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On server, it is fine.

On notebook? Trying to combine Hyper-V (for WP dev) and Intel HAXM (for Android dev) is BSOD nightmare. It stopped after I got rid of Hyper-V...
That you would even think this says to me that you have zero appreciation for the unique capabilities women bring to the workforce. In my mind it's so obviously worth the risk.
> discussion already framed through another person's or group of people's editorial eyes.

Are you suggesting that primary sources are free of bias and editorializing? I should introduce you to my uncle, then you can tell people how you met the world's greatest fisherman.
I found this to be one of the better apps out there for its sheer simplicity and use of colors:

https://itunes.apple.com/fr/app/tyme/id670592452?mt=12
Yeah I did something similar on my T530. Booting into Windows is a pain, compared to Mint. Everything wants to update and reboot.
Then what do you propose? Exacerbating it?
The only thing I would point out is that "free" FXCH isn't free. It has quite a lot of baggage inside the microprocessor and was something that designers made a conscious decision to support (see Pentium vs. AMD K5).

There are good reasons why hardware supports registers instead of a stack. However, given where x86 was at the time, the hardware designers of the time took the penalties because the gains to the software folks justified it.

Those choices no longer hold.
Just to emphasize this, the term "brutalist" derives from the French "brut", not English "brutal". "Brut" means "raw", and is used to describe the exposed concrete central to this style. Although both words derive from the same Latin word brutus, that word means both "heavy" and "stupid", with the French word deriving from the former and the English word deriving from the latter. (Or so Wiktionary tells me.)
As dctoedt pointed out it appears that I might be wrong in this case, I had assumed that the fallout was producing significant neutron radiation which interacted with its surroundings to produce greater amounts of radiation. Adding a moderator in that circumstance should have reduced the burden a bit in theory.
So they were committing fraud to try and kill Google?
Huh, I didn't know that. But why geoIP-based redirects on some sites and not others? google.com redirects me to google.dk, and even blogspot.com redirects me to blogspot.dk, but maps.google.com doesn't take me to maps.google.dk.
Any idea when this will be applicable to real world Firefox?
It date back at least to 2005-2006 if you look at their press release: http://gwei.org/pages/press/press.html

The letter from google is also dated 2006: http://gwei.org/pages/google/legalletter1.html
Especially with the impending stock split. It is more for capital gains than controlling a voting percentage of shares.
I'm somewhere in between. I think there are problems with patents and I'm not sure they can be with us for another 100 years. I also don't think the assessment that there the current scenario which allows big rewards for R&D is a net win is crazy.

But overall there is a wider direction of change whether directed or emergent. Our agricultural system producing our food is becoming problematic in many ways. Food is flora and fauna. These things exist in an ecosystem. These controlled super strains can become very dominant and genetically poor. Many major crops are losing genetic diversity. GMO cereals are just a part of it. It's been going on for a long time. Genetic modification is something we started doing hundreds of years before we named it. Modern genetic tech distills it.

I'm not sure the long term ramifications of all this can be captured in supply and demand. There is a bigger picture that is probably not going to be clear until it is in retrospect.
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The robot is great but the article confusing: So is robot a product for sale (like for education) or "just" a nice toy to attract attention to something else the author sells?
I think there is a BCD option to disable Hyper-V. You could have two boot menu options.
Too funny. 15 upvotes carries the day then. It is sick.
Your comment reminds me of the sentiment of the whole Mt.Gox debacle. It is alarming that people tend to blame the victim of the situation, rather than the culprit. Instead of people blaming the victim/s, put forth a solution. I'm curious to what is going to come of this inquiry.
> we're losing for example seeds that are have had hundreds of years of adapting to a certain environment.

If they're really better adapted, why are people choosing to buy Monsanto seeds instead? Also, if this were the case, wouldn't Monsanto be interested in reverse-engineering these adaptations and applying them across species / regions?

> there are also health implications

Citation needed. And no, Seralini's work doesn't count -- if you would like me to explain why it was BS I can do so at great length.

> this is completely disregarding the possible health implications

1. We have never held "natural" crops to standards beyond the basic FDA regs. I put "natural" in quotes because usually "natural" = "inbred over generations because even primitive genetic engineering techniques with known, proven side effects are better than nothing." This is all despite the fact that natural crops are often much further, genetically speaking, from "known goods" than Monsanto's crops, which actually do receive additional testing.

> don't forget that uncle bens for example tried to patent basmati rice, and it took the indian government to shut them down

Were they trying to patent their modifications to the rice, or regular, unmodified rice? The Indian government (like the Chinese government) has a long history of ignoring patent law when it suits their purposes. It's a self-interest move, not a morality move.

> remember the guy mentioning a couple of years back that he wants to own 100% of the crop market by 20xx(xx being a number that i forgot). that number has been growing rapidly.

I'll assume by "the guy" you mean "a higher-up at Monsanto" and by "that number" you mean "Monsanto's present market share." In that case, your assertion is patently incorrect:

http://www.justice.gov/atr/public/workshops/ag2010/015/AGW-1...

> and again disregarding the health implications of generic seeds distributed throughout the world

By "generic," I'll assume you mean "genetically engineered." Citation still needed.

> what on earth makes us think that this is any different?

The fact that Monsanto has made a significant improvement to one of the fundamental goods society is built around. They deserve a share of the value they created.
It gives you a window of time when you know the owners won't be home. Burglary is way safer (and legally less punished) than robbery.
"To be very clear: Servo is a research project. It is not aimed to replace Gecko. It gives us the opportunity to experiment with new approaches, new patterns and new technologies, like Rust, another research project we are working on." (Emphasized in original)

http://paulrouget.com/e/servo/
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I definitely appreciate what you are saying but when I read the thread three separate response to comments were example incantations of Pandoc. Pandoc is amazing, this appears to a weekend project.

Is Latex requiring processing power to generate PDFs that become professional publishing house books surprising? Of course not. Latex is sick. I was a non-tech student in college, and when I discovered Latex in a CS class my mind was blow and loved it for a while, despite fucking up regularly with its learning curve. (Funny anecdote: I even had a terrible philosophy professor in my liberal arts college senior year who went to Stanford and noticed he used Latex for everything, unlike any professor at my tech-illiterate school; he used it because his friend was this guy Donald Knuth; I kissed that guy's ass for the rest of the semester after that tidbit just for stories about Knuth). My point was scaling Latex in a server environment would be difficult, and I was addressing a few people equating this whole thing to Pandoc, which I did not find fair. Running Latex concurrently for lots of people sounds rough to me, but then again I never implemeneted anything nearly as complicated as that.

Gitit does not just give you just a printable HTML page. If you notice, gitit uses the Pandoc backend to export many formats. It might not set them as printable, but to see gitit+pandoc in action, look at the export menu to the bottom left corner of the default them on the page you link. You do not see the PDF format export, because as I mentioned in my original comment, by default Pandoc Latex+PDF support is not enabled because of said performance load.

I was speculating writing an equivalent of this service with Pandoc and Haskell is doable, but solely generating PDFs would be a load that might make it difficult at scale. I do not know. ShareLatex, who arguably is way ahead beyond my speculation because they implemented a powerful web-based Latex editor, did some very unorthodox (as far as just reloading Latex in the shell every time) architecture to make it fast and resilient.

I am not sure how to respond to the comment re Gitit and Pandoc. Gitit is basically a wrapper around Pandoc, and it is merely a web interface to everything Pandoc does for different document formats, and hackage clearly lists it as a dependency with version 1.10+.[0] I know they are not apple to apple comparison. It was just a speculation. In the other post I was actually using Gitit and Pandoc interchangeably because the latter is the integral component of the former.

I feel there is a type checking joke lurking in my last line, but I am too tired to find it.

[0] http://hackage.haskell.org/package/gitit-0.10.3.1
I agree with that. Also, even when there would be no health implications ...

Then there is a problem. There are gmo crops out there which are resistant (e.g. by poison) against X, but there are also some side effects, that critics have found out. The X (e.g. some bugs) are becoming themselves resistant against the poison. And often times those crops need more fertilizers or pesticides because of other reasons. And because the gmo crops are often times dominating the old crops, the chance is high, that we loose the old crops -- so in the end we might end up with crops that need more care and that fully have replaced the old crops -- and the X, we made those crops in the first place, might be stronger than before.
She seems unstable.
What Linux tools that you use can you not get for OS X?
It seems based on that web design we could probably strike 6 - 8 years off the wait. But agree still a fair way to go.
I think it was just a user of Github and not an employee that did that nonsense
Just to be clear: glyphosphate pesticides (Roundup) kill normal crops. Roundup-Ready plants resist Roundup. If you treat a normal crop with Roundup, you kill the crop. You would only do that knowing that the crop germinated from patented, Roundup-Ready seeds. You can't do it by accident.

That's what Schmeiser did: he was sued by Monsanto not for planting unlicensed Roundup-Ready seeds, but for using Roundup on them.

It's also worth mentioning that the court did not find credible Schmeiser's claim that his original run of Roundup-Ready seeds were the product of accidental contamination --- upon determining that he was germinating Roundup-Ready plants, Schmeiser applied Roundup to the whole field, and 60% of the field survived. Furthermore, upon learning that he had a field consisting entirely of Roundup-Ready plants, he proceeded preserve and reuse the whole crop for future plantings.
Right. Based on the erroneous theory that every single share of a company is publicly available and in the float.
You know you are comparing apples to oranges? Google's archive is free and open.

I'm not comparing Apples and Oranges. At worst what I'm doing is comparing store-bought Oranges in very good condition to free Oranges you could pick up off the side of the road that fell off a truck two weeks ago and are half way to rotten.
Theoretically, isn't it the case that the more successful they are in generating clicks, the more successful Google becomes, pushing the share piece higher and further out of their reach?
> because they are far less profitable for the farmer.

That really depends on the market you are selling into. It is definitely not a hard truth. For instance, we only grow non-GMO soybeans on my farm because they are quite a bit more profitable and seem to get even more profitable each year. We won't even consider looking at GMO soys until that dynamic starts to change. Farmers in other markets might not be selling to the same customers, and therefore might not be able to see the same margins on non-GMOs.

At the end of the day, it all comes down to what the consumers are buying. With the tight margins in farming, you'll be out of business in no time if you aren't growing exactly what the customers want.
>The fact that Monsanto has made a significant improvement to one of the fundamental goods society is built around. They deserve a share of the value they created.

No, because I deny that they made any improvement. Only because it is shown in TV, it is not true!

Today's companies are great in creating "pseudo values". Of course, short term, there might be an improvement. But who checks for the long term effects? I also heard about countries where farmers wanted to go back to their old crop, since after paying the price for the crops (and the pesticides, that are sometimes additionally needed), the value was negative! But say what? They could not, because the old crops where swept from market!
The party line from Mozilla is that Servo will never replace Gecko, so... never?
I believe it was just a user of Github and not an employee that did that nonsense.
My observation is that it is very easy to misunderstand stories like the hoola hoop example. Imagine 2 scenarios:
a) a company where we stipulate that there is no sexism and women feel respected and valued
b) a company where to stipulate that there is widespread sexism and women detect a myriad of signs of it every day.

In scenario a) the hoola hoop incident is highly unlikely to spark a reaction from a woman but in scenario b) this may be offensive to her.

The problem for the woman in b) is that it isn't really the hoola hoop 'leering'that offends her so much as it is the culmination of a series of attitudes and slights. But of course, if she complains about the hoola hoop behavior she can easily look petty. Each such incident can seem trivial but the pattern isn't. It is a real dilemma for women how to handle this kind of atmosphere gracefully and it is probably impossible for them to do so without some men tarring them as being nutty oversensitive rad fems.
Depending upon corporate structure and legal jurisdiction, certain funding streams (loans, lines of credit, guarantees) WILL require both the founder and their spouse to sign on the dotted line. This places the spouse on the financial hook as much as the founder, preventing the squirreling away of assets out of reach of creditors. It also makes the spouse a "silent" investor in the company.

I have only seen this a couple times. In both cases, the corporate structures were LLCs, and the amounts were over a million.
Ask HN: Stories about sexism in tech workplaces being handled right?
I've noticed there's a lot of alarmism in other threads about how sexism accusations can destroy people and companies, but I suspect it's just because we only hear about it when thing trainwreck.

Ostensibly there are situations all the time where an employee/founder/etc screws up, they are reported, and they are appropriately disciplined. The thing is, in the best case scenario no one else has to hear about it. Leading to a perception that it's all trainwrecks and blog posts and online brawls.

Does anyone have any stories about someone standing up against sexism and having it go the way it's supposed do?
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It's a common enough practice that most people usually know what it means, but there's a reason you don't see flags on Wikipedia, Facebook, or Youtube. Languages are spoken in many countries, and countries are multilingual. There are quite a few articles around the web on this topic, but that's basically what they boil down to: languages are not countries. Some users may be confused or offended that their flag is not represented.
The most high-value people in a group are the first to leave as the group grows and the average value of the group decreases, accelerating the decline of the average value of the group. To prevent this you need structures in place to retain value for the highest-value people, e.g., strict policing on who gets to join the group or the ability to form groups-within-groups.
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No, I was not inviting attacks. A blog post could potentially be "just as problematic" but a) could be written more carefully, over a long period of time and b) could later be edited or redacted, something I have done bunches of on an old blog I no longer have so I know for a fact that it can make a difference.

FWIW, I have a very serious medical condition and I was in a lot of pain yesterday. So perhaps my remarks were not at their wisest. But I also have quite the track record for discussing hot button topics in a manner that helps vent steam and reduce the pressure everyone feels rather than leading to a big blow up. Usually, initial response is pretty ugly because people bring a lot of preconceived notions and baggage and thus fully expect me to be an asshole about it. It takes time for it to sink in that this is not the case.

Take care.
Right, and the sites have to be profitable, and they have to not be spam (otherwise, your revenue stream will likely eventually be shut off).
Impoverished Haiti manufacturing its own Android tablet
I think in the case of more than one country per language, you're right, just picking a big and/or well-known country as "representative" is fine: French flag for French, US or UK flag for English, German flag for German.

The bigger problem is the other situation, of more than one language per country. India has ~13 languages with >10m native speakers, and using the Indian flag for all of them would be pretty confusing. You could pick state flags (e.g. the flag of Gujarat to represent Gujarati), but that can be a politically tricky issue. In some cases choosing a representative flag for a language has even stronger political overtones, like using the flag of the Kurdistan independence movement to represent the Kurdish language. Plus, it's not always that clear which flag to pick, and user recognition may not be as high as in the French-flag-for-French case.
which is incredible easy to do and very hard to prosecute... so guess what is the life blood of the industry
I am in the same boat - hoping some decent answers come up. I've been looking at a Thinkpad T440s and a MBP 13". The MBP seems a good choice (parallels?) but I don't like that there is no way to update my RAM.
Exactly right.

(see my comment on this very point)
So I guess the root problem is that we need more skills in our society, so we need college to teach those things.

That's becoming truer in the last decades.
We've actually discussed this on here before and I still don't understand how you've concluded that he was sued for using Roundup. From Wikipedia [0]:

"The court heard the question of whether Schmeiser's intentionally growing genetically modified plants constituted "use" of Monsanto's patented genetically modified plant cells."

And:

"Monsanto said that because they hold a patent on the gene, and on canola cells containing the gene, they have a legal right to control its use, including the intentional replanting of seed collected from plants with the gene which grew accidentally"

He was sued for using their seeds. It has nothing to do with whether or not he applied Roundup.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monsanto_Canada_Inc._v._Schmeis...
How is the current situation like the Salem Witch Trials?

My memory is that in that situation people were burned at the stake for allegedly doing things that are actually physically impossible to do. Like casting spells on children.

In this case, an employee has accused other employees of several fireable, if not illegal, actions. No one has been burned, or is in danger of being burned. Possibly some people will be fired, but no one has even been named yet, and ostensibly it will be left up to Github itself, and the courts.

What am I missing?
Funny... just read this article today: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/careers/ca... with the notable quote,
"...recounting an exchange with one software CEO who avoids hiring candidates with advanced software engineering degrees since they are likely to expect higher wages."

And anecdotally from what I've seen... there seems to be a push lately to crowd the potential pool of job applicants in a couple of fields.
Did they ever finish the Android client? I looked into them very briefly 2+ years ago, and I wanted something to finally get me to use a smart phone for something other than procrastination.

I found Mirakel[0] but I do not think that was the app promised by the original dev. Still googling after I hit submit out of curiosity.

[0] http://mirakel.azapps.de/taskwarrior.html
My neck would never forgive me if I spent even an hour at a setup like that. How do you deal with craning your neck all day long?
That is what I have read. When I saw your post I thought/hoped there was a new development.
Corporate Anarchy isn't the same as a Flat Organization
I can't find it now, but I remember seeing a picture around the time AAPL was rising fast (~2011-2012) that showed how much money you'd have if you had bought the equivalent amount of Apple stock that a given Mac cost when released.

So, if you had bought $2000 of AAPL instead of a snazzy Macbook Pro, you'd have X now.
But it is morally completely different. If you only "work with the hand you are dealt", you can claim some innocence if that means you do something slightly bad. If you actively work to expand a harmful framework you deserve rough treatment the other way.

Sort of like copyright holders that have actively lobbied to lengthen (retroactively) terms. They have no moral standing against being stripped (retroactively) of their copyrights.
Just to preempt, I acknowledge that this language is odd:

"Thus a farmer whose field contains seed or plants originating from seed spilled into them, or blown as seed, in swaths from a neighbour's land or even growing from germination by pollen carried into his field from elsewhere by insects, birds, or by the wind, may own the seed or plants on his land even if he did not set about to plant them. He does not, however, own the right to the use of the patented gene, or of the seed or plant containing the patented gene or cell."

However, I don't think you can conclude that "use" arises when Roundup is applied. "Use" in this context is broader than that.