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I think this train of thought would be considered a violation of the author's "No hand-wringing" rule. The last half of this article is dedicated towards debunking the "pipeline problem" which you are describing. Now whether or not he effectively debunked it is up to debate, but at least in the case of women entrepreneurs he offers some compelling data:
"...women receive only about 30% of degrees in CS. But 30% is a lot larger than 4% – and that’s a big math problem for advocates of the pipeline theory."
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Stephen Jay Gould on racism, 1984:

"My visceral perception of brotherhood harmonizes with our best modern biological knowledge. Such union of feeling and fact may be rare indeed, for one offers no guide to the other (more romantic twaddle aside). Many people think (or fear) that equality of human races is a hope of liberal sentimentality probably squashed by the hard realities of history. They are wrong.

This column can be summarized in a single phrase, a motto if you will: Human equality is a contingent fact of history. Equality is not given a priori; it is neither an ethical principle (though equal treatment may be) nor a statement about norms of social action. It just worked out that way. A hundred different and plausible scenarios for human history would have yielded other results (and moral dilemmas of enormous magnitude). They didn't happen."

[http://www.sjgarchive.org/library/text/b16/p0425.htm]

Surely it's a good thing that the Ruby on Rails community doesn't face any "moral dilemmas of enormous magnitude." Object-relational mapping is hard enough!
EDIT: Also.. just a quick market survey.. would you pay for this? Let's say a subscription-based service.. what would you pay for the capability to get sentiment about a stock ticker and related terms in a social media feed.
The Railsconf audience images refute that explanation too. Since there is no screening process at all, potential attendees can't be deterred by biases in it.
"What makes me a bit uncomfortable is that these ads associate Wikipedia very strongly with a single person."

A personal appeal seems reasonable to me. People are accustomed to getting content for free and not asking questions, and sometimes need to be reminded that it takes people and work to keep the quality content coming.

So which people to use? They can't show pictures of individual contributors, because they won't be the ones receiving the donations. Jimmy Wales is the primary person responsible for stewarding your donation for the greater good[1], so showing his picture makes sense to me.

[1]: For instance, if there were some hypothetical financial scandal, he's the one that everyone would be mad at.
ok, cool. I think you implemented it very well. I think it would work well as an embeddable object on other people's websites to be honest. This is a neat way to show my linkedin profile on my personal website.
Nobody's even making you click on the story or comments at all!

So why have any submission guidelines at all then?
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If you are involved in the startup scene (attend meetups, read HN, have other friends involved in startups, etc) you soon know what startups are around.

If the Internet is just "Facebook" + "Google" to you then, sure you're missing out but by just posting to HN I'm guessing that isn't your world.

If you mean super early startups (and be mindful that there are plenty of reasons not to be the first employee at an unfunded/newly funded startup) then Angel List is probably the "magic resource" you are aspiring for.
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Exactly! Maybe this is a small minority being extra loud. Thank you for saving me a lot of typing.

Diversity for the sake of diversity hurts us all. You really do need to fix the underlying problems. I believe that there really are few qualified minority candidates for these jobs out there and there would be a lot more if we could fix some of the poverty and segregation that exists out there.

Black people in this country live in a separate America. They have their own culture as a result of past racism. So many black youth are living in these poor neighborhoods where they're learning that the only way to get ahead is to hussle in the bad sense of the word. Take a look at hip hop and the ideals being broadcast with that music. Make that money (however you can), trust no one, the world is against you. And it really is against them. Violence, crime, gangs, drugs, poverty. This is what a lot of minorities have to deal with growing up. If they manage to avoid the pitfalls of growing up that way they then have to adjust to a whole different world in college and beyond. If we can fix this issue then we'll have a lot more qualified minority candidates.

Look at pro sports. Why are so many star athletes black? Because they had no other way out. Meanwhile the suburban white kids have the luxury of living in a safe cul de sac where they can sit quietly and study or save up an allowance to pay the smart kid I'm the block to take his SAT.

Women are brought up to be these frail creatures and have heavy emphasis on things that won't help them become the career women we see in movies. There's a lot of talk about women's rights and equality but it isn't practiced as much as rhetoric is thrown around about it.

We as white males benefit greatly from White Privilege. It isn't our fault and we shouldn't feel guilty about it but we should recognize it and try to change it. The fact of the matter is that our culture and society is heaviily biased toward helping white men succeed with the ideals we're taught, the opportunities we're given, and just the way we're generally raised.

If we can extend White Privilege to everyone then we will have more diversity. There really is just less qualified minorities than whites in this industry and going out of our way to find a minority isn't helping anything. It just covers up a problem and leaves behind the greater issue. This needs to be addressed at the root.
I feel like a prude now, but you saw the boobs, right?
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I got it over a year ago so my memory is fuzzy. IIRC, I got it directly from Marvell as an eval board. My employer actually bought it - I gave the purchaser the web site link and it showed up a week or so later.
I prefer the MIT model of just having video lectures online. You can do things at your own pace.

Whats the advantage of this sign-up and do assignment that get graded by a computer model?
"Or, if you're opposed to networking (which seems oddly common among engineers), put on a T-shirt which says "I am looking for an engineering job. Previous work experience: Google" and walk down Castro during lunch hour. You'll probably get three offers."

Yeah, except he didn't do engineering at Google -- he was a "data quality evaluator" contract employee. He's also looking for a position in "quality assurance, data analytics, total quality management [or] desktop support". He also never mentions code, engineering, or another hard technical skill.

That's not to criticize the guy or take away from his accomplishments -- he could be a great potential employee. But just because someone worked at Google doesn't automatically make them a gold-nugget hire. There are a lot of people at Google who are doing grunt work. Even in an exceptional job market, I'd hope that people aren't being interviewed simply because they have "Google" on their resume without regard for context.
Instead of a per-mile tax it would probably be more productive to just increase vehicle registration costs by $250, which is the average fuel tax paid each year per vehicle.
Yes and no. The problem solved by event loops is the problem solved by select(): You never want to wait for a single person to do something; you want to wait for anybody to do anything.
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>The most likely reason they did not do that, is probably because it just did not occur to them.

Is your stated reason ("it just did not occur to them") more likely than "they didn't have the opportunity to take those steps because of (economics/insert reason)"? A quick Google search give this link: http://www.brookings.edu/articles/1998/spring_education_darl... which indicated that in the 1990's, minority students generally had access to fewer or lower-quality resources than white students.
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Agreed. But even "not calling input and output transforms" is incorrect. JSON, just like XML or the next thing we will come up with, has to be parsed to be any use. This may happen under the hood but this is still happening.

I guess what mikescar finds attractive is the illusion that things are "integrated" and talking to each other in a format that doesn't look like one (it seems to be part of the programming language).
When thinking about this, imagine what would have to happen for a child born to a black, single, crackhead mother to have a fighting chance in life.

And then take a look at what the Harlem Children's Zone has been doing lately: http://www.hcz.org/books/HCZ%202011%20Biennial/files/assets/...

And send them a few bucks, so they can do some more of it.
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Still since there is access to the subway they could have moved stuff out through the subway system at night?
Interesting to find a study that shows how changing your thinking may reduce depression.
Coming from the other side (happiness research) in a study from 2006, Sonjy Lyubomirsky et al showed, that talking or writing analytically about negative events positively affected the overall happiness of the participants even several weeks after the event.

http://www.faculty.ucr.edu/~sonja/papers/LSD2006.pdf
http://www.faculty.ucr.edu/~sonja/papers.html
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There are two well known mathematicians named John Conway. A bit of Googling confirms that this paper is from John H Conway (the one well known in programming circles for the cellular automata game of "Life)), not John B Conway (the well known functional analyst and author of one of the leading textbooks on complex variables).
I just concluded a job search, and found that writing sincere emails did indeed establish a positive rapport, but 1) job-seeking engineers are already universally adored and 2) the recipient of the email will need to be herded, because their primary job is not making sure you get hired.

Recruiters, guys. Do you know there is a whole class of people that will work full-time to bring you whatever jobs you want? Why am I the only one mentioning them in this thread?
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"I attempt to hire based on merit in order to increase the probability that my startup will succeed and make me rich."

"I attempt to hire based on Jesus in order to increase the probability that my startup will succeed and make me rich." <- Huh?

"The guy I hired based on merit has certainly brought my startup closer to success - he's built several useful apps, caught plenty of bugs, and has kept our India operation running smoothly in my absence."

"The guy I hired based on Jesus has certainly brought my startup closer to success - he's built several useful apps, caught plenty of bugs, and has kept our India operation running smoothly in my absence." <- Doesn't make so much sense. What does Jesus have to do with building useful apps, fixing bugs and keeping our worker's pipelines full?
This has everything to do with culture. This becomes a big deal because of white guilt which is a result of White Privilege.

Fact: there are far fewer minority hires working in our industry

Fiction: the previous fact is a result of racism

If that were the case maybe there's reverse racism in pro sports?
Alex, I wouldn't be worried of the app harming someone so much as someone hurting themselves and their family blaming it on you or your app in a search for a cause of their loved one's suicide.

Add in a lawyer who smells a case, and you could wind up in legal trouble quickly without actually harming anyone. Don't give up on it, just shield yourself appropriately.

As far as waiting until you are successful to do this, there's really no way for you to tell what mental state a purchaser of your app is in, and however unlikely it may be, a tragic scenario similar to what I described above could happen to one of your first users. I think in your case it would be wise to protect yourself now instead of waiting.
I wish they offered the quizzes, tests, etc. at will of the student, only unlocking further videos as the students completed tasks in order.

This provides the structure of a true lecture, with additional materials, while not making me wait for months to start learning.
I'm surprised at the piracy entitlement too, and as a content creator, I don't condone it myself. But please understand that this kind of situation - new Arrested Development only available to US citizens - is incredibly frustrating for the rest of us precisely because we, as HNers, know there's zero technical reason why we couldn't be paying for and watching Netflix from anywhere in the internet connected world.
If you want recruiters, just call them. You need a linkedin or a resume, but the other steps are more useful to employers. (You can also email me, sdrost@gmail.com -- I just worked with seven in my job search, and can pass on the three I recommend.)
You have solved a problem that didn't exist -- XML and HTML were both reasonable linguafrancas prior to JSON's invention.

JavaScript as a server-side langauge is not a good thing; JavaScript is not a good systems language. We've already had an era of a poor systems language (PHP) being predominant in the web application space, and the conclusion was that there are better languages which can more effectively represent both general systems tasks, and specialized web tasks.

NoSQL databases will never be relational DBs because they explicitly eschew the relational algebra that powers the latter. Similarly, Node isn't a serious server-side solution explicitly because of its reliance on JavaScript.

Finally, I should point out that JSON isn't a subset of JavaScript. This means that you can't exec it as JavaScript in all cases, and even if you could, exec/eval is massively dangerous and should be avoided. This means that you're parsing JSON, which means that you no longer have an advantage over other languages -- Perl, Python, and Ruby all have very strong JSON support. (Python even has it in its standard library now.)
Fascinating discussion. In fact, the reasons people do or don't rock certain fields are (like people themselves) incredibly complex. The blind orchestra auditions to which Eric refers are just one drop in a sea of quantitative data about the effects of unconscious bias.

There's Robert Rosenthal's study that showed that others' belief that you are "gifted" actually results in an IQ increase. There's the famous "McKay" study, in which test subjects evaluated identical academic papers by "John" and "Joan" McKay. And on and on.

What's really interesting is the experience of post-op transsexuals, like biologist Ben Barres (who was Barbara Barres until he was in his 40s). These folks are the true secret shoppers of gender-- and the ultimate control group in terms of understanding how gender affects one's experience of the world. It would be really interesting to find a comparable race test case (an updated "Black Like Me").

A few years ago I wrote about this phenomenon in Slate-- I looked at women and ambition in general. Check out the piece if you're interested in a more generalized analysis: http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/the_gist/200...
One consequence for me is that when I see a Guardian or Independent news story in a friend's feed, I no longer click on it, because I know that I can't see it unless I agree to give the paper access to my Facebook account (wtf?) and agree to the "terms of service". At least in the Guardian's case, the catch 22 is that you can't look at the terms of service until you sign up with them. If the story looks interesting enough I'll just google it.
I'd be intrigued if something could be done with the orientation of the 2, 3, and 6 faces to improve image quality.

I'm coming up mostly blank, but they probably create textures when the same number is in a large contiguous block and the orientations are the same.

Also, I'm wondering if anything can be done with 2&3 specifically because they have bright corners and dark corners.

I'm guessing the effects are fairly subtle and can't really be used to good effect, but...
If Twisted, Event Machine, Rails, libevent, httpd, nginx, and Mongrel are all judged by their communities, then why does Node get a free pass?
I signed up for AI and DB classes next to a 45 hour/week job, and dropped the AI course. I'm having trouble keeping up while maintaining a life, but it is possible, though!

Seriously, consider only one class if you have any trouble self-regulating.
gave us the internet. also employed a lot of people and we didn't get the large-scale war that most thought was due since WW2 was, like WW1, unfinished business.
Restricting things to gender makes it vary obvious that it's not a single stage pipeline, because YC get's much closer to 4% women applicants than 30%. The simple fact is for a variety of reasons a lower percentage of female graduates with a CS degree are interested in moving to the valley or joining / starting a start-up. That's not to say there is no discrimination just that discrimination does not account for the massive differences by it's self.

If we really want to understand what's going on we need to look at areas that attract more women than men. It turns out that the northern Virginia area has a significant female bias where there are far more young well educated females than you would expect based on graduation rates etc. Perhaps the prospect of a safe 80+k job in a good area acts a golden handcuffs that prevents many young capable women from 'seeking their fortune'. But, good or bad, cultural or biological, it's not simply a question of employer bias, people chose the areas they want to live in far more than they are force into or out of a specific region.
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The BBC drama "Threads" still scares me 25+ years after I first saw it:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090163/

One thing to note about this drama, where over 90% of the UK population are eventually killed, is that it is based on an official exercise called Square Leg that was generally regarded as being rather optimistic, a real attack by the Soviets would probably have been far worse:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Square_Leg
Everyone is entitled to their opinion, including the CNET author. As for myself, the only friction I see in sharing is Facebook itself. Beyond collecting a useful list of email addresses of people I know, they are not providing a service that I need, they are just a man in the middle, intercepting everything they can.

Given the ability to forgo having to let users opt-in (what they see as "friction"), what would Facebook do? I think it's obvious. In that regard they are no different than any spammer.

In my opinion, Facebook apps offer much more to Facebook (as they acquire an often elusive opt-in) than they do to the user. The user associates the use of the app with their friend rather than Facebook and the app developer. In this way Facebook gains the user's trust.

It's not much different than dangerous email attachments. Same old trick. Give it any name you want.
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No, Yahoo! does not have anything similar to Google+. Even if Yahoo! did have a similar product, it would be silly for me to restrict my community outreach efforts to that product, ignoring YUI users on Twitter, Google+, and elsewhere.

Please go back and look at my Google+ post one more time. Look closely. The name next to it is "Ryan Grove", not "Yahoo!". The profile photo is a sketch of my face, not a Yahoo! logo. The word "Yahoo!" isn't even used in the post.

This is not "Yahoo criticism of Google". This is me, Ryan Grove, person, criticizing Google+ Pages. And to be even more clear, I'm criticizing out of frustration because, on the whole, I like Google+ a lot. I wanted to like Google+ Pages as well, but it has fundamental flaws. I'm criticizing it not because I want to hurt it, but because I want it to get better.

This is not "evidence of some weird problems over in Sunnyvale". This is my personal opinion, expressed on my personal account, and has nothing to do with any views held by my employer.
Regarding Javascript, I think it suits well the async paradigm because that's how people expect Javascript to be.

Why isn't Javascript a good server-side language?
Way to go Stanford. You guys just keep blowing our minds. After all the stuff i learned for free in just 4 weeks of the current classes, i am filled with gratitude! I highly recommend these classes..
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I'm not sure I understand your point. Are you saying that since a conference without a screening process has a non-diverse audience, Y Combinator's screening process has no effect on your diversity?
Nice implementation of a simple visualization service.
It kinda reminds me of Facebook's timeline.
You certainly mean "the problem solved by select() alternatives such as kqueue(), epoll(), etc..". :)
And that's where I have a problem with software patents in particular. I'm not in the camps that believe nothing should be patentable, or that some ideas should be patentable - but not software. I'm okay with software patents as a concept (for now). However, with software patents it seems there is a higher than average likelihood that an obvious and trivial patent will be granted. You'll have patents for things like: "a method to confirm a user action whereby a dialog window is presented to the user with several buttons including but not limited to Yes and No." This is just an example but I've seen similar patents granted.
IMHO, there is an illusion that i understand stuff just by watching a video. i don't know how much of a noob i still am until exercises and midterms. The stanford model should be emulated...seriously.
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One thing that bothered me about this article was the way it called out YC's selection process implying it is part of the problem. Actually the Valley has never been more accessible to 'outsiders' because of the rise of YC, AngelList, and many more angel investors.