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GirlInCS: the guy who tried to retaliate against the offense he took should indeed get some strongly worded advice from someone in authority over him: he needs to deal people he doesn't like with more decorum (talking trash to his peers is just making people uncomfortable and making him look bad), and further, he should contemplate the understandable girls-in-CS tensions he probably wants to avoid aggravating in order to be liked in the community.

Ultimately it's really up to him if he wants to like you and to be fair to women in CS. You're probably right that he has a "bossy-"woman chip on his shoulder. But it doesn't seem proportional to address this as "what should I do as a leader of a WICS organization" (as you allude to with the case of Adria Richards, that's unproductive business). I know it's uncomfortable, but what I'd like to see happen is: when someone is insulted in front of a group of people, the offender is reprimanded appropriately in front of those people.

Let's assume that you face more bristling than a man would when you directly exercise authority (safe bet). Let's even say that it's even worse in CS than society in general (I think the contrary, actually). Then it would be great to tell the guy that while it's understandable that he felt disrespected (be charitable!) that when you hear stuff like this, and you hear it more often than a man would in the same situation, the effect is worse than he realizes, that you don't want gender to be an issue, etc. etc.

I don't think the use of the word "bitch" should make much of a difference, although I know it triggers associations of other sexism. It's just too commonplace to read any specific intent other than "I don't like this person".

I don't think the authority figure you escalated to is anything other than a selfish conflict-avoider, like we all are sometimes.
"men might actually be better at handling women’s issues than women. They don’t believe in “balance.” They believe in getting what they want, even if"

What a ridiculous generalization. And calling wishing to care for your family a women's issue is absurd. I couldn't finish reading the article after that.

An anecdote about work/life balance: I was up for a promotion last year. Also, my wife wrecked her car last year. When I could have been busting my ass in the office meeting arbitrary project deadlines, I was leaving the office hours early to pick my kid up from school, helping my wife negotiate with insurance companies, driving her to the rental car place, to the repair shop, to another dealership, etc.

My project fell behind, and a couple of people complained that I wasn't returning calls fast enough. I lost the promotion. I lost it with a song in my heart, and I'd do it again in a hot second.
How about starting with something as simple as being able to grow hemp without being threatened by various police?

The US has been a developing economic police state since at least the 1930's.
I think PG wants people to use http://www.hnsearch.com/api
Regarding "no multi-threading support", I have often wished for a node.js-like abstraction for event-driven processing in elisp. Seems like it could take the pain out of writing modules that want to do interesting processing or network-heavy stuff (looking at you, CEDET over TRAMP).
There is nothing irrational about equitable pay, unless you're the check-writer trying to depress wages and pay everyone the minimum that you can get away with. This is, of course, why salaries are secret.

For what it's worth, I have made substantially more than my coworkers in almost all of my jobs (based on what I could infer from watercooler talk after being around a while), and I don't think that's fair either. I actually chewed out one of my managers once when I found out a coworker was making half of what I was.

Why wasn't he paying him more? Because he could get away with it, not because it was fair. He was a hard worker, very smart, but rather timid. Put this guy against the alpha male manager, and unless the manager wants to be charitable, that guy is not getting a dime more than the manager can bully him into taking. What's worse, the guy will probably come out thinking he got a good deal.
The Hex game is nice, but I don't see how the second player ever loses (swap rule).

Isn't this a solved game that, given optimal strategy, is either won or lost based on the where the first tile is placed?
That's a dangerous, shallow, and incorrect blanket statement. Visit China for a month and you'll see what true free market capitalism does to people. Heck, go back 100 years in the US.

The US isn't where it is today wealth-wise JUST because of cold hard capitalism. It also helps that we have a large market with everyone speaking the same language, having similar laws, one currency, copyright and patent acknowledgement to protect inventors (back before corporations ballooned to their current size), a decent amount of civility, fair business law, a respect for the rule of law (something my home country of Bulgaria does not), strong property and land ownership, and a desire to innovate that have allowed people to build wealth.

A country isn't built on everyone doing whatever the hell they want. There's an actual formula for it.
Well, reading your comment, especially in the light of how distraught Erdogan seemed in his 1.5 interview with Fatih Altayli, it definitely seems off. Also, Erdogan's party is not a homogenous block, although he's holding everybody in check right now. Even now, some dissident voices among AKP intelligentsia started worrying about the loss of support.

Assuming the government will go after a few days of riots is naive; however, this is a very significant data point for Erdogan.
I think that may be a character thing Vince, and I don't in any way mean that as a negative. I'm a product guy, not a salesman. I think-up then create products (mostly websites and apps). I do it for clients, and often for myself. To me, building product is the easy part. I hate selling myself to employers or clients (though love selling my products).

When you say 'How does one get to product?' do you mean how do you build a product? Or how do you discover a market? Or how do you come up with ideas? If you can elaborate, maybe I or others on HN can help you out.
We are not against lifting of the head-scarfs. His proponents try to paint us, the protestors, as traces of that tradition so that they can still play the part of the wounded. As to his Islamist plans, he is quite open about them. He basically emphasizes in his every speech that their aim is to bring the pious youth of the Ottoman empire.

The legal bodies and free media are fundamental for any democracy. As I said before, AKP gov't used EU-restrictions to crush legal bodies and military, but then after they reached their goals turned their back on the EU since the main goal was different. As to the freedom of media, I think we can agree that it is vital for any democracy and just the fact that these events are not being televised are proof how powerless they are. There are journalists working in the media, who have to share international links since their own TVs cannot show the events.

About his antidemocratic ideals, just from his talks today:

- (when talking about his decision to build a mosque in Taksim) We will build it, whether you like it or not. Decision is made. I will not ask these looters (referring to the hundreds of thousands of protestors) whether to build it or not.
- Twitter is a menace. http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/news/world/europe/article37807...
- You gathered 20,000 people. It is not an issue for me to gather 200,000 people. If you gather 100,000 people, it will not be an issue for me to gather 1,000,000 people.
- (Referring to advertisers who have decided to cut their ads from TVs who are not showing the events) I have started an investigation about which companies these are.

His thought on democracy can be summed up as thus: The elections take place. The party who wins the majority can do whatever it pleases until the next elections, since that vote has given them that right. There is no need to reach consensus on any affair. The parliament in Turkey is basically powerless, since they hold the majority and can pass any law they want. He sees democracy as a winner takes all game, that only takes place every 4 years, not as a daily part of life.

Democracy is not a system where the majority can do whatever it wants. It is only a democracy if it can protect and respect the rights of every voter.
Yikes! 'Singaporification' of Turkey makes geopolitical tourist analyst hacks look like Nobel prizewinners.

Some stuff is not like other stuff -

http://pawelmorski.com/2013/06/02/turkey-some-stuff-isnt-ver...

This is messy and local and not understandable through pie-in-the-sky comparisons and metaphors and abstractions (or by reading clippings-job 'intelligence services', ZeroHedge-meets-Mossad-reject conspiracy theorists, or the propaganda plants of every Middle Eastern talking-point mill)

Just read TFA and ignore the out-of-body hallucinatory comments.

Hugh Pope is also pretty good

http://hughpope.com/2013/06/01/a-ringside-seat-as-istanbul-p...
The fact that they can be opposed to each other doesn't diminish their dictatorial aspirations.
Hopefully the aliens will forgive us if we seem barbaric ;)

Part of my experience is a recent trip to India to see some historic sites. While there, it was just easier to eat at vegetarian restaurants, and it was remarkable how much healthier I felt. It will certainly involve some work because I grew up in the West and we simply don't have this sort of culture ingrained, but all great things take some work.

I guess what I found out is that we have a choice: we don't have to eat meat and we can still maintain and even improve our health. That was the straw that broke the camel's back, so to speak...
This could benefit from being a poll.
The way art has been financed for the centuries before copyright existed: patronage. It seems like the modern equivalent is going to be Kickstarter et al.
First off, what specifically do YOU want to be doing?

Let's say you haven't figured that one out just yet. If this is the case, I would suggest freelancing in the meantime.

You may find this recent thread useful: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5731198
A 13×13 .png of line art stretched to 30×30 or 5×5 is gonna look pretty ugly[1]. Am I misinterpreting you?

[1] I tried it: http://toxicsli.me/file/hexes.png Leftmost is original, others resized.
I'm struggling to really understand what Fred is saying when he talks about 'strategy'. He mentions Amazon, but can somebody give the example where Amazon's strategy was distinct from it's business model? I assume he's talking the early days before AWS was a major part of their business.
Using functional paradigm with immutable types does take care of a lot of the complexities of parallel computing... It allows you to make a lot of assumptions (from the underlying platform's perspective) and can break up work in very interesting ways, not just across cpu cores, but even in distributed computing environments. If you combine this with a scriptable language, you can even carry the workload with the code to operate on the load.. which takes things a bit farther. You could create a literal farm of workers that grab a bit of data, process it against the defined load, and then return the result with the next step to run against the data...

I've wanted to create such a system for a while.. right now the closest I could come up with would be to use nodejs with json and a message queue to handle requests/loads. Unfortunately, there's a pretty serious cost to the json serialization, and other issues... but it's an interesting idea that has merit. I think in the end such a system will have a quickly serializable binary expression of both the data and the work to be done.

The catch is that most developers I know aren't used to breaking work up in such a way that it could be very parallelized.
Typical, a VC telling you not to worry about making money. The funny thing is that VCs don't care if a business makes money, only if other VCs will pour millions of dollars into it. A company with a real business model is less valuable to them because it eventually won't need further investment, and more importantly, won't need a tech giant to buy it. Most SV companies are just huge (legal) pump and dump schemes. If a company is capable of standing on its own feet without perpetually breastfeeding off investors, then the chances of an exit go down, and the chances of an investor seeing his/her money again in the short term are greatly reduced.

I think business model, strategy, and product are all equally important. You can make a lot of money by making an awesome product and getting a large exit without ever seeing a cent of revenue, but to me sustainable growth based on a real business model is much more rewarding. Maybe I'm just old fashioned, but the more abstract "value" is, the closer your economy comes to crashing as you're essentially creating value out of nothing.
Whatever tools you use (and there are plenty of them), the important thing is to pick something and get started

Couldn't agree more. I've spent many years trying to find the ideal note taking solution. I basically tried it all: TiddlyWiki, Evernote, blog posts, wordpress, MindManager, Trello, text scripts on a remote server, Google Docs. None felt good enough for me. I got annoyed by the features, distracted by formatting, frustrated with performance.

I finally realized it's not the tool, but the habit. While a half decent tool goes a long way, after a certain threshold what really matters is the discipline and the frequency you take notes.

After months/years, you start to see the same benefits the OP describes. It's great to look back in time at your own thoughts/comments and what changed since then.

(for the record: I ended adopting Markdown notes, on a shared Dropbox folder. Things are there whenever I need it, and doesn't require any custom client to read/edit the notes. And Trello for things that are transient, like task lists, GTD-stuff, short term ideas, etc)
I subscribe to the theory that "you are the average of the 5 people you associate with the most", so I agree that in order to excel, it's important to surround yourself with those whose mindset or ethics jive with the person you want to become.

I agree that keeping a journal is a valuable method of decompressing and understanding your own thoughts and feelings, and also serves as a good documentation resource. In fact, I'm thinking of keeping a 'work journal' to keep track of progress I make and work I accomplish. (This will have the added benefit of documenting all of the side projects that detract from my general productivity.) However, I would caution that chronological organization is not always ideal.
Sorry, maybe you can explain this to me, but I don't understand what advantage does this has over Tor Bridges?
Ask HN: How is iO9 annotating .jpgs as comments?
I've played with Thinglink and Stipple, but how does iO9 have annotations that link as comments?

http://io9.com/this-is-not-an-error-in-your-map-app-it-is-a-real-ro-510778682
Reversible Javascript
If Twitter is a menace to your society, then it's time to start looking for a new society.
> Explain to me how this is a rational thing, in the economic sense of "rational"

Ah, I think this explains the disagreement. That kind of "rational" has nothing to do with fairness, and everything to do with maximizing individual payoff. I think you've conflated the two, when they're almost completely incompatible. I knew you were a closet republican ;)
Is there any API for this? Especially for the street view?
Saw this pic on Reddit that kind of sums it up.

http://i.imgur.com/DkdgGnQ.jpg
~2 kg (!) of sugar to just ~2 liters of water? I know there's a lot of sugar in cola, but that just seems like ... a lot.

After some googling, I'm guessing it's off by an order of magnitude and it should be 0.236 kg of sugar ...
If only it was done using iCEnhancer http://i.imgur.com/adKTzcX.jpg
Well, yes and no. It must true that they are the reflections of the society but this is no reason for them to become populists and sway away from their actual job: Protecting the rights of the people, regardless of their vote, religion or anything that can be used to discriminate them. Yes there are always some people who become evil with their jobs but the percentage of wrongdoers among the politicians tends to be much higher than the society average in every community. I have a few theories on why this is the case but I have no evidence so I think I'll keep them to myself.
This is really nice. In the wordpress community alone I'm seeing more and more really good plugins and forum support come from women. And it's support groups like this that give people the support to grow and unleash their full potential in the community. I can't wait to see what the programming world will be like 20 years from now when this generation of girls grow up.
"js2-mode is developed by an eccentric developer called Steve Yegge"

I think the translator didn't get it right when he/she called Steve Yegge "Eccentric." Google translate makes no mention of this, while Bing describes js2-mode as "unusual, which makes more sense:

"js2-mode new JavaScript for measure mode made by Developer Steve Yegge is somewhat unusual, as implemented in Emacs Lisp"
For the first two (nuclear power and JSF) and the car I would probably use a language like SML or Haskell, or perhaps even a language like Coq (where your programs are mathematical proofs of their own correctness). For a Mars rover, probably a core written in the languages above, and then bootstrap Common Lisp on top of that core (the core would control critical things that will not need much room to change, Lisp for various AI related things etc.).

Of course, I am not an expert on the requirements of all those projects. Maybe some fact about functional languages makes them entirely unsuitable. If there is a technical reason why C is being used, I would like to know it; if the reason is just, "Well that's what the libraries are written in, that is what most people know, there was a bunch of legacy code, etc." then it only proves that technical reasons are easily trumped by practical concerns. Like I said earlier, it is hard to get away from the large C and C++ codebase that we have to deal with today, despite all the problems of those languages and despite the widespread availability of better languages.
A lot of these are general problems that occur in many contexts, not really specific to geography.

E.g. the "multiple names" issue.

A big problem with the book site "goodreads" is that they only allow a single value for many fields. Some people entering a book will use the title exactly as it occurs on the cover, others will use an English translation of the title, others will use a transliteration. All are "correct" in some sense, but interesting in different contexts. Similarly, a single author can have different names in different contexts, sometimes keyed by language, sometimes by time, etc. But goodreads cannot handle more than one entry in any of these fields, and the result is a mess, with huge inconsistencies between works, and confusing attempts to work around the limitations, e.g. multiple "authors" that are really the same person with the name slightly changed.

A good first step to fixing this would be to simply allow multiple alternatives for most fields, followed, hopefully by some way of tagging the context in which they're interesting...
So "<insert popular product here> is dead" blogs are popular in Japan too?
"And imho they have the hardest jobs on the planet today."
Seriously? Please watch a bit George Carlin...
That's to make a concentrate syrup. You then add carbonated water to it to make the actual drink!
Sure, if you can afford that. Most people, especially among the torrentfreak audience are not going to afford even recording of an album for few K. I definitely cannot afford few dozen million for a blockbuster movie.

And if Kickstarter had been sufficient there would not be torrentfreak at all - people would happily enjoy their donated/free art and stayed away from the copyrighted works, would not they?
I'm sorry, I didn't mention! I would like to do some application development, ideally I'd like to refactor some large business application, or deal with unix and linux system development. Which is why I don't really do much with the web. (side note: is this a bad path to take?)

Thank you for the thread link. Actually, the most respectable company in my area I met at the local tech meetup, and I managed to get an internship there (I had to leave, and wasn't paid, but that was what taught me about Sans, major networking, and esxi, which I previously never knew even existed).
Also http://www.onveracity.com/ offers distributed version control, and distributed tickets, and wiki.
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Is it just me or his claims in his LinkedIn profile sound a bit gibberish?

> worked with the Google founders and senior executives to “establish a disciplined execution process for engineering teams and projects spread throughout the world"

If that's the real case, I would say maybe some people at Google would be glad of this news.
> For example, many people working in Java or C# especially tend to write lots of indecipherable OO spaghetti.

I would contend that there is nothing OO about the spaghetti they right and you can write spaghetti in any language.

But I tend to agree it probably is easier to create spaghetti using OO languages.

My take why this is comes down to the fact, to do OO correctly needs a hell of a lot of up front OOD (i.e. don't start coding until you've done you OOD).

Most OO places I've worked do next to no upfront OOD before starting to hack out the code. It's feels more like an OOD on the run development model.
Personally, my only change to the recipe was to subtract 0.25ml of cinnamon oil, because otherwise the cinnamon is somewhat dominant.

I have also experimented with adding vanillin, which I believe commercial Coca-Cola contains, but which is curiously absent from the OpenCola recipe. It's great, though you end up pretty much with Vanilla Coke.

As for those 7 gallons: If you want to experiment you can scale down the formula/syrup quite a bit to avoid that problem. Just add a drop or two of formula to a certain amount of water, and then add the same weight of sugar (eg., 100ml water = 100g sugar), and then continuing adding another drop of formula until the syrup balance is right. The citric acid and caramel colour isn't needed for taste experimentation. Now you can either mix some syrup with carbonated water to taste the mix, or you can just taste the syrup directly. (I bet a real flavourist with a sensitive palate will be able to just mix the formula with some still water and taste that without any sugar, though.)

The real problem is that you have to properly emulsify the formula when changing the balance of ingredients. But you can make the process easier by doing a base emulsion and using that to branch off of. For example, if you want to see how it tastes with more orange and less neroli, make a base formula with everything in place except no neroli, then pour off some of the formula, add a bit of orange, re-emulsify, and then make a small syrup batch from that. Time-consuming, sure, but doable.
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