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I see this shit all the time, and most men don't even realize they're doing it. Lots of startups quickly converge to a culture that's little better than a frat house.

If you think this is much ado about nothing, consider this: the subtle sexist parts of your company's culture will turn off any qualified woman from working there.

And we all know how EASY it is to hire in Silicon Valley these days.

I'd also like to add, one of the most positive experiences in my startup life was working for Brian Sugar and Lisa Sugar at Sugar, Inc.. This was my first job at a proper startup and as a male I was in the minority.

I joined as #10 or so, and the first non-founding engineer. One third of the founding team were female. The second engineer we hired was Lydia Wagner.

From #10 to #30 or so I think I was one of only two or three male hires.

The stereotypical Silicon Valley startup is founded by N engineers, probably male, who graduated from college in the last 5 years.

Put those people in a tiny room for 10-14 hours a day, 6 days a week, for a year or two and it's kind of inevitable.

But it's also easy to stop if you're self-aware about it, and the founders make it a priority.

Also, guys (if I may be so bold), this thread is acting as an existence proof for the point the article is making.
Ouch. I haven't seen a lot of companies make announcements like these. Usually they build low-quality apps and just leave them to languish on App World. I've heard that it's actually more expensive to develop an app for them than other platforms? Does anybody know the relative manpower needed to develop for each major platform - iOS, Android, BlackBerry, Windows Phone?
There is a Mac version and technically you can use their official API for Linux as well.
Yes to all of this.

One addition, if you don't care about comments, or use something like disqus, you can put varnish in front of WP and it will just work. A simpler solution, don't use wordpress, use some kind of static blog generator. It's really easy to host static files!
Lack of role models. Thats probably the biggest reason there are not enough women in technology.

Also, your mention of sexist culture makes it sound like that's the culture in technology startups, this is not true. Sexism, where it exists, does not depend on the domain. Its pervasive.
> Yeah, there are plenty of blog posts out there telling people how some developer switched to developing on his iPad or installed vim or a SSH client

There are a few, and we could probably enumerate them all right here. The reason they stand out is that almost no one does that, and that it's not an effective development environment for most people.

Personally, I'd sooner shift careers to road mending than try to program on an iPad.
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This was a sign of a sexist culture

Ding ding ding, exactly right. Not only that, but it takes a(n at least minimally) sexist culture for "sexist jokes" to be excused as "jokes" rather than acknowledging the real impact that they have for people. It's not just sexist jokes, it's any sort of off-color joke that's not appropriate in any sort of business/professional/even entrepreneurial setting.
It apparently happens enough that they have to mention it:

MAKING IT YOURS

And remember, don’t use music, images, video, or other content that you don’t have the rights to. Using copyrighted material is almost always illegal and can lead to expensive lawsuits down the road. The easiest way to avoid copyright troubles? Either create all the content yourself or use content that is free for public use. For example, you may be able to use some Creative Commons-licensed music — per the terms of their licenses — that's available on SoundCloud. Other resources you can explore: Vimeo Music Store, Free Music Archive, and ccMixter.
It is interesting to see that this is from nytimes.github.com
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My users wouldn't stand for Disqus and I think the pitchforks would come out if I started babbling about command-line interface static site compilers.
I can try...

From Wikipdiea: Op-Ed
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Op-ed

"An op-ed, abbreviated from opposite the editorial
page (though often mistaken for opinion-editorial),
is a newspaper article that expresses the opinions
of a named writer who is usually unaffiliated with
the newspaper's editorial board. These are
different from editorials, which are usually
unsigned and written by editorial board members."

Now onto Bill Keller:
http://topics.nytimes.com/top/opinion/editorialsandoped/oped...

"Bill Keller is an Op-Ed columnist for The New
York Times and writes for The New York Times
Magazine. His column appears on alternate
Mondays."

Now look at NYTimes Editorials:

http://topics.nytimes.com/top/opinion/editorialsandoped/edit...

These usually have no bylines, or attributable to one person. They don't deal with topics covered by Mr. Keller, the most recent one being titled "The House’s Less Persuasive Ban on Insider Trading".

Essentially the Times has News, Opinion, Editorial. All of these are separate and the Editorial is the only one where the Times offers its "own" public opinions.

Hope that helps.
Actually I wasn't sarcastic. Having built similar sites in the past I'd be really curious what your bottleneck is, if not the database?
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I know what you mean, but don't think of this as the outcome. Funding is just the beginning, most of the really hard work remains to be done.
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He had extensive foreign travel and had been to Japan and the Soviet Union

Highlighting travel to Japan shows how different things were in 1991.
Neat. After playing Out of this World a long time ago, I was wondering if it was viable to compress video data using polygons annotated image block overlays in the high-frequency/high-error areas. Looks like I might've been onto something, since it seems like polys alone are pretty good at capturing the image.
$18 million - Wow! Congrats to the Stripe team!

This definitely draws a line in the sand for the online payment provider process. Looks like Paypal has been served.

Disclaimer: my business is a huge Paypal user, but we've been actively looking at Stripe and put in our plans for 2012 to begin to transition to them. Exciting times!
The $100 million valuation doesn't seem too high to me. Especially considering the huge potential market.
While I'm generally in favor of FOI, the public interest of disclosure needs to be weighed against the impact on both privacy and the integrity of the security vetting process (strong privacy encourages frank comments). In this case the benefit of disclosure is almost entirely to help us gossip about a celebrity so I feel the disclosure is not warranted.
Of course, it's a means to an end. I meant that the team they have built is inherently valuable, and because of the team they have an amazing product.
I'll be the first to admit that before I had my daughter, this type of stuff never really bothered me (shame on me). Now that I have a little girl, I'm much more sensitive to it and really, really don't want her to grow up in a world where she gets introduced to a professional audience as "sexy".
It's funny to see the famed reality distortion field, so often mentioned in terms of admiration of salesmanship and persuasiveness, with so many entrepreneurs attempting to emulate it, appear in an actual FBI file as some sort of evidence of potential criminality or unfitness for public service.
And there lies one mistake MSFT is making. I definitely wouldn't pay good money for one of these if it can't run anything besides Win8. Perhaps only if it has a well supported jailbreak.
You can usually assume that the non-country/area-code numbers have the same country/area code as your current user, if you know their phone number (good thing to get during registration).
layervault is very slick - this does seem to take a different approach to seeing all the revisions next to each other.
Clearly Apple does not use bargain basement lawyers.

Secondly, why is that surprising that the largest tech company gets some enormous legal bills? You think Google's budget is just a couple of million?

By the way, Google's going after a chunk of the iOS pie by claiming patent violations: http://www.tuaw.com/2012/02/09/google-after-2-25-of-every-ip...

So much for being "open".
"kickstarter project is kind of the opposite of pirating". I love it.

Maybe even Kickstarter is the dual(1) of pirating?

(1) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duality
I'm sure it was the best of intentions.

I'm just not sure when physical attributes have any relevance to a professional introduction.

When we selected Bob and he said yes, he was a fat single man.

When we selected Dave and he said yes, he was a acne-ridden single man.

When we selected Joe and he said yes, he was a weightlifting single man.

I think in all other cases, you'd just say single. maybe "talented" rather than drawing attention to physique.

It's just stereotypical nerd bullshit that everyone will try to paper over as not a big deal. Frankly, there doesn't seem to be a market for non-stereotypical engineering environments, or the market would capitalize on that. So perhaps it's not a big deal in any startup sense, but it's a real effect.
Somebody was (reportedly) rude. This is only news when the person being rude is male and the person on the receiving end is female. THEN it's proof of how horrible men are.

Kind of like the reverse of: http://xkcd.com/385
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Double Fine Adventure: $1,026,265 w/ 32 DAYS to go

There is no doubt in my mind that Double Fine will obliterate the record.
Here's the male version:

John’s one of the smartest guy I know, and I thought that he was a perfect pick for the role of moderator. When we selected John and he said yes, he was a handsome single man. And since that time, he’s become a handsome married man, and so I wanted his lucky new spouse to stand up. So we’ve got not only a very talented, but a happy moderator.

Would someone saying that get to the top of hacker news? I do agree that this is far from a good introduction thought.
Please use the funding to expand to other countries!
I wonder how much role models actually play a role. I got into programming because I loved programming, it was something I could do at home with minimal ramp up time or gear.
I feel like a seven year old could play http://armorgames.com/play/2205/light-bot and that's just programming.
Again, hashing won't do much except make you feel fuzzy inside. Since the hashing mechanism is stored on the phone and the possibility space for US phone numbers is extremely limited, it'd be trivial to hash all possible numbers and then do a reverse lookup of the hashed values of your stolen address books.
But they don't even use the magnetic stripe!
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This exists in more than just the startup world. I was in a meeting today where a technology leader said, "Let's have X take the meeting notes, she's a woman." This person also had her administrative account set to a pathologically trivializing username.

I think the term "microaggression" gets overused, but the story referenced in the article says that what's important about the person is her gender, attractiveness, and marital status. To the point that her "lucky" spouse deserves special recognition. What?!
A non-trivial percentage of visitors hit Google Search with an empty cache and no cookies. I know the numbers but aren't sure I can share them, but it's enough that relying on caching to solve latency woes doesn't work.
Ask HN: Launched. #1 app in my category. Now what?
I've launched 2 days ago and it's going (and feels) great, and users are loving it. However no major blogs have really picked up the story yet (some of the friendlier ones have already run a story on my app within the last 2-3 months), which is a big downturn. The traffic will soon fade away, and the top-10 effect on the Mac App Store is probably not that significant. I continue trying to get blogs to cover me, but is there anything else I can do to help long-term success?
£60.00 doesn't sound bad. We'd need it to fit into our automated workflow and be able to handle hundreds of pages at a time, and occasionally 1k+ page documents, and stuff from Nuance we'd looked at would have cost $4k or more a year, plus charge per page which is a deal killer. This might be a good fit ... thanks!
It doesn't sound like you'll have access to the Win32 API, so you'd have to translate all the Win32 API calls made by the x86 application into WinRT calls.

And will they actually let you sell an application through the Windows Store whose purpose is to run other non-Window-Store-acquired code? It seems likely that they'll have to institute a policy against such applications, just like the Apple App Store, to prevent end-runs around the Windows Store.
You're implying that nobody in particular controls WebKit? That is patently false.

And the distinction between a browser engine monopoly and a browser monopoly is irrelevant to this discussion. We're talking about browser engines here.

Furthermore, suggesting that people can add "new rendering features and options" on top of WebKit solves nothing! Those would just have to be prefixed in the same way, or would be incompatible, and we're back to square one.
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Jungledisk is still around, although the pace of updates has slowed quite a bit. I like the option to choose between AWS and Rackspace too.
I can't help but suspect they do this very much on purpose.
Generating an ebook of articles from Safari's Reading List
You do know that Opera is the most used browser on mobile devices, right? And that they invented quite a lot of features you take for granted in your current browser of choice, right?
Is systemic exclusion of men from technology an endemic problem and I missed it? Are men commonly characterized by their physical attractiveness and marital status? It's appropriate to give attention to a widespread and often unacknowledged problem while not giving the same attention to statistical noise.
InSync[1] is a pretty close experience right now to using Google Docs as a Dropbox-like product. Surely Google will launch a desktop connector like InSync or otherwise buy them.

[1] www.insynchq.com
Lack of role models. Thats probably the biggest reason there are not enough women in technology.

And why is there a lack of role models?

Also, your mention of sexist culture makes it sound like that's the culture in technology startups, this is not true. Sexism, where it exists, does not depend on the domain. Its pervasive.

I disagree. Different domains have different women:men ratios and that'll affect the male sexism, particularly if the ratio is high on positions of power/influence.
But my point is that most people don't actually own physical gold (hence my use of the air quotes around the word).
Would it make sense to include the error image in the format to make the compression lossless? As I see it, if the final fitness is high enough, the error image should be highly compressible?
I read that discrimination against blacks (by normal middle class people) is actually a lot rarer than discrimination against, say, Hispanics.

In most circles, sexist discrimination is also one of those things that is universally frowned on. Maybe not in tech, though.
They are definitely a bit darker, more tech-house. I guess the style changes within each show, but from show to show it's consistent. The first half of each show is generally low-key tech-house, but then I start speeding it up a small amount and using more "busy" progressive house tracks later in the episode. But not many vocals in each. Some people will like these better (the sound quality is also better), but some coders will definitely prefer the six older "Music To Code" By mixes.
So creating a fund that has a clear investment strategy of investing in a particular startup. How about creating mutual funds that invest in startups in general. It'd allow for diversification of multiple startups and give founders one concentrated voice. That way retail investors can get exposure to startups as venture funds are beyond this investor class.
This seems like a policy adopted to help avoid angry customers making a big deal about how they cannot install this or that application from their PC. Consumers are familiar with the App Store concept.

Ergo, they probably won't be working hard to lock the platform from other applications (what little applications that will exist, that is)
love sahil and ajay.
how much of this is the social background of the offender?

I find those who had Moms that worked when they were growing up seem as far as a group as of a whole to be less inclined to state stuff like this
Oh yea, I forgot we only exist if we pull out our damn wallet in this corrupt capitalist society.
Thank God. I didn't realize UCal had a stake in this. WTF? Don't they know better?
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> Personally, I'd sooner shift careers to road mending than try to program on an iPad.

And, personally, I'd love to be able to run Xcode on an iPad. With a Bluetooth keyboard it would be practically identical to the laptop I use now, but better for my back and wrists.
We've been using them since they were /dev/payments...best decision of our lives.
Doesn't it sound super-weird though? You'd never talk about a guy's marital status and the attractiveness of his spouse in his introduction at a tech conference; why on earth would you say it about a woman?
I personally use RVM and gems, but like this approach for other people that haven't gone that way.

But instead of a shell script, can we get heroku-toolbelt into Ubuntu Software Center? Linux devs are pretty particular with what they run at the shell...know your audience and all.
Please don't take this the wrong way, but does this really belong on the front page of Hacker News? This is like celebrity news for nerds. I care about what Angelina got Brad for Valentines as much as I care about this.
Way to make a stand kayak. This gives me confidence in my decision to not write a mobile app for the Blackberry. I wonder if more will follow this...
Maybe they're seeing so many patents they're starting to realize how many of those patents are just ... stupid?

When you're exposed to a field more (lots of cases kinda do that), you start to think more like a person in that field and suddenly previously non-obvious things are obvious!
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Replace "Opera" with Firefox and "Firefox and Chrome" with IE. Do you still feel the same way?
The male version is "sexy single man." The flip side of your version is "pretty single woman."

None are acceptable in a professional setting.
FWIW, Search is continually being rewritten, and the bulk of the current codebase was written in the past 2 years or so.

I'm kinda curious what it'd look like if you took the 2002 version of Google and used it on today's Internet. My guess is it would feel incredibly dated and virtually useless because of spam. We have a couple archived UX studies that were done with the old (pre-2010) UI; I remember that when we launched everybody said "Eww, I hate the new UI. Why change a good thing, Google?" and now when they look at the old UI they're like "Omigod, I can't believe I ever managed to look at that. It's like something straight out of 1998."
Nice. Reminds me of a similar project which I've discussed here: http://www.puremango.co.uk/2011/03/genetic-algorithm-example...
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Do you actually think that the appropriate "male version" of sexy is handsome? Sexy is a non gender-specific adjective.

The male version is this:

John’s one of the smartest guy I know, and I thought that he was a perfect pick for the role of moderator. When we selected John and he said yes, he was a sexy single man. And since that time, he’s become a sexy married man, and so I wanted his lucky new spouse to stand up. So we’ve got not only a very talented, but a happy moderator.

... and noone would get up and say this as an introduction. Which is why this is at the top of Hacker News.
> posters arrogantly asserting that "women should just ask for more"

I believe I remember the posts to which you're referring, which centered IIRC around posts of "what you as a woman can do to improve your salary", by at least one feminist and one recruiter. The thesis of both posts - and many of the comments - was that a heavy contributing factor to the lower average salary for women, at least in "higher" professions (C.S., engineering in general), was that the system was biased towards giving higher salaries to those who were bolder and greedier, traits which women seemed less likely to display at the negotiating table. I suppose one could argue that emphasizing the "what women could do" rather than "fix the damn system" aspect was sexist, but it's a stretch, especially given the authors.

Re: jokes. Whenever someone complains about a joke, or about an aspect of language, I always feel like we're attacking the tip of the iceberg in a way that won't really affect the rest of the problem at all. I'd rather people spent their time dealing with the roots of these sorts of problems than arguing over words and jokes.
If I was introduced as a "handsome single man," I would find it very, very strange. To the point that before I said anything, I would just look at the person introducing me with a bewildered look for a few seconds before speaking. So, yes, I find it quite out of place.
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You're right that there won't be another Facebook. Just as there hasn't been another Microsoft or Google. But thinking that there isn't going to be anymore large up and coming companies that change the competitive landscape is false. It'd be like saying in the 1800's that now that railways have drastically changed everything there won't be any new railways game changers. There wasn't much development/change in railways, but it was something new called airplanes that changed everything.
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Congrats guys! I just want to say that I love Stripe. You are really changing the game. I love that you are focusing on developers.

I wonder what might happen down the road when users make mistakes that put themselves in PCI compliance violation (like posting a form to their server with input names, thus sending the card info). What kinds of effects could this have on the business, their image, and the customers?
Honestly, I think being a juror in a patent trial is a hard proposition anywhere. Why do I say that:

-The subject matter is likely to be mostly to totally outside of a person's technical depth and factual experience. (Here I try and think if someone asked me to decide some question related to something like advanced particle physics, chemistry, or the tax code).

-There is not that much time to figure out what is going on (these trials tend to last less than a week of 7 hour days).

-There are many different complex topics being addressed in that time span: the patents, what is being accused, etc.

-What is said is being said by competing groups of apparently competent people.

-Those people are saying widely different things about the aforementioned complex subject matter.

-Everything is being said in an extremely serious environment (Federal Court) which lends substantial gravity to each side.

-Jurors are not to consult information beyond what is presented to them in court.