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> Higher Education. In Sweden, women dominate every area of higher education except engineering.

I'm not as familiar with Sweden as I am with Norway, but AFAIK there is being work done to increase equality in higher education. As an example we try to increase recruitment of women to computer science, and men to biology.

> Job preferences. Women tend to outperform men in the general desirability of occupations, as measured by the Cambridge Social Interaction and Stratification Scale. Unpopular jobs and thankless job (plumbers, janitors, road workers) tend to be men dominated professions. Women’s occupations are healthier, permit greater access to higher status networks, and involve working with better educated people than men’s occupations.

I'm not familiar with studies supporting the idea that women in general have healthier work than men: In general women are overrepresented as nurses, cleaners and hair dressers[1] -- all of which tend to have a high degree of sick leave.

I would also like to see some citations regarding "access to higher status networks" -- most studies/statistics I'm familiar with suggests that even in rather equal societies, like Norway, women are under-represented in leading roles. Additionally even in traditionally female dominated sectors, like nursing, often men will hold the leading positions.

At any rate, feminst do work for higher female recruitment to construction and other traditionally male dominated professions. To be sure, the motivation isn't "to get women into thankless jobs", or increase their exposure to less healthy working conditions, but rather to promote equal opportunity and choice when it comes to careers.

The "humanist" side of the coin wrt working conditions, is of course to work for all workers to have better working conditions.

I'm a little surprised to see plumbing and road work grouped with cleaning -- but perhaps that can explain why road work is much more expensive in Norway than in Sweden.

[1] Hairdressers tend to stand a lot, often on hard floors, and are also exposed to chemicals that disturbingly harmful. There's recently been more awareness around the stuff used to treat and colour hair -- some of which contain substances that have long since become highly regulated when used in construction.
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> Rather, this is a single day for all of us who care about the isuee to rally round and do something to reach a critical mass of action that gets noticed on capitol hill. And also to help educate people who've tuned out of NSA stories by reiterating all the things the NSA is doing to erode privacy.

To be honest, I am jaded enough to wonder how much politics actually matters here. The NSA isn't going to stop spying on us because Congress tells them to. It isn't even clear that Congress knows enough about what is going on to really oversee it. And if they don't, then what? We get some feel-good legislation which purports to solve the situation but really just plants the seeds of the next great abuse. That's exactly what happened with FISA.

The current battleground is not on Capitol Hill. it is in the insistence that we make companies pay for what they are doing with the NSA and insist on the development of secure alternatives.

The next battleground (as we make gains in private industry) will be in Capitol Hill, and believe me, when it comes, we will need business interests to be on our side.
(I hadn't intended to make this such a conversation, apologies to tikwidd for building a mountain...)

I've assistant edited academic journals and spent years as a copywriter/editor at a consulting firm that worked in many specialized industries. That accusation was leveled with purpose and from experience.

This is not only about the acronym above, though PIE does have many meanings[1]. That an acronym has a specific meaning to a specific group is why it is jargon. That it is "not a novel concept in the field" further reinforces that and is justification for writing it out, given the audience. It's really that simple.

The primary effect of acronyms on a non-indoctrinated audience is to reduce the writing's accessibility.

Simply, this is not a linguistics conference nor journal forum, and it is inappropriate to assume the folks here will know field specific acronyms.

1: http://www.allacronyms.com/PIE
Are we assuming one Netflix stream requires the full pipe?

I'm on FIOS; while the kids are watching Netflix in the living room, the wife is watching Netflix in the bedroom, and I'm playing a multiplayer game with no lag on the desktop. Seems everything works sharing the pipe just fine.
Where are the currency codes? I couldn't find a list on https://support.stripe.com/questions/in-which-currencies-can...

In either case, this is really awesome. What sets this apart from Stripe's competitors, is that those companies (or at least Braintree) require you to set up a different account for each currency, which is a huge pain in the ass. Or at least this was the case last time I checked.
I have limited experience with Facebook, but this sounds like a "fine print" to me. You assume that it is customer's responsibility to learn FB advertising model down to smallest details and navigate carefully around technicalities in order not to drain resources to click farms. While legal, such practices are dubious. It is FB responsibility to filter out garbage and provide clean service to paying customers.
Other discussion on the front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7217667
I'm in the same situation as you, except I got my 100 points. Perhaps you should report this on one of the meta sites.
It's not Facebook that is the problem, it's the entire Silicon Valley culture. Facebook is just a reflection of that. Rotten to the core.
Who the heck went through a CS degree without using version control? We used it from day 1 until graduation and you didn't get credit if you didn't use version control, even on your projects you did yourself. How does one do group projects in school without version control?

Git didn't exist when I was in school either.
We use the standard ISO 4217 codes (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_4217). But we should probably include them explicitly on that list. Willfix.
> This is against the church policy because it will allow someone watching porn in the sanctuary with no knowledge for us.

Sounds like a feature.
Woah. I'm not questioning the authenticity of your story, but do you have a news article about that? That's a crazy thing to have happen to you anywhere and I'd be curious where exactly in Camden it occurred.
As someone who doesn't know Ruby, my only advice relates to coding in general. When I first started out with absolutely no experience at all, I started by getting a basic understanding of the language and trying to write small apps. It felt more rewarding to have a goal in mind, even if the app would never be shown to anyone else. Also I'd recommend not copying any code that you find on the internet verbatim. Coding becomes an art form and you don't want to pick up the bad habits of some developers by using code snippets you find around.
I noticed the example uses "cny" in lower case. ISO currency codes are always uppercase. I imagine the API is case insensitive then. Which may pose a problem for the poor fellow who considers GBP the pound but GBp the pence. That is an established convention on some systems (e.g. Bloomberg, I think).
Any chance of coming to Asia (specifically India). Payments are a pain here!
Sorry, yes Twitter Tokens.
This is being discussed in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7211514

In reality, the researcher doesn't say by any means that FB is scamming advertisers. He merely explains and exposes flaws in their algorithm. The headline is flawed in my opinion.
It is in fact a great language. For one thing, our alphabet is fully phonetic. And it's even arranged in a logical grid: http://www.omniglot.com/writing/sinhala.htm

It's also a great language to tell jokes in. We have a lot of delivery-based humor that gets completely lost if only the meaning is translated (which is often the case when the destination language is English).

Some of our original deficiencies: we didn't have punctuation or even spaces before they were introduced by European colonists (Portuguese, Dutch and British, in that order). So our ancient writings LOOKEDKINDOFLIKETHISANDWENTONFORPARAGRAPHS.
It sounds like it'd be mostly on Comcast's equipment, in this case...
Sure, languages steal words. It makes perfect sense when you're trying to explain something that is a completely new concept, or at least one that has no close analogue already in the language.

The English language didn't have any concept for "the out of focus area of a photograph" so you might as well import that one. But when a language already has a closely related concept it is still much easier to analogize that rather than import a word from another language.

The French already had a word for "search", so why should they ignore that? Perhaps they could have called it an "engine de recherche" but that's just silly. Would you also suggest that they just use the entire phrase "Google Book Search" unchanged, rather than translating the individual words?
Is this what they call "immersive marketing"?
Agree. I'd love to see that look (and several more of these designs) in a high-DPI "Retina" style.
The title is a bit of a link bait, the video which was posted in an earlier thread (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7211514) stated that, through Facebooks paid ads you also get likes from click farms (presumably because click farms like pages they aren't paid to like in order to avoid detection).

This means that a higher percentage of your likes are from click farms than if you gained your likes organically, so when you pay for a post to reach a set number of your fans, a larger percentage of that is lost to click farm users who you don't want, than if you had purely organic likes.
No problems, I can see one or two bits that I think could do with clarifying (not least to get rid of emacs :P ). I'll have a go at it this evening and take notes.
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You probably did not notice, but here are some of "chilling effect" news:

1. http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2013/08/12/every-imp...

2. http://blogs.marketwatch.com/thetell/2013/08/30/bitcoin-exch...

3. http://www.businessinsider.com/charlie-shrem-arrested-bitcoi...

4. http://fincen.gov/statutes_regs/guidance/html/FIN-2013-G001....

5. http://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/bitcoin-goes-mainstrea... - scanning hands of the customers to protect ATM from raid.
etc.

If you are a merchant slightly interested in Bitcoin, your concern number 1 is "is it legal? Won't my taxman hit me with huge fines so I have to close the shop just because I did something suspicious?"

If you are a guy building an exchange your concern number 1 is "won't I go to jail for 'laundering' money for some guy who then goes and buys drugs elsewhere with coins he bought through my service". Also: FinCEN tells you to get "money transmitter" licenses in 48 states which is VERY EXPENSIVE, so only a few guys are allowed to even try.

If you are a guy with an ATM, your concern number 1 is "won't they confiscate it for investigation for several months and put me in jail meanwhile for aiding terrorists and child pornographers?"

There's a lot of pending demand to do anything related to Bitcoin. And the reason it's not serviced yet is a big legal concern and very-very-very harsh law enforcement behaviour. If you are a suspect, you've already lost. Even if you are free to go later, you already lost time, money, opportunity, some property etc. You simply can't do business in such landscape.

Free market would mean that there's no uber-controller over the entire property of the whole multi-state country. If every shop owner is free to own his piece of land how he wants and resolving disputes directly with anyone who's concerned, then you could see many more bitcoin ATMs and other businesses. But currently you are at a permanent risk of well-equipped guys with guns coming to you and taking your stuff and yourself, just for doing something innocent which is not yet explicitly allowed.
Huh. From there I discovered http://acko.net/blog/on-termkit/

Previous thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2559734

Related terminals: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3227702 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3910649

"What happened to TermKit?" on Reddit with a reply from the author: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/137kd9/18_month...

I'm thinking we'll need a terminal window that interfaces with bash but has overlays in HTML and other controls for scrollback, etc. Maybe a fork of an existing terminal.
Bad headline. The end of the video, discussed here [1], concludes that the problem is that clickfarms masquerade their activities by clicking on random ads. The problem isn't that Facebook is scamming, it is the scammers scamming Facebook.

Too bad I can't downvote this junk.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7211514
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Interesting marketing tactic. Is that water drinkable?
What if they used the church bathroom? Maybe consider getting rid of those or at least installing cameras in them so you can be sure no one is doing anything unholy. Hmm, actually then who could view the footage to monitor things? I suppose you could only permit someone that was totally trustworthy, like the pastor? But what if he/she secretly enjoyed that? Maybe have a two person team view all bathroom footage? Make sure they pray first (and maybe put a camera on them, just in case. Can't be too safe).
If you're addressing mother, then it is second person. This is exactly how I would say this to my mother (translated to English of course). Some of the kids in the newer generations use the more familiar "oya".
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Yes. Depending on the type of tunnel and the provider you may have to put your Linux gateway into the DMZ. The one type that does not require this is AYIYA (Anything-in-Anything) from SixXS. Here it will be using putting IPv6 into IPv4/UDP packets which traverse your NAT transparently.

All other tunnel types use IPv6-in-IPv4 directly, so they don't know anything about the IPv4 NAT. This is called protocol 41 (the version number for 6in4, see http://www.iana.org/assignments/protocol-numbers/protocol-nu...).

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Ironically, Upworthy won "Fastest Rising Startup" at the Crunchies last night.

Things change quickly in the world of startups.
The difference being that with a microwave like that if you screw up and add too much time the worst that will happen is that you'll have ruined your meal (and I am expecting that most people are not using microwaves to cook things that cost over ~$10 pretty much ever). If you screw up with a washing machine, even a super dumbed down one, the stakes could be a lot higher; try explaining to your wife how you ruined her $200 (or even $2000) dress because she spilled spaghetti sauce on it and so you pushed the "very dirty" button.

In a sense, I think that washing machines are so popular and there is such a wide variety of them because they do a very good job of selling a lie, and that lie is something like, "I will make it so that you do not have to think when you do laundry." People who have to interact with these machines tend to realize that this is a lie pretty early on, and that no, you still have to think to use the machine. However, the sheer magnitude of things they have to think about (colors, material, water temperature, volume, intensity of spinning, detergent, surfactant) can be overwhelming. When coupled with the fact that there is usually no good, solid guide that you can just read and go "Oh, now I know exactly how to wash all of my clothes and have no fear that they will get ruined!" and the fact that the washing machine is still sitting there, whispering that lie at you, that this should be easy because you have a washing machine, the cognitive dissonance can get pretty strong. At the same time, it's subtle enough that we usually don't realize that if we took a couple of hours to study it and better understand how these things work we'd probably be fine. So instead we cautiously try to find a couple of collections of settings that work pretty well for most of our stuff. Once we find them then we stick with those programs and usually it works out pretty well, but there's still that tiny fear in the back of our minds that maybe this time will be the one where something goes Horribly, Horribly Wrong.
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This actually reminded me of the old "It is now safe to turn off your computer" orange text that would come up on older versions of Windows.

Eventually computers began being able to turn themselves off.

Does anyone know what prevented older computers from doing this? And if it was possible, why the design decision was made to make the users turn the computers off themselves? Was it some sort of "feel in control of this new thing in your house" thing?
But now how will I get links to email forward-quality articles in my precious Facebook feed? :(
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If you were hoping for tips on where to actually get a cheap PCB made check out OSH Park https://oshpark.com/ They are really good for a high quality 2 or 4 layer small run PCB. SparkFun.com used to run their own service batchpcb.com but they sold to OSH Park recently. Also if you are in Europe Fritzing Fab http://fab.fritzing.org/fritzing-fab is supposed to be pretty good.
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Yes, this is naive of you.

"Hey person. You, the overwhelmed one in the corner, scared for your life. Here's a bucket of money. Stop being scared and overwhelmed. This bucket of money is good. Why are you so overwhelmed if you now have this bucket of money?"

Does that sound stupid? That's basically what you're saying.
Good luck defining legal tender in the UK; a lot of English retailers won't take Scottish notes.
The other URL ends in a slash (yeah, that's actually all it takes to "beat" the system).
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If it weren't they would be risking severe lawsuits for selling it from vending machines alongside Coke etc.
Thanks very much for your reply. Now, if only I could develop a stomach for javascript. I've really, really tried.

However, phaser appears to support Typescript, which might just make it palatable. I'll give it a go.
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Interesting point. You're right; the currency param is case-insensitive. (And with regard to GBP vs GBp, our amounts are always denominated in the smallest unit of the currency.)
By your logic, if His Majesty The King applies his laws equally to everyone, then it's a free market?

Any organization which is tax-funded has inequality and discrimination built in. Some are net tax payers, others are net tax receivers. Then, net tax receivers dictate why it's good and honest for them not to pay, but receive and why it's good and honest for them to extract payment from others. And under what "regulations". Obviously, tax-funded regulations cannot be applied indiscriminately to all participants.

Free market is not about equality. It's about ability to protect property against anyone's opinion. Bitcoin and the internet themselves are a fine example of a nearly free market: no matter what you think of me and no matter what I think of you, we both can avoid each other and no one can take each other's coins. But if we don't have such technology and have to keep our cash in a bank, then we both depend on someone's opinion how the money should be used and how much we can spend and where.
I'll second the Czech Republic - I've a client that would love it if you could - right now, they're Paypal only.
(satire)... "Warning: plastic in Walkman contains lead in California"

... I wouldn't drink the water.
The author of the the linked post addresses this exact sentiment.
> This is just first world people forgetting there are violent and politically delicate countries elsewhere, I guess.

Ahem: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intentiona...
Older computers had a mechanical on/off switch, rather than the soft power buttons we have these days
You're missing the point. If someone brings the internet with them into the church and does X, the church is not involved. If someone comes to the church, connects to their internet connection and does X, the church enabled it.
With AT motherboards the power button on the computer was linked directly to the power supply. There was simply no option of turning the computer off through software. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATX#Power_switch
If he picks the first row, it also allows his opponents to understand the category. By going after the Daily Doubles, he is insuring that his opponents do not get them.
I suspect it wasn't so much a decision as a lack of one. Every appliance up until then had a simple power switch: an actual switch, that physically disconnected the power feed to/from the device. Why would a computer be any different?
Wasn't the conclusion more that the scammers are scamming Facebook but Facebook isn't doing much/anything about it perhaps because they are benefiting financially from it?