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And then you clicked through and you were all, like, "dammit, I was hoping to read about a vulnerability that could only be exploited by an attacker who could already run code on the target by using sockets, but it turns out it was really about a vulnerability that could only be exploited by an attacker who could already run code on the target using the environment!", and I am very sorry for misleading you.
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The problem is that the unsetenv function was POSIXified to make it return int when it used to return void; and then it started returning -1 when the environment was corrupt.
I forsee a future with two categories of meat: "cruelty free" and "contraband", with a voting majority viewing the latter as one small step removed from serial-killing.
Are you telling us to abandon Gears, Google?
I look forward to seeing Squad really take off. Nice work, Sproutbox.
Hah, actually we have this committed, and will be up on the next push. In any case, we only show the last 5 days of unreviewed changes after an initial import.
I clicked through to this expecting it to be about Capistrano vs. Chef vs. [...], but the post is really about nginx vs. Apache vs. [...].

A more appropriate title might be, "Comparison of Rails Production Environments"
Ask HN: Have you changed your mind about global warming?
With the recent hullabaloo over the CRU hacking, and the additional information that has come up, has your opinion about global warming changed? Were you skeptical before and now convinced, or were you convinced before and now skeptical? What exactly changed your mind?

People can get very inflamed about this question, which is a shame, because science shouldn't be about dogma. I'm really not asking this question to pick a fight. Myself, I've gone back and forth with my opinions on anthropogenic climate change over the last 10 years or so. You hear about how the data is complete garbage, then find out that the person making the claims is a creationist on the payroll of an oil company with a mail-order college degree, and it goes back and forth.

I'm asking because I have a lot of respect for this community's ability to parse and analyze flaky/politicized data, and frankly, I've been busy and haven't had time to really look at the recent developments.
And they say innovation is dead in the U.S. Using the audio jack to read credit cards, brilliant.

Thinking out loud: I assume it reads the strips and converts the information to tones - but I would love to read more about it. I just want to plug it into my computer and see what comes up in Audacity when I scan a card.

I think this device/feature overwhelms the service as a whole actually.
What's with the spammy comments?
Murdoch Says Web Aggregators Should Pay for Content
Definitely. It's very noticeable when you are energy-constrained. I recently bought LED based flashlight and it's awesome. It's tiny, very bright and batteries lasts forever.
No, you're meaningless techno-babble.
Indeed. Scott Adams is one of the most frustrating bloggers I know - he frequently makes sound points, but far too often you're blinded by a glaring error he makes in the first sentence or two to ever see them.

Skip the first paragraph, and the rest of this post is reasonably well argued.
I had a pretty immediate negative reaction when I just read about the room described. Now, I'm trying to figure out why I had this reaction.

I think the room communicates an environment of obsessive and messy people, and that really isn't the kind of people I'd like to be around. I would have felt better if it wasn't just Star Trek, but various posters of stereotypically nerdy things. If it had been all posters of Harry Potter, I'd still feel uncomfortable. Also, a life-size bust? Really? I would think a life-size bust of anything to be weird, even if it was Zachary Quinto or George Washington.

A messy environment does make me uncomfortable. (Does it not make you uncomfortable?) The article described a mess of discarded computer parts. At a past company that I worked for, I got to visit the IT room, which had neat piles of spare computer parts organized in the middle of the floor. Although I did think it was weird that the stuff was just lying on the floor, I did have to resist an urge to crawl along the floor and check out everything (I totally would've done it if the HR people weren't watching me). If it had been a disorganized pile of discards, I wouldn't have given it a second glance.

> My guess is that women feel like they are biologically different than men

Um yes. I do feel that I am biologically different than men.

> and geek paraphernalia is seen as a signal that the environment will be dominated by men who don't understand women

Hmm, I think the closest place of "geek paraphernalia" that I've been exposed to is my school's linux lounge. The place has a bunch of working computers and some old computers to be stripped for parts, bookcases of CS textbooks, posters of the Linux penguin, signs made of the reflective side of compact discs, but there's nothing about this environment that turns me off. If the room had instead been covered with something I had zero interest in (like Star Trek) then yes, I would be a little put off.
> You don't know what you're talking about.

I would bet pretty good money that he does:-)
You don't even have to be an extrovert to be bored by what passes for culture in "geek" circles.
It marks your commit as read to you (ie, it marks commits by email "A" as read to the user who signs in with email "A").

Other people in your team should see them as unread until they actually go and open the diffs.
Micro-payments are like any other pay-wall -- they imply throwing away the vast majority of the traffic you get from search engines and links.

They've never been rolled out in a serious way, because advertisers are currently paying enough for the unfiltered masses to outweigh the revenue that could be generated by those readers that survive a pay-wall.

As for why those with pay-walls don't use the micro-transaction model -- they can't charge people for what they actually read without the per-story price being large enough to trigger that discrete psychological purchase decision that micro-payments' tiny size was envisioned to avoid.

E.g. An average person paying $5/mo for the WSJ might read 50 stories a month. Ask them for a dime a story and they'll read fewer, reducing your revenue. With subscription pricing they essentially make all that stuff the reader doesn't really want appear to be a feature that, for whatever reason, they do value enough to pay for.
I posted the HN link on Twitter. Looks like it's a bunch of my friends. God bless'em. Sorry about that.

I'd love some non softball comments/feedback. So fire away.
this is certainly a good thing, no doubt about it, but what I'd like to know is how many people's mindset shifts from conservative to liberal knowing that they are "saving electricity with new bulbs therefore can run the lights all day". i'd have to say i'd be in that camp as well because I work from home and often like it to be well-lit but force myself to act more conservatively in favor of our electricity bill.

in my opinion, this was one of the problems with the American auto industry too. all of the efficiency realized through R&D effectively went into appeasing the "demand" for more HP instead of better MPG...
Um chill out.

It could have been some weird IP spoofing attack where the host gets confused and thinks a remote connection is actually localhost and grants it some privilege or other.

For example maybe you have a ton of services setup to only listen on localhost:port. Maybe there's some exploit that allows connections from outside.

That's what the title sounds like to me, which is quite different.

anyway.
Law and medicine also have large monetary and status incentives. I can imagine walking into certain kinds of offices and feeling like I would not want to work there. I do not consider that intolerance.
So how do I buy it? What are the fees? It's backed by Khosla Ventures, so it's obviously not vaporware, but I don't see a call-to-action anywhere.
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programmers rarely get to decide what is actually being built. it seems like most of the arguments for women in programming seem to suggest that with women programmers, the product of the code (and not the code itself) would be different. in most jobs, this simply isnt the case. women in product management would seem to address the product that the rest of the world sees.

One thing is interesting is that there used to be many more women in programming.
Sweet. I'm one of the developers :)

Regrettably, the site is moving really slowly. We made this for the Rails Rumble earlier this year, in 48 hours. After that, very little time was devoted to the site, since our "real" jobs keep getting us from hacking on this.

If you have any ideas, however, I would encourage you to go and add them to our support system, at http://help.howsmycode.com -- we don't promise to get them implemented right away, but we will look at them :)
In reply to your first point, about women not wanting to go into CS, I would say that in itself is the problem. Programming (or other hard sciences) could be a very rewarding career path, but they're socialized to self-select away from it. I don't think that CS as a field is necessarily lacking an important female perspective[1], but I do think that individual women may be missing an opportunity for the wrong reasons. The self-selection aspect should not be taken as a lack of problem, but rather a characterization of the problem as having more subtle causes.

[1] Although, there may be truth in the idea that software is written for/from a male perspective, meaning that it doesn't suit women's needs as well... whatever those needs are. Yeah, I'm ambivalent about this point, but I don't outright reject it.

PS I also highly recommend reading The Mismeasure of Woman by Carol(?) Tavris. It provides very clear concrete, statistical, and anecdotal explanations of how and why a woman's experience differs from a man's, and the consequences of the man's experience being an implicit standard. Despite being woman-focused, the book is also pretty rational and balanced about the potential of reverse-discrimination, and does a pretty good job of noting problems without demanding specific fixes.
In general, I'm a fan of this talk. I think these guys are arguing these things for the wrong reasons and don't understand the tech. At its core, they should be playing hard ball. We're becoming a society that just expects everything to be free (in price) and as cheap as possible. Mark Cuban said it best: you live and die by free.
The designers produce the CSS, I don't. In most cases, they use their fancy tools to produce it. If they're not using SASS, what's the advantage to me? Why would I convert their CSS to SASS to get the same result in the end?

Templates are a different story -- that's where the design and the functionality meet. I do convert the final comps to templates and if necessary the templates back into static code to repeat the process (rarely necessary, but it happens). This is a necessary evil. Why would I want to perpetuate that evil in CSS as well?
I bought these earlier this year :/ Maybe I'll give them another go in a few years.
Tail call optimization in javascript coming to SpiderMonkey
I think the opposite is true. The hardware is almost a gimmick to push what is otherwise a potentially powerful service.

The theory behind this app is that individuals are now empowered to take credit cards for anything they previously would have had to take a cash or check for, which is increasingly important in our society where credit cards are becoming the normal way to pay for things.

As for the hardware, it's a pretty old trick. Though I don't know any of the specifics of this device, you don't need to look any further than your graphing calculator to see the idea in use.
Yes, it would certainly be nice if the problem was solved from both sides.
So you haven't read it, you just came here to persecute people who might disagree with you. Awesome.
Potential market adoption aside, the technology looks pretty interesting. The little scanner in the video is plugged into the headphone port of an iPod Touch. I'm assuming that this port also accepts microphone input (like the iPhone port) and that the scanner device just transforms the magnetic strip data into sonic frequencies the software understands to be able to "read" the credit card into the app? Neat.
I've long been a skeptic of AGW, because of the tie-in between the one-world-government/population control people and this particular "OMG the world's ending unless we all scale back immediately!" set of folks. I like my science to be less ideologically-driven from the start.

Also I think the science has not shown that we're drastically affecting the earth's normal cycles, which can be drastic & on on a very short time frame themselves (witness the mini-ice ages of 400-500 years ago, and also witness medieval warming (which this particular set of folks tried to suppress but were corrected about)).
I'm willing to take your bet.

He has claimed that "localhost vulnerability" was the term used on the OpenBSD list in the 1990s. Why don't you try to find it there: http://emailthreads.org/list/openbsd-security-announce.en.ht...
I know this wont be a very substantial comment but:

That's pretty freaking cool.
How is this better than keying in the cc number + expiry date?

Also I don't think this would work with chip+pin cards would it?
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It's not that I don't love newspapers or sympathize with their current plight, it's just that Murdoch seems so fully disconnected from reality that he's becoming dangerous. With all of his power and money he is perhaps dangerous even to those beyond the reach of his media empire.
I hold scientists to higher standards of conduct. The "Other people behave badly!" defense doesn't sit well with me.
If Gulliver Was a Designer
Arguably you can use webworkers (available on V8 and JSC, and thus Narwhal on those platforms) for concurrency problems. Webworkers enforce no shared state though, they use a message passing mechanism. Not the greatest solution.

Concurrency is important, but I think most server tasks don't require it. JavaScript doesn't need to be the 100% language to "win" it just needs to be the 80% language.
Please roll this out to cab companies in Chicago
But since we're at it, let's talk about the biology arguments

The geekfeminism link addresses the almost-strawman argument that women don't have the math or analytical skills needed for CS. It doesn't address the possibility that there are biological reasons for differing levels of interest in the field.
You don't get my point: it is normal that databases/software is a mess (as codinghorror says, all code is shit). Somehow work gets done anyway.

What is your solution: some certification maybe? Please - these are the worst companies... Otherwise, make a suggestion.
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You may have misunderstood my last point; I wasn't suggesting that you take 100% market share and "kill competitors" literally, I was referring more about how you're going to at least match the features that these products offer. I say that out of frustration of not being able to find a full-featured small business accounting application. It seems like online invoicing applications are a dime a dozen; Freshbooks seems to be better poised to kick it up a notch and offer a full-featured small biz accounting package.

On your last point, 3.1, I feel like there's room for something more full-featured inside of one product. When I first saw Freshbooks, I was excited because it looked like you had a full featured small business accounting app, but then I was quickly disappointed because its basically the same as Blinksale.
Disagree. Every month we're seeing a new "X to JavaScript" compiler, and increasingly they are being written natively in JavaScript.
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The fact is that if your boss shows a general caring in his/her subordinates (as in working with you when you need PTO for family, making sure you don't work overtime unless 101% necessary, getting you good development hardware, etc.) it adds a lot to job satisfaction. Combine that with a reasonable health care plan, a pay that you feel is more or less fair for your position and skill AND that you can live happily off, and interesting problems to solve at work.

Get all of the above all at once and you have job satisfaction. I don't blame myself for any bit of unhappiness at my job. But even with that I look at my job and think that I can get a better health plan elsewhere, I can get better pay elsewhere, I can get more interesting problems elsewhere, I can get all the things that make my job great elsewhere... but not likely all at once. So far this has been the most satisfying job I've had, because I feel appreciated in all respects for my skill and dedication, both in the words said to me and actions taken towards me.

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I'm sorry if you took offense. Your arguments are valid ones -- they are borne of wisdom over time that makes you more risk averse. Early adopters throw this kind of caution to the wind because they see promise and are looking for a competitive edge. Instead of waiting for a tool to mature, they help it mature. It's not an insult that you've matured, you should take it as a kind of a compliment.

But the 10 years ago you wouldn't have taken your advice. 10 years ago CSS was not ubiquitous. There were not good tools. The ecosystem was just getting going. And yet somehow the tradeoff was worth it for you.

Technical designers learn sass quickly. They like it and so the tools will follow. The ecosystem will grow. Already Sass experience is considered a plus in job reqs for many forward-thinking startups. Sass and Compass will mature in the next few years, and you're objections will fall by the way side and a few years after that, instead of having a competetive advantage, you'll be at a competitive disadvantage by not using something like it.

I don't know if Sass and Compass will ultimately be the tools of choice for generating CSS, but I'm certain that there will be tools like them.
I'm a big fan of charts, and I'm glad to see someone made a good non-flash interactive chart solution.
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The precautionary principle provides little basis for cost-benefit analysis. Should we be willing to spend a trillion dollars to stop global warming? Half the global economy? 90% of it? Probably not the last one, because billions would die. Assuming the worst-case will happen if we don't act isn't a good way to make rational decisions.
> When you apply that sort of thinking to code

Politics and sociology is not code. Appreciating this very simple assertion, the rest of your claim falls apart.

> "All men are created equal,"

I cannot think of a more contrived, irrelevant example. Trying to model policy and social behaviour on, say, OOP, is a really bad idea.

I know this is HN and all, but not everything has an analogue to programming. The "hacker mentality" is not a panacea to the world's ills.
Fostering innovation and entrepreneurship means removing tax and other federal burdens, and allowing Americans and the free market to thrive. George's comments are right on. Our economy did just fine for a long time without this debt-backed fiscal irresponsibility called economic stimulus.
I've recently become a fan of the Black Diamond Apollo LED lanterns for camping use. They're only 3W, and the total light emitted isn't as high as from some of the competitors, but what makes them great is that the mirrors and lenses are shaped perfectly so that it evenly illuminates a tabletop-sized work area, and throws no light upwards. The focusing is easily the most important aspect of the product.

However, it seems quite plausible that the different spectrum of LEDs could affect the perceived brightness, particularly if you're wanting the diffuse reflection from LED spotlights to act as ambient lighting.
"For much of the population, education is less important than faith, and "freedom" has been twisted perversely into something that actually means "safety"."

Spot on.
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Yes, I understood it like that - even if the decor is "female" women won't like it. So I guess I misread it.
tl;dr -- anyone have a link to the LED in the picture? it looks cool.
You're 100% correct. Hardware is cool, but the merchant services side is what makes Square awesome
> it's more stuff like having people change the topic of conversation when you join in the circle

This seems like a chicken and egg kinda thing. As a nerd I adjust my behavior when interacting with women and discussing CS-ey stuff, because, in my personal empirical experience they just "turn off" if I "nerd out" too much.

But that same prediction will lead to false positives for women who would get it if I were to nerd out at full throttle.

I think this circles back to how Humans are pretty great at categorizing, and making predictions as time savers, but it can screw us on edge cases.

Cause really the problem I have when women "zone out" during a techie discussion, is not that they're dumb. They don't care, or do, but lack all the implicit knowledge context I take for granted when I rationalize stuff in my head. You'd get the same behavior if a Business Major Frat Boy (oh look more stereotypes, weee!) asked you "So? How do those things really work?"

Just so happens gender is a pretty obvious label to latch onto for making that judgment call of "can I go all out, or not?", a label that can backfire a lot of the time.

I really am all for more girls in CS, because that means more likely hood of working with smart people, and I like me some smarties.

But something in that article made me wonder. When she was interviewing that female grad student there was worry over losing that "culture". It seems like women are just as capable of identifying with that "stereotype" culture. Are we sacrificing that when trying to get that raw percentage up?
It's in closed beta with a number of vendors, like @sightglass & @lilybellesf. According to their Twitter, they're taking beta applications later today: http://twitter.com/Square/status/6242394391
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Since when does science have anything to do with anyone feeling "accepted"? I just spent 12 minutes reading the dialog here and perhaps this post is a result of an emotional response but seriously, most people I know involved in computer science (that are any good) got there by persevering enormous social discomfort. If you have a love and a passion for this work you will do it and no amount of messy labs and Star Wars posters is going to change that.

Maybe I'm missing the point and correct me if I'm wrong, but allot of computer science has already been created/invented/defined by women (the first compiler, arguably the first programming language, etc.).

So if you have something to contribute, pull up a keyboard and start hacking; computer science is one of the few arts/professions where today you need little more than a computer and an internet connection to become as good as your talent, creativity and willingness to invest the time will allow.

"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work." http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Thomas_Edison
Very impressed. Slick hardware and UI, and some great backing behind it. Interested to see how much traction this will get.