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I think you're dismissing this based on your own prejudices about feminism and not the actual content. Thinking about what it would be to apply a certain perspective to a know field is not the same as denouncing all the existing computing field.

This research has parallels with Moldbug/Yarvin's Urbit[1], which also tries to challenge the existing paradigms in computing, but because it uses the "feminism" word, HN is incapable of having an adult discussion about the topic.

The response in this thread would be disappointing if it wasn't so thoroughly predictable.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6438320
Despite the post's title, the study was about nicotine specifically, not tobacco. There are ways these days to consume nicotine without smoking tobacco.
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I"d be interested to hear what you ended up with - doubly interested in it if it does have its own python library...
The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent.

I forget who said it, but it's a very accurate quote.
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The issue the author is complaining about is not an issue with TrueCrypt.

It is an issue with his desktop environment maintaining a list of "recent documents".
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When ever Sweden talks about surveillance, one have to remember that they acts as merchants. They supply information in secret, and has done so since the cold war.

The FRA law and EU data retention has all been to increase the warehouse supply of data. Its not about spying on our own population. The warehouses are simply getting empty, and the Minister for Foreign Affairs feels unimportant. The Snowden documents was quite clear on this, and gives the suggestion that US diplomats should throw a bone to him once in a while to reinforce this behavior so more and more information can be extracted.

So not only are we merchants of spying, but bad ones at getting anything in return.
I'm tired of seeing the endless variations of this vapid comment.

This is a news article!

Guess what, this means other people care!

Wow!
John Maynard Keynes.
FWIW, there's Predictious too: https://www.predictious.com/economics - they offer binary ETFs on the bitcoin price.

And 796.com offers a kind of bitcoin price futures that you can use to bet on falling prices - not outright shorting, but close enough.
While I'll probably not be using this myself, tokhonj's explanation of what this is does make me a bit tickly. Nix as a whole sounds neat. Having that work with LISP/Scheme sounds even neater.

But the name is horrible. Guix makes this sound like something GUI-related. A GNU implementation of X? I don't know. The name is wildly misleading.

They really should consider doing something about that, because naming conventions tend to matter more than you think they do.
Terrorism is largely defined not by technicalities, but by what people find to be outside the accepted rules.

Customs, while oppressive and invasive, has always been that way, since time immemorial. Thus, its not considered to be outside the rules.
Thanks for giving me an excuse to post this :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfosbBc_FyA#t=17
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We don't hear much about Spanish startups here, I was wondering what are the most prominent ones and if there are any currently hiring?
> I can easily see how a rolled-up cable might've hindered the airport security from looking through my bag.

If it's coiled up neatly, such a thing can even set off anti-theft sensor gates in stores, because .. it's a coil of conducting wire :)
English press release: http://malte-spitz.de/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/CP130157EN....
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It's also true if you're from a privileged background. Straight cis men have a lot of advantages that way.
I'm glad all of this happened before the new EU privacy law passed, too, because all of these revelations should've put a permanent stop on US companies' lobbying for weaker privacy in EU, and it may even add some new stronger protections by the time it gets voted on, because of this. If the data retention one falls, too, even better.
Oh god...the next step to this is "like if hacker news sent your here" on youtube videos.
I dislike the name too. It's meant to be pronounced "geeks", but I imagine most people will expect to pronounce it "gwicks" or "GUI x" on first look. I'd prefer something like "Gnix", or GNU Nix, which maintains it's origin and makes it clear it's a GNU project. Or just call it "Geeks" if you want it pronounced that way.
I completely disagree. A digital currency is a game design in the clothes of a communication protocol. That is to say, digital currencies are poised to enter an indefinite period of competition and specialization based on the economic properties(rules of the game) that they offer and society's preferences for them; bitcoin is a tiny suggestion of what is possible. We are about to customize capitalism.
7-11 has been acting as a logistics and pick up service for ecommerce deliveries in Japan since the 1990s iirc. But 7-11 is way more ubiquitous in Japan.
Jap, i think "users agree" is more to the point (i'm not nativ english speaking). The user "agrees" in some way (because he does not change, or let it change) to the "Accept-Language" header sent by the browser (which correlates to the used browser language (developers switching this value excluded))
The brand is "Tipp-Ex".

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http://www.bing.com/search?q=tipp-ex&go=&qs=n&form=QBLH&filt...

http://www.yandex.com/yandsearch?text=tipp-ex&lr=87

http://www.dogpile.com/search/web?fcoid=417&fcop=topnav&fpid...

http://uk.search.yahoo.com/search;_ylt=An3Le.5YQeHZ499qBVnAQ...
It's not that binary. Something can be a "secret" and yet you have to tell some people, but not others.

What if your "secret" is that you're gay and you're in an evangelical hardcore religious family and you want to get out? How do you talk to a help group far away without telling your parents? Is "I'm gay" a secret? You have to tell the help group, but don't want to tell your parents. "Keep it in your head and tell no-one" just doesn't work then.
also notably Minecraft doesn't, and I bet their video ecosystem is much bigger
My reading of the situation is this:

In the beginning, feminists were concerned with how women were being directly oppressed by men. They fought against this, and laws were changed and social norms were changed, and now things are better than they were.

As feminism has advanced, it has climbed a pyramid somewhat akin to Maslow's hierarchy[1]; as concerns about the most basic rights have been addressed, attention shifts to other matters, to questions that one might describe as "academic" or intellectual in nature - it's no longer just about freedom from violence and the right to vote, own property or control one's own body, it's about ideas and beliefs and questions which are both very fundamental to society but also somewhat abstract - philosophy, in other words.

At this point, it's not unreasonable for feminists to want to re-open questions that have been settled in Western thought for centuries, on the basis that the settlement was reached almost entirely by men, and many of these men would have held sexist views which could have influenced their conclusions. Some of these re-openings will prove to be pointless - it might turn out that sexism is orthogonal to the question of logic anyhow. But it's worth checking, just to be sure. And some of the re-openings may turn out to be very useful and important.

What this is not is a question about Dennis Ritchie's beard. There's no such thing as a sexist transistor or a patriarchal processor. But our notions of how these things work, of how they ought to work, and what questions are worth asking and which are irrelevant, those things are shaped by history, and we need to step back and consider the paths not chosen, because there may be possibilities deserving of consideration there. (This is basically what Bret Victor keeps telling us[2]).

This is kinda why I don't really understand the geek vs feminist antagonism that everyone seems to take for granted around these parts. The feminist perspective is an outsider perspective that seeks to understand the true workings of the world, asks questions that others find awkward, disrupts outmoded institutions where necessary, and seeks to empower those who are often misunderstood and mistreated by society. That is also exactly the geek perspective.

There are, of course, plenty of pretty terrible feminists who do want to make an issue out of Dennis Ritchie's beard. I think it helps to think of them as being to feminists as brogrammers are to geeks.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maslow%27s_hierarchy_of_needs
[2]: http://vimeo.com/71278954
It won't matter if super high-tech houses cost $1 if you have no way of earning 50 cents.

I share your optimism for the long term, but I fear the transitional period of millions of economically unemployable people. These people will be absolutely committed that they need a job for society to function and frustrated that there are none available to them.
Ick. I wonder if anyone has actually heard of ASN.1 BER before?

Seems like ridiculous encoding and structures are the in thing at the moment.
Can you explain your setup by example? I don't get it. Your Chrome is using english for menues but your are natively speaking "france" for example?

Can you explain why your are not switching Chrome to use "France" as your default language?
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I've seen ~6 people using serial terminals to a "server" running Xenix on a 286 with SQL database applications - this was in late '88.

My mouse probably has more computing power now.... :-)
It depends on the VC and the size of the round, some VCs only invest in a very specific area while others are more flexible for larger investments.

Most of the major VCs do invest internationally in larger rounds. For example in the last year Greylock invested in Wrapp (SWE), Sequoia invested in 6Wunderkinder (DEU) and Skyscanner (GBR), BVP in NewVoiceMedia (GBR), USV in Hailo (GBR) and FundingCircle (GBR), IA & Valar in TransferWise (EST/GBR), etc.
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Wow, shows a lot of integrity closing the product instead of still keeping it up in a compromised state to comply with the warrant. We've seen some other providers here in the US even changed functionality to retain keys used in web clients of secure email at the behest of government orders.

This does mean that the UK is now on the list, along with the US, of places where no credible crypto startup is possible, though.
This has been an ongoing issue since 2011 and they still haven't fixed it!
When I bought mine similarly decked out (with a GCC PLP printer) the computer sales guy asked me "What are you doing with that much RAM? CAD for NASA?"

We kept it for 9 years but it developed a quirk where the monitor wouldn't turn on. The only way to make it light up was to grab the Mac Plus and squeeze it, so everyone used to joke that my Apple computer was lonely and needed a hug.
I'm not particularly a fan of the idea of static converters to nix expressions, ala cabal2nix. They require someone to run them in the first place, so you don't pick up updates to packages dynamically.

I'd rather we collectively agree on a protocol for installing, updating, querying packages etc, such that each language-specific package manager can talk to others through a daemon and install foreign packages that are required for the projects. It would require a fair amount of work to update each package manager to talk it (optionally), and agree on the semantics and policies of the protocol, but I think the benefits could be huge.

Using Nix/Guix as the basis for such protocol would probably be ideal due to the immutable nature of packages and ability to install side-by-side versions, and that you can specify an identity of a dependency, rather than rely on fuzzy matching of name and version.
You could create a hidden partition in your TrueCrypt volume, put some plausible data in the public partition and give them the password for that.
> You are asked when you check in if anyone has given you anything to carry for them. You presumably answered "no" to that question, yet now you're saying "Yes, they asked me to carry this unknown data".

Not necessarily. You could have encrypted the data to your friend's asymmetric keypair. Then you aren't technically carrying any data other than your own.
There are some details of the legislation in question here[1]. It allows the UK to monitor "in the interests of the economic well-being of the United Kingdom" which seems a little broad!

It would be interesting to know if this warrant targeted all users or a specific subset?

I wonder how they decide whether to issue a warrant or just break into the site in question. A warrant could imply that they are unable to attack the provider, or that they want to have a chilling effect.

[1]http://wiki.openrightsgroup.org/wiki/Regulation_of_Investiga...
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Wouldn't this ultimately help stabilize the price of Bitcoin, in part because perhaps Bitcoin bubbles wouldn't reach such tall heights anymore, if a lot more people can bet against them?

I think besides much bigger volume and liquidity (still the main reasons for stability), this is probably one of the reasons why other currencies are so stable, because there's a lot of back and forth between traders - rather than everyone buying and buying and buying, until it comes crashing down hard.
I think you're dismissing the perfectly good responses that this thread has received. I know we have this big narrative about how any discussion of feminism on HN has to be a horror show, but it's in danger of becoming a self-fulfilling prophecy if everyone keeps repeating it. (I admit to being entirely guilty of this in my own comment, and I shall try to avoid doing it again).

Quite a few people have responded to this thread saying that they don't understand the OP, but the same is true of the thread about Urbit. I've been pleasantly surprised by how many of the people responding have done so in a reasonable way, stating their disagreement or their incomprehension in a way that invites someone to help explain the concepts in more detail rather than outright dismissing the possibility that there's something of value here.
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I still wonder why I as a buyer would choose to buy through coinbase rather than PayPal or just credit card.

For sellers it is awesome and I know how bad PayPal is for sellers so I understand that.

But as a buyer if I don't care about being anonymous why would I spend a currency that is deflating and has no safeguards or way to charge back when I could just use fiat, have safety and feel better knowing the money I just spent won't be worth 10% more tomorrow.
Yeah, so I can compare on the same terms and also so it means more to me.
Puts solve the problem of the upside not being that great.

They introduce a total loss potential, but you also can't lose more money than you 'invest' into the put contract. They also obviously introduce a timing element, that is arguably the most difficult variable for amateurs - it not being enough to just be right that X will fall, but that it has to fall by enough by X date as well.
> the most important metric for adoption - the number of computers on the internet running the bitcoin software.

Mmm, not really - a lot of people are using webwallets or thin clients. This is because the full client requires a bit fat download of the entire blockchain, and also only benefits the network if you have hella bandwidth and uptime.
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"I won't vote on laws that will endanger American lives" would preclude a politician from ever voting on anything, for or against.
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That's not a point of order. It's a point of information.
She probably would of said no, if there was any negativity about you in there.

You should of asked what her pincode was for her ATM card...
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Other currencies are stable because they're actively managed by central banks, there's huge liquidity, and the currencies aren't inherently deflationary. Bitcoin has none of these things going for it. It's not a currency, for the most part, it's an instrument for speculators.
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Fair enough; I didn't want to disparage the reasonable comments that this thread has (particularly yours).
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I guess one difference is that you are relying on the assumption that Google is a bad actor. Google's actions have not shown that, and the benefit of the doubt is an important ideal.
Have you used Numpy/Scipy/Pandas? It works a bit differently. It basically creates a matrix as in C--the trick is choosing the right column types. I don't see what relevance ASN.1 has here.
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Feminism is a big field with a lot of different theories; many of which plainly contradict eachother.

I'm not really an expert on this but it sounds like you're describing a strict interpretation of first-wave feminism.

Second wave feminism started from the observation that many of the first wave's successes were very masculine women and argues that while women were now allowed into men's circles it was still on the precondition that they acted like men and essentially left their femininity behind.

The classic example of a first wave feminist is Margaret Thatcher who is undeniably a powerful woman but can hardly be called feminine. A good example of a second wave feminist is Sheryl Sandberg who became a powerful figure while retaining, and to some degree even capitalizing on, her femininity.

P.S. It's also important to remember that when it comes to studies like these it's important to keep the difference between gender and sex in mind.
Most altcoins use scrypt instead of SHA256, so that it's harder to make FPGAs/ASICs, thus relatively easier for people with GPU/CPUs.

This is because if only people with specialized hardware could mine, the network could be more vulnerable to 51% attack from a well-funded team, versus when every person with a graphics card can mine.

See https://litecoin.info/Comparison_between_Litecoin_and_Bitcoi...
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Porn.

Though I'm wondering why Bitcoin adoption in the porn industry still seems to be so slow. Usually they're the first to jump on new technology.
I don't know why coldarchon below is dead. I had an apple in my bag coming back from somewhere and arriving in Atlanta. The customs beagle found it ... but the officer let me eat it on the spot rather than confiscate it. :-/
The article also mentions this company's new product where additional security is possible because decryption requires data kept only by the customer. Perhaps that is the new way to go?
Thats not even half the truth.

What I see is exactly false promises, lack of documentation and much innocence at the struggling users. Users try to establish privacy, use good 'ol Truecrypt. The average joe then trusts the promises, sees the "no history" checkbox, thinks he has a choice, but he does not - it's leaking and he doesn't know. And some user indeed find out that there is a leak. You can look in forums to see demand for solutions - and the many efforts to give advice. Often also false promises. Which is worst.

Truecrypt claims to offer features (no history), and officially worries about plausible deniability. And then you see practically it's all a huge mess. And I really blame them for giving false promises.

And yes: we could keep on to pass the buck, but TrueCrypt fails epically ignoring this issue. As I state, there would be true solutions possible to circumvent this leaking nightmare. If they wished, they (TrueCrypt) could fix it themselves (e.g. using another way of file selector).
If that were my project, I would do something against this and not ignore (for years).

And doing nothing will not help anybody. So I tried to give a practicable workaround until someone fixes the mess.
Wow, I've also never seen that many together. Its somehow not surprising that Canada Post couldn't get it together with the city to intersperse those with recycling boxes. Disgusting.
There are a few other airports that do, too, but it's uncommonly used.
Fantastic point, and it's a real shame that there don't appear to be any anthropologists, sociologists, game theorists, psychologists or political scientists advising in the models of any of these coins. The algorithms that underly these currencies are going to have massive impacts on the shape of our society going forward, without proportionate deliberation about their design.
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I speak Korean. For me, it's a personal taste. I actually set Accept-Language to Korean even if my browser UI is English.

This is becoming less a problem than in the past, but consider the case that your browser of choice is not available in your language of choice. For example, you speak Korean but there is no Korean version of the browser. Then it is natural to have English browser UI with preference for Korean content.

More commonly, the browser may be available in your language but translation can be incomplete (only half the menu is translated, etc.), wrong (two different menu items are translated same -- did and does happen), or ugly (your language is going through the turbulent time debating how best to translate computer terms, and browser was translated by particularly opinionated people whose opinion you disagree with). Or some site may have compatibility problem with localized browser (getting rarer, but was problematic in the past). Or...
"In the name of the People, shut down this facility!"

Well, that sounds familiar. It seems the more governments change over the decades, the more they stay the same.
Perhaps we could have something like EDE mode (but one that people would actually use), which uses a Guile DSL to describe projects and which hooks nicely into Guix to automatically handle the dependencies of the project, and build projects in an isolated environment. With any luck we could say bye-bye to make, m4 and pkg-config too.
> I always wonder what they're actually looking for.

Security.

Job security.
I was wondering about that, it is described as:

"where rather than hold the data, it is split in two so CertiVox has one half and the user has the other, and law enforcement would need both to access the data."

By data here, do they mean encryption key? If so then I'm not sure what splitting it in two does as you presumably have to join them together somewhere and GCHQ would presumably just attack wherever the complete key is available.

[Edit: Product details here, it appears to be Open Source: http://www.certivox.com/m-pin/]
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Would it be possible for CoinBase to have some kind of FDIC like insurance? It seems like that's the biggest problems with bitcoins these days is that there's no safe place to store them.
Does that really clarify anything? I can't say I have any clearer idea of what the feminist critique of logic is after reading that.

What does paraconsistent logic have to do with feminism?
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