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"I will instead reserve judgment"

"tech feminists never seem interested in taking the high road, and instead optimize for maximum drama"

This is what HN has become. Thanks pg. This is why people say you're a sexist. You've created a safe space for bigots to spew this bullshit.
Couldn't the wireless signal used to transmit energy be used to transmit data as well?

Anyway without a solid power source WiTricity would seem to be kinda non applicable for larger areas, but it's still good enough for small home chargers and stuff.

From what I remember about Tesla claiming that he would either use the ionosphere as a way to either amplify or bounce the signal. It's hard to separate fact from fiction with that man.
Perhaps they were thinking of TV Shows like Germany's Next Top Model? While I also think the video is ridiculous, who knows, perhaps it actually works for the audience of that TV show (which is most teenage girls).
Advertising is more interested in results than in political correctness.

Then again, advertising paid for by tax money? I suspect somebody went golfing and sealed the deal...
This article is leaving me really confused if she is/was an employee of Github, and if it/she is talking about sexism at Github the company -- or in the "Github community" (meaning the collection of people using github I guess?)
>I'm curious why she'd post this on Twitter instead of taking it to a lawyer

Because sometimes people do things, that while completely legal, can also make people feel unwelcome and unsafe.
Will HN ever be capable of having a rational discussion of women in engineering and the issues they face? Most of these comments are face-palm worthy.
That article was really vague. Can someone provide some specifics on this story...especially the part about "aggressive criticism"?
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I submitted a native iOS app to the app store. Apple rejected it because of violations to the iOS Human Interface Guidelines. I read the entire iOS HIG document and created this and used it to rewrite my app, which was then approved. Maybe this can help people facing a similar situation.
I have a question. Her tweets were posted multiple times last night to HN. They were up voted and commented on, yet within 20-30 minutes each time, they were flagged as dead and no longer on the front page.

On some, there were newly created accounts commenting in defense of Github and claiming her comments and reasons were fraudulent.

What's up with that?
I am not sure about an apology yet but it would be interesting to hear their side of the story
Yes. You don't use gendered pronouns to refer to your coworkers and professional associates because you're reducing that person to their gender when it rarely matters. Also, you don't call people 'retards' because that's insulting to people with disabilities. What you call your wife and daughter is between you and your family.
It's remarkable to witness a company that responds to criticism instead of powering through it via reeducation campaigns and hype.
She has previously classified someone complaining to her employer that she used foul language during a speech at a conference where she was representing her employer as harassment. This makes me question her judgment regarding what should be considered harassment.
This twitter account does not seem like the account of someone who has sought legal advice.
I think we're all in agreement that increasing the diversity of viewpoints going into a decision will lead to an overall stronger result.
Well, I'm a Salt user and I was communicating with Matt during the writing of his book. During that time he certainly gave Salt a solid, fair evaluation. He also spent a lot of time hanging out in #salt IRC asking key questions, and answering some as well.

So I would suggest that it's natural and OK for someone's evaluation process to yield a favorite (apparently in Matt's case, it's Ansible), without it becoming a "religious passion."
They bought a car, chose the sunroof option, got the sunroof plus a bluetooth module they don't use. Every time they use the sunroof, they have to click through a popup advertising the bluetooth. The cost of the bluetooth may or may not have been included in the sunroof price, it's not clear.
I clicked through because at the time (will change depending on when someone reads my comment) it had 104 points, 55 comments and was the top link.

But I guess more importantly (and this is a lesson) the title was ambiguous enough to not let me know that I wouldn't be interested in it.

So for example if it said "Ruby" I would have been less likely to click because that's not of any interest to me.

So my curiosity was piqued by the title. That and definitely the karma made me take a look. And the fact that I couldn't rule out interest.

This also ties into the concept of "don't oversell".

One of the things I learned as a kid was to stop selling once you have made a sale. Because if you said more after making the sale (and in some cases before) you could lose the sale.

Salesman: "and the warranty on the refrigerator is fairly price as well" Buyer: "oh wait I need a warranty hadn't thought of that, cancel the order then".
I hope the new search engine will eventually get the same index as the old one

I was searching for some articles where the old search would get me lots of results that the new search would not return. So I'm hoping that's an indexing issue rather than a quality of the new search engine issue
You're so blinded by bigotry that you don't realize that you insulted, quite literally, all tech feminists.

I know I'll get banned for pointing this out on this forum, but you're a bigot. And like most such bigots, your head is so far up your own ass, you can't even see what you're doing.

Thanks pg. We're all worse because johnbm and others like him have a platform for their proud sexism here at HN.
Hacker News users flag posts relating to gender whenever they come up. It's long been my opinion that flagging is too powerful on HN. Legitimate stories about Titstare and that hackathon where women fetch drinks for you were disappeared very quickly.

Though in this instance I'm not sure it's so bad, we have very little to make a meaningful discussion out of yet.
How are renewable and environmentally friendly power sources* MUCH worse?

* Citing mildtrepidation's comment on this thread, it's a good one.
I love the review ratings: there aren't many 3's. Either you HATE this product, or you LOVE it (for somebody else).

Just goes to show you that averages don't always give you a good understanding of the situation.
Is this some passive aggressive shit?
The future of computing is on apps coded against one of two proprietary platforms: Apple's or Google's

That's an overly narrow view that seems to equate all of "computing" with "smart phones / tablets". I don't think that's a very accurate view. A lot of what happens on computers has nothing to with either.
You're right, the sorting options are currently hidden on mobile. We need to work on having a mobile-compliant filtering/sorting menu.
At least we can all rest easy that GPU manufacturers will provide drivers which, if they claim to support integer math, will emulate it with uncompromising accuracy at the highest performance possible.
First of all my original post was not focused on this case alone. I'm interested in the general pattern of the problem, of which this appears to be just one instance. I'm also interested in how it can be solved to increase the participation of females in the development community.

But with regard to this specific case, since you say that you see no evidence at the original link, I would urge you to think about the fact that you evidently do not consider Julie's own words that she has been harassed to be evidence enough. Denying that there is an issue, or that the complaints of women like Julie are legitimate is part of the problem in the first place.

Personally I see a consistent pattern of low participation of women in the industry, and regular instances of women complaining about sexist treatment and not being taken seriously. I therefore see no issue with taking Julie's words at face value because I see plenty of evidence that this is a legitimate problem.
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Mobile: dominated by Apple and the faux-open Android.

I have a 3.5 year old phone running Cyanogen Mod 10.1 (Android 4.2.2) and all the sources for it. How is it "faux-open"? It passes the ultimate test: it builds.
Ask HN: Any insight here on what happened to flight 370?
The news on flight 370 seems to be turning more and more speculative and strange, including conflicting interpretations of data. Is there anyone here who can give a reliable summary of what is known and what can be reasonably inferred?
It's cringe-worthy for you, but it's actually popular amongst the target demographic and has probably done more for getting girls into tech than most other initiatives. You can deny it all you want, but many girls really do like that kind of thing - and denying their right to like that stuff is just as bad as denying their right to join the tech workforce.

EDIT: I mean the initiative as a whole, not the video alone. The whole initiative has been done in a fairly cringe worthy way for me though, but for the target audience it mostly gets it right.
Thanks, missed that they failed to follow other parts of the license. That changes things quite a bit..
Correction: going into a workplace with the idea that women are treated unfairly is a problem to happen.
Oh, cool. I just realized I am lucky to not be listed in Leslie Horn’s terrible "article" [1]. I forked a URL shortener a few years ago. One feature I added was to avoid auto-generating offensive short URLs, which is on GitHub [2]. (In the early days of URL shorteners, TinyURL used a simple increment function to generate URLs (aa, ab, ac, …), and someone waited until "the C word" was up next and pointed it at the then-First Lady's website, apparently as a joke. Okay, that's easy enough to learn from.)

[1]: http://gizmodo.com/5980842/there-is-blatant-racist-and-sexis...

[2]: https://github.com/alanhogan/lessnmore/blob/master/-/banned_...
Hopefully those updates are signed, in which case as long as there aren't user install-able applications it should be fine.
I'm really not surprised at this after all the publicity about GitHub's immature "no managers" frat boy culture.

Really, what do you expect to happen when you put a bunch of young men with little life experience together and let the inmates run the asylum?

Also not surprised at the many blatantly misogynist comments here on HN.

If there was ever any doubt about how our industry treats women, all you have to do is let the industry speak for itself, like it does here on HN.
The new index should contain the same items. Can you provide the queries?
Similar to bitwize, I think the desktop is, for better or worse, for the largest population of users, dead. The cohort of 'casual' or 'everyday' users interaction model/experience is mobile and/or Tablet. And in those eco-systems favor closed source Apps. There are a number of factors that make that true at the moment, from the UX of owning the whole screen, to App store policies that forbid 'simply visits a webpage' type app submissions, and everywhere in between.
For all the reasons everyone keeps mentioning here: the top apps people want for Android are not open source.
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My company is heavily male skewed, but we're all respectful of each other. It is a responsibility of leadership at the top to enforce it.
HNSearch let you search users' "about" sections. How would one search users' profiles on the new search engine?
FFS i've seen the problem and it's you
What's your plan to handle instances where users generate ad revenue from images they don't own?
Most civilized countries it is illegal to force one product with another. "married sale"
You can also have a 4 heavy switches under the 4 wheels, that way a very heavy object (the car) must be there over all of them to turn on the electricity.
Obviously I don't know what happened there, but after scrolling through her twitter, well… My imagination shows me somebody, be it male or female, I cannot really like or sympathize. Maybe it's more about personality than "sexism" sometimes?
You can put a custom title, it's just that HN's all-knowing, anonymous moderators will almost invariably revert it to match whatever's on the page.
It's quite accurate for consumer computing though. I just don't see that Android is closed source in that way; the implementation you program against to make the software people use on their tablets/phones is Open Source. Same with ChromeOS. Not so with Windows or iOS or OS X.
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There's a better-written story over here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7405510

But it's magically vanished from being listed on the front page: http://hnrankings.info/7405510,7405325/

The discussion about the tweet mentioned above is here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7403344 (and it looks like it was flagged off the front page almost instantly)
It's a really interesting concept, if it takes off it would be nice to see how it affects the types of content people are posting (whether having the incentive of payment pushes people to generate/find more 'popular' content).
> There is no place for discrimination in this world. Ever.

Of course there is. For instance, when hiring I discriminate against people that aren't qualified.

Of course I know that's not the kind of discrimination you mean. It's funny how "discrimination" has become a synonym for "bigotry."
This is being mentioned on flyertalk. The maximum amount of bookable tickets was 50 less than the actual amount of seats. They had 4 passengers on standby which were only allowed to board after 5 passengers were no shows.
Seems nice, but it seems to ignore the exif rotation/orientation data... is that something that should be handled when the image is uploaded?
I agree, thanks for the feedback.
I'm sorry, I accidentally downvoted you when I was trying to upvote someone else.

To make up for it, I've given an abundance of upvotes on some of your other comments elsewhere.

My apologies.
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10^275 whats? Also, who keeps track of these records? Who verified the accuracy of the zoom?

Sorry, "self-proclaimed" records get me a little grumpy...
Does anyone know why I can't use Amazon Video on my apple tv? Don't tell me I can use airplay, either. I don't like watching stuttering garbage that sounds like crap. Why isn't there a native app yet?!
Or wait until he visits the bathroom, then don't open the door for him.
Ironically, some cars I've been looking into lately only offer the sunroof bundled with some touchscreen navigation system I don't really want.
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You could state that somewhere. I was assuming you take a cut and purposefully didn't mention how big it is.
I had no idea using 'retard' in conversation was offensive to disabled people. TIL. I'll try not to use it again outside of close friends.
It's not so much that, it's that a rather large percentage of the apps people want for Android won't run on AOSP. They require Android + Google Services, which are all closed.
Yes, electric current in objects that are designed to have electric currents induced by magnetic fields. Your neurons do not have this feature.
I know, right. He should keep that kind of stuff on his personal blog.
But, even in a January interview with ReadWrite about how progressive the company had become, she noted some lingering issues: “I recently got an email from a middle manager that began, ‘So Julie, how are the women at GitHub?’ I said, ‘You should ask them’.”

Umm, maybe I'm misinformed, but from what I've read Horvath was a bit of a evangelist for women in tech at GitHub. So why is it problematic to assume she might have her finger on the pulse with regard to GitHub's female employees?

Also, if you've "been harassed by 'leadership' at GitHub for two years" why not stand up for yourself and put the jerks in their place, or talk to a lawyer? Why take to Twitter like a child and post a spate of accusations?
The video itself was taken down very quickly after numerous actual women in science saw it and (publically) WTFed.
Hmm, that may be a problem with the image-resize server we're using [1]. We'll take a look ASAP. Sorry about that.

[1]: https://github.com/jimmynicol/image-resizer
Gold is likely. It is very highly valued in China, as people feel they need to save for retirement, inflation is high, and a lot of the population distrusts available investment opportunities. The Chinese imported nearly 2000 tons of gold last year.
"Showing this once is bad enough, but I see it regularly. Amazon is now annoying their best customers with desperate, obnoxious, tricky interstitial ads. (Of course, the checkbox is checked by default.)"

Email Bezos. He takes this sort of thing very seriously, assuming you can present a rational argument. He won't reply directly, but he will see it. Jeff@
Oh, blanket statements. If you are against discrimination, always, you must then be opposed to Horvath’s creation of a series of talks that discriminate against men? It’s explicitly woman-only. The only discrimination that has demonstrably occurred at GitHub is the anti-male selection criteria of Passion Projects.

Shouldn’t have to say this, but I’m merely pointing out that you probably aren’t saying what you think you are saying, and I am neither condoning nor condemning Passion Projects, GitHub, or Julia.
No, Amazon uses silverlight by default. Under their options for web player, they even say "Experience less buffering and enjoy HD titles with Microsoft Silverlight." and the option is "Silverlight (Recommended)"
You are being obtuse here. The issue was the inflammatory tone of the language being used, of which that was just one part. There are tons of contexts where it would be perfectly fine.
Can't speak for the person who called her "queen", but that's the problem with some words being gendered and others not. Most words in my mother tongue are gendered even if the thing they're referring to are objects with no innate gender. Cultural insensitivity or not, I fail to see how calling a woman a queen reduces her to her gender. Hell, I can't see how calling a man a queen reduces him to any gender.

I'm assuming whoever called her a queen wanted to allude to a domineering personality, and indeed nobody is called a "king" for being pushy and domineering, but the sentiment is also expressed in regards to men, as in "he does X like he fucking owns the place".
I see two basic solutions to these issues:

1. Purge every company of assholes

2. Allow complete freedom of association

#1 is hard to implement because assholes are everywhere. #2 is the obvious solution, and in fact it is so obvious that Julie Ann Horvath's actions implicitly endorse it—don't work for companies filled with assholes.

Alas, the obvious solution is illegal under US federal law. Asshole-filled companies are required by law to hire the kind of people assholes love to harass. In other words, the very laws designed to promote the interests of asshole-targets guarantee that they will come into contact with assholes. (Medical geeks might recognize this as iatrogenesis.)

Of course, there's always:

3. Convert all assholes to non-assholes

This can be considered a special case of #1, and would be the best of all possible worlds. Indeed, a great deal of energy goes into achieving it. But it essentially reduces to "eliminate the existence of assholes". It doesn't take a particularly subtle grasp of human nature to understand why this doesn't appear to be working.

In sum, the obvious solution is illegal and the desirable solution doesn't work. Is it any wonder this conflict seems never-ending?
Matteo Renzi brought on a pregnant woman as a minister in his new government here in Italy, and I've read and heard no end of comments about it. Like she has some kind of disease that prevents her from working.

So, yes, sexist bullshit exists the world over.

Generally though, these things don't get resolved in threads like this, or even through laws or prominent lawsuits (although they can help). My feeling is that things really improve a bit at a time when each and every one of us becomes more vigilant about what goes on around us, and acts - perhaps just in a small way - to try and improve the situation whenever we see stuff that's not right. The other thing about acting locally is you act on stuff that you see and hear yourself, so none of this "he said, she said" stuff.
I've suggested before in other threads that legal fees should be contributed to a shared pool and divided equally between both parties, with some minimum contribution set based on income and net worth. This would allow a defendant who is decidedly in the right to survive an attack by a significantly larger plaintiff.
> from 15:00 to 16:00

That seems more like "Pi hour".
Because Amazon and Apple compete even more directly than Netflix and Apple do. If there was an Amazon app in Apple TV, nobody would buy iTMS content. (iTMS content is of higher technical quality, but less discoverable).
Good! I tried loading a document of my own but only figured out how to get a preview and a download. Shouldn't have extrapolated from there, I guess.
Why is that I almost never hear about a German female software developer crying wolf?

Did it not occur to you that it might be because German female software developers are treated better and it's North American tech culture that causes the problem?

But yeah probably a bunch of whiny girls amirite lol
> Has it not dominated?

Yes in term of lob/100 page "fairly large" form apps, No in term of native apps that actually do something.

When people show me a Photoshop,Indesign,Final Cut or a 3ds Max (fully featured,not just 3 edit tools hanging around) built in HTML,that work OFFLINE,that can open gigabytes of datas, with great performances on low end hardware, i will agree ( Which my old macbook does with no problem with these native apps).

Let's just take the many text editors built in HTML/JS , try to open a 10/15 mb text file(an apache log file for instance),execute a search/replace with it and see how it performs.

HTML everything is a promise, an idea that can be only fulfilled if the browser engines(not just the javascript engines,the DOM is not javascript) are as fast as native os(and hardware becomes faster too). That's not the case today. So people can say javascript 'is fast' all they want,that's not the bottleneck anymore.
> So I guess we should get rid of the term "equality" as well, right?

No, we should get rid of anyone saying that we currently live under 'equality', because we don't.

> entirely scrapping a noble idea because it isn't yet 100% realized

It's not that it's 'not yet realized,' it's that it's not actually possible.
Here is what CLRS says about this:

The data types in the RAM model are integer and ﬂoating point (for storing real numbers). Although we typically do not concern ourselves with precision in this book, in some applications precision is crucial. We also assume a limit on the size of each word of data. For example, when working with inputs of size n, we typically assume that integers are represented by c lg n bits for some constant c >= 1. We require c >= 1 so that each word can hold the value of n, enabling us to index the individual input elements, and we restrict c to be a constant so that the word size does not grow arbitrarily. (If the word size could grow arbitrarily, we could store huge amounts of data in one word and operate on it all in constant time—clearly an unrealistic scenario.)

I like to think of the memory requirement as the number of integers required, not that the integers have to get larger. If we considered the size of the inters then traditional O(log n) memory algorithms (like the average case of quicksort) would be determined to take O((log n)^2) memory.
I'd be happy to review for free.