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Only one minor point from me: the Dan Shapiro quote is a bit off.

> To literally handicap yourself by 50 percent is insanity.

From the figures I've seen, the handicap is in the 25-30 percent range based on the percentage of women in the industry.

But I like his line of thinking. It's an old libertarian argument too: racism and sexism will be rooted out the market by those smart enough to take advantage of the inconsistencies in the labor pool. It's a tremendous opportunity if it's as bad as it seems.
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> There is at least one obvious kind of existence which isn't physical, which is the sort of existence which the things studied in math have got.

I'm a formalist, so I think things studied in math are purely mental and do not necessarily have any connection to anything in the physical world beyond human mental states.

So the set of the reals is well-defined, useful, and interesting, but it isn't something you can point to any more than a unicorn is something you can point to. A thought about a unicorn is perfectly real, as is math, but that doesn't go for the concepts math involves.

> Often the problem with theology is that we don't understand and even refuse to get clear on what it is we mean to be talking about

The problem with theology is that it's philosophy with people claiming absolute truth based on nothing at all. They 'refuse to get clear' on some things because if they did, we could test their statements and demonstrate them to be wrong.
Parent was excited about his contribution. Just because you want insight into "the process" doesn't mean parent has to deliver to you.
Between Socrates and Hardy lies is a long tradition of "Apologetics", the intellectual defense of beliefs or actions (especially religious ones).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apologetics
My feeling is that they probably don't even recognise that they're being offensive; if what's being said here is true, that they basically work out of a slightly more grown-up frat house, it makes sense that they'd believe that kind of talk is acceptable.
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Intelligence is also a function of speed. All else being equal, a faster solver will win over the slow one. A faster learner will accumulate much more knowledge in less time.

In warfare, it pays to react faster than your opponents. You don't have time to think slowly about how you're going to shoot. You'll just have to shoot accurately and utilize tactics that you already know.
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> too far the other way

You're obviously allowing for nuance but it seems like many people have the argument that, "unless we put all our eggs in the single basket of a central 'impartial/trustworthy/infallible' evaluation and enforcement agency such as the FDA, people will get taken advantage of".
No, it's "king of the mountain, piss on the peons" syndrome. You mix two parts cash infusion, one part Valley atmosphere, a soupcon of pseudo-hacker swagger, then mix in a big glass and let the "semi-technical biz guy" speak on behalf of geeks.

My pet theory is that there is a super-secret, down-low, unspoken sociopathic streak running through the Valley that is fairly reminiscent of Wall Street: Aloofness and cold cruelty almost approaching either "evil genius" or "autism spectrum". They don't see alot of women in high positions in the Valley, but they hire them for booth candy or front office whatnots. So, of course, they're doubly cruel to women.
Interesting and well-written article, but one big problem: why throw in the Siri abortion thing? It wasn't needed to legitimize the author's point, and if anything comes across as technically naive. While Siri contains easter eggs that were manually added by programmers, the vast majority of searches would have to be algorithmic. Siri fails to find an answer to many basic queries, so to say that the lack of a response to 'where can I get an abortion?' is due to a lack of insight on the part of 'male programmers' is specious.
This is great news, but probably not for the reasons you think. Gigabit WiFi doesn't mean you can throw away your gigabit ethernet switches for a couple of reasons:

1) WiFi is shared throughput, which means that all clients must share 1 gbit of throughput; a decent ethernet switch has enough backplane bandwidth to simultaneously serve all ports their full throughput.

2) WiFi latency will still suck, regardless of maximum theoretical throughput, and latency can make a "fast" connection appear dog slow [1] if latency values are high enough.

What's great about this news is that you have more throughput to share amongst your clients. Because your actual throughput is affected by RTT, you'll eventually bump in to a ceiling, but when you start to get in to the 1 gbps range, you can serve more clients at max throughput than you can with 400 mbps (802.11n).

1 - http://routerjockey.com/2009/05/07/how-does-latency-effect-t...
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These "I'm shocked, outraged, sick to my stomach." postings make me always a bit uncomfortable.

It seems to me that there are two ways one can approach this subject. On to proclaim that these are intentional acts of portraying females in a negative light and keeping them out of the tech industry. The other, that these are just a bunch of nerds, trying (and in large parts failing) to make coding something "oool" or a "manly" thing to do.

As always the interpretation of these things is to a certain degree based on the personal frame one puts these events in a context with.
Most markets have far more liquidity than is really needed.
This should answer all of your questions and then some:
http://rawfoodsos.com/2010/08/03/the-china-study-a-formal-an...
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I was waiting for someone to start to speak in the video.

Have you thought about adding a narrator to the video?
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What I find particularly disconcerting about this Van Horn story is not that he wanted to present it (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?

He sounded to me like some tragic Van Wilder-esque figure trying to clutch on to those college good times forever.

What is somewhat frustrating about all this stuff is that, while brogrammers or hipsters or whatever Bay Area-clique is in this month, can be targets of derision, the Valley is actually diversifying its personality structure, if not its sex. It's refreshing to see people that have different lifestyles to the geek stereotype, and it's broadening the appeal of these companies.

It's getting easier and easier to sell Computer Science as a career to male undergraduates, because they're seeing that there are people just like them higher up. It's very annoying that those same higher ups are screwing up female motivation.
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I was just looking through this Mixergy course:

http://mixergy.com/course-cheat-sheet-how-to-rank-on-page-1-of-google-even-if-youve-never-heard-of-black-hat-seo/

and something caught my eye:

6. Stop using Google Analytics so Google won’t see all your SEO tricks

I'd be interested to hear from others with more SEO experience on this topic. Not sure what to make of it at this point. It'd be interesting if this is proven to be accurate.
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Do these companies not have HR departments? Occasionally idiotic things slip out from employees at bigCo's too, but they're swiftly dealt with. (Which is not to say that there aren't plenty of examples of hideous sexism at big companies, but I haven't ever had a job that didn't present a very clear sexual harassment policy on the first day.)

I'd have to think that the very words "uncomfortable work environment" would strike fear into the hearts of any investors, far more than any competitive threats.
I am new to start-up funding, but I have a solid business idea - any advice?
So, I have access to very specialized information that is used by the health care industry. In fact, this information is Federally required to be used. The information is so specialized that I literally known 75%-90% of the people who have access to it and I am certain I could out-hire them from established incumbents in the field, generating a virtual monopoly on this information. The incumbents in the field use very old and expensive technology for the delivery of this information, using a lot of B&M assets and support staff. I have a working, virtual, cloud-based, agile system that can deliver the same information more reliably and much cheaper. I estimate that if I can capture just 5% of the market for this service, I could generate $1-$3 million in profits per month.

Unfortunately, I don't have an effective way to market my service to the businesses that would need it, and I do not have the funds to leave my current full-time job and more importantly my health benefits.

Does anyone have any advice on good ways for me to proceed to find funding? I am new to this entrepreneurial process for technology start-ups.

I do have a meeting with a local contact who knows regional angel and start-up investors, but they are used to more traditional ventures, not technology start-ups, so my hopes are not high for getting any traction with them.

Thank you for any advice.
I agree with your premise, and I'd add to it the governmental efforts that interfere with correcting the bubble, such as the Obama administration's work to prop up home prices.

However, it's not true that Glass-Steagall contributed to the economic crisis. If anything, it served to mitigate the problem. I think the argument here [1] is pretty slam-dunk:

<quote>

The 1933 Glass-Steagal Act [] prohibited commercial banks from owning investment banks ...

Just look at which organization’s have failed:

* Bear Stearns was an investment bank before it was sold to JP Morgan Chase (which includes a commercial bank).

* Fannie Mae were Freddie Mac were government sponsored entities before the government bought them.

* Lehman Brothers was an investment bank before it want bankrupt.

* Merrill Lynch was an investment bank befor it was sold to Bank of America (which is a commercial bank).

* AIG is an insurance company with no commercial banking division.

Remember, Glass-Steagal was passed to protect commercial banks from failure by forbidding them from investment bank practices like trading in securities and underwriting stocks and bonds. As you can see above non of the failed institutions are commercial banks that got in trouble through risky investment banking. Instead, it is the commercial banks that are providing some stability to the system by purchasing troubled investment banks.

</quote>

[1] http://blog.heritage.org/2008/09/22/the-glass-steagall-myth/
Actually, the N82E16814102960 is dual-link DVI + DVI + HDMI.
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No. If they are to enable you to share a document you need to give them license to do so. If they are to create copies of the files across datacenters and employ OCR on images and use that to improve their algorithms, they need to inlucde that in their terms of service to avoid getting sued.
I enjoyed Forks Over Knives but as with any documentary there is always a bias. I would recommend taking a look at this write-up in response to the film: http://rawfoodsos.com/2011/09/22/forks-over-knives-is-the-sc...
The brogrammer meme is JUST A JOKE! It's the very opposite of a stereotypical programmer. It's simply taking a stereotype, flipping it around, and poking fun at it.

Instead of being disgusted by jokes about nudie calendars, do something about it. Go give your own presentation. Recruit more women at your company. Turn the boys club into an everyone club.

I'm not saying that everything people are doing is okay, I'm just saying that I think there are more productive ways of dealing with it than being offended.
One market structure alternative that is gaining some traction in US equities is PDQ:
http://www.pdqenterprises.com/faq.html

Basically, liquidity providers upload their market making algo to the matching engine. Every time an order comes in, there is a 20ms 'mini auction' in which market making algos compete on intelligence and not on speed.
> To literally handicap yourself by 50 percent is insanity.

This is very PC, but BS nonetheless. At the stage when people can be profitably hired by start-ups, the male/female ratio is nowhere near 50% among technical candidates.

I'm not saying that frat culture isn't harmful, nor would I dare to guess why women are underrepresented among development professionals; but defending a thesis with such grossly false assertions can only harm it.
And maybe sell them with Gumroad.com?
I'm not sure how that makes it better. The consequences are the same.
> The brogrammer meme is JUST A JOKE!

No, it's an inside joke. There's a big difference there.
Weebly is hiring Android engineers (and other smart hackers)
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Very well said. It's heartening to see a diversification of "personality structure." It's disheartening to have that reveal how far we still need to go – as a society – to eliminate misogyny.
CSS and HTML have quite a few baked in flaws that are unlikely to get fixed anytime soon, but there are workarounds.

That's the problem. 90% of modern web design is all about workarounds. Those workarounds became more important than core technologies, because the latter no longer capture typical use cases of the web.
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This problem starts early, too - in my undergrad institution, many of the lectures and programming assignments taught OOP with examples employing beer and women-as-objects-of-seduction. The lecturers - not just TAs, but also adjuncts - would go out drinking with guys in the class from their old frats while ( I was alerted ) speculating as to how I got into Algorithms by sleeping with the professor. TAs discussed with guy students which of the female profs were 'bang-able' and which 'needed to be laid' so someone would 'have to take one for the team.'

No wonder these same people think this behavior is acceptable once they enter the workforce. They're getting it from authority figures from day one. I never experienced anything like this in any other department at uni.
My loved ones are smart enough to not dick around with life sustaining hardware and software.

On a less snarky note, it's absurd that I can't do what I want with something I bought and paid for, whether that be a game console or a breathing mask. It's not the law's job to protect me from myself.

And I say lawyers ruin everything because the legal profession has a vested interest in keeping the lay person from being able to understand and use the law effectively. including such idiocy as the OP's scenario.
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also, don't they have marketing teams that might want to protect an image they work so hard to build.
Thanks for clarifying that. I disabled that feature a while back, so I forgot it was a hold.
You clearly missed the job ad a few months back explicitly requesting a "brogrammer" to fit in with the company culture. Sexting is also quite real (why would MMS be the one medium by which people choose not to send naked pictures of themselves?). So unless you have good proof of rainbow parties and jenkem, you're way off.

Note for my rather ignorant downvoting friends: This was a real job ad from a YC company. It used that exact phrasing. Downvoting me doesn't make it stop being real. Perhaps you should deal with your feelings instead of clicking down arrows to make comments go away when they make you feel uncomfortable.
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But real investors also need capital, or it helps to have more capital. Crowd funding is a way to lower your risk. The big investor organizes the venture and finds opportunities. They put less money in but still get the same payout. The tiny investor gets less of a return on their money, but gets an opportunity to invest at a stage they are normally shut out of. They're paying for the opportunity essentially.
I find this whole brogrammer phenomenon ridiculous. It seems that it was a joke but now people start taking this stuff serious. I feel really embarrassed for people who describe themselves as brogrammers
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The other day while reading about the growing discontent with the price of subscriptions and remembering the similar problem with the price of student text the only thing I could think about was that few of today's texts are better than the classic mathematical texts. I've a small shelf of books published by Chelsea with names on them like Hilbert, Abel, Gauss and others who pretty much established the base line of modern mathematics. That Project Gutenberg is on course to provide the same books and more is some of the best news I've heard as a solution to the problem. The only down side I can think of is that these books have a fairly steep learning curve since they depend on a much better previous education than we do today. That however is a fixable problem as well. This is good news indeed! Here is the link: http://www.ams.org/bookstore/chelsealist

EDIT: added URL and expanded name list.
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I don't think crowdfunding is good for startups. For startups, having large numbers of investors is bad, and having inexperienced investors is bad. So having a very large number of inexperienced investors is the worst scenario possible.

The right way to get money from large numbers of people is to sell them your product, like Inpulse did, not to sell them your stock.
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In pure functional programming, so well mentioned in some PG's articles, you have only functions - no numbers. You can make numbers from functions, though. Then, you may have a basis - a set of functions which are sufficient to represent arbitrarily complex algorithm, i.e., Turing complete set; see here - http://dkeenan.com/Lambda/ .

Such a set may consist from only one function. So, the whole program is a structure of calling that function. Writing down such a program, we obviously don't need to write the function - it comes by default; we only need to write the structure, which can be represented by ( and ) . In a different way, than what I see here, but still - one bit per parenthesis, very simple processor, lots of memory and lots of steps for simple operations - a Turing tarpit...
It isn't like Microsoft or Sony is embracing the $1-$3 price point for their AAA titles, either.
It is pretty clear that when there is more activity (specifically on the "new page"), a site is more likely to be upvoted. It's one of the reasons I built http://hn4d.com/ (but this currently is only tracking the main page).

The challenge is - others know this, so the number of submissions at prime time tends to increase and your post can get knocked down the list pretty quickly.
My last exposure was months ago, sorry. =(

Reading the source is certainly not an alien notion to me coming from Python. I just find Ruby code very difficult to follow when you actually need to understand the implementation.

One of Ruby's greatest strengths, the ease with which you can define a DSL, is its biggest weakness in practice (in my opinion, of course.) In Rails for example, there is a DSL for everything, the Ruby language is used in non-obvious ways to get the desired DSL syntax.

All this makes it very difficult to read other people's code. For the same reason, reading the documentation is difficult. You don't know what function you should be looking for in the first place.
I can't think of any possible workable scheme for implementing that, that makes any kind of sense in any universe real or imagined.

"Store your spreadsheets! Just like Joe Blow's 2012 sales forecast! (link to preview)"
To me, Google's terms imply an intention to use my data for certain things that I don't want them to, like promoting the service.
That doesn't however explain why they need such language for drive.

Furthermore, Google could, like dropbox, limit their use of your data to providing or improving the services they provide you. Spam filtering and syncing resonably fall in that category.
"use, host, store, reproduce, modify, create derivative works[...], communicate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute such content."

That's very different from what you are describing.
Trying to tell people pulling this crap is wrong isn't doing something?
...CD ladders, reinvesting dividend portfolios, index investing, life insurance, health insurance...

advertising securities to the general population isn't guaranteed disaster.
Usually the low latency stuff is kept pretty secret. However, I got good at writing performing code, and as a result styloot.com is pretty fast.

The article clearly states that they "have no opinion or information on whether Apple is a valuable company."

This is an exaggeration. Some HFT's incorporate speculative mechanisms into their strategy, supposedly a few people buy the twitter firehose and market news and feed that into their strategy. But in general, HFT's run purely technical strategies.

So what do they have information about? The price history of the stock? The current contents of the book? And on what basis do they make decisions?

All this sort of stuff. For example, if the book has 20 buy orders at $10.00, and only one sell order at $10.03, that's an indication the price might be going up shortly. But really, it's not all that vital to predict things.

The HFT is passively waiting with orders at $10.00 and $10.03 for someone else to fill them - they make money when they sell to someone at $10.03, then close their position by buying at $10.00. The trick is to avoid adverse selection - if the market is likely to move up, don't get caught with a sell order.
Well you still have job adverts from big boys like twitter saying 'responsible enjoyment of beer' as a prerequisite.

https://twitter.com/jobs/positions?jvi=ooE7VfwO,Job

If that's not appealing to the frat boy crowd then I don't know what is.

Not to mention the fact that a lot of people don't actually drink ( I know hard to believe! ), or have a life that doesn't involve drinking all the time. As someone who's been there and got the T-shirt I get jaded when I see things like this. A lot of the best coders are past the 'frat boy' stage and prefer a mature working environment when they see things like this it sends alarm bells ringing.
There's a certain irony and distance about it, though. My read of the brogrammer meme is laughing at the concept that frat boys and meathead "bros" can write code.

It's often manifested as smart guys concealing their brains in a fog of conscious, ironic boneheadedness.

The problem is when it crosses the line and becomes a fad to follow, or actually alienating to women in the profession.