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The problem is that you can't just multiply probabilities like that...

How about:

P(disease|calories) = P(disease|calories from sugar) + P(disease|calories not from sugar)

So it might mean:

P(disease|calories from sugar) =0.05
P(disease|calories not from sugar)=0.01
But people don't always see what's really there
> At the startup-focused Grow Conference in 2011, his presentation included bikini-girl images from his calendar. He prefaced the slides with a laughing, "I'm sorry for being sexist. I apologize in advance,"

I read this a lot on reddit. Someone will preface their comment with "I'm going to hell for this" or "Apologies in advance" as if that's supposed to excuse it. I get the feeling it's because these people don't see themselves as ____ist, so when they do something ____ist it's "just a joke" or "I'm not serious!"

I think for us to get rid of this culture, we need to make these people realize they're actually sexist. They're not a nice guy making a sexist joke; they're a sexist guy making a sexist joke, and this is how everyone sees them.
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Exactly, I don't under this "Nintendo will fail because they aren't offering games in the $1 to $5 range for the Wii like I see on my iPhone" attitude. We're not seeing any of the console makers considering such a thing. You can make a point like this for the DS market maybe but isn't it a success?

Plus I've seen talk of increasing mobile game prices to offset the increasing production costs.

When we see a game of the production and complexity level of Modern Warfare 3, Battlefield 3, or Skyrim with a retail price of $3.99, only then will Nintendo fear for their console sales.
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What's interesting about the brogramming phenomenon is it seems less about programming, and more about how to be what most would consider a pompous idiot (I am being kind with that term, another would be 'd* bag'), who just so happens to program. The implication here is that programming is not cool unless you are a brogrammer. I think this shows a lack of understanding or awareness about the basic philosophy of programming (see: pompous idiot).
No, it's not. "Publicly perform"?! Tell me in what reasonable backup scenario would google need the right to publicly perform your content? It's not reasonable at all; it's egregious and honestly insulting.

Look, I get it: the chances of Google acting on these rights are small and the PR backlash for abuse would be brutal. But this is a great example of a legal department _far_ overreaching in their corporate protection efforts.

I really want to use GDrive, but even if the odds of abuse are unimaginable, I really hate that they make me sign a contract that makes me out to be a functional idiot. "Sign away all your legal rights--it's okay because you can trust us."
Instead of investors, could there be a place where customers can sign up to be early access paying customers, instead of shareholders?

My first impression of Kickstarter was "Cool, I get to buy this and support the first batch being built and get a product", not "I am a shareholder and get a product".

The fact that I was some kind of shareholder came as a total surprise to me, and didn't seem to make sense. I was helping kickstart a project by buying one of the first batch, like a group buy, instead of getting the company off the ground.
It would stop one arms race and replace it with another: firms would crowd the books with more orders to increase the number of fills allocated to them.
Can you explain what is going on and how it is defrauding markets? There isn't a lot of explanation.

Is the problem that the nbbo is changing too quickly?
If you are concerned with storing your code on a service, perhaps you shouldn't store your code on that service?

The way I see it, they could go through your code and use your secret sauce, in secret. Now, with these TOS, let's say they are in the clear, legally. Now weigh the punishment Dropbox would receive for breaching your copyright, vs the punishment they would receive for using their users'/customers' data immorally, for their own gain.
23-30% seems pretty high. My graduating class (big public university) had less than 10%.
Why are lawyers so expensive, even for the small things?
I fought with this in the past. In the end I unhappily switched to back to windows running linux VMs after years of using linux as my primary desktop OS, and it was purely because of this failure.

Don't expect multiple graphics cards to work well under linux, at all. I tried this for quite awhile and there are a number of bugs. The one that bit me the most was that when a mouse cursor cross a screen boundary that switches GPUs and there is an animated cursor running, the mouse gets all messed up with the clicks being sent to the wrong screen, click on screen 1 and the event is sent to screen 2. I also had constant issues across many version of X with the Xorg process pegging a CPU core and making the system unusable.

Xinerama is all but deprecated it seems, RandR was supposed to replace the multiple graphics card support and allow multi-gpu composting but the project hasn't gotten around to it despite the fact that they've been talking about multi-gpu handling for more than 3 years.

My "workaround" for a long time was using a Matrox tripleHead2Go to let me get 4 monitors onto a single nvidia card. But, this approach has inherent limitations, all displays have to be oriented the same way and have to be side by side, what I wanted was one screen in landscape, 2 in portrait on the sides and a couple extra above.

At this point the best bet is hoping that wayland handles multi-gpus far better than X does.
With teaching, there have been laws aimed at preventing men from teaching for well over 100 years now. That's why the vast majority of elementary school teachers are women. In the era of modern American schooling, there has never been a period where women were not dominant.

I suppose you could make an argument that historically most itinerant teachers were probably men, but this really seems like a very different job than what we currently consider teaching.
How come dropbox, skydrive don't need such perpetual blanket permission to provide exactly same service.
Should all the spoils of market making go to the fastest trader, or should the trader who is willing to offer the most volume be rewarded? The goal is liquidity, and it is not obvious which answer is best. Don't dismiss the tradeoff.

At any rate, the current system is much better than rewarding the tallest guy with the ugliest jacket.
You'd dare to be wrong:

http://134.173.180.115/berger/pdf/Halpern2007.SciSexDif.Pub....
Sure, and see virtually every user flee the service. It wouldn't be shocking if Congress and the FTC got involved in such a situation, either - they got involved in Google's P3P non-policy, for example.

TOSes are generally overly broad, yes. Virtually every one you've ever agreed to had language that could be interpreted in an absurdly negative manner.
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Of course there is evidence: the stock market wasn't invented until 1999. Before 1999, noone dared buy stocks because they were afraid they couldn't sell it later. Its historical fact.
I completely agree. I don't want to say that women need a man to stand up for themselves, but like you said, women have to walk a fine line. If everybody who sees this crap blatantly calls it out, it will wake it easier for anybody (man or woman) to stand up against this.
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>And yes, the cardio days should probably be squash, heavy bag or football rather than the treadmill.

I'd rephrase this and say cardio days should be something you enjoy doing. Some people enjoy running on a treadmill. I don't understand how that's possible, but if you like running on the treadmill, more power to you.

On the other hand, if you hate running on the treadmill, don't force yourself to do it! Exercise is a lifelong commitment and doing something you dislike isn't sustainable. Find something fun and do it regularly.
From the link you posted: "muscle IS more metabolically active than fat"
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Lots of fruits and vegetables have been bred to change their nutritional content (wild strawberries are 1/3 inch long, etc)

So fruit really isn't 'natural', and it being natural wouldn't mean it was good for you, anyway - fruit evolved as a tempation to animals to get them to help plants distribute seeds - that's it. Plants were selected based on how well their seeds were spread, so they came up with fruits which attracted animals. If they could have come up with versions which hurt the animals a bit, they wouldn't have even known or cared.
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Could it be, there's less women in programming because it's just starting to rise as someplace they're needed? Or as something just now becoming 'visible' enough to get their attention?

It could be something that starts out much earlier in life. I got into computers very early. The only person in my class at the time that cared for them was also a male. Even still, the act of programming itself just doesn't draw many people early on - which for the most part is why we currently have programmers. They got interested early.

Lawyers, Doctors - those are things that can be decided late in school. 'Hey, I think i'll go to school for this now'. Programming just doesn't have that draw - or didn't. Perhaps now that it does, we'll see far more females in the programming workforce in 4 years time.
It started as just a joke, but I've personally seen more than one CS undergrad living out the brogrammer stereotype because they thought it was cool and was part of "startup culture". No joking involved.

That's what scares me most about the joke. Its becoming a thing because people are too naive to realize that it isn't actually the new wave of best practices from the valley.
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How else are you supposed to change if you don't know what you're doing is wrong?
Or just use something like spideroak (with which I have no affiliation), which encrypts everything on your device before uploading it to their servers.
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Data mining? I have no problem with that. Even the grocery store I go does that.

I'm not exactly OK when they say they can "reproduce, modify, create derivative works (...), publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute such content."

Also, I wouldn't call my resume a "critical file". The source of the work I create (e.g. software), is a "critical file" if they can just use it however they want.
If you share a public link, maybe? If you use their website to stream a song to an audience?
There's a big difference between saying "it is wrong to do X" and saying "YOU are wrong because YOU'RE doing X." This article is doing the first one, isn't it?
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Is this a first for google? I don't think I've ever heard of them selling a product/team to another company before. If not a first, certainly a rarity.
I don't think this is really a Silicon Valley problem so much as it's a society problem in general. We technophiles are just much more inclined to bitch about it on the internet.
It's a "plus", not a prerequisite. I really don't see a problem with that one? I used to work at Dean Kamen's DEKA (the place that made the Luke arm and the Segway). It was very un-frat boy crowd. Some Fridays were declared "Beer Friday" and at 4 PM everyone would shuffle into a room and have a couple beers and converse about their projects and ideas.
Do you mean sex or gender? (Remember, words are assigned gender but cannot have sex.)

I'm not going to try to argue the brain chemistry thing^, but the social/culture aspect is a large problem and (as you bring up) can also partially explain why there are few women as well as men choosing to live effeminately in programming or technical jobs.

^Edit for clarity: Because I think its a totally loaded statement and don't want to even start down that path, not because I agree and assume its fact.
Actually, it "does", but it requires some magical incantations, and you end up with a virtual desktop with lots of off-screen pixels, and your desktop/window manager has problems figuring that out. That's why I started using the Nouveau drivers; it fully supports Xrandr, which means you can use the desktop manager's built-in screen rotation abilities.
I agree with you, but set aside the risk of a lawsuit. Creating an office environment where some people feel uncomfortable or bullied is just wrong. It's also bad for business.
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I have worked with a Trimble distributor for many years, and find this acquisition interesting. Over the last few years Trimble, traditionally a hardware company, has been acquiring various software companies. Internally, they are developing a virtual jobsite platform and I can see SketchUp fitting in with their other BIM technologies. Saying that though, I think the real motivation here is a talent acquisition.
This was by a grad TA (a school employee) in a public forum. The one female professor who expressed any concern was told basically to stop. If it was just students, that would be one thing. This kid continued to be employed by the department.
I think you're missing the point, which is: this attitude, which alienates 50% of humans, handicaps you, and ALL OF US in the development community, by 50%.
I think you misread that paragraph. He does not seem to be writing only about programmers, but about everyone that a startup might need to hire. Read this again:

"Shapiro, who has blogged in the past about sexism in the tech industry, notes that "it is a widely understood truth that the single biggest challenge to a successful startup is attracting the right people. To literally handicap yourself by 50 percent is insanity." "

His point, as I understand it, is that if a startup has a bro culture, then women won't want to work there. That includes women in marketing, women in sales, women in HR, women as project managers, etc.

And yes, it is a serious issue. Even if you accept the (highly questionable) thesis that only men like to program, are you willing to argue that a growing company will never need women in marketing, sales, HR, management, etc?

In that light, he is quite right when he says: "To literally handicap yourself by 50 percent is insanity."
>What I find particularly disconcerting about this Van Horn story is not that it happened (which is terrible in and of itself), but that this guy is 28, went through Digg (who never struck me as a company of idiots), already presented a sexist presentation, and still appears at SXSW either by invitation of him or Path. Why would Path or SXSW allow it? Did he not practice this presentation at Path before heading out? Was this thought to be acceptable by everyone at that company?

Yes, let's ostracize him. Hell, let's burn him at the stake.

/s
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Though they don't support Canadian vendors yet, I would keep a very close eye on Stripe. Their API, support and overall attitude are kick ass and a breath of fresh air.
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Ya, I'm saying if I had done any googling, I might have found flashcardexchange.com or other competitors that existed when I started it, and settled for one of them. I'd say it was luck that I didn't do any research, and when I decided to build my own thing, I had a clear vision of what I wanted.

All this was when I was 15, and I wasn't thinking about things in terms of startups and competition and so on. It's certainly possible that another way it would have happened was researching the competitive landscape and deciding I could do it better.
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You are making part of your page always load at least 2 seconds slower than is probably necessary.

$(function(){}); is shortcut for $(document).ready(); which waits until all other external content has been loaded. [1]

If for some reason you are loading something else you need after .ready() fires, and you can't load that inside of a single .ready() call for some reason, you can potentially add multiple callbacks to .ready() (they will be executed in order [2]), or attach a .load() to that particular item instead (maybe even inside your .ready().)

Timeout hacks are not a performance improvement.

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This is a really good point. I see the conflict between HIPAA and CISPA as an artifact of it being a bad, poorly- thought- out bill, though, not a conspiracy to gain access to (e.g.) medical data.

It's also worth noting that HIPAA is a notoriously toothless regulation; if you talk to practice managers that focus on health care, you'll hear stories about companies simply setting aside funds to pay the (comparatively minor) fines they're unlikely to be assessed.
It's good to spread risk enough that nobody would be badly hurt by a loss, but not more than that.
The consulting company that wrote this would probably have charged $20,000 for it at first publication.
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Well, every time I see a statement about some tech hobby device dying I just assume nothing will change. I'm a PC gamer and I've been told every three-to-five years for twenty years that my hobby will "die this year". I think Valve with their money-printing software called Steam would disagree.

The console may change, is already changing, to be just a dedicated entertainment box hooked up to your TV.

Split screen Minecraft on the Wii? What?
I agree with you to a degree, but you simply can't put it as strong as you did.

It is absolutely possible to make a joke that is understood as sexist without being one yourself. That's actually the schtick that a lot of comedians go by.

Prefacing your comment with "I'm going to hell for this" is perfectly fine and in most cases, it does show that the person truly understands they're making a comment that could offend others.

Whether or not that person really does appreciate the extent to which their comment can be hurtful and whether or not they really are sexist (to whatever degree) is a different matter altogether. Filtering your output because of others and your true conviction are two different things and you're not doing anybody a favor by forcing a causality here.
HAH, nice website :)

Yeah I figured for a music thing, mid-afternoon eastern would be the best bet. But the other posters are correct, you only last about 10 minutes on the "new" page at peak times.
You don't seem to provide any evidence of this claim.
>Seems like a "curated fund" where organizations like YC pick the companies and crowdsource funds would be one of the better applications of the new legal permissions (the potential "worse applications" being boiler rooms pushing hot new photo sharing startups to midwestern pensioners).

The JOBS Act prohibits intermediaries from offering investment advice or recommendations on investments.

See Section 304.b
You are trying to build a narrative that it's men stopping women from participating in software development. I find that problematic and harmful. Where is your proof, other than pure conjecture?

My own conjecture is that women don't want to do software development because it's boring and difficult. I'm sure they could if they wanted to, they just do not. With a few notable exceptions to the rule.
I would imagine pricing would be the biggest motivation to change. Dropbox is 8x more expensive per GB.
I think that's debatable based on geography. You point to nurses and teaching being precedents but that was only true in certain geographies. The low interest in of women in programming is a global phenomenon.

It's important that we discuss the actual cause here if we want any hope in solving this. Let me throw out another one that I find has less weaknesses then the usual arguments: There is a tremendous lack of female programming role models. Yep, chicken and egg problem, but no one said this would be easy. Perhaps what we can do is start celebrating the ones we got more? I'm thinking of Marissa Mayer as a potential starting point but I don't know a lot about this part of psychology.
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Interesting thoughts. My father (who is not overweight, normal range BMI) has had sleep apnea problems for years and the CPAP all but cured him of it. A coworker of my girlfriend (not overweight) also has sleep apnea and has had tremendous success with a CPAP. Forgive my knowledge gap here but, is it just OSA specifically that is usually found in middle-aged men with short, thick necks or is it all forms of sleep apnea?

As far as your comments about better management of glucose levels, consider that the primary recommendation for type 2 diabetes is to eat a diet high in carbohydrates (fruits, grains, vegetables), making glucose management incredibly difficult if you follow the doctor's orders. Your blood sugar is killing you; make sure you eat things that make it kill you faster. There's obviously a problem here.
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"That's just fratboy behavior" and "It goes the other way" aren't excuses. Certainly not when women are severely underrepresented in the tech industry.
So your name is Matt Van Horn, but you are not the Matt Van Horn from the article, but you've met him and he's actually a pretty good guy? That is some coincidence right there.

Regardless of what kind of person he is, the presentation he gave was in poor taste and deserves to be ridiculed. Attacking the writer or publication for wanting to "drive more page views" doesn't change the fact that he gave a sexist presentation.
PG, would you still feel the same if there were limited disclosure/access requirements to crowd investors, so that the disclosure/reporting obligations were no different than if you were dealing with a limited number of accredited and/or sophisticated investors?
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This is strange. Can someone explain how this would work for Google or why it would be a good move?
I'm not exactly OK when they say they can "reproduce, modify, create derivative works (...), publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute such content."

Ignore the hysterical reactions by those with an agenda. That section of the ToU explicitly applies to information that you explicitly make public (such as posting on Google+).
...and yoopers call us trolls because we live "under the bridge."
I really don't see your point here. You think I was being over the top? I don't see how; he's representing Path. Path, you would think, would probably like to represent itself as a diverse, vibrant workplace with exciting, fun, kind people, and not sexist jerks with locker-room antics.

I would appreciate it if you'd elaborate on what you think is wrong about this.
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