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PG is high profile. His companies and their founders are high profile. For as long as I can remember there's been a thick thread of schadenfreude woven throughout this community's reactions to various stories that have come out about YC, from Dropbox to Airbnb to PG's supposed racism and now sexism.

Trying to defend yourself or setting the record straight is almost useless when everyone's already made up their mind before entering the debate, especially here where there is this odd presumption that PG et al are money-grubbing fools willing to sacrifice their morals. No benefit of doubt is given. I've met PG briefly, have been to Startup Schools and can say that all the YC folk I've met seem like genuinely great people. Unfortunately, I don't have a citation handy.

This place as usual reads like a den of rabid pussycats.
Sorry? I'm not sure what you mean.
RedHat, already is free as in freedom, thats why CentOS is allowed to exist. They're just not Free as in Free beer. The corporations who pay for RHEL aren't going to suddenly cancel all of their support contracts.
City of St Albans water, mentioned in the story as safe, appears do be drawn from the Kanawha, downstream of where the Elk River flows in.

So yeah, dilution appears to be the solution (really, the problem seems to be that one treatment plant drew in a large quantity of contaminated water).
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Thank you CNet!
Dude, this is not a joke. There were massive numbers of casualties in the Nerf war of Summer 2013 between the Dragon Army and Sunshine Regiment.

HAIL GENERAL GRANGER!

And then there was the Nerf zombie apocalypse in spring!
You're assuming the writes are actually going to a physical disk. As I mentioned in the post, the hypervisors are very likely just writing to RAM and not ever committing it to disk. Even when you `fsync()` from a VM, there is no guarantee the hypervisor puts that to disk.

If you look at the graphs, they corroborate this. The "native" disk never really exceeds 500 to 600 MB/s, which is about as fast as my SSD goes. The hypervisors, however, are exceeding multiple GB/s. It must be RAM.

Also, re: "I'm not sure what was actually benchmarked" The method of benchmarking is covered in the bottom of the post. I realize it isn't extremely detailed. If you have any questions, I'd be happy to answer.
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I don't know if we drove some men into nursing from high paying engineering jobs then there would be more space for women in engineering. Salaries would raise for everyone still in engineering so it would become more attractive to women.
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How to get more female programmers? Parents need to stop giving their girls dolls and start giving them legos.
>And what exactly is wrong with the "I have black friends" defense? Are you trying to say that pg is friends with someone in spite of his supposed hateful nature? That he's somehow looked past the person's "shortcomings"?

The critics I've read aren't saying pg has a hateful nature. They're saying that he hasn't fully accounted for his unconscious biases.

Given that everyone's friends have actual shortcomings, it doesn't seem a stretch to say that people are friends with people they imagine to have shortcomings because of an unconscious bias.
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First, it is a shame Mr. Graham got the business end of a "reporter"[1] trying to get click-bait in a story, and sadly, it is almost impossible to correct the story on the second or third or etc. day. The initial "truth" is what people remember. I've been down that road, and it is a politician's game[2].

I am extremely happy though about this paragraph "First of all, kids need to be able to program, in both senses of the word: they have to know how to write a program, and they need access to a computer they can write programs on, which nowadays probably includes Internet connectivity."

I was lucky and grew up in the 8-bit era where cheap, programmable computers with magazines teaching programming were the norm. Now, the cost of programming is much higher and has excluded many. I am happy Mr. Graham is doing something about this.

1) I have a particular problem with the "edit actual words for clarity" school of thought among some "reporters"

2) check the inevitable worsening of any number released by the government (job), initial ok - correction worse
I know of no definitions under which investments must be risky. Investments are "a commitment (of time, money, etc) in order to earn a return" (not a direct quote, but a fusion of Merriam-Webster's definitions of invest and investment). Nowhere in there (or any of the other definitions of invest/investment) is risk mentioned.
I'm not sure I can see strong ties between that case and this issue, but it is an interesting case! Thank you for the link :)
I lived in WV for a while. A friend of mine who still lives there posted this on her Facebook feed: green ice from the water -- http://i.imgur.com/pzBsLRP.jpg
On AnkiMobile, whenever we find we want to use a feature or library that is much easier or only possible on later iOS versions, we review market share. We recently started retiring 4.3, and will soon retire 5. We already develop some new features only for iOS6+ devices, and simply decide at runtime whether they are to be used.

It's not a huge pain, but it's a prominent feature of developing for devices that are frequently updated.

We always use the latest XCode and the latest SDK. Often there are language features that greatly reduce development time, like the NSDictionary/NSArray literals for example. The only downside is that later XCode versions don't support low-iOS version simulators, so you have to test on-device only when supporting older devices. But this all helps justify to users when you stop supporting older devices.
> I don't take personal calls at my desk. My phone is on
> silent at all times when at the office. If I need to
> make a call, I step out.
>
> Even my desk phone is on silent. It sounds a single beep
> when the phone rings.

That's going a bit overboard, but that's fine. Good for you.

> I would like others to do the same.

That's not really a reasonable request.
Except Oakland really sucked before the late 90s/early 2000s gentrification happened.

In other words, they don't want pre-discovery Hawaii back - they want post-discovery Hawaii back and for all these latecomers with more money than them to fuck off.
We can change any native UIKit Class property using our sub-classes or categories. Currently, we are keeping it simple on the web interface to content and layout changes, but we also support more complex experiments like controlling view flows. Currently we have limited the interface to a single language, but multiple language support is built into the SDK/API and we will be publicly releasing it in the near future!
bradleyland is correct: This test was focused primarily on using VMs for development tools. This test was done on a local machine with desktop virtualization software. The opening paragraph mentions I was investigating performance for development environments. This post should not be used for any production applications, since it would make no sense.
When I attended MIT, approximately half of the men were in fraternities. The rate of alcohol consumption was also quite high, both in the FSILGs and the dorms. I don't think either of these necessarily mean that MIT students lacked motivation. In fact, the average fraternity GPA was above the average on-campus GPA.

In my experience, there's a lot of value in giving students the opportunity to step up and run a small self-governing enterprise. It's one way to counter-act the extension of adolescence into the college years, and I'd like to think that MIT isn't a unique place in regard to the value of independent living. I think there's enough value there that I give annually to MIT's Independent Residence Development Fund so that others continue to have the same opportunities I did.

Nit: Your use of the plural in "amount of fraternities/sorrorities[SIC]" is a hint that you've made an amount vs. number mistake. Also, sorority is the correct way to spell the word.
I'm not attacking your position, just trying to clarify some graphs that are obviously confusing (whether deliberately or not I don't know).

The whole purpose of a graph is that it makes information visually available and easily digestible. If you have to "read it carefully to not be mislead," that is a faulty graphic.
The wiki article is not valid, since it considers a subtly different problem than the one I do. If you read the comment at the top of the code, you will see that I changed the question to be less ambiguous.

In the problem I pose, the person does not randomly come forward and tell me "I have a boy born on a tuesday". In my problem I ask random people who I know have two children if they have "at least on boy born on a tuesday" until someone says yes.
They can't monetize? They already are. I think your sentiment might apply, though. Due to the context of facebook, they probably won't be able to monetize at a Google-like scale.

The Facebook data is worth a lot, though. Google knows what you're looking for, and Facebook knows what you're already into. For best results, an advertising network would have both pieces of data.
Red Hat don't sell software, they sell support contracts.
YC is generally biased against non-technical founders. So, yes...
Sex Sensitive Admissions, Race Sensitive Admissions, etc.
Either way, is an HP Chromebook something Google has "produced"?
PG isn't a worm. He's done good things, not bad things, and he knows it and won't say otherwise. He tries to clarify (implying his accusers are mistaken), rather than apologize. Some people don't like anything great; they weren't tearing him down due to misunderstanding but malice. They don't like his attitude and accomplishments, and clarifying that his views are reasonable won't satisfy them. This is an explanatory passage from Atlas Shrugged, by Ayn Rand:

"My sister. My dear sister. Oh, she'll think she's great, won't she?"

"You dislike your sister, Mr. Taggart?" He made the same sound; its meaning was so eloquent that she needed no other answer. "Why?" she asked.

"Because she thinks she's so good. What right has she to think it? What right has anybody to think he's good? Nobody's any good."

"You don't mean it, Mr. Taggart."

"I mean, we're only human beings—and what's a human being? A weak, ugly, sinful creature, born that way, rotten in his bones—so humility is the one virtue he ought to practice. He ought to spend his life on his knees, begging to be forgiven for his dirty existence. When a man thinks he's good—that's when he's rotten. Pride is the worst of all sins, no matter what he's done."

"But if a man knows that what he's done is good?"

"Then he ought to apologize for it."

"To whom?"

"To those who haven't done it."
The mpv developers have published an overview of the situation from their independent perspective which (FWIW) is very accurate from my vantage point as well: https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/wiki/FFmpeg-versus-Libav
Citation on that quote, for anyone else who was curious: http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB121025688414577219
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People always ask, why can't the progressives make their own Tea Party -- If you read through the responses on this page you'll have your answer. So much doubt and skepticism about everything...

It's funny all these people putting down "social networking", when most of us here work for companies who pay a shit ton of money to advertise and gain traction on "social networks". Then, on top of that, there are many of us here working to build more and improve social networking.

You bitch about how the media is corrupting the public's mind, yet you scoff at organizations that tries to use the media to rally for support of meaningful causes....

Every. Single. Time. Someone wants to do something positive, you guys just come and shit all over it.

I think the true slacktivism is people who bitch about slacktivism and offers no other solutions.
The other day I saw a better demo of the same functionality by guys at Optimizely, it's in beta and coming out soon!
> So please stop speeding, and I'll keep advocating for automated traffic enforcement to protect my life.

Please pay attention. Things move fast around here.
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Right, Hawaii is not a perfect parallel, but rather how I expect things look like through their eyes. Their perception is their reality.
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If this goes on for more than a few weeks, it's going to put every single restaurant out of business. And god knows what else.
FWIW, the unhip parts of San Francisco have had relatively stable rent and housing costs. It's just the 'cool' parts that took off, and then the 'cool' parts of Oakland.

The last time I looked, it was only slightly pricier where I live in SF, compared to even 10 years ago, when I moved here.
No, the graph is very misleading. The first one is not of rates of change, it's % relative to 2007. Which is a really really weird way to graph things.
I prefer, "There are 10 types of people in the world: those who understand hexadecimal and F the rest."
> Their privacy policy is very easy on the courts

In fairness to Yelp, their privacy policy can hardly say "we won't give your data up in response to a subpoena", because if the subpoena was legitimate they'd be in contempt. Yelp can certainly challenge the validity of a subpoena, but that's not something they would be putting in a privacy policy.
Regardless the point I was trying to make is that if the author wishes to rail against inequality, they picked a poor target in their new neighbors.

By relatively modest, I was referring to the salaries earned by people in actual places of power.

If the author wanted to bring up the extreme disparity between the really-wealthy and the rest of us, I am all ears, instead they've focused on the harm done to them by the new gentrify-ing population; yet I assume at one point the author was a gentrifier of the same neighborhood they now wish to protect.

People were upset when the hippies moved in to SF too.
Your post reads like "ignore the protests and keep donating. The worst off people who need lots of help need you around, they make the points of the protesters irrelevant."

My point is that the people protesting, are protesting because their community is being disrupted - apparently an irrelevant concern because there are people who are even worse of. That is a fallacy of course - just because someone has it worse than me, doesn't mean I shouldn't fix problems in my spot, nor should I accept a worsening of my position because of it.
And if you're going the Laravel route (which I certainly recommend, I've used it a couple times here and there when PHP has been required), check out CodeBright by Dayle Rees (a Laravel core team member) on Leanpub (https://leanpub.com/codebright). It was the manual I needed to get going.
I think Aereo will prevail because they have explicitly engineered a personal device for personal consumption of a legal public broadcast. Using personal digital equipment in order to personally consume a public broadcast is obviously legal.

The legal theory is that Aereo is essentially an antenna company. If their service is the legal equivalent of an 'antenna', perhaps antennae are now so powerful that the compulsory licensing law needs to be changed somehow in response. In that case, you don't sue the antenna maker, you lobby congress to change the law. It will be entertaining to see this argued and ruled on.

A parallel scenario... Have you seen the telepresence robots (iPad on a stick) that have started to become available? Lets say you're disabled, can't leave your house, but want to "go out for dinner and a movie" with your friends. Your robot rolls into the movie theater, pays for a ticket, and grabs a seat, streaming the video back to you individually. One camera, one stream, one brain on the other end of the wire, and no backing store. Have you violated copyright laws? I think not. I would also love to see the ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act) vs. Anti-Camcording argued in the Supreme Court.

From Wikipedia on ADA -- 'Under Title III, no individual may be discriminated against on the basis of disability with regards to the full and equal enjoyment of the goods, services, facilities, or accommodations of any place of public accommodation by any person who owns, leases (or leases to), or operates a place of public accommodation. "Public accommodations" include most places of lodging (such as inns and hotels), recreation, transportation, education, and dining, along with stores, care providers, and places of public displays, among other things.'
http://i.imgur.com/6FUlWJR.png

Fixed. Thank you for bringing this important matter to my attention.
> FWIW, I read HN pretty regularly and had never noticed any programs to get more women into construction.

Here there actually is a government program to get women into trades, simply because there's a shortage of skilled tradespeople in general, and nearly every other demographic is 'tapped out' if you will.

Construction, while it can be lucrative, is simply not 'aspirational', so anyone looking to improve their social status steers clear of the profession.
Thanks for the comment. We agree that keeping your web presence in sync with your mobile product is critical. We have built Taplytics out as a big API engine with the goal of managing multiple platforms, iOS is just where we're starting.
To be more precise: you open up very serious IP ownership issues if you do this. It would scare most investors away very quickly.
Mostly I'm talking about ambient light, hence worse blacks and lower contrast ratios. It may also scatter outgoing light reducing sharpness and brightness (some may be scattered back in to the panel) a little but that is pretty minor.
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You've got the correlations mixed up. Just because lots of skilled people majored in business does not mean most business majors are super skilled/motivated.

It could be that both 1) People genuinely interested and determined to get into business, and 2) People fucking around major in business. This matches my anecdotal experience.
I meant to say you've not benchmarked disk access, and we have no idea what each filesystem is actually doing.
Caching performance is "nice", but it says nothing about the actual performance we'd get in real use. Maybe the "slow" fs just exhibits less aggressive caching, which might prove just as efficient depending on the workload.
It's definitely interesting to note the huge differences, but I'd really like to see how it goes in "real" conditions...
Real talk for non-technical cofounders
My former advisor, Leah Buechley, and other friends created this introduction to programming and electronics via e-textiles and the LilyPad Arduino: http://sewelectric.org/

More here: http://highlowtech.org
I'm an engineer. I was in grad school at the same time as some of my friends were in law school. I know lawyers who make $40k per year or even less if they're public defenders. Prosecutors don't make a lot more than public defenders.

Then I moved to Houston for work. There are plenty of jobs out here that pay substantially more than what your average doctor or lawyer makes. I know of welders who are making $80/hr, quadruple what some lawyers I know earn. I know of machinists who own their house and cars and boats and whatever.

I think you're confusing prestige with pay which is totally understandable. But with the education bubble having happened and the resultant unbalance in the workforce prestige != paid well, nor does "uneducated" mean bad pay.

The really great part of all this is that welding or machining or some of these skilled trades are actually much easier than startup founding. It's nearly impossible to get filthy rich that way (not that a startup is any guarantee but there are more billionaire startup founders than billionaire welders) but it's much, much harder to go broke. In other words the income distribution has a shorter right tail but also a shorter left one.

Trying to get more women as startup founders as a way to reduce income inequality seems like a fools errand due to the speculative nature of startups. I'm not saying that there should be fewer women founders, not at all. But to suggest that we can have more equality in the world by balancing out startups totally misses the bigger picture.

It's like pushing for more women princes in Saudi Arabia. Yeah men dominate that right now, but even if you made it 100% equal you're still talking about a trivial percentage of the world's population.
Sleep earlier. Work on your own thing before you head in to your job. Take a couple weeks off for a workcation. Work on the weekends.
As often as possible.

Then rebase it to a consistent history with consecutive small changes later when it works. The reason many commits are good to have is that it tends to be easier to extract small independent changes that way.
Any IPS panel is better (even the cheap $200 ones) than TN, but from what you're describing it sounds like the worst TV/monitor in the world :-). I've got an old Samsung LED TV that still has acceptable contrast/black levels, surely a new panel can't be that bad unless it's defect...
The Pontiac Fiero is one of the most (in)famous cheap cars with Ferarri kits. Hell, GM knocked off the Testarossa (or Berlinetta Boxer, depending on who is arguing) for the vanilla body design.
The personal opinions of individuals are pretty irrelevant when discussing systemic issues, so I don't see that as very productive to focus on. In either direction, actually; personally well-meaning people can nonetheless be complicit in systemic racism/sexism/etc., and personally bigoted people might not be.

I do think YC is probably more open to women as founders than the VC norm, but it's the overall statistics that convince me of that more than some attempt to discern what its principals personally think about things. That was the most interesting part of this post as well, talking about what YC is actually doing.
Another interesting fact is that the more successful female founders are, they will later have the money to fund other startups as it happened whit the young founders, now a huge portion of successful founders invest money in other's young founders ideas so it will happen whit the females.
You can protect your community. If you have something valuable, people are going to want to purchase it. Decline their offer.

If you don't actually own the thing, but the person that does is a member of your community, persuade them not to sell.

What you don't do is break the valuable thing hoping the would-be buyers go away, or blame them for wanting the thing you value.
For the sake of argument, let's say that I (to some extent) agree. What should Google and more importantly Google employees living in Oakland do?
Could someone explain what has made this possible to do this now rather than before? Is it V8? What does it give the developer that allows him to be able to debug and trace anything?
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Command line crash course? I can crash your command-line real easy. :(){ ;|;& };:
> If you major in 'business' or 'communications' then you are majoring in 'fucking around'. There aren't too many jobs that I know of are looking for this.

Businesses aren't looking for finance guys, salesmen, and accountants? My technology company has quite a few, including me. I guess I should tell them they're wasting millions of dollars a year.
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>The actual problem is the existence of the NSA

>and governments

That escalated quickly.