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Lesser men would have gone into a shell and "put this behind them" by letting people forget. I commend what PG is doing here. Taking this head on and not worrying about people picking apart sentences in isolation and ultimately still talking to folks who matter - female founders.
Tell the truth, it's only been 4 years.
My main takeaway from reading this article and the comments here is: The awareness of this problem is still very nascent and more & more solutions are emerging, as are criticisms of people who are beginning to acknowledge this problem.

To hopefully steer this in another direction, and because I have a little girl, what are some resources you all have seen that can help girls become interested and go into technical disciplines?

Here are a few of which I am aware. I highlight some companies started by women because they both teach technical skills and can serve as role models.

http://www.goldieblox.com/ - Construction toy sets aimed at girls.

http://www.roominatetoy.com/ - Electronic DIY kit aimed at girls.

http://littlebits.cc/ - Electronic DIY kit started by a female entrepreneur.

https://www.gethopscotch.com/ - An iPad app to teach kids how to program, started by female entrepeneurs

http://pbskids.org/scigirls/ - Various activities and videos to teach grade school girls about technology and science.

http://www.girlswhocode.com/ - Summer school to teach high school girls how to program.

http://www.tech-girls.org/ - Workshops to teach high school girls how to program.

http://www.blackgirlscode.com/ - Workshops to teach black grade school to high school girls how to program.

http://www.hackbrightacademy.com/ - Workshops to teach adult women how to program.

http://www.girldevelopit.com/ - Workshops to teach adult women how to program.

There are a few others that I'll add later. Do you know of more too?
Wow. I'm not surprised that a lot of Googler's drink coffee but I didn't realize so many visited prostitutes.
It's a bus shuttle service for Google employees which takes them to work. It has become some sort of symbol of the socio-economic divide between tech employees and the rest of society in the Bay area.
Might have something to do with it being off-topic and not adding anything to the conversation.
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In general, meritocracy's tend to have market inefficiencies. It's one of their traits that allows those who should rise based on merit but may be held back by other factors to thrive: by exploiting those inefficiencies. Female founders may currently be the market inefficiency that will be corrected next, the same way young founders were when YC was founded. It's not a perfect analogy, but the Rays and A's have been able to be some of the most successful franchises in baseball simply by targeting those inefficiencies. Hopefully something similar happens in the founder world soon.

Also, a bit unrelated but since Billy Beane became GM, the A's have never won less that 74 games. It seems like exploiting market inefficiencies is extraordinarily effective at minimizing downside risk.
Cookware has an established practical use now, but not when it first emerged. I don't think that smartwatches have been around long enough to establish themselves yet. It's too soon to say they're impractical.
There's also this gem.

PG: "A lot of people outside the startup world seem to assume that investors have the same sort of naive bias ordinary people do when deciding who to invite to join a club—that they simply fund the people most like them. That is not true."

John Doerr, famous investor: "That correlates more with any other success factor that I’ve seen in the world’s greatest entrepreneurs. If you look at Bezos, or Andreessen, David Filo, the founders of Google, they all seem to be white, male, nerds who’ve dropped out of Harvard or Stanford and they absolutely have no social life. So when I see that pattern coming in -- which was true of Google -- it was very easy to decide to invest."

I feel PG wants to do the right thing but is a little handicapped by his reluctance to believe that there could be something structurally wrong with Silicon Valley and/or the functioning of markets w.r.t. male white privilege. This leads to unfortunate gaffes along an otherwise positive trajectory.
So if it's not so difficult, and there are already a lot of women as doctors and lawyers, it's normal for women to say that they wish that the social barriers that prevent women from getting in the field from an early age would should be broken. It's not a question of bandwagon, it's a question of equity.
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Maybe Ferrari should throw a little more money at their F1 team and not at some small Spanish mechanic making kit cars in his garage if they're worried about protecting the brand.

I really hope he can prove that he didn't affix the labels; I'd love to see Ferrari and Audi (if actually involved with the Lambo side) eat shit on this one.

The sad truth is that this poor guy will drown in legal fees even if he wins.

edit: to clarify: VW/Audi (owns Lamborghini) wasn't mentioned in the article as being involved with Ferrari's suit, however they mentioned the guy made Lambo replicas as well.
I suppose my hangup here is what I perceive to be the difference between evidence and proof.

It is entirely possible to find evidence of things that turn out to be false. For example, you could take the seemingly chaotic retrograde motion of the planets in the night sky as evidence of the existence of gods with self-determination. We know know that isn't true, we have better explanations for that phenomenon (notably the notion of heliocentricity).

The planets moving differently from the stars was never proof that there were gods up there, but evidence? Sure, it was evidence. Evidence can be of various qualities, evidence of thins has to be judged critically, and weighed against the alternatives.
...copyright law?
My question is how does a service like this not violate Apple's requirements?

Isn't this a super easy back door around the App Store? Just submit a nice, simple app to Apple and inject offending modifications via Taplytics.
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Yep, this is a "thing". Often a ridiculous "thing":

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Ferrari-Other-C4-CORVETTE-FERRARI-LO...
From a developer perspective, one of things that Apple does very well is to move people to quickly adopt new versions of iOS. As of December, iOS 6+ covers over 95% of its user-base.

http://appleinsider.com/articles/13/12/05/apple-pegs-ios-7-d...
Because projectors in a given price range have much lower image quality (contrast in particular) than TVs in the same price range.
>Paul isn't talking about whether or not he is sexist, he's talking about whether YC is sexist.

The first three sentences of his post disagree.
I can't speak to investment banking, but Princeton student demographic data is available at http://www.princeton.edu/pub/profile/admission/undergraduate... and the numbers actually surprised me a bit.

Looking at the hard data from 2012-13, we have 10.7% international students. So of the US students, 7.4/.897 = 8.2% identified as African American.

It's true that this is under-represented compared to the 12.2% of the US population for that demographic cited at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_the_United_Stat... and in fact the ratio of the two percentages is about 0.67, so you could argue that about 33% of African American students who ought to be at Princeton if the student body were strictly proportional to population are missing.

If we look at the corresponding numbers of non-Hispanic whites, we see 72.4% of the population, and 56.7% (100 - 10.7 - 38.4)/.897 of Princeton's student body. The ratio is .78, which is definitely higher than 0.67, but not nearly as much higher as I was expecting when I saw the Princeton numbers. For one thing, I recalled the US as being 15-16% African American, but it looks like in the last 20-some years the demographics have shifted markedly... The upshot is that you see fewer black people in Princeton than you might expect based on general population but way more than you used to even in the recent past.

It would be interesting to see what US demographics for college-age folks look like, though; they may be significantly different from overall demographics.

For comparison with the above numbers, American Indian students are underrepresented at Princeton by a factor of 4 or so, and Pacific Islanders by a factor of 1.8. Hispanics are presumably underrepresented by a factor of 2 or so, but it's hard to tell with the complexities of the classifications there. Asian Americans are overrepresented by a factor of 4.

I'm not actually sure I have a point here, other than attempting to quantify "few"...
The point is not dominance contests, the point is people want to keep their low density housing even as housing costs rise in their city.

Imagine if you lived in Hawaii, and the island was just starting to become popular because it is so nice. Everyone was moving there, and rents were going through the roof because there is nowhere to expand. What you want isn't Manhattan sky-rises on your little island; you want cheap, pre-discovery Hawaii with its thatch huts and casual atmosphere back.
That is written by the FFmpeg side. Do you have a complementary view?
What kind of nonsense analogy is this? Of course it's legal to do that, they can only kick you out if they don't like your camera.

But public broadcasts are.. public. A private issue of patronage has nothing to do with a public issue of legality. You can't make any meaningful connections between the scenarios.
It's the fact that people aren't pleased that helps cause change. Things don't change unless there's something uncomfortable happening that someone wants to stop.
Yes. That's sad, but we need to update often, because of that.

And our update mechanism suck. We're working on improving the process because of that...
No, he would say you should start a startup because you want to start one. Your reading of it as "I should only start a startup if I think I am above median" is probably even more risk averse than he would advise, since he thinks many more people can start companies than do.
I think the argument is that a society which is constantly discriminating against people one way or the other for "arbitrary reason X of historical importance to group Y" isn't the right way for society to work.

You might be able to get the ratio of men-to-women for a particular career field more even, or get more blacks through college, or whatever goal you feel is important accomplished. That's absolutely true and I won't argue with that.

But do the ends justify the means? Some people might argue no while I believe you would argue yes. The person you replied to was arguing no, at least as I read it.
Not trying to be snarky at all here, genuinely wondering what the advantages are as opposed to simply having your phone on your desk while you're working?

I mean if notifications are the primary feature (being connected 24x7 etc), isn't that the purpose of a smartphone after all? Why bring yet another device into the fray when it admittedly is a one-trick pony at this point of time?
Amy's Baking Company.

Boy that one worked out well.
True, though that may not tarnish the general concept. It's also being pitched by a training firm.

This is really a question of "Is it better to apply continuous improvement everywhere, or just focus on a few areas?" Some situations call for the former (mature firms squeaking out every dollar, or experts who have already applied all the known best practices) while others the latter (firms with glaring holes, or those doing dramatic strategic changes).
It sounds like about the right level of effort required to maintain something developed by Fabrice Bellard.
Already seeing the responses about how their worldview is simplistic, how the protestors are acting out against people who are there to help them... but does anyone want to comment on the actual complaint that the influx of tech money is increasing the cost of living for those not working in the industry? It seems equally simplistic to just dismiss their complaints when they seem to have a very valid problem.

This is always the downside of gentrification. It's not like their claims haven't been heard before, but I don't know if it's ever happened so quickly. Does anyone living in the bay area want to comment on whether their claims are actually valid and, if so, what can be done to help it?
>By the time you're 20, you should already be an independent adult

What are you basing should be on?

The age at which you're a functioning adult varies greatly among cultures, and it's usually based on necessity. In some cultures, children continue living with their parents well into their 20s and by definition aren't independent. There are also places where people we would consider children get married and start families of their own.

The age of adulthood is also constantly changing. I've seen polls that show that modern American's don't consider adulthood to really start until your mid 20s, while 150 years ago 12 year-olds went to work and were responsible for providing for the family.

As life expectancy and wealth goes up, the age before you are forced to take on adult responsibilities goes up.
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You missed the point. "Free" education for everyone is the largest contributing factor in the inflation of the cost of degrees. Free education is a nice thought, but you didn't propose any way to pay for it.

The only way your proposed system could work would be if the government required all degrees to cost no more than X$ or severely restricted the number of people it paid for. More realistically, we can stop subsidizing students past 5 or perhaps 10K$ per year.
Nicely done, Mike, hope others see this and upvote you.
"Can you think of even one GPL product that has been successful through sales of GPL licenses? "

Actually yes, I can think of a quite a few. Redhat is a good example of a huge industry built around GPL software.

That really isn't the point though, and allow me to summarize your misconception.

"nobody else needs to purchase it because the first customer can simply give it away to everyone for free and you have no recourse."

Explain to me how this applies to GPL and not the BSD, (I doubt you can) and you will see how (at least this particular) argument is flawed.
Oh, this. My first few years at a university I was a horrible student. I'm talking C's, D's, lots of non-completes. I was a mess, academically. Then around 22, a switch clicked in my head and I made it happen. Dean's list, 3.8 average quarterly GPA, etc. I finished my last two years as a student trying to clean up the mess I made in my first three years.

In grad school, I was a 4.0 student. I got it.

I had the huge luck of being able to go to my local four-year, decent university for virtually free because my father was a campus architect. If it wasn't for the fact that I could squander my time taking random classes without fiscal penalty, I would have probably dropped-out or gone to a two-year school to get my act together. I only detail that to emphasize the mental shifts that sometimes happen with extremely-young adults.
Yes, that developer earning a relatively modest, yet maybe comparatively high, six figure salary is the root of all that is wrong in the world.

Also I assume the author is implying their gentrification of Oakland is cool and acceptable but Google employees gentrification is so not.

This vitriol really needs some perspective, although I'm pretty convinced this has to be a troll.
Which step violates which aspect of copyright law?

Explain in a way that takes into account the fact that cloud DVRs were ruled to be acceptable.
I think, in his situation, he is doing his best. Not a lot of people earn so much money. Not a lot of people's wives earn so much. I think he deserves a credit for trying. And after some amount of efforts he will get there. I have witnessed a lot of criticism about the 'founder - millionaire goal of life'. People who criticize such goals, I believe do not have big dreams, or for some reason, they can't do it.
Your friend should feel satisfied. Me being a recent grad, earning about half as your friend, fail to even give it a try. That should be considered as stuck. I think, through his attempts, a. he will learn a lot. b. someday, he will get there. Goals should be decided by an individual, you can't decide his goals, or can't call him stupid for chasing million dollars.
I guess that answers the question.
Thanks for your interest! I'm one of the co-founders of Taplytics.

Building for iOS in general has improved a lot. Apple has really cleaned up iOS and Xcode in the last two years, with ARC being a huge improvement for developers. Seeing that iOS 6+ is now 97.7% of devices (https://mixpanel.com/trends/#report/ios_7), we feel that focusing on iOS 6+ is a safe bet going forward.
damn... should have checked svn logs first, busted.

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^ Exactly this. It's not Aereo they're worried about, it's the precedent. And if it stands, there will be some major shakeups in the network TV world. I think it's high time for some changes, though.

Aereo basically let's you lease a colocated TV antenna, and streams the content from that antenna to you over the Internet. It's one-to-one, antenna-to-subscriber. This is the core of the business, and the most threatening to broadcasters. But it's also the part where it's really hard for me to imagine how a legal opinion against Aereo could be crafted, without abridging the principles of public access to broadcast TV.

Aereo also leases you DVR services. And I understand that this is where the Cablevision precedent comes into play. But even if that precedent were overturned, it seems to me that it would still be possible for the most disruptive aspects of the service to live on. People would perhaps just be required to host their own DVRs.

(Disclosure: my girlfriend does works for a company that works for Aereo)
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They claim they are not rebroadcasting but words sometimes have legal definitions and sometimes those definitions are weird. Or, if they're not defined there's room for lawyers to argue and judges to decide.
Google doesn't really make computers, printers, or word-processors.
This was the first thing I thought when I saw that subhead.
That does not work due to fundamental differences in how racism and sexism typically manifest.

Up until about the 70s or so, racists campaigned heavily against interracial marriage. Most racists likely still hold these views, though after 1967 they are no longer relevant so you don't hear about it very often.

I do not recall any sexist groups ever campaigning against heterosexual marriage. Now, sexists have campaigned against laws that would equalize the rights that people in marriages have.

Therefore "I am not sexist because I believe that my wife and I are equals and should be treated as equals by the law" would be an analogous statement.
The network stuff should be replaceable with a file descriptor and a dead simple app-specific protocol. Just like Chrome has a little protocol for communicating between the UI and renderer processes.

I think you could also provide less than full access to the graphics driver. You could have a file descriptor or shared memory protocol, with the sandboxed process outputting video frames, and the parent process actually communicating with the driver.

In addition to being more secure, it's also better software architecture. VLC/ffmpeg are already way more modular than say the Microsoft equivalents.
Since 2006, the gap between what the median college graduate earned compared with the median high-school graduate has narrowed by $1,387 for men over 25 working full time, a 5% fall. Women in the same category have fared worse, losing 7% of their income advantage ($1,496).

Does the median tell the whole story though? What about the skewness? Maybe non-degree-holders' income has a heavy negative skew, while for degree holders a heavy positive skew. So while the mean income may not be very different, the two paths still offer very different prospects. How much is the chance that your income will not have a low ceiling worth to you?
4. later sell the disc

I'm a little unsure what you think copyright law is. It has personal use exemptions that allow you to time-shift content. You are not allowed to sell that content.
I wasn't picking on Princeton specifically. I used Princeton as a placeholder for an Ivy League or otherwise prominent institution.

There are also substantial differences between Ivy League schools: http://www.nationaljournal.com/thenextamerica/education/ivy-...
If nothing else, they are implying that they are entitled to living there indefinitely.
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Because by engaging the toxic, he's cementing his role in the toxic.

Dude actually wrote: 'by pointing out the degree to which women run things at YC it's closer to saying "I'm not racist! I'm black."'

Comedy gold. You just don't say stuff like that.

I mean, maybe he's got some semblance of a good point in there somewhere, but you can't hear it over the kneejerk outrage.

And maybe that's where I have a problem with this. PG ignores the flamewar unless by touching it he can get something he wants--the appropriate reputation amongst moderates. And he can't (and won't) get away scott free.
We didn't want to write to something synchronously without having a fault-tolerant solution for latency... especially when we could afford the end-user latency of seeing the exceptions later. I don't want my logging aggregator to be a SPOF for the main app. Would much rather suck up the data asynchronously from syslog or files, etc.
I don't have a pebble, but I'd imagine for some people the phone is out of arm's reach or they have it on do not disturb / silent mode so notifications don't show up on the screen.
perhaps they (or any review site) could only show reviews only after they get a minimum number?
Ah, yes, let's have our 50's idyll back. That's what we need. The world obviously has not changed a bit since, so the neighborhoods don't need to meet any change.
"Judge Ronald S.W. Lew asserted that Gotham Garage can't simply manufacture Batmobiles as depicted in Batman movies, without the consent of Warner Bros., the producer of the Batman franchise."

If Warner Bros. had no intention of producing their own Batmobiles, then they were really unfair to fans. Why wouldn't they just ask for royalties from the cars and let him be?
I'm sure many others have far more experience than I do, but here's my thoughts. I think there's little value in dealing with non-ARC at this point. ARC has been supported since iOS 5, which is available for the 3GS and up. I no longer do app development full time, but as of last year, a very tiny percentage of our users were on iOS 5.

Most of the new features in iOS 6 that would be used by libraries are developer conveniences and can be ignored with a bit more effort. (e.g. Auto Layout, UICollectionView)

As far as different versions of Xcode, there's really no reason for developers not to use the latest in my experience, so targeting that is likely fine.
I can sell my factory-produced legal copies. Why can't I sell my self-produced legal copies?

Does the first sale doctrine not apply when the original was $0?
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