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It's quite common to rent or buy mailing lists for marketing purposes.
If the licenses are incompatible, then you cannot ship them together. Calling that FUD is a bit rich! Try going through the process at Fedora. The legal team will stop you.

Licenses allow you to distribute things despite copyright. Usually distributing software without a license is illegal, though there are exceptions in some countries for music and movies.

You can obviously nitpick about that he uses "illegal". However, the discussion was about why ZFS is not distributed. That is what the answer was about, incompatible licenses making it (somewhat) impossible for distributions to carry it.

Now various distributions do have e.g. "nonfree" repositories, but incompatible licenses are a big problem. Responding to such concerns with "just spreading FUD" seems to (hopefully) indicate you're not involved with any distribution.
> the internal one is `[[Prototype]]`

I was thinking about this one.

> Actually, Object.getPrototypeOf was added in ECMAScript 5.1.

Wow. Thanks, I wasn't aware of this.
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It's probably not the fault of the "programming world", but rather gender roles in their entirety, where boys and girls are pushed toward certain interests and away from others.

Programming is often seen as "geeky" (lesser so today than in the past) and girls are encouraged to "not be geeky," to fit in with their peers. Boys are, I think, much less socially penalized.
Maybe the other 20% own non-electric kettles

You mean those old fashioned kettles that are little more than a pot that you put on the hob? Nope. No way do 20% of UK houses have that sort of old fashioned system. That's like claiming 20% of UK houses still have outhouses and don't have indoor toilets.

It always amazes me how the ridiculuous old fashioned non-electric kettles are still popular in USA.
Where I live (Europe) tax income through cigarette sales is substantive. Some countries even have refrained from further increasing taxes or lowered the planned increases on cigarettes because the last raises have caused a drop in tax income.

I imagine prohibiting cigarettes would lead to a huge outcry on all sides of the political spectrum fueled by lobbyist decrying the end of the free world. There also would be a large economic impact on all the retailers, logistics companies, promoters, distributors, and addiction management industries (nicotine patches, e-cigarettes, and what not). By "large impact" I mean that they would be gone for good. I guess this would still mean a net win for society and health care costs at large, but those measures are always hard to justify and not a very popular decision to make. That's why politicians tend to refrain from making them.
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Here is my abridged comment:

1. It is important to like who you are and what you do. I am glad you are proud of being who you are,

2. But at the same time I don't like when people are calling out initiatives like "more women in tech". Look, getting a job is tough. It can be luck or qualification. I know someone is going to cite some research studies but at this point, let's just say yes we get it, a lot of assholes out there are discriminating women. But in reality, you can't stop them by hiring more women. You wish you could just get more women in manager level so that more women can be hired. That's not going to happen magically and hoping women managers hire more women is also acting discrimination. I am not comfortable with that kind of initiatives. It is as if I was a broker setting a goal for myself. That's just number game, there is nothing we gain from it other than growing the numbers.

3. All-girls class is just bad. For one it's like containing them, like putting them in a zoo and wait for them to do something amazing and then we pay a visit and cheer them for their accomplishment. Events meant for helping girls to find self-esteem is great but then again, too many is going to do damage because they soon will get attached to these "all-girls" environment. To actually work in the real world, one must accept the flaws and be ready to work with unfriendly people. What is even more frustrating is that we are dogfooding people with the crazy things CS and programming are doing. The ability to code is great, awesome. But coding is just a tool. Like every other tool out there, you can either make something awesome and powerful or something ugly and useless. Knowing how to code doesn't make you smarter or special. It's like knowing quantum physics suddenly makes you a wantable guy among your girlfriends? That's just bullshit (for some it's true but then that's just bullshit). And that's pretty much stereotyping.

What we need is to stop telling girls or any group of people to do XYZ because they are the minority or is having disadvantage. Making exceptions to them isn't going to help them. I am Asian (Chinese to be exact) and if 20 years later Asian MD dominates like 80%, do we start another initiative to bring up other ethnicity? If all the ice cream truck drivers are Asians, do we want more diversity? If we think (or because studies have shown...) that girls don't end up in tech because they are afraid or because they were told they weren't good enough, having all-girl class won't solve the problem when they enter the real world either.

Teach people about computer and web literacy, about science and engineering, about what people do in their daily jobs. Teach regardless of gender or race. We all deserve to know them and we don't need to have special non-profit organizations going after XYZ groups of people. Bring those things into core education.
What qualifies as a hike? How far? I don't want to list what others won't see as 'true' hikes.
Your label, not mine. I don't believe in the MRA movement or whatever you call it. I am opposed to off-topic gender politics articles (which are becoming more frequent here) as I believe they are divisionist and ruin the spirit of this forum. This is Hacker News NOT Gender Politics News.
I don't agree that abusing employees helps. Software development is a creative activity, and you've got to get enough rest to be creative.

Disclosure: European here.
Tobacco (nicotine) is also only mildly physically addictive. The main part is psychological addiction.

Weed has also a number of negative side effects over cigarettes. THC, after all, is a psychoactive drug and some people develop a psychosis from smoking weed. This doesn't happen when smoking tobacco.

It depends entirely on what you're comparing here. Do you compare smoking 10 joints vs. 10 cigarettes or 1 joint vs 10 cigarettes (per day? per week? per month?)? If one smokes as much weed as tobacco, he might develop way worse symptoms than someone who "just" smokes cigarettes.
" All the money, fame, and the joy of owning your own company..."

Yeah, I think maybe you're the one that is slightly deluded. OP offered a realistic view of what a coding job often implies, and why it might not be that glamorous to many women.

You pretend they're all going to own their own company and make a ton of money.
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It's also evident if you go through any big project's mailing list in the past few years and search for git/mercurial/svn/cvs/dvcs or the like. I followed Pidgin's devel mailing list for a while. For some reason, when they switched away from SVN several years ago they switched to a very niche DVCS called monotone which, among other oddities, had such a large data format/slow clone process that they had a tarball of the database for download that you had to then use to initialize your local checkout, because actually cloning the database the normal way would take too long. I assume they chose it due to some core developers' familiarity with it or something. Later, they eventually realized this was a huge barrier to entry for new developers and there was a protracted discussion/flame war about the replacement. One guy in particular, felipec, seemed to spend days writing up long detailed posts about how hg was inferior to git, which were more or less factual, but written in a snarky/condescending tone, and the core developers never took him seriously and made it clear that his input was not welcome. It's kind of funny, that guy ended up writing a bunch of hg to git interoperability scripts ostensibly for the sake of proving git's superiority, and those are now included in git-contrib.

So, yeah, (D)VCS choice is probably a bigger holy war than editor, and getting a project to switch is quite nontrivial. Especially a lot of the projects you'd want to switch away from some poor DVCS, because they often stick to it for some non-technical reason (eg. bzr seems to be largely a GNU thing).
Isn't that problem right in the domain of automated testing and static code analysis?
> Nicotine is a known carcinogen

Is it? All I can find is that it promotes tumor growth if the tumor is already there but doesn't cause them by itself.

>> I'm harming nobody but myself with it.
>You cannot back that up with evidence. This is your guess, and it could be wrong.

Clearstream [1] was done and at least one other study (can't remember the name atm). Nothing completely conclusive but at least it points towards it being rather safe.

[1] http://clearstream.flavourart.it/site/?p=1014&lang=en
Also - you can reuse tea leaves.

Re-using tea bags (in the UK & Ireland) is a sign of someone who's very cheap and doesn't want to spend any money. Like someone who cuts their own hair to save money.
Freshly boiled water has a higher oxygen content than reboiled or water that has been kept at/near boiling for a long time.

For best tea, you should only use water that has been boiled once (since reaching an equilibrium with dissolved oxygen at/below room temperature)
This one was just added by someone on HN. It's a bit like Wikipedia's stub articles. It's not that useful at the moment, but there's something here that should be expanded on in the future. Maybe I'll update it myself when I get some downtime.
RCDs are quite expensive, so its common in the UK for a single RCD to cover several circuits. The most common configuration is to have two RCDs each of which cover half of the circuits. Here's a typical consumer unit...

http://www.ctm.co.uk/gallery/Electric/Electric_photo_gallery...

RCDs detect the slightest earth leak, so they are far more likely to trip than the MCB or the fuse on the plug, which only detect a sustained over-current.
Well there are two of three possibilities:

1) All Swat teams look like that, Hollywood lied to us

2) This is a bomb defusal unit, they don't need to move fast

3) It's a small town police unit
I'm a high-end coder working as a consultant for a major international bank (etc etc etc), and your assertions / sweeping generalisations about coders are wrong; first, not all of us are weirdos; most are married or dating, and we work regular 9 - 5:30 days (with some flexibility). Definitely not a mine (although I wouldn't mind a bit more natural light, but then, office buildings).

If it was a 'terrible way to be', I wouldn't be working here; I like my job. Also, if they try to lure me in with bouncy toys, I'll tell 'em to fuck right off - that probably means the other working conditions, pay, etc are shit.
>> I sometimes wonder if HN commentors ever think that maybe their comments might leave them open to legal liability in some future case

While I agree with advising caution, and disagree with the gp sentiment, I don't think that mild gender insensitivity and poor communication skills are as of yet civil or criminal offenses on comment sections.
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For the past couple of months, I have been trying to apply for a Wechat Public Account. Thus far no luck. I followed the instructions at https://admin.wechat.com and emailed to bd@wechat.com. After several attempts, I still have not received a response. Can anyone possibly alert the responsible people to this issue? You would help a lot of people (ie, everyone on this thread => http://wechatforum.com/how-to-create-a-wechat-official-account-public-account-t85-60.html). Thank you so much. Xiexie!
Actually my point was, if you look at it carefully- Professions like teaching and nursing do have a degree of career progression, but that looks super pale in comparison with any anything in the engineering domain.

The argument is similar to the discussion about Wall Street traders and Programmers. Note each of those folks at the Wall Street are taking back millions in bonuses each year. Yet we are to them a nursing-like profession, what the nursing profession is to us.
I'm not saying all males put on pseudo-masculine efforts, I'm saying it only takes one kid who makes an inappropriate joke like changing "public void" to "pubic void" when we're doing a code review. In such a situation, the boy will suppress a smile while he innocently exclaims he made a typo, while his friends all giggle innocuously. If you don't work with kids, you will not fully understand how the adolescent mind manifests itself in the classroom environment, and how difficult it is to suppress it. In the situation I just described, all we can do is mentally make a note to not call that same student up again. And in this situation and all related ones, we're dealing with a male student. Girls simply don't find stupidity that funny, and as an instructor I get pretty sick and tired of it.

I've spent the last 30 minutes defending myself on HN so I will conclude with this. We are not segregating our classes. We are not trying to shield female students from the realities of the world. We are simply making a business decision to offer an alternative environment for our female students who would otherwise have to deal with awkward situations like the one I just described. The all-girls classes are ridiculously chill and my instructors leap at the opportunity to teach them, because girls in middle and high school are on average more attentive and respectful than their male counterparts. You can tear apart my real-world observation all you want, but that is the simple reality of it and once you open your mind beyond some idealistic vision of what education should be, you'll understand that my reasoning is not just "unconscious sexism".
So how do you recover from the security breach of having a group of strangers have unsupervised physical access to your computers for an hour?
Nothing wrong with traditional classrooms and teachers for those, tbh.
Hello @zakn. Great site.
I have one question. Can you please share from where are you getting the description of the hikes. For Example: http://hike.io/hikes/salkantay-trek

Are you manually typing out all the data or you hired someone to type all this out. I know you are using community to edit this , but who made contribution for the first time ?
The only way they can do it ahead of you is if you decided to buy or sell in a series of several orders instead of one.

So, basically, you're paying for your own decision.
Tasmania proposed something similar, basically that anyone born after 2000 would not be able to purchase cigarettes. Singapore proposed the same thing.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-08-23/tas-smoking-ban-facing...

However, I think neither proposal has been accepted.
I dunno about 1; in a similar line, you'd have to teach them electronics, farming, carpentry, household, and how to get unemployment benefits. But I'm in favor of teaching kids all of the above though.
Dude, that's literally what "licenses are incompatible" means.

The GPL gives you a license to distribute IF AND ONLY IF all the linked binaries have AT LEAST the same permissive rights as the GPL mandates. The CDDL gives rights SIMILAR to GPL, but in a way that is incompatible, i.e. which does not let you distribute CDDL code with all the permissions the GPL mandates. As such, you void the license to distribute the GPL code, as you're unable to comply with the GPL license (i.e. the bit that all linked binaries have at least the GPL enforced liberties).

The GPL's license to distribute is dependent on you distributing binaries with the appropriate permissions and the CDDL won't let you.
The regs in the UK say that (pretty much) every circuit must be RCD protected. But they also say that you can't use a single RCD to protect everything, because you might need power to fix whatever has tripped the RCD.

RCDs are expensive, so the most common solution is to have two RCDs, each protecting half of the circuits.
Hmm, there was this one period where I had a flat mate who smoked, so I smoked with him, regularly every day.
When he left, I stopped smoking.... cold turkey.
He was the one acquiring the cigarettes and he was the one going on smoke breaks at the evenings, I just went along and got one from him.

I don't mind smoking a cigarette, but I never found the urge to do so. I jokingly tell people I can't get addicted to cigarettes even though I smoked almost every day for 6 months.

Never found myself addicted to tobacco. Chips on the other hand...
No one is "telling" girls to do anything. You seem to recognize that the issue is bigger than "women (and men) in tech," that it's actually more about "women and men" in general, but you don't want to put any effort into thinking or learning about gender.

Organizations for girls in tech offer resources to the few girls who are actually there. I encourage you to try to find me a program that isn't completely voluntary, but I doubt you will.
This is mostly a good thing. The NHS is of course a huge trove of valuable information, but there are some incredibly compelling reasons to make it available to anyone who can improve patient care - start-ups should be interested in this too.
Judging by some of my colleagues / the people I've worked with, intellect isn't a prerequisite for getting into the tech industry either :p.
Even if this data (date of birth, postcode, etc) would be removed, it would still be rather trivial for e.g. an insurance company to match these records to their customers. Given one or two insurance claims for doctor's appointments, matching the medical records for identical dates is enough to pinpoint a person with adequate certainty.

Then the insurance company can grep the records for mentions of smoking, drinking, drug use or injuries related to dangerous activities like riding horses, motor racing or skiing. Now that the insurance companies can identify patients in these risk groups, they can proceed to doubling the insurance fees of these people.

I think that the insurance companies should not be able to access medical records like this.

edit: please excuse my ignorance on the UK health care system. In my country, you pay a fixed fee when using public health care and you can claim insurance on that.
FreeNas was acquired by IX Systems and as of version 8 is no longer m0n0wall based. IX Systems is actually a great company but I don't like this change. If you need to build a NAS with ZFS try out Nas4Free to keep going with the M0n0wall based FreeNAS that we all loved.
> Is it?

I may have been too conclusive there; the CDC only says:

"Nicotine is a teratogen (capable of causing birth defects). Other developmental toxicity or reproductive toxicity risks are unknown. The information about nicotine as a carcinogen is inconclusive"

http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/ershdb/emergencyresponsecard_297500...
As I said in the other replay above, the "natural" interest isn't just from growing up, but it's also the unforced way of being interested in the topic or simply getting hooked on the idea of programming.

Sure you can learn to program as you can learn to play a game or learn how to knit, but why do we have to artificially get women into the industry just to get number imbalance up? I guess the situation is simply different than here in Switzerland, because here we do all kinds of stuff to get more women into the industry but the numbers haven't really changed, so is it still "our" fault? Can't we just accept that women might not be so interested in computer science as much as most men are not interested in female-dominated professions.

I won't stop anyone promoting computer science, regardless whether it's for women or men, I'm just fed up with all the generalizations and prejudice regarding "the industry" and the fact that people simply don't want to accept that there are generally differences in interest between genders.
I will be opting out of this thank you very much.

I don't like my insurance company knowing my health status.

If insurance companies are not willing to take risks their in the wrong business.

I want to be able so see who accessed my information so i am able to prove with certainty when a insurance company discriminates against me.

Plus the reason they claim they accessed it would be very important when i demonstrate their misuse of the data.
Not many people spend $250/month in gas.
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You can try to ask here: http://news.dbanotes.net/
Any kind of label is imho somehting to be avoided. Hacker / developer / programmer, but also things like nerd/geek for that matter. Few of my colleagues here would be put into the latter categories if you met them on the street.
smart idea, i have two questions:
* why not use namecoin for dns resulution instead of colored coins?
* i thought bittorrent sync wasn't open source

A decade ago there was talk of decentralized web sites through p2p technologies. IBM was working on such a web server. There is of course FreeNet, but it needs a gateway to access pages from the internet.
The first un*x I've ever installed was FreeBSD. At the time I didn't have internet at (my parent's) home and had to rely on the CDs and the user manual.

To this day I think it's the best introduction to the Unix world I could've had.

All the documentation is great and since the BSDs are somewhat more monolithic than GNU/Linux distributions it's very well self-contained and coherent.

After a day of work I went from formating the hard drive, bootloaders etc.. to having a full blown KDE environment.

And I knew how everything worked underneath. It truly felt like an achievement. And that's how I became a loyal FreeBSD user.
there seems to be some recursion when sitecommenter.com is entered.

and drawing doesn't work. meh.
As a foreigner rent control seems like a bizarre concept in a capitalist country even more bizarre that its america.
You mean 12 years old? Yes they are immature, but oddly enough I did not encountered all that much uncontrollable pseudo masculinity in them. Someone occasionally acts in a way uncomfortable for girls, but it is usually considered "bad behavior" and he is called on that.

Maybe because such behavior is not considered "normal" here. They do display such behavior more often when they are in boys only group eg. physical education class. Not coincidentally, it is class where it is tolerated more.
It's upsetting that these men, who seem uncomfortable at the prospect of someone describing reality, have bullied you into silence. Thank you for your anecdotes and viewpoint, your experience is valuable and contribution appreciated.
Probably offtopic and inane, but, using the term 'girl' implies children/teenagers or other immature women; can people just use 'women' instead? Will help with getting taken serious and such.
So, briefing:

«There is no doubt who is to blame for this mess, the report says. It is the tobacco industry»

And then:

«The new report rightly calls for more vigorous tobacco-control efforts, including an increase in cigarette taxes to drive up the average price of cigarettes to at least $10 a pack to prevent young people from starting to smoke; an antismoking mass media campaign by government agencies that would run year-round; and new rules extending smoke-free indoor protection to the entire population, double the current level.»

Let me understand... the solution is not to punish the ones who undoubtedly are to blame for this mess, but the general tax-paying public and the smokers themselves?