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There isn't a big push to get women onto construction sites because of cultural beliefs about what men and women do. This is harmful to both men and women. In this case, women are believed to be less physical able to keep up with the demands of manual labor on a construction site. Add in the fact that manual labor is often perceived as "lower class" and it makes a certain amount of sense those who are fighting for female equality would start with jobs in fields that carry social prestige. When you feel like you aren't getting enough of the cow/steak, why would you fight for the hooves? Stigma against "low class" jobs also needs to stop - these are very important tasks that we entrust people with.

I am sure that there are some women who might want to go into construction who are turned away by site managers who don't believe a women can perform as well or that they will be a "distraction" on male-dominated worksites. I am sure that a few more might have been turned away by a few bigots who aggressively treat them as though they don't belong on site.

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Just wanted to add that it is also easier to fight a fight based on the idea that women are just as smart as men, but relatively harder to fight the fight that women are just as strong as men. Even if many women are stronger than many men, in aggregate men do have the biological advantage with regards to strength.
It infuriates me when citizens are so conceited that having the money to afford a higher education is equivalent to the merit of pursuing one. A government footing the bill for higher education isn't and wouldn't be the same as simply giving it to someone on a silver platter. You still have to earn that degree based on work and merit and it certainly isn't the same thing as a handout. The idea that money is always related to agency is idiotic. There are plenty of people who have the agency to obtain a college degree but don't have the resources, monetary or societal support, to do so.
Absolutely. There's nothing wrong with differing from the interviewer so long as you can clearly articulate the issue.
Yes it was not easy in start but Now comparison is easy to use and work quite well
We took "Show HN" out of the title, because Show HNs are for things you've made that other people can play with. In the case of a book, "play with" can only mean reading the actual book. So this will make a good Show HN when the book is ready. Good luck!
Yes, that's basically the legal argument being made (by, I assume, people who aren't lawyers).

It's controversial, but it's definitely accepted in some jurisdictions. Police have, in fact, nabbed car thieves using honeypot "broken down cars" on the sides of freeways.

Personal opinion: someone stabbing a mannequin with the intent to murder a real person should be charged with attempted homicide. IANAL. ;)
Come hang out with me and mine!

Can't guarantee you'll like us, or we'll like you, but it's always at least interesting to meet someone new. scubamanspiff42 at gmail

I went through the same journey from introversion a couple years ago. It's tough, but as a lot of smart people here have said, the cure is to push yourself to the edge of your comfort zone and try new things with new people. It'll take a while, but you'll make it.
Great article, excellent interpretation of the google trends data. As a search marketer I concur with your findings and I think you are spot on in the interpretation of the google data.
I agree. We're probably going to delete it. Thanks for the feedback!
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Neither of these places are pinnacles of Japanese society - all bars, strip joints, and foreigners.
I see the dick riding down voter is here again. Ah go fuck yourself.
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And a major challenge to alcohol taxes as a revenue source was the Whiskey Rebellion [0]

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whiskey_Rebellion
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Thanks! I'll update the Shortcuts modal to reflect this.
Thanks for the comment. We have updated that paragraph and hopefully it will be a bit more straightforward.
I'll have one of those vanilla bullshit degrees.
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For advice and support on getting started with game design, The Independent Gaming Source forums (http://forums.tigsource.com/) are the best resource I know of.
This really confuses me. Why aren't the large supermarkets offering a delivery service in the US (at least last time I checked they weren't)? I can order groceries to be delivered the same of the next day from all the major supermarkets in the UK. I've done it for years and rarely had an issue.

Also, if any of the major supermarkets in the US step in and decide to offer this service won't Instacart's business be instantly obliterated?

Is there something I'm missing?

Edit: I guess someone accidentally down voted my perfectly valid question.
Probably. One thing that would be interesting would be to use some of the categories, filtering, and other things Jekyll gives you. However, you're right, you could just as easily do it without Jekyll.
Thanks! I'll update it to reflect OS/Browser.
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Proof-of-concept project for work -- ported a Weblogic Java web app from work server to JBoss on Linode -- worked beautifully.

I closed my account a few days ago when I realized I hadn't touched it in a couple of months, but the $10 will probably lure me back. It's nice having an extra vps or two for testing/backups etc.
It's like worrying about how to sit people at a fancy dinner party

The ones who matter don't care and the ones who care don't matter
I am really surprised at all the negative reactions in here. Let's get some things straight:

() Entrapment is when the police induce someone to commit a crime they were not otherwise predisposed to commit. That did not happen here. The only reason anyone would have to visit these chat rooms in the first place (other than to see what was going on in there, as the author did) is to buy child webcam sex.

() The individuals caught in this sting thought they were talking to a real child and had every intention to solicit a real child for sex. We are not talking about a thought-crime here.

() They had almost certainly done it before, and will continue to do it until stopped.

There are no difficult questions here. This is a good thing.

EDITED to add: By the way, I don't think artwork -- drawings, paintings, computer animations, whatever -- should ever be illegal per se, no matter what it depicts. I don't think that artwork of any kind should be illegal to produce or to view, for any purpose including sexual stimulation, so long as no actual children or other unwilling victims were involved in its production.

But that's not what we're talking about here. This isn't just about viewing synthesized materials. This is about people offering to pay for what they think is a real child to perform sex acts on camera.
I'm not sure it's working, I just tried the SBS of the GER POR game and after some ads (which corresponded to the websocket data):

...
"text": " Every second of every game ",
"text": " live on the big screen at Crown. ",

All that ever came back was:

{
"range": []
}

It's like there were no captions whatsoever. Failing under load?
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It is possible. How we have designed the voting module allows it to be swapped out for other modules when a DAO is initialized (or later if there is sufficient consensus for such a change). We have a rep weighted module as the default module and we hope to built additional modules in the coming months for other voting mechanisms.
We have the same painful system here in Pennsylvania with wine and spirits. Everything is through state stores, and we can't even avail ourselves of direct shipping (unless it's direct to the state store :O). It makes finding less common items so very difficult and time-consuming.

One might conclude that beer would be easier to purchase. No go. If you want to buy a bottle of beer or a six-pack, you have to go to a bar or restaurant where they can sell you up to 192 ounces of beer. Anything over that, and you have to go to a beer distributor instead where you can only buy beer by the case or by the keg (still no wine or liquor). Some grocery stores have gotten smart, and have setup little cafes that are separated from the main stores. Adding a table or two, and some gas station microwave sandwiches is apparently enough to do squeak by and sell beer as a restaurant.

Naturally, no one particularly likes our system. But everyone has a vested interest. Gas stations want to sell beer (a regional chain, Sheetz, has been lobbying for changes for a few years now), but can't. Restaurants and bars don't want to lose their current monopoly on low-volume sales. Distributors fear a future where six-packs are more convenient, lest customers buy six-packs rather than a case with more beer than they want at a given time. And state store employees have been going deathly insane for years over the possibility of liquor store privatization, a separate reform that's often brought up alongside the others.

Together, these groups are amongst the most influential in the state and they're not afraid to use that influence to fight reform efforts. Simply put, it's a mess. Until I read your comments about the Beer Store's rather interesting ownership, I honestly couldn't imagine how much more fucked up things could be. Ridiculous.
I can see this being an issue the longer you work as a consultant. My intention was to eventually shift into self built products that bring in continuous income, or found a venture backed startup. I think that is the general sentiment of most consultants in the bay area.
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Sigh. Yes, yes, we know the US is special. So is everyone else. ;)

The temperance movement was not restricted to the US. The Swedish temperance movement started in the early 1800s, and gained a lot of strength with the starting of IOGT in the 1880s. This latter growth was strongly influenced by the Good Templar movement in the US and Canada. The peak was likely the Swedish prohibition referendum in 1922, where 51% of the voters voted against prohibition. (There have only been six referendums; others include "join the EU?" and "adopt the Euro?")

Instead, Sweden moved to a quota system - the Bratt system - first for hard alcohol and then for all the lowest alcohol drinks. While the quota system disappeared in the mid-1950s, the government still has a monopoly, excepting through bars and restaurants.

While on the other hand, Iceland had prohibition from 1915 until (in some form or other) 1989. That ending is still celebrated as "Beer Day", because until then the Icelandic temperance movement had successfully argued that strong beer, being cheaper than hard liquor or wine, would cause more depravity so should not be sold. People ended up mixing legal, weak beer with hard liquor to make an ersatz strong beer. Prohibition of that mix finally tilted the scales to end prohibition.

Norway had prohibition from 1916 to 1927, again, from the same temperance movement that was strong in the US.
AngelList is a great resource. Fill out your profile, connect with people you know, and list yourself as a contractor. Then go through jobs looking for contractors and hit "Yes." This is how I've found 90% of my contract work over the past 3 years (in the Bay Area).
This loophole is a major reason why Piketty has concluded (mistakenly in my view) that r > g.

The other major reason is that we've been in a bond bull market and credit expansion cycle for 40+ years. In such an environment, r > g.
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I consider myself an introvert, and I believe it has less to do with your ability to make friends than it does the level importance you place on socializing and making friends. I've had periods of my life where I've felt it was important enough to be social and reach out to people that I didn't mind as much putting myself in uncomfortable situations. But it is rewarding an you gain confidence. I knew it was something I would have to do to enjoy certain aspects of college, enter into a career and start a family.

Just be careful not to try to be somebody that you are not. Be true to who you are. It is easier to make friends naturally by joining a community with the same interests as you. They are out there!
I also appreciate the fact that Linode hasn't deprecated Arch Linux images like DO has. DO also seems to be pretty bad at listening to users.
We're familiar with task.li :) I think the two products share some similarities but are starkly different in their execution. Planleaf has made an entire task management ecosystem _completely_ inside of email. This is where we shine, we leverage your email client to facilitate our app.

But yes, competition is always fantastic.
Effectively the resolution of commercial satellite imagery will be changing from 50cm to 40cm and then 25cm later this summer when WorldView-3 is online. This is vastly less commercial aerial photography which has been around 15cm for the last decade and increasingly around 7cm at affordable costs. I don't believe that satellite imagery will be getting much better due to quantum diffraction.

I'm not saying that this isn't a privacy issue it's just that the situation hasn't gotten appreciably worse because of this announcement.
You imagine correctly :)

I work in finance and have for the past 6.5ish years in electronic trading.
Because "full time" most likely means 40+ hours per week.
I've always argued Amdahl's law when people tell me I should recycle. When that doesn't work, I start talking about job creation.

Yes, it's a disgusting job. But I imagine for the growing unemployed population back home in Europe that's still better than starvation.

Furthermore, I really really don't have room for three to four different garbage cans in my tiny apartment.
Sure -- right now, Ctrl+Number works as an alternative, so considering getting rid of Cmd+Number all together.
I don't think "people with Asperger's" can account for the number of times this subject comes up [1]. The OP didn't mention anything about being diagnosed as having Asperger's, and barring real diagnosis, I'm erring on the side of it just being garden variety shyness like I used to have.

There is a significant difference between the two concepts. Reading a book about programming and practicing programming are two intellectual pastimes. They feed directly into each other and there isn't (usually) an extreme anxiety-inducing aversion to starting practice.

But reading books on relationships, it can be very easy to start to excuse yourself not going out and interacting with people, rationalizing that you still need to learn more, you need to read more. It enables remaining an introvert and making no actual forward progress.

The #1 most important skill is getting past fear. I don't think that can be learned from a book. It takes personal resolve.

[1] or the number of times people talk about Asperger's. It's just not that high of an occurrence of a condition. Not everyone who has social integration issues are on the autism spectrum. Most of the time they're just plain, old, inexperienced.
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Very important skill is to learn to laugh. Honestly, without hypocrisy. It shouldn't be difficult, assuming you approach to someone that you are genuinely interested in. Just don't be scared for a start. If you learn that, people will feel special with you, or at least relaxed, and they will reciprocate in the most cases.
I would not suggest MS use App-V to do that though.
In this specific case, as I understand it, the persons were chatting with what they believed was a real child. I think it's ok to judge based on intent in this case.

If there were a site where legally adult people posed as children using virtual avatars and voice-altering software selling sexual services and the site was advertised as such, then the issue becomes a lot more complex.

My opinion is that as long as a person doesn't show clear intent (and this is a very slippery slope, I realise) to cause harm to a minor, they should not be persecuted for their actions. And if intent is clearly determined, but no harm was actually done, I'd prefer that the individual be not punished (including not having their communications monitored, though this might only be acceptable for first offenders), but asked to attend a form of therapy. On the other hand, if harm was done, the measures to be taken should depend on presence or absence of intent, as is in other cases.
That was partially it. The other part was the stores that were open during the prohibited times usually sold allowed items also (medicine, food, diapers, etc.)

As far as I know, the law has been repealed. Before I moved away I saw them implement Sunday beer and wine sales (still no sunday liquor sales) and do not remember having difficulty buying the previously restricted items on Sunday.

It was weird entering a Wal-Mart (or other large store) and seeing a large section of items roped off.
I am pleased to see that all of the comments up to now deal with the "uncompetitive" aspect of the article and none with the "unequal" aspect. Indeed, it seems to me that "inequality" (the word appears 9 times in the article) was thrown in after the fact to decorate a piece about the adverse effects of monopoly, because post-Piketti it's stylish to talk about inequality. These aren't the same subject; the discussion of inequality is focused on person fortunes, not industrial domination. The former doesn't require the latter.
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Google, Amazon, and Azure appear to have shaped their clouds after their internal needs first. This has lead to peculiarities in their pricing and feature sets. Amazon, for example, is fine with scaling out to an extreme degree, and so their storage options, particularly their provisioned IOPS options, are rather expensive. Their network and storage infrastructure is likely the oldest and with the lowest turnover rate, so they're the most expensive to get performant storage on.

Google probably has the highest server turnover rate, and my wager is that they recently switched to new SSDs to reduce failure rates in their datacenters. My guess is that their compute servers are now swimming in excess IOPS, and so they are clearly the cheapest if you want very fast storage. This reminds me of Facebook purchasing massive quantities of SSDs for their own datacenters.

Microsoft has very peculiar needs. Azure grew out of servicing internal Microsoft IT needs first, so it is stuck with some quirks. You don't provision IOPS, you create disks, which you attach to VMs. There are no IOPS tunable options for their PaaS, only IaaS VMs. They use software RAID (Linux or Windows) to turn multiple disks into higher speed storage. Their storage backend can only be described as weird[1], because whatever you think the actual disk layout looks like from your VM's perspective, it doesn't look anything like that on the storage layer. They partition data into chunks (disks) which get written to a distributed, log-structured file system on JBODs. Every 1GB extant is made immutable once full, and they use erasure encoding to distribute the data such that they can sustain 2 failures with only 33% disk overhead. The result is that writes are cheap (almost all writes are sequential) and the backend does a bunch of compute work to make reads fast (with caching of metadata and the erasure encoding, I'm guessing).

[1] - http://snia.org/sites/default/files2/SDC2013/presentations/G...

[2] - http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/179583/LRC12-cheng%20webp...
While it could work, it would never ever be socially accepted as a form of treatment.
It still required a system reboot after installation (Win7). I'd assume it's not so disentangled yet.
What would you consider due process to be in this circumstance, vs. entrapment?
That makes sense. I'll try my best to include it in the next version!
All I can speak to is that I've never had a problem reading. I didn't even realize the recent versions support forms until this thread.
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Do you get a lot of work through recruiters? I never know if it's worth responding to them. Any tips in that area?
I have a Debit card that I just run as a credit card everywhere. I use it to pay for everything in the offline world (gas and food mostly). I use it online as well, but I prefer to use Paypal which is hooked up to my bank account.

I'm probably less protected against fraud, but I haven't had a reason to worry yet.
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not sure about the Zyxel stuff but the message checks out...
I love gists, but I'd find them a whole bunch more useful if I could create private gists that were attached to an organisation. It would turn gists in to an outstanding internal company snippets library and pastebin.

I've also seen companies discourage their employees from using private gists for company code because the access control ends up tied to the individual user and not the company, which causes ownership problems when employees leave.
"My name is Sweetie. I am 10 years old. I live in the Phillipines."

~ from the video
Actually, for images with very few colours (such as screenshots), PNG usually has significantly smaller file sizes than JPEG...
Our liquor laws only look liberal because we're compared American absurdities like their 21-year drinking age and the the "no alcohol sales on Sunday" present in many states.
Sorry if this seems like a nitpick-- but giving way too advanced social advice to people is one of my pet peeves.

Talking to girls in the grocery store or strangers in the subway is horrible advice here. Doubly so because you gave it in the context of actually meeting people, not just practicing sociability.

Remember who you're writing to. For someone with bad English, low confidence, and little social life that's not a good way to make friends. It's a good recipe for getting a lot of rejection, very fast. This is, uh, probably not the optimal strategy for the OP.

Seriously, this isn't some sales guy in a new city. He's a lonely person with "growing ... self-hatred towards [him]self". He should be making friends in the most boring, effective, straightforward way possible.

Your next advice is very solid though. Hanging out with coworkers and going to meetups is exactly what he should be doing.