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One thing that nobody is mentioning is that many "fratty" companies have been wildly successful. That's why VCs aren't cracking down on startups to make them more professional. (Although it is a good idea to become more professional as your startup grows, for cultural appeal to the median tech worker)

This fratty culture certainly drives away slightly older founders (by that, I mean 25+!) and others who don't appreciate the atmosphere. Ultimately, I expect differentiation in the ecosystem, with different incubators forming to attract talent from different pools of talent.

Creating an atmosphere where your founders feel like they belong is a competitive advantage for an incubator. But no one incubator can make an atmosphere that appeals to everybody. If you make an atmosphere to appeal to 40-year-old females, someone else will lure the 19-year-old males away with beer pong, dorm living, and video game breaks.
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The passion for women/girls (referred to as females from this point on) representation in programming is so strong that they try and make villains out of the wrong people as if it will help their cause. From all of the reading I've done of PG's writings I think he has always taken a rather binary approach at whether you're the startup kind of person. I don't think he cares about sex at all. He wants people that are hackers/founders by personal interest rather than being pushed to it by others.

I really like when the move for more female participation in programming is more of removing barriers that would otherwise discourage females from participating (sexism, snickering, etc.) and less pushing females into programming.

As we all know, PG runs a company where his bottom dollar comes from the success rate of startups. It's not hard to draw the conclusion that people who naturally enjoy doing something are more successful at it on the whole than people who are pushed into doing something.

PG just happens to operate in a space dominated by males, because of this I imagine some people feel he has a responsibility to push the female programmer movement forward. I certainly don't imagine him holding female programmers back, with the female founders conf he's announced it sounds like he's trying to help. That said, I think PG is a "pull no punches" kind of guy, so while he is aware of the lack of female founders I don't think he's going to lose sleep over it as long YC continues to succeed.
At the end of the day the government exists to serve the public interest.

I would add to that that the free market definitely does not exist to serve the public interest, as far too many fans of it tend to forget.

Capitalism is the extraordinary belief that the nastiest of men, for the nastiest of reasons, will somehow work for the benefit of us all. -- John Maynard Keynes

There are places where the free market is ideal - utilities, such as Internet service (which requires either right of way on private land or permission to transmit and receive without interference on public airwaves) is not one of them.
I'd still rather take my chances than put up with the BS that we encounter today.
What is "the usual load"?

Interesting; I'll check out the Azul one. I'm a little skeptical, but it might be an improvement. Did you see better throughput or just reduced latency?
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You have to walk a long way from Shady Sands if you want anything but Tandis.
(Replacing guns and drugs with cars, so that it isn't a topic we feel strongly about (I am pro-legalization for either, in any event))

If a unstable person walking down the street is enticed by a bait car and attempts to steal it, I think we can caulk that up as a win for society. Maybe they would not have tried to steal a car that day, but they are evidently the sort of person that is willing to steal cars. It is better to get them into the justice system now, rather than wait for them to steal a non-bate car and possibly get away with it.

The bate car scenario eliminates the possibility that the officers involved talked the person into it. Entrapment certainly is problematic, but I do not think that sting operations in general are.
"I was explaining the distinction between a CS major and a hacker..."

"What I was talking about here is the idea that to do something well you have to be interested in it for its own sake, not just because you had to pick something as a major.So this is the message to take away:

If you want to be really good at programming, you have to love it for itself. "

Labeling "CS major"'s as non hackers, good to know as someone with a CS degree.

While I 100% agree with your final above statement, I find it concerning that you would label everyone with a "CS major" as having motivations outside of a "hacker". I fail to see how they are mutually exclusive. I hope this was just a unfortunate choice of words.
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What Paul didn't say.

Anything about DongleGate

Anything about PronounGate

Anything about CPlusEqualityGate

But when They Came for Paul, then he wanted us to know what he said.

Sadly, I was already gone.

In fact what he did apparently was to take these sorts of threads down and encourage moderators to kill them.

Now of course, he abuses his power as publisher to host this thread where we can deify him, thank him, and and apologize to him.
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Well, I feel that it is that simple.

Owning a gun does not contribute to suicide. I suppose there might be cases of someone killing themselves with their gun because they feel bad about owning a gun. What you are suggesting makes it easier, but does not contribute.

Owning a gun may make it simpler for some people to commit the act, but the sad fact of the matter is it not that difficult to do. There are numerous ways for someone to commit suicide easily without a firearm. There are ways that are quicker, painless, and more apt to succeed.

If the most common method to commit suicide happen to be jumping off the roof of their house, should the government start restricting the access to your own roof regardless of your feelings towards suicide? If the most common method were to jump off bridges, should the government restrict all foot traffic on bridges?

My take on people using this type of statistic, granted I don't feel they all do this, is that it is used as a sad fact to cause emotion in an effort to garner support for their position. I mean, what kind of person are you to want to not help prevent suicides? Don't you want to be reasonable to help people in pain? That's called emotional manipulation and the worst people do it all the time.

When it comes to suicide, people who focus on the how, but not the why, most likely have an agenda about the how and probably could care less about the why. These are the kinds of people who should not be included in the discussion of something so highly emotional and tragic as suicide.

As I stated elsewhere, the government using its powers to restrict ownership of an inanimate object based on what another individual may or may not do with their own inanimate object is a disgusting abuse of power.
When a similar brouhaha happened over PG's comments about accent taken out of context, not one publication cared to actually interview the scores of foreign founders with accents that have gone through YC (I am one).

The same thing happened again with this controversy. Here's at least one rebuttal from a leading female founder: https://t.co/1NbszBqlB1

Is it too much to ask of the press to at least look into a person's actions before piling on with criticism of a purported quote rehashed by a known instigator such as valleywag?
Say our model is that talent is a bell curve, with equal distribution among the genders, and that our (simplistic) goal is to maximize the talent available for a given profession. Then we expect 50% men, 50% women. Isn't that obvious?

> In our current society there is little pressure from anyone to avoid career paths that don't fit the gender role.

Tell that to a male nurse.

I guess I'm being arrogant, but you're being willfully blind. It may turn out that it just happens that men prefer some jobs. But given that the gender expectations that we have change over time (http://gender.stanford.edu/news/2011/researcher-reveals-how-...), it deserves extra scrutiny, rather than the assumption that it is natural.
I just studied Rust tutorial and my GOD it is amazing! I love RUST.
Does the shrill, hyper-Silicon Valley startup focused, gossipy, and banal tech 'press' really matter? I wish they would focus on news, get outside of the Valley for their inspiration, and focus on a wider range of technologies and markets. But then again, who would read that? What we've got here is not "press" but rather entertainment. Basically, it's the TMZ-ification of tech "journalism". Yup, those are scare quotes.
This feels a lot like the migration from Zope2 to Zope3, which everybody was saying was going to be painless and wonderful and then Django happened. As a long-time Python user (and a reluctant former Zope user) I hope things will not turn out the same this time round.
Fix the GIL.

Python 3 isn't getting used because it breaks backwards compatibility without offering many meaningful benefits. Sure, the syntax clean ups and the new sugar are nice and all. But you don't rewrite a working code base because of "nice".

So, fix the GIL; Replace the spaces indentations with tabs; Take out the stupid 79 line limit off PEP8; Even clean up the standard library... After all, if you don't need to worry about backwards compatibility, then you might as well re-do it all properly.
If you said that to a C programmer that would translate as: I would like to see you rewrite the C standard library in assembly then boot your own optimised C compiler.

Said C coder will be so incensed that they will suffer a stroke, then start speaking in LISP.
That's awesome, Keep it up! Did you make anything off of them?
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I'm really happy PG responded to this, because when it came out it already seemed like a completely overblown and taken-out-of-context quote and I had to literally refuse to discuss it with people because the firestorm seemed too absurd to validate with conversation.
You're right. Insolvency is a more accurate term to use in this case.
So my source code, after a while, ended up looking more or less like this:

if ((f = open_file()) == NULL)
return ERROR_CODE;
if ((s = allocate_string()) == NULL)
return ERROR_CODE;
if (write_string_to_file(s, f) < 0)
return ERROR_CODE;*

I hope for you that's more 'less' than 'more'. That code leaks resources whenever an error occurs. Can't allocate the string? Oops, kept the file open. Write failed? Oops, kept the file open, and leaked the result of allocate_string.

In C, this kind of error handling screams for the use of goto:

int result = ERROR_CODE;
FILE * f = NULL;
char * s = NULL;
if((f = open_file()) == NULL) goto ERR;
if((s = allocate_string() == NULL) goto ERR;
...
result = NOERROR;
ERR:
if( s != NULL) free_string( s);
if( f != NULL) close_file( f);
return result;

Given that you need that to write robust code, I don't think the macros make things much clearer.
And presumably the non-accident death rate below 30 is even lower (relative to the population average).

Basically if an under 30 dies it's becoming more and more likely that it's a result of accident rather than anything else. And this causes people to become more and more cautious. i.e. it used to be that people had a real chance of death anyway, so taking a (physical) risk is not that big an increase in risk, but now it's a larger relative risk.
A right shift of a signed integer is implementation defined.
Yes, had seen that some days ago, but thanks.

I had blogged about Docker using LXC, as part of this post about Domino, a Python PaaS for data science:

http://jugad2.blogspot.in/2013/12/domino-paas-for-data-scien...

and had seen then that Docker uses Go, though I didn't say so in the post.

Cool.
Your first paragraph is more-or-less my point. You have an unlimited amount of time to make it safer now. Unfortunately, you don't have an unlimited budget, so the result is that you don't launch anything. Except meetings. Lots of meetings.

Anyway, what happens when you have trouble finding qualified crew because no matter how much work you put into it, it'll never be "fully debugged?" (When you're doing something new, there's not any good way to tell if the barrel is full of bees, other than sticking your head in it.)
And a circus is a ticket printing company, 95% of their revenue comes from selling printed tickets. I really don't know why they still bother with the elephants and acrobatics...
I don't think you have been paying attention, or maybe you are hanging out in the wrong places. Have you read "Lean In"?

There are plenty of women out there who don't expect their husbands to be the main breadwinner. Go hang out with med students or lawyers. There are lots of women who would LOVE to be able to concentrate on their careers and have their spouse at home with the kids and making dinner. If "traditional society" is expecting you to do X, go find a "nontraditional society"!

Are you doing PUA techniques at bars as a way to meet women? Then yeah, you are competing on looks and wealth. Are you treating women like people and getting to know them as friends?

You might want to look into CBT, because your comments sound like you have some negative thought patterns that you might want to combat. Thinking that everyone is going to treat you rudely or consider you a creep is a great way to act in defensive ways that ... make people treat you rudely and consider you a creep. :-(
I think you are slightly to extreme in your publication of the video. I agree that law enforcement officers (and probably most public servants) do not have an expectation of privacy while on duty, however other people who get recorded do. If the police have a video of me talking with the police than I would not necessarily want that video publicly accessible. However, if I am charged with a crime, those videos should be made available to me along with all the other evidence. Furthermore, If I am the subject of a video, I should have a right to it, and to publish it myself (possibly with the consent of other third parties in the video). Also, if the video was from a clearly public place/event than there is no expectation of privacy in the first place, so it should be publicly available (possibly also by request for practical reasons).
Tried websocketd, getting some issue using it. Emailing you about it offline.
Exactly my thoughts. Reading all the quotes on Gawker, I fail to see how they arrived at the conclusion that PG's implying that one needs to be male in order to be a good programer.

I see a few points being made ("out of context"):
- You want to start programming at 13 to be a hacker.
- 13 year old girls are not interested in programming.
- PG doesn't know how to make programming more attractive to this group.

As far as I can tell these are neutral observations and opinions. Even if his statement is plainly incorrect, simply being wrong doesn't make it offensive.
No, it isn't.

A right shift of a signed, negative value is implementation-defined (which means, something in particular happens, and the compiler or its documentation is supposed to tell you what).

A left shift of a signed value is undefined (which means, the compiler is allowed to launch the missiles, or fail to launch the missiles, whichever is worse for you) if a nonzero bit could conceivable get into the sign.
There's a comment system. A sane, non-blaming comment calling out sexist comments can do wonders for swaying the opinion of others. The last thing we need to solve this is to start segmenting ourselves on here.
"the audience for an interview will include people who for various reasons want to misinterpret what you say, so you have to be careful not to leave them any room to."
I'm really pleased to see someone make an apology. No idea what you personally said, I'm sure it was very far from the worst, but I clicked on this thread with my comment already formulated, questioning whether anyone would actually apologise and, well, was pleasantly surprised given how these things usually go.
I'm going to pretend that you didn't suggest holding a plant-wide meeting as a form of efficiency ;)

But the idea of setting up bounties is controversial. The arguments for and against it quickly get remarkably tortuous. I've never seen it implemented, but I can definitely say the idea is attractive. I had a coworker who would offer a hundred bucks (of his own money) to the operators who maintained stable production on a weekend run; it looks like it works, but he couldn't afford that too much.

It's often easier to spend giant sums of cash than to be clever, as cleverness is unreliable, but giant stacks of cash are accountable. (TL;DR: industry is often penny wise, pound foolish.)
My stepfather passed away two weeks ago, and my mother is worried that she'll live as long as the women in her line; roughly 90+. To her, that's a nightmare of infirmity and worry. Will she have enough money? Will she be independent, or have to rely more on caregivers? She's only 80, so she's got a good decade or more to think about these things.

I think if she wasn't alone and in declining health, she'd be glad to live longer.
Wait, so this is startup that seeks money to make website to help other startups to seek money?
What I quoted was not from the "interview"
I think it is time to eliminate journalism entirely. Already with the web we've reduced greatly the number of intermediaries in transmitting information. But it is clear that they should be removed from the loop entirely Don't feed the trolls^w journalists ie. don't give them interviews or "conversations", don't pass on urls to their "articles". Instead give the url to the original data!
As another female founder I concur: blind applications would make me more comfortable to consider applying to funds in general, not just YC. As an audio processing geek, getting male and female voices to sound the same is actually pretty hard without losing diction, but at least having the application have a separate cover-sheet for the founder's names and any information that might give away identifiers about gender, race and nationality would be a good start, so applications could be read 'blind'.
I can give such examples for any commercial vendor and in terms of breaking compatibility, there are a few examples in FOSS land as well.
I didn't read it as him saying the two were mutually exclusive... I thought the distinction was between 'just a [CS major]' as opposed to 'hacker' (who may or may not have a CS degree) - perhaps I just interpreted it the way I wanted to - but giving him the benefit of the doubt, I think he was just saying he wants founders that are intrinsically motivated (by having a desire to build stuff) rather than extrinsically (by a degree program)
Why is adding more women to the tech industry automatically assumed a laudable goal to throw resources behind?

I'm Middle-Eastern (probably a smaller minority in the North-American tech scene compared to women), and while I (like most people) would certainly like to be surrounded by more of my brethren, it's not something I'd be comfortable spending resources on because the return on investment is so nebulous; diversity of views isn't automatically beneficial as is commonly assumed (an extreme example: you wouldn't expect a conservative big-corporation suit-wearing type to benefit a two-founder startup team).

It also seems a bit arrogant to tell people 'you should stop pursuing X and learn coding instead'. I wonder what would have happened had someone convinced Marie Curie, Jane Austen, or Hillary Clinton to go into programming instead of their respective fields (yes, I realise computers weren't invented in the case of the former two, but I hope you understand my point).

Finally, why is all this restricted to women only? Should I start advocating for Arabs? Africans? Inuit? It very quickly turns into a lot of duplicated effort. What's wrong with treating everyone equally? Not to mention that special-casing also reinforces the idea of 'us' and 'them', which I don't feel is productive either.

(throwaway because I don't want to be burned at the stake for publicly asking such questions)
Every voter who voted for a pro-Drug War politician has blood on their hands. This violence is part of a war that they demanded. The market has existed, currently exists, and will continue to exist, regardless. It's like believing that socialism (e.g. our socialized war on the very existence of the black market) is going to somehow win against capitalism if we just sacrifice enough innocent victims on the pyre.
Are Chromebooks crap?
How are you supposed to glitter over a laptop's ports?
Gotta love climate change deniers. "How can global warming be happening? It's cold somewhere right now!"
So he's a flawed human being who makes mistakes just pg and the rest of us. What really is scary to me is the group dynamic that has come out of this "social justice" movement in that it seems to fueled by very loud public commentary about very small events. The pronoun incident with libuv really just took this to level of absurdism.
Ever? I couldn't say off hand, but its not much.
private conversations enabling power dynamics

Public conversations also enable power dynamics.

They just enable power dynamics of a different sort - mobbing, pile-ons, and other forms of collective shaming.
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Your idea is good but i think it has to be taken one step further. You should be able to import ANY module, third party or not, and specify under which version to run it. What we need is interop between python 2 and 3.

Just look at this thread. Everybody who disses python 3 does it for library support, library support and library support. If you could write your own code in python 3 but still use libraries remaining on 2.7 most people would switch in a heartbeat. After that it's just a matter of time before the libraries transition to 3. Now we are stuck in a chicken and egg situation where nobody wants to make a move.
He was part of pronoun-gate? That was one of the stupidest, most counter-productive brouhahas of all time. Something tells me that purging your best devs for being insufficiently progressive is not going to attract more females.
The idea is that we help you find your first 100 customers while your building your MVP. Money changes hands, but not a lot. Don't think of it like crowdfunding in the traditional sense. It's simply a way for a founder to come out of a 30 day campaign with ~100 customers a few thousand dollars committed, and give them a better chance at succeeding.
He doesn't say they are mutually exclusive, and it is a stretch to interpret it that way.