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That's a good point. The bigger problem with pg's post is not whether he said 13 year old girls are uninterested in hacking. It's that he completely passed the buck 10 years up the line.

We'll see, maybe now his upcoming essay on women and coding will have more "proactive" things that can be done at the YC stage.

For one, 13 year old girls need more 23 year old female hacker role models.
Everyone is an OS consumer. Far fewer are running Haiku on a 9+ core server. Write what you know.

To be fair, the scheduling might matter if a reader considered writing a library for Haiku. Can't game the system by surrendering a lock before the slice ends anymore. :-B
I must be confused or misinterpreted you.

"And who are these "feminist activist" strawmen(straw-women?) you have set up?"

I took that to mean (generally) that the idea that there is such a thing as a legitimate feminist activist is nonsense - that in reality any reference to one is as part of a straw man argument. Not what you were saying?
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I completely disagree, but I have voted you up. You represent normal people. Those of us who care are the weirdos.

I've given up. Whats the point? Frankly, if I knew I needed actual privacy, I'd not use anything electronic, and go olde skool. That's all I need to know now. I've told everyone I know and / or care about. Its now up to them.

Get used to it, Big Brother has been here for a while, is staying, and will get stronger.

Just, I wont be listening in the future when it gets really out of hand. I dont expect anyone to come bleating to me if something goes wrong.
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I worry about random people on the Internet having access to my information about 1000 times more than I do the NSA.
Not to mention people who have and can deal with social stigma.
> It's easy to say "Before the end of 2014." but I think we potential users need to start seeing something more definite.

This is precisely what the current push towards 1.0 is. You can look at the priority tags on the issue tracker.

> 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.

Rust is currently making all efforts not to be that.
The majority.

Which, as it turns out, I don't think is you or me.
The risk is that you are using a legacy language in some of your products which no one else knows how to write in.
It's possible he's right that there's absolutely nothing more he could do. I think it's extremely unlikely, though. If women feel uncomfortable in YC-funded companies, I think that's a problem he could address. If women feel uncomfortable in the culture surrounding YC, I think that's another problem he could address. It's very un-hacker-like to, when confronted with a problem, throw your arms up in the air and proclaim there is nothing more you can do.
jwz, and Arrington's target audience, were startup employees, not founders.
Explained: why people are angry at Paul Graham
I wonder if they are doing this with Android devices too.

Anyways, it's not of concern to me as I ditched my smartphone for an old school motorolla flip phone.
This is actually almost exactly my email flow. Multiple inboxes with filters so email gets assigned and put in its place quickly. Instead of stars I use labels though. Anything in my inbox I need to handle right away or mark as todo. Very efficient and keeps the inbox at less than 10 emails most of the time.

Combined with Gmail shortcuts, you can handle emails very quickly in Gmail. These features combined are the main reason why I never give more than a cursory glance at all these slick new email apps since this workflow is so quick and easy for me.
And was one of the first people to use probabilistic methods to fight spam, which is what finally made spam an almost non-issue.
Wearable computing has been around for decades. Even commercial companies. The tech has been and still is too weak to break out of niche markets. But tech progresses.
Using a binary package with pip requires "a compiler and all of the development libraries", which GP said he doesn't want to do.
Personally I gave up a while ago and now I do "apt-get build-essential python-dev" on every new server, but it's not ideal. I really like the approach outlined in https://hynek.me/articles/python-app-deployment-with-native-... , but haven't gotten around to implementing it.
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I would get a petition going, but I'm not American.
I also wear prescription glasses, but wearing Google Glass 24x7 sounds like a terrible idea to me.

Think of it like this: There are all sorts of situations in which it is socially unacceptable to have your phone out. Movies. Funerals. Intimate conversations with loved ones.

Having Glass on 24x7 is basically the same as always having your phone out. Sure, maybe it's off and you're not actually looking at the screen while you're having a conversation. But the other person doesn't know that. If you flick your eye to a corner, does that mean you got something in your eye or were you checking a text message? Wearing prescription glasses does not interfere with my ability to establish eye contact and maintain a personal connection with someone. Google Glass does.

And, come to think of it, that's really the problem with Glass. There are all sorts of useful situations in which I'd like to have Glass, much as there are all sorts of useful situations in which I'd like to have a smartphone. But I can easily put away the smartphone in the situations where it's socially unacceptable to have it out. It doesn't seem nearly as convenient to do so with Glass.
Pilots would ground the plane before doing ludicrous maneuvers like you are suggesting. Those planes aren't very nimble.
"Why I Have Become Pessimistic About Indian IT" - Vivek Wadhwa
Recursion to Iteration; or:  I wish Python had tail-call elimination
I would say this is one of the least impressive things mentioned in that talk.
Ever get an answer, or come close to one, as to why it took 35 years?
I actually had coworkers saying they didn't care and that it's necessary to keep terrorists away....

I realized how Hitler was able to rise to power so quickly, people just accept complete trust in authority, the all loving, the all caring and nurturing.

Just like herding cows telling each other everything's alright, we are still comfortable, enough grass to keep us going, owners seem nice. Refusing to believe they will all be slaughtered one day.
No indeed, that would mean not being a self righteous prick. You know what the effect of people like Kane was in the skeptic community? Female conference attendance dropped from 40% to 10% in a single year.

Enjoy your self defeating efforts.
> Honestly, I don't really care.

Some non-empty subset of the population needs privacy. Maybe you're not in that subset, but you should still be fighting on their behalf.

On a related note, do you believe in freedom of press? "a survey of American writers revealed that nearly one in four has self-censored" http://www.cnn.com/2013/12/04/opinion/snowden-chilling-effec...
Definitely an unfortunate situation, but also not surprising. Sounds like the investors didn't do any real due diligence.

Just another reminder that it's rarely a good idea to exchange money with "friends."
I use the mailbox iPhone app. The killer feature for me is that I can snooze an email. It's close to ideal for me. This ability to show multiple inboxes on the desktop might be an interesting tool to add visibility to something on another list.
The GP is grammatically and textually correct. The lasers belonged to the ceiling.
Rust appeared publicly as a project to build a language in 2010 (it was a personal, private, project kept under wraps by Graydon a few years before which is irrelevant).

Perl 6 was first started on 2000. I've been reading Larry's apocryphal descriptions of its "features to be" for 4 times more years than Rust exists.

Rakudo is just a particular attempt at Perl 6, not the first and neither it consists of first time the language was announced publicly.
He may have done too much research on Captain Crunch breakfast cereal for that one...
I'm inclined to agree with you. It's a first world problem filled with hyperbole and misinformation by the individuals leading this fight. Frankly, I wouldn't trust anyone.
Seriously? Apple fanboys feel the need to try to defend Apple by saying that their competitors are worse?

Wake the fuck up! This isn't about Apple. It's about an out of control military that's spying on all of us and threatening our way of life and our livelihoods.
This is old and tired news. These attitudes will change. I know cause I'm old enough to have seen it before with advent of cellular phones. Same reactions, calling people assholes, same stigma, same wealth issues.

People hated the jerks who were rich enough and self important enough to be phoneable anywhere, anytime. Eventually price, ugly factor came down and phones became ok cause everyone had one.

Same thing will happen.
Yes, because obviously the originally stated intention for the device is the only use the device will ever have. The difference here is that a phone is usually in your pocket. The Glass is usually on your head, and the camera is pointed at the same thing you're currently looking at.
Couldn't this be accomplished simply by creating apps that deal with contacts, photos, camera, etc. and then having users download and accept the permissions themselves.

For example, imagine that any one of the contact or calendar management apps where you "Allow xxxxx to access your contacts" was produced by the NSA under the guise of an innovative startup.
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Yes. The screenshot is old/known, and it does that in order to make the transitions appear smooth. It's also been cited as a privacy risk before, for the reasons you mention.

http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/32645
who are these NSA people that aren't also random people?
The MLK example is a great one. Also, it's still not 100% clear what happened with Hendrix, Marilyn Monroe or the Kennedys. I read recently that there was evidence of the NSA having dirt on a governor, which was used to blackmail him (can't recall the specific instance unfortunately). And of course, I'm sure everyone knows about what happened with the IRS and certain non profits last year, while not directly tied to the NSA gives an example of why this stuff matters.

So yea, it's not to protect people like us. It's to protect the MLKs, the politicians, the accountants, the journalist, the news anchor, etc... Everyone either has a skeleton in their closet or cares about someone who does. If one is so inclined, having this information can be extremely valuable when trying to prevent a "free society" from becoming a little too free.
my reaction when people look at me while wearing google glass is, "please get that camera out of my face." i find it unnerving and sorta creepy to have a camera pointed at my face, and to me, while the glass is not just that, it is still a camera.
What pg said is that

1) the "pool of potential startup founders" is programmers,

2) it's non-discriminatory and self-selecting, and

3) women are underrepresented in this pool because it's hard to get 13 year old girls interested in programming, and

4) rather than encouraging women to become startup founders it would be better to fix that 13 year old girl problem

This debate about whether he was referring to "just programmers" is a complete red herring. Programmers == startup founders, to him.

The really damning quote is this:

If someone was going to be really good at programming they would have found it own their own. Then if you go look at the bios of successful founders this is invariably the case, they were all hacking on computers at age 13. What that means is the problem is 10 years upstream of us. If we really wanted to fix this problem, what we would have to do is not encourage women to start startups now.

Repeat: pg literally said it would be better to discourage women from starting startups now.

Not "these" women. Not "non programmer" women. All women.

......

The problem is not that pg is some huge sexist. It's that he's defensive. He's passing the buck 10 years up the chain, saying that's where the problem lies. In CS curriculum or something.

But in actuality, parents and educators could just as well say that 13 year old girls don't have enough 23 year old female hacker role models to look up to.

So perhaps YC, PyCon and the industry as a whole could be more proactive. For example by spotlighting and giving extra support to the best examples of female hacker role models, and connecting them with girls.

Not by discouraging women from starting startups now.
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That wasnt my point: irrespective of any "nefarious interest" in said screen shots; IS the iOS device actually capturing every single screen change via a screenshot?

As I understood it - there were certain apps that were captured in the past. This was so that when the app loaded it had the previous state shown as quickly as possible, and it would then refresh.

My point was I am noticing this flashing screen cap anim on literally EVERY screen change... this does not make sense to me and I am wondering why the device does this.

Finally, I surmise that if it actually IS doing these caps, that if one COULD get access to them one could then build a pretty clear session history.

Again, I said it was a simple suspicion. I have no idea if this is actually happening; but the device seems to be revealing the caps happening... but I am not so sure.
Quite simply, either incompetent or malicious. Can't figure out which.

Incompetent: if really can't see how "these" changes the meaning, because it does. As a journalist, not realizing how a word can change the meaning and the idea of message, they might want to reconsider professions. I really don't know how much better to put it. It is like saying "as a programmer I don't understand why I need to put semicolons at the end of C++ statements, whitespace should just be enough!".

Malicious: they knew what they did and they wanted to create controversy. Well they sure did create controversy. Will they end up benefiting from it? Not sure yet. I suspect there is probably an agenda behind it all and "oh look, misogyny!". Not to say misogyny in tech should be downplayed or not payed attention to BUT this is moving the topic backwards and hurts it more than it advances it. Every Andrea Richards, every Ben Noordhuis case hurts the cause more than it helps. I've said it before (and probably copied it from someplace I don't remember) sometimes a cause's biggest detractors are its most ardent fans. Really the ones who are a little too ardent for the cause's good.

In summary, yeah, still can't decide which is which but I can see it some between those two -- incompetence and maliciousness.
The public also wants to believe that when they get on a bus, it will not crash for any reason. This is a problem that the TSA is actively aggravating.

Policy based on unreasoning panic is nearly always bad policy. The fact that you can articulate "I'm scared!" doesn't make it good policy.
http://paulgraham.com/wids.html
Hi, Ben from DigitalOcean here - just to give you guys an update. This method will no longer work on a newly created droplet.

We've now default scrub_data to ON for both web interface and API as we look at making this process permanent. Additionally, we've re-engineered the way we're provisioning disks and access to previously written data is no longer possible.

We've taken all steps in favor of security currently and will build a permanent solution that favors security and caution moving forward.
To my knowledge no, there is not. If there was, it would also require approval from the network operator. And if you believe that the network operators are aligned with the intelligence community anyways, you would never expect that approval to happen.
Oh just buy whatever you want, for whatever reasons you used to make up to justify an overpriced trinket which people think boosts their social standing because it pretty, and overpriced. Just know its not secure and act accordingly. Use it to build up a nice pure profile. When you want to rob banks, build your nuke, or whatever, dont use it.

Or, have lots of trying to bait the spies. Call it art or something. Look up lots of terror stuff, like you are writing a book. Back, I dunno, 1000 years ago, when I first heard the oh so mad notion of echelon, I added an invisible signature to my email containing every naughty key word I could think of. Idea being to some how annoy the spooks. Yeah, childish and pointless, but it amused me.

Hmmm, maybe half a year of banging my head against a brick wall has had an effect after all.
Great how many customers have gotten on AddressBin? I am working on something similar.
Why is it pg's job to encourage ANYONE to get into any given profession or area of study? How would you feel if, when you were a kid (or adult for that matter), someone came up to you and told you what you should or shouldn't be doing for a living. That one profession has less of your type so you should do that. Doesn't that seem a little ridiculous? There are plenty of jobs that have many more women than men. Do you see massive outrage because the workforce is lacking in those jobs? How about the hundreds of other fields that are male-dominated? Perhaps VC/Startups/Tech is an easy target because the field is so lucrative.

The world needs less belief and viewpoint shaping and more free-thinking. Where this nonsense arises is when we put people into groups or they put themselves into groups. Be yourself.
Somewhat related, but how feasible is it to experiment with building interesting architectures like this using an FPGA? I've been trying to convince myself to get one to fiddle with, and making experimental CPU architectures would be something that would do so :)
Hi -- this was a fun talk to give.

The big point which wasn't so clear is that seals are not locks. Seals exist to identify tampering; locks exist to prevent it. We use a software tool (and remote network service) to turn seals into (electronic) locks, which is kind of cool -- the integrity is measured locally using a trusted device (iPhone for now, eventually something better), verified remotely, and then a 2FA token is returned.

Glitter nail polish is maybe 70% good for this, but has the huge advantage of being widely available. Part of the goal here is to travel completely "naked" to a country, then buy a random local laptop, other local stuff, and tools, and then be able to re-create your capabilities. There are some custom conformal coatings which are brittle, much harder to pry off, single-layer, etc. which we've played around with which work much better. Plus actual paper/tape/plastic seals, and indicators already in devices (manufacturing defects like the grain of a casting).

Hooking this stuff into conventional security measures (MDM, VPN, FDE, various access control, etc.) is the ultimate goal; it's useless to detect tampering if your data is all they're after and unencrypted, after all.

My coauthor Eric Michaud is a former safeguard seals guy from Department of Energy's VAT, probably one of USG's top 3 seals programs (and probably one of the top 10 seals groups in the world), and has a physical security company (and is a lock expert), so I've been learning a lot from him about that technology.
Imagine the abuses of J. Edgar Hoover or Richard Nixon, except amplified with today's tech.

"It always seemed like President Nixon's campaign was one step ahead of us, almost as if they were reading our email...but nobody ever broke into our hotel suite or anything so it's all just speculation."

Edit: brainfart as pointed out by jeremyswank.
I think that what you're missing is that while the fact that there's a lack of female hacker-founders is true…only looking for hacker-founders further solidifies a blatantly sexist problem in the tech industry.

So his statement is right—but the attitude is wrong and it is pure blame-shifting. Facts like this can be correct in the small, but wrong (not incorrect, but…ill-intentioned) in the large. The issue is about the larger problem, not the smaller problem. pg has been defending the smaller problem (the facts of the analysis) while ignoring the larger problem. At least in the articles I read this evening (I was on vacation last week when this apparently broken).

It's a systemic/societal problem, and YC certainly can't fix it on its own, and has limited ability to fix it in any case. They started doing something different with Watsi…maybe there's something they can do different for female founders (as pg himself has suggested that there's another essay coming, plus some announcements from YC in that direction in any case).
Oddly, the only thing I said PG _should_ do is open a dialogue with some of his critics.

This is a much better explanation http://danilocampos.com/2013/12/explained-why-people-are-ang...
Instead of going on about a "flabbergastingly disingenuous argument" and blaming it on him not understanding that a Ph.D is not a philosophy degree (seriously? you think he doesn't know that?), it would have been much more productive, and correct, to assume he made the simple mistake of thinking pg has a Ph.D in philosophy, where in fact he has a B.A.
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Two problems with that theory:

1) I know everybody else is thinking that theory. Nobody will move.

2) Bystander effect. Nobody will move.

In short, the one to act first will be me, 'cos y'all a bunch of cowards. (Hopefully not too coward to jump in once someone's made the first move though)

But what you really need to think about is- what if I'm not on that plane? What if every person on that plane is a coward? Will you wait in terror and lose your chance? Are you willing to take that risk?
As someone without Glass and currently unused to see it, my feeling is not "You make me feel poor". If it was the case, I imagine I will just be jealous, it will be a good point for the Glass (as if you have an expensive car or a gold watch).

My first impression is more something like "I can not see your eyes" (as if you were wearing sun glass) mixed with a "You are not focus when I speak to you" (as if you were looking your phone during a meal). But my opinion may be not relevant since I will not insult you for wearing Glass.
largely pseudo-intellectual entrepreneur

Seriously, wtf. What does this even mean when talking about a person, and not a particular essay? Do you honestly not think that Paul Graham embodies a life of the intellect?
Good idea; we're doing another talk at RSA where we drop some tools, so I'll set up a macro rig and take some pics/videos for a supporting website. I need to buy a ring flash which actually doesn't suck, I think.
Ah, sorry. I didn't read the GP post carefully. I saw "non TSA" and was thinking about the subject of the original article (where TSA security rules don't apply to very small commuter/charter aircraft).
Can't beat Mailbox. Wish they had a desktop app too. The snoozing thing is essential for moving stuff out of my headspace until I can think about it. I wish everything in life had a swipe to snooze.
Dunno if you are right or wrong. Its just sad that people now think like this. That little device of joy, which has now become almost essential, is now a source of stress, worry, and suspicion.
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Write new client web in Node.js, view source: https://github.com/irclife/webirc

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Well, in that case nothing is "checkable". How do you know Eric Schmidt didn't read your Gmail and read all your chats today?

http://gawker.com/5637234/gcreep-google-engineer-stalked-tee...

Also, please discuss facts and keep out the lame stuff.