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(YC S11) looking for generally awesome hackers [SF, PA]
We're tackling a big space and have no shortage of competitors. We have some
great ideas to help make people's lives easier within our space (it's something
you do everyday) and we're looking for people that experience similar problems
to help us build those things.

We value passion, creativity and believe in small teams tackling big problems.
If you think you might be excited about making something people use every day,
get in touch.

Here are some things we need help with, 'x' things you have experience in
and ping us at: makethingspeoplelove@gmail.com.

Please include github, portfolio, and any
other links you think we might find interesting.

Design:
[ ] ==> UI/UX (on [ ] Web, [ ] iOS, [ ] Android)
[ ] Photoshop, [ ] Illustrator, [ ] Premiere
[ ] CSS3, [ ] Sass, [ ] HTML5
[ ] Javascript, [ ] CoffeeScript

Engineering:
[ ] ==> Generalist
[ ] ==> Front-end
[ ] ==> Back-end
[ ] ==> Integration
[ ] ==> Dev Ops/Sys Admin
[ ] Ruby, [ ] Java, [ ] Objective-C, [ ] Python, [ ] PHP, [ ] C++
[ ] Security, [ ] Machine Learning,
[ ] Payments/E-commerce, [ ] PCI Compliance
[ ] Web, [ ] iOS or [ ] Android

Business:
[ ] ==> Business Development
[ ] ==> Marketing
[ ] Technical proficiency, [ ] desire to learn, or
[ ] basic design or programming
[ ] Copy-writing, [ ] blogging, [ ] social media
I don't know about naive - that word has some negative connotations that may not apply.

You can build a system that doesn't suck by copying what works, discarding what doesn't. And the Founders had a lot of experience with systems that didn't work very well.
This is a great point and one I often try to make (with differing levels of success.) I believe Brooks says you're going to spend 50% of your development time testing (25% unit, 25% system) I think. You're going to spend that amount of time in one chunk or you're going to amortize it (and probably make the total time spent testing longer.)
I agree with you. The thing I'm debating is what is the appropriate further action you should take before you leave.

I once left an interview because the NDA they wanted me to sign gave them rights to all of my work for the next 6 months, and the right to audit me at any day or time by searching my house!

I told the HR person I wasn't willing to sign that, and why, that it would prevent me working anywhere if I didn't get that particular job, and she reacted as if I was being a prima donna.
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And would you prefer online meetings over a half-an-hour drive to get to a local meeting?
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It is not the first time that they use undetermined terms.
There is a law which forbids "ostensible" display of religion (muslim veil) at school.

What the hell means "ostensible" ? 15cm in diameter ? 12cm in lenght ?
There should be a difference in sensation because of the difference in mass of the ring versus implant. An implant, simply because it is so much smaller, should have a stronger reaction, should move or vibrate more, for a given strength of field.
A customer or random stranger saying they think your content is inappropriate does not even begin to approach censorship. Censorship is a related topic of discussion, but nothing resembling it is happening here.
The difference is in what is being marketed and to whom. Perfume is all about presentation and is marketed towards women.

Geeklist is a social media startup marketed towards both genders.
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I had the same question, and it looks like you need to roll your own buildpack. This looks promising (although it's for phantom v1.4): https://github.com/jessefulton/heroku-buildpack-nodejs-phant....
This is exactly the problem that I see with the testing/TDD culture. Automated tests are wonderful because they save me time, not because they are the singular Holy Magic Grail Bullet of software development.

My software tends to be obsessively modular as it is, because I’m lazy. I can hold a complex tangled system in my head. It just sucks. So even when I only test manually, I am reasonably assured that nothing’s broken. But there’s no need to do manually what your computer can do automatically.
I exactly need something like this.

I think that there is a need in the market for a site like this, that focuses on quality. And avoids the problems of massified remote work sites, that end up full of silly projects, with lots of poor programmers spamming everything to death.

The presentation is right. The fee is appropriate for not too long gigs. But perhaps in the case of longer terms contracts, some other option could be offered.

Hope that it goes well.
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Ember is more of a fully featured framework than Backbone: it has bindings, computed properties and does some nice auto-updating stuff with handlebars templates — Backbone is more lightweight. Backbone is more popular and has been around for longer so it is arguably more battle-tested and there are more community resources.

Here's a podcast which contains lots of dialogue between the two framework creators (Katz and Ashkenas): http://javascriptjabber.com/004-jsj-backbone-js-with-jeremy-...
Exactly. You could make the argument that the video was mildly sexist (though no more so than the rest of the advertising industry), but to demand it be taken down because "it's fucking gross" is idiotic. I would have simply told her to get lost.
In Britain two women are in court demanding their right to wear a cross to work.

Presume you're talking about this ( http://www.rt.com/news/uk-bans-wearing-cross-317/ ). This touches on religion, and whether the state wants to have a very multicultural/multiethnic workplaces, the wearing of overt religious iconography from one group can hinder that.

(Tis quite funny how the UK with an established state religion can be quite secular)

In Germany it's even illegal to salute the German flag, or borders on social taboo.

Probably depends on how you salute it. ;) One thing to remember in Europe, unlike the USA, there isn't as much flag waving or similar nationalistic stuff, unless there's a sporting match on. From seeing photos of the USA it looks like it's not uncommon for private citizens to have American flags outside. Here, if there isn't a sporting match on, it's either government buildings, or far right nationaists who habitually use their national flag. So behaviours that seem OK in USA, might seem weird in EU.

Some of this silly things are due to problems europe has had in the past (like religious persecution or extreme right wing nationalism)
I listed one of my site on the site(to sell), I set BIN(buy it now) price to a reasonable one, considering the revenue and the effort required to maintain the site. The site is a legitimate one, making passive income, a good domain and more than 2 years old.
I decided not to reduce the price even if I couldn't sell the site. (I spent around $60 to list the site).

I couldn't sell it. For me it looks like buyers assume that reported income and traffic of any listed site is higher than the actual figures. So they expect a ridiculously lower price for sites.

There are so many listings that wants to sell for 2 - 3 times monthly earnings. Why would anyone want to do that? Can't they just keep the site themselves for another 3 months and earn that money.
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tile_Disk_Usage

Quote: "OSM does NOT pre-render every tile. Pre-rendering all tiles would use around 54000GB of storage. As the following table shows, the majority of tiles are never viewed. In fact just 1.79% are viewed."

Those figures are about a year old, though it does give a newer figure for space used which is about 1200TB or 2.7% of the total size estimated.
It may be temporary, but Marine Le Pen's campaign web site seems to be down at the moment. It would be easy to see her benefiting from the inevitable fervour over this loony gunman. Sarkozy would love to have a bit of that for himself, hence his seemingly-reckless statement.
That's why we're all seeking to ban pornography, right?
What a about something like this:

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-yD8EzRoZItM/TuWQwWlZNyI/AAAAAAAABc...

Every woman I've talked to LOVES this kinds of photos. I've never ever hear anybody protesting this (except maybe some prude religious idiots).
Isn't that just because 9 times out of 10 those products are bought by women?
I don't think you have a good working definition of censorship. There is no authority figure here, and no one is being silenced; what's happening is people speaking up about things that make them feel hurt, threatened, and alienated. This is how things work in a free society.

It's great for that you've never felt subject to sexism. (Says in your profile you're in the UK, might have something to do with it-- I don't know if you've read anything about the political climate here in the States, it's a little actively hostile towards women right now.) But I'm afraid what you're saying is wishful thinking. The fact of the matter is some people are assholes, and it's quite possible to do your job well and still not be respected, and in our industry that falls much, much heavier on women.

There are fewer women in tech today than thirty years ago. We have a real problem, and ignoring it isn't helping anything.
Truckers don't like to change gears. It's much more efficient for them to stay in a lower gear and coast at a consistent speed than it is to constantly change gears and brake.
> I'm a girl and never felt objectified by bosses/colleagues in the tech world, nor suffered any kind of sexism.

Many others have, though, and you shouldn't dismiss their experiences because you were fairly lucky.
Yep, that one is tricky.

Our approach is to start really small - we only need a small number of hackers and clients to get started. This allows to be in a similar situation as an small agency - we don't need to match the audience of elance/vworker to make it work. The human/case by case approach requires more work for us, for a lower cut than what an agency would take, but with a different goal in mind for scaling.

We could actually have done the first batch by ourselves, with just clients and hackers that we know and are interested. But we thought it would work as a better validation to give a chance to HN readers to join - we're more likely to get a more diverse set of situations this way.

The advantage for those who will be in the first batch is the extra care and attention we'll dedicate on making it work for them. We'll all be learning from the experience - aside from guaranteeing a place on Hacker Trade in the future, it's also a good opportunity to shape what Hacker Trade will be, and ensure that you get what you need from it.
You don't have enough information to differentiate the case you're making from "I don't like you being uppity about this thing which I care about and I was going to make right, but now I won't, because you're unprofessional and it's hard to believe you'll appreciate if I'll fix it" or even from "I don't like you being uppity about this thing which I care about and I'm going to make right, but you're unprofessional and I'd like you to tone it down so I'm going to slap you on the wrist until you do", which is completely innocent.

Think rationality/LessWrong differentiation. It looks to me that you just don't have enough bits to differentiate between the hypotheses.
"an insider with a good track record of leaking unannounced information regarding Microsoft’s plans"

It sounds like he/she has successfully leaked information before.
That's not exactly true. Most Unix's came with a compiler, particularly in the early days preceding the first release of GCC. I think Sun was one of the first proprietary vendors to start shipping a compiler separately, and I can't remember if GCC was already around when that happened, but it was at most an emerging trend when the GCC project started. I seem to recall that part of the impetus (along with the increased adoption of C for programming embedded systems) to switch to the more retargetable GCC 2.x architecture was the emergence of the "don't include the compiler" trend that made interest in having GCC for more platforms and languages, but perhaps my memory is fuzzy.
Poll: Have you ever been a sex worker (prostitute) or used their services?
I've been researching statistics on prostitution and frustratingly researchers only care about the economics and health implications, essentially focusing only on the women involved. There don't seem to be much published along the lines of what percentage of the population employ the services of sex workers.

I know close to a dozen aspy entrepreneurs who find it easier to visit an escort once or twice a month than try to navigate the murky waters of dating and relationships.

Let's get some hacker statistics.
No, but I have gone to a massage parlor with a "happy ending".
Yes I have been or am currently a sex worker
Your customer isn't paying for the code you write, they are paying for a finished product that works. How much code you write should be irrelevant to them.

In fact, one could argue it is far more dishonest to quote without testing since that does not include the maintenance costs that will be incurred by them after the initial product delivery, which will almost certainly be higher than a project with automated tests.
"I'm a girl and never felt objectified by bosses/colleagues in the tech world, nor suffered any kind of sexism."

I can tell. How sad that you should use you lucky position to blast those who have, rather than showing women that it doesn't have to be that way.

Nice insinuation that those of us unlucky enough to have been on the receiving end of sexism are not working hard enough to earn respect... sigh. Sisterhood, eh?
To clarify, akkartik means the earliest few commits. Not the first few on the page he linked (which is page 1 according to the URL), but the page last in GitHub's page order, with the first commits. It's currently https://github.com/diiq/Tainted-Oyster/commits/master?page=4.
1) ".. has negatively affected most women's ability to be treated professionally and respectfully"
If you reread those lines, would you still choose them? _Most_ women's ability to be treated in either way or both is negatively affected? Maybe I stumble when I read 'most' and change that mentally to 90% or so - which my gut rejects as unreasonably large and way over the top.

Yes, I'd write this the same way. I'm referring to the subtle effects that the real katie wrote about yesterday in "Lighten up". Women are treated professionally and respectfully in many situations, but the subtle effects of what she described add up, and do indeed affect most women.
Sorry, I've edited this post. The original felt like an off topic rant.

Long story short, we're moving to BYOD soon, and until then I'm using a backup laptop from years ago since I'm pretty low on the food chain here.
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Its taken a bit of meditation and conversation on the topic, but half-naked men in advertising isn't equally sexist or offensive.

Believe me, I see where you're coming from. My gut instinct (which I'm trying to tame) when I hear something about objectification is "I wouldn't mind someone objectifying me!" - but that instinct is wrong and here's why.

I (straight, white, american, upper middle class, male from suburban christian background) have a shit ton of privilege. Part of that as I understand it is that there are huge double standards in society at large for men vs women. There are things that I can do, which a woman doing would have incredible different reactions an consequences.

To be extreme, if I worked for a company and the rumor was that I had slept with every woman that worked there, it would likely be seen by the coworkers (and management potentially) as being a generally positive thing. James Bond, etc... The rumor of a woman doing the exact same and she's a slut. The consequences of being seen in a sexual light for a man aren't the same as they are for a woman. For men, its a sign of increasing power, and for women unfortunately its of decreasing power.
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I've been extremely impressed with Knockout; just the right amount of "opinion" to make things easy without being too imposing. Its data binding interface is exactly what I was looking for to connect my models to views.
the more I think about this problem, and the solutions being offered, the more I think everyone is missing the point. I think riding in and saving the day is just as "sexist."

What the OP wants here is to be respected for who she is and her accomplishments as an individual, so that is the best solution. My guess is that most women accept this sexism as a part of life and have a way to handle it, but evey once in a while it just crushes them.

The healthiest and most productive solution is to "give them the tools" to feel better about themselves and ignore the sexists of the world, by letting them see that there are good people out there who will treat them with respect and appreciate not only their efforts and accomplishments, but also their sacrifice and struggle. It is obviously very easy for a a woman to fall into the "traditional secretary" role, if someone put the effort to overcome and rise above, that effort should be appreciated.

If the boss asking her to take notes is demeaning, why not ask her to help you overcome some difficult coding problem.

In most situations, it really just boil down to being a mensch.
At work, for one small subsection of the project I'm on, I wrote the regression test. I'm testing a "program" that consists of 56 processes (what I'm testing) across three machines (and requires around four other processes across two machines to stub out some services we require but aren't technically part of what I'm testing). It can take up to half an hour to set up (one of the reasons it's not fully automated is that the third party network stack we rely upon will shut down if there are too many errors) and it takes around four hours to run (except for two test cases that require manual intervention to run properly).

And that's just for the back-end processing (nearly 300k lines of C/C++ code). Unit testing? Okay, for large values of "unit", and most of the "units" being tested require almost as much set up as the entire "program".

Is something wrong with the design? Given the constraints and how the project evolved, I can't see it being any simpler. And I'm somewhat overwhelmed with the thought of testing the frontend (which requires Android phones).
How do you dare speak in such a sensible and understanding manner? Why don't you talk about the times where you met a jerk at your workplace and he was a jerk, and you were offended, so now every workplace ought to be filled with men full of lust because they are geeks so they have poor social skills (funny, cliches about geeks in the office are OK !). Anyway this is, of course, a joke and some of the things I have found in previous threads.

But seriously thank you for saying what other women in the office where I have been working in the past have said: there is generally no problem. I don't know where the people I have read were working, but seriously, if it's that horrible, switch jobs.

And about the thing getting out of hand, this is the internet, people circle jerk problems ad nauseum, and Hacker News is not an exception.

Sexism is a subset of stupidity and a great deal of the latter is shown here.
As someone from the affiliate space where EVERYTHING gets splittested I can tell you that videos generally own all other forms of website content when trying to get the user to do something (download, signup, buy).

>Would Dropbox convert better if they had descriptive text on their home page, or at least made the features link more visible than the one in the footer? We'll never know unless Dropbox tests it and publishes the results.

of course DB tested their homepage a ton
'Legitimate' in this context is not intended to be synonymous with 'raking in cash'. I'm talking about profitable businesses with sustainable revenue models - not someone with a niche, keyword specific domain they registered three months ago that's benefiting from some temporary adsense luck.

My business partner and I sold a business a couple of years ago because our hearts just weren't in it anymore. It was profitable, but not enough to offset the pain in the ass of running it. We sold it to a group with a collection of complimentary businesses, and they've had great luck with it.
A couple of additional points:

Reading other people's programs doesn't help much because, unless you can find some really small standalone programs, they are going to be too complex for a beginner to learn much from.

Explore variations on the small programs presented in tutorials, try changing things - then try them out to see whether they now work as you expected, if they don't, keep at it until they do. It is never to early to start learning debugging.
I was under the impression that [patents were no longer believed to be an issue](http://llvm.org/docs/DeveloperPolicy.html#patents "LLVM Patent Policy") any more than they'd be for GCC (which is arguably more vulnerable to patent issues).
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> why is sexism towards women so horrible and sexism towards men is simply accepted as the way things are?

Feminists are opposed to sexism towards men. The reason you hear a lot more about sexism towards women is that men are the dominant of the two genders, so sexism against us [men] holds us back a lot less. This is particularly true in tech: how many men would you guess have ever left the tech field due to sexism compared to how many women?

Also, another point: it's appropriate to use appearance to sell products, when those products are related to appearance or attractiveness. If you're marketing a product that's going to make people look and feel sexier, it's totally fine to demonstrate that by showing sexy people using that product.

Geekli.st is not a product that's meant to enhance your appearance, it's meant to enhance your career. So the women is in her underwear, why?

And in fact, in the ad, only the woman's appearance is deemed important. The man is wearing a t-shirt and shorts, while the woman is in her underwear. That contrast to me is the most obvious reason why this is sexist. The man is essentially dressed like a hacker, and the woman is dressed like eye candy.