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Gina,

I think the first part of your essay is inspirational. I liked and related to your experience learning to code. I'm sure many others on HackerNews would agree.

The second part was the opposite though. I had to read it a few times to fully grok what you were actually mad about:

1) the "inspiration award" winning team's built something without writing code.
2) the judges "lied" to these women that they were/could-be coders.

To the first point, I would say, expand your definition of hacking. This team defined a problem, worked on a solution, pitched it to a jury, and got awarded for it. Isn't that what a hack-a-thon is all about?

And it really seemed contradictory for you to say, "a real hacker is someone who tries to code all night, and regardless of how shitty it looks, stands up there and says proudly, “Yeah, I made this. It didn’t work out very well, but I learned a lot." Then to turn around and bash their submission for not meeting your own standard of hacking.

Why? Because they aren't "real" programmers? Because you doubt they will ever be "real" programmers? Because the judges awarded them for being women who tried? Because you felt slighted?

You come off as self-interested, snobby, elitist, and bitter. As a woman and engineer, what kind of role-model are you projecting for your community?

I hope the promise of more women in engineering is to change the dominant "brogramming culture" to be less homogenous and more inclusive of alternative people, ideas, and processes.

Don't you?
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Be careful not to turn it on though (yes, there's a story behind that ;( ).
One of the major issues of copyright reform is the term of the copyright. See, for example, Larry Lessig's comments at http://wiki.lessig.org/Against_perpetual_copyright.
There is a decent likelihood the EU court will mandate Google to provide the court this information. With any luck, some of it will end up public, though Google will probably try to leave the EU as a whole before they'd give up their search formula.
What can Google do? What is the possible negative long term impact here?

We're talking about a website and a phone OS. You can start using another search engine in five minutes and will probably replace your phone in a year or two anyway. There are plenty of alternatives, including forks of Android that will likely work with your current device.

Gmail at least owns its users' addresses. But here they have nothing except being useful. Local grocery store has me in a tighter grip.
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I'm pretty sure people are voting on this BECAUSE it is sarcastic
An interesting related fact, one tip jet helicopter actually made it into the production, the Sud-Ouest S.O.1221 Djinn (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sud-Ouest_Djinn). According to Wikipedia 178 of them were built. In this case the tip jets were simply powered by compressed air.
Speaking of starfighter (it's in TFA), is an alien race going to abduct people who are good at starfighter? http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087597/
How do you know? :) (I'm kidding of course....) <no signal>
I've never run a Tor exit node, only relays. There's very little information available about what's happening. I've tried to get my router's IP address off the blacklist without success; entries don't seem to age off, at least not in the space of months. (For a few days I had the Tor relay running behind NAT forwarding on the router's IP address; later I got another static IP address for the relay machine's own use but the damage had already been done; now my router's IP address is blacklisted and I can't undo it---every machine on my home network behind that NAT is affected by the blacklist.
I think your sarcasm chip must have burned out.
Note that the Contributor License Agreement (CLA) and copyright assignment are rather different things. Google and the FSF have very different reasons for requiring their respective arrangements.
Sure. Or maybe requiring to put a key in the lock! Oh wait...
Make the comparison valid:

"Children who buy our product end up smarter and healthier than those who don't."

...and now it's just marketing. The rep didn't say that the rating would get worse if you don't buy an ad, just that it gets better if you do.
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In addition to this, Google currently deprioritizes other video search engines over YouTube because of the recent DMCA algorithm change, as Google forwards DMCA's to YouTube and doesn't impact the search ranking for YouTube per notice. It's completely unfair.
I guess I'll get a blood test and find out :) Could also be something in my genome, will have to check that tonight on Snpedia.com
Well, you started off dismissing the tactic as ineffective, but now you've switched to dismissing it as illegitimate.

I might very well agree with your latter assertion. I was just pointing out that you were wrong on the first. Most people aren't as homo economicus as you claim to be.
Get searching:

http://ec.europa.eu/competition/elojade/isef/index.cfm

I think you'll find the overwhelming majority are European companies.
yes, it would help :)

It's just that out of the reasons someone would throw up this service in a few hours, you will understand that getting the name of hosts directly would be high on the list.

I realize (as I stated) that this is a very uncharitable reading, and I'm kind of sorry that I stated it. You could simply be helping.
> 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

Yes, this always comes up in these discussions, and as is always pointed out, you haven't heard of it because you aren't in that industry and you haven't done even a cursory google search of the topic.

Seriously, there are a ton of efforts to bring better diversity to the nursing field.
i remember when #hack on efnet hacked her cam feed, i dont recall laughing so hard at antics.
"Interesting thing commenters here seem to not know, device manufacturers are not allowed to sell any non-Google Android devices if they sell Google Android." - This is one of those MADA terms few Google supporters understand. Samsung, for example, is prohibited from releasing Google-free Android unless they wholesale give up on all Google Apps on every device they sell.
I wasn't really thinking in terms of cost plus but I have never heard of a per diem being anything more than something to cover expenses while traveling. My understanding of a per diem is not meant to be a daily bonus.

If they pay it then it's all the better for the op. I was more curious how much blowback the gp has gotten on a large per diem like that and how they would go about countering it for my own personal use.
Hopefully with BDR, Postgres won't be a SPOF and you can just run multi-master in the future. :)

Thanks ^.^
Not having to carry oxidizer with you is part of it, yeah. But in a vacuum, it's not just reaction energy that's a limiting factor -- it's reaction mass. Once you get into space, the only way you can gain momentum is by ejecting material that you brought with you. But in an atmosphere, you have a free supply of mass to push against.

I don't know how to estimate the behavior of a jet engine, but plugging in the numbers for a Cessna 172 shows that the mass of air flowing through the propeller per second is several hundred times higher than the amount of air actually used by the engine.
One of the best lines:

> If you give people the choice of writing good code or fast code there's something wrong. Good code should be fast.
Gyrocopter lands in front of U.S. Capitol: political engagement hacker?
Amy Hoy has a great elaboration on this strategy at https://unicornfree.com/stacking-the-bricks
"Delivering concerns to congress? There's no app for that. Better fly by gyrocopter."
Learn to Learn
What Microsoft did was completely different: They coerced OEMs to not include Netscape Navigator or they wouldn't license Windows to them. They prevented users from uninstalling IE claiming technical reasons that were proven false. And the reason they did those things was, as proven from internal communications, to protect Windows' monopoly from the threat of portable Java applications delivered via Netscape Navigator, by asphyxiating Netscape to death.
I remember someone around 2001 describing vulnerabilities in keyless entry to me. It sounded technically feasible, but I was surprised that I never read about it or heard about it happening to anyone. I guess I wasn't reading Jalopnik, but you'd think that this would have gotten more attention earlier.

Who knows, maybe I'm just not paying attention.
I don't get it. They put together documentation. If that doesn't count for the Hackathon, why does building 3D models count?
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I'm positive that no machine in my home network has ever been part of a botnet; the only explanation that stands up to scrutiny is the Tor relay that was running for a few days as a NAT forwarded service through my router's static IP address.

I wish the faceless entity behind this widespread blacklist service could be identified so I could ask them.
Chicago is a bad example. I had RCN in both the gold coast and streetville and UVerse access depending on building contracts.

But I'll grant you that most areas it's cable v. DSL. But DSL is a lot cheaper and is plenty fast for most users. It isn't a purely fungible product but it close enough. IMO.
It's not really "astroturf"ing when FairSearch prominently displays that it's an organization owned by Microsoft on their about page: http://www.fairsearch.org/about/

(Meanwhile, Google goes out of their way to hide their ownership of the Open Handset Alliance, burying the first mention of their name on like the third page of members.)
I made this service in a couple of hours because I had nothing better to do at the time :)
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This is a case when I'd literally like an SSH2 key for my car. With time-proven code, perfect forward security, proof against replay attacks, and so on.

Could be a small but lucrative business!
But literally all you are doing is copying an existing concept. That never works. You need to have something that makes you unique. Slightly more granular privacy controls or faster response times will not do it.
So you propose a) Having a "boolean" enum which does't solve the problem or having dozens of unique "boolean" enums which is a maintenance nightmare. Instead, I can use my IDE to tell me the names and ordering of parameters, and a type checker to verify everything at compilation. You'll never completely stop the problem of logical errors, and enums are certainly no panacae.
Twitter said no to Yahoo already.
I had to pull the data out of Marvel's API which returns JSON. Then the data was stored in Orchestrate.io as the database. The JSON data is included in the repo so other people don't have to scrape Marvel's API.
Could we also just land a bunch of drones there with our complaints? Clearly it's not that hard. Kudos to the first person to build a drone delivery service for sending complaints to congress.
That's also true but I literally mean "you can specialize in having higher rates"; I'm not just saying "if you have higher rates you'll have free time to find more lucrative specialties". You can change nothing else about your practice but your bill rate and have a good chance of succeeding.
I was expecting some kind of mash-up or remix with David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest.
I am always working in the sense that ideas pop into my head at times that I can apply to my "work"...but I really only work about 20 actual hours a week, that being said, I am salaried and do not really get paid that much, I work with cult members but am a marked non member which makes things interesting and conversely makes me valuable. Try it out!
Considering the vast majority of humans are doing "work" that doesn't help anyone get food or water I think this argument is a little specious. Who defines the necessary attributes of this environment?
I can tell you it isn't for mine. I have a Mother cookie sensor in there reporting in near real time the temperature wirelessly.
"Wealth" is what enables those putting in "effort" to trade for others' "effort" in order to sustain oneself. Although nobody can eat "wealth" or his employer's bank credits, one can absolutely trade "wealth" for "efforts". This is the point of currency. Your strawman that "wealth" cannot be eaten is completely false.
I guess the way to solve this disease is just to use Enum for what they are supposed to be used for. Which is storing a state, that's it.

This article really lacks of OOP concept. In the first example the enum is a property on the 'vehicule' object, it would be way better to add all the properties needed to that class instead of creating a weird 'VehicleTypeTuple' struct...
> some of the design decisions simply didn’t make sense for our security model

I'm curious what decisions those are. We use heaven and it's worked well.
This demonstrates a different problem - enums are closed. If I want to add an Owl, I can't do it without editing Type. This might break the API contract (if you own the library) or not be possible (if it's a third part library).

There is very little reason to use an enum over classes in this example. It's rare that I've seen a Java class style enum that wouldn't have been better served by classes (including some that I've written myself and regretted!)
Is there a list somewhere of problems/bugs that have been discovered with dropbox?
I was wondering how the number, 18446744073709551615, was chosen as the magic number. Maybe it is from this?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheat_and_chessboard_problem

Edit: 2^64 - 1
I think you are confusing the initial statement. Foursquare perceived users as "frustrated" before Swarm because of the conflation of reviews and check-ins with in a single app. The pivot was to create a new app and separate the concerns.
Lollipop turned Nexus devices into pieces of crap, specially the N5.
I believe they can, and people are already selling RFID-proof wallets.
Except Rust-the-language hasn't been proved unsound. Rust's standard library has been found to introduce unsoundness through the incorrect use of `unsafe` blocks. `thread::scoped`'s interface just has to be tweaked somehow, not removed.
This was a little project I did when Marvel's API first came out. I scraped all the data and put it in a database that allowed better searching/browsing. I probably need to periodically scrape the API again to pull in changes and additions as they add them. Hopefully Marvel will update the data and make it more complete.
Not as easy, but it isn't extremely hard either. You can have unbuntu running on most PCs w/in an hour for free.

I also think it is worth noting that Google's only real competitor is a non-profitable Bing that microsoft literally has to bribe people to use.

Microsoft may tire of it and throw in the towel.
I'm mostly interested in Databases and Machine Learning. Thanks
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Linking Instagram is not required, and most people I've seen while using Tinder have their Instagram handle in their profile text.

This is just Tinder enabling their users to share what they're already sharing in a more convenient way.
I have not investigated this at all, but what would be necessary to get AFL to work on Windows?
What did it say for the ones not vulnerable?
The best example I can give is that logs (seemingly unconfigurable?) would post to a 'private' gist. Private is a misnomer as it's just obscurity in the URL. Additionally long term we didn't want to rely on external services needing to reach in (GitHub webhooks), though we didn't have anything strongly against the idea of the deployments API on GitHub.
Agreed.

Different people may have different reasons for going to hackathons. For some, it may be to practise their skills at solving more technical problems and for others it may be simply to validate an idea, for which a wix side and a PDF are perfectly reasonable MVPs.

It's a great thing idea to set aside categories to encourage participation for novice / beginners to hackathons. We all have to start somewhere, perhaps the author forgot that she herself was in a similar situation just a few months ago.
> It's been illegal to get an exclusive cable franchise since the early 1990s.

You're conflating issues here. A cable franchise is using the cable in the ground to deliver television and the fees are paid to the local government yearly. These are regulated differently than internet access AND installing new utilities into communities.

> Google probably has more marketshare than Comcast does (even if you only include areas where Comcast operates).

Marketshare isn't comparable here. You're trying to compare an (arguable) utility versus an online service. The entire analogy if flawed; stop trying to force it.
> The solution of creating a bunch of tuples (or structs)...well, that's just creating a bunch of objects.

Essentially in Java that's actually what you're doing, and if you override the constructor of the enum you get a nice version of what the author is describing (but with more flexibility than a straight up Map)

(oh, bthornbury covered this in his comment)
I always use PNG even when it makes larger files.

That habit goes back to my experience in professional photography where top quality is paramount and "lossy" is a 4-letter word.
Okay, but you're one person offering an anecdote. We are going to need better than that for a discussion about a cultural movement.
This organization has been amazing to work for. The people behind it are real about change.

Disclaimer: I volunteer to teach for OpSpark.
For me this can be seen as a symptom of the problem with technology companies today: If you're too small you won't be able to survive. So everyone gets bought so that they don't die.

In the end you have a few big companies splitting up the market under themselves and the hurdles for a market entry are too high.

An even better example for this are semiconductor foundries.
Most people at hackatons expect they'll need to build something in order to win. So they constrain their ideas around that - and then do the hard work of building that.

It's about fairness towards the other participants of the hackatons.

Otherwise ,if hackatons were about ideas, most people wouldn't bother coding.
People are downvoting us because they can't come up with a good counter-argument and won't admit it. Their loss.
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> Several people already told you: it doesn't matter if it's trivially easy not to use google.com or chrome. Anti-trust law is about market realities.

From the anti-trust cases I've seen, the existence of viable (in the sense of accessible and sufficient, I think) alternatives is usually one of the market realities taken into consideration. If it is trivially easy not to use Google.com or Chrome, then Google's position is solidified by consumer choice rather than anti-competitive behavior.
Apparently they can't cope with two characters having the same name (not a rare thing in the Marvel universe):

http://marvelousdb.com/character/1011256
I think you and GP are actually agreeing. The goal of a lightning protection system is to ensure that when a structure (antenna, wind turbine, transmission tower, etc.) is hit by lightning, the lightning energy is provided with a low impedance path to earth such that any sensitive equipment inside or attached to the structure is not exposed to currents and voltages beyond its design limits.

There are other considerations as well for personnel safety, like ensuring that the ensuing ground potential rise doesn't expose someone standing near the earthing point to a shock hazard.

Going back to the original comment, lightning protection in wind turbines is more or less a solved problem. Direct hits on blades are routine and any utility-class wind turbine will be designed with an appropriate system for the area in which it is located. Now, when your turbine is on a big rock, that's a problem and you may have to blast and backfill to achieve a sufficiently low earth resistance.
I think in languages like ML or Haskell, people are encouraged to be trigger-happy about creating enums with meaningful names for every tiny use case. That's a viable approach because defining a new enum literally takes one line, and working with enums is very natural due to pattern matching. The maintenance nightmare doesn't seem to happen. Though in languages like Java that approach would be much less convenient.
> Nothing wrong with that

Quite arguable. Creating a paywalled version of a FLOSS product like this has never been seen well by the FLOSS community (especial when there's been so many contributors) and has actually been subject to a lot of controversy.
The Deceptive Anagram Question
I really like this feature. I'm currently pulling some functionality out of one app and into a separate gem. This allows me to cmd+p and find the files I want in either project. It also saves a ton of memory by not opening a second atom window.
Writing in their PhD paper in 1998, Larry Page and Sergey Brin described paid advertising as “insidious”, because it “often provides an incentive to provide poor quality search results”.

Absolutely hilarious.
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You're absolutely right, but I'd argue that, by switching to a more balanced life-style, you're still optimizing your life... except instead of optimizing for money-earned by your company, you're maximizing for personal health and satisfaction. And really it's this question of "what are we optimizing for?" (aka "what's do I want to do in my life?") that explains why we buy into the culture of overwork.

As in, if your goal in life is to maximize company and personal profit per time, then by all means, committing to an over kill culture will get you there. If you want to party hard (and I mean hard as in hookers and cocaine in a pent house, not a weekend camping trip to Yosemite or whatever), you will need to work hard. On the other hand, if your goal in life is to live long and healthy and or get really good at your craft, then it makes sense to limit your daily hours and be patient.

If you don't know what your life goals are (and I imagine a lot of young folks are in this category), then you'll readily buy into whatever life-goals are presented to you by whoever person has the most social influence. And the young guys who flaunt the tons of money they have made in a short amount of time through overworking really hard influence us a lot more than the old guys who intentionally don't mention the large sum of money they've made working slowly over time. So we model our lives after those fast burners, and try to replicate their success despite having a different set of physical resources to work with.

This (lack thereof) personal life strategy will work for a tiny population of the folks who adopt it, and having known only success, they will have some level of contempt for the large majority who couldn't do it. As for the large majority who fail, they'll either figure out how to be patient and lead a balanced life (like the writer of this blog), or wind up with some sort of kidney disease in their 30s. And that's really just life when you throw out all the frivolous junk of "optimized load times", "brand adherence", "platform agnosticism", "shipping deadlines", etc., it is about finding out what for yourself what you can and what you're going to optimize for in your short several decades on this relatively eternal planet.
This isn't surprising.

What bothers me though, is discriminatory practice in promotion.

I routinely see females get promoted when they:

1. marry
2. have babies
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