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> ... it was hardly the worst thing that could have been said

While I agree with this statement to an extent, on the other hand, which has more of an impact: the infrequent blatant examples, or the more common low-level ones? I can't answer that myself, but I would imagine that the ubiquity of the ubiquitous different treatment would bother me more than the blatancy of the few blatant assholes.
Considering the brevity of an NBA career (4.7 years or so according to a few Googled sources), and at best the mixed bag of financial qualifications of players, this doesn't surprise me much.

Generalizing somewhat: ghetto kid -> scholarship college athlete with a broad academic pass -> pro -> out on the street.

Yes, there is a somewhat broader range of experiences than just that. Still: sports stars generally burn bright, but very briefly.

It's a rollercoaster.
Heat, which would be a valuable resource in the kind of scenario where it stops being valued as currency.

Dog food would also be quite useful. And of course the wet kind would be better served warm, which would add to the desirability of paper.

You could probably find uses for gold. But you'd have to waste a lot of paper to melt it down, so the most common ones would be things like 'doorstop' and 'blunt weapon'.
Ask HN: Would you sign a 1M NDA?
Or what's the highest you did or didn't sign?
If it were a free service without advertising, there aren't many other options. But from the replies below, it looks like they will charge for the service and show ads. Of course, that doesn't preclude the model I mentioned. Whether it's slimy or not is in the eye of the beholder. I'm ok with someone using this data to proactively eliminate ads I don't want. And if I'm getting junk mail at my house it doesn't really matter what name it's addressed to. It may as well be the right one.
I admit 'sexy' was a little out of place, but I ended up getting the download to work and the full introduction starts out: "Rebecca took over as effective director of northwest entrepreneurial group and just blew us all away with her expertise, knowledge, connections, and her charm." The tone of the final remark really just sounded like he was trying to compliment and congratulate her. The sexist implication of using 'sexy' was pretty marginal and is being blown a little out of proportion I think.
> it was hardly the worst thing that could have been said.

"He didn't slap her ass, therefore it's fine."
Phone numbers stored in an address book are not guaranteed to be unique(at least in the US) because they can be stored with or without area code and with or without country code.
Thats about as subtle as they can be about it.
In some countries, BMW and Audis are always considered luxury cars (ie. Australia).

A car that sells for 15k pounds in the UK can easily sell for over $50k AUD. (which is 1:1 USD atm)
Check out the full audio, the rest of the introduction goes into more detail of her technical chops.
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Now just think how awesome you would be if you had learned how to code when you were seven years old.

Not that much, if I happened to want to work in any other totally unrelated profession, like a language teacher or a chef or a doctor. Now, imagine how awesome I would be at MY chosen non-coding profession, if I had learned it since seven years old. Which actually doesn't make sense, because I hadn't made my choice of profession yet.

So let seven years olds just be, and if some of them are programming prodigies, OK, but not everyone has to learn to code. It's just programmers thinking they are "the shit".

Here's another thought: kids are the future, teach them how to behave and be considerate.
It's sort of fantastic. I love that it's not just a remapping of git commands to buttons. It really is simple and easy to use.

The big problem with that is that its extremely buggy. It seems to choke on merge conflicts most of the time and it can get into some really weird states. I've had it undo changes on completely different files than what I told it to and lose hours of work.
"Sebatinsky. That's with an S!"
Nothing is like software
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I sort of see this as the natural progression of people's careers
There's another side to this as well: it distracts from your message and makes you sound weird and creepy.

Don't introduce people as sexy unless you're trying to make a joke about being weird and creepy. In which case, make it a guy, and compliment the way their hair smells for extra weird and creepy.
You should check out etckeeper, a package that does exactly that. Additionally it will hook into apt-get and similar system tools and automate Some of the revisioning
I think you are underestimating the capabilities of some children.

Take for example Gennady Korotkevich, at the age of 6 he was starting to program, and at the age of 11 he was already competing in IOI and also winning a silver medal, his programming (specially algorithmic ability) skill was already beyond of what your average programmer may get in his lifetime.

Maybe he is an extreme example, and he was born gifted, but i do think that there are many children which with proper guidance and encouragement can achieve levels of mastery in some topic like programming.
You know a patent claim has no merit when even an East Texas court won't accept it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_District_Court_f...
What do you consider expensive? Transym is really good and not too expensive (disclosure: they are a partner of my company -- but I am endorsing them on that basis)
> The dueling teams of lawyers have spent millions creating elaborate presentations

Did the lawyers spend millions, or did they bill millions?
I do the first option (VileFault 2 on Lion), but I don't trust closed-source encryption software. Who knows if CBP can read my files because Apple does or does not do key escrow? It's terrifying, considering what's happening to people like that creepy media slut Jake Appelbaum at the hands of the CBP.

Even though I use filevault, I keep my SSH keys and GPG keys encrypted, and I GPG encrypt anything I wouldn't want the cops reading.
Just to get on your lawn for a moment.

For Gridspy, we store data into our server from sensors and allow customers to watch a 1-second live data stream.

http://your.gridspy.co.nz/demo/

The key from us was to switch from a "polling" model to a "push" model. We don't poll the database, our backend pushes the new data through the stack. In our case I plan to actively rebuild assets and store them to disk rather than rebuild and cache on demand. But you can see the live updates on the site now.

More details (a bit dated now):
http://blog.gridspy.co.nz/2009/10/realtime-data-from-sensors...

You might consider an approach such as http://socket.io/ and lots of logic in the page as a great way to avoid the "everyone polling the backend as fast as they can" model.

By the way, your lawn is very nice. Well maintained. Perhaps you need a zen garden.
The price accessibility of older BMW and Audi cars is convenient, because both brands are still perceived as higher-end, allowing a highschool or college student to buy one for relatively cheap and people will still think "expensive."
How to do introductions 101:

1. Say something about why the person is here. Speak to their credentials and establish credibility.
2. Know your audience. Let them know why the person being introduced is important to them.
3. It's okay to make a small personal comment. It establishes rapport.

If the entire intro is #3 you've screwed up. This intro was clearly out of line. My guess is that the moderator didn't even realize it which is twice as bad.
For context, here's the text of the audio of the guy introducing her:

"So Rebecca Lovell is the chief business officer of Geekwire, and I got to know– you can read the bio– what's written, but just for some personal color: So, Rebecca took over as executive director of the Northwest Entrepreneur network while I was on the board there and just blew us all away with her expertise, her knowledge, her connections, and her charm. And when we were putting together this program, we were looking for a real dynamite moderator who really knew the subject area, might know some of the potential panelists, and who could really add something– some substance to the program.

Rebecca's one of the smartest ladies ..."
I suppose you could call it a meta-meme.
I love stripe. I got everything setup and accepting payments this morning for a side project in less than 20 minutes before I had to leave for work... It's such a joy to use.
Is this really because of the whiteboard though?

Yes, I have no problem at all with a "traditional" job interview. Even ones where I've been given a paper exam and then left alone for a while have been okay. Though I also find that kind of interview to be rather distasteful, I've never actually had any problem doing well on the exam. Doing well on written exams (with solitude) is a skill that anyone who has graduated from a good school probably has already been forced to acquire.
Woo! Go Stripe! We use them on CloudContacts and love it.
All I get is a Namecheap default page.
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Stripe is a great example of proper developer experience joy. Good job guys!
Really? Women do not start or get involved with tech companies because the male programmers make sexist jokes?! Get real. Women are just as competitive as men, and the reason they stay out of tech has not much to do with sexism. I am all for women and men being equal, but putting men on the burning stake for something like this seems unfair to me.
Emulating Pointers in a sandbox when the real thing is not allowed
Instant utility, nice UI, good workflow that came from people scratching their own itch.

Fuck it, I'd fund this.
> Taking advantage of a broken system to make a profit isn't demonic, it's capitalism.

It sure sounds like you're trying to claim that legal === moral.
Nice to see others in this space. Kelly Sutton et al run the slick http://layervault.com which comes to mind. "Simple version control for designers"
this is good news. i hope stripe uses this opportunity and expands to europe asap.

congrats to the stripe folks!
Learning to program (at least, learning the right way) teaches important skills independent from the actual ability to program. Most importantly, it teaches the ability to abstract and see patterns. Take a look at https://rwxweb.wordpress.com/2012/01/31/teaching-algorithmic... for an example.
I'm not sure exactly what sort of answer you are expecting. Unless the data you want is in a standardized format (such as a standardized XML schema), any effort to extract data would require writing custom parsers for each set of data that has a different structure. I'm not sure if you are asking for advice on which technology stack to use for writing this or are looking for a pre-made tool that can extract this for you? There may be some tools that can "attempt" to do this without requiring you to write custom code but I am not sure how effective they would be.
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I agree with that. Even if you didn't care about sexism (which you should), it's just not a good introduction. If your event has one of the few prominent women in technology keynoting it, that fact will be obvious to everyone, and there's no real need to emphasize it, especially not in a way that could come off as weird. A bit more classy to just emphasize why she's actually there, how she's relevant to the event, etc.

For whatever reason, I have usually seen this done better with Black technologists. Unfortunately, even rarer than women as keynote speakers, but introductions rarely do anything too facepalm-inducing. Maybe people just have more cultural sensitivity around race, so some of the more egregious things you could do in that context are too obviously stupid for anyone to actually do.
Great feedback! We just edited the blog layout to make our logo go to ridejoy.com!
I'm not clear on the available data, is there a date range somewhere? Very nice btw.
You can use Google Music for streaming audio files but I don't think it's integrated into Google Docs, maybe that's part of what Google Drive will do?
By that measure, no political organization can be considered completely peaceful and nice, making it meaningless to say so about communism.

(Excluding full-on no-government libertarians from the above under the assumption that organizing would be contrary to their beliefs.)
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> American republicans with their distaste of market regulation

Don't confuse constituents with politicians. Politicians esp at national level want whatever their corporate campaign donors desire. They are all for regulation that benefits their "friends".
Interesting. There seems to be growing interest in utilizing biological components for creating synthetic systems. MIT has a registry for exactly this purpose: http://partsregistry.org/Main_Page
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I'll take that bet. Care to put your money where your mouth is?

http://longbets.org/
thanks for your time!
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Is this related? there's even a link to how to make a heart.. but I feel like it's too recent: http://www.reddit.com/r/learnprogramming/comments/phimd/lear...
Read the FAQ first. In there they state that their top-of-the-list priority if they exceed the initial 400 000 dollar is supporting other platforms.
Someone who is working on the front-end without basic familiarity with computer science may not recognize such optimization opportunities and may not call a compiler expert in. Also, basic familiarity of computer science is useful for having the chops to validate an idea before wasting the time of an expert.
Wow, we should all be so lucky.
SAP next-generation architecture will feature Rails & Spring
My understanding of gridiron is that it is rare to run that far.
Given the frigid weather here in Italy (not at all what I signed up for!), the idea of tropical beaches sounds particularly fantastic right now. Not sure it'd work out with a wife and small kids though, maybe another time:-)
Reversing the genders in the introduction yields, "Robert's one of the smartest men[1] I know, and I thought that he was a perfect pick for the role of moderator. When we selected Robert 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.", which is only slightly weird.

Removing the obvious weird part -- "sexy" -- yields, "... When we selected Robert and he said yes, he was a single man. And since that time, he’s become a married man, and so I wanted his lucky new spouse to stand up ...", which isn't weird anymore, but somewhat of an awkward construction; you don't say "he has become a married man" in normal conversation.

If I had to rephrase that less awkwardly, I'd go with "... since we selected Robert and he said yes, he's gone and got himself married, and so I wanted his lucky new spouse to stand up ...". Maybe throw in the classic, "Let's have a round of applause for the happy couple."

Putting this all back together:

"Rebecca’s one of the smartest ladies I know, and I thought that she was a perfect pick for the role of moderator. Since we selected Rebecca and she said yes, she's gone and got herself married, and so I wanted her lucky new spouse to stand up. (Let's have a round of applause for the happy couple.) So we’ve got not only a very talented, but a happy moderator."

[1] "ladies" might be slightly off in this context, but I think it's less egregious than twisting a marriage announcement into an opportunity to call a woman sexy twice.
A metro PDF reader from MS for windows 8 has already been confirmed (apparently) http://www.addictivetips.com/internet-tips/windows-8-modern-... although it wasn't in the developer preview from what I could see.
> ...and so I wanted her lucky new spouse to stand up.

This kinda comes off as, "don't worry, this woman is being properly escorted."
I'm sure it's possible to search within encrypted data.

edit: http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2009/07/homomorphic_en...
Perhaps not those with traffic problems. Hopefully by then you've found a way to direct that traffic to useful revenue or have enough cash from your business to invest.

In OP's case, he's spending money on hosting a CPU-intensive blogging engine. In theory he could spend the same money on theming an efficient one.
Being sexist, racist, or anything else really distracts from the mission of the startup.

That being said we take the same approach that south park does. Everything is on the table or nothing is on the table. Everyone in my group constantly rags on each other for everything including some off color jokes. However we've been friends for years, and when we work with other people we cut that stuff out immediately. The comments he made were fairly demeaning, and I guess a strong lesson here is know your audience or if you can't figure that out then don't do it at all.

To clarify I judge a person based on their ability and how they treat others. It's really the only way to go about things.
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Really? Women do not start or get involved with tech companies because the male programmers make sexist jokes?! Get real.

This wasn't a sexist joke. This was a sign of a sexist culture, which is much more pervasive and damaging.

Women are just as competitive as men

Men don't have to take this crap. Well, usually.

he reason they stay out of tech has not much to do with sexism

So, what is it?
Hey -- just want to say thanks to the people on HN who've given us feedback and encouraged us along the way. We're building Stripe for the kind of people who read Hacker News, and the suggestions we've received here have generally been the most useful feedback we've gotten anywhere.

So, thanks. We're pretty excited about the next few years.
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It is incredible how quickly certain legislation goes from a soundbite from a corporate executive to becoming an actual piece of legislation.

Bill Conners of Entrust on 2/9/12:

“The second thing I would start on is the inability of businesses to talk to governments or to themselves because of anti-trust or the patchwork legislation in the states. I am tired of it being a one-way communications stream to intelligence and nothing in return. And I understand that they legally can’t do it, but as a company that’s tasked with protecting our government and governments and enterprises and citizens, it’s pretty folly to me, I can only give you information and you cannot give me anything back.”
I've always been extremely bullish on Stripe, so it's good to see this reaffirm my beliefs. Any investor would be crazy not to get in on this.

Proud to see more Irish founders succeeding in the US, and as I know they'll be reading here: good job guys, keep it up.
Don't worry about first project too much, it's perfectly acceptable to change projects after being noogler for few weeks. There is an understanding that not all projects are a good fit for all people, so I know few people who changed projects in few weeks after they joined.
But it wasn't all running on a single VPS.

If OP had thrown more hardware (and hardware costs) at the equation his problems would have reduced.
Congrats guys!

There's a lot to like about Stripe, but my absolute favorite under-appreciated thing is their name and domain name.

Hard to quantify just how much it helped, but I seriously doubt they would have had quite this trajectory with a name like Chargerly.com or even possibly Stripe.io.
Thanks for clearing that up - I hadn't really followed the changes to the bands.
One thing that YC drills into you is to not settle for B or C class talent. You just have to look at Stripe's team overview to see how talented this company is: https://stripe.com/about

Stripe is a lesson on how to build a company from the ground up. Surrounding yourself with incredibly intelligent people tends to have an outcome like this (both product and valuation). Congrats guys!
I also get 4G on T-Mobile but not sure if that will be the case on AT&T as well.
Google drive will certainly NOT be a failure if they match the user experience of dropbox at a price that is better. Dropbox, however, should have a plan to avoid being "mapquested" by google if they want to stay relevant.

What I don't understand is why there aren't more solutions like the old jungledisk where you supply your amazon s3 keys and get a virtual drive that acts as an interface to s3.
It would be interesting to get Rebeccas thoughts on the introduction.. it sounds strange reading it, but I could easily expect something like that from someone who was a close personal friend of the couple.
I'm disgusted at the amount of sexist crap everywhere and I'm horrified when I see it here on HN and am still surprised at its persistence on reddit (ie the trainwreck #1 post this morning). It's been a while but here on HN there was a series of posts and discussion about women's pay and negotiations that left a bad taste in my mouth from the dripping sense of entitlement and ignorance that resulted from posters arrogantly asserting that "women should just ask for more", revealing their ignorance of the complications of sexism in various tech industries.

Sadly this reaction is typical when confronting a majority about their taking advantage of minority groups. "It's just a joke". (Hint, this response has already been offered up more than once in this thread). It doesn't affect males and it's a male dominated industry, thus the issue has low visibility and personal impact to those who are causing the problem or have the influence to fix it. This all compounds to make this issue hard to solve unless people are willing to vocally confront these incidents as they happen, when they happen, and take responsibility for treating people with respect and equality.
Michael Scott: I want you, to meet my family. Come on. Oscar Martinez, accountant extraordinare, this is Justin. This is Darryl Philbin. Isn't he big? And you already met her, Pam Beesly, office hottie.

Being reminded of an episode from The Office is probably evidence that you're doing it wrong.
I really don't see how this is such a big issue, it's slightly out of place to call someone sexy, but the simple fact of the matter is that it is partially just a matter of gender associated terms. Imagine this:

> "Robert's one of the smartest men[1] I know, and I thought that he was a perfect pick for the role of moderator. When we selected Robert 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."

That doesn't seem even remotely odd or out of place to me (perhaps it would be as the entirety of an introduction, but that isn't the case here). So yes, he maybe should have said "beautiful" instead of "sexy", but if people think this is an example of how the tech community is sexist then they are seriously deluding themselves with how non-sexist it really is.