delusional about it. You're quixotic if you think you still have a chance despite overwhelmingly bad odds.

There's a lot of ugly work involved in shutting down a business: deciding whether to give severance packages when resources are very thin-- if no one else gets one, which is common, you shouldn't take one-- communicating painful messages, delivering what one can while morale goes to zero, managing reputations (yours and others), and then firing people who don't deserve it.

There are people out there who just bolt and make it someone else's problem. Failing gracefully is very hard.
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It's also another shining example of being totally unable to separate the geeky hacker community with the larger internet community.

Yes, every message put on every blog was done by a full time developer working in our industry and not by thousands of children and teenagers and adults who have nothing to do with us but joined the bandwagon as it rolled along.

But hey, all nerdy men are all the same, right?
Cloning a repo, pulling changes and checking out revisions can already be useful for browsing a code base, doing code reviews, etc.

Pushing back changes is on my todo list but as it is a big block of work I'm probably going to release the first version with read-only git support.
Super excited about this. I'd buy it in a heartbeat if it had git push, custom themes and extensible/customisable highlighting. Any word on the ETA?
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This isn't a debate about how we solve the issue in our community. It's a debate about this particular event. And that's what I'm contributing to.
What ever happened to learning this stuff from good ol' dad, or your grandfather?

I was lucky enough to have a step-father who was fairly handy...

Whether you meant to or not, you've answered your own question. Suppose you lived in the alternate universe where you didn't have a stepfather and learned everything from your birth father. Who would you have learned the skills from then? The problem with relying on passing handiness down from generation to generation is that once it fails to propagate for a generation, it's very hard to get back.

It's hard to find a teacher for adults for handy skills, and a lot of being handy comes from having long term exposure to handiness anyway. Taking a weekend class (if one exists) or reading a book from the library on how to hang cabinets (for example) isn't going to cover all of the possible gotchas that could come up. Some of those gotchas are probably best solved by people with a lot of experience hanging cabinets, but there are probably others that you could probably solve if you've lived a generally handy life.

If this sounds like institutional knowledge, that's probably a fair comparison. It's just that the family is a very small institution that doesn't necessarily have a lot of redundancy in who has the institutional knowledge. Once you lose it, it's pretty much lost, and that's the reason to have a shop class in school. It provides a mechanism to add that knowledge to families that don't have it from a (hopefully) experienced person who has enough time in contact with his or her students to impart more knowledge directly and pass on general handiness as a mindset rather that a specific skill.
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Actually, not some Americans, but some (or all) Australians. It all depends on the pov. :)

Europe is the same as is most of the first world as far as bigger cities go (bigger meaning >=1 million inhabitants).
There is "city population" and "metro area population" (outside the well-defined boundaries of the city). In the 3rd world this data granularity often isn't available.

In Australia, I guess it may be available but the distinction simply isn't made (which also helps making you feel bit more "important" when comparing Aussie city sizes to other big cities in the world, I guess). ;)

When I lived in Australia I wondered why Sydney felt so small, smaller even than my home town Hamburg, in Germany. Even though it was supposed to have 4.5 million inhabitants while Hamburg barely has 2 million.
After understanding this it all made sense. Hamburg has 1.75 million city + 3.25 metro area = 5 million ... in 3rd world/Aussie city population math. :)

Check Wolftram Alpha; you'll find there is no metro population area data for most 3rd world/Australian cities, but it is there is for most big cities in the rest of the first world.
Yes, same problem for my iPhone on Verizon. Maybe partnering with a major ticket seller so they know your exact position, or better yet, allow the user to scan their ticket with their phone. Still have the issue of bad reception though. Free wifi would be awesome but a major investment for 60,000+ people.
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I submitted the landing page to HN myself. Mainly to gather some feedback on the current feature set.
This is a stupid article, and is exactly the reason why the Adria Richards incident has such a negative impact on the tech industry when it comes to equality.

People were NOT pissed because a feminist spoke up. Nor were they pissed that someone was punished for making a sexist joke. People were pissed because the joke was NOT sexist, in any way shape or form, and the guys who made the jokes were unnecessarily shamed in public.

The articles premise is that the joke was sexist, and it simply wasn't.

Worse yet, it talks about HN as if there was all of this sexism going on in the comments for the articles that were posted here. There really wasn't. There was a lot of valid discussion on the subject that I don't think was particularly sexist. And Reddit? Reddit has SRS. These two websites are not some bastion for sexist pigs. They were not responsible for the death threats and abuse that she got.

This article is a perfect example of how overreacting to trivial things will take attention away from legitimate sexism. All it does is slow down the move towards equality.
"a technology that condenses the time needed for commuting along the same route – and allows doing so in the back seat – will make [affordable, spacious dream] homes more agreeable"

As a New Yorker who spends a lot of time in back seats, I think the author is exaggerating the effect driverless cars will have on the palatability of commute times. I am more sensitive to commute times than my friends in the Bay Area, gladly moving to cut a 20 minute commute to 10. Even though I have a car taking me door-to-door, and even though I'm reading my email and screwing around on Hacker News the whole time.
And, importantly, much of the backlash has been quite sexist. Ultimately that's a huge problem in the tech community - when a man does something inappropriate it's seen as evidence that he's an asshole, but when a woman does something inappropriate it's seen as evidence that women are assholes.
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Different languages and platforms yield very different productivity levels.
MRA isn't misanthropy. What's wrong with you??
"No one knows why" because Monsanto is killing them. Seriously, how many scientists have to declare that bees are being slowly killed by pesticides before we can move ahead in solving this problem? This country is causing me to lose faith in humanity very quickly.
What this fails to mention is the _way_ that Adria handled it

Because in this context, it's irrelevant. Let's say Richards was completely and indisputably in the wrong (eg the guys were just sitting there minding their own business and had not made any response) - would that have justified the rape and death threats?
With the new news that they communicate using electrical signals through their wings, could it be EM "noise" from cell towers and wifi?
as someone who is "really" middle class, but moved to a country where they ended up being "upper class" (kind-of) just through changing the context - it really does feel different when the person you are paying is charging so little you just don't care. all stress goes out of the relationship - you can truly say "don't worry about time, or cost, just do a good job". it's a real pleasure.
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At first I thought the thing in the design's canton was a hurricane, and that the shirt was trying to make some kind of environmentalist statement. Please tell me I'm not the only one with that initial reaction.

Then again, given "Manifest Destiny", I'm still trying to puzzle out whether this is actually positive or negative. That phrase isn't one that history has looked upon kindly.
"If we admit there are structural barriers to entry, and a culture that actively discourages and women and men of color from participating, then it logically follows that technology is not a meritocracy."

Why would we admit such a thing? There is no evidence presented in the article to support the idea that there are structural barriers or that there is a culture that actively discourages participation. A lower level of participation in itself isn't evidence that either of these exist.
Men's rights? Come on, a man in modern America and you feel oppressed?
First they came for the penis jokes, and I didn't speak up ... etc etc.

This situation touches on subjects that are very emotionally charged and, whatever side one is on, we'll have visceral reactions confounding us. I propose a mental exercise, hoping it would clear the air, if that is possible. Reverse everything having to do with gender and sex about the situation. Eg, two women at a stereotypically women-dominated career conference make a cringe worthy vagina joke. Male activist overhearing them takes offense and goes on public shaming offensive via social media. Is this mirror situation the functional equivalent ? Would it get the same public reaction ? Would the same two people lose their jobs and their reputations ? If no, why not ? If yes, why ? Cui bono ?

PS: not disputing anything about the trolls sending threats to Adria Richards. They are the lowest of the low, and their reactions were surely sexist.
I see, I tend to ignore them, a mental defence mechanism evolved to deal with blog comments. I just assume anyone dumb enough to make a comment like that wont have anything much interesting to say on technology or entrepreneurship - it's been an accurate assumption so far as I can tell
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Bees are like condors or something, very susceptible to environmental influences. It's tremendously unfortunate (for the understatement of the century) that they are critical to a large part our food supply.
Let me understand: You claim that ZFS is the unstable or slow filesystem, and that BTRFS, which is not even yet marked as stable by its developers is the perfectly stable and fast one? That seems an opposite way of thinking.
The idea that you can have corruption and nothing to fix it with already sounds scary enough to me.

Especially for those of us that don't have thousands of machines and can therefor be badly screwed by one issue.
Good suggestion. I've also found the baposter template very useful ( http://www.brian-amberg.de/uni/poster/ ).
Companion piece, India's political system is nonfunctioning:

http://globalpublicsquare.blogs.cnn.com/2011/12/21/zakaria-i...

I think it even subsumes and helps explain the lack of a coherent military strategy - there's a lack of any direction at the highest levels of governance.

"If it doesn't get its act together, 10 years from now people might still be praising the BRICs, except that the "I" in BRIC might stand for Indonesia, not India."
I agree with the fantasy part. I do want to point out that the landowners are not necessarily halting building, but they are limited with what they can do. San Fran needs to build up. Unfortunately, they are not allowed (http://www.planetizen.com/node/39697).
Could you elaborate on this a bit? This is the first time I've heard an accusation against Monsanto in relation to bee death. If you've got some good articles I'd like to read up.
>"a technology that condenses the time needed for commuting along the same route – and allows doing so in the back seat – will make [affordable, spacious dream] homes more agreeable"

Ugh, more sprawl.
Nobody tried to change the debate from "How do we solve gender issues in our community?" to "I don't like how someone tried to solve an issue one time."

We cannot do both? We cannot discuss gender inequalities in tech AND say that the way Adria Richards handled the situation was not correct? And you're basically saying that we can't criticize a woman's behavior without taking attention away from the sexism debate.
I can't commit on an exact ETA yet but it should be somewhere in the next couple of weeks.

The syntax highlighter is opensource and can be found at http://colorer.sourceforge.net/
It has its own format for language definitions and color themes so it's definitely possible to add your own.
Its not a mystery, its the pesticides. Bayer's been leading the "search for the real killer" in an effort that would make OJ Simpson proud.

My step-dad is an avid beekeeper, and an organic urban farmer. Its been "known" for years amongst that community that the collapse is caused by pesticides. Bayer has done an amazing job keeping this labeled a "mystery".
I've already got another 3 poster templates (including one from the page you linked) about 90% ready to be put up on the site, I just need to find the time to finalize them and put them up. Give me a week or two and check back on the site for more!

Unfortunately it's just me working on the website and I'm also a PhD student so that doesn't leave much time to put up new templates. It doesn't help that the vast majority of them have very poor commenting and odd spacing which needs to be brought in line with the commenting style I use throughout the website.
I wish YouTube or Vimeo provided such an API.
My own hypothesis comes from an experience I had walking down the street one hot summer afternoon. It was a low-traffic country street and yet all along it, every few feet it seemed, there were dead and dying bees. It struck me as a tragedy.

I figured the bees are flying low across the street, because they fly near the ground following their memories and searching for food, and passing back and forth countless times over the street they were bound to get struck.
Yes.

I have been very surprised at the discrepancy between the level of dialogue.

When the discussion on HN is around almost anything, I find myself often learning, and surrounded by comments that are smarter, and more informed than any I would find in the real world.

When it comes to gender issues though, I think we as a community in general tend to be pretty behind.

I truly love HN. More than any other place on the interweb, this one has impacted my life in very real ways. I do however, cringe when the topic veers towards sexism. I think we can do better.
You assume men don't need rights. And you assume everybody here is a man, living in America. (I guess you mean USA.)
Case by case.

In Cyprus, I'd say put these banks into some sort of bankruptcy. Give everyone haircuts in whatever order a court (remember rule of law?), not some dark room full of politicians, beuarocrats and bankers decides is correct. Then have the Cypriot government or the EU (we also need to figure out who is liable here) make good on the promises to insured depositors.

I don't see how dooming the next generation of Cypriot taxpayers to high taxes and low public services in order to save uninsured depositors who benefited from the high interest rates these risky accounts yielded from taking a haircut. Not from a legal perspective, or a moral one. It doesn't sit well with socialism or with capitalism.

I don't buy the argument that it will in any way preserve choruses ability to borrow in international markets.
Do you have real data and researches that back-up your claims?
GM crops are being blamed by many scientists: http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/collapsing-colonie...

Monsanto is the biggest player in that field (by far, I think).
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those are great accomplishments, but I still wouldn't hire you to do web development at my company. Kudos for expanding your horizons though. Hope everything goes well for you.
Actually, the politicians know that as well. Which is why BHO signed the "Monsanto Protection Act" this week.

The real thrust of which is that its a limitation on liability to protect them from future monetary claims against their various GMO-Pesticides, etc.

Of course this counteracts the inherent protections that markets give, so instead of being sued out of existence for their mistakes - they are enshrined into law.
People want mass transit ... as long as it looks like a car.
If you're going to use IE6 as the baseline that pretty much every browser was breaking the web relative to it, including later versions of IE, weren't they?

I don't recall many websites at the time only being effectively usable for perf reasons in Chrome, but my memory is a bit hazy. Certainly, there were fewer very JavaScript heavy sites, and most of HTML5 hadn't been created yet. That meant there were fewer opportunities to build web apps that required fast JS. Also, Chrome wasn't as fast as it is now.

But, yes, if people were building apps then that said "only in Chrome" then that would imply that to some degree Chrome was breaking the web. Fortunately, in that case, the other browsers caught up quickly and resolved that tension.
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The article was trying to place the whole affair within a larger context. It wasn't trying to pick apart Richard's behavior but reflect how the reaction to her behavior is based on ingrained norms within the community and society at large. You don't have to agree with what Richard's did to have that discussion.
Certainly. The wikipedia page is a pretty good place to start (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pesticide_toxicity_to_bees). As mentioned by someone else here, bees are also highly sensitive to RF emission, including our cell towers. Humanity is basically jamming their internal compass and spraying them with chemical warfare agents. It's completely insane that mainstream news is still publishing "we don't know why" articles...
What? You should read more closely closely. I looked specifically for that attitude while reading, and didn't find it.

Our roles in the professional landscape have become highly specialized, and gender plays an ever-decreasing part in them. And yet, in our responsibilities at home, we often cling to the traditional notions of gender segregation and territoriality. As we make progress toward equity in the workplace and fair division of unpaid family labor, we would do well to distance ourselves from the gender expectations at home that developed centuries ago, before contractors, caterers, and housekeepers made them virtually obsolete.
What a great website -- CVs, presentations, snippets to copy... even books.

What's the catch? Restrictive licensing? Because this seems too good to be true and free. If this is all just a way to upsell people, I'm in awe.

EDIT: And there's an RSS channel with new additions.
In other words, no matter how great, easy, convenient or pleasant things get, people will find a way to complain.
It's not completely useless. For instance, DC, Baltimore, Philadelphia and NYC are grouped together with only a faint line on the border of districts 3 and 5 and no line of the border of districts 2 and 3, with much stronger lines separating DC and Baltimore from the rest of district 5 and NYC from the rest of district 2.

Also, note the strong separation between Virginia and West Virginia, which are part of the same district, but no separation between West Virginia and any part of district 4.

You can definitely see the effect of the Federal Reserve districts on the map, but there are clearly other important factors.
Not only do multiple independent studies point to Monsanto's pesticides, Monsanto is accused of purchasing a bee research company which broke news about their product poisoning bee populations: http://www.care2.com/causes/research-firm-blames-monsanto-fo...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/richard-schiffman/the-fox-mons...
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I'm curious how it compares to pedestal.io
Really? Another re-hash of this incident by someone outside of the development community with an biased agenda?

Painting the everyone in the technical field with a broad brush doesn't fix any problems. Especially insulting the people who are professional, respectful and trying to fix some of the problems.
That is what I meant. And having a garbage collector run could potentially freeze the JVM, causing a performance hit. (I mean, it is basically a global lock on the entire system, right?)

Basically, my reading of "safe" meant "would not block." A garbage collection cycle stops everything, so is effectively a block, right?
Doesn't the independent scientific community agree on the neonicotinoids playing a significant role here [0]? Denying that this is (edit: no not) true on part of the pesticide manufacturers is a pretty big gamble, IMO.

Let's see if the European Commission enforces the ban on this neonicotinoids and what the results of such a ban will be.

[0] http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-21958547