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That's nonsense. The same way it could be "Why aren’t there more men in tech?" or "Why aren’t there more people in tech?" whatsoever.

The whole article consists of telling how good and capable she was (and by arguments she uses you can suspect that she really is not) and concludes it by "I wasn't appreciated by society, so that's it".

Stereotypically, being a guy-programmer isn't "cool" as well. Never really was. These "nerds" were't appreciated as well. Did they care? No. Because they simply liked and valued what they were doing much more than somebody's opinion on that. And that is what really makes them "good". They do not need appreciation to do what they do.

I know quite a few women in tech that can be called "good" indeed and I never heard a single one of them blaming others for attitude or talking about all these "social justice" nonsense at all. They write blogposts about DSP and compiler optimization instead. And for some reason it is always somebody who has nothing to really be proud of (in sense of technical achievements) who writes posts like that one. It is so obvious that I still can't understand why it finds enough social response to be on top of HN. Again and again.
No, external I/O has to go through the ARM CPU.
Firms.ly -- a Rails app to help law students get jobs at law firms.

I built it in 2011 with a friend going to law school, when the economy was particularly bad for law students. But we both have full-time jobs elsewhere and have no time for Firms.ly. We've had 3 paid customers.

We listed it on Flippa last week, with no reserve: https://flippa.com/3056958-web-app-with-simple-revenue-model
The price grows as a function of time. Clients had better get in now while it's still this cheap.
They also massively shit the bed on the Parallella launch and have been delayed by 12+ months. I doubt they want to deal with it again.
Anyone know if there is anything like this in New York City?
A couple of things.

You should have seen this coming... Nothing is ever a surprise.

Welcome to owning your own business! If you don't have your shit together, its better to push the meeting off then to toss it at the wall and hope it sticks.

If you have a compelling business, the way you handle this will only make the VC's like you more (unless you mess it up). Call them, tell the what happened and also tell them, you'll handle it... and want to reschedule for a date when you'll be on point. If they don't respect you communicating with them. You don't want their cash anyway. They know people flake... and they'll be more happy that the guy took off before they gave you some money.

Don't BS money guys... They'll find out and then your done.

EDIT: Does the guy that walked own any of the company? If so be prepared to discuss how you get him out of it.
Matlab is a fine first step for becoming a software developer. I used Matlab in all my courses for Control Systems, Communications Systems, Signal Processing etc. So if Matlab is all you got, then that's great!

The toughest part about learning to write code is to learn to think algorithmically. C/C++/Java/etc all have the same basic syntax.

I have a Computer Engineering degree, so I don't exactly help my argument here. However, I know for a fact that ALL engineering students (and math/physics/chemisty/etc) at my school, regardless of major had to learn C++. Mandatory.

Regardless.... you can always sign up for a programming course. In fact, to be an expert programmer, you need 2 courses:

1. Intro to C/C++

2. Data structures.

That's it. You can easily pick up Java or any other language in less than 1 month.

Just think about it. There's no excuse for not knowing how to write code. Just do it!!!
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Kickstarter page is also a good round up

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/adapteva/parallella-a-s...
I'm a bit tired of this discussion. I personally don't see women being excluded from tech other than their interests lie elsewhere and have not chosen to pursue this career. As far as I see, the door is open and techie personas tend to be some of the most open minded and less judgemental departments.

I want good designers/programmers, male or female, not someone that is there to prove a point. And if so important why is this discussion so dominated across tech jobs. I rarely see articles deriding the lack of men in nursing and never for HR departments. The latter I find amusing as HR are often the department driving this campaign when their department has to be the most gender skewed in every company I have worked for.
Warren Buffett calls it an "economic moat". http://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/05/economicmoat.asp
First thing I randomly zoomed in on was a sheep.
To Save A Satellite, Former NASA Guy Takes Crowdfunding To Space
> I think there are other countries that had problems and they did not listed them all.

Again, that's seriously unlikely. Ackman & co have literally hundreds of millions of dollars worth of incentive to list every country they can where Herbalife has failed. If anything, we should expect their list to be inflated & overstated.

> then people got upset with Herbalife results and dumped it.

So? That's like people talking about how they've dumped Facebook; what a few people think may bear little connection to reality. It's like Yogi Berra said: 'no one goes there anymore, it's too popular'.
That and DNSSEC support. If they had DNSSEC support, I could see my organization moving to them.
http://www.rockethub.com/projects/42228-isee-3-reboot-projec...

XKCD - http://xkcd.com/1337/
Upon creating my account I received an account id of around 1050~. Looks like little is done to obscure the numbers. Perhaps they hope sufficient hype will solve the problem?
I wonder what's up with that, why is it a shame to hang out with intelligent yet socially inept people? Note that she used the word "shame", rather than "guilt". Where "guilt" is an emotion one experiences after one does something "wrong", "shame" means she felt her self was deficient, because she hung out with people who weren't good at being social.

"If we want to get more women in tech, we have to make it socially cool, not just socially acceptable"

So, what you're saying is, in the name of equality, we should make it easier for women to join tech, so that men and women are more equally represented in tech. Since an environment with socially inept people is less cool, and therefore less welcoming to women, we should change the environment such that socially inept people are discouraged from joining tech, so that tech becomes cool, and so that more women gets to join.
How I Killed A Startup In 4 Hours (And Why I Don’t Regret It)
My sister and I (mathematically and technically inclined) would always get this. I would always think that this was to help those that were not academic still get points for effort.
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Uhh... what am I supposed to do with the case that Adapteva has shipped (awaiting arrival) me? The quick start says I need a fan but I do not see any place on the Adapteva case for such a fan. [0,1] Am I supposed to cut and craft the first-party case to work within the documented requirements? =[

[0]: https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0230/6005/products/Case4_g...

[1]: https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0230/6005/products/case3_3...

Edit: I just noticed that the two cases I posted actually differ. Perhaps the design was not yet settled and they have added provisions for a fan. Does anyone know what the cases that are actually shipping look like?
This is exactly the kind of thing GNU was worried about with GCC (and thus used the GPL), right? They didn't want a company using all their parsing code with a proprietary back-end.

I know Clang and LLVM were made with licenses explicitly designed to allow such extension (used, for example, to allow Xcode to integrate so tightly).
Maybe it's just me, but the idea that Google is testing these cars on regular street is pretty amazing. What happens if someone dies while they're running their tests? I'm not trying to troll, but it seems to me that the liability concerns here would be huge.
Convicted hacker (weev) starts hedge fund
In Continuous Flow, how do you ever get in to the Left turn lane?! The video crops that part out, as if it is a prank design.
Agree. One strategy would be to do the upfront project analysis at a loss until they get the hang of it and identify the patterns, then create automated tools that product owners can work with to get the same work done. Or maybe they already have automated tools.

However, my bigger concern is that working out the requirements is being done by someone other than the developer that's going to be working on the project. If you're trying to get something done on a budget, fewer people in the mix is better.

Furthermore, the conversation about product requirements needs to be a two way discussion. Developers are often in a unique position to guide a product owner into what's easy to implement and provides the biggest "bang for your buck." Their early insight can radically shape the product and is not based on what the customer thinks they need, but what the customer communicates their goals are. This is where a consultant can provide serious ROI to a product owner.
Just to address "identify a, possibly subtle, dysfunction ... with a few days of work", the Github post implies that the investigation took place over at least four weeks:

> Ultimately she conducted over 50 interviews during a four week period.
Check out this: http://www.peninsulafoodrunners.org/wp/
Yes! Excellent, not the least for noting that CRUD does make the world go around. It's been done a million times but that doesn't mean there's not still room for significant innovation.
Um, no. Next question.

The very idea of journalism schools is that the most important aspect of journalism is journalism specific knowledge. Knowing how to write in just the right way. Knowing how to keep your word count down. Knowing how to write on a schedule. Knowing how to mold the material into a familiar shape.

But most of that is bullshit. It produces a grey ooze of pablum, and it reinforces the conceit that journalists are more knowledgeable than they truly are and, more importantly, that by following the "news" we can become educated in the important topics relevant to our time.

Nothing could be further from the truth. The reality is that most of the time it takes someone who is truly an expert (or at least a very enthusiastic amateur) in a given field to be able to understand it at a holistic level and to be able to educate the public about it. The most important factor is knowledge, not style. Typically the skills necessary to pass on that knowledge to the public are comparatively easier to pick up than the expertise itself, and not requiring of a degree in journalism.

If you look at the vast bulk of material that comes out of j-school graduates you notice the same things. Bland, boring copy designed to spoon feed the tiniest amount of new knowledge, often poorly understood by the writer themselves, to the public. This I would not count as a great service to humanity.

Edit: the crisis with j-school educated journalists today is not that journalists are insufficiently tech savvy, it's a mistake to think that way. The issue is that journalists are becoming disintermediated. That's what the internet does, and what it will continue to do. At the end of the day journalists are middle men. Back in the early 20th century we needed an army of middle men to collate news from around the world and format it correctly and in the appropriate terms so that it could fit and be understandable in the medium of printed newspapers. Today none of that is necessary because now transmission and storage of data is nearly trivial. We don't need an army of formatters, we need a much smaller force of knowledgeable experts who are good at communicating. We don't need folks rewriting the same story for hundreds of news outlets and ending up with a hundred different largely similar versions.
Which parts specifically would you consider paranoid? Issues similar to those pointed to by DPP (e.g. those found in the License Grant and Restrictions sections) have been used many times by software vendors to extort fees from licensees. And before you say that this would surely take such vendors out of business in short order, please know that this approach has been used by some of the worlds most successful software companies who are still very much around and well (at least financially).
So is space exploration, but you can set concrete goals (i.e. produce all of Germany's energy from sustainable sources) that work as moonshots and put the kind of energy and resources behind them that you would put behind a moonshot, and at the end, you have just as much incidental technological development as you would from an actual moonshot, plus sustainable energy production for a G7 country instead of a pointless flag on the moon.
> As with most things in software engineering the technical problems are symptoms of the economic causes.

FTFY. Seriously - #2 & #3, not enough money for a 'co pilot'. And for 2, at least there is some ostensible owner of the module, rather than a maintenance by committee which can be even shittier.

#1, maybe not cost effective to move, or would be opportunity cost. #4, I'm sympathetic to not shipping the prototype, but ever hear of first mover / time to market? obsolescence is one of the biggest risks in development[1]. Plan on shipping it and rewriting it in bite size chunks ... forever!

Anyway, it was a nice read. 'mortgage driven development' hah.

[1] In the Mythical Man Month, these are both mentioned, even though they contradict each other, and many more developers seem to only quote the 'don't ship the prototype'.
Are you handling the escrow in a safe manner to make sure everyone gets paid? What is your dispute resolution plan?
Study that shows generic drugs are lower quality than branded version
So what is an acceptable percentage of false positives for criminal convictions resulting in incarcerations?

From "It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer" I'm guessing it's at most 10%, but that already seems unrealistically low.
We did have practical functional programming languages 20 years ago. PG has been very vocal about the advantages of using Common Lisp to create Viaweb. Viaweb started the summer of 1995 and meets my bar for practicality. To the best of my knowledge, functional programming languages weren't as widely used then but it was not because no practical languages existed.
Ask HN: Looking for Scala + Akka + Spray contractor for startup?
We are a group of 6 working on a startup project with 3 SW engineers working part time but need more Scala/Akka/Spray experienced programmer consultant to help roll out a bare bones server app. We need a good foundation to build on however and highly scalable. Luckily our senior SW engineer knows what he wants to build, lacks the time.

What would be best place to find contractor help? Anyone interested?
This is interesting, but I honestly don't see why this has to be gender-specific. I had very similar experiences as a male, from primary school all the way to university. I don't think it's fair (or honest) to expect other people to take care of "the transfer of knowledge" as if the duty were one-sided. I personally learnt pretty quickly that if I wanted something (learning included), then the responsibility and the motivation were mine and mine only. A teacher, or school, is a mean to an end, but by no mean an end in itself.

There is one point in this article however that somewhat confirms an idea I've had for a while. I too have been wondering for a long time what drives women away from tech (or not drive them in). After many a conversation, the only half-decent conclusion I came to was that many women see a lack of creativity in the tech sector. It's true that a lot of sciences are pretty dry on the surface, but at the same time, so is learning classical music (for example), and that doesn't seem to deter women nearly as much (I don't have any numbers for this mind you).

I'm not completely sure what I'm trying to get at here. I guess I'm just wondering how the dryness is somehow more appealing to men and less so to women, or maybe how genders perceive/experience creativity.
Yes. Its even worse if you're not white. The prevailing attitude in Texas and most other southern states is that if you're being prosecuted, you must be guilty. It's what lets prosecutors get away with, literally, murder.
Security through obscurity? Old technology and keeping disconnected from the Internet are probably decent additional security measures, although they shouldn't rely on it. Like the article says though, we still want these computers to be new enough to actually work
Seems to be. Quite an interesting about-face from her earlier position that there was no investigation, too.
Literally every demo of a Famo.us app has been broken for me across multiple browsers.
Libel isn't saying disagreeable things, it's knowingly lying about someone in a public context, such that it causes them harm.

It's not saying that you believe people of ethnicity X are inferior, or that gay folks and people who don't believe in your god are evil and deserve to die. It's saying, "John Doe is a child molesting, drug dealing, goat blower who's gonna steal all the shit from your apartment and tank your startup with his shitty code."

I can't see where there's value in society in allowing such speech.
Unfortunately, that stigma exists elsewhere in medicine, too.

I'm a quadriplegic. My father has the overwhelming opinion that since my condition is 'incomplete' (meaning that I have some movement in affected regions), that it's up to me to recover, and that I can't walk because I don't put my mind to the task at hand.

A shocking thing to say to someone, but his opinion has been echoed to me by various healthcare professionals and therapists throughout the course of my care, that the mind simply will not allow the body to recover without ample hope and work towards such a recovery.

I have encountered a set of people in life that , while seemingly uninfluenced by religion or mysticism, believe that certain parts of the body (the brain, especially) work on principles and ideas that we're completely uninformed about. Consequently, those people suggest and use themselves methods derived from mysticism, without a solid scientific backing(not to say that hope and patient mental well-being aren't important for recovery, they are, but you can't 'hope' a spinal cord back together as some seem to think).

Hopefully as we document more and more quantifiable physical changes associated to disorders which we know little about this trend will slow. It's important to consider the mental aspects behind a problem, but it's a waste of time and potentially destructive to put the recovery solely in the hands of the inflicted and their mental state.
Apologies for the tone in my comment.

It just made it difficult to digest the rest of your comment, which I actually completely agree with.
If I were one of the developers Horvath named, I'd be lawyering up right now, and considering a libel suit.
You're looking at a correlation and presuming a cause because it supports your presuppositions.

Looking at those graphs, I notice two interesting things. First, Comcast, Verizon, and AT&T all experience downward trends starting around Q4 2013...which is right around when Netflix rolled out SuperHD to everyone (which would have increased throughput, and exacerbated saturated links.) Their trends roughly track each other...and the remaining ones tick upward when Netflix started routing directly to Comcast. Now that's curious (anyone care to traceroute Netflix's streaming edges from an ATT uverse connection?)

Second, there are two ISPs on that chart which don't have throughput issues. Cox delivers Netflix via XO, I don't know about Cablevision. Did they just miss the Evil Memo or something? Or perhaps there is a fundamentally different issue at play here other than thugs demanding protection money?
The Lucrative Linux Job Offer I Turned Down
You're right. Blackberry wasn't really a fad of novelty. I remember them starting to get really popular around 2004. They were the only device that made mobile email really simple by not overloading the phone with other stuff and putting the focus of the phone connectivity on email.

My first smartphone was a Palm Treo and it didn't take me very long to switch to a Blackberry.

It's hard to imagine if your only experience with smart phones is with iOS and Android devices, but from 2004 until the iPhone in 2007 (and really, the iPhone 3G in 2008), Blackberry was the industry standard for smart phones. Even after the iPhone was released, it still took a few years before people generally accepted touchscreen keyboards. If you look at the early responses to the iPhone, you'll see that was one area where competitors tried to attack -- Palm with their Pre that had both touch screen and a slide out keyboard, and the very ill-advised Blackberry Storm that had a touchscreen you could press in.

And actually, there are still loyal holdover users from Blackberry's prime days who still swear by the Blackberry for it's ability to handle mobile email. They all realize Blackberry's are inferior to iOS and Android devices but the Blackberry's are still what they know and still fit well for what they want to do.
I wait for the cyclist to stop or pass me.
Dustin and I just spoke on the phone and hopefully all remaining issues are being resolved.
Frankly I don't see any need to throw tax payer money to upgrade the technology while we are decreasing the arsenal.
It is absolutely to Netflix's benefit. Their negotiated rate per megabyte delivered is almost certainly substantially lower than a competitor would be able to manage on market-rate transit.

This move doesn't raise rates for competitors, but it certainly goes give Netflix an financial advantage that a non-established player wouldn't be able to gain.
>Bland, boring copy

I don't disagree, but you should consider the fact that journalists are asked to convey complex information in as few words as possible and in a way that appeals to as wide an audience as possible.

Things are generally better in publications that still have healthy revenue, but those are becoming few and far between. At the end of the day, we (the general public) get what we pay for.
In many businesses, employees become more valuable over time through experience such as skills acquisition and improvement, taking on more responsibility, training new staff, etc.

Even so, due to older staff retiring or leaving and newer staff joining at lower salaries, even if all staff have steadily increasing pay rates above inflation the overall payroll budget may still be in a steady state.
It seems like the fear is that allowing the developer to have direct communication with the client could result in people circumventing the 4% commission. But unless they come up with an excellent workaround, it might be hard for the site to catch on without allowing that communication.
I believe the tests are closely supervised, with a fully attentive person sitting in the front seat ready to take over. If anyone died or there was some accident, that person would be liable. (Although the public outcry/fear mongering over a death in that situation would likely be a huge setback. I'm sure they're being extraordinarily careful.)
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> I am new to the industry

That's painting with a broad brush, as software is used in a huge variety of businesses. But I'd plan on any organization without mega-income-$$$ (and even that is no guarantee) being pushed to their level of competence and beyond, having turnover to deal with, having features that marketing 'needs quickly to close a big deal', and maintaining zombie ware [it wont' die]. Welcome to my 15 years of experience...