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Happy to answer. I am one of the founders of Boundless.

The first iteration of our product gave a student a 100% free alternative to buying their expensive textbook. The product is completely digital with search functionality, notes, highlights, etc. Very similar to an e-text, but a more elegant experience (and of course free!).

We did that by leveraging something called Open Educational Resources (OER). OER is open source content developed by top institutions, organizations, and educational individuals. It sits in unorganized databases which makes it hard for a student or professor to adopt. We bridge the gap between the OER content and the student.

Ultimately this is our first step. We don't consider ourselves a textbook company. No student wants to read hundreds of pages of text. Now that we have a great base of content, we will be redefining the user experience so that the user can focus on bite sized pieces of information rather than long form text.

Let me know if you have other questions.
Its one of the first HS projects I did, I really wanted to get a handle on what everyone else was working on, and what they had done pre/post hacker school.
Gotta love android, you can cheerfully mprotect away the write-protection on executable pages. I've done some dynamic stub code removal that way. Worst case, you can only hose your own process.
Thought about adding a tool like newrelic.com to your toolset?
(I am one of the founders of Boundless)

Believe me, we would love to go into very, very specific detail on exactly what is covered in the complaint, unfortunately talking publicly about details in the suit is taboo/off-limits. Further, our response isn't yet filed, which would provide some of that detail.

But it's telling they chose to pursue litigation instead of any other form of out-reach.
I think that I'm going to start by filing infringement claims with the various services that she uses (she doesn't host her own site, she uses a service.)
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You might also want to consider using promille (per 1000) or something similar, when dealing with such tiny percentages. (I don't mean they're tiny for a CTR figure, just that small numbers like that are harder to get a gist of than "1.37 clicks for each 1000 views".
Computers are finite, and so is Clearspring's data.
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Consider talking to the person (with legal advice first). Maybe she'd change her name if you paid for the cost of switching? Probably cheaper than legal action.
But see the problems Thingiverse have had, having to deal with DMCA takedown notices. (Luckily the person dropped the DMCA takedown case.)

(http://www.shapeways.com/blog/archives/747-IP,-3D-Printing-D...)
It's amazing when you think that pirates give aware their bandwidth and storage to distribute your files for free. 30 years ago, the manufactor, storage, and physical distribution of media (music/films) was expensive and the idea that customers would do it for you for free would have sounded absurd. And yet here we are now.
In fact i worked at a dutch social network where we also used hiphop. The new compiled binary is pushed to all servers and then it is started, the old binary is stopped and a port handover is done. Thus deploying without downtime. The old binary is available on the system, making a rollback very fast. However old binaries are removed after a time. So you can only roll back to a previous version quickly.
That is not true at all schools in the US. At least not when I applied around 10 years ago. A lot of schools, especially the top tier CS programs told me that I would not be allowed to go in undeclared and then transfer into their CS program. I had to declare as a CS or I wouldn't get in. I knew some people were able to get away with not declaring and transferring in but I didn't want to risk it.
What is the difference between a spelling mistake and failing to wear a tie to an interview? I suggest nothing except for cultural standards. Once upon a time, they were both punishable by immediate removal from the process. Today one is tolerated but the other not tolerated.

they both signal the same thing: “I meticulously went over my presentation to ensure that it meets your expectations.”

Let’s be clear: I think that everyone looking for a job should present the best possible face, including the appropriate spelling and grammar. It’s just that when hiring, I can easily overlook a spelling mistake if I think the candidate may be that one in one hundred.

ANOTHER THOUGHT: To be fair, spelling mistakes are a lot closer to the line than cultural fit or politics or things like gender and race. You can’t change your race to suit the job. Things like your politics are changeable, but unless you have a strong ethical objection to the company’s line of business (I have declined to work on contract with a Tobacco company), it’s in society’s best interests for you to be able to keep your political views without being swayed by your employer.

Spelling on a cover letter is a different matter. Most people don’t have a disability that prevents them from getting it right, and there is no greater benefit to society in forcing employers to ignore spelling. It’s a matter that is narrowly restricted to your interaction together, so it isn’t asking a great deal of a candidate to get the spelling correct.

So, I guess I don’t have a violent objection to your point of view, even if I’m espousing a different one in this post.
In my mind, design is one of those things that is really best learned through practice and observation. While there are certainly fundamental principles to design, there really isn't a technology of design in the sense that you can teach it in a manner that always translates to successful execution. In other words, you can learn the recipe but still botch the meal. Not because you don't understand the principles, but because you lack the instincts (built through practice and observation) to understand how to communicate through design.

The best method I've found for learning design (aside from actually doing it) is to take note of designs that strike you and really dig into them. Ask yourself why the designer might have made the choices he did. How has the designer used line, shape, texture, color and space to achieve a sense of balance and unity (or their opposites). What has the designer chosen to emphasize? Why? Take notice of all the small and subtle elements that contribute to the overall feel of the design.

As for the technical side, well that stuff isn't too hard. There is an abundance of material covering CSS, HTML and Javascript. Tutsplus has some excellent free courses and tutorials. As do the sites that sebphfx mentions.

Just remember not to confuse development with design. Knowing CSS and Javascript doesn't make you any more of a designer than my 3 year old nephew. If you want to make beautiful stuff, you gotta keep practicing and observing.

Best of luck, take care.
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Hm, actually he talked much and didn't say anything. After this presentation it could be a simple Phonegap container, some native plugins and the feed and stuff in a web view. Guess I have to go poke around myself.
It also made me a little seasick.
My opinion on spelling errors as an indication of quality of the candidate has changed. I use to use it as a first pass approximation to polish, professionalism and to a degree education and presentation.

I came to the realization that I'm not hiring writers, PR people, or salesmen.

All things being equal, I prefer someone that can spell, but at the end of the day - my best performers bring a much bigger skillset to the table.

Minor spelling is a nuisance, but no longer a show stopper for me... with that said, maybe I'm just looking for more people like me. you will notice my disregard for proper formatting and spelling in some areas as I honestly have better places to waste my time.
Ironically, a job seeker that rejects an ad based on a keyword or two is exactly the shallow reasoning this article criticizes; it's just the other side of the same coin. I'm pretty sure there are actually good startups that put out "cool" (lame) ads just, like good programmers that let a typo slip by.
Why not just do it yourself? All you have to do is re-insert their Javascript. It may be against the ToS of your ad network(s) but if you keep it reasonable (5-10 min) you probably won't get any flack. Maybe only reload the ads when a user does certain "big" actions?
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Indeed. And what Hatchlings is alleged to have done is likewise fraud (or perhaps accessory to fraud). We have no evidence either way (though as I've mentioned, I'm on the whole not predisposed to believing spammy Facebook games companies), yet you've jumped in on one side. Why?

Look, this isn't "PayPal vs. regretsy" here. It's one company in a business area rife with (pseudo-)fraud trying to make a living and getting into a tussle with another company which is badly exposed to risks from the same fraud. Yawn.
I think it's great to look into why your organization doesn't have more women represented across its divisions. I even think outreach in the form of awareness about this 'problem' is great. I dislike the implicit message being sent by offering money specifically to women to go into engineering/computer science. At best it says, we know you know that engineering is not a field your interested in because your a woman which is why we're focusing on the fact that you're a woman in our recruiting pitch, and so we're offering you a 'bonus' of $Xk. I was aghast when the NYT article ( dave-to-girl ratio ) linked mentioned that "Most women think, 'I'm going to be in a cubicle at Microsoft typing next to some guys who smell funny." if they go into computer science. Because clearly all women make decisions on whether to enter a field based on some absurdly gross overgeneralization of that field. And even if every engineer in the world smelled like a sewer rat, to list that as the first/most important/first mentioned reason women don't want to become engineers is disgusting in the first order.

Here's an idea. Why don't we do real research into what cultural factors influence men and women into going into different fields, and then decide to act on those cultural factors. Rather than say, I don't know, do what we do now, which is tantamount to, here lets fix this symptom of a much wider societal problem, and trample on the 'self-worth' and 'competency' of the very minority we're trying to 'save' in the process.

/rant.
...because mining bitcoins is more profitable
NewRelic's product screenshots look really nice, but 1) the hosted nature and 2) the price were turnoffs. We might revisit it at some point, though--there are a few features in there that would be awesome to have.
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A few important things that aren't being discussed:

If your income level drops, it should be relatively easy to cut back on food expenses. You can simply eat less or buy less expensive food. Not great options, but possible. On the other hand, if you income level drops, it's can be very difficult to reduce housing costs fast. Thus I would think that people are more vulnerable to unexpected drops in income.

Same thing goes for medical costs. It can be very difficult to reduce those without sacrificing health.

Another big issue is that in 1962 most households were single income. Most mothers were at home. If the husband lost his job, there were 2 potential wage earners that could theoretically renter the job market to regain the needed income. Today most households are dual income, and require all of that income to pay the bills. So if one personal loses their job, there isn't a backup worker able to enter the workforce if needed. So again, more vulnerability to reduced income.
I don't thank that it would help.

After contacting her to tell her that we were already using the name, she went out and registered it on just about every social media platform (that she hadn't already registered) and put up a blog post announcing her "exciting" plans to incorporate our business model into her own.
My name is Tom Siegel and I work on publisher and ad traffic quality at Google. Our objective us to keep fraud out of the network while ensuring a fair process with as much transparency as we can justify. We'll take a look at the cases mentioned on this thread. If anyone has additional questions or comments you can email me at tsiegel@google.com. We appreciate the feedback.
Awesome. No more words to describe.

I thought that Hacker School is an amazing idea since the first time I read about it. Now, it became something much more bigger, a response to the sexism that spread in software development (it's not an exclusive problem from U.S., but it's a start to inspire everyone else).

My congratulations to Hacker School team and to Etsy initiative.

I hope someday I can attend to some batch :)
No offense to the hacker school guys and etsy guys, but this is straight up amateurish.

It's called affirmative action, and some of the most highly regarded institutions in America have employed it for decades. I'm not making an appeal to authority in defense of affirmative action, I'm simply suggesting that there is nothing appalling, novel, or 'amateurish' about the practice.
Personally I think those terms indicate feeble attempts at psychological manipulation. I feel like responding to job ads like that would be like admitting you're a gullible fool. They're trying to recruit and stroke egos, not people.
I think that online activity like contributions to forums, twitter and github could be good indicators of a quality employee. However, I know many really smart, productive people who just aren't participating online in a significant way. If you're hiring for a community liaison then online activity is a critical indicator. If you're hiring a network engineer who watches log files and traffic all day online activity may not represent their "best self."
>But it wasn’t only us. He managed to do the same on other authorative sites

I object to this claim. I don't think you can claim to be authoritative about any sphere of influence if all you have to offer is aggregation and rehashing of existing public knowledge.

In reality there are very few authoritative publications, and those few that find themselves as such are certainly not weblogs.
That doesn't follow. If ads don't make money there won't be ad supported content. Consumers are the beneficiaries of a very complicated three-way relationship (advertiser/broker/content). Of course they get harmed when that relationship stops working, it doesn't matter which direction it happens in or whose fault it is.
This is an interesting program ... wish there was a weekend bootcamp organized in a similar way. I know people do things like ROTC on weekends ... why not us hackers? :)
I find this interesting because Google is still famous for having famous hiring practices and is considered by the general public to have THE top tech talent in the largest amounts (although that may no longer be true).

Seems employees and hiring would be important...
> But it's telling they chose to pursue litigation instead of any other form of out-reach.

Yeah, but what it's telling of is similarly open to debate. You'd probably say that that is proves they can't innovate or something in that direction. They might say that it's such an obvious and easy win that they don't even need to bother discussing it with you.
I agree that statement was poorly worded, but I think what they meant is that if a particular good is inefficiently produced, or rather, requires a large investment of human capital, that good is going to be more expensive than if the same good requires fewer workers. I believe that was a reference to the cost of health care.
This would make an interesting RTS. 2 teams, 4 players on each side. Each economy can survive on their own, but there is a natural chain that can be built to allow one player on each side to have an overwhelming advantage over the other team (think "tip of the spear").

Only by carefully coordinating resources can you get this to work - the same costs in the beer game apply here (making too much of the upstream resource (inventory) has an opportunity cost in you not being able to produce your own units, and not making enough of the upstream resource (backlog) results in poor teamwork and and having the other team eventually out-pace you.

Co-op RTS games sometimes have resource sharing, but I don't think I've ever seen one with a legitimate supply chain (maybe because it ends up being so difficult to coordinate).
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It fits in the Ruby philosophy and coding style to leave the `self.' out. But it might not be so evident for non-rubists.

Actually, new rubists might not even know that you can leave it out. In php you are required to use `$this->' for instance members.
I'd tend to agree since that (having kids) applies to me. There's clearly a filtering effect, probably eliminating more experienced people.

However, he apparently has no shortage of suitable talent available when using this method.
We can handle a fixed number of students each batch. We've run three so far and have always gotten enough qualified applicants who were able to make it work financially. But they were almost all men.

The Etsy scholarships are an experiment to see if we can have a batch that's 50% women. If Etsy put half of the grant money towards men, it'd do less to help that goal. If this constitutes saying "to hell with them" to men who can't afford Hacker School, then we've been doing that from the start.

why not organically filter the scholarship candidates based on female-oriented areas of study?

This would break Hacker School. We don't accept people based on a specific area of study, nor do we let companies influence the projects students work on. We simply accept people who love programming and want to become better hackers in the fullest sense of the term.
Yes, because we all live in a society with gender equality, right?

> filter the scholarship candidates based on female-oriented areas of study

Yes, girls must play only with dolls, because only you (man) should play with the cool stuff.
If I'm looking to buy something and don't know where to buy it, the first thing I do is a Google search followed by opening all the ads above and beside the results in tabs.

I've also been captured by retargeting campaigns by web services. Quite a few YC-funded companies run them. You only see their ads after you've been to their site... but they follow you all around the web, everywhere AdSense/DoubleClick reaches, which is 90% of all display advertising.
I wonder when people will start writing C compilers/backends for it. That's what's most exciting to me.
Anyone else have thoughts on the various Python blogging options? I've been shopping for one lately myself. Leaning toward Pelican (Pydanny's choice, and Kenneth Reitz's as well), but willing to entertain other options.
Yeah, we're working on a new homepage to make that bit clear.

Right now, you sign up, creat one or more positions. Each has a unique landing URL, and anyplace you'd normally publicize "send us your resumes," put that link—job boards, advertisements, recruiters, etc.

Candidates go through a very, very (sub-five-minute) short form to collect their personal contact details, their recant social networks and a 500-char-max tell-us-about-yourself and why-are-you-a-good-fit-for-this-job. You get a brief, and the rest is up to you.
A slight tangent, since I saw that instagram are using both Graphite and Munin- Collectd just added a plugin to send metrics to Graphite. You might want to try it for tracking your machine stats over time.

http://collectd.org/wiki/index.php/Plugin:Write_Graphite
http://collectd.org/
So how do you tie in the account to a credit card or bank account?

Won't google detect the same name on the CC or bank account?
I'm going to upvote this for just the Sesame Street names. Reading the piece with those names in mind, made this a lot more interesting of a read.
What OS are you deploying on EC2?
Do you happen to use an ad manager that distributes traffic among all of those ad networks? I currently use Google's DFP and I realize that's not exactly all that safe either.
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If someone gives less money to women, -because they are women- it's sexism.

How giving money to women -because they are women- isn't sexism?

A more honest approach would be to hire the most qualified person, regardless of your current male/female ratio.
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Here's my advice (which is contingent upon your actually selling a product or service):

Setup an affiliate program and promote that as assiduously as you promote your actual product or service.

Yes, doing so can take lots of work and managing it may take plenty of your time, but the trade-off can be well worth it. If you do things even 50% right you will end up with dozens, or even hundreds, of hungry internet marketers and webmasters promoting your product for you - at almost no cost to you.

Pay your affiliates only after you get paid, (and after your merchant-account-mandated CC chargeback threshold passes). Flatter your top grossing affiliates with audio, video or email interviews (which you could publish to your startup's blog and which they will definitely spam the heck out of to everybody they know).

Once you get enough traction and revenue to afford it, offload your affiliate management to a network like CJ or PepperJam.

I used to be one of them so I can tell you, internet marketers are ALWAYS looking for a great product to sell/promote. Cut revenue-sharing deals with Internet Marketing forum owners for even more exposure.

Do all that and, while I cannot guarantee that your product will succeed in the long run, I can guarantee that it won't fail as a result of nobody knowing it exists.
Looking good now, nice work
Yes, I'm quite negative on this because I feel that their methods are very poorly thought out. Good on them, as I said, I support their effort and their basic mission. That's not in question. You don't have to appeal to affirmative action or research; the concern is not their motive but their method.

Let me make sure I'm clear: I love the idea of female engineers being given incentives to enter a male-dominated field. There are a myriad of great benefits to everyone involved. The trouble is, the methods they are using are previous-level.

Seriously, a group of hackers can't figure out a more elegant process? They are literally saying "If you are a girl and ask us for money we will give it to you". That's absurd. Lets see them set up a special fund or something for female-friendly fields rather than just throwing money at women outright.

I stand by my assertion that their methods are amateurish but their intents are good. I'd like to see the people who designed this program at least speak to the topic; what else they tried, why it didn't get approved, why it didn't work, et cetera. I just want to hold other engineers to rigor and examine their methods, especially when I find the goal noble but the methods sophomoric.
ah. i was going to point you toward/ask about berkeley's more real-world classes since it sounded like you went to Cal.
I did not say that consumers were not harmed by false negatives. I said they were harmed more by false positives.
Not at all. You're saying "yes" to something instead of "no". You may go to a meetup, you may meet people through friends of friends, and you may place an ad on Craigslist. All of these things open doors to more people. The filtering was closing doors.
That's true, I should have explained that better. The hypothesis I was working from is that, on the whole, Google probably enables more ad-supported content than it hurts with false positives. For every one unfortunate blogger like you, there are a thousand more who would be harmed if the whole ad network were delegitimized by fraud. Eventually, I think the ad networks would become even seedier than they already are and this (combined with the lack of legit ad revenue) would hurt consumers.