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Agree, and this will be true for every art/media creation soon enough. We are seeing the future here, and we can expect more and more developpers to jump on the wagon.

In a way, change is all good for the middle-men as well, since they will have to work hard to provide value on top of what the developpers are doing. Which is what they should have always been doing.
I wonder what are their usage statistics...

If its in the low numbers, probably not enough people use it to cause a mob riot.

I personally don't use it at all.
Well, many do so: among other examples, Trent Reznor, Radiohead, Louis CK, and Tim Schafer are people who've raised substantial money from the traditional media industry without first having a hit. To replace that, which I'm interested in, we need a way that they can replace their first major success. For example, what alternate funding model would've allowed Tim Schafer to get The Secret of Monkey Island (1990) funded via some other mechanism than LucasArts ponying up the money? Or: what non-TVT funding source would've paid for Reznor's Pretty Hate Machine (1989)? I hope it's possible, but to me, that's the hard question, much harder than answering how to pay for Reznor's later, post-fame albums.
In what way did Path "get a pass?" They got a lot of negative press, and it brought attention to this issue (hence blog posts like this one). Sure, people got vocally angry and then quickly forgot about it, but that's just what people do. It even happens with far worse things, like police brutality or even unwise invasions of countries.

What specifically do you want to happen? You say you want "Silicon Valley" to "publicly and vocally [condemn] this type of activity," but what would that actually mean? Last I checked, "Silicon Valley" doesn't exist as some unified entity that can issue public statements. Heck, Hacker News is some approximation of the culture of Silicon Valley, and the front page was filled with rage.

Also, incidentally, I find it interesting that you cite a dictionary definition for a word that in no way corroborates your usage of the word, even though I think I agree with your underlying point. Path didn't "take and carry away" anything, and the contacts on your phone hardly constitute "personal goods or property."
They are not my "complaints". Popups causes muscle memory.
If Path has violated the UK's Data Protection Act like some stories have mentioned, people from the company should go to jail.
Clearly, the opposite situation is a woman saying something about a man to a group composed 90% of women.

And yeah, that happens all the time. Somehow, men deal with it (I know: the horror.)
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Fair enough. Then make the influence of each crime inversely proportional to the number of people there. All of that said, don't go to the smooth spots of the function that aren't current and declare "this is the crime rate of this place". That was my point
I just have to say that I have never tried any of these other tools, but lumping Hipmunk in with them is doing it a disservice. It's not about social travel or any other gimmick -- it's about better travel searches. Period.

I've used it the last 3 times I've booked a flight, and I would never use anything else. It makes it so easy to get the flight we prefer it's ridiculous.
>In most circles, sexist discrimination is also one of those things that is universally frowned on. //

I disagree strongly with this assertion. There is much sexism that is highly regarded by certain sectors.
not trying to trash anyone brd, and this is a statement from my perspective on why I don't use them. I never said any service was awful, it is merely my perspective on why I, as an avid traveler, feel no impetus to become an avid user.
lol, this
"allowing a highschool or college student to buy one for relatively cheap and people will still think "expensive."

Indeed, I got mine for 2.5k so that I could pick up "classy chicks". ;)

Surprisingly it worked, to some degree.
Heh, does anyone remember the outcry when Google Desktop turned up and, if you installed it, your search results started including local files?

If this happens the way the author predicts, then perhaps the solution wasn't to dial back the slightly uncomfortable privacy implications, but rather just to turn the whole thing up to eleven and store all your files.
When it comes to criminal law, you'd be surprised how many offenses require criminal intent.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intention_(criminal_law)
>Lack of role models. Thats probably the biggest reason there are not enough women in technology. //

Is there something that says females can't be inspired by males and vice versa? Why does anyone care a jot about the sex of a particular worker in their field when it comes to being inspired and encouraged?

Sounds like sexism to me.
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And when you are hollered at when you're at the bars, and stared at when at a tech conference, when you're walking home and people think it's acceptable to offer you "a ride", do you think you'd be as excited about getting introduced by appearance? These sorts of comments show just how pervasive the problem is and how hard it is for males to understand what utter bullshit women have to put up with.

Saying that you'd be flattered just goes to show that you really don't understand the problem whatsoever.
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Some of these comments baffle me.

You might be surprised to learn that 30 y/o virgins and other sexually frustrated nerds are resentful of women, and consequently, don't believe that sexism exists.

Let someone oppose this comment by asserting that the pristine, untouched nature of their junk is irrelevant to their point -- but the sexy attractiveness of a female speaker is fair game.
"But imagine this. A woman walks by - your colleague Bob knows her and waves. You say, "Bob, who was that?" He says, "That's Stacy from Accounting. She has a great sense of humor." Do we think Stacy is great at her job? Probably not."

I don't think that's quite fair. If I'm not in accounting, chances are I don't care if she's good at her job or not (hell, chances are Bob doesn't even have the knowledge to say if she is or is not). On the other hand, her personality is much more relevant.

If I'm in the same department, her boss or coworker, this of course changes.
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Thanks for the question Baddox.

Do a search on Twitter for the top tweets that link to Path's blog apology. Nearly every major figure in tech (99% in "The Valley") just accepted their apology and moved on.

Wouldnt have happened with other companies like Google or Facebook and shouldnt have happened here.
I agree, but the title of the blog post is why I don't use them. I don't use Hipmunk. I don't use many of these new services, all for different reasons. I don't use Hipmunk not because its useless, far from it, but because my habit is to use Kayak, and I guess for the type of travel searches I do on a regular basis, I don't see a reason to switch.
Path is dead in the water and nobody cares. Those who expressed sympathy over their handling of the nerd pressure were doing so more to signal for future times that the correct action was taken by Path's management. It means something to the industry that not everyone is a Curebit or similar, even though what they did was a premeditated act of douchebaggery.

Which brings me to another topic: it's hard out there to be successful and always do the right thing. Sometimes you'll have to cut corners in the attempt to gain an edge, however meaningless an inconsequential to the big picture it may seem at the time, because big strong companies are built on a stream of small, repetitive successes, not big wins.
I haven't tried SkyDrive through WebDAV, but previously (like >1 year ago) the only way to mimic Dropbox behavior was using it in conjunction with MS Live Mesh which was another piece of software & install/config and not as elegant or simple as Dropbox. (and also could only use a portion of SkyDrive space)

I have wondered for years why simple directory syncing wasn't easier or built-in out of the box on MS products
We can only see their kickstarter funding. They also have the higher-tier funding brackets they've been advertising on their site. My guess is they've probably had another $50,000-$200,000 put in at that upper bracket (one or two people are probably crazy/rich enough).

It's interesting that crowdfunding could really be a sustainable model for game development going forward; Double fine basically have all their development costs paid up front, so any extra sales on steam or whatever will be pure profit. I don't think it's a model that would work for every game, but it could be an interesting direction for small-medium studios like double fine to pursue; say once every 6-18 months they come up with another game they want to put out there, see if they can get it crowd funded, then if it gets funded they can go ahead with it. They can still do their more mainstream XBLA games etc. as their bread and butter, and use these games to keep the studio busy in between more traditional games.

The other interesting point is the "pay what you want" part of the model: people can put in $1 and just see how the game turns out, or they can put in $15 to get a copy of the game or release, or the really dedicated fans can pay more to get extra bonuses like lunch with Tim. This is a huge change from the traditional "one price for all" game pricing. It's also great that basically all of the money raised is going towards the game and the studio that made it.
exactly. also http://momondo.com and http://skyscanner.net

But on mobile https://market.android.com/details?id=com.hipmunk.android "This app is incompatible with your Play HTC HTC Wildfire.". Well, all other work, I don't see a reason why a form to search results via an api shouldn't work on ANY device.
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yeah agreed - the company where I work is 20+ years old, has about 15 ppl but is definitely not a start up.
>called out a (perhaps well-meaning) but tone-deaf presenter //

Does she mean he has a physical impairment, which would seem more than a bit crass to point out in the context, or is this an idiomatic/euphemistic expression that isn't coming over right?
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Quite so. It is rather interesting how often heterosexual men underestimate the degree to which they consider the physical attributes of other men.
Awesome post. I'm in 100% agreement with the author. It takes courage to write an analysis like this, knowing that there are some high-profile people backing Hipmunk, which in turn causes a lot of people on HN to defend it as well.

The first time I read about Hipmunk solving "the problem of travel search", the first thought I had was "what problem?" I looked at Hipmunk and I couldn't see what it did that was so radically better than Kayak, which I think actually does a great job. If there are people who enjoy Hipmunk, then I say fantastic, but to me, travel search is not actually broken.

In the comments section I wrote what I believed to be a well-reasoned comment making similar comments to those made in the OP's post and was promptly downvoted and even received a sarcastic response from one of the founders. No big deal, but after close to a year, I still maintain that what I said was valid. Sometimes I think people get stuck working aggressively on a problem before they really confront the reality of whether the problem is real or an illusion that was created in order to build a business.

That said, I do think the site looks great and I hope it does phenomenally well. I don't have any ill-will towards the company or its founders, but I'm just not convinced that this is a startup that is built to solve its users' problems. It seems that a lot of successful smart people proclaimed that travel search was a major problem and that this was the solution, and that in turn got the business a lot of support. I'm just not convinced.
We aren't social travel martey. Never said we were. The post was about the entire travel industry. We barely mention our own project in the post exactly because we thought it would take away from the argument: we aren't making a sales pitch or trying to sell anything as we aren't in the social travel discovery space and aren't really catering to the same market as hipmunk (we are targeting budget travelers who want to compare buses, trains, the backpacker type).
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Typical men, all sexists ...

Shouldn't the title be "startup people" if we're "cut[ting] the sexist crap" - unless of course it's a documented fact that no female involved in a startup has ever made a sexist comment.
I loved this talk on Toxo and its effects on freewill by the always incredible Robert Sapolsky.

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Warning: Once you get to one of these things you may not go back home. You realize that as a coder you can just keep working remotely and stay there (though not in the same expensive place after everyone leaves.) Crazy times we live in.

NOTE: As others have mentioned. You aren't supposed to be working while on a tourist visa but Thailand isn't the U.S. In some regards it's a bit like the wild west where people won't bug you as long as you aren't taking jobs away from the locals or making a bunch of cash off the local economy and people start to wonder if you are really playing by the rules. You didn't hear this from me though, respect the laws!
The lack of interest in "Stock Options/Profit Sharing Program" should be a sobering reality for business people looking for technical co-founders/employees.
> A second way to detect it is to look for the word "bipartisan".

My key is the word "reform". It's almost always used to label something that's going to make things significantly worse.
This is what happens when companies don't value QA and/or don't hire experienced systems administrators. Even among experienced sysadmins email list servers are special skill.

No surprise when startups shoot themselves in the foot because the hiring director is a codehead who does not see the value in a sysadmin who cannot double as a dev or who is over 45 years old.
Probably spent millions in getting expert testimonials. Those aren't cheap. Of course they turned around to bill the clients for the work with cost plus.
"If it was a truly serious problem I'm sure there'd be more information about it."

That's not really how science/epistemology work.
Path is a US registered company with an office in San Francisco. Path is hosted by Amazon out of the US.

At what point does UK law have jurisdiction?
They accept them and have accepted a lot but it's up to you to sort.
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This is sensationalist crap.
Radiolab delved into this a bit in their show "Parasites" from a while back. You can listen to the relevant segment under "The Scratch", although I recommend the whole thing, of course:

http://www.radiolab.org/2009/sep/07/
She likely is referring to the tone of speech, not a tone as in note or frequency.
What's the alternative to accepting their apology and moving on? Short of organizing a mass exodus from Path, or pushing for legal action (which the author doesn't seem to be proposing), what can be done? The only alternative I can think of is for the community to keep repeating itself over and over again, like "We're still outraged."

> Wouldnt have happened with other companies like Google or Facebook and shouldnt have happened here.

People move on quickly after Google or Facebook screw up. There have been several times where people were enraged at Facebook's default privacy settings, and I never saw much discussion 24 hours after each story broke. The same goes with Apple: I can't recall any privacy-related issues other than the coordinates being stored on the phone, but a similar issue was all of the weird app rejections and fuzzy rules surrounding the App Store. Each time, people were outraged, and then the discussion cools down. I think this is inevitable, and I don't think it necessarily means that no good came out of the situation.
I'm not sure there is one way to do it. The world needs companies pushing like the yc startup and it needs companies like 37signals. There is lots of room for both sides of the coin and the world is not so black and white as DHH or pg like to make it. :)
Say the introduction referenced her passion for the St. Louis Cardinals, weird attachment to the Cookie Monster, or insistence on always ordering pad thai. Such remarks would be equally irrelevant to her professional qualifications, easily understood as humorous and rounding out the person, and forgotten.

I listened to the remarks, they weren't particularly well thought out ("one of the smartest ladies i know"? that's an interesting sub-set) and so fell short of the courtesy I'd hope to offer. But they're just sloppy and clearly the introducer was quite enthusiastic about her credentials.

In this society, to be called "sexist" is pretty close to excommunication. So maybe we ought to be more careful about how we use the term.
Agreed. Although I really like Farecaster on Bing. To me, statistical analysis of historical prices is a lot more important to visualize than travel times.
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I suspect the "business official" in Dallas, Texas (page 127) was actually none other than NeXT investor Ross Perot.
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You don't have to put "offer" in quotes; apparently there are Serious Talks going on:

http://twitter.com/TimOfLegend/status/167413887082311682
http://twitter.com/TimOfLegend/status/167414243858202624
Theres far more interesting implications for humanity riding on this bet than twenty thousand dollars going to charity.
Copyright is monopoly protection granted on your works by the demos on the assumption of that work becoming freely available to the public domain in a reasonable time.

If your work is not going to enter the public domain then there's no contract - the state then is enforcing a monopoly against the interests of the people.

Disney can make a profit of 100s of millions on a movie within a few years. They don't need anything like as much as 20 years.

They will of course retain their trademarks, and I think this is only right in a realistic IP environment.

>relaxed copyright laws //

Relaxation general means less strict or less firmly applied. This suggests an assumption that the state should grant a monopoly - there should be no such assumption but instead the application of a strict limited time contract in accordance with the original purposes of the law.
Yeah I agree. I would not sacrifice (much) salary for equity, but would certainly negotiate to have as much equity as I could. Regardless of how it all shakes out, I would like to think that I am somewhat vested in the eventual outcome of the company.
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Some of these comments baffle me.

Not me... We work with a bunch of troglodytes...

I've worked in a place where I could locate the female programmer by where the flock of nerds were hovering.
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That's certainly Apple's intentional business decision, though. It's simple to provide a way for global abook perms as well as for individual apps.
You might have good luck just hiring some cheap Virtual Assistants to do this work for you. oDesk or elance are pretty good for these types of administrative tasks
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Maybe in a couple of years somebody will talk them into adding it to a Humble Bundle. I donated, on the off chance of it someday running on a platform I own, because hey, at least I can get a neat game soundtrack and documentary.
The problem is those are BS differences that in the end don't matter much.

border-bottom-right-radius vs border-radius-bottomright, please.

Either use some consistent way of naming as you do with other properties, or just pick a f*n name and use it.

If it was some real competing ideas on the RENDERING of the visual effect defined by the property, I could understand, but the mere name of css properties is not the place to be creative. Just discuss it for 1 hour with other vendors, come to a name and USE IT.
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I wonder...is it a complete lack of interest, or is it, "I'm not interested in the tiny amount of equity/sharing I typically get offered?"
Depends on the company and the location. Post more info and I'll advise. I live in San Francisco.
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If they found the current options to be great there wouldn't be a lot of motivation to start their alternative.
Well if someone changes their story, that's suspicious. Some people feel intimidated or trusting or shy or outspoken on different days, when approached by different agents.
I agree with you on the collaborative part. Add in a "deviantart" component, and you got a killer product for designers.