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Your quote lacks the context which makes it clear that it is not a general claim.

>Some of the actual context switch in native threads is performed by the CPU, where as with green threads it is not

Exactly. Native threads have a context switch, green threads don't.
I think much of this behavior is due to people's young age, and the complete lack of understanding of what sexism is. I often see people here on HN confuse sexism (which is a systemic, often cultural discrimination against women, usually with no malice involved) with misogyny (disdain or contempt towards women). They fail to realize that most of us are sexist without realizing it, and that doesn't mean we're evil -- just a product of an unfair society. Instead of listening and trying to find hidden biases (which are sometimes as interesting to spot as a well-hidden bug in a program) they start getting defensive, and quickly progress from sexism to outright misogyny.
It's also why I don't feel sorry for Sony.
Pieces like this say a lot more about the author than about the subject.

Nixon did some very good things, and some very bad things, but this article didn't actually talk about any of them.
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Leave it to Hunter S Thompson to remind us. In listening to the recent analysis of our US news pundits it is possible to think that the polarization in today's audiences is a recent happening until you come across articles like this.
I asked a serious non-gender related question and never got an answer. A significant portion of MIT is the R&D extension of the pentagon. If an MIT researcher brings up an ethical issue related to the application of their research, does it spark a discussion or are they ignored as someone who is not focusing on the problem at hand? Or, are people who ask thoses sorts of questions already filtered out by this point?

It is not gender related but probably the most important question you could ask an MIT academic. Its too bad they chose not to answer.
Or someone just told them?
It will certainly take more than referring to men as "people" when what is actually meant is "men", the perpetrators of the abuse you refer to.
Ask HN: How large can a web dev agency get? Is it a good business model?
Most web dev agencies seem to be under 20 employees. Is that the limit of the business model? Arguably, this is basically a small business.

Exceptions could be companies like 37signals, which develop their own proprietary products. Successful ones seem to be rare.

It seems many dev shops are going this route. So if you have the capital, wouldn't it be smarter to start with product development?
There's a really detailed description of that kit (including full schematic) here: http://shop.emscdn.com/KitInstrux/555/555_principles_revB3.p...
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CTypes and CFFI still work with PyPy. Also, 'not all of it'- well yes, this is a WIP with a ~2 man project/implementation. Not bad. What are you using that's not on the list? The intention isn't so that authors have to test against PyPy.. PyPy's intention is to be as compatible with CPython as possible.

Either way, while you attempt to discredit PyPy the fact remains that Python code is and can be very fast for CPU heavy work. There's no way around that other than trying to poke holes.
>Who cares what is between your legs when your contribution is a gift from the heart and mind.

How ironic when that is the exact statement they are complaining about in the first place.
It seems they've missed the opportunity to put up a "We are n male CS students AUA" some weeks before, then the comparison would have been better.
I never really paid much attention to my phone bills (it was set to auto-pay). A few months back I received a letter in the mail about a T-Mobile refund and was quite skeptical. But eventually I found a PR on T-Mobile's own site and so decided to submit a claim. Turns out they had charged me some $200 on fraudulent services that I never asked for or even remember receiving. Rightfully they did refund the amount just last month.

This kind of behavior shouldn't have happened in the first place. I'm happy the FTC is fining them. It's really stupid to steal from your most loyal and trusting customers. Unfortunately, it seems every US carrier did this. What am I supposed to do? Who do I switch to in order to `punish` the terrible companies? I've since turned off auto-pay and switched to a no contract plan. But I really don't know what to do to reward the good players in telecom. It seems there are none.
I bought one of those. I quite like the feel (except for the F keys, and Esc, which are a bit nasty - still, unlike some keyboards, at least it has them) but for my money the layout wasn't quite right. As always with chiclet keyboards, there's a gap between keys. But the keys are about the same size as an ordinary keyboard - e.g., my MS Natural 4000 - and so the distance to the Return key is much greater than normal.

For US users, with the fat 1-row Return key, this probably isn't too much of a bother, but I found it rather uncomfortable with the European-style inverted-L Return key. The Left Shift key is also a bit on the small side. I'd definitely advise a test drive before purchase.

(Shame, because the chiclet keys are pretty nice, it feels nice and solid, and it's nice to have a removable number pad.)
Next big consumer app or nah?
I'm sure I've seen something like that before. Those individuals should be put on their own island.
Itching issues can be terrible to deal with.

Since I was a teenager (which means, for the last 20 years), I've had issues with itchiness on arms and legs after having showers, especially with hot water, and especially during hot days.

In some periods, the issues becomes quite irritating. Some other times, it rarely bugs me at all.

I've never found a solution. The best thing to do is to put cold water on arms and legs for a few seconds. This makes the pores close, and somehow reduces the problem.

It's never been a serious condition, but sometimes I get itchiness for 10-20 minutes, and sometimes - especially if I start scratching - it can be almost unbearable for several minutes.
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Email me if you need help about this, I studied in RWTH Aachen and Heidelberg Universities.
Amigans are as strongly eccentric as ever. The culture is still hard at work, too, particularly on Aminet.net and at the AROS project. Hardware for Legacy systems is still being produced and can be purchased from sites like AmigaKit.us or Versalia.de. News, debate, and dreams of "the great Amiga revival" can be found on Amiga.org or EAB.Abime.Net.

More than a handful of diehards still hack their ~30 year old 68k AmigaOS 3.1 and 3.9 systems so as to be useful in 2014. You'll find said Amigans surfing the web with A2000s, composing music, adding solid-state drives to SCSI-II controllers, using decades old office productivity software, creating state-of-the-art-for-1985 television overlays for local television stations, etc. Amigans, as a group, seem to revile the principle of planned obsolescence. They treat their computers like classic trucks and take pride in keeping them "on the road".

Thus there's a constant debate in the Amiga community over the "soul" of Amiga and how said soul can be retained while bringing the Amiga into the future. Some, such as those mentioned above, attempt to wring every ounce of possibility out of the ancient hardware and software. Others, prefer to run newer Amiga OSes (MorphOS, AmigaOS 4.X, AROS) on new platforms. While I'm in the former camp, there are passionate people in both groups.
I didn't know you could sue the AG. So, what happens if Google wins? What happens if they lose?
"People treat girls and boys differently from an early age, giving them different feedback and expectations."

Bold, italicize, underline. So many of my fellow men would never dispute that organized religion is only sustained through socialization of young children, but few seem to observe the similar pattern for sex ineqaulity.
The things Nixon did are widely known, good and bad. You don't really have to rehash them every time you speak of the man.

Not to mention, as an obit., it was an appropriate time to focus on the man himself (despite the dramatic break from typical rose-tinted obit. style)
What stops $first_employer from making $file_trademark_on_behalf_of_company a condition of employment?
I will confess - I've never read a complete Hunter S Thompson piece before. I could see how this appeals to younger people - very edgy and casts everything in a nice black-and-white frame with good vs evil.

Admittedly this was written in 1994 - still under a relative veil of ignorance - and we hadn't seen Clinton, Bush 2 or Obama. By this nice polemic - you would think we've never had another president do anything close to Nixon. No politician or party has ever used FBI for political reasons, abused CIA/NSA intelligence, or used the IRS for political purposes (audits, leaked returns, etc.) And I don't think Nixon really "innovated" in this, he was just the first where it became publicly known. LBJ was arguably far worse as a power-mad president, but he gets a pass because of his Great Society initiatives.

This piece did refresh dots for me with J Edgar Hoover dying in office. This wasn't known when Thompson wrote this, but Mark Felt (also of the FBI) was deep throat, an FBI lifer who reported to Patrick Gray. Gray was a Nixon appointee from outside the agency - not an FBI lifer - a Navy guy, an attorney, and arguably seen as an interloper by many at the agency.

I'm also fascinated by Bob Woodward, a brilliant Yale grad who spend several years in the Office of Naval Intelligence, before deciding to become a reporter. Watergate was one of his first stories, an absolutely incredible coincidence - a guy with US intelligence connections breaks a story that takes down a president.

At the risk of a thousand downvotes - I expect Nixon will be up for a re-assessment at some point. The Watergate story is much more complicated and fascinating than conventionally understood.
Congrats on shipping. I run a very different kind of monitoring service (alerts when your cron jobs and other scheduled tasks don't run or take too long, see my profile for details). I'm wondering why you don't offer paid plans. In addition to reward for your work, business users really would rather rely on a business and not a hobby. Maybe your target market is hobbyists but you should certainly consider a paid plan early on. Our subscribers are an important voice in our product decisions and doubly so early on.
Not true, real biological impediments that take time to overcome.
I obtained the trademark for my company name in 2013, and the total cost was $275. I did it all online and without a lawyer.
Atmosphere is built by Percolate Studio. I know Tom Coleman works there, but as far as I know, he's not a part of the MDG.

He should be given how good Iron Router is, but that's another issue :)
I personally wonder if they really cancelled the release based on a threat of violence or if there is something that hasn't been exposed yet that they are more worried about.
Sounds like time to stand up some spare directory servers, preferably in different legal jurisdictions than those currently represented.
I think it is a natural tendency for humans to self-segregate into opposing groups based on minor difference.

Sometime, I even feel that the Republican party disagree with Obama just for the sake of it.
Where is this 100x better replacement?

Lots of people around the world depend on the anonymity of Tor today and having the Government take it out, whilst indirectly kick-starting the next generation anonymity network is all and well for me and my armchair, but it's going to be life threatening for many.

Until this 100x better solution exists Tor must be kept running at any cost, many lives depend on it.
Even so, reddit does not reflect the tech working field. Especially when it is a top post, it will just bring more trolls.
"The interactions in the AMA itself showed that gender does still matter."

does it really? it sounds like if their gender was omitted in the first place, the topic would not have been breached. i'm not saying their conclusion is incorrect, i'm just confused by how they got there.

say for example, a "gay computer scientist" did an AMA. some people would (rightfully) ask "why does your sexual orientation matter?". others will make fun of them for being gay.

the only thing i'm convinced of is that some people like to harass and provoke and troll. and for those people, minorities are easy targets. and the internet is the easiest and safest place to do it. and when you're dealing with an audience of 5000 people on Reddit, statistically speaking a subset of them are going to be that kind of stupid.

edit: the fact that my comment, and literally over half the other comments in this thread are grey, support my simpler conclusion that uncivil people exist.
you only "think in language" when you're thinking about talking to someone else...

This is certainly not my experience. I generally feel that I haven't fully grasped a complex thought until I've articulat4ed it in words. How can you be so certain what's going on in my head?
I've written a few[1] myself. They're actually quite fun. I even made one in assembly!

[1] https://github.com/jdiez17/quines
Why bother with a passenger attack when the whole route is exposed?

Or did you mean "TSA-style security" as completely ineffectual?
Perhaps I'm a bit more "soft" than you, but I'd rather obituaries or stories about the deceased be polite rather than an eloquent version of "Ding-dong! The Witch is Dead!" lest we forget there are actual evil people in the world whose bad actions vastly overshadow those of corrupt politicians.
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I've seen a couple and given something like that a thought, for a bike to run errands; but, I'd never commute with one. (I'm not sure where I'd park it at work, among other things.)
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Obama's response to this today was very diplomatic and on point: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-30555997 .

He mentions that we as an international community needs to establish better internet and cyber operating rules, and I think we are slowly but steadily heading to a decentralized internet as the answer.

The problem I see with decentralization is that non-technical people have absolutely no idea what it even is or how it can help. However, the trend with these major cyber breaches seems to be that they are occurring more frequently and being more widespread. This may be a push towards educating the public on the benefits of decentralizing information on the internet.
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I'm surprised they're able to talk about this, seems. Like the FBI would have gone with a NSL (National Security Letter).
How did North Korea pull off the Sony hack?
The graph in [1] shows cost reduction due to 3D,With the maximum to be achieved(using 4 layers) is 50% cost reduction.

http://img.deusm.com/eetimes/3p-0005-monolithic-3d-ic-02-lg....
Careful, his ghost might rise up from the grave and come read poetry at you.
just because they need a list of nodes doesn't mean they need to be hardcoded into the client. the other option of course would be to fetch the list remotely.
The key word there is continuous-spectrum. A free electron can have any energy, and therefore the energy eigenstates are not physically realizable, due to the normalization requirements. But a bound electron, like in a quantum harmonic oscillator, has quantized energies and therefore can assume those eigenstates exactly. Think about electron orbitals in molecules: very precise energies.
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> I didn't know you could sue the AG.

You can sue any person (any legal person, which includes both natural persons -- individual human beings -- and juridical persons like corporations, states, etc.)

> So, what happens if Google wins?

Well, what Google is asking for (and thus, what they would get in a complete win) is specified in the Prayer for Relief beginning on page 32 of the complaint [1].

> What happens if they lose?

Essentially, they'd be in the same position they were before the suit.

[1] http://www.scribd.com/doc/250574252/Google-v-Hood-complaint-...
The Nerdery is quite big.

http://nerdery.com/

According to their site, their headcount is 528 developers and 52 dogs.
Would suing repair the damage? How long would it take? Could it actually be a criminal act?
3D Sculpt,Real 3D,...There was a lot of 3d software on amiga.
And nearly every "high touch" interaction with Microsoft and an enterprise using Confluence ends up converting to SharePoint.

Full disclosure: I make my living on SharePoint, and (perhaps ironically in some reader's view) use Confluence and other Atlassian products to manage my business.
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Look like fun, and the video is pretty well done. What's the plan to get people actually using it?
An IRB would only care about whether the deception perpetrated on the subject is justifiable. They wouldn't care one iota how the light was disabled--the risk to the subject is the same regardless of whether the light is disabled by hardware or software or not used. For example a BYOD type study might be plausible because in some circumstances subjects may be more comfortable/candid using their own devices. Who knows.

The issues for the IRB would only be the fact that the subjects are not consented to covert surveillance and whether the nature of the information collected presents a risk to the subject if accidentally disclosed.
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I have hangouts on my android phone but I don't know what my hangout number is.

The $2/month, where can I find that?

All in all, I want to talk with my customers and do a tech demo (would need a tool to share screen as well).
I love this kind of tool, simple and useful. Extra points for leading with a commandline example.
Thanks. This project for me is just a proof of concept. Having paid customers would require dedicating massively more time to initial development and maintenance, which simply I'm not ready to do until the idea is somewhat validated. Best of luck with your venture!
Lecture 20 of How to Start a Startup[1] touched on this.

> In the beginning of a company, there is no management. This actually works really well. Before 20 and 25 employees, most companies are structured with everyone reporting to founder. It's totally flat. That's really good. That's what you want because at that stage, it's the optimal structure for productivity.

> What tricks people is when lack of structure fails, it fails all at once. What works totally fine at 20 employees is disastrous at 30.

This is pure speculation, but I can imagine that this limits the size of many companies. Most web dev agencies I'm aware of weren't founded as hyper-growth startups that are willing to push through that barrier.

[1] http://startupclass.samaltman.com/courses/lec20/
"Again, it's the motivations you have to pay attention to. Why do people want to be smarter?"

So they can know and understand everything possible in the Universe, make great contributions to humanity and the future, and live a pinnacle life full of fulfillment, riches and experiences few others attain. That's not to mention enduring fame throughout history.

As for artificial AI, that has the allure of mind uploading, and truly unimaginable power and experience including practical star travel.

Your views on this are weak.
There were untold numbers of television shows edited with NewTek's Video Toaster - an Amiga product. Came out for PC later -- it was essentially an Amiga in a custom enclosure.
A very insightful post. I'm not a Hacker Schooler, but I find myself afflicted by these "failure modes" at various times. I can especially identify with the "too much task-switching" problem. I'm often unable to identify my priority, and when I thought I would just pick something to learn out of a list of things that seem interesting/valuable, I'd have doubt about my choice almost immediately. I wonder what the solution to this would be?
You see under 20/30 employees in a lot of businesses; the reason (IMHO) is that this is a natural choke point. Any more than 20 employees and the principle has to delegate, hire HR, management, and develop processes—it's a natural point at which a single leader cannot scale and a business has to transition into "a company".
I was particularly proud for thinking of colouring the reply for curl, I had to show it off :)
Could you elaborate a bit on why you consider it the best project you worked on? Maybe it was interesting independently of how it was architected etc.
I would not call it an "analysis" - an moderately insightful joke perhaps, or a heuristic.
Pixelpark Germany (http://www.publicis.com/capabilities/) started 1991 and scaled to 500 full-time employees around 2009. Currently claims 800 (not sure how many full-time). They even IPO-ed. No product on their own, it's still doing web-solutions for customers only. It just covers full brand management, research, SEO/SEM etc as well now.
Hangouts can still work for this, you can do a screenshare in a video hangout. Requires everyone to have google accounts though (personal or business).

There are also numerous great conference/screen share tools out there, like speek.com
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> Ok, how much do you wanna bet than in less than 6 months there is going to be a war?

Be foolish to bet against that, since the US has never stopped being at war with North Korea since the 1950s.

> (probably giving the weapons to south Korea so the put the body count)

Given the pre-targeted artillery pointed at their capital, neither the people nor the government of South Korea are likely to get behind resuming active conflict with the North without some somewhat more substantial provocation than the SPE hack.

And US encouragement -- if it were to be offered -- is unlikely to change that.
This is a very big deal if it happens. Roger's linked post on the Tor site talks about "seizure" of directory authority servers; only government authorities would have that power. In the U.S. that would typically happens only after a court grants a seizure order, which would be under seal at this stage.

Of the countries where the servers are located, the U.S. has the most extreme copyright laws, which means, sadly, FedGov is the leading candidate to be behind any possible seizure.

It would be interesting if an enterprising journalist were to ask MIT, SF-based Applied Operations, and RiseUp if they've been contacted by law enforcement on this matter. Those organizations host some of the U.S.-based servers. RiseUp has a warrant canary but it hasn't been updated recently: https://help.riseup.net/en/canary

Of course we don't know what actually is going on and it all may be (I hope!) a false alarm.

PS: If multiple governments cooperate and a majority of servers are taken down, what happens to Tor after the consensus interval expires? I don't know; maybe someone more familiar with Tor does. The consensus interval was changed to 72 hours a few years ago: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/7986

PPS: Remember that FedGov's "copyright infringing" domain name seizures have on occasion taken down non-infringing sites in error, as I wrote about here: http://www.cnet.com/news/dhs-abruptly-abandons-copyright-sei...
You wouldn't believe what itching made this woman do! [0]

Itching is an extremely powerful sensation.

[0] http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2008/06/30/the-itch

tl;dr & spoiler:

A woman slowly scratches through her skull and reaches her brain.
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