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>To let women know that they will be supported when speaking out against sexism. To let everybody know we defend our own.

Unfortunately in this case it was also imperative not to give the impression that one condoned Richards's actions at the conference.

>Keep looking, then. I've seen plenty of it.

Your anecdote vs. my anecdote. Nobody wins this round.

>That claim has been debunked

First off, that blog post doesn't debunk anything. Everything Blum wrote still stands.

Second, that wasn't what I was talking about. Try these:

https://twitter.com/adriarichards/statuses/6039856858

https://twitter.com/adriarichards/status/313946261055221760

>I'm not seeing anything particularly horrible

People shouldn't have to fear political zealots tarring and feathering them publicly without a chance for defence or private resolution. Foster a culture of civility, not trigger-happy ignorant activism.

>Because of decades of effort to make tech, and everything else, less of an old boys' club

As far as I know the first programming language ever was arguably written by a woman. Women have _always_ been in tech, always will be in tech. The barriers are so much lower than sensationalist ideologues would have us believe. Especially vis-a-vis other industries. Here if you have chops, you're in. The women making things happen at PyCon are evidence of this, are role models for tech-leaning young women to look up to; evil snake oil salespeople whose only real skills are yelling loudly, as we had in this case, have no place in tech and are themselves discouraging women from entering the field.

>understanding why a sexually charged environment keeps women of merit out of tech

Skilled women aren't running away from tech because men could possibly say "penis" within earshot of them. Someone who takes extreme offense at a dongle joke to the degree that it prevents them from working in their preferred industry probably aren't mature enough to live in the real world, much less hold down an actual job. There's nothing sexually charged about penis jokes. Penises are for urinating too.
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Agreed. Which is why I don't pitch too many ideas anymore in my current role unless I've done some exploratory coding.

That has led to 2 different internal products and I'm presently working on something to replace a piece of commercial software that they paid almost $1 million for and doesn't work/has serious limitations. However I did it out of band because I found it interesting. I guess it comes down to put up or shut up.

Often when you come up with an idea, then go to try and do it you realise its 100x times harder than you thought
Why do you hope higher education is destroyed?
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Really interesting article on the history of coffee in Muslim culture. Needless to say, I don't think any of us would be awake right now if it weren't for the consistently revered reputation of this humble seed.
It's a spline graph, which is even more misleading than a line graph. Note how the control group has a small increase in weight before it's cooked.
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Because it's a popular, well-written framework with a huge volume of existing code, and integrating WebSockets into Django means you don't have to maintain two codebases if you want to have a realtime Django app.

Also, it's fun.
Why do you think you're going to find a job there? My wife used to teach in eastern Washington, there is nothing there.

You don't need money to get a degree. That's the point of student loans. Are you in-state in Washington? If you can take the SAT's you should be able to get into a decent, cheap state school. You can get a fee waiver for that, btw.
In the days of guilded craftsmen, apprentices weren't allowed marry.
I posted this a bit ago, but got some awesome feedback and made a ton of changes. The app no longer requires any amazon keys to use at all. I also added more info explaining how the connection process works. I've found this app insanely useful over the past couple weeks, and find myself using it all the time. Just want to see if anyone else finds it useful!
Loved the time machine feature.

Living in San Francisco for almost five years, I had to go back to my childhood in Massachusetts to test it. April Fool's day blizzard in Brockton, MA in 1997. Forecast.io shows heavy snow. I got like a week off from school. Works!
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The domains are shown in a random (but fixed) order at the moment, but I think it's better to sort them by price. Do you have any better criteria on your mind?
Build a “Whack-A-Lamarr” Game visually.
Awesome product! I've squinted at lxc for a while now. This looks great!

But: What about this security issue regarding lxc? Does docker takes measures to prevent this?

http://blog.bofh.it/debian/id_413

The issue itself appears to be fixed if you use Linux 3.8 with compiled in namespace support (that breaks NFS and other filesystems at the moment)
As disappointed as I am that FlightCar isn't actually a flying car startup, I love the idea. I would love to see the monetization of more of my unused resources in the future. Why does everyone on my street own their own lawn mower? I think this company orchestrated co-op idea is the future of a lot of resource sharing.

I'm amazed they've gotten it off the ground considering all the potential legal/insurance hurdles. I'd use this tomorrow if it were at my home airport.
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The C10K problem[1] is about real clients accessing real web servers, not about writing short strings over WebSocket.

I'll associate "C10K" and "Django" when I'll see a dynamic web page being served using the template system, the standard middleware and the ORM (with the default behavior of creating and destroying a database connection for each request).

[1] http://www.kegel.com/c10k.html
What about image recognition for tax documents.. auto-fill based on pictures of forms etc?
how much of that existing code has any application in a websocket context.. if it uses the orm layer throw it out.. if it uses the template layer.. optionally throw it out for efficiency (jinja and friends).. what are you really left with... routing.. trivial.. a familiar api with the guts out.. overrated and a hobgoblin of consistency.
"buck" is supposed to be offensive? Damnit, I have been dropping the ball on getting offended.
If someone wants to run this study again with some more normalization, I would be really interested in the correlation with the data and the extremity of the wealth inequality geni coefficient.

My hunch, areas that have high wealth inequality will favor one platform more than the other. Areas that have more of a gradient will be more 50/50.
Just get really good at something. If you're already tech savvy, be great at developing software that delivers value to businesses.

I'm personally a high school drop out and work as a developer in an up and coming startup.
Prove that you're a good developer and you don't need a degree.
Indeed, these are the exact reasons!
FYI, the California fire retardants law was recently repealed after that nytimes article brought it to everybody's attention. http://www.sfgate.com/science/article/Flame-retardant-law-ma...
Typically, you would train the algorithm on one set of data and then test it on another. So you might train it on data from FY 2010 and then test it out in a simulation of FY 2011.

The fear is that if you train it on FY 2010 and then it does well in a simulation of FY 2010, it might only be because it has stored some representation of a record of FY 2010 which is extremely predictive of FY 2010 but doesn't generalize well to any other year. Testing the algorithm against a simulation of FY 2011 would reveal this flaw.
Turbotax has a smartphone app which does that, at least for W2s. I've seen TV ads for it.
that's not really fair to the kid. All of us are born with advantages that others lack.
Every person living in America has access to wealth and connections that the average African can only dream of. That shouldn't take away from anyone's success here or diminish any of our accomplishments
IANALTAX?

I'm sure it's not a lube from apple. However a quick google search didn't turn up anything.
That's a great text templating engine, but how does it handle the structure of HTML? Though our lisp solutions might be uglier than that, they:

- Are guaranteed to automatically produce perfect, valid HTML (or XML in my case),

- Automatically escape user-supplied input

- Make it very easy to generate lots of repetitive elements, or conditional elements, like other template languages.

Maybe I'm misunderstanding the spirit of your post? It seems like thinatra excels at the "routing requests from varying URLs" part, which solves a slightly different problem than the code we posted (racket for example provides a default path of http://localhost:40986/servlets/standalone.rkt -- definitely not what you would want)
Effect of education on income levels!
There is a paradigm shift that happens when a great idea becomes open and easily redistributable outside the confines of the "cathedral".
Thanks for pointing that out, the 500 error should be fixed!
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Kind of like FreeBSD has had with jails from around 2000...
Dude go get some work. If you are tech savvy then put yourself out there. I have less than a year of programming experience and I turn down more work than I take on. I don't even market myself beyond an odesk profile and a blog/resume. It is really that easy, but if you just sit there and feel sorry for yourself, you'll be in the same spot in a year. Go send quotes for 20 feelance gigs in the next week. Work for 15/hr if you have to... in a few months that will be 50/hr and more work than you can handle.
Cofounder here. We hide the identities of the companies for regulatory purposes (complying with current general solicitation rules). We can talk about general things, and if you do some light research you can probably figure out who's raising. But we don't blatantly say "Company X is Raising Money".
Ramen profitable since Oct 2012

That's an odd bullet point. "We make barely enough money and we've been doing it for 5 months!"
The C10k problem was originally about serving static files -- quoting the page you linked to: "take four kilobytes from the disk and send them to the network".

The demo could certainly be extended to send larger amounts of data -- left as an exercise for the reader.

I'm not sure to understand your second paragraph -- if I used this system in a real application, I would serve the pages with the traditional handler (with template rendering, middleware, etc.) and then exchange messages over the websocket. These are different roles.

Regarding database connections, the default behavior isn't the one you're describing any more; I implemented persistent connections in Django a few weeks ago.
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I think the point of the OP is not that glue is not an essential part of a product. It is that when you start making things exclusively out of glue, then the all "glue and thought" ultimately worthless.
Here's what I'd do if I were you and were really backed into a corner with no support:

1) Get a job at a call center, this will suck but you can at least pay for rent off of this.

2) Make flyers and/or find a place that will hire you on to clean Bonsai Buddy off of grandmas computer. If the job pans out enough you can quit the call center.

3) Save up all the money you can.

4) Move to Southern California or anywhere with a growing tech scene. Rent an apartment / room in a cheap part of town (Oakland, parts of LA) that you can use public transit initially.

5) If necessary repeat steps 1 or 2 until you can get a job doing something more. In this time attend meetups to meet other people in the industry you want to be in.
AIA crowdfunds a space program ad that would run in front of Star Trek
It appears to be buggy. It told me Internet.io, Business.mobi, Collect.fm and others were available (they're not). It was making me very excited until I learned it was mistaken quite regularly. :(
Does anyone have any idea as to the companies that remained in stealth on demo day?
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I Am Not A Lawyer (Tax), I meant.
Thanks for the long reply; you make a lot of good points, thank you. A quick comment on (one of) them:

I routinely use it to open packages, trim rough edges off various objects, cut rope, strip wire, scrape contaminants off surfaces and remove those nasty little sticky screw covers from laptop computers.

The few of these tasks that actually require a knife, I use my kitchen knife. In fairness, I rarely need to do any of this stuff outside my flat what with living in a city and having a desk-occupation (not job, exactly, grad student.)

packages: my keys, trim edges: I have files (big and small), cut rope: not had to do this in a long time, clean surfaces: dude, scouring pad! screws (even sticky ones): a head-swapable screwdriver with a good handle (I have one with all the torx ones etc).

I think I got a pen knife (non-locking, with screwdrivers etc) as a present for my 10th birthday. I haven't owned one for a long while.

I have loads of tools, I carry them around all the time (bike bag) - In fact, I had to leave my bike tools with security when visiting someone in Parliament once. Among them, however, was nothing resembling a knife.
This is seriously cool. It's suggestive of a new approach to debugging.
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seems like an easy fix, I would expect that to be available soon.
I'm really glad to see YC investing in more health startups. Paul, given the heavy regulations and liabilities, are there any areas of health/medicine that you guys try to steer clear of? You guys have invested in startups doing both EMRs and health insurance, so my guess would be not really.
The "appeal to Africa" fallacy: comparing one's problems to problems that are worse does absolutely nothing to address either set of problems.
Ah... thanks for the clarification.
So, to extend your analogy, if flight was just invented and a flight transport system was being proposed now, you would argue against it because TSA would start violating your liberties when you use it and deterioration of existing horse carriage-based infrastructure will make opt-out a non-option?
Y Combinator's first nonprofit (Watsi) aims to crowdfund health care
I remember Cybercash! They were no Stripe, to be sure, although I don't remember ever having problems with their functionality or reliability. I wonder what his issues were?
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GTFO of Yakima!
Not sure what sort of API you need (ie do you need raw data or map overlays)but this might be of interest: http://openweathermap.org
Just noticed there's a poll going on whether or not you think ungoogleable means:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5446558
Dark Sky has been a shockingly useful app for preparing my motorcycle commute to/from work each day. But this... this blows it out of the water. Beautiful.
Awesome! I had submitted the BBC article here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5446527
This system doesn't replace Django; it complements it.

You could build 95% of an application with the traditional request-response model and add the 5% of real-time featurs with a system similar to my demo.

(Of course, given your opinions on Django, I don't recommend you build anything with it.)
Mr. Ka-Shing himself, sure. He oversees every single investment his firm makes. I totally believe this.

Besides, we don't know Ka-Shing isn't reading TechCrunch all day.
What company would want to waste time and money customizing low-level UAV software?
I've never seen YC fund a regulated medical device (well, other than IT systems, which are very very loosely regulated vs. something like a stent or ortho screws), let alone a drug company.
You forgot DTrace!
Persona is distributed. Today.
These 'vanity' addresses are generated using brute force. Randomly generate a private key, calculate the corresponding public key, convert the public key into the standard Bitcoin format, and then check if the pattern matches.

There's a nice program called 'vanitygen' which is has been highly optimized for this purpose. On a CPU it can test 250-500k addresses per second. Not sure about the GPU performance, but there's an OpenCL version as well. The code is on GitHub (https://github.com/samr7/vanitygen) and quite easy to read if you're interested in how it all works underneath.

The difficulty of finding your desired vanity address increases exponentially with the length of the string you want to appear. That's what makes some of these addresses so impressive, for example:

11PraesentNonEratPurusNonXXc9VAcD

vanitygen is telling me I have a 50% chance of generating an address that starts with '11PraesentNonEratPurusNon' in 5e30 years (at 250k/sec). Someone put a very impressive amount of compute into that one little transaction!
Maybe I should join next batch hehe
I assume that no law will ever make firearms magically inaccessible to criminals.

I live in one of the most violent bits of London. Someone was murdered with a modified athletic starting pistol two years ago within 500 yards of my flat (a bystander, since such weapons are hugely inaccurate).

I don't assume that such weapons won't be in the hands of criminals - I assume that they will be more difficult to obtain, since for example all handguns are illegal, and will have absolutely no incentive to use one on me even if they have one, since they know I'm not armed.
So let me get this right: Microsoft wants to secure their own OS and ...shame on them, that's anti-competitive. Then those same trolls will gloat about how insecure Windows is?

I get it -- it's not cool to like Microsoft, but they do in fact have a right to secure their OS as they see fit. Don't like it? Go buy a Mac or some other computer that doesn't include the secure boot option.

Complain/vote with your money -- not some idiotic "this is anti-competitive" petition.
How important is a high entropy password for web services that properly encode passwords and limit brute force attempts? It's my understanding that the biggest issue is stolen passwords or captured login cookies that cause the most problems.

I'm genuinely curious to hear the argument.
Hey, I'm the writer who wrote the second example cited here -- very good point in showing the difference between the two, so I wanted to try and clarify.

When Graham said the "hardly any" line on stage, it drew a pretty big laugh from the audience -- it seemed like a bit of humor on his part. The earnest meaning and connotation I took from that (and comments Graham gave off-stage) was that there were no obvious weak links in this batch.
Compared with WeatherSpark, this looks more visually pleasing and doesn't use Flash, but I don't particularly care about weather elsewhere in the world and I miss WeatherSpark's line graphs. It'd be great to see something like http://forecast.io/raw/ on the "Time Machine" page.
Start turkin'
Oh, I read it as "about the pop" -- that it's about the small percentage of companies that hit it big.
I'm a big fan of flight-car. Not only you make money renting your car you also save money not paying for parking or a cab!
They "killed two birds with one stone" (sorry for the morbid idiom)...
They mention in this article that they are tapping into two markets, "airport parking" and "car rental" market but I actually think that a lot of people taking a cab or a Uber could use this service instead.

I'll try it next time I travel...

One thing is not clear to me : does a "valet" pick up my car at the airport of do I have to drop it off at their parking near the airport?
A better alternative than what hu-mans refer to as "hue-less."
Free & Open source web based Google Reader alternatives
No one who's met the Thalmic guys thinks they're going anywhere but up.
For non-open source stuff, those pesky NDAs say "You shall not pass !!!". I think it's a very good idea, still.

My two cent is, the reverse can be applied by showing the interviewee some source codes/designs/product.Good programmers definitely cringe at the sight of bad code and excite at sight of good stuff. Same can be said for designers with...well, designs. Rather low cost consulting too for the company who does that. Win-win situation.
I was under the impression that even with shared libraries each running process gets its own copy of the library in its memory space.
> 1. many talented programmers, especially the ones you want to hire; are fully capable of teaching themselves without a lecturer.

If you don't mind me asking:

1. What proportion of the programmers without a degree you think fall into the "talented" category, compared to those with a degree?

2. Do you consider yourself to be in this group of talented programmers without a degree?
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The blog is a great resource as well and they finally fixed it last month. Also, Dave Arnold's boneless biotic turkey:
http://www.cookingissues.com/category/turkey/
What about domains that are registered but on sale?
Ready or not, software is eating the government contracting world
If you aren't satisfied with the way the government is being run, is it a failure of Representative Democracy? You can petition your representative. If you still aren't satisfied you can cast your vote for another representative.

If you aren't satisfied with the way your capital is being allocated, is it a failure of Capitalism? You can petition your board members. If still aren't satisfied you can vote for new board members in the next election. If you still aren't satisfied you can sell -- in Yahoo's case many shareholders have chosen this option since Microsoft's $31/share offer. If you want to allocate other people's capital, see previous paragraph.

Leaving aside the notion of justice, since it is a Difficult Philosophical Issue ♪, to me the only thing that this underscores is that Yahoo is a poor allocator of capital.

♪ http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/equality/#PriEquJus
I used to overcook meat, being paranoid about undercooking. I started using a meat thermometer and seeing just how much the temp will rise once taken of the heat. So I am sure to remove from heat a few degrees prior to the done temperature. The results are much better. A big turkey, particularly a stuffed one, can be hard to not overcook some of the meat. I actually made an online meat temperature guide after doing a new search every time I cooked: http://www.donetemperature.com
My favorite would have to be Watsi, which PG described as YC's first company that’s “intentionally” not-for-profit.
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I hope so! :)
Static files are no longer a problem thanks to Varnish or nginx. And this is Django, after all, so please focus on dynamic content performance.

I'm glad to hear that Django managed to get persistent db connections after years of "just use PgPool/PgBouncer". Keep up the good work!
“Were you to do a county-by-county breakdown (or metro vs rural), I think you'd see a huge difference. Were I developing an app for agriculture, iPhones wouldn't even come into consideration.”

Before I saw this report, I would've thought the same. However, it's states like the Dakotas, Montana, Maine, and Vermont where there are (apparently) more iPhone users than Android users. Those states aren't exactly known for their sprawling metropolises.
The mobile app is great on iOS 6. Negates the need for a native version IMO.
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