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The fact that you know of programs "to get men into nursing or women into construction" that have been "posted to HN before" or have seen some claim "debunked" in the past doesn't mean the person you're writing to has.

FWIW, I read HN pretty regularly and had never noticed any programs to get more women into construction. Not to say that they don't exist, but I'd agree with your interlocutor that the level of hand-wringing on that subject doesn't seem at all similar to the level seen in tech.

As for whether that sort of claim is "easy to debunk with a simple websearch", it's probably much easier for you. Keep in mind that google tailors its results to return the sort of sites you've looked for before, so what you see in response to a given search is different from what others would see. (Not to mention that not knowing that something exists makes it hard to know what phrase one might google to find it.) So instead of saying "it's easy to debunk this with a web search", it's far more productive if you do that search yourself and provide an actual link to the references that YOU think debunk it.
Usually when people are making the argument that "men and women think differently", it is an excuse for why the status quo should remain so. Yes, we all know that men and women have different brains and may not be interested in programming in the same percentages.

That doesn't mean that programmer culture can't often be hostile to women, and doesn't deserve scrutiny. But that also doesn't mean that pg and YC need to be crucified for not immediately ridding the world of all "Cowboy Developer" wanted ads.
Equality is definitely a goal, I think we should have more male nurses, but that's not really a priority when men are over represented in most of the higher paid fields (doctors, lawyers, CEOs .etc). Let's work on helping the more disadvantaged party first, yeah?
It's a clunky transition, but the transition goes from "I (PG) have a female co-founder" to "here is the makeup of YC as it applies to women" in the second sentence of the second paragraph.

He was accused both of being a sexist himself and of YC being sexist. I would say the "he is sexist" (for the sake of argument, let's assume that "sexist" means "particularly sexist" because it's hard to argue ANYONE is entirely innocent of being sexist) were pretty tenuous, but his attitude toward whether or not YC was biased toward men were pretty off.

This does a great job of explaining the latter, which I feel were a legitimate problem.
Actually, they do (Google Docs, Chromebook?), but you're totally missing the point.
The probability that you will roll 1 1 is indeed less then rolling 1 2 or 2 1, but that's only because you are allowing for twice as many acceptable outcomes.

The Wiki article you reference in your own code explains it well. The problem is in the assumptions made by the person answering a riddle. Just because you have a child, and it's a boy, and he is born on Tuesday, it does not mean that your next child is more likely to be a girl. If you agree with that statement, then the original answer must be false.
Awesome tool, Thank you
Segment an image by color. IPython + d3 + sk(image|learn)
However, this definition of "person" requires them to be subject to US law (typically by residing in the US) which foreign residents of a foreign country are not.

That is part of the reason we have a detention facility at Guantanemo.
I can sell my factory-produced legal copies

Your factory-produced legal copies of what? NBC's content? No you can't. Making DVDs in a factory doesn't magically assign copyright to you. You need NBC's permission.
You can't use only the statistical properties of a subset to determine it's moral weight. For nearly any statistic you can think of, there are massive (i.e., 2^bignum >> population of earth) numbers of statistically identical subsets.

A core part of this disagreement/discussion is that there is no accepted formula for determining moral weight.

It's certainly fine to have a discussion at more of a core philosophical level but I think that your arguments would more accepted by the HN audience if you would provide more context about what level of depth you are choosing to discuss instead of calling the article "ridiculous" and providing a single data point about one of the many thoughts posed by the article.

Most people responding are considering the current state of the world and what incremental actions they would take to improve it, not philosophical questions like "what is a harm?", "which harms are worst?", "should we eliminate harms?", "is it right to eliminate harms from one group over another?"

There are many tough questions that need to be answered before you can even discuss selecting or not selecting groups of people and considering their moral weight. Without posing or answering questions like "what is a harm?", "what harms are not permissible?", and "should we eliminate harms?", it's impossible to know whether or not we will be at a philosophical impasse when asking "should one group get additional weight for societal protection from harms over others?".
I agree with the gist of what you're trying to say, but:

> "If I wanted to drive my coffeshop or cheeseburger stand out of business I would try to scare Googlers and Facebookers out of town."

Yes, you really would. One of the chief problems with gentrification (where "problem" is highly subjective) is that the incoming population sometimes doesn't want the businesses you already have.

Your local cup-o-joe place is going to shut down in favor of organic, fair-trade coffee that comes with a brochure (and 5x the price). Your local cheeseburger stand is going to shut down in favor of a quinoa kale salad stand (and 5x the price).

Edit: The oxymoron of Bay Area gentrification on the other hand is that the protesters don't really want the old hood back, they want first-wave-gentrification-hood back. Nobody really misses the cheapass coffee stand, nobody really misses the cheapass taco stand. They miss that little temporary state where the artisanal coffee shop opened and the organic grocery got started but before the real rush came in search of it.
I'm talking about a DVD purchased in a store that NBC contracted to be made. So you haven't answered the question.
If you measure efficiency as the number of students per lecture, sure. I never found large classrooms to be all that useful while I was at university. I certainly remember more from my smaller classrooms where I was more closely connected to my classmates and profs.
I use my Pebble to play music on my phone. It actually makes me listen to music more -- the play button is so easy to hit. It's really quite fun. Clearly other bluetooth connected devices can do this too, but I don't have those=).

As a whole, I think smart watches will eventually be quite common. There are clear advantages for: notifications, calendar viewing, remote controls, music, health/fitness monitoring, timers, siri integration. That said, Pebble has a ton of work left to before they have decent support for these things. It is impressive how well it works considering, but they need to step up their game fast or someone (Apple) is going to crush them.
Well, I have, in a roundabout way. That DVD was made with the permission of the copyright holder. Your home produced one was not.
They don't want "FAMILY KILLED IN BATMOBILE" headlines.
But what are these barriers? No-one seems to know, and in these articles, they always say it's because "geeks" have no social skills and poor personal hygiene and that drives women away. Which is nuts, to imagine a conspiracy of men to keep women out by the cunning strategy of not being "cool" enough (!) Not to mention sexist as hell.

And once again, they aren't wishing things were different so they could have done it...
"there has not been one important decision we've made that I have not been a part of."

Careful, you're not fitting the narrative these people want believe. But seriously, disappointed pg even wrote this. Just engaging with these people is losing.

http://youtu.be/VXbDJ3uBl9M?t=1h26m36s
In general, I agree that building up can harm the character of a neighborhood, but this is often presented in the context of SF and Oakland as a false choice.

The difference between skyrocketing prices and stable ones is on the order of 3,000 new units per year, not 30,000. This is a goal we can hit with skyrises restricted to one part of town, or with three family homes in place of a lot of single family homes, or in a number of other tasteful ways.

It's not as if 500,000 techies are moving to Oakland at once. It's a slow trickle, but, with a fixed supply, prices spike.
Testing on mobile is becoming more common as the platforms mature, and critical to the success to many mobile apps including: Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter.

With Taplytics, because we use native iOS elements (no HTML wrappers), we are not modifying your packaged code just adjusting properties on the fly. All of your code still gets reviewed by Apple.
I predict this is the beginning of the end for these guys. After the emergency funding and layoffs, this suggests that they may be on their last legs. It's either bankruptcy or an emergency sale coming down the line...
Payscale is balanced with current market rates. For us all it was always an easy topic anyway. I guess that the fact that we are italians helped a lot as we value very little individual wealth and give a lot of importance to family savings. Currently (mom joined about 1 year ago, my dad little less than 6 months) they are happy with what they get.
Why does nepotism get such a bad rap? I mean, nobody cares about nepotism in a family owned convenience store or restaurant or gas station. So when does it become a problem--in a particular industry? Or is there a certain number of employees (or a certain amount of revenue) that needs to be reached before it constitutes corruption?
ABC is trying to control what can be done with a video sent over the public airways, so yes, it has everything to do with public airwaves. No one is arguing here about use of stuff sent over non-public-owned cable systems.

The question is, given that it is legal for me to record a show broadcast over the public airwaves, is it also legal for me to pay a company to do that for me.
From my personal experience, I disagree.
I have seen a greater percentage of poor codes in languages that a lower entry barrier than those that require more initial investment.
Most poor coders I've met are lazy coders (in the wrong side of it).
"Ferrari executives ... had never heard of the Spanish car mechanic and didn't know until recently what he was up to... Ferrari alerted Spanish police, who raided ... and shut him down in July, seizing 17 replica Ferraris and two replica Aston Martins."

... sounds like a measured response. Kind of like suing a person for tens of thousands of dollars for downloading a few MP3s.
I don't need their permission to record a broadcast. I only need their permission to make copies beyond that, depending on circumstances that don't matter because I'm not doing that in the hypothetical.
I'm talking about a multiprocess architecture like Chrome.

http://www.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/multi-pr...

The entire app isn't sandboxed -- just the code that does video parsing, i.e. with the thousands of bugs and hundreds of remote code execution exploits (!).

See my other comment on this topic. ffmpeg is already very modular, and used in many video players (user interfaces), so this separation is more than natural -- it already exists in the codebase.

BTW, some people seem to be unfamiliar with the multiprocess/Unix design approach (usually people with a Windows background, which I came from as well). I recommend http://www.catb.org/esr/writings/taoup/ for a great intro to this design philosophy.
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Nope! For consumers - may be yeah.
But for creators, its simply not dead. The entire engineering industry works on PC. So calling it dead is a lie. You can't bend a piece of metal without PC. That hood on your car. Yeah, YOUR car! The contours, the optimized aerodynamics....etc are all due to PC.
Ok, you're right on Docs, but they don't make Chromebooks.

Not missing the point, just thinking the point is not very strong.
Interesting that few of the comments here address the question: "What is the true goal of higher education?"

One of the root causes of the "college bubble" might just be completely overlooking this question, or taking any number of half-hearted answers for granted... or thinking that the relativistic mindset which has beset academia in the last 50 years is the final frontier.

Currently reading "The Closing of the American Mind" (as an American, wearily) and finding the history of the university as laid out there very interesting.

(Trying to formulate a general opinion but the deeper I go, the harder it is.)

There are countless difficult questions and choices which face man, and in most institutions of higher learning, they've taken a backseat to questions of employability & cost.

On an unrelated note, the new undergraduate business school building at my alma mater cost $55 million.
I'll give you this: "It's hard to argue I'm biased against female founders when I have a female cofounder myself" is a weak sentence. Yes, you having a female co-founder is strong evidence, but if you do sexist things then it doesn't make it any harder for me to argue you're sexist. The "it's hard to argue" part doesn't belong there, it belongs after he's not only explained who he chose to start YC with, but how YC and he have acted in relation to others in the industry, which stacks up extremely favorably.
This is the wrong fight. Protester vs. Googler is a distraction. There are other, root causes of the problem that make the protesters angry, and doing this might relieve some frustration for them, but it does no good, and arguably does harm to their cause and gets us no closer to real solutions.

Back in the 70's, Berkeley, a close neighbor, decided that rent control was the answer. It turns out that it helped, but it had too many unintended consequences (people living in $200 nice apartments for decades when they made really good money, thus completely defeating the purpose of rent control).

So, rent control didn't work, at least not in the way it was done in Berkeley. Did it work in SF? Doesn't seem to have. NYC? I hear nightmare stores of their issues.

It's the dialog of the greater problems we need to have, not these stupid little fights.
> This blog uses a little JavaScript. Nothing dodgy, though, and nothing hosted at third-party sites. Just some jQuery and animation bits. So please, if you'd be so kind, ask Noscript to call off the hounds. ... That said, if you insist on leaving script off, you can just scroll down a bit to read the content.

This site is my hero. Write a "no javascript detected" message as if blocking javascript is perfectly understandable (even if you secretly believe we're all hatted in tin). You know your audience with these, what does it hurt to throw them a bone.
A cloud-based DVR for a few bucks a month isn't that bad a deal.
As someone who's professional life generally revolves around Ruby, and in the past has revolved around Python and PHP.. it's a stupid comment. PHP is a perfectly capable language of producing high quality products.. and that is what actually matters.
React is nice. I've created a simple library that shares same core concept - map DOM to Javascript objects. The difference is my lib uses Javascript standard data type, array, to represent tag, and hash(or object) to represent attributes, and strings for text contents. With a few tricks, I got a very powerful library - http://github.com/gcao/T.js. You can see an example written in CoffeeScript here

https://gist.github.com/gcao/8363743
On one hand, this might actually improve the state of CentOS. But on the other hand, it's a bit of a conflict of interest for Red Hat to be maintaining the free (as in freedom) version. The real question is, how compatible is the freemium (as in beer) business model with open-source interests?
That is not the reason Apple didn't provide true background application support in iOS 2 & 3. It was a battery driven initiative by designing the push notification system over letting apps manage their own background runloop.

Plus iOS 5 introduced background support with location that did keep the GPS active and did drain the battery. Foursquare enabled it as a feature called "Radar" that was short lived due to the drain.
Really depends upon your local conditions. I live in San Diego where the major tv stations are broadcast inward from various different directions (which makes indoor directional antennas not universally workable unless you're okay with constantly manually rotating it as you go through channels) and here it isn't uncommon for people to live in valleys which make even giant roof-based antennas an iffy proposition.

We don't have Aereo here yet, but when/if they do expand here I'd probably get it.
This is the shallowness of that kind of P.C. bullying--Paul Graham has done much more for women in technology than any Internet bully, but he will continue to be attacked because it is possible to assign uncharitable interpretations to a few things he said once. When one realizes that this whole kerfuffle is not about being pro-woman, it's about posturing such that one appears to be pro-woman, then the attackers' views make more sense.

If you look at the comments below, the anti-PG crowd seems either to a) not care about YC's contributions to women in tech, or b) adopt a "so what" attitude. So what that YC has a disproportionate amount of women in high places and funds a disproportionate amount of female founders? I don't care, instead I'm gonna pick out some logical flaws in his arguments. (As an aside, there's few things more tedious than a nerd on the Internet concerned with "logical flaws" in peoples' "arguments".)
I can imagine that one reason "sexism related stories get flagged" is because they are rarely interesting, innovative or well though out.

Such articles mostly repeat feminist/misandric boiler-plate amounting to little more than defending female privilege (e.g. no draft, longer life, many more opportunities to avoid having to work, better medical care, earlier retirement, more lenient sentencing for equal crimes etc, more social services, etc). I think a common term for this is "privilege blindness". Why would a thinking person want to read this again and again?
I don't need their permission to record a broadcast.

Correct.

I only need their permission to make copies beyond that

And to sell any of your recordings.
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> If one is legal, the other should be as well.

I agree, I should be able to purchase or rent an antenna from anyone I want to.
The Snapchat drama
I do not consider myself an hater (I have used both php and go). I would say the results on that page are consequence of php having more mature database drivers (written in C) than go, that is still in its infancy. If you look at for e.g. Plaintext it is more in line with what one would expect from a compiled language versus an interpreted one.
I think this axiom only applies to inclusion in desirable groups or roles. It's hard to imagine even the most egalitarian thinker working to improve the male:female ratio among death row inmates, for example.
Hey, thanks so much for checking us out. Our goal is to keep the platform affordable so developers like us could actually use it and grow with it.
(That said, I don't block javascript to keep content providers from doing dodgy things quite so much as I do it to avoid fallout when someone breaks into your server, or slips something into your page in transit.)
I didn't say it was a tenable position, just pointing out what I believe the complaint is actually about.
At my previous position we built our own A/B testing framework for iOS. There were a few hiccups, but overall it wasn't too complicated. One thing that was important for us was to be able to tie together stuff happening on the Web side of the product with tests running in the app. Curious if this is possible with Taplytics.

Despite the DIY solution being relatively straightforward, given that they have a free plan, this seems like a much better way to get started.
This is a great way to make your native mobile interface completely dynamic. Sure makes mobile A/B testing a whole lot easier. ‘No app store approvals’ is huge. This is cool. I'm a fan!
The comments here are ridiculous. Should PG fund women/minorities just because they're part of X group?

Affirmative action isn't good for anyone, because it encourages lower standards and hurts deserving people.

Equality isn't about having an equal proportion of men/women in every occupation, it's about treating everyone fairly as an individual, regardless of sex/race/age/etc...

No one complains that women are under-represented in the garbage collection field... Or that labourers on construction sites are overwhelmingly men. Or that most of the dangerous and undesirable occupations in our society are done by men...
I'd agree that PHP really isn't that bad (at least, from the perspective of someone who started writing web apps using C, Perl, and Java). Some missing or clunky meta/higher level features feel limiting to me, but more or less it seems to be as successful as its other dynamic scripting siblings when it comes to tools devs have used to ship.

The big problem with PHP is that it grew to popularity as it grew into a turing-complete templating language, and the major paradigm for it was more or less the idea that documents are programs. That actually encouraged mixture of logic and presentation concerns.

There are some other warts possibly worth railing at, but that's really the main place it gets its probably deserved reputation for having more spaghetti code, even though pros working in have long since moved on from that paradigm.

FWIW, this is also its strength: it's a very short distance with a gentle curve from authoring documents to authoring dynamic documents. I don't think anything else matches it.

Of course, the curve from there to a larger application, that can be a different story, depending on what kind of guidance one has (and most likely, without guidance, ontology will recapitulate philology, as they say).
Abolishing rent control might be the big-picture answer, but in the micro- scheme, the protestors will never rally for that.

They really don't have a winning play that I can think of; the spat is basically just them lashing out at the only thing they can think to lash out at. They are in the unenviable position of living at low cost in low density housing in a locality that is shooting up in value, and all they can do is attempt to forestall the inevitable.
I contemplated a response to the question from pshin45's friend, but decided it might be a fool's errand because the question itself suggested a deep misunderstanding of YC. I am hard pressed to imagine a more incorrect characterization of the role Carolynn, Kirsty and Jessica play in YC than "one is in charge of legal, the second: taxes, and the third (largely) of founder relations". I certainly understand why Jessica's initial reaction to the question would be anger.

I would estimate that, collectively, I have worked with Carolynn, Kirsty and Jessica for upwards of 500 hours over the past 2 1/2 years. And I would estimate that 80-90% of that time has been on product development, business development, sales, customer acquisition, fundraising assistance ... I could go on.

Outside of our company, there is nobody who has been more involved with our "business strategy" than Carolynn, Kirsty and Jessica. There is not one part of our business that they have not been critically and deeply involved with.

(minor edit for grammar)
Really? That's very good news, and I hadn't heard about it at all.

Do you have some links to orgs working to get more men into female-skewed professions? I'd be very interested to read them.