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Ask HN: In Mobile Will Google be not showing ads for non mobile friendly website
I'm guessing you missed this bit?

> Google Wallet is doing something few apps do - asking for direct, exclusive access to a secure piece of hardware in the phone. Not only that, once Google takes over the secure element, it wants total control. Because of the security concerns (and related technical difficulties) involved in sharing a secure element, Wallet and only Wallet is able to utilize the internal secure element on a Wallet-enabled device. That means Google is directly managing every layer of the process.
Was considering black-skinned people inferior to white-skinned people purely rational? It was well above the noise level for centuries. I don't even touch religious practices here. Find out why Daniel Kaneman received his Nobel prize.

OTOH preferring a job that pays $100k to a job that pays $50k would take a lot of irrationality. I suspect that most women are not that irrational at all, so there must be something very unpleasant that prevents them from landing these jobs in a reasonably equal proportion with men.
I've seen conferences called out for having too few female speakers. They made talk choices based only on abstracts, not on speakers, and ended up with a higher percentage of female speakers than had submitted. When they informed the person who called them out, they were then effectively told they weren't doing enough, and directed to a web page that told them they need to do more to encourage female submitters, such as doing the things they were already doing. This occurred over Twitter, and I'm not going to dig up looking for it (it happened about a year ago).

I realize it's not exactly what you asked for, but it was a clear case of "guilty until proven innocent."
Actually I made that up all by myself.
Alcatel is one of the main companies that sells FirefoxOS phones here in México. I wonder if it is the same in other countries. And I wonder if this will affect FirefoxOS in the long run? Will they switch to Windows?
And? Are you somehow obligated to do business with them? When you choose to hand over your money to them, you're not conveying the message that their sandwiches are substandard, or that they provide zero service.
It changes which projects you get, and alters the opportunity cost of the projects you end up spending time on.
Just wondering what is the max size of data it can handle maintaining the respectable performance on browser .. the data used in demo is 5.3 MB
I had read a devops job posting for fetlife.com (think kink okcupid/match.com site) a few weeks ago, and you're right! The resources are incredibly minimal to run sites like this, even at scale.
Well, and you've got to remember that people are social animals.

Is there less interest because a woman or a person of color looks at the field and sees that no one else there looks like them?

Or, more to the point, the people in the field all look like the one group that has historically dominated everyone else?

Maybe that's discouraging. I'm guessing it is. I don't have the lived-in experience of it because I'm a white male, but I do like to keep my "I'm right and I know everything" attitudes in check when I talk to women and people of color, and ask them about their experiences. One minute of listening to people is worth a million speculative web forum comments.
>>it's so hard to NOT work that much when other people ARE working that much.

End result of work matters here. If you are ridiculously rich and able to afford luxurious lifestyle as a result of your hard work. People around you who don't work the same hours as you do and are not as rich, will look like people who can only blame themselves for not getting far in life. These kind of social pressures simply keep going up after a while. Having a family kind of amplifies it. You are eventually going to run into rich people in your social circles, and comparisons will be inevitable.

Very few people work like mad because they love to. Generally there is no way out.
It's easy to see why sysadmin types like shared libraries, even though that ability is an accidental side-effect of an architecture originally developed as a way to save disk space, but as an end user I strongly prefer isolated applications which depend only on the base OS. Updating one program and thereby inadvertently updating a bunch of other unrelated programs is an anti-feature for me as an end user, because it means I can't trust the state of my system. I don't want to waste time figuring out why things no longer work the way they used to; I want to keep on using my computer for its intended purposes. Therefore I, as an end user, update software as infrequently as possible, and only do so when I don't have anything else I need to do with the computer for the rest of the day, just in case I have to waste a bunch of time figuring out why things don't work anymore.

If I were a sysadmin, and maintaining the computer were my job, this would not be a problem, because figuring out why things don't work and fixing them is what I would be trying to use the computer for; but as an end-user, I just want things to work.

If every application were built with static linking, and system libraries only updated with an explicit system upgrade, I would be much more likely to upgrade frequently, because it would be possible to know and limit the scope of churn implied by any given upgrade act.
Well, when one considers that programming was once seen as secretarial, "womens' work", and over time morphed into something of an "engineering" discipline, you could posit that societal pressures would have some role. I would reckon more than anything, that it's cultural bias more than an industry bias

You claim a cultural bias in this industry, yet how true is that? Maybe Charleston, SC is just too small, but I've yet to see any real exclusionary practices in the area, nor have I heard any. I hear the brogrammer tropes, I hear the stories, and I see the numbers, so sure, there is some issue among the industry, but how much of this shift has come from everyday expectations. As a male, I certainly have preconceived notions of male nurses, not to say that I have a problem with male nurses personally, but that I realize society at large has its perception and so that is not a career I would readily have considered. The source of the problem is more than the binary you present, and almost certainly has larger factors at play than "brogrammer exclusionary practices" - no matter how comfortable it is to point at that one boogeyman, things in life are rarely so black and white. There are myriad causes and thus there will always be many changes to fix the problem.
"There are only two explanations for the obvious reality. One is that women simply aren't as good at programming as men are. The other is that there is a persistent and difficult cultural bias against women in this industry."

Another is that society has a persistent and difficult cultural bias against women being technical. It seems that women are choosing not to go into this industry before they even have any contact with the industry.

Though the industry can have a role in improving the situation.
Do you think it's possible that other people might have a different emotional reaction from you if their taxes were withheld/calculated/paid in a less painful manner?
I think what he means is that with higher rates, you get the luxury of domain specialization.
You're spinning strawmen. When did I claim any of that?

'Wealth', in the context you speak of it, is an illusion. Your question:

>Maybe you should talk to them and convince them to give some of that wealth back to the poor so they don't starve to death?

Is non-sensical. A person cannot eat 'wealth', just as one of the other responders cannot eat his employer's bank credits.
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No, you as an individual don't 'need' to do that. What does 'need' even mean? Require to survive?

Making societally optimal decisions is a crazy burden to try to put on a single person. As single entities we don't have near the amount of information or power required to act on that impetus with any weight.

Society as a whole needs to establish norms, and perhaps regulations, to ensure it doesn't fall apart. Individuals should consider those norms in their decisions (and fight to make them better). But slapping someone with the responsibility to be a single person acting alone to maximize happiness for their collective is asking them to be impotently act on shoddy heuristics.
Yes, and

"That's a nice kid you have. It would be really pity if something happened to him, right?"

is a valid worry expressed over someone's child isn't it.
i can confirm this, i was there at the hackathon
Your microwave oven is likely a better choice, since its faraday cage-like behavior is required for both safety and regulatory reasons.
I was under the impression that the IRS has access to all your bank account transactions (or rather, financial institutions are required to disclose that information)?
I think the timeline is correct and the article is about 2015. The Most Inspirational of the 2015 event, which was held April 11, 4 days ago, involved a Wix website. Neither of the other years appear to.
Honest question to those defending the status quo with the word "meritocracy": How would a functional meritocracy produce the absolute sausage-fest that is the GCC maintainers list[1]? If that seems like an unfair reference, then what makes the GCC maintainers list either so especially non-functional or not meritocratic at selecting people based purely upon skill instead of their genitals?

[1] https://github.com/gcc-mirror/gcc/blob/master/MAINTAINERS
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Who has time for 2 syllables? "Squeal" (or "Squill", if you prefer shorter sounds) is clearly superior.
> Is it really conceivable that women were more interested in computing when it was all about hand-coding assembly for a modest amount of money, and less interested now that you can make >$100K/year doing Rails from home?

Yes. I don't know if it's the case, but it's really easy for me to conceive.
Step one build a reasonable single decree paxos system. Waiter said than done.
>"Less interest" along gender lines sounds like a good explanation

And then you have to ask, what makes the gender less interested in the topic?

A lot of the time people think this is just throwing gifts to people from certain demographic to compensate for their disadvantages, but it is a tactic to attract more people.

Some girls participate at certain event and get recognition and then you get other girls to say "oh! I could do that too!"

Word get out that a bunch of women/black/latin@ got into Recurse center after being granted sponsorships and you get more women/black/latin@ applying to more places like it around the world.
Ask HN: Repository for Sales Presentations, Catalogs, and Documents
Does anyone have thoughts on how to approach this applications? We may be willing to contribute monetarily to a good open source approach.

Application: Repository for Sales Presentations, Catalogs, and Documents

Documents: PPT, PDF, Word (Can convert to PDF, but not ideal)

Platform: IPAD (Required) ; Android Tablet (Desired); OS X (Desired)

Requirements:

1) Synchronization between server and remote copies for offline mobile presentation (2GB of files)

2) Permissions/Group structure for multiple groups and users.

3) Ability to log document views on remote device then upload data to server

4) As much as possible open source (widely used platform) or low cost cloud storage.

5) Unviewed files highlighted.

Desired:

1) Keyword Searchable

2) HTML5 Based

3) The ability to create a sales presentation session and send download links to a customer.
Anti-trust law is about market realities.

Such as the fact that you can easily use something other than Chrome and Google search on any of devices? I mean, the position is starting to sound like "anti-trust" really means "The government taxes companies who hold a dominant position in the marketplace."

Edit: I can't reply to this thread anymore, so I'll just expand a bit here.

I get that on some level, all regulation/etc is some form of tax. I guess my point is that what constitutes 'anti-trust' is too unclear. It sounds a lot like governments just arbitrarily decide that its time for a certain company to give them money, without adequate justification.
> 14. Canvas Arrangement

This type of feature needs to be added everywhere possible.
Certainly one of the dumbest moves I've seen by an app in a long time. I was a loyal checker-inner, though, and still use Swarm, although other people keep asking me "people still use Foursquare?"

I like the recommendations it can give me once I tell it what I like, also its "places I want to go to" type lists.
I don't understand how this solar system metaphor is supposed to work. I thought the different versions of ECMAScript were going to be orbits, but then it sort of drops the entire idea on the floor for a bit to draw some pie charts, before finally picking the metaphor back up again, but it's actually the transpiling languages that are the planets orbiting a multi-shelled sun.

It looks nice, but I don't get how the metaphor is supposed to enhance our understanding. If anything, I think a newbie seeing this would just get confused.
It depends on the frequency of the signal that the key uses. I forget the formula, but to be a good faraday cage the cage needs walls of thickness proportional to the wavelength of the signal.
Tried that - didn't fix it.

I have now watched it on my phone and it's amazing. I'm just a little put out that it doesn't work on my up-to-date install of Firefox on my up-to-date install of Ubuntu.

Is there a version of Linux that really does "just work" ?
Why is it not worth replying to? Is it improbable? Is it wrong? Keep your upvotes, engage me in a glorious text battle.
My 2 cents. I had an Android phone since 2011 and an Android tablet since last December. I do use Google Play to install apps and for nothing else. I use Google Maps without being logged in. I don't use Gmail nor Chrome (also on desktop). I search from within Opera (I bet this is very unusual).

I know it's anecdotal but given my experience the only thing that would impair Android is the lack of an app store. Books, movies, music etc don't matter. Only apps. There are alternatives to Google Play and there will be more if for some reason Google decide to shut it down but a search engine and a little QA for apps is convenient. Having to wander through 4 or 5 app stores would be a bad experience (btw, I do use FDroid for some app not on Google's store).
I would like to be able to build schedules. Not necessarily for a specific day (though that as well), but just "day plans". These should then of course have a corresponding map, as well as estimated distance between places with various forms of transit.
And then Apple would be in the same boat Google is in now. Of course, had Google been willing to create an open source OS without using an illegal trust to maintain control of it... well, then everyone would be in the clear.
The root cause is the tax code itself. With so much in there, it is usually worthwhile having someone find ways for you to pay less tax. Or stretch things yourself for the same reason. (I also don't think anyone considers the tax code fair, providing yet another reason to exploit it.) The last number I saw was $12bn a year spent on filing taxes. It would be nice if that was deducted from the pay of the politicians as they'd have an incentive to actually fix things.

If I somehow became president, I'd tell congress to cut the tax code by 10% a year. If they fail to do so, then every 9th paragraph would be automatically deleted. Or perhaps have the entire tax code read out and voted on, page by page each year to mandatory attendance.
I thought that they signaled that decision by splitting the company and selling the phones to Microsoft?
> Perhaps it is my liberal arts background, but I feel a constant sense of inadequacy about my intellectual achievements every time I read a technical article. I feel like I haven't cracked a hard problem, and that bothers me.

I fell that won't go away once you learn how to program. Likelihood is you're envy will just switch from being envious of all programmers, to being envious of programmers who "actually solve hard problems" And that bar will keep moving with your skill level.

Now, on the other hand, in my opinion everything important becomes a difficult marketing problem at some point. So realizing the contribution of what you do, may help some.
> I'm not going after labels here, I think programmers should be able to tackle new languages, however libraries don't magically switch from one language to another.

What does javascript have in NPM that is so awesome it isn't easily replicated and/or already existing in a lua implementation?

I honestly don't know a single NPM library I'd use that I don't know the Lua equivalent or Python equivalent or PHP equivalent. :/

> If you've got a lot of JavaScript code, or you want to use NPM, you can't use Lua.

Well, yes, if you have an existing Node.js codebase you want to port its great.

However, you made the original claim that:

"Lua has nowhere near the traction or support."

Lua is in Postgres, Redis, Nginx [already supported!]

You've got Cassandra lua implementations that try to boilerplate an API for you:
https://github.com/jbochi/lua-resty-cassandra

You've got a NPM style installer in the form of luarocks: https://rocks.moonscript.org/

I really just don't understand the claim that Lua has "nowhere near the transaction or support". Is there even one cache [e.g. Redis] that supports Javascript? I can't name any.
I agree. That is why I focused on the 'get to' and not the 'produce for' aspect. However, there is still labor involved in producing food and those who actually produce it (as opposed to those who only claim to [ie. corporations]) are often exploited.
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> I mean, the position is starting to sound like "anti-trust" really means "The government taxes companies who hold a dominant position in the marketplace."

Anti-trust is overtly about government placing additional restrictions (which, as they have costs, can be viewed as a kind of taxes) on companies with market power so as to limit the degree to which that market power accelerates within its core market and spreads to other markets denying effective choice.

So, you haven't really discovered anything that isn't exactly the overt point of antitrust law.
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That idea keeps creeping up, but it isn't just in our group it won't fly. Reality doesn't care what you are or what your feelings are - in a vaccum a feather and a steel ball fall at the same speed, regardless of your opinions, feelings or suggestions on the matter.

So in this case our POV is absolutely right. (Feelings do matter when you deal with humans, but that is also the only area in which they do).
Google faces possible EU fine over market abuse
Think of it as a machine, a big funnel. Narrow your skills and experience, pump more people into the top of the funnel, increase your ability to charge more. (But of course you only get what you ask for)
Not to mention the "ugly food" [1] dumped in the trash because it looks OMG ugly!

[1]: http://time.com/3761942/why-people-are-falling-in-love-with-...
This makes sense. Sort of, "If you charge more, you'll find yourself a specialist."
I'm getting "Range requested not satisfiable" but no crash. Am I vulnerable or just doing it wrong?
Yes, adults.

Adults do the false memory thing all the time.
Except they're not. The default search engine for Firefox is Yahoo, for IE it's Bing. It's just for Chrome and maybe Safari. They are in no way stopping or even hindering you from using other search engines. Your example of Comcast, however? They actually got several local governments to sign contracts saying no one else could run copper to your home. HUGE difference.
I agree and I think it's reflected in the $900 million price tag, which is lower than what I would've guessed.

https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/foursquare/funding-r...

Considering the $160 million + funding, it's not a bad payout, but I have a feeling it could've fetched more 18 months ago.
Think about falsifiable as "veriviable"/"provable". Falsifibility in Patricks sentence stems from scientific theory. From the POV of critical rationalism a thing is never really provable because there always remains a bit of doubt whether the observed result of an action really is a result of that action and not secretly influenced by some unknown variable. But a proper theory is falsifiable, i.e. it can be proven that action did not lead to a specific result.

So think of Patricks statement as "always give concrete, measurable goals".
I appreciate this being open source but why on earth would you store this information in JSON rather than a relational DB?
I wonder how many combinations they use. For old school keys there was always a small chance the key would work in a different car. Would be a pain if you shared a combo with a nearby neighbor.
I would guess it involves spamming the server with specially crafted requests to fill memory with bytecode. After some trial and error (vast simplification) the request from the article could be used to divert the flow of execution into the bytecode spam, rather than causing DoS. The DoS is likely because flow of execution is being diverted to a random area of memory that doesn't contain anything executable, and so crashes instead.

The heap spraying is the missing puzzle piece from the article.
In the early 80s when home systems like the C64 and TRS-80 were hitting the market they were marketed, essentially, as toys for boys.

I've seen a lot of advertisements for the Commodore 64 and don't recall any gender bias. Here is an example of the ads I remember:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLwTLpGzBB4

After begging my parents for months, I was given a Commodore 64 for Christmas in 1982 when I was 10 years old. My two sisters never had any interest in it despite my constant attempts to get them to use it with me.
I'm curious as to what will happen when a republican gets elected and repels obamacare in 2016?
It is always nice to see more python CD/CI tools but am I correct in assuming this isn't intended to be highly available?
I suspect we're overestimating how much end-consumer desire there was for alternatives. Removing the choice of O/S might well have made buying a computer possible ( in terms of internal bandwidth ) for some.

Antitrust arguments famously switch between "harm to competitors" and "harm to consumers" while the empirical case is that with very few exceptions, these are nothing like the same thing.

At least in the '90s, when this really was a thing, people just wanted to go to Best Buy, plonk down their $2k and get on that AOL thingy all the people at work are talking about.

Now? Has anything been more proprietary and closed than iOS? Seems to be perceived as a virtue. When I am among the iOS people, they have trouble with 'em all the time.
I think this is bad. Tinder was built on anonymity, but many people have identifying information (knowingly or unknowingly) in their Instagram profiles. The two services were built for entirely different purposes. By allowing people access to the Instagram profile of a Tinder user, there could be some bad consequences.

I have personally written an app that can take an Instagram feed and group pics by the physical address from which they were taken, if they have GPS enabled for Instagram [1] (I purposely limited it to the first 20 pics in this instance, but that limit is arbitrary). So Tinder users can now unwittingly go from basically anonymous to giving out their home address to people looking to sleep with them. Not awesome.

[1] http://guiyui.com/username_geo.php
Consumers don't know what they want until you tell them or they realize they made a mistake.