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I do R&D for laboratory machines. We're trying to break away from the clunky old components (which also almost always use Windows). I started with the Pi but it was too underpowered. Now I'm using hardkernel's odroid u2, which has been a decent experience. But Hardkernel's support is spotty, site is shady, and shipping takes forever. Plus the dual ethernet and SSD are exactly what I was looking for (using usb replacements now which aren't as good). I used an Atom but had trouble with video drivers in Debian. Crossing my fingers on this one. Will pre-order if they offer. I'd love it if someone could offer touchscreens that would easily plug into it, as this has been tough for me.
I'm building an internal API at my company, which wouldn't be accessible externally. I wish this was available for me to set up locally :(
> Now it could also be that this is the point in their lives when society values women the most and this is why they get paid well at that age.

Troubling. Why would this be? What does the System have to gain by valuing women of prime child-bearing age more than women of other ages?

Less cynically:

Women also have a "career option" not available to men: mother, and by extension stay-at-home mom. Is it possible that this group of women self-selects out of the workforce -- or the other way around, the women that achieve high career status tend to select out of stay-at-home motherhood?
I agree about the short term fix thing.

What I meant was, "_Would_ it actually save any time to do this." not "They should do it."

I am curious if there would be any speed gains, not just in data transfer but in javascript initialization and execution.

Also, it would be an interesting "aspirational algorithm" if they only did this for the best/latest versions of these libraries, encouraging developers to stay up-to-date.
Based them, in some way, on standardized test scores?
When you say "right-thinking minds", do you mean right-wing? As in conservative? Because to my knowledge and from my experience feminism has traditionally been and continues to be a very left-leaning philosophy and is actually rather heavily scorned and derided by many conservatives I know.

Also, which "mainstream institutions" do you mean? News media? Educational institutions? These are also generally thought to be rather left-thinking, in my experience.
Putin Blasts US for Intimidation in Snowden Asylum Saga
A few points of contention... First, it doesn't seem like TFA is opposed to JS, as the linkbait title would seem, but the overhead of some sites/libraries.

I think that jQuery is probably a bit larger than it may need to be. Most of this is to work around edge cases or missing features in supported browsers. I think that the biggest issue may well be cost(s), and trust. It would be entirely possible to have a jQuery-like framework that would bring in only those shims as needed as part of loading from a central source. Unfortunately, that has costs in terms of both maintenance as well as deployment/cdn. It's probably not worth it.

Second, you are getting a lot of unused features with most frameworks (like jQuery), however this can be mitigated by using a common CDN, where caching helps a lot. Using the google, or ms cdn for jquery is a no brainer for a public facing application. I think that jQuery is too useful to just be replaced with one-off components.

As to jQueryUI, when you compare what it does with other toolkits, it's actually very impressive. Just look at the load size for the JS for Bootstrap for example... and bootstrap doesn't do all that jQueryUI does.

More and more frameworks have checkbox build options to give more fine grained builds specific to your needs with less overhead. Also, as pointed out in a few slides, you can load certain scripts and features as an on demand or post-load approach.

For example ALL my scripts tend to be at the bottom before the closing body tag (unless it's a single page application). Even then, the analytic scripts are last... imho the page being served to the user is the most important thing... it should be mostly functional without JS. And in terms of scripts, in the larger sense analytics are pretty low pecking order... when you have 10k users an hour, missing 2-3 analytics loads is no big deal.
Cool idea... It took over my ST2 though. When trying to enter the API key, the console flashed wildly with a couldn't find api key message of sorts. Then, when I finally got the API key to be accepted, I was unable to access package control via ctrl+shift+p. That functionality was replaced with another cmd window that instantly closes. Not sure what the deal is with it, but I'm uninstalling for now.
Yup. Their execution, rollout of new disfeatures, and communication with the userbase (or utter lack thereof, no changelogs for the almost-daily updates was super annoying) is their primary downfall.
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If you upload a .zip file (don't know about the other formats) to Google Docs, it can access its content.

There are probably other services/tools, because technically, there's nothing stopping you from unzipping files in the cloud, or in web based software. It's just the matter of uploading something and then downloading the content after it's been unzipped on the remote server. So it's just more expensive in terms of network traffic.

The availability of the tools that do that, other than Google Docs, is another thing. Honestly wouldn't know, don't recall ever needing it before.
Do to others as you would have them do to you?
Fear and Loathing in Programming La La Land (2012)
Great idea. Good for election integrity too. "Under votes", common down ticket, allows someone to helpfully making a choice for you. Those down ticket races like sheriff, auditor, judge are pretty high stakes, often decided by just a few votes.
If you use public-key it only shows the ip. I don't know if you use password, 2-factor auth or Kerberos it shows any additional information.

I would guess that if you enable debugging it will show some identifiable information, I never had to debug it.
"What are the chances that Apple would just revoke all the keys used to build this app?"

I'm going to guess the chances are near zero. Picture the lurking possibility that Apple revokes your developer key, essentially shutting down your business, because you merely built something on your own hardware that they didn't like. You didn't distribute it, the code never left your network, you just built it. I feel that every argument for "developers will never leave iOS even if Apple does..." goes out the window at that point.
Hmm, $40 million to 'benefit' 2.5 million water. That statistic doesn't exactly state if those 2.5 million now have access to clean water. However assuming that, then the charity can provide access to clean water for $16/person. Assuming furthermore that it'll cost the same amount to give water to the remaining 800 million people, it should cost about $12.8 billion to give access to clean water to everyone.

The total foreign aid per year is more than $100 billion, so using effective foreign aid access to water could be solved easily. Unfortunately, foreign aid is extremely inefficient.
Stop ... India sends its last telegram
India's last telegram went out late Sunday, marking the end of a service that millions of Indians had relied on for fast communication for more than 160 years
If NSA is able to do that, any nation and possibly multiple entities can do the same. It's not because you don't know it that it doesn't happen.
Are there any other examples of apps that would normally be forbidden in the App Store that can be installed in this way?
"Let’s imagine that a tablet sits on every child's desk, and text books have been banished. The tablet is filled to the brim with the best educational content curated by the finest teaching minds in the country. The content isn’t simply paragraphs and images, it’s completely interactive. Don’t understand Pythagoras theorem? Here’s a demonstrative video. A word in Shakespeare’s Macbeth that you don’t understand? Simply highlight it and see the definition. Photosynthesis just not making sense right now? Mark it to read later so you can study it at home. Your entire educational life would live on this tablet, from homework to novels to quizzes."

This is happening today, we're helping power this transition at Clever (YC S12). Interested in helping out? We're hiring: http://getclever.com/about/jobs
I have a similar situation.

I get: email intended for an Irish bookie, videos of bus accidents from some sort of investigator, some chick modelling underwear for a boyfriend, a spreadsheet with the VPN and passwords for someone's employer, and a guy who test drives luxury cars in Chicago and DC as a hobby.

It's really annoying!
the wandboard quad is not much more expensive at 129usd
and sports 2gb ram, gigabit and sata.
http://www.wandboard.org/index.php/details
Don't let perks blind you from bad culture
I recall there was a pointer to an old great AWK tutorial some time ago - smth along the lines 'how to approach awk language....' - anyone kept the link?
Yeah, look into work by David Spivak. Category Theory for Scientists is a long tutorial he wrote.
Not sure what is meant by getting rid of textbooks. If they mean dropping physical books and going electronic, even interactive... fine, doesn't matter one way or the other to me. If they mean dropping the idea of books in favor of a hodgepodge of apps and websites and videos... I'm not so sure. There is merit to having a consistent voice throughout and stepping from one subject to the next. This is something that googling for information on the internet and reading wikipedia haven't replaced yet.
I would be happy to switch from Mail.app to the Gmail iPhone app if someone at Google would (pretty please) implement an actual Mail.app alternative. I'm beyond certain that I'm not the only one here that has multiple Gmail-based email accounts. And they all get emails all the time.

The Gmail app may technically support multiple email accounts, but in reality, it doesn't. Without a unified inbox view, checking email is a chore and a real headache.

I also don't think this has much to do with Exchange licensing; the fact of the matter is, IMAP IDLE has existed for the better part of 16 years, and is the perfect push solution for email. Mail.app for the iPhone and OS X, along with countless other IMAP clients, (fully?) support IDLE - Gmail just needs to step up their game.
They are completely different domains. Electric cars are at the mercy of consumers. Rockets are at the mercy of physics.
It's Google Play for now. Great desktop (when chrome is in --app mode) app, pretty abysmal android app. It's not without its faults either.

I did't mention the competitor because my primary complaint was to raise more awareness about the things Spotify could fix to bring me (and others) back as customers -- Not to drive business to someone else.
Agreed... I only had to do a couple tweaks to my jshint rules (I prefer comma first, and a few other things)... but it wasn't hard to get used to at all.

Testing is another point... having JS tests can help a lot, though my opinions of TDD aren't as strong as many.
Thankyouthankyouthankyou! This has been one of my longest outstanding gripes with GitHub. By not including any mention of licensing when creating a new public repo, I feel that GitHub was tacitly encouraging the "licenses are for lawyers not hackers" mindset.

For anyone who still doesn't think licenses are a big deal, I would wager that you have never:

a) worked for a company with > $1B in assets

b) worked for a startup that might be acquired by a company with > $1B in assets
Basically, what Twitter did was load a bare wireframe that loaded JS, and then that made a request to the server to get the content. If you cut out the second request, you've instantly saved the latency before that second request is even made, as well as the extra roundtrip time.
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Can Intel sustain the thunder?
There are plenty of licenses that are less viral than the GPL, such as BSD, MIT, etc. Furthermore, if you're pulling code from multiple sources, there are licenses, such as CDDL, that are mutually incompatible with the GPL. So yes, looking at virality very much does matter.
Sorry, if those are what we are calling the "traditional male skills", what are "women skills" then? Cooking, cleaning, and child rearing?
That is the entire point of the phrase.
The school isn't the problem.

There are huge social problems that need to be addressed, which are unfortunately politically-incorrect, before we start changing schools.

Go visit a school in a very poor area sometime. They need social workers, not teachers.

The problem is that a lot of teachers don't want to be social workers, they want to be teachers.
OP has a number of interesting points; however, I would suggest he's also _probably_ myopic in his views on education.

I think the reason that the post feels all over the board to me is because of the complexity of the situation. The system is made up of teachers, administrators, boards, parents, materials, and (most importantly) kids. Fixing one doesn't fix them all. It gets even more complex when one looks at the socioeconomic situations of the systems.

Teachers are not in it for the money. The majority (nix that...the good ones I know) want to make a difference in society and the world around them. That being said, I'd love it if they were making more.

The socioeconomic ties can NOT be underplayed. Give every kid in a poor section of town an ipad and I would guarantee you that some would be sold, a lot would get busted, etc.

OP stated that "parents today are often left in the dark as to their child’s progress". This can be true. A lot of parents I see also can not be bothered to lift a finger to check up on how their kids are doing. As a part of the system, EVERY piece must be willing to step up. Only if most of the parts are strong can the system deal with weakness in other components.

Let's say a quarter of the parents are doing a crappy job. The teachers of those students have to work extra hard to engage those kids. Those kids have to work extra hard to push themselves.

Got some crappy teachers? Then the parents and kids need to work extra hard.

tl;dr: it's a complex system and every part must improve and take responsibility.
Sorry, I genuinely don't understand. How am I ignoring the original context (in my followup reply)?

I'll agree that my response was content-free. It was even aggressively hostile, and I could have been kinder about it. I'm sure that it was not fun to have someone flagrantly mocking your words.
It would mean more or less an exit to Nintendo's hardware business.

Plus, they're sitting on piles of money, so they're not exactly in a hurry.
The "Text Processing" category of this list of unix utilities is also helpful: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Unix_programs

BashReduce is a pretty cool application of many of these utilities.
It's a counterfactual argument, not a circular argument
> it's not completely clear what life experiences can be provided to the current generation of business leaders or the next generation of young people growing up to make sure that they have a balanced view (and what would that be?) about the roles of men and women in the society of the future.

One option could be to seek out education on the topic? I'm thinking of in-house seminars where speakers are invited to address the topic and provide coaching, particularly for executives. Of course, that assumes that the executives are interested and recognize the issue in the first place.
They need _way_ more socioeconomic support. Social workers, counselors (completely underfunded), administration, and teachers. It _is_ a hard knock life.
If decoding happens in your Mac (PLEX) then Raspberry doesn't really do anything. Raspberry can not decode a Loseless REMUX MKV from Blu-Ray in my experience. Maybe GPU can help, but I have not seen any ARM board with decent GPU like Nvidia ION.
From the article:

> The researchers also found that these effects were strongest at firms with 50 or fewer employees, which they attribute to the fact that CEOs at smaller firms are typically more directly involved in making decisions that affect the pay of individual workers than CEOs at much larger firms.
In some cases, (command line) Perl will actually process piped text faster than awk or even sed. I'm not sure about arithmetic though.
Please define your use of "viral".

For most discussions about the GPL, people call the GPL "viral" from a misconception that it can't be combined with or depended on by non-GPL code. This belief is obviously wrong, but it persists.

Both the GPL and LGPL can be combined with and depended on by non-GPL code, so if the LGPL is not "viral", then neither is the GPL.
> Lighting 3 billion on fire is still pretty bad no?!?

Building something with immediate utility to improving existing service is lighting money on fire. The initial construction segment was chosen, among other segments considered for that role, because it provides considerable short-term return in terms of improvements in service on an already heavily traveled intercity rail route, as well as providing a good foundation for the initial operating segment for HSR.

> but when the bombshell dropped that it would have cost half if SNCF built it on the I-5 corridor

The SNCF proposal -- as those criticizing the High-Speed Rail Authority for rejecting it always fail to mention -- would have both used an alignment with lower ridership projections (and, thus, substantially less expected revenues) and required the State to provide SNCF with a revenue guarantee, both of which violate the laws governing the HSR project, and have the open-ended potential to cost the State far more in the long run.
I understand this is an unpopular opinion on HN, but I'm not willing to give up the advantages surveillance gives us. There are people out there that very much want to cause regular citizens harm. Make all the comparisons you want between bathtub falls and terrorism, but the fact is that terror attacks cause market panic, meaning the damage they do is on the order of billions of dollars.

On a personal note, I knew people at the Boston marathon finish line, as I'm sure many of you did as well. My parents had friends in the World Trade Center. If we could stop that in the future, that is worth a small sacrifice in personal liberty. Again, this a personal opinion, one that many do not share.

To me, the key is creating adequate oversight to control this leviathan. We need a real court, with proper appointment procedures and adversarial process. We need restoration of legislative oversight. Most importantly, we need strong encryption on the systems that can only be unlocked with a court order.

In fact, this was the original design of Total Information Awareness. The privacy tech got gutted somewhere in development, but there's no reason we can't bring it back.
Do they really want to do that to the current owner? Maybe they want to stay in good term with him..
My default reply to these comments is "embrace, extend, extinguish".

P.S. Ironic that your nickname is "gnus" :) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnus)
Please be very careful doing math with bash and awk...

I don't see how that's more true for awk than it is for any other programming language. Awk uses double precision floating point for all numeric values, which isn't a horrible choice for a catch-all numeric type.
More like: "All secrets, available in our records, for current/future use"
The Social Experience – Connecting The Dots
The WikiLeaks cables, I feel, are of more significance than the Snowden leaks, if only because the American people a) kind of had some idea that the government was spying on them already and b) the WikiLeaks cables contained much more direct data. Snowden has given us some data, such as the slideshow on PRISM and the FISA court documents re: Verizon, but much of the outrage regarding the NSA's pervasiveness is about what they could do with that data rather than what they have done, as was/is with the WikiLeaks cables.

And I don't think this will ever stick with the public, no matter how many times it's repeated. Like I said, people don't tend to care about the final step between the supposition that something's occurring "the government's watching your every communication" and actual evidence of such a thing occurring "we can show that the government has been watching your every communication". Once the assumption has saturated the American consciousness, it's not much of a news story when that assumption is "merely" proven to be true.
I disagree because I know people who have been at SpaceX and have been following their plans.

But let's have this conversation again in 5 years.
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Have you read the blog post? They are making $14k a month, I know nothing about website valuation but I thought 36 months was the norm.
"The study focused exclusively on male CEOs rather than female CEOs: men account for over 90 percent of the CEOs in the authors’ study and an even larger proportion of the CEOs of large companies around the world,..."

Fair enough; data set might be too small.

"while female CEOs would presumably already be attuned to possible gender wage inequity, consciously or not, by virtue of being women."

But this is not a reasonable conclusion. One hopes it's the reporter interpolating; otherwise the investigators have a rather rosy view of the world. Gender discrimination, to the extent it exists, seems to be rather strong in women as well.

They may be measuring a certain effect, but leaving out some interesting data.
Github seems to have done this: https://github.com/blog/1530-choosing-an-open-source-license

Their new repo page points to choosealicense.com and lets you choose any of the major OSS licenses, though it does show the MIT, GPL3, and Apache ones in bold.

I'd definitely like the option to add a license to my repo after creation though, instead of having to manually add a license to the repo and then pushing it. A UI for asking collaborators if it's okay to retroactively open-source their work under a specific license would be useful too.
Actually, I believe the response is more like, "This feature is something we removed because our data showed not that many people using it. However, we've heard your complaints and are working on bringing it back."

Source: I work on this feature at Spotify.
There would probably be legal issues with people who had already bought the games in their original cartridge form who don't feel they should have to pay for the game again. It would also stop at Gameboy Advance games, because it becomes increasingly hard to fit two screens worth of content onto an iPhone screen with the necessary buttons and directional pad.
You have it all wrong. They just need to APPEAR that they created value by hiding the fact that most of the work was already done, just enough for the next VC round.
Sure, you can do that in most American elections too, but do the blank ballots have any effect besides registering your discontent in a tally.

(For what it's worth, I think that if you don't like anyone on the ballot, you're much better off encouraging better people to run or running for office yourself.)