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I do think there's something wrong with our entire government-paid-infrastructure-system where we pay vastly more than we receive in value when any work is done.

If we got fair value for infrastructure projects, I'd like to see a huge amount more transportation, energy, etc. infrastructure in the US -- a lot of what we have is outdated or insufficient. I don't really care if it is government or private industry, but that it costs vastly more to get the same work done in the US than in other places contributes to substandard infrastructure.
Then you haven't worked on my current team. I used to cringe on a daily basis for the one woman on the team, until she left. They think they're being funny, and they think they are somehow "standing up" for their right not to be P.C. I honestly don't know if they know or intend their tone to be bullying.

This comment is a binding site for the following comment-pattern: It's Your Job To Stand Up To Them.
it works fine with virtualenvs, on osx, you can do

virtualenv env
. ./env/bin/activate
easy_install readline
pip install ipython

on linux, you can avoid the readline install. i have no idea what the windows scene is, but at least for the past four or so years, i've never had a problem with virtualenvs and ipython.
MoonScript introduces a special construct for handling this exact situation: http://moonscript.org/reference/#the_using_clause_controllin...
Yes, women have a sense of humor, and in general they're really good at taking a joke from time to time.

But if you keep your eyes open, you'll eventually notice that women (especially in tech) wind up having to "take a joke" all the friggin' time. And that gets really old.

I mean, seriously, look at this very example. Imagine that the "bro" command became a standard tool. Now picture a woman being stuck typing "bro" on a regular basis during her working day. It's never a big deal, obviously. But she still has to type it again, over and over, taking a tiny but not quite negligible emotional hit of feeling excluded every single time. It's not the end of the world, sure... but why would anybody choose to make things that way if there's another choice?
Thanks

We are using it (and plan to continue using it) for our own market validation tests, and so yes it is connected. We are also making use of a few App.net API features to power it.
using the word 'bro' doesn't belittle anybody. and if you objected to a racist joke, I would think you're a bitch but probably would politely ask you to leave my circle of friends.
Christ, I hate Blackboard
Be careful with flash photos of those EPROMs..
If anyone was looking for an example of why the name is a problem, mumbi here is a perfect one. This is why we can't have nice things.
I think what bothers me the most about that site is how ideological their arguments get. It's all done under the banner of protecting women, but they've gone way beyond being about what any actual women think and care about, and are more about pushing their ideology of how everybody should think and act onto everyone. To them, the ideology is all-important and must be injected into all situations, no matter how tenuous the link. Anything that touches these subject without bowing to the ideology is forbidden and must be destroyed. To the point that you can't name a little help utility a cute play on words of a well-known utility without starting a huge frickin argument.
Python certainly makes sense to new programmers because the only thing that makes people wonder is the indentation. But with good resource out there (books, stackoverflow, Codeacdemy, Coursea, visual Python), Python tutorials have been better. The language also makes reading code quite easy.

On the other hand, Javascript seems to be always start with HTML and CSS. That's where the obstacle is. People begin playing around with three separate technology and the learning is really high.

however, if you ask me "yeukhon do you recommend freshman start with C / C++" I'd say absolutely. I am a bit bias since I knew a bit C++ before I started Python (although my first official programming class in college was Python and Matlab... funny right?) but I think the learning curve in statically typed languages like C++ is absolutely helpful in the long term.

If people want to learn Python without Hello World, try http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrPZza_vZ3w
No I'm not joking. There are many more offended by the word you used than the word 'bro'. The discussion is not about race nor that word so it's not relevant.

Next time you argue over such an intellectually deep matter such as whether the word 'bro' may be offensive or not, you may wish to be a bit more cautious about the use of such words.
"I should have insisted that Google's crystal ball for Picnik was clearer."

This of course totally depends on the money that is being dangled in front of you and the alternatives. Upside, downside, risk etc.

Which is why you can't generalize in terms of most business decisions.

Here is an example that perhaps people can relate to.

You have a car for sale. You are asking $20,000 for it. Through some mistake or error you end up getting a buyer willing to pay $25,000 for it. You feel like you are making out real good. So you have a reason not to put friction in the deal because you are making out like a bandit. You just hope the deal goes through. So if the buyer also wants to know if you will throw in the GPS you say "sure no problem". You aren't going to be picky and potentially kill the golden goose.

In another case you have that same $20,000 car for sale but you get offered $15,000 for it. So perhaps you are going to be picky with the details more. Like if the buyer wants you to meet him at an odd time you might say "no it has to be when it is convenient for me". Or if they say "also want the GPS" you will say "no". Or if they say "I need to get a bank loan and it will take me a week" you say "no". (With the 25k deal you take your chances, right? I would if everything else seemed legit).
Of course this is his desired outcome, because every man who works for gender equality is doing it for praise or because he wants to get laid.
Thanks buddy. A large number of people reading this would benefit from the insight when Google comes knocking.
Have you ever tried to get a quote before having a procedure done? I tried to get a quote for a CAT-Scan once. No one could estimate the cost of the procedure, even though there was a fixed cost associated with the equipment. How can free-market forces drive down costs when the costs are kept hidden from the customer?
Mobile car bombs? Is that what these are, ultimately?
"man" is the English term for "an adult human male".

"bro" is short for "brother", and is a thing a certain set of English-speaking adolescent and adult males call each other to express their affection for each other.

"man" is a shortening of "manual", used to name a Unix command which will show you the docs for a command-line tool.

"bro" is a Unix command which will show you a brief example of how to use a command-line tool and nothing else. If you're lucky it may be exactly what you want to do. But probably not.

So the wordplay here: two three-letter words for a particular kind of guy, for Unix commands that tell you how to use other commands. And if they decide to change the name based on people objecting to the cultural assumptions they see in "bro", I'd suggest "guy". Or maybe "dude", which is a little longer, but always feels more laid-back and chilled-out to me than what "bro" has become.

Hope that helps!
If the rest of Google were run like X, it would be an exceptionally good company-- very likely one of the best.
My own experience goes like this:

I was only an employee, so the motivations for selling to a parent company could be different. Yet from my angle, it was either, A) go for another round of funding or B) find a company that would be a natural fit for our small team and product.

When such a company eventually came along, it seemed like a no-brainer deal. We can finally get the resources of the company to help us become stronger and do more interesting things with our product. They assured us they had a place for the product and believed in our mission.

Once we got absorbed, things changed. They split us up into different teams and threw product managers at us. We need all of your "startup-foo" energy and creativity to help spark a fire around everyone else they told us. You can get back to your product once you help ignite our core products first. Well, after a year of this so far, we haven't had time to work on anything related to our startup at all.

I think it was a fail for everyone except the founders and investors. All the original people seemed burned out already on projects they never signed up to work on. All the non-engineer folk have since left as they got really bad deals.

Both of the founders at least made enough from the deal to buy amazing properties in this crazy real-estate markets so I think for them they can shrug off their original baby. In the end though, the product has fallen apart from bit-rot and engineers are slowly moving on to other companies one-by-one.
Where is Scheme? :'(
My point was that "better than OK with $400k" will get you a mansion in Dallas' northern suburbs or a very nice rambler with a pool inside Dallas itself, not a condo with an $800/mo maintenance fee. I'm not bagging on condos, either, but not everyone wants to live in one, plus the better ones in Seattle are getting picky about who can buy. It floored me to see an ad for a condo saying "no dogs." (Who bans dogs in Seattle? That has to be a recipe for disaster.)

You're 100% right that you can find cheaper housing in Auburn, Federal Way (mind the gunshots), Everett, or even Spokane. The problem is that living in none of those places gets you the walkable, diverse lifestyle of being in Seattle.

Also, thanks for painting all Texas schools with such a broad brush. I graduated from a north Texas (public, non-charter) high school that is well-ranked, in addition to graduating from a state college for my CSCI degree. My siblings came after me through the same school, one as recently as 5 years ago, and none of us are drooling founts of stupidity who can barely sign our own names. It's almost as though different areas have different levels of achievement in their schools.
How successful are the "neuromorphic chips" (or even GPU's) in doing what TM tried to do?
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How is it a sickening sentiment to consider the overall consequences of throwing one's self in front of a train to save a stranger?

If my wife were in the same situation, I sure hope she'd consider the effect on me and our children if she were hit by a train before entering such a dangerous situation without any understanding of the overall circumstance

Everybody can't and shouldn't always be a superhero.
Well, yes, that's what I mean. But it's apparent that their planning and process was so poor that they could not appropriately schedule the entire project in keeping with the requirements.
Here's the problem with your argument: since there's nothing actually hostile towards women on that page, what you're basically saying is that any expression of male culture at all is "hostile". It's like saying "stop being men! it's chasing all the women away!".
I believe that Hacker News is worse off when it includes comments like yours. I don't know or care who you're talking to, the tone of what you're saying drags a good forum down past Reddit and into talk radio call-in territory. And even without the tone, the premise is puerile and an insult to good faith discussions.

Sometimes, a thing just stinks. It doesn't matter which way the wind blows the stink, it stinks. Your comment stinks.
People without siblings might be offended by that. We should try not to exclude people who didn't come from large families.
My instinct is that trying to run multiple Backers at the same time might make it harder for any one of them to succeed, and thus it might make sense to run them serially.

We are certainly open to trying things like this out, and sharing the best practices of what works best with the public.
Shocking Court rules IP addresses aren't the same as people
The fact that it's open source doesn't help: using and maintaining a similar but subtly different version of coffeescript is worse than living with this bug since it means your code is now incompatible with the rest of the world's. Not to mention you're likely to train yourself to misread "real" coffeescript.

As to the ticket; A quick search would have revealed there are many tickets on the topic of shadowing: https://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/search?q=shadowin...

And this ticket covers this specifically https://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/issues/2697 and was closed.
Maybe, at least in that case there would be more incentive for others to create another competing open source project. One that everyone can use commercially without some company acting as a gatekeeper.
It should be renamed "cargo" as it encourages cargo cult programming http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargo_cult_programming
> You believe you're hiding behind some kind of moral high-ground by making reference to his wife and family, all while criticizing a man who gave his life for a stranger.

It's a question of which duty takes priority. I like to think that I'd take some risks to save someone else. I've never had occasion to put it to the test, but it certainly was pounded into me in the military in my younger days.

In civilian life, I'm not going to knowingly put myself anywhere near grave danger on behalf of an adult stranger (the calculus might be different for a child). Granted, there's always the possibility of misjudgment in the heat of the moment, as other commenters have pointed out. Even so, I'm going to err on the side of caution -- because as between an adult stranger and my family, there's absolutely no question in my mind where my higher duty lies.
I'm offended, and you'll find I do not joke about oppression.
XKCD: https://xkcd.com/320/

Small print: this schedule will eventually drive one stark raving mad.
> for every comfortable woman in tech, there are many uncomfortable women who stayed out of tech. because of the stuff that for whatever reason doesn't bother you, but does bother them.

Any sources for this claim?
I work in a heavily-regulated safety-critical industry (medical devices) and occasionally re-read this article for inspiration.

For anyone wanting to dig a bit deeper, check out the NASA Software Safety Guidebook [http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/codeq/doctree/871913.pdf]
As others have said, it doesn't matter if you can find a counter example. So you have a sample size of 1 and you think that matters at all?
People might get themselves stuck on the wrong side of the door.
> I don't give a damn what women think of my calling people out on misogyny

That's what you're doing. You're like MLK for women's rights.
Thats funny because it is the only comedy tv show I like.
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This is why every video surveillance system needs a secure internet connection and automatic upload offsite.

It's all about chain of custody. You don't want to be begging for access to evidence that you know exists, you want to have it, introduce it yourself and make prosecutors look stupid.

And if your connection is physically cut, then you can introduce an element of doubt.
"* If the only job you can secure after killing a company is as "cube rat", consider whether your prospects as an entrepreneur are really all that much better. People like to believe that entrepreneurship is something totally different than executing a conventional career, but that's mostly a myth."

Really? That's a surprising sentiment coming from you.

Something I agree with is "someone who can play the game as an entrepreneur can also successfully play the game in a conventional career, but most 'regular' people don't play the game at all". Is this what you're talking about? Because I have to say, most of my entrepreneur friends are very different people to most of my "regular career" friends.
If you're going to police people on their specific word choice over their intent and actual meaning, are you concerned about hurting "innocent" people? Not everyone loads the same baggage onto the word "bro" that you do. If you're the most sensitive person in the room or office, do you set the rules for speech?

Also, the majority of people (both men & women) are hostile to brogrammers so why make it a gender issue?
Sounds like they are talking about automating supply chain convoys. Robotization of the military is kind of a mixed bag. One one hand it is great if it makes for a more cost efficient and effective military. On the other hand if it sanitizes the costs of war in the eyes of the public (does anyone care when a drone gets shot down?) or just funnels more money to beltway bandits then we'd be better off w/o it.
Evil is teaching people to view themselves as weak victims at every available opportunity.
Are Singapore trains indoor and/or on highway bridge? Most caltrains stations are open platform. Not sure if you have ever been on a caltrain, it runs between suburban area so anyone can just lay herself on the track at any point.
Perhaps you are unaware of the history of unix.
A Retina Air would be more like a thicker Air than a thinner Retina MacBook Pro.

As for power, I deliberately didn't go into detail, but the short answer is Broadwell.
These days you can start JavaScript with Node.js and create simple command line applications.
There is nothing sickening about it. It was a bad judgment call considering the grave risks involved. Extrapolating the parent commenter's moral code to deduce that he/she is apathetic is wrong - the parent commenter might still care about society up till a certain risk level (which could be inflicted on him). And beyond that he/she may not. I don't see anything wrong with that.
>You sometimes have to be a liar when dealing with large bureaucratic systems. A large school is certainly one such thing. They do not have your best interests in mind. Healing you is not on their priority list. Be honest with people you trust and love. Don't treat institutions as moral agents.

You know, this seems pretty obvious, but that hadn't clicked for me until just now.

thanks.
Tesla is more Apple than Ford, but will its car sales take off in Canada?
Dude(?), I'm not MLK, and I'm not into women's rights. I'm a selfish bastard who wants to double or treble the number of productive brains in my environment. Exclusionary behaviour stands between me and my dream, and I will crush it by any means necessary.

If you must compare me, think of Malcolm X. Do not make the mistake of thinking I'm nice to women, men, other people of colour, or anybody else.
p.s. it's really funny that the bigot brigade is full of people who are such assholes that they'll even attempt to discredit the idea that a ban happened.

You really, really need to get a life.

Really.
Additionally, unwanted global assignments are really easy to detect with a linter.
Thanks, I come to HN to see the N-word... you've made my day.
I would rather spend more money on widening the 101 freeway or building a new one rather than spending ton of money on Caltrain doors.
This show is filled with trite stereotypes. For example: an Indian(?) programmer with terrible social skills has dinner with his parents where they try to arrange a marriage for him. Seriously? The main character is self-obsessed, shallow, and boring, just like this show.

Did Amazon do a bunch of analytics and figure out that this is what people want to watch? (IIRC that's how House of Cards was conceived). It's terrible on so many levels.
True, but remember, if you google javascript or look around books in the book store, many are still teaching with web technology :) which is unfortunate (although the intent is great).
There will probably be multiple suppliers of these displays, like there were for the Macbook Pros. If the new panel is IPS and from LG, it will probably have the same ghosting problem. (If you have a LG IPS display, you can see this issue clearly by watching a Youtube video in a window for 15-30 minutes and then immediately loading Metafilter in the same window.)
> Python == Snake == Slang for male genitalia

You jest, but in 2012 someone from the PSF made a "joke", at PyCon, asking people, men and women: "want to see my one-eyed snake?".

Unfortunately, the same Python feminists that are ready to burn anyone who disagree with them regarding the use of a pronoun [1], for instance, were very quiet and dismissive about that other, and bigger, issue. [2]

[1] https://github.com/joyent/libuv/pull/1015
[2] https://twitter.com/zedshaw/status/390012555688546304
Anecdotes, particularly those pertaining to a subjective experience, are almost by definition not-particularly-credible.

I'm sure there's no shortage of people who will swear quite convincingly that faith healing ceremonies are legit. Doesn't mean I would accept their testimony as evidence, though.
I think this is really cool! I can see these campaigns dropping into one of two buckets. 1. Funding to pay for development time and 2. Validating the idea. I think it's up to the campaign runner to determine how much to ask for for bucket 1 type campaigns, but it could be immensely helpful for Backer to offer clear guidance for the second.

For example, lets say I have an existing user base of 100,000 people, and I normally charge $15 / m for my service, of which 5% of my users actually pay. What is a sufficient contribution to validate the idea of a new feature for the paid version? For the free version? Over time, finding the proper heuristics/weightings for Backer users could be very very helpful.
It was interesting to see everyone rage about how amazing Apple was to be leveraging MPTCP in the latest version of iOS. However most don't realize the implications and risks that these types of things bring to generalized use cases and operational models of networking and paid for data buckets.

Regardless it looks like these guys are just taking the Commotion firmware and re-branding it as a service. It also doesn't solve the local node problem. Most people don't understand how cable (HFC), fiber and copper (DSL) are built out to the neighborhood or 'node'. It's all oversubscribed and shared. So this type of solution really does nothing for the local congestion in a node. To me, this is a pure marketing gimmick.
> Take all of your fears, drives, and insecurities, add your unreliable risk-assessing abilities (common to most humans) and an amount of adrenaline that many of us will never experience, and cram them into the space of seconds in the face of certain death, in front of an audience. I simply don't see the use of second-guessing a decision made under those circumstances.

That's why you have to try to war-game these things in advance -- because in the heat of the moment you won't have time or capability to analyze them rationally. (It's the same reason why athletes and soldiers and sailors train incessantly, so that they can rely largely on trained pattern recognition, a.k.a. reflex.)

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> It's fun to think about what I might do, but I have no way to relate to the actions of someone else. It's just too complicated.

Um, OK.
Not sure if you are joking. But G takes you to the end of the man page and ctrl-b one page up. Only rarely will that show you any examples.
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i've been a moderate fan of ipython; it's the ipython notebook that changed everything for me.

i can have everything inline: syntax-highlignted code, markdown, dynamic plots, and LaTeX equations.

(some examples: http://nbviewer.ipython.org/github/ipython/ipython/blob/mast...)

what's more, you can share you work as a static .ipynb document or dynamically via a server (rather than your localhost, which is the default).