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There's no connection between the headline and the article, which not only doesn't examine the results of any women-only initiatives, but only mentions a single example (that it seems to approve of.)

>But there’s something wrong when we treat half the population like a minority or special interest group.

There's also something wrong when we treat half the population like baby breeding kitchen help, too. We remediate the damage done by open sexism through targeted help. When it comes to management, ownership, and government, women are not only a minority, they are an extreme minority.

>Women don’t need all the help we can get because we’re women.

No, that's why a sexist would help women. Women need all the help that they can get because men run everything and often don't really think of women as completely human. Women need help because they are constantly under attack. Women sometimes need help because they are generally smaller and lack upper body strength. If you can get by without it, feel free.

There's a temptation as a member of a discriminated against group who has found some success amongst the dominant group to use their own success and the success of their friends to argue that merit will always rise to the top. Don't do this, because you will be paraded as evidence that discrimination is over, and it's alright to withdraw from the ghettos and set them on fire.

If a few millionaires are enough to say that discrimination doesn't matter anymore, racism against blacks must have ended before slavery.
To anyone attacking me, my comment was sarcastic and intended to point out the xenophobia inherent in the OPs statement. I wasn't saying that "I" thought minorities should be killed, I was dryly saying that the "ideal world" spoken about by the OP would be a horrible one in which many innocent people would die.

For that matter - what kind of terrible person would publicly go on Hacker News and say that they think minorities should die? Why would that be your first thought?
Why would the tech field be better off with more women?
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I doubt it. What you describe is a continuous process that normally occurs before releasing a product.

Collecting feedback from employees is indeed useful and in effect priceless when done right. Doing the same with a set of early adopters who know what they're getting into as well.

The same with a large pool of anyones, however, is a recipe to turn your not-yet-quite-ready product into something customers buy, eventually stop using, and never touch again no matter how much you improve it later on.

Think of it this way: You buy a game that is get mostly good reviews. You're unimpressed and are left scratching your head as to why it's getting them. It eventually gathers dust somewhere. A few years later, you hear that it needed this or that patched up ruleset, along with this and that mod or extension to be fun and playable. I predict that your odds of unearthing said game to give it a second try are about nil. The game had its chance and failed; you moved on, and so might Google Glass users.
This (dated) Slate article makes a pretty convincing case that when a proper fair use case finally gets to court, most sampling will likely be deemed fair use:

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudenc...

Artists like Girl Talk are getting bolder and more blatant in their uncleared sampling. It might have something to do with his giving away his recent albums, though.

Edit: Here's a couple other Slate articles that go into more detail -

http://www.slate.com/articles/business/moneybox/2012/05/adam...

http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2012/05/08/paul_boutique...
maybe DevonThink could work? I like how it stores my data.
But he wasn't "taking part in" a hack, he was the hack. Ringleader, sole proprietor, everything.

Crosstalk or not he should have started it at Harvard if it were so obviously on the up and up.

And in any event once he was kicked off the network to such an extent as to require entering a network closet (note it was never locked, so there was no 'hack' to be had here physically) to regain the subnet he should have taken that as notice that his 'hack' was unwelcome. Well, he should have taken the hint earlier too...
"Women need all the help that they can get because men run everything and often don't really think of women as completely human. Women need help because they are constantly under attack."

Not sure if this is troll bait, but... are you serious? Do you have anything at all to back this up?
Right but the dates of his high school and undergrad programs on his resume will presumably give away that he's not 22.
This is the worst idea ever but it explains a lot. I had not heard this before, and it's enough to make me hedge my bets and start trying to export notes into mmd files in nested directories (which one cannot do at present with stacks) and use Mavericks tagging.

I would definitely call this an anti-pattern for cross-platform software.
I use it but for many queries it still isn't good enough.
This is tangential to the main article, but for years I've used Devonthink Pro in the way Steven Berlin Johnson describes in "Tool for Thought": http://www.stevenberlinjohnson.com/movabletype/archives/0002... . This is more of a research-y and writer-y style, but it may also work for people replacing Evernote.
Bravo! It takes courage to suggest there's something wrong with compensatory sexism.
Please see above for the context of my statement.
I think current tax receipts are 2.5 trillion, so this is a bit more manageable.
Is there an OSX version?
> And I don't think that it is a programmer error if you use the defaults... but sure: These days you would probably just use a framework or take care of these details...

It's usually a programmer error when you write code that does something other than what you intend, regardless of whether or not what you intend to do is the default behaviour.

I think this is perfectly understandable behaviour for a framework of such a general purpose. The whole convention over configuration thing works for tools like Ruby on Rails and web2py. 90% of the applications written using them are pretty much identical and the non-technical constraints favour quick delivery over well-adapted architecture, so you can afford making it obnoxiously hard for the rest of 10%.
> It seems doubtful that the answer to social inequalities is to make special privileges for each group to match the special privileges already enjoyed by others, as opposed to working more towards an ideal of equal treatment for everyone.

If two people are running in a race, and one of them has been running the past 4 miles with a 50-pound weight on their back, taking the weight off isn't going to make the race fair. You've either got to give them some kind of help or put a weight on the other person's back.
You could have that in principle in any language. In Clojure it's built-in and idiomatic.

Besides, there are people who prefer Clojure over Common Lisp and Scheme. You asked why anyone would want Clojure without the JVM, I just told you there are many benefits, especially if your prefered language already is Clojure.

Haskell really is something entirely diffrent than Clojure. Staticly typed, monads, template haskell. It's a nice language, but not as easy to use as Clojure IMHO.
I don't think the current generation hardware can be used in a way that ads value. I think its way more likely that Google employees used it for a while, but couldn't find enough actual uses for it, so they couldn't iterate.

Anyway, a limited release is also wise on those circunstances. Maybe when battery and display improves, somebody (maybe even Google) could "invent" glasses again, like Apple "invented" tablets.
> The point is that workers are no longer necessary because everything is automated.

Sure, but what then happens to them? My guess is poverty and starvation, rather than lower costs for owners of means of production leading to giving means of production or products away for free. Why shouldn't this game of musical chairs keep going on until there are only a few dozen mansions and millions of golf courses and parks left? Or even machines optimizing humans away completely -- unless held on a tight leash, why shouldn't they? And if held on a tight leash, why would this not also extend to the disenfranchised masses, the then "useless eaters"? As much as I would like to believe it, everything else being the same I don't think automation and lower costs by themselves will necessarily lead to anything good.

Worker's rights weren't granted because they could be afforded, they had to be fought for. Same for segregation and other things. But these people had something to throw on the scales -- unnecessary workers will not have that. They will be at the mercy of others, and I do not see enough mercy to go around already, looking bleaker going forward. We already have elites that are pretty much above the law -- steal cell phones repeatedly, go to jail for a long time, start aggressive wars, get re-elected, be too big to fail, get bailed out. Once fooling people to get their approval is no longer required, I doubt the same classes will suddenly discover virtue.
vimoutliner (https://github.com/vimoutliner/vimoutliner) is also terribly mature and appropriate for a lot of tasks one might use Org mode for - certainly worth a look.
We should talk off list. :-)
Remind me never to use any service you ever create.
+1 for Orgmode. Its wealth of features is astonishing. And it just gets better and better; the community supporting it and driving ongoing development is fanatically committed. Bonus: it comes with a pretty good text editor. :)
Evernote team, please make a usable bookmarklet for iPhone/iPad. A lot of people are clipping pages on their mobile devices and currenly the user experience is awful.
I have spent the past two years learning this lesson. It's so much more work to maintain a project that was not put together correctly in the beginning.
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For non-commercial use, can an artist sample without legal threat?

For example, if an artist is just posting 80s style tracks with dozens of uncleared samples on their website free for their fans to download, doesn't fair use allow for it?
I'll try and take a look soon. Thanks!
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"nofollow" is the key.
Simplenote? Is that a joke? Most of the sync problems I had were with Simplenote. Notes deleted. Updates not synced. What a mess. Love NV though (or nvAlt which I use).
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I want to give both Rap Genius and Google the benefit of the doubt.

I like to believe that Google checked the link profile again and found a large amount of low-quality links removed. Google would not remove a penalty if the spammy links were still abundant. So that they are out of a manual penalty is justified.

Rap Genius showed good intentions to comply with the guidelines. They went out of their way to clean up their act. These were no doorway pages or elaborate linking schemes with their own servers. It was a Linking Bieber Scheme that is considered greyhat in the industry, and after this, will probably be less popular.

This was a large and visible PR drama. Of course both Rap Genius and Google were on top of things. Google never stated that this was to be a month-long ban. We don´t know how those thousands of other sites were penalized. Maybe the large majority is so spammy/crappy that they simply won´t rank near the top with their spammy links removed, on the merits of their content and audience alone. For sites that are entirely build on manipulating SERPs, then yeah, a Google penalty can seem permanent. To me, that is an ok thing.

About the connections. Sure they help. I don´t see what is wrong though with leveraging your connections when there are millions on the line. Maybe a connection humbly asked: Hey, we effed up, how can we restore trust? This thread makes it sound like the connections pressured Google into removing the penalty. That seems unlikely if we all give the benefit of the doubt.
Even so, it's worse (on average) for women. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2817708
> Do you have dependencies keeping you on 2.x?
> Yes: 61.46%
> No: 38.54%

I know that's why I returned to 2 after trying 3. For example BeautifulSoup (HTML parsing/scraping) has only supported Python 3 since October '13. There was nothing wrong with 3, it was just dependency issues.

Plus, when 2.7 was released it was done with a promise of ~6 years of support[0] to aid in the transition to 3.x. I think the definition of success here needs to take that into account.

[0] - https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2010-May/099971...
One thing I know is that RapGenius is good about making a big stink, being in the news, and then having things work out in their favor, even if they were the ones doing a dumb thing in the first place.

They freaked out at Heroku with decent reason because it was costing them money, but if they ran their own infrastructure, that would have been a total non issue and at the scale they are running, why ARE they using Heroku?

They did some incredibly dumb SEO things because they are greedy and are willing to cheat to win. That is on RapGenius, but once they got banned it is somehow Google's fault and they should be reincluded? I don't get it.

RapGenius is great at one thing - creating controversy and getting press for it. I guess that works for them, but it seems like a very selfish way to grow a business. Instead of focusing on building value themselves, they are willing to tear down their business partners in public to get what they want.

I'm not sure why this behavior hasn't put them in the same category as Zynga, Groupon, Swoopo, and all the other companies the tech industry loves to hate.
>what they don't seem to have done well enough yet, is to iterate it to the point where it is adding value

They release monthly updates, based on feedback.

https://support.google.com/glass/topic/3284652?hl=en&ref_top...
I think a search for a single cause/effect in what makes a good product is misguided. Of course, I also think if Google were to make a marketing effort to get glass out there, it would probably do surprisingly well. And I don't even know if I like the thing.
Nitpic: Clojure delegates most things to the VM. The subtle difference that it works just fine on JS engines and CLR.

Arc and Golang would not be a good idea. I'm not trying to be overly negative, but Arc does have it's issues, the main thing being that Arc does not always work, meaning you would need some tool to hunt down leaks. RC is also slower than GC for several reasons, and when you require a runtime anyway for goroutines, you might as well include a GC, especially since Go can have a precise GC.
Computing is a very young field. It's well on its way to infiltrating our everyday lives, but it's incredibly underdeveloped. Leaving women out of the process of creating the world we're going to live in seems like a really bad idea.
Very similar to how people feel Curt Cobain was "murdered". Conspiracy people say the amount of heroin in his system would have rendered him unable to pull the trigger on the shotgun.

Also, your movie scenario has actually happened before:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Mahmoud_Al-Mab...
Mac's TextEdit (a rich text editor) has been what I've ultimately chosen after using Evernote, OneNote, SpringPad, Simplenote, Notational Velocity, and Mac's Notes.app. Let me explain some of its benefits.

- Notes are placed in Finder (the file system). This is the biggest benefit. This means that I can store notes separately in folders, according to their specific purposes. For example, I can categorize my notes by project, AND store files of any type alongside them, since they're just placed in the Finder. I generally don't like using specific notes apps, because what if you want to attach a real file (not a shortcut to a file) which is of a type that's incompatible with the notes app? You can't, because notes apps can only categorize notes. That's very limited. With Finder, everything's categorized according to your own purposes, and any file type can be moved into/out of each purpose. The more I use Finder, the more I love it.

- TextEdit is very simple, but also very powerful if you know how to use it. It generally has all the features of a typical notes app. It has rich text editing, and you can put in pictures as well. When you're searching for a note or its content in Finder, it'll look through all the text within the notes, not just the file names. If you want to quick look notes, just click on a note in column view.

- If you use a certain note more often than others, you can use Alfred (a smart search app) to launch it really quickly just by typing its name, without needing to load an entire notes app filled with notes you don't need, and then find it yourself.

- Unlike Evernote, you can easily password-protect as many notes as you like by storing them in an encrypted DMG, since this feature comes with the Mac.

A downside for some people is that you can't edit your notes on a phone/tablet. For me this hasn't been a problem because I'm ten times more productive on a laptop. I can always view my files with the Dropbox app, and I can always make some quick notes on my mobile device if I ever need to. For most people, your laptop is almost always with you, and it doesn't take long to pop it open.

If you're on Windows, I think WordPad would be the right way to go. Not too sure about Linux though.

In conclusion, the TextEdit/Finder combo is the simplest, fastest, and most functional, notes tool that I've ever used.
> what kind of terrible person would publicly go on Hacker News and say that they think minorities should die? Why would that be your first thought?

Are we reading the same HN?

I took your comment immediately to be what you intended, but how can you possibly act surprised at the comments here anymore? This isn't 2012's HN anymore.
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I no longer trust Google to keep its own services - they've gotten rid of too many projects. On the plus side, you usually have time to download your data before the service dies.
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Another oft-overlooked problem with women-only spaces is that they tend to put enormous pressure on the litmus, namely, "is so-and-so a woman?" This tends to screw over people like me (trans).

Now, I know that's not front page news -- there are how many of us? -- but if you care about things like wheelchair ramps and braille, you care about how structural decisions affect the ability of minorities to access a space.

In this case, the minority is being kept out by a conceptual barrier rather than (say) a pre-war flight of stairs, but it still really really sucks to be that minority.

Just another consideration. I'm actually undecided if inclusive, well-managed women-only (or _-only, where _ is a minority of your choosing) spaces are the best approach to the (serious) problem, but I know that some people benefit greatly from such spaces. So it's a question for sociology, really, not hand-waving debate (is there a way of preserving the benefits of these spaces while being more inclusive? what are the supposed benefits? How significant? For whom?)
At 31 you should be alright getting an internship. Obtaining an internship is more about your interest in then field, willingness to go full time after graduation, and your ability to bring something to the table for the time you are there. If all those criteria are met, at 31 you still have another 20-25 years (easy) of possible work in you. Most programmers stick around for only a few years in any one company anyways.
Clear as day there is a double standard. That's what should be discussed.
Part of the problem is that Google's PageRank algorithm is patented and the patent won't expire until 2017.

Google insists that its current search mix is based on a lot more than just PageRank, but it seems that PageRank probably contributes the foundation of their business. I don't see a way of competing with Google's results unless we are allowed to use something like PageRank, which we can't do unless we pay royalties or wait until it expires.

I'm not saying that PageRank is the be all end all of search algorithms, and certainly someone somewhere could come up with a different method of ranking superior to Google's. Ranking pages by how many other pages cite them seems like a pretty fundamental insight, and where I would start with any new search engine.
DDG is just not good enough - it's sloppy.

We need an open-source, or decentralised (i wish) solution. That is as close as you can get to a pipe-dream at the moment. Doesn't mean we won't get there eventually though.

EDIT: early days open src p2p search: http://yacy.net/en/index.html
GHC has a very nice memory profiler in the runtime. You just enable that one and then it has rules to constrain views of allocation data. Profiling by "anything of type X" usually helps to narrow down a specific place in the code which has trouble. Also, splitting by module helps since it can tell you where in the code base you have the leak.

It won't point and scream HERE!, but it will give you enough information that you can use to narrow down where the leak happens to be.
I believe so, but not 100% sure. There are a lot of artists nowadays releasing sample-heavy music for free, and then making their money by touring and playing it live.
But compare it to the price level of everything else here, compared to what we get paid it's not that bad (at least not other brands).
This is highly relative and culturally dependent. The older generations (at least the ones that weren't already exposed to earlier computing, AKA the majority) usually have idealized and regressive views of their youth, idolizing the "good ol' days" that never were.

In turn, as they see the massive proliferation of computing, they tend to look at it from a superficial perspective: "Children playing their silly computer games and not getting out, as was back in my day." No matter how much you debunk their arguments, the inertia still sticks and you're often perceived as socially challenged.

So no, boys are not necessarily encouraged to go into tech. Some are, surely. Often for monetary motivations. But a lot are guided by their own passion without outside encouragement, excluding their online peers with likeminded interests.
Can the other parties who had the majority split between them form a coalition?
> Well, the US takes in $10 Trillion a year.

No, it doesn't. Federal revenue runs about 2.5-3.0 trillion.
They freaked out at Heroku with decent reason because it was costing them money, but if they ran their own infrastructure, that would have been a total non issue and at the scale they are running, why ARE they using Heroku?

Are you arguing that what Heroku was doing wasn't wrong?

I'm not sure why this behavior hasn't put them in the same category as Zynga, Groupon, Swoopo, and all the other companies the tech industry loves to hate.

Comments on every single RapGenius post on HN have been filled with vitriol toward the founders, their attitude, and the culture they foster.
Why do people smoke, drink, ride rollercoasters? Why do they do dangerous things like parkour or traditional free climbing?