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I apologise in advance as this is probably quite a controversial rant, but this sort of thing has always really frustrated me.

I guess it comes down to this: I don't see how sex matters when you're a business person, when you're programming, when you're building things. The sex of the person rightfully shouldn't come into it - it's their skills that matter. The interpreter, afterall, doesn't spit out a different result depending the sex of the coder - a computer is ultimately a great leveller. It has been a long fought battle to try and gain equality between the sexes and I firmly believe society is increasingly heading towards that goal.

And then when I read things like this it feels like a punch-in-the-face, as though it's saying "equality doesn't matter when it helps women". Or, even worse, there's perhaps an implication that women /need/ the help of other women to succeed and deserve special treatment. Or should I get ideas that there is some sort of conspiracy to form the inverse to the stereotype sexist "men's-only club" boardroom and there's some sort of attempt to reverse that through a "women's-only club". I loathe all these implications.

I've often wondered about this curious double-standard. There's previously been women-only discussions by Google in Computer Science at my University, but I bet there isn't men-only discussions in the psychology department, languages or other women-dominated social sciences and I think they'd be highly controversial if they did. Often an eyelid isn't blinked when someone offers something exclusively for women, but there'd rightly be uproar if someone offered it for men-only. I often wonder if the fact that men do significantly worse than women in exams (and as such University admissions) in this country would be quite such a footnote if the shoe was on the other foot.
Too bad it didn't work on me.
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I started this several months ago on my blog for a group of folks of varying skill levels on a student project (tmedweb.tulane.edu). Moved it to jottit in hopes some smart hacker news types could help make it better.
I'm not sure you can support TLS (SSL) on multiple domains, at least not without running different postfix instances on unique IP:ports for each domain. Unless you're just using sub-domains and have a wildcard cert.

It's the same issue you run into trying to host multiple SSL protected sites on the same IP. The server (Apache or Postfix) has to serve out the cert to encrypt the channel before reading the request data (which might contain the domain the client is connecting to).

If you just want to have TLS setup on a primary domain, and also handle mail for other domains (without SSL protection), that's pretty easy.
sounds interesting and probably something I could use since I plan to offer email-only support at first for my online storefront product.

i'll be keeping tabs on you guys. :-)
I've noticed that too.
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nevertheless, i love your vibe.
Disturbing indeed, they betray the trust that these social networks sites gives to crawlers. Most of these sites are available to crawlers it’s hard to stop crawlers on case by case basis.

I tell all my friends (hackers and non hackers) to never post any information or picture about you online that you are not comfortable sharing with everyone. This is a great warning to everybody.
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Ask HN: Any hacker meetups near Philadelphia?
Does anyone know of any periodic hacker meetings in or near Philadelphia?

If none exist yet, let's organize one. We could meet, say, twice a month at a local Borders to discuss the projects we're working on, startups, technology, business, etc. Anything that would fly on HackerNews would fly at our meetings.

If you're interested or have info on an existing one shoot me an email (see profile) and we'll go from there.
While I agree with you for the last two paragraphs, I've started to think that it might be very useful to have a female in the founders or first employees circle. The reason isn't because they are necessarily better, but they are aware of facets of culture that we are not aware of because they grew up in that tribe and we didn't. They would have the same problem vica versa.

If you're selling to a broad multisexual audiance, it makes sense to have a confederate in your midst to point out any faux pas you may make.
This is about equity, not equality.

And we do talk about the same things for men when it comes to reading ability and scholastic performance. In fact just a couple weeks ago I posted a review of Peg Tyre's new book The Trouble With Boys.
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I like and appreciate this effort on behalf of women. I want my girls to grow up feeling comfortable getting involve in hacking because of some of you out there playing the role model for them.

All through my career I have seen a handful of women hackers and some were pretty damn good ones. Keep on pushing girls!!
Looks good -- wish you the best of luck.
Though clearly well-intentioned, these sorts of things have always rubbed me the wrong way, too. It seems they are only acceptable for categories outside the "dominant" set {white, male}. "Women in Engineering" is fine, as is "African Americans in Medicine". And unlike, say, a Gay Men's Chorus, I'd bet they're not particularly accepting of people who don't fit the profile.

As a white male, I'm sure I enjoy all sorts of implicit advantages I don't even notice, but it still weirds me out to see groups wear their exclusionary nature not only openly, but with pride.
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How amusing would it be if this site was just a way to collect emails?

In any case, they are probably getting a whole bunch of emails right now.
Startup life is a lot easier when you have a mentor, and it's easier to form that mentor relationship when you have things in common. I don't see anything wrong with female mentors reaching out to other women and offering the opportunity to form these relationships.
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I can see your point although I'm not necessarily sure I agree with it. I don't think I'm any more away of the facets of culture of the average man any more than most women and I don't like to think that women-kind is that distant that it's easy to make faux-pas.

I don't object to employing someone for their knowledge of a market though when it's relevant. When in Rome, it might be handy to hire some Romans...
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Sounds similar to Rapleaf.
"At the last Y Combinator Demo Day I attended, there were 3 women in a room of over 100 people. That just seems a bit low to me, and I have no doubt that it reflects the candidate pool"

I'm glad she mentioned this. How could Livingston not want more women founders? She's trapped with 80 dudes six months out of the year.

I'm certainly for equal treatment, but whether the media wants to admit it or not - people are different. That's why Title 9, quota hiring and Chief Diversity officers (gag!) have been such utter failures. Right idea, wrong execution. Working in admissions in school was one of the most eye opening things I've ever done. Some of the other efforts are great, but most come off as discriminating double standards.
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Google should seriously invest a little bit of money and pay to have the site design for Matt Cutts look better. Add a custom design (not a template) and maybe say somewhere that he works for Google. I've sent some customers to that site, and they don't take it seriously.
What about the East Coast, Josh? Aren't you based in Conshohocken? [EDIT: No love for your hometown?]
Just curious whether you'd be willing to share some of those eye-opening insights with us.
Yeah seriously. Most of us have names that _someone_ on this planet also has too.

Or if you're really scared, don't use LinkedIn/facebook/Myspace et al. I view all of this stuff as filtering anyway. Would I really want to work at a place that is appalled because there's a picture of me drinking beer on facebook?
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Might I suggest that you consider taking part in a class dominated by women? Perhaps something discussing the proto-feminist leanings of Woolf?

I'm not kidding.

I think you'll find that you're lonely. That you gravitate towards talking to other men in the group. That you feel like your voice isn't heard. That you sense resentment towards you. That your opinion isn't valid.

Now imagine going through that every day in your college career.

(I'm assuming you're a man. If you're not, then my 97% die roll failed me.)
Wouldn't really call them insights, but sure.

HHI 60k, Black, 2.1 GPA, similar EC, no record, ACT Score 16 - Accepted.

HHI 50k, White, 3.2 GPA, similar EC, no record, ACT Score 22 - Rejected.

Most were variations of that. That is, less qualified applicants in similar economic situations were admitted solely because of race. Obviously I knew these practices existed (oh hai Division 1 athletics), I was just surprised how blatant it was especially with economic situations being roughly equal in many of the cases. Scholarships were even worse, but seeing as it was a few years ago, I don't remember specific cases. Just apply the above to general scholarship fund stuff.

Edit: Didn't like how the first sentence read.
Sounds awesome, but, how are they going to do privately hosted projects? Especially those with crazy test environments (like us, PostGIS + tsearch2 + a gazillion gems).

But frankly, anything would be better than CC.rb!
Indeed. Now add a bunch of chest-pounding chicks writing self-described "controversial rants" about the utter ridiculousness of having a group just for men to feel good about themselves.

Hell, the tone of the parent article alone is enough to justify this group. Guys: we already dominate the industry, and will for the rest of our careers. There's no need to be jerks about it. If you don't see the need for a group to which you'll never belong, just keep quiet.
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I know exactly what you're talking about. I once worked for a software company where the female engineers/managers way outnumbered the male engineers. It became known as a friendly place for female engineers to work and that, in turn, attracted more female engineers.

But that's not my point. My point is, at that company, I would often go to engineering meetings (with five to seven other people) where I was the only man in attendance. And I can tell you without a doubt that it was hard to get my opinion heard and I felt isolated.

So, I completely agree with your argument. You don't know what it's like until you've been there.
A cool idea. One reason Y Combinator has so many good bets right now is because they've established procedures and a reputation that discourages PowerPoint cowboys from pitching them and makes it seem entirely natural for hard core nerds to pitch them. Removing the "gotta have an introduction, need to have been around the industry for a long time, need to have a bunch of graphs showing projected revenues of 80 bajillion dollars in 5.3 months" vibe of meeting with a good investor (and First Round is that) might just bring out a fresh kind of founder that might not have been comfortable winding their way through the traditional channels. It'll also bring out the PowerPoint cowboys, of course, because they love free coffee and want to sell you on their amazing new viral Web 3.0 travel wiki social network, but I'm sure they'll be easy to spot (at least, they're easy for me to spot at valley events, on the rare occasions I get out and about...there's always a lot of them to spot, particularly if the drinks are free).
Oh. Not that surprising, really. Affirmative action exists. Even (especially?) in the best schools in the nation. It's not just for race, though. Women get it at tech schools, men get it at some state schools, and poor people get it anywhere where most students are wealthy.

For the record, I'm an adamant supporter of AA. And not entirely because it helped me out personally.

edit: I go through all this work to say something to get an argument, and all I do is get a downvote? C'mon guys...
Personally, my ratio of upmodding comments to original submissions is probably 20:1. I'm always more interested in conversation and the value individuals here bring to it. Maybe others are developing similar habits?
Is your opposition with the fact that minorities are forming groups or that they might be exclusive in nature? If it's the latter, most of them actually aren't--feel free to join your local National Society of Black Engineers chapter.
I took a course at Mt. Holyoke in college (I'm male, Mt. Holyoke is an all-women's college). I also spent quite a while in the Harry Potter fandom, which is literally 99% female.

In neither situation did I ever feel marginalized, or excluded, or ignored. Occasionally I felt like I was an object of curiosity, but I can deal with that.

It is a bit of a culture shock, and in both situations I was careful to observe first and talk later. I saw some guys who entered fandom, immediately started acting like...men, and had a rather unwelcome reception as a result. But that's social skills 101: being aware of existing culture and norms of a group.

That said, I don't have any problem with a group like this. It's not really a sex issue: it's connecting experienced entrepreneurs with like-minded people, which is kinda the point of mentoring. Arguably, PG started YCombinator because he wanted to mentor people like himself; I don't see any reason why a group of women should not be able to do the same thing.
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Which is why I never called it an insight - you did :). It was eye opening for me personally. Like I said, I was more surprised how it carried over towards the poorer end of the spectrum. I definitely didn't go to a top tier university (for the record: University of Dayton in Ohio). I went to a University that wanted to improve it's diversity rankings in US News.

As a middle class white kid, I actually got bit by affirmative action, but I'm 100% for what I perceive as the idea behind it (give everyone a damn chance!) and hold no grudges at all. The execution, in my mind has just been bad because it leads to reverse discrimination. Unfortunately, I'm not well read enough in the subject to propose a plan to fix it. I'm working on it.
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This won me over as soon as confirmed the feature of being able to add upcoming and recurring transactions.
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Thanks, I think it's going to be fairly straightforward with twitter-like functionality at first. I'm not really planning to introduce anything technically groundbreaking. I just need to have a project to work on.
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Do gigaom read their own articles? Above the article at the top of the page is a banner ad.
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I hear ya. I spent some time as an admission officer at an Ivy and the conversations we'd have over and over again just got to me. We were building a class and had just a dizzying array of pieces to work with each year. This, coupled with our need to have every group, region and interest under the sun represented inevitably led to exchanges like this one: "This student seems smart relative to other (insert minority group)." The choices made were hard and required us to reduce people to numbers, colors and legacies. What an eye-opener. I feel I've got a leg up on anyone when I apply for stuff from now on.
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On the contrary, the article has handy links to all of Intuit's online competitors.
How about one in Boston from a Boston-based VC/Angel firm (like CommonAngels, CRV, etc.?) :)
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i had a[n ancient] professor that thought the exact same way about C and assembly.

i'd say its a gripe with any abstraction that takes you away from the lower-levels of development for any language, if its a language you love to develop in.

price of progress, and such.
Paul has asked in the past that this sort of thing not be posted here.
I find your reply objectionable.

I believe you mischaracterised my argument or completely misjudged my tone. At no point did I suggest the original author's point-of-view was "utterly ridiculous", just that I found it frustrating and to try and emphatically explain the reasons why. There is a world of difference there. The introductory comments about it being a "controversial rant" have been mischaracterised - the idea was to try and minimise any offence to the original author, that I knew it was slightly hijacking the thread, that it may be a fringe viewpoint and that the author would probably disagree with my point-of-view. At no point was I aiming for "chest-beating", nor do I believe that was the tone of the post, but I do apologise if it came across as such. I do believe, however, that had the roles been reversed that I would not be offended if someone put their arguments forward as I did to support their point of view.

I also quite obviously disagree that I'm a "jerk", and I firmly believe that my opinion still matters despite apparently being the "wrong sex" to be able to have one on this matter and that this sort of discussion is not and should not be out of bounds.
I looked up the salary and came up with 25,000 a month, which fits with "impressive salary for a guy my age" (paraphrase). 300K a year?

Also: "A contract employee working overseas generally makes better money than they could in the U.S. (that was Ms. Khan's motivation -- a base salary of $48,000 a year and the chance to make as much as $80,000 with overtime, much of it tax-free)"

http://enterpriseresilienceblog.typepad.com/enterprise_resil...
My thoughts exactly. For me, a glossy display is really hard to use, functionality is ruined.

That's the way my brain is wired, I can't help it. I only hope that notebooks with matte displays don't disappear, and that I can install Linux on them.
> I guess it comes down to this: I don't see how sex matters when you're a business person, when you're programming, when you're building things.

I'm sure you believe this yourself, you behave like this, and you have probably witnessed this a great deal - but this doesn't necessarily generalize.

However, there has been a lot of (empirical) research into this area and it's shown that this still is an issue. For example:
http://psy.ex.ac.uk/seorg/glasscliff/
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I'd like to believe that it was picked up on CNET/Digg because of Twitter.
"[Palmer] thinks that 'the next wave will come once HTML 5 and CSS 3 are fully supported on all popular browsers.'"

I think that's going to take a while.

Well, there will be that one large-market-share browser that won't ever disappear and will always break.
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I'm curious. What happens if someone lies on their application about their race? Do you verify in any way? Would you disqualify them if/when you saw them in person? I've wondered why, with so many people trying to get an edge in admissions, more applicants don't claim "one drop".
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"... I don't see how sex matters when you're a business person, when you're programming, when you're building things ..."

Maybe because you are a member (myself included) of a homogeneous monk-like cloistered society that meets daily with your own kind where everyone knows the secret hand-shake and acknowledges you. Given that nobody does lone-programming anymore if you are different you are going to be side-lined.

I guess the argument killer here is "put your hands up all those who would trade places as a man to be a women in a male dominated - some say one of the last - in the software industry?".

Your argument of course is not a new one. The best example I can think of is hiring musicians for Orchestra. You would think that gender would not be a problem. Surely a musician who is good enough would get a job in a Orchestra based on musical ability in the "12 minute recital" alone? Yet Orchestras have been a male dominated industry ~ http://www.polyphonic.org/panels.php?id=7&day=1 Read here more on the debate on Orchestral selection and among other things gender.

Is this issue another structural issue within Startups where gender dominance is only skills based? Or are there entry hurdles that can be knocked down with some small changes? Don't we all want as many high quality entrepreneurs and Startups to florish? Or is it a "foo only club?" where you can join in as long as you are one of "us"?
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Good points. However, the mathematical frameworks that economists use seem somehow inappropriate for this - I wonder if economics will come to fruition through a new mathematical system, as much of physics came to fruition through the development of calculus.

Your reflex/calculation analogy makes me wonder if new neural network designs ought to be tested against economic data...