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I haven't seen Homeland past the first season - but can someone who has seen more shed light on the alleged "racism" of the show? Is the show actually racist in its depiction of Arab-speaking characters, or is this simply a manifestation of Hanlon's Razor - "never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity"?

It's not at all appropriate in a business setting.

I'm lucky that as an adult male engineer, I've never been asked whether or not I was a "real" engineer and horrible things like the woman in the original post was. However, I paid dearly for my choice in interests as a child when I was physically bullied to the point that I was forced to change elementary schools. I was also ostracized significantly (by both men and women) in high school for being "a computer nerd". Don't assume that no male engineer understands what it is like to "endure similar stuff".

Are they really? If you are playing a song in your web browser, how did it get on your computer? Hint: your web browser downloaded it for you.

Didn't they already go there? They haven't been to my university yet.

Read surge's comment. There is a difference between culture and race and I don't understand why some people are incapable of separating the two.

What? How does this article embody misogyny in any way? The author barely mentions gender except to specify that he notices usages of this phrase equally between men and women.

To be fair, you can do this with Windows 8.1 too and get the same results: https://www.google.com/#safe=off&q=windows+8.1+update+breaks...

Isn't the idea though that with physical access, the game is already over anyway? If an intruder has physical access to your machine they will eventually be able to get to anything they want.

If someone really wants to protect their data, they have to count physical access as a possibility and rely on encryption and/or remote wiping - the operating system login isn't going to do much anyway.

What the fuck? How does this shit happen? How on earth does someone, male or female, get into such a state that they think it is appropriate to do something like this in a professional setting?

Can someone explain to me how this works? I'm male in a male-dominated industry, and of course I don't give a damn what people look like and treat everyone with respect. The problem is, I don't believe a single one of my male friends (or female friends) would be capable of doing something like this.

Where the hell do these people come from, and how can this be stopped? I hate it when shit like this happens because I worry people will associate this behavior with me.

That may be so, but let's keep in mind that there is no reason to criticize the President for being undeserving of the prize. It's not like he awarded it to himself.

> You probably haven’t gone to Stanford and MIT.

Queue out X% of startup people in the United States. You know one common quality of great entrepreneurs? They're really good at getting into and paying for elite colleges with sub-10% acceptance rates.

In fact, why doesn't everyone who hasn't gone to Stanford or MIT just smack themselves in the head, abandon their startups, and apply for low-level janitorial positions. Clearly they weren't born intelligent and able to start a startup, otherwise they would have gone to Stanford and MIT where all smart startup people are able to go when they turn 18.

> I would not want her to marry someone who wasn't willing to give her a ring

That seems like a really shallow and material evaluator of the character of a human being.

> People who buck social conventions sometimes become trend-setters and are incredibly successful for it, but more often just make life harder on themselves and the people that depend on them

Well thank God that Jackie Robinson, Marie Curie, or Barack Obama didn't believe this. Sometimes being different from the rest of the crowd and following your passions is more worthwhile rather than striving to "fit in" by purchasing status-enhancers.

What? I don't follow.

Can someone explain to me why every little news tidbit relating to MIT has to be on the HN front page 24/7? My goodness, it's like this is the MIT fan club.

Why is this being posted here? It's a notice from MIT to the MIT community about network problems they have been having. I attend Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, should I post every little announcement from their news feed on HN? I'm so sick of this mindless worshiping of a school just because it is a great university.

There are plenty of other higher-education institutions that offer excellent programs. Yet somehow "MIT", "Stanford", "Carnegie Mellon", etc are the only names people want to hear of engineering universities, all other institutions are just "schools".

TL;DR: Harvard, MIT, Yale, Stanford, Stanford, Oxford, Yale, Cambridge, MIT, Stanford, Harvard. It is difficult to tell if this is an indication that YC overwhelmingly prefers people from extremely prestigious name-brand universities, or only people from said universities have any chance of being "connected" enough to get into YC.

Exactly, I've noticed this time and time again.

> MIT discovers ... > MIT students make brilliant startup ... > MIT professors build ...

Meanwhile, let's say something originated from RPI. It would say,

> Scientists discovered a new vaccine that ...

I think it helps the pull- MIT is a brand name, so people will click the link.

Wow. I think one of the coolest things about this, is seeing a GitHub repo with some of the commits being from 12 years ago. Gives you an idea of how long PHP's been around as compared to a lot of the projects floating around GH.

That's my hunch as well. Of course, there are certainly situations in which those extra features might be necessary, but they are in .01% of the case situations that the average iPad user is going to need it for.

Out of curiosity- is this wanting due to your need for expandable space, for example, or your desire to tinker with the device?

The iPad certainly isn't for everyone, just like most consumer technology products are for certain types of people. But I think Apple's hit the sweet spot where for 99% of their customers, 16, 32, or 64GB of space is plenty and customization isn't really needed.

I think the key thing to take away from this post is how many lightyears ahead the third generation iPad is from its competitors, or current consumer technology in general.

> Going back to the iPad 2 after reading for a few hours on the iPad 3 is jarring.

> ...most graphics and images on the web are behind the curve, as of today

> The iPad display is so good that it shows, like no device before it, just how crummy most images on the web are.

It's like using a product from the future. Except Apple has engineered it now, and everyone can have one for a (relatively) decent price: $500. The new iPad is the poster child of everything that Apple does really well, and why it has been so successful over the past couple of years.

I am working at a startup currently.

However, I'm not "searching for validation" here, I was asking specific questions the Y Combinator funding cycle.

I'm also unsure of what you describe as my "angst"- I am not anxious or fearful of this process. Just merely inquisitive as to the nature of how it works.

I'm in New Jersey (United States). Looks like we are in the same boat! I'd love to apply with a co-founder but I also don't know anyone that's remotely interested.

If you want to talk, feel free to send me an email (the address is in my profile).

This reminds me of an article Time Magazine did on Norway's Halden Prison.

Essentially, when the Norwegian justice system treated their inmates more humanely, their recidivism (crime after prison) rate became 40% less than the US and the UK.

Similarly, in Norway, there are only 69 inmates per 100,000 people, compared to 753/100,000 in the United States.

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1986002,00....

I've adjusted recently to have 1.5 hour naps in the middle of the day (I'm a college student), so then I can go to bed at around 1 AM and wake up at 7:30 AM, and be well-rested and awake the entire day.

It's almost like taking the nap in the middle day gives my brain a "restart" so it's refreshed and prepared to focus the rest of the night.

Interesting idea (that is, launching the site with hardly any features). Good way to make sure the product doesn't become vaporware.

Well, the question is, how far does that go? If I put up photos on a public web server intending them to be private, is that still legal?

I think it's a stretch to call this "just" a mistake. First of all, there isn't any malicious code that has to be run to execute it, it's a simple as clicking a few buttons in the UI.

Secondly, Facebook is a site with hundreds of millions of users managing billions of private photos. With the amount of revenue & number of developers they have, it's inexcusable that they can't think through a simple process like this without considering what happens if two users aren't friends.

Granted, they're probably not "trying" to undermine privacy. But they're doing a very poor job at maintaining it.

This isn't even a security hole, it's a complete security disaster. Did they even think through the process for five minutes before they built that? I mean, there aren't even any hacks involved.

Nice find.

What is it about European countries that make them so reasonable and open to progress? This is great news, because for once there's actually a law on pirating that's based on research, unlike US laws centered around "job creators" losing money.