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Apart from the first paragraph, I agree. I do not really understand why you accuse me of presentism. Perhaps because you got my argument precisely backwards. I was commenting on your entire paragraph 1), not only on the quoted part. And wanted to argue that quite a bit of current US attitude looks from a European perspective similar to the "home by christmas" attitude in Germany in 1914. ( Actually I think that the "home by christmas" attitude is quite exceptional.)

I will admit that my knowledge of WWI east of Berlin is somewhat suspect, but I think the similarity proposed in the Economist article is anyhow a case of if we paint in broad strokes and squint a little, instead of a very close similarity. And therefore I think ( in the framework of this analogy), the Balkans play the role of the spark plug, rather than an integral part of the analogy.

One specific and major blindness is people not being able
to tell the difference between colonial police actions and
total war on home turf. Yes dudes with uniforms and rifles
fight both, but its really two different concepts.

Great point, it is quite exactly the same difference between Global War on Terror and global war.
I have been interested in Haiku for awhile but could not get it to install. Last week I finally realized that I could run it in a VirtualBox instance so I started trying it out. I like it... very simple UI, very clean, and very fast.

It comes with many Unix-like shell utilities including scp and ssh. git is installed. There is a graphical text editor and something resembling a package manager that will allow you to fetch vim.

The web browser is a bit lacking/weird/not-sure-how-to-describe, but reading through the installation manual it appears that many Wifi chipsets are supported via BSD drivers.

Press shift when booting if you can't get anywhere, and definitely read the manual. There are few necessary concepts to learn...

Really reminds me of Mac OS 7-9, but much more stable and a better user interface. I'm considering using it for back-end web development (as most of my work is server-based). I'm not concerned about Flash anymore so that is a non-issue.
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Could you explain how the meaning of his statement changed so drastically from the inclusion of the word "these"? The question asked about women who are not founders, not women who are not programmers. It seems fitting to remove it, since it would feel out of place when quoted, but it seems the point of his statement is there.
But when does the front-loaded experimentation phase end? When is it "good enough" to get a stable, usable release out there into the wild? It's easy to say "Before the end of 2014." but I think we potential users need to start seeing something more definite. While Rust isn't at a Perl 6 type situation just yet, it creeps closer ever day. There are a lot of us who want to use Rust today, and we can settle for some imperfections. What I don't think we can settle for is a language that remains in an alpha or beta state after 5 years, or even 10 years.

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That article is textbook character assassination based on an unimportant nit-pick the washington post itself couldn't even "fact-check". Instead, Booz Hamilton provided Snowden's base salary - not how much he actually earned, which could have included overtime, bonuses, any other kind of allowance. It seems entirely likely to me that Snowden's actual take home could have been well above the base rate. Certainly no-one has tabled any evidence otherwise.

So you're basing your skepticism on what? That he used the word salary instead of income? That's why he has lost all credibility? Not to mention this personal detail has nothing to do with the actual allegations.

Congratulations, you swallowed this textbook hit piece hook, line and sinker. Its entire purpose was to make people "skeptical", of course, and it obviously worked.
Your creativity is evident in this app and your reflections on music availability match those of others of your generation. Specifically, turning to YouTube for music. It is free, highly available and people are making great playlists.

It is curious that YouTube may have better and broader licenses from the various copyright holders, SoundExchange, SOCAN, etc... that Spotify, Pandora, et al. Somehow I doubt it.

There is a stackoverflow discussion worth a read on the use of the YouTube API for music playback.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2312179/can-we-play-only-...

I wish you success and I like the app. The powers that be probably will not agree with its function and lack of appropriate streaming licensing, but that is a conversation to have over a medicinal beer or scotch.
I agree with you that reducing inequality is important in order to correct imbalances of political power. But if that is just an off-hand point, then what is your actual point? You said "if you have any serious reading on the last two hundred years of economic, political and sociological critiques of capitalism, wealth and power that whole article will just seem silly." Are you going to give us anything to go on there, or just assume no one will speak up for fear of appearing equally gauche as pg?
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Well, honestly if they're going to do this why bother with distortion and just interview via chat, what is the difference at that point?
No, it has a built-in browser. Not sure what engine is behind it but it reminds me of the Konqueror days. There is no Firefox build that is reasonably current that I have seen yet (hopefully I'm wrong, please someone prove me wrong).
I made a cool python script to tear away the unneeded parts of your CSS libraries. check it out at https://github.com/garrettdreyfus/Libstripper.
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Don't you think, though, if you have such arbitrary biases, it would be better to work on them than hide the problem?
Not true. PG used 'these' with context. The interviewer was specifically asking about admitting women by 'lowering standards' or recruiting. And PG is saying that those ideas won't work, because the applicants won't have the experience.

Eric: "If there was just the pro-activity line of attack, if it was like, “OK, yes, women aren’t set up to be startup founders at the level we want.” What would be lost if Y Combinator was more proactive about it? About lowering standards or something like that? Or recruiting women or something, like any of those options?"

Paul: "No, the problem is these women are not by the time get to 23…"
Does anyone else appreciate the humor in the juxtaposition of parodical wordplay between "disinformation" and "uncrunched?" :)
If you think the US government will just throw up their hands and let you pass because they can't instantly turn on the computer, I don't know what to tell you.

If they want the data, they'll get it.

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/02/laptop-decryption-a...
"We edited a bit around some of Mr. Graham’s quotes on female founders. Specifically, we edited a “these” from the quote. The reason was simple. The “these” didn’t refer to anything. The paragraph that preceded it referred to Mark Zuckerberg being a hacker and it immediately followed a question about what would be lost if YC encouraged more women to be startup founders."

The statement that the preceding paragraph referenced Zuckerberg and thus the "these" had no contextual meaning is unbelievable to me.

Q: What about lowering the bar for women?
A: Take a hacker like Zuckerberg, he started when he was 10. There's nothing we can do to help these women.

What seems more reasonable?

pg responded to a question about women by referencing Zuckerberg then in an entirely separate and new thread started being misogynistic?

-or-

Pg responded to a question about women by describing what a hackers path looks like then came back to more directly answer the question.

Jessica Lessin is too smart a person to be confused here. I'm calling bs.
Comparing Perl 6 with Python 3 is a big joke. Even a cursory look at the Perl 6 specification and implementations like rakudo will tell you Perl 6 is attempting to go to a place where Python may like likely go in the next 40 years, with 10 Python 3 like disasters.

Its an exceptionally ambitiously project which they are in no hurry in finishing. And that is for a good reason.
What misogynist groups are these?
I think it is trying to be a simple and elegant desktop system. It requires nearly zero configuration and has a consistent look and performs well.

I get the feeling it aims to be an open source implementation of what the original Mac was meant to be (pre-OSX)... boot-to-desktop with no terminal layer spawning first.
Giving BlackBerry CEO’s open letter a reality check
It occurred to me that maybe this is just a marketing hack. Some people out there are just cheapskates, and need to feel they are getting a deal. I am related to several such people.

This is a way to make those people feel happy.
So the criteria for a "high quality app" is to get featured by Apple? Everything else is crap?
Unfortunately languages like Rust perfectly fit your definition. Because Rakudo was started around the same time as Rust and Rust is aiming for may be 1% of the feature set Perl 6 aims to achieve.
> So it is indeed ambiguous, and it would make sense to clean up, in a vacuum.

hmm... that seems analogous to saying that it's proper behavior for a compiler to silently delete references to uninitialized variables.
I hope I'm dead before this happens.
Seems like you want more of a coder of the year. What's more interesting in tech than Snowden right now?
They've said that they are going to release the consumer version in 2014. Sure it could drastically change from what a developer could be receiving in December 2013 but odds are it is going to be stuff like the price that changes the most, not the actual hardware.
I'm just getting familiar with this drama, but to me, it sounds like pg was dropping responsibility for the lack of women founders. Eric asked him about YC doing more to attract women or encourage women founders, and he responded by saying, essentially, "It's not our fault, there's no way we could be biased, women who want to be hackers just don't exist," and passing the buck to middle school curriculums.
That refers to the returns of the venture capitalists, not the startup founders.
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They said they are going to release a consumer version in 2014. Perhaps something is going to drastically change but the vibe that I get is they are beta testing it so they are hammering out bugs and other rough edges not looking to drastically overhaul the hardware or software.
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Q: What about lowering the bar now?

A1: There's nothing we can do to help women become hacker-founders.

A2: To help women become hacker-founders, we have to start with the group we'd be admitting in 10 years.

the "these" changes it from: "women can't be helped" to "you can't fix the problem for this generation, you can only fix the problem for the next generation"

One says "it's a problem of gender" the other says "it's a problem of sequencing"
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I'm not new to the internet, but you are definitely new to HN. Well-reasoned and supported arguments are valued here, not baseless and fragmented conspiracy theories.

E.g. Aliens are controlling politics! Proof: http://reddit.com/r/ufos
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I really enjoyed this, and it was somewhat of a different pace/style to the talks I've been watching today.
Every time you mention "science" it's always with the tacit assumption that because something has been anointed by government institutions then it's "science."

This is an extremely dangerous attitude. It is of course very prevalent as well.

It boggles the mind how you can't see the relation of regulation to stifling of innovation. At best I could see a sane person thinking "but it's worth it for the sake of safety." I can't see how anyone can fail to see that every cost and barrier you put up is going to keep out something good. From a simple cost standpoint this is obvious. So that's why I didn't spell it out. I just gave you benefit of the doubt where evidently, that wasn't warranted.
Yet another tool on the already overflowing workbench of "ways to make your music famous!"
/pol/ and /r/MensRights were invading sites during this time. I recall a handful of posts on both that directed users to HN. If you were active on HN during that whole fiasco, you'd remember the huge influx of new accounts that did nothing but "shitpost" in the submissions on here.
What kind of content are you providing to the subscribers of the $100/mo. forum? And are you using actual forum software or some other CMS to manage the community?
So is it that they just didn't want to take the time to do it, or they were afraid of shortening the life-span of their SSDs by cleaning them after use?
Jessica is guilty. She could have diffused the situation by saying 'We misquoted PG, sorry'.

Instead she tries to justify it and says 'Paul Graham was not misquoted'. Or at least that is what the ValleyWag troll tweeted https://twitter.com/Valleywag/status/417093209886846976
I think you are speaking to a large audience with this post. All python devs are continuously aware of the ongoing avoidance of using newer version. It's a problem that should be addressed even more directly with us all... what are the key transitional obstacles to overcome when upgrading from, say, 2.7 to 3.x? etc.

Thanks for shining some light on the issue.
It would almost be comical if it weren't so sick: rent-seeking through a government-granted monopoly, under the premise that the providers would serve the public good.
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There is no such thing as being "too early" to market. That is how you cut your teeth, learn and get ahead. You fail when you give up on the idea (or are proven that it will never catch on... either way). However if you create a product that eventually takes off, and if you continue to iterate it and not abandon it, you can't be too early. And, if nothing else, it is 100x less risky to be too early, than too late.
>I dislike the "talking head" approach to serious topics.

Similar to your unsubstantiated comment about Ayn Rand?
It used to be hard to get insurance. That changes in a couple days. It is rude to claim the ACA does anything to help anyone, let alone business owners, but I'm certainly happy that I'll be getting oppressed by Obamacare in the new year.
I understand most other smartphone makers refuse to use the Windows Phone operating system. That is why Nokia has 92% of the market. That is also why Microsoft bought Nokia, as Windows Phones don't sell very well and had damaged Nokia's income to the point that Microsoft bought out their stock in a 'fire sale'.

I think in 2014 you will see more hardware companies rejecting Microsoft operating systems and software and defecting to alternatives.

This is the Post-Microsoft world now, and many companies are trying to replace Microsoft as the top dog.

Apple has done well in the smartphone and tablet market. Android too has done well in the smartphone and tablet market. We got GNU/Linux in the form of Ubuntu Touch and Tizen. We got ChromeOS laptops costing $199 verses the same hardware with Windows costing $299. Microsoft charges an OEM Tax that increase the price $100 and of course if most of the industry rejects Microsoft and uses a free or open source operating system instead, they can save $100 on their price and undersell Windows Powered phones and Windows based PCs and Laptops.

Windows Powered phones can be converted into Android phones or Ubuntu Touch or Tizen really easily. Never iOS because Apple has a lock on that.

I think we might even see Haiku, AROS, and others ported to smartphones running on ARM chips and the like.

Right now Microsoft has no leader, no vision, no goals. They are viciously attacking Google and failing to gain marketshare, as Google just laughs at Microsoft and rakes in the money with Chromebook and Android based device sales. Microsoft, you see, is giving Google free publicity in their attack ads, people are learning Google's tech is always $100 cheaper than Microsoft tech. In this bad economy, that just might be what it takes to defeat Microsoft.
Some people hear a fire alarm or woman screaming and run towards the chaos. Not all these people bothered to become policemen or fire fighters.
But public transit is free in SF on New Years...
A refreshing and transparent way of tackling surge in demand. Hopefully this is sustainable!
> Early horseless carriages didn't sell well

Exactly. Henry Ford paid his workers very well, not out of altruism because he was the one of the most unaltruistic people you can think of, but because he wanted them to be able to afford his car. They would become mobile advertisements of his new technology.

In that, they were much like the Google Glassers are today.
But lyft and uber are surging by crazy amounts! Uber goes upto 7.5x!
It seems that communities that mainly use programming languages for reasons of "getting stuff done" value backwards compatibility the most; they are the ones who would rather not have to spend the time "upgrading" things that used to work perfectly fine, and would rather use that time to do something more useful and related to their ultimate goals. Personally I think backwards compatibility is getting less attention than it deserves, and that software should evolve slowly and gradually and not suddenly make huge leaps, because all these breaking changes start to look like they're just creating unnecessary, wasteful work. Imagine if things like mains plugs changed every few months, with appliancemakers all adopting the newest backwards-incompatible version. In some ways software is easier to change than hardware, but at the same time we must remember that effort needs to be expended to perform these changes as well, effort that could be used in other ways, and often there is a lot of interconnectedness in the systems we are trying to change.
Keep in mind, the industry is really bigger than this. There are many tech people for which this story is not even on the radar.
The government doesn't care about your rifles. Not even your semi-automatic ones with sights and stocks and lasers and so on. They barely even care about a well-trained militia full of people who are angry with them: The US Armed Forces destroyed something a lot scarier than anything the NRA could muster when it steamrollered Iraq in 2003.

So get off your horse about needing guns to protect yourself from the government. The government could destroy you and your guns in a second if it wanted to.

If you want to be persuasive, stick to defending yourself against home invasion. That's a band-aid on a serious problem, but at least it's a historically and logically honest argument.
Sympathies, my dear hacker.

> Few days later, I would be given a curt apology, reassurance that this wouldn't happen again, and Jerry would ask me to forget all about the incident. Jerry would then treat me as if nothing had happened at all, and would back to being polite and professional. Later, the process would repeat itself.

This indicates he is aware of his poor behaviour, but it seems he hasn't given any reasons. You haven't stated whether you have talked to Jerry directly about this, if you haven't I suggest this would be a first step. Whether or not this is successful, analyse what his response was. It will give you a deeper idea of what kind of sociopath you are dealing with.

HNer grumps said below to weigh the risks. This is a very difficult problem that I have dealt with myself, so I would say from my experience to tread carefully. Before doing something, you need to second guess how other people will react, and prepare accordingly.

You mentioned that he makes over the top requests, such as indirect communication via your boss. One idea I would suggest is to bow down to all his requests, no matter how silly (unless it is dangerous or illegal). It sounds like your job is very fast paced and results are demanded on time. Eventually his behaviour will have an effect on the system, especially if he holds a critical position, and it will be noticed.

Shitty behaviour in the workplace seems to be a growing problem (I've seen several articles regarding this trend in the last year or so). Would anybody know of any forums or websites that deal with this? Has anyone come up with a hack to solve this problem?
Worse... being in a social situation with someone who is wearing Glass now means that Google has identified who you are (and the NSA for that matter) and where you are, and from there it probably isn't that difficult to determine what your mood is at the time. It'll be like your own digital stalker out there, times a thousand, given that Google will just use the data to sell ads.
to properly use [] on a recorded interview is overkill. just glance on the transcript... there is barely a proper english phrase there. the whole thing would be 80% brackets just to make it grammatically correct.
Don't worry about not being good at soccer - I've been playing my whole life and I'm still not very good ;)

Great exercise though.
I'll take "'What is a non-sequitur?' for $200, Alex".
In the article I explicitly say this won't work sadly :(

While the Google Analytics JS is loaded over HTTPS, the tracking information sent back to Google inherits HTTP/HTTPS from the website itself.

That means if you're on a HTTP site, it'll send back the results over HTTP. You'd need to actually hand roll your own GA JS to have it send back over HTTPS and then I'm not certain if that'll cause issues with records at Google's end.
Heh, well usatoday is mainstream media. If you're going to find anyone who thinks all this NSA stuff should have stayed secret for "the good of the nation", that's where you'll find 'em.

I'm just glad that a mainstream site like usatoday is bold enough to give this award to him.
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But isn't it entirely possible that he's right?
I got Netflix this December 1st and it's been amazing! My wife enjoys it a lot, she sees lots of romantic comedies. My kids watch Lazy Town and I get to see a lot of shows I never heard of such as Archer.

The service is now indispensable for me. I think a lot of people will get this plan, not to save money, but to be able to watch videos faster with less choppyness.

I don't know why but Netflix on my PS3 is lag free, and looks DVD-like. But on my PC or Mac or phone or ipad it's very laggy and takes a long time to buffer and pauses to buffer during the video.