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It definitely starts with education and universities all around the world do work hard to encourage women into SME. So I can't imagine there is much low hanging fruit from that aspect.

With regards to a quota system I do believe at the senior levels in particular directorships and board appointees they are essential. Other companies have been done for this a long time and it works well. The hard part is at the engineering level. I don't believe rejecting good candidates based on gender helps anybody. It just makes things worse.

There are problems in the workplace though. But it has to do with the culture of IT rather than something specific. We tend to argue the idea rather that the person more often than not far too strongly. This is something that needs far more subtlety.
I think you're missing the point in context - it's this way for everyone and the objection is that (this group of) women have assembled their special victims group because they think either they're the only ones affected or it's somehow manifestly worse that they are. But they're not complaining about the behaviour, but that womyn are being targeted (by the patriarchy rape culture misogyny etc etc).
Vimperator's one of those extensions I tried out on a lark ... and after a couple of hours of awkwardness, discovered was absolutely fantastic.
Just wanted to thank provaz for this. I was hoping my recent emacs-based browser submission might turn up other similar projects.
Again. This has been shown to be wrong. Fixing the percentage tends to fix the issue. Look at racial profiling of poor blacks by police. Adding more officers from similar backgrounds has been shown to reduce problematic incidents.

Likewise adding females to boards through quota systems has been shown to improve governance and quality of decision making.
That's quite a cynical take. I didn't go to college but I think if people have the opportunity and they want to learn they should take the chance. The resources at a college for learning are second to none. That should be your goal. That knowledge will help you find riches, but it's up to you. You have to put the work in just like you would if you skip college. Nothing comes easy.
Just chatted about this to a bunch of (very) feminist friends. They agreed that this is a poor move, and leaves her open to defamation lawsuits, however, in the case where something cannot be proven it's exceptionally problematic - anyone can say anything to anyone, and effectively get away with it as if nobody else heard anything, there's no proof at all.

Essentially it's a difficult problem, as we need to protect peoples' reputations, but at the same time vindicating victims.
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Ports inside a container aren't exposed publicly unless explicitly done.

Container linking lets containers connect to each other without exposing ports via docker.

The "linking" is exposed to the container via an /etc/hosts entry, so e.g. --link test-db:db adds "a.b.c.d db" to /etc/hosts which can be used by anything that needs it.

As mentioned by jon-wood, the simple linking approach only works with containers on the same machine unfortunately.
> for many people the perceived convenience of cars beats public transportation and biking.

That clearly proves the the public transporation is pretty bad, which is indicates that living conditions can improve.

The need for a car is also an indicator that living conditions can improve. I don't live in a very well-designed city (far from it!), but I seldom have to go far enough to require a bus or subway, walking being usually enough (plenty of restaurants and cafes in a 600 metre radius, for example).
> too many male's careers were broken by illegitimate
> morale accusations,

And how many "female's [sic]" careers were derailed by sexual harassment? And which is the greater injustice?
Radical feminists sometimes have surprisingly similar opinions on stranger man to stranger woman interactions compared to people from Saudi Arabia.
You don't realize what's going on at Google these days, do you?

Victoria Lease was the first to talk about it. She had to leave Google because of how she was treated. HR didn't do shit to help her. Last week it was Narelle, citing similar reasons. Now this.

All we get at TGIF is some vague excuses from Laszlo Bock but no action is taken. So let me be the first to say: Fuck Rod Chavez and everybody who helped him!

Disclaimer: I work for the Google hypocrites.
You've missed the point. Women WANT to do SME. They are spending years at university, going through the lower stages of employment, making it to a certain point and then leaving the industry.

And bringing up the straw man of "feminists" hardly adds to the conversation.
some place where entrepreneurs can put real ideas they're working on, and anyone can vote on them. If you're an investor and love an idea, you can pay for an intro to the team. (names and details are otherwise hidden.)

any such money is shared with the founders who posted the idea (30% site, 70% them) and they can use it to help roll out their MVP.
Ask HN: Best examples of life style businesses?
Hi everyone, I'm looking for best life style businesses, something in the lines of patio11, but more recent examples.

Anyone knows just bushiness and willing to share? Thx!
I definitely fell victim to this - I would still aim to be as semantic to the data as possible but don't lose much time/sleep over it - especially when the last point has been very true in my experience.
How about someone besides Apple makes trackpads for laptops which are actually usable?
This article is garbage. As others have pointed out, the author is a repeat plagiarist [1], and the point that he makes in the article is heavily based around the Rat Park study - one that has struggled to be replicated [2]. The clickbait title doesn't help things either.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Hari
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rat_Park
AWS has a good community. Google cloud hasn't.
He could have ordered the files by size pretty easily. Trick still would have worked. No fancy requirements needed. Just making the files available in any manner.

And yes there needs to be a way to know which file(s) are the compressed data, that loophole would disqualify any entry.
which VPS provider?
It's considered harassment because they (or at least one of them) were her superiors. The problem is the power dynamic.
What she describes in the first few paragraphs of the article is obviously horrible, but the closing paragraph, which you quote, is also totally insane.

I was in London a few weeks ago, meeting some clients; my aged iPhone had run out of battery and, not being blessed with a watch, I had no way of telling the time (yes, this is a stupid situation and I felt like an idiot). I was loitering outside my client's offices and knew it was roughly the right time because the coffee shop I'd been in just before had had a clock, but I didn't particularly want to arrive overly early. A person, who happened to be a woman, walked past me, and I stopped her, politely, and asked her for the time, which she duly told me. I thanked her and she went on her way.

Does that count as harassment or threatening behaviour? After all, I'm a white male, a little over 6ft tall, with a shaved head and often a beard, and she was a woman, alone, probably walking to or from her office.
StartupMentions.io

We recently wanted to create a page to list all mentions of our product. So, we duct taped a JotForm form with the JotForm api and created one. But if there was a service that created and maintained the list and let you manually edit the list, I am sure many startups would pay $20/month for it.
http://www.jotform.com/inthenews/
Hi Nailer!

Good call, although I would disagree with the "objectively better" :-)

I'd recommend using a semantic layout when you have an "application website", like gmail, github or twitter. The layout is strong, and the content needs to lay within each layout block. For this specific design problem, I think that the semantic layout is a good design pattern.

But sometimes the problem is different. Sometimes you have a more "editorial" approach, where you need some specific layout (this is a good example: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/24060704/achieving-a-comp...). Trying to define that grid semantically is nearly impossible! And the problem get worse when that grid doesn't repeat anymore, and the next one is slightly different :-(. In this circumstances, I'd suggest using an explicit grid system.

There's a myth in web development that says: "If you have a good semantic markup, you can achieve any design layout with CSS". This is absolutely false! This kind of myth usually comes from backend developers after seeing csszengarden. Sometimes you need to add some html tags like divs (that are harmless, as they don't have any semantic weight). Don't touching the html will mean going under a CSS hell with hacks and cross browser issues.

Does this sound like bullshit? What are your thoughts?

Cheers!
"Ask HN: Idea Sunday/{{Idea}}" : "Show HN:/{{Idea}}" mapper.
Maybe it should be monthly instead of weekly?
But... Java...
I just use Mail. It's fine. Still miss Sparrow though.
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Hmm, if you are a harasser by trying to talk to someone... then when & where will you meet the man of your dreams? After a while, most people exhaust the dating options within their friendship circles. Many girls welcome these sorts of chances to talk with a man.

Maybe the general problem being a woman in tech is that you just have way too many men around & so through the normal course of male -> female flirting women feel overwhelmed and overburdened.

Thing is, I'd guess most techie guys are super shy.

"You look like a rockstar in that bathing suit. "

Isn't that just a compliment from a shy, probably very sweet, Indian boy?

Well it's hard to say without actually being there in that situation.
Yup. So it doesn't seem that unreasonable to do the same in Debian. (Though I already have 3.16 in Debian, so...)
What other keys should they pre-install?

Let's face it, most motherboards will run Windows, so it makes sense to ship Microsoft's keys (also they have to do that to get certified by Windows). Do you really expect OEMs to go hunting down keys from Red Hat, SuSE and Canonical? What about all the other little distros? I would expect that companies like Microsoft know how to handle key material properly (plus they have a vested interest in doing it correctly), but how much do you trust all the little distros? Once a key is trusted, it's trusted, so if you want Secure Boot to do-what-it-says-on-the-tin, you need to have confidence that the pre-installed keys are all kosher.

And the CA model will definitely not work - we have seen what happens in the browser world. One bad CA, one bad signed certificate and the game is lost. And since it's running in firmware, there's no easy way to revoke or blacklist certificates.

I run Linux exclusively on my PC (and have for 15 years) so I'm sympathetic with everyone's concerns with Secure Boot, but I also completely understand why only Microsoft's key is pre-installed on most systems, and I believe that's probably the correct solution. The fact that the UIs for installing new keys or disabling Secure Boot suck is a good point. Complaining that Microsoft's key being the only pre-installed key isn't.
Mozilla has been a force for good here, working closely with the game engine teams for a couple of years on Emscripten porting to ASM.js, and sharing our open source experience.

Mozilla is bringing AAA gaming to the most widely deployed, free and open platform the world has ever known, the Internet. If you're looking for leverage and opportunity for further opening up the gaming industry, Mozilla should be on your short list of partners/friends/projects.

And no other project out there has more experience doing open source. (Mozilla was much of the inspiration for the creation of open source model as an alternative to the commercially-challenging free software model that came before.) http://opensource.org/history

So yes, "Get cozy with Xiph.org/Mozilla."
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Ok, so they are leaving. It's their decision.

Many people get into programming for the money only to discover it's actually harder than it seems. Most people don't realize you have to keep learning just to stay relevant in IT. How many professions require that?

I'm yet to see any evidence that women leave IT because they are harassed on a mass scale.
The "compressed" files includes a header file which records the original file name and the number of parts which make up the compressed file, so it doesn't depend on directory listing to re-combine the parts.
http://lowendbox.com/blog/boltvm-18year-1gb-and-36year-2gb-o...

That's just an example. There are even cheaper ones out there.
This particular harassment -- and the great distress it has caused -- is a symptom of sexism.
An Uber-like app where people pay for their rides with banked miles earned by giving others rides. This would serve a large market of people that a) travel alot and can give rides in their home city (free rides when they travel) and b) people that only have part-time access to a car but may need rides when they don't have it. It may also be legal in areas where Uber can't legally operate because they charge money for rides. If it got big enough, Uber would probably buy it.
I agree, this article it's more skeptical

> Goodyear gives no indication as to exactly how much electricity the BHO3 could generate, but it does make the rather bold claim that “this visionary tire technology could eliminate the vehicle-range anxiety motorists may have with electric cars.”

Brakes are and interesting case. (I guess that you understand all of this, I only wanted to make the details more explicit.)

One important detail is that in brakes you convert the kinetic energy to electric energy directly. They didn't plug an electric generator to harvest the heat of and old disk brake.

Another detail is that the car has a lot of energy stored as kinetic energy, so you have a lot of energy to convert when you try to stop the car. (I'm too lazy to do the calculations now.)

I agree that harvesting energy from the deformation looks more promising that harvesting heat.
Meta: As the last time this was done have showed, every Sunday is probably not sustainable, which lead to progressively worse thread every week.

That said, iirc it have been a year since the last popular "Idea Sunday" was on (I started working on a project from that thread!), it seems like a good idea to do it a week or two ... unless someone decide to kill it off early again.

On topic: I think there might be a need for Website-for-SaaS-as-a-service. What I meant is that whenever a developer decide to start a SaaS, you have to have a website for that service (that has info, landing page, billing, account management etc.). Of course, if the website itself is the service, then you have to develop it, but alot of SaaS is more of the backend stuffs, which the website is merely a presence for sign up and customer support. I think it's just a natural progression from Landing-page-as-a-service and Document-as-a-service (that we already had). The value you providing would be the design of the site, A/B for conversion testing etc.

Another idea: "What could go wrong when I do X?". You see, in modern time, it seems like every thing can cause cancer, every other tools you have in your household is out to get you. And people tend to be in one of the two camp: "whatever, you can't avoid everything" or just being freak out by any, and everything (those that use gluten free vegan organic computer mouse, for example). I believe neither of those behavior is optimal, but unless you're an expert in the field, you really can't tell whether a risk is real or not. It would be nice to have a place where you can come and look for common scenario and see if anything is worth being concerned about (I see black mold, is that a drop everything and move out, or contact the landlord and wait? My roommate is sanding his old car paint in the garage and we have kid around the house, isn't it bad because of ... lead or something? How bad it is if I lick a bar of metal lead? Which kind of cleaning supplies is absolutely dangerous, and which is just essentially ethanol?). A lot of those might sounds like just "common sense" to you, but when I first move (from South East Asia) to the US, I had none of that "common sense" , and it was a nuisance trying to be careful. It's also noticeable when you're living with people that have a different idea of what constitutes "toxic" than you -- and then realize that you're actually not sure if you're overreacting or the other party being a big fat idiot. Google is not suffice, as even though you might find a few articles with advice, "being careful" doesn't help with a risk assessment. The info will have to be qualified quantitatively, or at the very least, very specific.

Also, for any of you go (the board game) player out there, we need a new tsumego solver!
In Australia, certification is effectively governed by TEQSA and the relevant accrediting body for your discipline. TEQSA examine whether a university's degree meets the AQF requirements for being a Bachelor's degree (or other kind of degree), and in our case the relevant discipline body is ACS, and they also look in depth at the quality of what we teach. Each of those is a thick, thick, document full of things that go far beyond the exams. It is the education in a degree, not just the exam-answering, that they attempt to accredit.

I realise that degree-certification-bodies isn't what you meant by "certification" -- that you're thinking more of the "industry cert" model, where a training centre teaches you material, and then you pay to take an exam from the certifier. The point though is that's not what society (or at least as represented by government) wants university to be. It is, at least currently, supposed to be education not just training and testing.
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Honestly the competition is pathetic. Just got a new HP laptop for my mother - it has a trackpad of a similar size to the one on my Macbook, but the thing is almost unusable. Is anyone making good trackpads?
I wouldn't say it is inflexible, but it is the place where stackoverflow goes to die. Doing anything in XML that is not easy to do in XML will drive you insane but if you take the time to understand how it works it is actually pretty simple.
There are women who have a deep dislike of men. Can be caused by not that great fathers, or maybe a string of horrible boyfriends. Maybe watching too many of the wrong sort of movie or reading the wrong sort of books. Who knows!

So... it's not the woman's fault. Everybody starts out wanting to be good.

But women that do not like men really do exist! (Speaking from some experience here)
Dear All the Women Who Ever Existed Over the Entire Span of Human History
Sequoia Park Zoo Website Hacked by Something Claiming to Be ISIS
Compound is at danger if a very effective manufacturing process appears. So it's better if there is a rare element in the compound. So it looks like the rare element is there to stay.
what do you mean power dynamic
Maybe the experiences discussed by women in this thread[1] will help you understand why this is actually a reasonable stance to take.

EDIT: Here's a good elucidatory comment[2]. And another thread of stories[3]. And another[4].

If you react with venom to statements like the one quoted, then you are not listening.

[1]: http://www.metafilter.com/85667/Hi-Whatcha-reading#2777344

[2]: http://www.reddit.com/r/offmychest/comments/15kix9/im_tired_...

[3]: http://www.reddit.com/r/AskWomen/comments/2ij22p/what_was_th...

[4]: http://www.metafilter.com/143994/10-hours-of-street-harrassm...
> I can get a VPS for $1.5 per month and it will have 50GB SSD, 1GB RAM, 2 CPU cores, 1 Gbps link.

Please share.
Any other day I'd be happy to get into it with you, but Java is really besides the point here.
That's what I thought too, now I'm not so sure:

"If you are a strange man trying to talk to me on my way to or from work, when I am commuting alone, you are a harasser, pure and simple."
The same kind of thing happens in other countries, including the US. There are authorities which accredit universities as providing suitable standards of education to award a degree. That wasn't what I was getting at, no. It prevents diploma-mills, certainly, but does nothing to stop the perverse incentives. And doesn't help any alternative methods of achieving the same competency to compete.
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The post mentions OpenGEX as a game engine data exchange format. If you're interested in 3d data formats and specifically good runtime formats, you might be interested in glTF too, which is a JSON+binary asset format specifically targeted at storing runtime-optimized data (as opposed to COLLADA which is more a editing-oriented format). It's backed by the Khronos group --the people behind OpenGL / Vulkan / WebGL-- and they have a COLLADA-to-glTF converter: https://github.com/KhronosGroup/glTF.

Having spent some time working with the format, I hope it takes off and we see native support for it in most tools at some point. I've had great success using glTF to export models + skeletal animations from Blender and then import them for use with WebGL: https://twitter.com/elisee/status/558238454962978816. This is a little test project made with Superpowers, a soon-to-be open source HTML5 2D+3D game maker I've been designing with a couple of friends: https://sparklinlabs.com/
Yep. Mozilla is even bringing the fight to C++ with its new Rust language. It's been very exciting to follow the journey of a brand new language backed by a company who really knows how to do community-powered development.
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Idea Validator:

Type in the long-tail search phrases and it goes off and does as much market research automatically for you as possible, and comes back with a yes/no on whether you should bother pursuing it. Perhaps including a list of statistics like: how much it would cost to get into that market, how many competitors there appear to be, etc. etc.
Are corporate CLAs also destructive for permissively licensed projects?
I'm 95% sure sure that "tries to talk to me" means "approaches me and tries to have a conversation", not "asks me if I have the time".

See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9165486
Maybe Google just has to be more honest than yet another VPS provider. How can the CPU you get for 1.5 per month not be shared for example?
This page is alarmingly unreadable. Light gray doesn't show up well on white.

And while I'm nitpicking, associating Stallman with "Open Source" always gets a chuckle out of me.
> But the fact that she complained to HR and that as a consequence she ended up feeling like she had to leave makes me think there could be an issue.

There may very well be an issue, but note that you are now repeating an unsubstantiated allegation and describing it as fact.

If what she wrote is accurate and factual, and they very well may be, then at least the director in question likely went far over the line, regardless of context, and there may very well be issues with the general culture too.

But we have a few tweets, and don't have the other side.
Meh! If I were disempowered and my superiors treated me like a piece of meat, I'd probably say "fuck it" after some point and hit 'em where it hurts.
For a male activist, it would be "un activisto". Sorry for being pedantic.
So you've discovered what macros are for. M4 can do this and a lot more: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M4_%28computer_language%29