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I worked for 5 semesters as an undergrad teaching assistant in the CS department of my university. We had generally 1 to 2 cases of cheating per semester in classes of up to 150 students and ~10 assignments. We identified them using Moss[1] which we ran over all submitted assignments. This plagiarism rate now pales in comparison to the rate the OP has seen.

I wonder why there's such a huge gap between my experience and this professor's; undergrad vs. graduate school? CS vs. business school? Moss vs. Turnitin? Arizona vs. New York?

1. http://theory.stanford.edu/~aiken/moss/

I'd most likely be a homemaker because that was all that was available to most women 100 years ago. I often count myself lucky that I was born in an age when women can become programmers.

At one point, I (naively) thought that by starting a company, I would be helping to alleviate unemployment in the US because I would be creating jobs. Now I realize that the programmers and designers I employ are/will be people who could have their choice of jobs, because I'm only hiring the smartest and most skilled. I'm effectively not altering the unemployment rate by adding jobs for the sector of the population that is in the least need of work.

So, I don't think it's possible for us (people who work at companies whose product is technology) to help create jobs for people without tech skills.

What is Spring?

Speaking as a technical cofounder, it depends on the potential technical cofounders that you meet. Personally, when I met my non-tech cofounder, he already had his idea well thought out to the point where he'd made a trailer video demonstrating some of the UX using After Effects. I fell in love with the product idea itself because I'm primarily motivated by product ideas, and secondarily by team members.

I've now got as much skin in the game as him - neither of us is making a salary yet.

There's no one way to find your technical cofounder - we're all motivated by different things, and maybe what you've already got will click with someone. Just keep meeting people and putting your idea and self out there.

This is why it's often a good idea to outsource tasks that aren't your business's core competency. I've used Flurry for mobile stats tracking because they've devoted a lot of time figuring out solutions to problems like this. Time I don't have, and DDOSs I don't have to diagnose.

I honestly don't understand how this is a scandal at all. Sure, it's a mild annoyance to receive 27 reply-all messages. Newsworthy? Not in the least.

From a great number of people's reports about their experiences while using psychedelics, they all seem to follow a common theme (things about opening their mind to God, communing with the great underlying themes of life, opening previously locked doors in their minds). If a plurality of people report having the same experience, then to me, that validates it.

Then there's the solipsist point of view, which is to say, it doesn't matter that someone else thinks you are deluding yourself, because all that is knowable is in your own mind, so you aren't capable of validating anything anyway.

Either way, the experience is validated, to one's self or to the world.

So because there's no history or common idiom referencing women in leadership roles, we should just speak of all hardship as though only men have ever, do ever, and will ever perform in difficult rites of passage? Please. This isn't clumsy, it's forward-thinking, and arguably present-aware.

As a dev with a remote team, Skype 5 is probably my most-used desktop application on OS X, besides my IDE.

The other day, after upgrading, I could not for the life of me figure out how to bring up the number key pad while on a voice call. I needed to "press 1 for X", but I couldn't do it. This used to be easy in Old Skype.

If a power user like myself can't figure something out, chances are it's too difficult or hidden for casual users too.

Or maybe Europeans consume milk and alcohol because they can easily digest it?

The ad I saw on the right side seems highly inappropriate. Or, perhaps, appropriate - I'm not sure.

http://adb.nikkei.co.jp/ad/logo/2008b/NikkeiWeekly080722-NNI...

What I find fascinating about Hedy Lamarr's patent is that it formed the basis, many decades later, for spread-spectrum communication tech used by wifi and CDMA networks.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedy_Lamarr#Frequency-hopping_s...

I think this makes a lot of sense. You have to build the cake before you can put the icing on it. Your CSS is invisible unless it has html to decorate.

Is this device "Made For iPhone" (http://developer.apple.com/programs/mfi/)? If it is, I suggest putting the badge on your front page. If it's not, I suggest applying for it to be.

I recommend that you see a therapist. My therapist's practice is mindfullness-based, which I highly recommend. One of the things I've learned is how to look at all my own italicized parenthetical statements as the bullshit excuses they are. The monkey-mind is what's making up all those stories that you tell yourself about why X is impossible -- it's telling you that you can't possibly found a startup because you've had difficulties refactoring some Java? Come on now. Just pick one of those goals and go for it. Don't pay attention to any of your excuses.

A wise friend once told me "If someone else can do it, you can totally do it."

This isn't a case of "copying" though. That would entail reverse engineering an existing product, which Bing is (according to this post) not doing. They are instead importing the search results themselves from Google.com.

Literally, I think Egyptians just became the world's biggest internet losers.

Before, all you needed to do to revoke access to all those crazy 3rd parties you gave your password to was: change your password. Now, you need to figure out where to go to revoke permissions, figure out what 3rd party app you no longer want, and figure out exactly what permission (in Facebook's case, but not Twitter's). It's confusing even for technical people because it's nonstandard and different on every OAuth provider's site.

Perhaps you could let us in on the joke?

Do you mean for general workflow tasks, or for creating documents given a set of data?

For workflow tasks, Automator.app on OSX is pretty great, even for non-programmers. There's probably something analogous on windows/other OSes.

For document generation... that seems like a fun weekend hack. I'm imagining some kind of more configurable madlibs-style app.

It's really unfortunate that this poorly-chosen title overshadows an otherwise very attractive job posting. Sexism is still sexism, whether or not it's from 1914. -female and feminist programmer here.

Honestly, I don't think "Learn how to do it yourself" is a viable option for non-technical entrepreneurs looking to start a company. It takes years to become even competent at programming, and longer to be able to design a scalable web application proficiently. Besides, you probably want to spend your time doing the non-technical tasks that you're already good at - there will be plenty of that work to be done while you're getting your company off the ground.

You say you don't believe that mashing together frameworks is actual development, yet you recommend the jQuery framework for front-end coding. Do you draw a distinction between front-end and back-end - is front-end work not really development?

In my experience, the time it takes to become proficient with an existing framework is generally a lot shorter than writing a framework yourself. And, generally, the existing one will have been vetted by thousands of people before me.

Pointing out privileges that a group experiences does not mean putting the blame on that group. The purpose of this kind of list is to bring awareness of privilege, not to place blame. How can a person work to eliminate XYZ-ism if they are not aware of how it happens?

Most the points on the list have a subtlety, I think, and are non-obvious. They all require imagining yourself in the marginalized minority's shoes. They aren't the glaringly obvious examples of sexism that (really infrequently) happen, like Aimonetti's slides. That's where the real work can be done, because eliminating obvious sexism is the easy part.

Here's a discrepancy. You said:

"it suggests this is a problem we (HN programmers or some other applicable group) can and should solve."

But then you said:

"stop whining and start trying to change something."

This list is absolutely on the right path - by recognizing and bringing attention to a list of privileges that male programmers might not have thought of, this list (and the people behind it, following in the footsteps of many other feminist/egalitarian privilege lists that have been created), they are doing something about the problem. Raising awareness is action - arguably the most important action in ameliorating sexism in this space.

I agree. Also about (ii), she was assuming that she could speak for all women in the audience - that just because she found the slides offensive, that all women necessarily would be offended by those slides. A central tenet of feminism is that you cannot ever take the words of an individual and extrapolate them to represent the views of an entire group.

Intuitively, this makes sense. If your company has walled itself off from hiring 1/2 of the population, of course you will be passing over some highly skilled applicants who are in the sector you've walled yourself off from. By broadening your search, you will get a larger pool of talented applicants.

This is awesome. When I was growing up, in Saudi Arabia, I never once saw a Saudi woman at a desk. I've read that King Abdul Aziz University actively recruits women professors and students, and that's such a wonderful thing to hear.

I've heard (second-hand) that Twitter isn't discarding users' tweets after they hit 3,200, they just don't provide API access to them. They're still sitting in a DB somewhere, just inaccessible currently, until Twitter provides access to them.