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Agreed.

There are definitely sexism problems in education. Especially kinder, pre-school, and primary school levels. This also has flow on effects to the IT sector. 80% women teachers is a common amount in countries like UK/Australia. Not sure of the stats in other countries.

The IT sector is doing better in addressing the problems compared to Education sector. The IT sector has made some good progress in the last few years. Some companies are going from 0%-20% to 40% women. There are outreach programs at many conferences and in many open source groups. If you look at the conference websites for teachers you don't see the same efforts. Lots left to do though.

I think the IT industry can take pride in it has accomplished in comparison to education in recent years. IT is doing well compared to the journalism industry too (male dominated).

Still lots left to do, and just because some industries are doing badly it doesn't mean we can't do better. But we also shouldn't ignore the good progress we have made.
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Wrong kind of Chef? What do you mean? Looks like Chef to me..
5700 :)

The simple absence of (admittedly optional) semicolons in some cases tipped the balance for me. Keyword capitalisation, too.

Still kicking myself over my mistakes, though. :P
Thats interesting because I was included in my dads military life - pretty much daily... moving, losing friends and remaking them was all apart of my up bringing...and as someone who grew up in many places with many cultures around me - I would argue that diversity and change are things to embrace...learn on your feet is good sometimes too. I get the feeling people think I've abandoned my kids - they are right here next to me...and now I get to see them more than I would at someone else's office...and I get to show them what I'm doing and explain to them what it takes to make things happen ( for me anyhow )...its on them to learn from their own life experiences...I just hope to give them the proper outlook to handle things that might seem harsh - so they can survive it and move beyond it if needed.
Be aware that this can be a trade-off too. It may be that you can burn fast but burn short or that you could burn a lot longer if you pace yourself. If you take off before you reach the end of that runway then good but if you run out of energy before you've reached a plateau of some stability then you could easily lose it all.
Every day, summarized article on some aspect of starting or growing companies.
It's such a shame that Apple still hasn't added a gamepad and app marketplace to the Apple TV, especially after the success of the iOS App Store and the dominance of games on the platform. It seems so obvious, but such is Apple's notoriously frustrating blind spot towards games.
A nigger is a person who doesn't know the world is perfectly just. ROFLMAO ya fucken niggers.
You do not have a fully defined view of sexism there. One other part of sexism is sexual objectification, which reduces the person or whole gender to an instrument of sexual pleasure, without any view of the person's dignity or humanity.
As another poster pointed out down-thread, this list really needs to be adjusted for inflation.
They might talk the same protocol, but I'm willing to bet the initial target audience is people that are far more likely to have a PS3 already rather than hang its success on those that buy the PS4 at launch.
"Python wrapper for Netflix" links to https://github.com/ozgur/python-linkedin
Perhaps he had no rational reason to choose steal.
But the actual issue is this: Is the other guy trustworthy?

Now if the "guy who had no choice" can't help but label the other guy untrustworthy because he has amazingly good people skills he could very well consider stealing to take revenge.

btw: your video is interesting as well. I think the convo gave a pretty good clue as to who was the honest one.
I couldn't sense any real emotions in her. He on the other hand came across almost desperate.
[Edited note: this was meant as a reply to jlgaddis' comment, but I seem to have posted it as a reply to the post. Which looks odd.]

What would you (or we) replace an iPhone with? Short of reverting to dumb phones or maybe hoping for the elusive Firefox OS phones, I don't think there is much we can do.
At the current state of development, Google has a problem: Android is by far the better general-purpose OS, but Google Drive's office productivity apps suck REALLY bad on Android. If they were implemented to the same standard as Android's GMail app, Windows would have a lot to worry about. But as it is, Android isn't going to displace any enterprise desktops this week.
They are driving each other. Although not well explained, the belt is just used to demonstrate how the angles are determined. This is a little clearer (although still hard to follow) if you watch the "Standard Gear Explanation" video first: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=lWuKl...
Yeah, there is something wrong with objectification. When you reduce someone to an impersonal object, with no regard to their dignity or personality, you dehumanise them. You can essentially do what you will with them.
Yes - Im aware of that... thanks for the reply...Im getting to the stage where some balance is returning to my life...I plan to take advantage of that and reduce the overload by building a bigger team to help me. ;)
How can people be angry about this? I thought it was quite funny. It's quite sexist to say that this app is sexist.

I come from the feminist extreme country Sweden and are well known with the feminist agenda. This article makes me angry, not the pleasant, funny guys presenting just a for-fun app. This whole debacle is so not necessary and could be avoided. I, like many guys in Sweden are very tired of being called sexist when you're not and tired of the feminists altogether.

I guess the US / UK haven't had enough of feminism yet.
Common Lisp implementation of composable Transactional Memory (TM)
Step 1: Say what you are going to do, when you will do it by, and for how much.

Step 2: Do what you said you would do, by the time you said you would do it, for the price you said you would do it for.

Step 3: Tell the client that you've done what you said you would do, by the time you said you would do it, for the amount you said you would do it for.

This alone would make you a stand-out in the world of free-lancing. For bonus points, keep the client updated regularly via a single page report, at least weekly, of your progress, of project risks, and outstanding issues.
For Yii fans, there is a similar project called Chive [1].

[1] http://www.chive-project.com/
How to Run Turing Machines on Encrypted Data
Also https://www.adafruit.com/products/717
That comment jarred with me too, in reality what they did is the total antithesis of what Paul's quote embodies.

There are a few options for seeing if people will buy before you build. The often quoted one here (and it's also used in the Lean Startup as an example) is have a sales site, have a 'buy now button', but go through to a 'we're currently in beta, email me when it's ready'.

Then buy google ads or whatever your sales pipeline is and see if people click 'buy now'. If no-one does, you've got a problem.

If you've got a big ticket item, you can do something similar but be upfront that it's not built. Talk to clients, see if they want what you're thinking of making and suggest a price to see if they say yes. Again, if you can't find anyone to say yes, you've got a problem.

And for some projects, Kickstarter is another obvious method.
It hinges on "You have the right to remain silent.", if that's no longer true all is lost.
I've been using Puppet on a project for a few months now, and I'm definitely not 100% on it: it's... very rough around the edges, and far more fussy than it should be. But it does have one major thing going for it: wide OS support, specifically including Windows.

Ansible doesn't seem to have this, which makes it a non-starter for me. The project mentioned above that I'm working on is a build farm, and that farm includes Ubuntu, RHEL, and Windows boxes. Ansible also doesn't look like it was designed to shield Playbook writers from the underlying OS much, either. At least, it doesn't seem to have any analogue to Puppet's OS-independent `package` resource; Playbooks all call yum or apt specifically.

That's a shame, because it does look a lot simpler to get up & running with. Learning Puppet and building up useful manifests for it has been a real slog.
Was the app presented in such a culture? Where are you going with this?
I'd appreciate it more if they'd just stop doing

SELECT COUNT(*)

on innodb tables (which do not handle that query well with many rows). Yes there is a workaround but it is flawed.
"Spending time" doesn't actually mean you're really present though does it? Not trying to sound harsh, but it's something I've examined a lot in my family relations as well. It reminds me of the dads at the playground who are having conversations on their cell phones while their kids are trying to interact with them. They're spending time with their kids, but are they "there"?

Thanks for writing though. I think too many people think success will happen within the first year or so and don't realize there are often pivots and things don't often go ... as planned.
I'm sure NSA would use such twisted logic against companies to scare them into obedience (they've done it plenty of times so far - like with that t-shirt censorship), but I doubt it would work with larger ones, or in Court. So if you do it, and they tell you that, just say no, and let them take you to Court, or sue them yourself.
Is there a Windows SQL GUI even remotely as nice/efficient as Sequel Pro? I love using it on the Mac, but whenever I switch to windows, I use one of the kludgy apps like MySQL Workbench, which requires a ton of clicking, right clicking, and double-clicking to do anything.
Google are getting more complicated. If MS get into trouble, Google will probably come under pressure. A lot of Google's stuff seems to be almost side projects though. If Chrome/ChromeOS or Gmail fell off the end of the world next Tuesday Google would probably be fine. If self driving cars or glass never get to the commercial stage, that'd be ok too. It would be bad PR having high visibility failures, but nothing fatal.

Apple are the counterexample. They have very few big things. Mac hardware, OSX. iPhone & iPad, iOS. Those are most of Apple and there are very few products there, compared to other hardware companies. Then some mac apps. Some iOS apps. Again, not very many. Not very critical either (does it matter if the next iLife sucks)? iCloud, I guess and some other bits and bobs. Apple TV. iPods. Basically though they make like 5 flavours of PC, 3 flavours of tablet/phone, Two flavours of OS. Fewer products than most hardware/electronics maker 1/10 their size.
To help others decode the acronyms, and to explain the situation...

In 2009, the Australian Labor Party, in power as the federal government of Australia, initiated construction of Australia's National Broadband Network (NBN). The network is replacing copper phone lines across Australia with a new fibre to the home (FTTH), also known as fibre to the premises (FTTP) network, meaning optical fibre will be run around the country, down every street, through every front yard, and into our houses (except some regional areas, where satellite will be used).

Two days ago, a federal election was held. The Australian Labor Party was defeated by the Coalition, an alliance led by the other major political party in Australia - the Liberal Party. The Liberal Party's policy for the NBN is to build fibre to the node (FTTN) instead, meaning optical fibre will be run to cabinets on street corners, which will service small areas, but the existing copper lines will still be used for the "last mile".

The petition is to convince the Liberal Party, now in power, to stick with the original plan of FTTH.
Yes and what will you conclude from that? Some find it offensive, some do not. It's by no means universal and some kind of "necessary truth".
I don't know how github generates that data, but if you page through this:

http://cgit.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayland/log/?qt=author&q...

It paints a very different picture about the distribution of authorship.
I think we would be better served if we stopped seeing everything as sexist or not sexist and determining that if a thing is not, then everyone should shut up and leave it alone.

Instead, let's dispense with the labels or making anyone out to be bad and simply think about our moms. There are countless things that are not sexist or wrong in any capacity, whatsoever. You still wouldn't feel comfortable doing them around your mom.

If it would feel awkward around your mom, then it might not be appropriate for a lot of wider audiences. Especially where we are potentially involving a professional capacity.
You have limited yourself to the arbitrary limit of 99 distros before giving up. I'm sure you'll find a good one among the top 99 on distrowatch.com.
Sounds like he's doing a good job providing his wife and children access to their family in Russia as well as abroad trips.
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Seems like they could have used some of the DS4's new functionality to retain some of the touchscreen capabilities from the Vita as well.
BREAKING NEWS!

Russia and China are spying on Brazil, too. Russia and China are spying on the USA.

In case you didn't know.
Clark and Dawe had a go at it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TptIs0k-spg

I think they did another one too (Fibre To The Boat) but can't seem to find it.

FTTN - Fibre To The Node

FTTH - Fibre To The Home

NBN - National Broadband Network
One interesting thing about SSDs that you probably don't know about because you self declare as not being a SSD guy, is many (most?) of plain flash memory cards (camera cards, etc) sold non-retail aka ebay, CL, etc have their bios modified to report a larger amount of memory than they actually have. So you pay for and buy a "16 GB" SD from some guy on CL and its actually a 4 GB modified to report its a 16. It actually works until you try to put more than 4 GB on it. If you buy from a reputable dealer, at least if you get ripped off it'll probably be easy to swap.

I strongly suspect a similar market will shortly exist for aged out SSD. Once a SSD dies, simply modify its bios to report its brand new and error free, and sell it at full price on CL / ebay / etc.

I can't say I've ever heard a report of this kind of behavior in old fashioned rotating rust hard drives. Then again the major manufacturers all have some story or another about shipping broken garbage fresh from the factory, they don't need additional crooks to rip off the endusers.

One "obvious" startup idea is no one who knows anything about RAID ever voluntarily builds an array with identical models / sequential serial numbers. However that is the only way big integrators will ship servers.

I'd be willing to eat a modest fee (aka a profit for a startup) for someone, somehow, to help me end up with an array of extremely non-identical drives. I have no idea how to work this. A swap operation? A trading site?

Maybe if you assume you want to replace an entire array every X years, and you've got Y drives, a subscription service sends you (Y/X) "currently top of the line" drives per year and you swap them in and expand the array as possible, as now unused space becomes available? There's subscription services for everything from "fruit of the month" to "mens underwear" so I think there's a possibility for raid admins to subscribe and save a new drive every 3 months or whatever, and due to labor costs of failure, businesses are not going to flip out at a somewhat higher profit margin. The killer problem with a subscription startup service like this would be customer support handing turnover at the enduser aka mailing address, and publicity. This service might exist, or existed in the past, but I've been in the biz a long time and never heard of it, so I find that highly unlikely unless the one attempt years ago was an epic fail. Aside from big biz, at least some small admins would subscribe, so don't forget about us guys with TB scale mythtv installations at home. I mirror and would like a yearly replacement cycle (because I have the dough and don't enjoy recovery as a hobby) so send me a top of the line big SATA every six months for 10%, do all the research (maybe burn-in testing) to save me the time, and I'll not blink at a "modest" markup, say under 100%.
Dumpster divers find hard drive and other mysteries in box
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I am in Australia and these acronyms are not well understood by the public. Luckily jdaley explained these well in his comments above.
Interesting. I'm married to a Russian devushka and work with a Russian developer similar to the author. Also considering moving to Russia part-time (black sea area) if my startup gains enough traction.
Yay for Github, Someone else did this for me.
Even the office productivity sucks, at least for my workflows.

I just use them when I need to quickly share something in a tabular form with someone else.

Otherwise I rather use Microsoft and Libre Office suites.
Thanks for the reply :) Hope it's a blast. The Cayman S is my #1 dream car. (I currently drive a Z4 3.0si coupe and take it up to Brainerd International once or twice a year.)
Interesting. You mean you use a language where "sequence of balanced parens" is a token?
Not only is it slower, but it breaks down massively for those of us with good numbers of databases and tables. It feels like it was developed and tested with someone's single database, three table blog engine.
You only have that right when you are being charged criminally, AIUI (same reason you can't "plead the fifth" in a civil suit).
Starred. Any idea if this works with Dokku? I assume the way you provision up a container doesn't matter?
The author is describing, essentially, "warrant canary[0] as a service".

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warrant_canary
There are a few games (including the flagship Uncharted) on Vita that are going to need patches to remove touchscreen/backpanel/camera requirements to play or finish the game. The [edit: accelerometer] can be replaced with the one built into the SixAxis controller.

A shame they didn't have the forsight to demand that all Vita games should be completable solely with the buttons.
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Sell before you build: you go through what you could automate by doing it by hand. Automation is optional. If you actually sell automation then that is of course impossible but if you sell a product that you could create by hand just as well as through a computer program then you can sell right away.
Just out of curiosity, does anyone know why this will support PSP and PS1 games but not PS2? Surely it will have more than enough power to handle those?
As for well fed, One Kg of onion is about 300 calories... its not like sucking down olive oil or even beef. So if you're starving to death it'll delay death by only a couple hours at most.

As for going hungry one Kg even eaten raw is less bulk than you'd think.
Good point, thanks. I've added MIT.
Was the Google Reader Shutdown Part of a Bigger Google Conspiracy?
How do you write non-trivial programs in scheme? (Seriously. No really I'm actually asking.)
>No one's ever tested this approach in court, and I can't say whether a judge would be able to distinguish between "not revealing a secret order" and "failing to note the absence of a secret order", but in US jurisprudence, compelling someone to speak a lie is generally more fraught with constitutional issues than compelled silence about the truth.

This is the worrying part. The dead man's switch conforms to a sort of twisted logic that should stand up, but I can't see a judge agreeing with you.

Anyway, if it ever worked one time, I'm sure a law would be promptly implemented that prevented you from saying when the FBI/NSA hasn't been there.
Great reuse of MPd/c instead of writing something else homemade.

I wonder why this isnt more easier, people love to listen to music, from various sources to various speakers, sometimes I want to play it perhaps on my phone whats available on the raspfi, and sometimes to play what is on the phone but not on the NAS/usb-stick through the raspfi connected speakers (without attaching wire to the phone), and this solution seems to falter here... and sometimes I would like to give control of the playlist to a friends phone, or play the music on his device through mine. Why are these scenarios so difficult to do, it is 2013 and we have all the pieces? And yet it is such a hassle. (How come everything sucks so much?)

Ive been trying for years now, without success. Its always some library or quirk thats missing. Tomahawk-player is the best I came so far, together with DLNA, but it doesnt have a good android client yet.
Actually quite entertaining. :)
I wonder what this would look like if you normalized the number of points to the total number of HN users. There is a huge bias here toward newer stories.
Transforming Android into an Augmented Reality headset.
I find it rather scary that they write policies on things they don't understand, or want to.
I can't tell if it's serious or a joke.
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I'm always frikking annoyed by gmail and mail.app and airmail app with the fact that they try to guess a thread..

Messages with the same subjects are not threads!
The best part is the picture which depicts DNA and copper being turned into graphene using fire. SCIENCE!
Physical Analytics with Raspberry Pi + Google Analytics
It's not about intent, it's about perception. Using or building a tit-staring app may or may not imply that the guy in question respects women less for their technical merits, or judges them on looks rather than skills.

The problem is that as a technical woman in the audience, you will be very likely to perceive such an initiative as something that detracts from your personal values (professional merit, technical skills). This is doubly true in the tech community, where women are a minority, and is separate from the question of whether technical guys actually disrespect women. This kind of initiative is bad regardless. I'm pretty sure, though, that you will find a correlation between tit-staring and actual discrimination. Women as a minority in technical communities already have a hard enough time coping with the pressure to perform "in spite of their gender", there is no point in making it tougher for them.

When we use words like "objectification" in the context of sex discrimination in tech, it's really just an abstraction over valuing women less than men regarding technical skills. A lot of smart people will consider this a weasel-word, but it has a foundation in actual social mechanisms.
I bet a lot of people chose driving over flying not just because they're afraid of having their planes hijacked, but also because of the TSA and not wanting to deal with them.