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Got it spliced into the site i am working on, checked in to github, and my laptop crashes. Karma oh karma.

This looks great, I got an identity service plugged in in hours, into a OSS website and this will kick openids bottom.

Brilliant - Mozilla is hitting some incredible high notes right now
IGN review of the game that made Starcraft what is today.

http://www.ign.com/articles/1998/08/01/dominion-storm-over-g...
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I'm certainly not going to argue against GPUs (or FPGAs) being used in scientific applications where performance is limited by floating point or vector performance. In certain scientific applications they can hand general-purpose CPUs their butts. I'm talking about ARM/RISC vs x86 CPUs for server applications.
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I'd say they're looking for exposure/excitement in the hobbiest/startup datamining space. Partly marketing play, partly validation.

I backed $99. I'm very excited.
I acknowledge that there is a huge sub-conscious prejudice. I don't like how society doesn't focus on all of the types of prejudices that exist. Like I posted before, there is the halo effect, prejudice against women, fat people, old people, people of a different race, people with disabilities, etc.

I refuse to believe that this person (although she is qualified) managed to be hired completely free from any bias and only on her skill.

edit: I don't want anyone to believe I am trying to undersell the prejudice women have to experience daily. It's absolutely horrible that it still happens. I just posted the rest of this because I'm a nihilist and have trouble seeing good things with humanity....
But even resources per candidate isn't a good measure of fairness. Just consider the trivial illustrative possibility of a normal job board posting that every potential candidate sees. In today's world it is likely that more men would respond than women by a nontrivial factor. Everyone who responds receives equal treatment and equal devotion of resources and, in the end, significantly more men are hired than women. Now, imagine that we have the exact same scenario but somebody is hired to stand next to the job board and tell every woman who comes by "you should apply for this!" More resources are now being expended per woman than per man but the proportion of people responding might be different without being unfair to any particular person.

Granted, there are a lot of trivialities in this example, but it's pretty representative of how such programs are supposed to work.
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> Anecdotally it really does exist

You can take just about any conceivable trend and anecdotally "confirm" its existence based on a small enough sample size or the right anecdote. That doesn't mean it is statistically relevant.
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--VCs are going to read that as "You're a loser planning on losing."--

Then I'm going to read VCs investing in lots of companies as losers planning on losing.

VCs hedge their bets, almost by definition. What's wrong with founders doing the same?

I'm not really in favor of this particular proposal, but the idea of one-standard-for-you-another-for-me is a major turnoff.
IE9 is a 3-year old browser while all other browsers have been updating their tech every 6-8 weeks so how can you say that? Even when IE9 was introduced, it was months behind all the others in support of modern standards and practices.

IE9 is inept at best, and anyone thinking IE10 puts them into the running of "modern browsers" is also technically inept, uninformed and behind the curve.
Every new site will, every site under active development will. The ones where two input boxes have been the same off grey colour for three years won't change much agreed. It's just a question of whether the sites that ask for username/password now are numerically the majority of login sites in three years or not?

I give stackoverflow three days.
Can anybody recommend some books put out by Packt? I've looked at quite a few of their books over the years, and they have been, without exception, dreadful (not quite a tutorial, but also not a reference, lacking in detail, and usually behind the curve technology-wise). They appear to have several hundred books so there must be some hidden gems.
Um. Read the studies. No, the odds aren't even. In technology, they're stacked against women. (And against black people in general.)

(I would very much believe, however, that in bartending, it's stacked against men.)
It is funded by Microsoft and Microsoft frequently used NSS in the past when they need a positive report.
I'm excited for the next ebook "How to be handsome"
It's an interesting idea and relevant to one of the major actions users take on facebook (birthday/well wishes).

I think you're right that it's "sufficiently close", but I'm struggling with how I define that. It's essentially someone close enough that I would give them a gift, but not so close that giving them a gift through FB is too impersonal.

Do you have friends that you call or hang out with on their birthday but don't write on their wall? Most of my fb well wishes are from loose connections. My real friends call, text or hang out with me on my bday. Facebook is the least personal touchpoint I'm available through, but maybe I'm an exception.

PS - I think it's been said, but combining gifts is probably the key here(i.e. everyone chips in to get you something).
Okay, sure, in your highly-fictional, strangely-exact, not-at-all-representative-of-reality example more mens' colleges will be left out than womens' colleges. In reality, not a single part of your scenario actually holds and even the parts that are close aren't that close. I'd do just as well to assume in your scenario that all candidates are uniform, frictionless spheres in a vaccum where gravity is reversed.
The malware report here says they analyze protection from "malware downloads". If so wouldn't that be the job of an antivirus program? I don't understand why the browser is supposed to do this.

If this is basically duplicating what antivirus programs do anyway, then has IE just added some GUI integration with MS's antivirus, and that gives it the good result it gets here? It seems like all browsers will be equally safe given the same antivirus installed on their machine, so the result seems meaningless.

Even less clear is the other report, on click fraud. It mentions software running on the client's machine ("click fraud software installation" etc.), so basically we are again talking about malware? And again, wouldn't a program separate from a browser - an antivirus program - be the right tool to handle that?

Lists of dangerous URLs are something that browsers can do that antivirus programs can't. But oddly that is not the focus of these reports.
Congratulations on this and thank you.
The links are useful and I recommend the video-I got a proof of concept onto our staging servers whilst listening to the video - fantastic.

Can I suggest a clearer explanation in the quick start guide of loggedInEmail and it's options and that there is a comparison of the name supplied from the site and name inside the browser - it is a bit confusing to see onlogin get called without a button being pressed. I would suggest walking a dev through what to expect - the code examples are great but the quick start is written by someone who understands what's going on behind the scenes - there is a sentence About currentusr that completely floored me - I could not understand how I was supposed to know bob was logged in if that was the first time he arrived at the site. In the end I gave up and read the docs !

Edit - needed bigger text box on ipad
>Seems like there's an adverse selection problem here.

Agreed. I just wrote an essay about this underlying issue of founder risk management [1], in response to PG's recent essay, and along the way I had this exact idea (swapping equity with other startups), and abandoned it because it seemed too complicated, as well as the adverse selection problem.

If it were to work, a major key would be the OP's first bullet point (in the "Gotchas" section of the original proposal) -- implementing a voting system, to ensure the startups in the pool are high quality.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4577525
To me, broker fees in NYC seem so crazy. Can someone justify them? Is opening up a few doors really worth 3k?
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That's a great argument for proving that startup founders are a braver group of people than VCs.

It's a terrible argument, however, for convincing a VC to fund you.
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Hey, this is Lee from RentHop.

One thing that isn't very clear from the writeup: we went through a LONG trough of sorrow before finding our current pivot. That's a story for another day...
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The issue for the Samsungs and HTCs of the world is they don't really have the other assets that Amazon has. Thus they are less able/willing to turn down things like access to Google Play and Search.
Funny, that's exactly what I thought 3 years ago...

I think the root of the problem is there are too many available apartments but most of them are a waste of your time to view. A great broker previews every listing and only shows the best deals.

Similarly for the landlord, most renters who come see the apartment will not take it, so having brokers do the showings saves the landlord a lot of time and effort.
Interesting. The key things that stand out to me from that are the following:

1. They are analyzing the impact of having women in top management. The Korean study looked at women in middle management, where they presumably have less of an impact on overall corporate direction.

2. The Korean study was looking at companies in a single relatively uniform economy. The McKinsey data set looks at companies across a variety of different countries with different economies and cultures. There are very strong correlations between which country a company is in, and whether it had women in the boardroom.

3. The McKinsey study identified a number of specific reasonable reasons why awareness of a female perspective could be beneficial for companies. If you're in a consumer line of business, those reasons are worth paying attention to.

Do you know whether McKinsey tried to crunch the numbers to estimate how much of the difference in economic performance can reasonably be attributed to having women in the board room versus the company being in a country whose economy did well? (Yes, I'm aware that there might well be a correlation between gender equality and the country's economic performance. Getting conclusions out of real world data sets will always be ugly and messy.)
> What surprises me is how none of the big android players have not seen an opportunity here

I guess you haven't heard of HTC Sense, Motoblur, Samsung's Touchwiz, etc. and how users mostly hate them.

Savvy users seem to prefer taking Amazon's Android Kindles and installing vanilla Androids on them.
If you already objectively know that the person is qualified the fact that they are attractive is only a plus. I think the study you a mentioning is done with people that do not know the qualifications of the person they are viewing.
Where I am, its already 28th(GMT+5.30). what timezone?
Not really - there's a really simple solution for hiring more women without dropping the bar for them. Make your company the most desirable place for anyone to work, so that you have vastly more applicants than positions, and then you can pick whoever you want as the incoming cohort. Math:

Say that your goal is to hire from the top 1% of the field, and the top 1% is indistinguishable from each other. There are 1 million people in the field, and you will be hiring 1,000 this year. Also say that women make up 10% of the field. In this scenario, there are 10,000 people that you would be happy to work for you, and 1,000 of them are women.

If only 10% of prospective employees would even consider working for you (which is the case for many startups, and probably for present-day Microsoft), then you're trying to fill a class of 1000 from a universe of 1,000 candidates, and only 100 of the women both apply and meet your hiring threshold. The best you can do is 10% female interns.

If, however, everyone in the field wants to work for your company, you have a universe of 10,000 candidates, 1,000 are women, and you're trying to fill a class of 1,000. You can have a female proportion anywhere from 0-100% with no loss of quality.
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It's a legitimate question; same actor released MSFT sponsored studies before: http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2009/08/micros...
While I don't deny that exercise helps some people feel better, this has got to quite variable from individual to individual. For example exercise doesn't make me happy or energized, it just makes me tired.
Maybe this is just me, but if they have their own app store, their own UI, their own idioms and their own devices.... from any useful user or branding perspective, how are they Android phones?

And so more importantly, why does it matter for Android? It doesn't mean Android is more fragmented, because those phones aren't Android phones, it just means one more competitor in the smart phone market.

If anything, it makes it easier for developers, because Amazon phones will be easier to port to than another random smart phone brand.
When did founding a startup become about proving how brave you are? That seems like a very poor standard of evaluation.

All else being equal, it seems to me that a founder with a smart approach to managing risk is a better bet than one who is reckless about it.
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Seems kind of odd to throw the guy in solitary, if that was the case.
From StatCounter's measurements this month, IE9 accounts for 18% of all page views worldwide; older versions of IE are another 15% of page views:
http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser-ww-monthly-201209-201209-...

The number of people using IE9 is on the same order as the entire population of the United States, so regardless of the exact number it's kind of crazy to say "nobody uses it."
I've used FreeMind for years for programming, for writing, for planning. It's a great tool (as are many mind-mapping products) for design and for building up information in an organized way.

However, the model has limitations not mentioned here. The primary on is that it is an inherently hierarchical way of categorizing data. It's not possible to put the same entry under two different branches or to create a link between them (at least not in the products I've seen).

Ironically, in the video the OP admires that you can "link" population trends and literacy by having them in the same mind map. But the only link is the human one creating by manually clicking on the different branches where the info is stored. There is no actual linkage between the items.

That being said, hierarchical is in many ways an excellent system for lots of purposes, including some software design, and definitely in laying out articles and documents.
It is, essentially, a completely different OS which happens to run the same applications.
538 of em have 4-star+ on amazon:

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=sr_nr_p_72_0?rh=n%3A283155%2Cp_3...
Out of the set of pictures I find this one the most intriging http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/msl/multimedia/pia16189.ht...

The cemented section on the mars side is in itself most interesting I find and yet seem unable to state why. Wonderous stuff indeed.
When have preservationists ever had their way, though? Granted, life on Mars would be a unique case, but I'm not sure you need to worry about them.
Charlie knows what's up! Amazon has all of the pieces in place to remain a disruptive force in the industry.
What surprises me is how none of the big android players have not seen an opportunity here and created their own experience on top of it.

What? We're only now seeing devices without mfg skins/customizations.
Because they are not ready to harvest dollars from server appliances, and would like someone to fund their engineering.
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In this case, they were reverse proxying with an old nginx that only supported HTTP/1.0 for backend connections. So they do need an ephemeral port for each request.
If it isn't obvious, I'm not a VC and don't exactly swing that way either, I just try to have a mental model of them that approximates reality.
So, there are some claims here that should be made explicit...

1) Some people get benefits undeservedly.

2) People will often rationalize after the fact to say that they deserved to get those benefits.

3) Women are people, so sometimes women will get benefits undeservedly but lie to themselves after the fact by thinking that they deserved it.

All certainly true. But I'd like to offer another claim:

4) Men are people, so sometimes men will get benefits undeservedly but lie to themselves after the fact by thinking they deserved it.

Is 4) unlikely, particularly relative to 3)?

How likely do you think it is that you might be deceiving yourself in the same way, about the relative benefits of being a man versus being a woman in tech?
And the site went down....any mirrors?
Good call, thanks. I think I might look at the one on PostgreSQL optimization.
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Do you really consider SC2 a screwup? Remember, SC1 was far from perfect as well when it came out. The only blizzard game that was perfect right from release IMO was warcraft 3. SC2 might not be their best, but it is still a really great game. So I can't really follow that SC2 bashing.

Can't talk about Diablo3 though, that series never interested me.
Why? Because anyone I think was victimized by someone else must legally not be culpable for their own actions?

It would be neat if the world worked that way.
GMT-5, though I guess it actually is 28th at GMT+0.. Point was just that it still says "Return between the 28th and 30th September to claim your gift", so whoever is supposed to activate the deal hasn't done so yet (and since their office is in England they are probably still asleep)
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A discussion on the preparedness of your usual client would be equally awesome.
It's kind of amusing to me how every now and then someone proclaims that Google has "lost control" of Android and how this must be some kind of crisis and portends a looming disaster.

Then we will have a series of people proclaiming how Android is not really open and what a farce Google's pretense of openness is, and what fools we were to ever believe that Google intended to make an open source operating system.

Frequently this will be followed by people lamenting "fragmentation" and demanding that Google put a stop to it by putting tight controls on who can implement Android and how they can do it.

These are all different sides of the same coin. Openness = fragmentation, openness = loss of control, openness = diversity, choice, innovation and endless possibility. It has benefits and downsides to be sure, but to think Google didn't know they were giving up some control of Android when they released it as open source is absurd - open sourcing something is by definition giving up control of it.
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I don't see why we need click fraud blocking in the browser anyway, unless it was just a by product blocking malware, as it could be done way more effectively in the ad network.
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Your post made me think of a recent comic:
Luck > Good (http://abstrusegoose.com/494)

I'm not sure that's true in the long run, but in some very important situations it certainly can be.
When they want to flatter students or buck up their spirits, professors at selective colleges are prone to saying things like, "The fact that you're even here means something." It's a good idea to let that thinking go as soon as possible. The fact that you're here, there, or anywhere means nothing. The world is complicated. In a sense her friend was right to point out that being female in a field that is desperate for more female representation is usually an advantage, but he was wrong to be certain -- sexism is still rampant among computing professionals. More importantly, he was wrong to care. Actually, they were both wrong to think that they could know the answer to the question and both wrong to think it was important.
Fortunately for developers Amazon hasn't forked the OS too much. The APIs for the latest release are the ICS APIs which is OK since most devs will still be targeting Froyo or Gingerbread for another year or so. The only problem is if you use some of the Google APIs, mainly Maps, in which case you'll have to get clever, either with reflection or your build system, to include Amazon's maps in your app.

If Amazon ever tries to do a major fork at the API level we'll be in trouble, but they have shown no sign of that as of yet.
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You're right, it's not politically correct to say that. Nor is it legal to act on it. Why? Because it engenders discrimination.

Women are different to men - culturally, biologically, etc et al. However any reference/inference/undertone to those differences as being 'risky' or 'negative' to business re-enforces negative stereotypes.

As the studies are showing, there's an opportunity cost to not achieving gender balance in business. That's the bottom line.
I guess the consolation prize from this fairly offensive point of view is that since my company doesn't share this bias against women, we're hiring all the great engineers that you're overlooking.

Sounds like we have the competitive advantage.
I also interned at Microsoft in college, and I'm sure the only reason I got the internship was because I'm a girl. MS hired only five interns from my school that year, and all were female, which is pretty remarkable given my school's sub 5% female representation. I also had an offer from IBM's Extreme Blue that summer, which I don't think had much to do with being female.

I also think being female made it a little easier to get my resume noticed, coming from a large state school. It probably helped me get my Google interview, but I don't think it actually helped me get the job much.

There have also been some negative things about being a woman in technology. Everyone has their advantages and disadvantages in life.
It wasn't imagined - check cube13's link for a good example of where this happened in a previous game: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4583135
Pick out the perfect gift, add your message and it's ready to ship – no address needed.

I'm intrigue with that no address needed. How to ship without the address?
Yes. Google lost control of an operating system which they consciously decided to release as open source and free software.

Somehow, I don't think they were trying hard to retain control of the OS.
Discrimination causes a lot of problems, including that of having to 'over-correct'.
not to piss on your parade, but can you explain this? thnx

http://www.flickr.com/photos/europeanspaceagency/3694512868/
Regardless of if I agree with this statement (I don't) making a public statement like this is a very dangerous choice. You've effectively said "I wont hire women because they might go form babbies" on a public forum.

If you ever have or ever will turn down a woman for a position regardless of her abilities and this comment is found and tracked back to you that candidate (and any previous candidate you ever turned down) would have a pretty solid case against you and your company.