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I've often thought the same thing.

On the other side of this, according to the NMC[0] only 10.69% of Nurses in 2008 were men (UK). I've personally never seen anyone highlight this as a diversity issue. This is just a guess but I'd say men in general aren't as interested in nursing as women, or just don't consider it when deciding what to do with their careers.

I think specific instances of sexism or discrimination should be stamped out, but I don't think we should be "helping" anyone to a specific career - I'd rather credit everyone with a little intelligence and assume if they want to be a nurse or work in tech, then they will strive to do so without the artificial leg-up.

[0] http://www.nmc.org.uk/globalassets/siteDocuments/Statistical...
> that the reason there are fewer women in STEM is because they avoid it from childhood

This would seem to be a third explanation for something you said had only two explanations.
> I think there's some logic in this objection

I don't. The IRS is going to calculate how much people owe in any case. The question is whether they provide all the information they've collected first, and calculate the results based on that, and provide it to the taxpayer who can either accept it or note any changes/additional information and return it, or they make the taxpayer do it first from scratch (or pay someone else to do it, or pay for a tool to do it), and then the IRS goes and does it in anyway for every taxpayer taking into account the information they have from the taxpayer and what they have received separately.

In either case, the IRS is absolutely going to calculate how much people owe. That's not even the choice that is at issue. So the objection to one side of that choice that the IRS calculating how much people owe is a "conflict of interest" is a non-sequitur; it simply has no bearing on the choice.
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But if you throw is dark matter and have it influence the other matter... Shouldn't the regular matter influence the dark matter too? At that point doesn't it end up in the same distribution as the regular matter? And isn't it then just unaccounted for? And wouldn't it have zero effect on the shape of the rotation curve?

I've seen reports of "fixing" the problem by assuming a galaxy is enclosed in spherical ball of dark matter. But of course no explanation of why it would maintain that shape. In other words, the model of dark matter isn't even complete. In some cases I've seen people misapply the divergence theorem as well.

It would not be the first time people used a hack to "fix" what ultimately boils down to numerical problems or inadequate integration methods.

Somewhere down my bucket list is to do galaxy simulation. So far all I've done is plot rotation curves that don't look like keplers laws, but no dynamic simulation yet.
I bought my Prius used for much less than 20k, and it has this system. (And when you buy a used car, you don't choose what features you get!)
The comments on this article are pretty good. I know the lede is only buried five sentences in, but the report really does sound like it's going to critique the play and performances of the first two acts before it gets around to recounting what happened in the third.
It lacks an urgency of information. Presumably the headline mentions it, but that the body gets around to mentioning he was shot in the third paragraph and that he died...well, it's hinted at in the seventh.
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By the early '80s, around 35% of all comp sci degrees went to women[1] and roughly the same percentage worked as programmers. The old "they're just different!" argument doesn't cut it when viewed historically.

[1] http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2014/10/21/357629765/when-wom...
He's awesome, he had some incredibly detailed and insightful advice when I asked about a potential startup idea I had.
Yikes. This is the first I've heard of such an issue, but I will make sure and address this right away. What version of safari?
$1440/day is a decent middling daily rate. Specialize, and bear in mind that you can actually specialize in charging more.
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The OHA is basically an agreement between almost every major manufacturer in the industry to not compete on software, which is the majority of the industry's featureset. Additionally, while OEMs actively advertise against iPhone, none of them have ever made ads against each other.

The OHA is, at it's core, an agreement of a whole industry to not compete with Google or each other.
I agree that rewarding people for not doing anything other than showing up is antithetical to a hackathon, or the software engineering community in general.

However, I really liked your line "Pass the mountain dew, brah. Git push -f, brah.", I might steal that.
Back when Alex Blumberg of Gimlet Media was Alex Blumberg of NPR he did an episode of a radio show (which was subsequently released as a podcast) about someone who owned patents for a proto-podcast service that was distributed on cassette tape. He was using those patents to claim he was owed licensing fees by modern day internet podcasters.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2013/05/31/187374157/episode-...
> The IRS already knows everything about your income that you would be telling them anyway.

Not even close. For example they don't know how much you paid in state taxes, and which portions of that are also considered okay for fed taxes. Eg in California a portion of your annual vehicle registration fee can be taken against state taxes. Do the feds also allow that?

They don't know what you consider business expenses. They don't know how much of your house you used for business purposes. They don't know where you resided during the year and the tax treatment of the various places you did live. They don't know about your moving expenses.

They don't know about income you received in cash. They don't know about your Amazon purchases. They don't know about your medical expenses. They don't know about your losses.

They don't know about your foreign income or assets.

They don't know about dependents, or how they have changed. Or your marriage, or divorce. Or how you want your married taxes to be treated (there are at least two different ways).

That is just scratching the surface of the tax relevant things - there are a huge amount more. As an individual you couldn't get your tax return 100% correct, and the government certainly can't.

Edit: various institutions and employers are required to file information with the IRS. However this is big picture information - for example how much interest you were paid on your bank account, or what the employer paid you. They do not get individual transaction information, cash withdrawals or similar details.
But this tool don't need you to launch your application with special parameters.
This doesn't explain the significant changes in gender ratios since the 1980s.
Agh, you beat me to it with that link. Also, nice analogy with climate change.
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By "PR" I mean "affects external perception of the company". Encouraging people to apply falls into that category.

I don't see how the work environment is made better by my presence. I'm not going to be any nicer to minorities than my majority coworkers. And quite honestly, if someone of my race considers the environment better because they have a firangi to talk to, I'm unlikely to get along well with them.
Or why the need to grow to 135 employees with a checkin app for two mobile platforms? What do they all do and how is that aligned with the product at hand?
Either the linker, or GDB (or your debugger) can disable it for you. Under GDB it's controlled by the setting disable-randomization (defaults to false).
good advices!
This game has a sister game, which will be released soon.
I will improve it as you said.
Thanks!
So because it doesn't help you, even though it would help the vast majority of people, we shouldn't do it.
So what? US has signed bilateral trade agreements with EU for that reason. As much as EU may benefit from fines on US companies, it's still a strict application of the law. US also benefits from the strict application of their laws when EU companies try to enter the US market. Actually, EU companies rarely try it. Guess why.
And now I know where to store my assets. Thanks, HN!
Don't you know that you're working for the capitalists to maximize their fortunes and appropriate the surplus value of your work till the last drop in your blood?
Criminal investigation dropped against bot that bought MDMA pills on Darknet
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This is where it's not helpful to talk generically about this issue.

I might agree with you on some of the clauses in Android contracts, for instance, but the EU's previously proposed idea mandating cycling through different spammy vertical shopping search engines at the top of the search results helps no one but those spammy search engines, artificially propping a company up for years for the the appearance of competition.

See declan's excellent post below: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9382109
Nobody cared about Google Wallet. It was never more than a tech industry niche item (aside from being an account for Play Store purchases), and phone carriers only blocked it because Google was trying to create a monopoly.

If you understand the history behind the secure element, you'd realize that it was those phone carriers which forced Google to adopt HCE, which allows payment options. Google's plan was to be the sole payment provider across the entire industry.

Source: http://www.androidpolice.com/2013/05/01/a-brief-history-of-v...
That question is moot in the shopping context; the products that show up in that system are fed directly to Google by the owners of the product listings.

https://support.google.com/merchants/answer/188478?hl=en
Since they compute your taxes for you, they should be required to share their source code. We own it.
> So how can I request $0 withholding?

Submit a signed W-4 [0] to your employer with the word "Exempt" on Line 7.

Of course, by doing so you also certify that you are actually meet the legal requirements stated on the form for $0 withholding, under penalty of perjury, so you obviously should only do it if, you know, you actually qualify for it. But that's how you do it.

[0] http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/fw4.pdf
Every Internet Connected Device Will Become a Vehicle for Commerce
If we are connecting everything to the Internet, then it stands to reason that we can turn every-single-thing into a way to make and accept payments.
Uncharitably, how it works is the author of this link doesn't want to scan all 2^32 hosts himself, so he's asking people for URL's to their windows servers so he can reach them directly. I can't imagine a scenario where I would submit a URL.

EDIT: again, yes, there are no doubt thousands of bots doing port scans for this. In the uncharitable reading, this 'service' is how the author beats them to the punch.
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And quite honestly, if someone of my race considers the environment better because they have a firangi to talk to, I'm unlikely to get along well with them.

This sort of stereotype probably has the predictive value of a D20 roll.

Phil's an 11, I spit in his lunch. Nancy is a 19, no problems expected.
I couldn't find anything that wasn't just the report of a bluescreen.
Obligation? No. Why would they?

Microsoft released a patch, patch your stuff.
Yes I agree. But my original comment concerned making it safe and afforable. That is the real challenge.
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Patio11 is basically the "charge more" guy. His advice is nearly always "charge more". It is no wonder he gets payed a lot more than you.
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Many if not most businesses file taxes and tax forms on a monthly or quarterly basis. Between 75% and 100% of the relevant data is already in the IRS's hands. Businesses also generally don't wait until the deadline to file.
Sure, that's pretty much my point. It's all about the incentives. When the job description and rewards say "take people's stuff," then that's what they'll do.
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That didn't work out so well the first time, did it?
https://gigaom.com/2007/04/15/dodgeball-founder-quits-google...
No it is impossible that you believe that nonsense
I don't see what the problem is. They didn't get the gold medal, they got an encouragement prize.

When I was in high school, I was on the soccer team. We went to a tournament where we were by far the smallest school. We had our asses handed to us.

At the ending ceremony, for the first time ever, they handed out a fair play award. To us. Did we think we'd won? No, of course not. It's just a token of appreciation, a thanks for attending.

I don't see why this kind of thing is so bad. You want to encourage people to show up to your event, so you make up a reason to thank them.
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I'm a CS student looking for ideas for my required capstone project. Any interesting problem you would like to see solved? I'm willing to work on any interesting problems/ideas. I will give you proper credits. Thanks for your help.
EDIT: I'm mostly interested in Databases and Machine Learning.

EDIT 2: The project life span should be two semesters of 14 weeks each.
It's actually been really nice to remove all the Google apps and find apps with UIs I actually like rather than the Google-branded blinding-in-the-dark stark-white look they're shoving on everyone these days.
I think this is rather interesting. Problem I see is, most coding jobs require you to have quite some context around the code you are working with. If there was a way to work around this or target some nice (e.g., visual design) that should be interesting.
that's just... dumb? i mean, if a small startup asked for a visa, it should have bigger priority than Infosys asking for a ton of them. also, why aren't visas prioritised by salary?

h1b needs a reform asap :(
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Ask HN: What books have changed your mind?
I’ve just in the past year discovered the power of reading and how it can change my mind about how I behave, and in turn, alter my character. This effect varies from book to book and person to person. I’ve come across some great book recommendations on HN in the past and I want more. What books have specifically changed your mind, behavior, attitude, etc?

Some examples for myself:

Daring Greatly by Brene Brown - Shame is not a good motivator, it does more damage than good in the long run. It’s currently my goal to never use shame on people again.

The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg - One of the most empowering books I’ve ever read. We are creatures of habit and any habit can be altered. We don’t have to put up with bad behaviors and routines, they can be changed. I now constantly think about the habits behind my actions and how I can alter the ones I want to change.

Mindset by Carol Dweck - Any skill can be learned and we are not limited to what we’re born with. When facing difficulty with a new task, rather than shrinking away and saying “I guess I just can’t figure this out”, I instead know that I can learn it, but it may require more effort on my part.
Careful, you are thinking in terms of cost plus here. Don't. If companies are willing to pay him 1000 usd per diem then he should demand 1440 and haggle from there.
Yup, took me a few more goes but confirmed 2012R2 on AWS behind ELB. I've been up for a while making new images.. 5:08AM :|

I can also confirm it crashes my command window using curl via cygwin lol.
That was my case as well... initialized IIS on a fresh server to test against. (took me a while to figure out that IIS wasn't even setup, since the IIS manager was on the server) ... accidentally crashed my local machine too (forgot to change the localhost to the ip of the server whyn copy/pasting the url from the browser on the server)

This is pretty wild.
I recognize your name. I've surely encountered your brand of fanboyism on HN before.
Your work-centric worldview and live-to-work attitude are at best shortsighted and bland. I suggest that you broaden your horizon and look at the bigger picture and derive meaning of your life away from work and career because as you're aging, these matters become more and more less relevant and less enticing.
care to share your line of business?
The amount of taxes being collected throughout the year are by design higher than what you actually owe to the government. That's the same in most countries.

Of course you can get your overpaid taxes back by means of the tax return - but a lot of people don't have the money or time or knowledge to do that.

The overpaid money is to the government if requested back, an interest-free loan - if not requested back, a gift.

If the government would now tell the IRS to fill out the form for you - then there would be significantly less income - due to more accurate taxation.
I think you meant "shake you down".
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How are the results sorted? When I search "Spider-man", the first result is Boomerang, and none of the results on the first page are for the Peter Parker Spider-man (result #2 is Ben Reilly Spider-man).
Just look at a W-4.
It's all there. (Including the no-income-tax-deduction option.) Just fill it out and hand it to your employer.
http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/fw4.pdf
You could have monetised it the same way you monetise many other apps. With ads? I mean, Twitter's monetisation model isn't exactly genius either...

Why not give a coupon when checking into a place that is near others - making people stop by another place/shop to maybe purchase something? (lat/long based)
Indeed. Consumer choice is more important than consumer coddling. And nobody is saying Samsung or Sony or LG shouldn't be able to choose to ship Google Maps on their devices. Just that it's wrong for Google to force them to.
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I have not negotiated my salary or equity ever.

I find difficulty building healthy relationships with the people, men and women, that do negotiate.

I would rather work with other people who want to work somewhere where negotiation for salary is not assumed to be done.

Like, we both got the same offer. They negotiated for a higher salary ... why didn't the employer offer more to start if they thought I was worth more?

If it's too low, say no. If it's enough, say yes.

Why do you want to hire people who negotiate?
It's being done [1] :) I met the CEO, Jose, this weekend in Bremen and he gave a fascinating dinner talk. They are making great advances with the balloon technology. I think we're going to see a lot of novel launch concepts for small satellites in the coming decade, seeing as cluster launches aren't desirable for a number of reasons.

[1] http://www.0ll00.com/2014/10/zero2infinity-will-launch-nanos...
Is that what I said? I think I said there are better options that would help everyone even more. We should explore those instead.

Also, if the government has all the information necessary to do your income taxes properly, then it'll literally take you 5 minutes to fill out the form. You receive the same forms they do, just plug in the numbers. The PDF version will calculate everything for you.

The problem is that the vast majority of people have DEDUCTIONS and the government has no idea what those are, so this wouldn't work for them.
You're off in bizarro land here. The brave carriers blocking evil Google's payment monopoly by allowing only ISIS payments on their phone? I know you're trolling the rest of this thread, but seriously?

That article is not even a source for what you're claiming! It just says Verizon wasn't illegally acting when it blocked Google Wallet on its phones.
The wealthier you are the better neighborhoods you live and work in, and arguably the better police and government benefits you get.

I'd park a Porsche with a vulnerable system in a fancy suburb or in a high-rise parking garage without a second thought. I wouldn't park a Chevy in the ghetto with any system without lots of worry.
Yeah, one of the huge problems our field has is that it doesn't give people a solid sense of how you upgrade your skills and what kind of waypoint you're at relative to others (and that that's okay!).

It is magnificent to encourage newcomers to the field. We should also have level playing fields for folks to participate with everyone (and not stratify further than we already do). But it sucks when these sorts of objectives collide and end up alienating people. (and heck sports have awards for rookies for example!)

The other thing that's really gear-grinding about OP is that... we're judging our worth based on what happens in hackathons? I hope to $deity most people aren't doing that, because hackathons are super slanted POVs on the world.
I was able to crash mine (local win8.1 and win2012 server) without any rules specified, only the checkbox enabled for kernel caching... it may vary based on windows version.
Yeah, an advertisement on the most popular web site in the world stating "Download the faster browser" has nothing to do with it, I'm sure.
Debating details can be useful, but that is the previously proposed idea.

Until we know what the current proposals will be, we don't have the details to talk concretely. So all we can do for now is talk about the general issue.
Thanks for the break down! I had an early EV and loved that initial kick. Always fascinating to know the specifics behind what's going on.
The title is a bit misleading--maybe 'plain enums'. In Java for instance, all the solutions can all be encapsulated within the language's 'enum' type.
Want to replace Tinder? I'm not a mobile app guy, but I do big infrastructure and know enough Python to be dangerous.

I'm not saying "How hard can it be?" I know that road to hell. But seriously, storing a couple million photos? Storing profile data? There is literally zero barrier to entry. S3, Elastic Search, EC2, and a bit of ELBs or Haproxy for that HA magic.

Let's call it "Blaze". (Seriously, check my profile for contact info)
however isn't this the idea used behind the Virgin Air space plane? Granted it won't make it to true orbit but that is only a modification of the rocket they are carrying up
> if what they wrote was right, what does it matter what their gender is?

There seems to be a strand of thought which claims that men have nothing to say on these issues. Pointing out that the author is a woman may be an attempt to head off such objections.
1. i haven't seen one yet. Also initially you might wanto focus on getting a few users as opposed to thinking of competition.

2. Would use it, provided there is a decentish flow of paid projects
I don't think the people standing on the sidelines crying wolf really understand the situation.

The reality is that there are VERY FEW female graduates doing anything related to tech. That's why tech is male dominated.

Go look at CS, EE, ECE departments of any school. There are very few women.

Outside of tech, gender bias is very common. Why? Because some roles require skills that the other gender did not develop (nature or nuture..no idea)

Example, firefighters are a male dominated role. Nurses are a female dominated role.

Are there exceptions? Yes.

Are either of these groups sitting together in a big "dickfest/boobfest" meeting and actively deciding not to hire the other gender? No.

Most women complaining from the sidelines should go and develop skills that male-dominated roles require. Also, be ready to compete for a job. If you want to be treated like men, be willing to accept job rejections. For every male hired in a role, there were many other males rejected. Just being male wasn't enough.

Subtle nuance but an important one to understand that nobody is colluding against women.