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Ugh. One of the things Twitter's blowing up about is that this occurred after a 9 year old girl presented her hack. I'm one of the 'privileged young white males' people love to talk condescendingly about, and as someone fairly new to the tech scene I had thought all the sexism hand-wringing was a little blown out of proportion, but...really? Blows my mind that there really are people who think this is okay/funny and that the adults in charge didn't serve as an (unfortunately necessary) line of defense against this asshattery.
This is completely false:

http://www.amusingplanet.com/2011/09/jonathan-hardesty-9-yea... (the original forum thread seems to be down at the moment) - but it chronicles a guy who started to learn to draw and over the course of 9 years you can see the improvement.

I started playing guitar when I was 11...did I suck then...yes...I could barley hold a full sized guitar...and over the years I have learned new techniques and practiced endlessly...and now people would say I am pretty good.

Writing and math are no different - to peg them as just "talent you are born with" deprives the subject of all the work they have done throughout their lives.
There is a lot of sexism out there for sure, but is this app doing any more than poking fun at men who were caught looking at womens' breasts? Are men out there really going to say that we never sneak a peek at a woman's cleavage? Is that sexist?

I understand that there are a lot of different perspectives though, so maybe some women out there could explain what I'm missing.
After a fair amount of trial-and-error hand editing I devised a simple Ruby script to auto-glitch.

https://gist.github.com/Neurogami/6208325

Later I combined this with another script to gather up the generated images and create an animated GIF.

An example: https://plus.google.com/107781042718674753240/posts/icwnoyHY...
This happened before the 9 year old's presentation.
Political talks aside, it looks all good. Intel will develop code for Wayland (which potentially will be used in all but Ubuntu distros) and Ubuntu will be working on adding patches for XMir on their own since XMir will be used only in Ubuntu. Eventually either XMir will be proven better and more distros adopt it and then it will be more reasonable for Intel spend time on integrating drivers with XMir.

No real news here.
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Have you never gone out with a phone and realised you're low on charge and need to plug in?

Sure, but for how many years should I expect to hold the world hostage to my obsolete phone?
Would you mind expanding on how to implement these steps, or do you know a good reference?
Thanks for the correction, though the fact that it occurred at the same event is really the point.
I have no doubt that most low-ranking government employees believe they are doing good and I don't blame them. But it doesn't matter and it doesn't change the fact that they are involved in extracting money from people with a threat of force. If you can't convince people to finance something, whatever it is, and you still collect money from them, you are stealing.
Unless I am mistaken, it is not obligatory (at least on oDesk) to track time using their "spy" software. Instead you can report offline hours if you have previously agreed with the client.
There is one vendor using Mir. One. I don't blame Intel for not backing it.
Ask HN: What posters do you have hanging in your office/room?
I am looking for some great posters to put in the office or just at home. I am referring to something similar to Facebook's 'Move fast and break things'.

Anything startup relevant would be great. If somebody has done something custom, please do share, I know Dwolla has really cool ones done.

Personally, I have Joey Roth's Hustler poster above my desk - http://joeyroth.com/poster2/
I am not a big fan of 'black screen with voice over' format. There are much much better alternatives for calculus these days, for example calc1 course on coursera is excellent.
That's why you need to sell first and build second. You have a good relationship with your first customer, who has a real problem and real money to solve it.
Like I said, it can backfire in weird ways. I think it happened because the silence rule made people stop verbal communications, which is the most natural thing in an open office, and it never switched to using email because well...it seems weird to email somebody who's right there. So email clients stayed closed and the communications culture just generally shut down.
While on the subject of JPEG in JavaScript, I made a web page[1] to repeatedly encode an image in order to bring out the artifacts. (Works “best” on text.)

[1] http://minimul.ro/enricher
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Another perspective -- since red and green are very universal colors for success/failure, stop/go, etc., you could also choose to keep the red and green colors but change the dots to a checkmark and X glyph (or similar).
I question if outrage articles like this belong on Hacker News. This is just a hot-button troll. Queue discussion regarding the decline of commenter quality on Hacker News.
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>> if "why's it taking so long?" is a question that interests you, I recommend looking into the VLSI CAD tools class on Coursera.

Could you please provide a summary? I know optimization is hard and thereby slow. But is that why? Thanks.
When I was in South Korea a while back I was able to get a blood test via a finger prick and the results back before I left the clinic that day.
Admittedly, the chap at the clinic did think I had hepatitis, but apparently that can be explained by the excessive amount of whiskey I had consumed the previous day.
I did the same thing with video over here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6350463
Frankly, this is a bigger problem that isn't nationally recognized. The mayor is under federal investigation for his campaign and I've lost count of how many officials have been arrested or investigated at the federal level.

Living near the district, I'm shocked daily by how nobody seems to care that the corruption is so widespread.
No, I didn't say that everyone generates their own curves. I meant the security community should generate our own curves. Somebody should email Thomas Pornin.
Is staring at tits sexist, or is it just a result of human evolution that affects us all, regardless of how sensitive we are to gender equality issues?

https://www.google.com/search?q=hillary+staring+at+christina

https://www.google.com/search?q=sophia+loren+staring+at+jayn...
Zero fucks being given by these guys...
Production has a different meaning in publishing than in movies, which is what I think you're referring to.

In print, production is the act of taking the raw inputs (copy, graphics, layout) and getting it out the door. E.g., the print production managers I know manage the physical details of the print medium. There is a similar meaning in advertising. [1]

Looking at the resumes of the first couple producers, one's a designer, the other lists himself as "Nerd". So I think they are using the meaning from publishing: people who produce the final product.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advertising_agency#Production
Make what you will of it. I am more likely to phrase it as "Why? rsync works just fine" than ""I wanted the same thing and I chose to solve it with rsync with the following alias / script". FWIW, as far as being educational goes, your phrasing says the same thing with padding.

Also, "how" matters only when I have "why" answered. If it isn't mentioned on the project page, or I skim too fast to grasp it, "why" would be the first thing on my mind.
> But here, we're talking about IPSEC, not HTTPS/TLS, and the fundamental cryptographic design weakness we're talking about is, I think, Bard's. I could be wrong, though.

No, it wasn't Bard's. It's Rogaway and Dei's.
I was interning in Rackspace this summer. For a while we were working on an email notification sender and we wanted email clients to group messages related the same event into a single conversation. However, different "event" might have same message subject, and we wanted to suggest how messages should be grouped. So we looked into "In-Reply-To" (RFC-822) and "References"(RFC-2822) fields. We ended up implementing RFC-2822 since it obsoletes RFC-822 and we figured if we want our message grouping work on most email clients, the safest way was to use the up-to-date standard (2822).

Interesting fact is that, among three clients we tested, only mutt faithfully implemented the standard. It honestly grouped all messages referenced to the same ID into the same parent, despite subject or sending time. However, neither Gmail or Outlook respects the "References" field.

In Gmail, it seems subject of the message plus [one of <time of message sent> and <References>] are used for grouping. But it certainly doesn't exclusively rely on "References" since we got messages referenced to same parent message grouped into different conversations.

In Outlook, "References" field is ignored completely. It only relies on subject of messages. We got messages for different "event" from more than 10 days from each other, grouped into same conversation.
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could you point to documents explaining proof checking in aerospace industry?

I am especially interested in the history leading to software verification in avionics, the involvement of insurance companies and government regulation.

thx
IMVHO, if someone has access to your cookies, you are likely dealing with problems bigger than protecting your bank card number. That implies having access to your files, physical access to the machine, or MITMing the connection to your bank. I can think of worse things that can be done with that level of access.

Maybe I'm missing something.
That's correct - when the client makes a hire, she can decide whether or not to allow offline hours.
Absolutely! A land value tax (on the base value of the unimproved land) is an idea that goes back hundreds of years. It has many attractive properties when compared to other taxes like sales and income tax. It's a shame it hasn't really ever taken off.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_value_tax
You still see no attempt at humor or lightheartedness in this? May I remind you that his email ends in .co.uk, so many people may need to apply a "British humour filter". Most of his commits have "Signed-off-by:" with a name; he replaced "signed-off" with "ordered" and the name with a vague reference to "The Management".

The further context I was thinking of was this:

http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-video-intel/com...
You're too late to predict that. Employment is on the downslide, companies care less about securing workforce supply and more about attracting talent and cross-pollinating.

You could expect that 20 years ago, and to some extent it happened, but I doubt it's the future.
>I can't think of a single Rand writing that would support this notion in the slightest.

I could see it if MAYBE the HOA had that as part of a written agreement consented to the homeowner at the time of home puchrase. Of course, that's exactly not how government works.
Makes me think of a business where you can print these cards via an API and have them delivered for various services. The polaroids of our generation.
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Ah, maybe the difference is that I live in a democracy, where we vote for people who set budgets, and often vote directly on the taxes ourselves. So the only people threatened by force here are those who try to be free riders on the system that the people have jointly set up. It may be different where you are.
The factors are not the same in the two comparisons.

It's people who develop these vaccines. These people have friends and family, with children. These children will be vaccinated. Why would they want to place these children at too high of a risk?

If your thesis is true, then you would expect that the children or grandchildren of pharmaceutical researchers are less likely to be inoculated. Do you think that's the case? Do you have any evidence for that?

(Personal anecdote: I once met a woman who worked at Glaxo-Wellcome, back before they became GSK. Once the chicken pox vaccine was available, she immediately got her daughter inoculated.)

There are many public health organizations besides the CDC. There's the WHO, and the public health organizations of different countries. The EU, for example, also has a very extensive set of requirements and oversight. So you can also look towards the UK, or Australia, to see what they think. (I picked English speaking countries to make it easier on you.)

There are significant differences between the CDC and NSA: 1) the NSA is institutionally secretive, while public health research is not, 2) the NSA staff are less likely to have an adverse effect by the NSA accessing their private data than the public at large, and 3) other espionage organizations, who are in the position of finding out what the NSA does, are also secretive and not likely to publish that information to the public.

I assume you considered these differences as part of your critical analysis. Why did you think they aren't significant?
Ah yes, I have had to tackle this head on in the past. I love helping people, to a fault. However it's detrimental to your progress, success & ability to continue sustainably helping people long term if you keep saying 'Yes' regardless.

Imagine 'future you' is asking you for a favour in freeing up some of your time and now that is your main focus.

As for how to say 'no' you don't actually have to! :) Instead, add a little friction into the deal to make it easier on you.

So next time someone asks you to 'build me a quick website for my sisters, uncles litter of kittens' just say 'Why sure! I'd love to help! I'll need 5 photos, a list of exactly what you want it to say, a sketch of the layout and the details of their domain/web host. Send it all to this e-mail address. I usually get to work on my free projects at the end of the month"

I usually get 'will you come and fix my computer' several times a month. I just say sure, drop it off at my house between these times on this day. 9 times out of 10, they don't even do that. The other time it's someone who genuinely appreciates it and needs assistance and when they drop it round, I've not had to spend on fuel or leave the comfort of home and it's an easy fix..

By all means, keep being helpful but make sure it's on your terms.
The problem is that high school math and basic calculus is not much mathematics at all, and it still has the problems of foreign notation and ambiguity.
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Forgotten what the article says? Not really. I've got an impression of it, and I didn't quite liked it. The whole concept of 'false memory' is very murky. There are no 'false memories' as such. There are just memories formed under different circumstances. That includes sleep and reflection.

And we just have to agree to disagree about last few statements in that article, on the page two.

Edit: I completely agree with you and with the statement that recounting something may change or reorganize the memory. It is just the concept of 'false' memories that I dislike. It is very poorly defined.
Well... This is Hacker News not Hacker History.
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'Well, why not the same thing for an HOA? Nobody held a gun to your head to move into a property that's part of a private collective.'

Exactly, and that's the difference. Nobody held a gun to you head to move into the HOA collective. You knew the terms and consented to them when you moved in. Conversely, you are held to the laws of the state by the force of, ultimately, guns.
It could well. For example, getting rid of the Wikipedia layer might make people more likely to click on displayed ads. So the people who leave Google because of the change might have clicked many fewer ads than will now be clicked by those people now more focused on the important thing. That is, giving Google money.
While I have no idea if any of the other claims are true, it's important to note that they do claim to be regulatory-cleared (not FDA, not relevant in this case): they claim to be running a CLIA-certified lab.

CLIA (Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments)[1] defines the regulatory standards for clinical labs which take in samples and perform medical tests on them. It works very differently from FDA drug or device approval. Most often the certification is done by an organization such as the College of American Pathologists (CAP), which scrutinizes a lab's protocols and output[2].

In any case, if they are CLIA-certified they are open for business, legally speaking.

[1]: http://wwwn.cdc.gov/clia/
[2]: http://www.cap.org/apps/cap.portal?_nfpb=true&cntvwrPtlt_act...
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The most important thing is engagement from adults (till about age 9). Assuming they are this age or less I suggest

- pirate treasure hunting. Start by everyone decorating their own eyepatch, then have someone stagger in with a large map, a bullet wound and a story of buried treasure if they can decipher the clues. Which of course are located I the garden / nearby woods. Depending on age use written of visual clues, plant caches in nearby woods to make a suitable round trip, extend for older kids into a picnic.

- Dragon egg hunts are similar in vein

- build a shelter and make a fire (older kids)

- build a raft (!)

- British Bulldog

- or, just run around and tell them follow me (works better for sugared up Pre schoolers) and make up any variation on screaming then quiet (creep up on the castle, then attack or run away)

I know none really answer the specific question, but i suspect there is a question behind the question - really Cool has become hijacked by TV cartoons and movies.

As has your expectation level. Yesterday I looked after my two - I made breakfast, dinner and we made lunch together, we we t blackberry picking, scooting, swings and slides, ran through the woods, two puzzles, a telescope and a dragons head, trampolining and various sitting on Daddy. And guess what - I felt I spent most of the day shoving them in front of a DVD just to catch time to clean things up or calm things down.

Just lower your expectations of the day - it's going to be a party, jelly and Ice cream, games to play and friends to get excited with. Everything else is feeding off our fantasises of what a perfect kids day is - and then trying to make everyday like that

Give yourself a break - your kids deserve it.

If all else fails jelly and ice cream will go a long way. As will making up a story that involves running around and tiptoeing.
(Automated) Gosplan was after Stalinism actually.
Sorry, I didn't mean to imply you were saying that.
I tried all the sites except Guru as a hiring manager. From my experience, Odesk is the best option so far in terms of value - if you prefer to pay per hour.

Freelancer is the cheapest per project option but full of low quality spammer applicants. You can find a good quality provider on Elance but be prepared to pay premium for that.
The very first sentence is trying to demolish a hypothesis that nobody who knows the least bit about the business world could possibly believe:

"Not every coder job involves working in a blue chip tech company or Silicon Valley startup."

For as long as computers have been commercially available, most coding jobs were not in tech companies. They were in banks, insurance companies, manufacturing companies, government offices, scientific research labs and any other kind of business that had to keep track of large amounts of operational data. A major bank's code base is probably many times the size of Facebook's.

And if a vineyard or a fashion house needs someone to write code to manage some aspect of the business, that's hardly evidence that every one of their employees could benefit by learning to code.
The problem is that the popular free providers don't offer domain hosting, and the paid ones that do (e.g., Google Apps, FastMail) already handle that for you, if you let them.
Like others have said, the tracking software hasn't proven to be effective in stopping contractors who want to pad hours.

The contracts who were doing this before are still doing it, and those who are offended by the practice have all but left.
And there is the problem, I don't want to try out a 100 different distros.
I said I agree with the idea, not necessarily the implementation of it!
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I have a startup idea that I'm not going to execute. I currently live with a senior social worker, and my mother was a social worker. Over the years have been deeply troubled by what I've heard. I think this tool could help them, even if it's a bit creepy.

Social workers in the UK have a big problem. Different teams, professions (police, medical, housing), deal with the same people, and often collect all the pieces required to understand and prevent a tragic situation. But they can't put them together.

There is an obsession with interpofessional meetings to tackle this, but every serious case review shows that the knowledge was there but not put together, leading to dead children. My perception is that often knowledge is mentioned, but when discussing a different related case, or isn't formally written down and passed to the right person.

My solution is inspired by the part of the CALO project that dealt with capturing and exploiting knowledge from meetings. There are some great ideas. If you do this, read up on it.

The product records all meetings, using existing meeting room Teleconference hardware. The meetings are put through automatic speech and speaker recognition on a best effort basis to produce a searchable index for that meeting. So you get something like a transcript and can skip to the point where Mr A is mentioned.

Supervisors, who in that field are criminally liable for mistakes by subordinates, already review minutes for meetings. Now they can search for any mention of Mr A, and see in what context he was mentioned and listen to that part of the meeting. Obviously there would be control of who could listen to what meetings, but these people already have big intrusive databases, so I don't think they are too worried.

Ideally, you could then build graphs from there of who is mentioned together, and do some Palantir style stuff to spot associations between people.

But the start is, very much, implementing a meeting transcriber by sowing together a few brands of speech recognition engine, a web interface for administrating and searching meetings, and selling it into social services.
- Women who wear clothing designed to show cleavage

- Men who stare at cleavage

Discuss.

Wait, just to make it a little more useful:

- Men who giggle like children about their project aimed at the above two groups
And this basically sounds like passing judgement. Not everyone has to share the same goals. Some want to go for the billions, others are happy with a few million. It's not your place to judge someone else's goals as greed. Just like it wouldn't be Aaron's place to judge your goals as settling.