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> Of course your tone makes it likely that discussing with you is probably a waste of time anyway :-/

Not really. I ask these questions because I've noticed that astonishingly often, people online will write a definitive refutation of some scientific position or new study, which took them only a few seconds to think of and which is wrong; but why do they do this?

I can think of many possibilities, and I'm never sure what it is: do they think so poorly of the scientists conducting the study (anti-intellectualism)? do they think so highly of their own thoughts (Dunning-Krueger)? are they too stupid to realize any of this (low IQ)? are they too lazy to look up the answers in Wikipedia or Google Scholar? or is it a cynical ploy for getting upvoted comments where they count on their fellows not being knowledgeable enough to call them on it?

Hence, I ask questions to try to isolate what might be the issue and incidentally point out to the more reflective readers why comments like yours are fundamentally bad ideas.

Sometimes the spectacle is just horrifying; on a mailing list with a fairly high level of discussion of cutting-edge research on working memory and dual n-back, someone posted proudly about how they thought IQ tests were biased against Africans, and though I point out that this was obvious to him and me, even more obvious to psychometricians, he never once looked up how the tests might have been defended against or corrected for cultural biases, despite me sometimes explicitly naming the names he could punch into Google or Wikipedia.
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Actually, there are class action lawsuits starting: http://www.marketwatch.com/story/hagens-berman-investigates-...
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If simple would finally get out those cards - I'd be happy. I feel like it's been nearly a year since I signed up on their waiting list.
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When will we stop giving "Anonymous" attention?
Great idea, this is the sort of thing that makes YC powerful.
I will agree if we stop calling it "theft" when GNU/open source software is used in a proprietary application.
It sort of makes the words become symbols.
I am blown away. Completely. It's almost as if I'm reading an epic journey…

The amount of iterates over the layout, typography, transitions, all told over those pages.

Wonder how I can get a copy… :P
Disclaimer: I am a guy.

I apologize if this comes off as a strange sentiment, but I find stories like this pretty condescending. It's almost like reading a story about some achievement by a kid with special needs and I need to stand up and cheer for these women. These women are amazing for whatever they have done, regardless of gender.
Cool.

Curious if others like this style better than the original link also.
Sarcasm ^
It's not sensational nor a scare tactic. The TSA director explicitly endorsed the same strategies used to groom children for sexual abuse.
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Yeah, I understand. That's why I normally hate writing about women in technology. However, I think a lot of would-be founders or applicants to YC are probably put off by its more male-oriented image. So if nothing else, this dispels that stereotype and may encourage more women to consider applying for it -- which in my mind is a universally good thing.
Well, this graph viewer is fun, but it's only a tiny sliver of what Wolfram|Alpha can do; if Google wants to "toy with" the industry it will require some more serious toying!
Ah I love these moments when I know that I am writing a risky post and I will very likely be downvoted, but here it comes!

How is this fair? Doesn't it qualify as "sexism"? You know the thing that was heavily debated on HN in the last weeks when some people were treated based on their gender? "I mean these people are put forward because they are %s, and if they were not %s they would not even qualify to a full page article. Based on that story %s seem to have an easier time because of their gender" % ( "women", "women", "women"). Sorry for the Pythonic syntax but if you saw "men" instead of "women" you'd have totally different stories and the big S word: sexism.

Plus, the ideas might be good for business but it's very very "girly". If I were a girl I would certainly feel kind of weird that out of the 4 ideas 1 is directed towards women, 2 are directly relevant to "standard" feminine tastes: clothing. Also the journalist is a woman... I want to see women promising us Big Data analysis or the new portal around cars, not some stuff that reinforce stereotypes!

I am sorry but I will say that sexism is gone when EVERY trace of it will have disappeared, and there won't be any "X women that succeed and they are awesome" but the title will be "Z ideas that will help you buy clothes" with guys and girls in the same article.
Don't worry. Little by little, politicians come up with ways that will make it impossible for google to continue its business...
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Really, how is it different from "Minnesotans in YCombinator" or "Indians in YCombinator"? It's someone choosing to highlight and celebrate a subgroup in a particular feature article. I don't see anything condescending about it at all.
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It has a answer to ootachi's comment.

>>What choice did they have?

The only choice Oracle has is to invest in Java in areas that is going to help them sell their products.

That is the only choice Oracle has.
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I just pulled something out of my ass to fill in the gap. Was probably thinking of RSA.
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The math and rendering is done client-side so it's your computer that is faster than a graphic calculator.

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Bit of a false dichotomy there-- you already read words as individual symbols; otherwise spellchecking wouldn't be a thing. They're just a little wider than these.
I didn't even know that there were that many women in YC. It's only been in the past month that I've stumbled onto women founders commenting on HN. I'm thrilled to find this article. I believe that women are underserved by software because the field has been dominated by men, too often making software targeted at other men.

It's great that the ideas are girly. They know what they want better than we do. If more women are going into YC now than before, than I'll bet PG and the gang can hardly wipe the grins off their faces thinking about all the money they're going to make.
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This seems like it could actually be a real improvement on written Latin if it adopted a real phonetic alphabet. Just transposing all of my existing graphemes for new, smaller ones seems a little silly.

(And since what you're really asking is not for people to learn a new alphabet, but to learn a new symbol for every word in their lexicon, it wouldn't be that much more of a leap. Think about it.)

Thinking about it-- you increase your bandwidth immediately. You can knock out /c/, /q/ and /x/ right off-- maybe a couple other consonants (/j/?) with creative digraphs (/gi/?). Use the extra bits to add in the more confusing vowels sounds, and appropriate current digraphs where they aren't confusing.

Chording becomes your standard input device; just press every sound that's in the word at once and move on. Anyone would be able to type as fast as they could talk, at least, and read far faster. Text to speech and vice versa would be much easier. Machine translation would make you perfectly legible to the non-phonetically-literate, and the vastly improved typing speed would more than make up for any minor hiccups. It would be much, much easier to teach English to children and non-natives, so much so that we'd stop using letters for everyday writing. Alphabetic English would be bizarrely unintelligible within a couple generations, but again, thanks to machine translation, perfectly readable.

Of course you get all of this just from having a phonetic alphabet; a concise binary representation is just icing on the cake. If your goal is to get people to read different, why not go for the grand prize?
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for the rule:

%.gz: %

wouldn't you need something like patsubst? Regardless of your response, could you share more info?

edit, that rule above only makes sense to me if the file name to be gzipped was passed to make. Is that correct? (I'm new to make)
technoweenie pointed out that he wasn't being ignored by GitHub, I was saying that's irrelevant. GH is just one of thousands of Rails apps that were/are vulnerable.

> You can't go around looking for XSS vulnerabilities on random websites and then exploiting them.

exploit: to use a situation so that you get benefit from it, even if it is wrong or unfair to do this; to utilize, especially for profit; etc
This is push-and-pull. It's step-by-step. We don't get to the magical destination you're talking about immediately. If this generation of female entrepreneurs happens to be more focused on female target markets, that's fine by me if it means women in the next generation look up to them and realize that they can be founders too.
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Probably. It seems very passive-aggressive to invoice a friend rather than just ask them to pay up.
What is wrong with fantasizing? It seems that to HN is full of dreamers and people who ignore statistics and likely outcomes. How many small businesses fail? How many people quit their steady job in order to go join a startup?
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I believe they are suggesting staying with the minimum so that you have the option to pay it off faster when you can. Which, yes, you should. But otherwise, if you're ever in a bind and you let them pick a higher minimum, you may resort to, say, higher credit card payments to make up the difference.

It's just slightly riskier to have a higher minimum rate, especially when you could easily prevent it.
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But why is the domain for sale on Sedo? I searched on whois.sc and saw the sale notice! Is that by mistake?
Let's not go to extremes, please. The parent has not called for a ban on requests for more information. Part of being human, as the GP requests we act, is using our discrimination. Context and balance are indispensable.
it's condescending because as a guy, and someone who has worked very very hard, sometimes you ask yourself: but what about me? I deserve some kudos as well.
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If by technology, you mean lots of venture capital, and lots of money to throw at Facebook ads + Adwords...
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I write about guys every single day!!! Multiple times a day on TC, in fact!!!
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Im getting it on the same domain, but the request can be sent from any domain, as long as the user is logged in.
About half way through, and it's going very well.

I think that I mostly had a problem just understanding the letters of the original font. It's probably harder for me to convert using a normal font, but at least I can read it in general.
Im getting it on the same domain, but the request can be sent from any domain, as long as the user is logged in. And yeah, but they aren't offering anything that would be worth the time.
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Can you be specific, because I have no clue what you mean? I am actually curious to learn your point of view.
I am sorry but I will say that sexism is gone when EVERY trace of it will have disappear

Amen. But given that we aren't there yet, why are you complaining about an article which has women in it instead of the four hundred that don't?
I agree, but it always bugs when I see articles that speak about a gender or a group of people.

I believe it's part of a broader problem in the US. I come from another culture in Europe and that puts me in a position where I am able to analyze things from very close but still with a great deal of distance. Also forgive me for my english mistakes it is hard to develop long thoughts in a language which is not your mother language!

In the US there is a culture of the celebration of differences. It's true at every level in every aspect of the organization of the society here (I live in the US). I can take a very simple example: schools. In the US the "different" students which happen to be defined by the school administrations as the smartest students have it very easy: they are put aside from the rest, put in special classes, get incredible scholarship. The "normal"(again, by the definition of the administration) students are ignored.

Now take the example of the Finnish schools. In these schools the rule is: everybody should be at the same level: equal. [http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2011/12/what-ame...]. They have no standardized test to set the "normal" and "different" kids apart, they are very little homework.

Guess what happens next ? US pupils are just killed in the tests and Finnish students are far ahead.

This example can be extended to the case of women and to many more. By celebrating the excellence of some you only reinforce the sexism because of very complex externalities, that are not fully understood from the point of view of social sciences. I truly believe that creating role models is a curse, not a cure for the problem of women absence in technologies. This subject would merit a bigger post than mine but that's my thoughts put simply.

Sorry for the digression, thank you if you read until here :).
I first really learned to program on an LP-Mud that was in the early to middle stages of development. We had lots of live interactions that went just fine, but our message board conversations were often teetering on the brink of flame wars.

The exact same handful of people, usually around five or so, talking about the same subjects, but with really different results.

So there's something about the forum or message board format that is dangerous, I think.

With live chat, of course, misunderstandings surface faster so you can correct or elaborate as needed, but I don't think that's the whole story. I think that somehow people read tone into the messages that isn't there. I'm not sure exactly why. Over-aggressive pattern matching maybe. You get an idea in your head around the first or second sentence and then fit the rest to that idea.
It's not a "point of view", it's what happened. This was quite widely covered.

http://www.examiner.com/libertarian-in-national/tsa-telling-...
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To be honest I haven't read the others (I am totally apathetic about the Y combinator startup thing). But I'd have to the premises if they were "10 men who are awesome", trust me I would smite it as strongly as here. If none of the articles mentioned any of the women shown there this is also a problem but I truly believe it won't be solved by countering with a gender specific article (I wrote a longer post on that when I answered ktothemc ).
When I read that style I feel like I focus on the normal letters and ignore the new characters.
Dotsies aren't all that space-efficient, though, when compared to regular old text. For example, in this comparison:

http://i.imgur.com/Ldd70.png

I'd argue that the text on the right, in the green font, is just as readable as the dotsies, while taking up less space.
Bravo! If you thought you were immune because you only visit "reputable" sites it'll make you think twice. I tried putting it in a incognito tab in Chrome and Google apps in a normal tab. That didn't log out, but if I put both google apps and this site in incognito tabs or normal tabs then it logged me out. Pretty important to log out of sites when you aren't using them. But, more important to fix my sites!
It's also condescending towards the women. It's really hard to shake the internal feeling that perhaps you only got featured because of your gender, and not your brilliant idea, as well as the external perception that that may be the case. I don't think posts like this benefit either audience, in fact.

A hard working guy with a world-changing idea shouldn't be overlooked in favour of a mediocre woman who is remarkable because she is a woman.
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I agree to the extent that it's a misrepresentation of what is actually going on. It is not, however, a misrepresentation of what the regulations and laws regarding the TSA allow. The fact that they're not doing it, even though it's well within their powers, is simply a political calculation not an actual check on the power.
if they were "10 men who are awesome", trust me I would smite it as strongly as here.

You must not read much tech news if you're not doing that kind of smiting several times a day.
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I was trying to impress humour with my point. There was profanity by clicking one of the options, and along with a pop-up dialogue blocking the window-close button it was highly audible in front of some parents with children.
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I don't like dotsies, but if you subtract the bottom row's area where the letters aren't, the dotsie comes out to actually around 25k.
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I have to say, I love how frank this discussion is. If we weren't talking about testicles, I would say I hope this is what every HN discussion would be like.
@jlees That is why I have not written a "women in tech" article in six years. But I think the benefit of showing that there are women doing interesting things at Y Combinator to other prospective women founders outweighs the downside that you mentioned.
That's always the refuge: you're interested in equality alone. But it's really not true, because (if you're being honest with yourself) you reacted emotionally, not logically, and enough so that you decided to post on the internet about it to let everyone else know how you feel.

It's just an article about a notable subgroup. Would you be annoyed if it was (as another poster amusingly points out below) Minnesotan or Indian founders? Local Texan sons done good out west? University of Subterranean Boston alumni notes? It's clear you're peeved because, for whatever reason, you don't like "identity politics" and you pigeonholed this as being an example.

Well, get over yourself. It's not. It's about women with startups. Being underrepresented (wildly so, relative to the population) I think women constitute a "notable" subgroup. You don't?
I also think that Y Combinator's application process and brand is so meritocratic that it deflects the effect you're talking about.
I think the fear is that the bar is lower if you have a certain set of chromosomes, but in this case that's not true as anyone who makes it into Y Combinator is probably deserving of some sort of write-up as they've been vetted & are getting backing by a big name.
Thanks for the link. I now understand what prompted you to write what you did. I don't necessarily agree with it, but I now understand your view. I won't comment further, as I think our worlds are too divergent to change either of our though processes via online discussion.
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And ANOTHER class action coming together: http://www.digitaljournal.com/pr/646802
The lady in the ad looks a lot like Cleo King. She plays Marcie the murderess in Magnolia.

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0454598/

Anyway, it looks like startups are getting better about the advertising game.
China is going to try to tank an economy that its holding a bunch of debt of? Or hurt the confidence in that same economy?
Yeah, I had a similar reaction.

I wonder if it would be interesting to have a hybrid. Like maybe the letters could start out as Roman, then change (one at a time) into the letter-shaped dots, then change (one at a time) into just dots.
In the medical domain, there do exist large structured knowledge bases and "expert systems" for diagnosis. Read up on DXplain[1], MYCIN[2] and the UMLS[3]. Even in biology, there seems to be significant activity in formalizing knowledge. It literally took decades to develop and refine these knowledge bases.

Creating something general purpose like the Cyc or Semantic Web is very challenging, especially because different people have different notion of "meaning". Just look at the back and forth arguments over some controversial Wikipedia page. This is 100 times more conceptual and challenging.

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Maybe a hybrid between the two would help?
Hi thank you for taking the time to read my answers.

Well as a matter of fact I really answered rationally... Well at least I hope I did. If you want to read my real motivation, beyond the immediate answer here it is: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3779310

I am French, and I tell you what, I'd just HATE an article that would say "Some French that are really good in tech.". I want to be integrated in the society, I want people to simply ignore my country of origin, I'm not ashamed it's just not relevant to the fact that I am an engineer or an entrepreneur, just as being a women, black, chinese or anything different than white american male!
It's really the politeness that is key. It's the difference between "You suck" and "Your X could be improved by Y" Sadly the tubes are clogged with the former and the latter is much less common. I wonder how many of us really remember learning to program and all the "stupid" questions we asked. Or installing that "Linux thing" the first time, or whatever. As we get farther away from that point it can be harder to remember just what it was like.
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Example? Your own comment. How do we know which definition of the word "look" you are using? Context.
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Read his comment. It's great.