skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Startups that succeed do so by creating something that people need. It's a net win for society. Therefore, if there are women who have what it takes to start startups, but they don't, then that's a net loss to society. It's a net loss no matter why the women don't start the startup - real discrimination, lack of positive examples, perceived lack of opportunity, or whatever.
I think I missed the part where this is a tax deductible expense for him? Otherwise I think I'd keep my family away from my startup. Its stressful enough without having to add family into the mix.
Or perhaps he want women to apply because it's good for YC, you know, business-wise.

You seem to be looking at this through a lens of hate. May I ask why?
Judging by the comments on this article, it would appear that once you've been labeled a sexist it is downright impossible to dispel.

I'm not sure what people expect, exactly. Is pg supposed to give up all his worldly goals and possessions and live as some sort of equality monk? Should he know of and contribute to every one of the many groups and organizations involved in gender equality?

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"?

It seems to me more people are interested in being internet bullies than achieving true social justice.
engaging with these trolls

I suspect a relatively small number are real trolls; the majority are probably just used to the standard media / Internet battle lines and narratives and attempting to reproduce them, without thinking deeply about the issue. Many of those people can be reached with a more nuanced and interesting discussion, but not in the course of, say, an interview, or a short e-mail exchange.

Having been in a surprisingly large number of situations in which people misinterpret what I say because it doesn't fit into the standard box or boxes common to a subject, I empathize with the problem. And I'm not a famous person or someone who gets interviewed about hot-button topics by time-pressed reporters!
Holy free association of sentences, batman!
Using Behave with Pyramid
In all seriousness, why would that be the case? I assume you mean that you should start a startup if you believe that you can outperform the median, although presumably all (or most) founders believe that of themselves. I guess gambling based on your confidence in your ability is preferable to gambling on something else with poor performance at the median, like the lottery.
In my judgement, PHP best practice is #1 to never write anything new in it. And where it does already exist, #2 is to ideally write replacements (or do an incremental migration) in something else with a better overall balance of positive to negatives, that fits best, typically Python, Java, C or a sh.
What ails the Linux desktop?
Full-stack engineer, San Francisco
Two years ago, Justin.tv spun off Twitch as its gaming-focused live streaming sister site. Now we're gearing up to do the same thing again, for a completely new and exciting vertical (http://abstractnonsense.com/life-at-a-startup-2 has some more background).

You'll be the second software engineer on a small but rapidly growing team, building anything and everything our new broadcasters and viewers want. Whatever diversity of experience you have right now, you should expect to gain a lot more on this job. You'll be working all over the stack - from backend services (like the world's largest IRC network) to user interface code, which will be used by more than 10 million people every month, giving us a higher ratio of users-to-engineers than even facebook has (https://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=177577963919)!

Apply here: http://jobs.justin.tv/software-engineer.html
Honestly, I've always felt that EAGLE was great. They have a severely limited "free" (as in beer) version, and I really prefer that to KiCad.

It doesn't help that KiCad is horrendously broken on OS X, so I have to use it in a VM.
The CIA, Amazon, Bezos and the Washington Post: An Exchange
Yeah, and you know, the Rust guys are actually doing some great work on making a language that solves some of these problems without giving up the advantages that make C programmers choose C.

Meanwhile, you are just being snarky on a message board while using a whole stack of software that was built by the programmers whose work you are criticizing.
What are you driving at?

Have some guts and stop beating about the bush.
I'm sure there are some people using telnet and using "password" as their root password. At a certain point it becomes more than reasonable to say "Well don't do that."
> How then, might one prove that one is not bigoted?

Generally, in practice, one can't prove the presence or absence of prejudice on a particular axis. I mean, to prove its absence, you'd have to prove that your subjective assessment of people is not affected by their status on the axis in question.

EDIT: If one is accused of bias based on a particular example of supposedly unequal treatment based on the status in question, of course, one can always provide the actual basis for the specific treatment at issue, or simply rebut the factual characterization of the treatment.
It is more accurate to say their business is based on a Supreme Court ruling and an appeals court ruling.

PART of the business model comes from a Supreme Court ruling (the Sony Betamax case) that permitted home recordings as fair use.

The other part is based on a Second Circuit case (Cablevision) that authorized remote DVR service.

There is a circuit split on several elements in the Cablevision holding so it is quite possible the Supreme Court could rule against Aereo.
Yes, and in 1992 the law was changed to require cable companies to get retransmission consent in order to engage in that practice (usually by paying fees).
Thanks for the explanation. Would you interpret these results as supporting evidence of my claim?

$ dig +short chaos txt version.bind @31.13.75.17
"PowerDNS Recursor 3.5.3 $Id$"

This happens despite having opted out via the form you mentioned.
This is the first time I've ever seen anyone (seriously?) recommend Ada for a project like this.
Maybe Hacker News should get its own lobby group, in all seriousness. Politics in DC is about money - it's about legally bribing politicians - until that changes lobbying is the best way to fight back.
I just want to watch free TV on my Mac, iPad or iPhone. How do I do that?
I'm slightly scared to go to Century Link
No wonder that place gets so loud.
And there are as many ways to spell "else if".
I view growth hacking as online marketing done by people who don't need permission or help to get things done.

Traditional online marketers are paralyzed by their lack of technical and design skills. The best they can do is brainstorm ideas and spend money on ads.
Welcome to the reproducibility crisis.
> The person I emerged after 4 years of dealing with life on my own, making (and losing) friends and even partying is very different to the person who started.

Wouldn't you have done all of that even without going to university?

> Universities are (obviously) places to learn in the academic sense, but an undergraduate degree is also a framework for developing into an independent adult.

By the time you're 20, you should already be an independent adult. I think modern parents are generally not doing a good job raising their kids, if people hit 18 and then need 4 more years to "become adults".
I use a Bungee Chair, similar to:

http://www.containerstore.com/shop/desks/deskChairs?productId=10022641

I had purchased a nice office chair from COSTCO previously, and as much as I love COSTCO, I absolutely hated the chair. I think it single handedly led to some RSI and constant headaches. After some research, picked up one of these and I'll probably never use another type of office chair.
There's also AT&T Labs' memory-safe dialect of C called Cyclone: http://cyclone.thelanguage.org/

It's been around since 2006, but I haven't really heard of anyone using it. I wonder why.
This is exactly how I view it. Well said!
I had the pleasure of trying to get a Rails site running on GoDaddy, primarily because my client had already purchased their hosting plan. This was circa 2009, and it was the first and last time I'd ever attempt such a thing.

I don't really blame GoDaddy, since their shared hosting infrastructure is just not built for long-running processes. For rails, CGI is laughably slow, and FastCGI, while faster, still wasn't performant enough and was causing intermittent 500 errors.

I ended up converting the entire project to static HTML (getting rid of the rails CMS component) and it was smooth sailing from there. Thankfully the client required very few updates to the site after that (otherwise I might have tried to move it onto Drupal or something).
Replica Ferraris Raise Ire of Auto Maker
This is my response --http://brandonpindulic.co/2014/01/10/growth-hacking-defined/

Summary: This is simply an opinion piece that I wrote to try to get the point across that growth is everywhere, and constraining it to a definition is simply counterintuitive.

In short, if it grows your business, then by all means do that, whatever it is, and to keep learning, experimenting and testing new strategies.
This is awesome. I've wanted optimizely for mobile forever.
Jobs is an interesting example, specifically because the adults brought in to run Apple ran the company into the ground in the 80s and 90s.
What evidence is there that these particular women are sexist?

You are judging particular people based on statistics that you think you know about groups of people. I don't think I have to explain the irony here.
They are using multiple antenna that because that was how the Supreme's told them how to do it in an earlier case on remote DVRs. Since they aren't "commingling" the signals, using their service can be logically thought of as a "private" performance. If they used one antenna, then all of the signals would be mixed together and could be thought of as "public" (which isn't allowed).

Because each user controls their own equipment, and their data isn't stored with that from other people, then you end up with a lot of duplicated, albeit private, data. And that's the difference.

Using one antenna to capture and retransmit a show to yourself is perfectly legal. That's the whole point behind the Slingbox. With a DVR, you are "time-shifting" your viewing. With a Slingbox, you are "place-shifting" your viewing. Put them together, and you can do both. The only distinction for Aereo is that they are providing place and time-shifting as a service using normal (free) over the air signals. Aereo also doesn't allow you to control an antenna for an area where you don't live, so the customer needs to be in the correct geographic area where they could plausibly receive the over-the-air signals without Aereo.
Your silly attempt at sarcasm notwithstanding, it's not crazy talk, it's ordinary, commonplace, irrational sexist horseshit.

But please proceed. Other groups are underrepresented in tech. Let's hear how they think differently.
> Negligible performance impact.

Memcpying complete video frame in HD at 30 or 60 fps is not negligible performance impact. But I agree it would be a good idea.
Oh yes, I am way too dumb for that.
It's called "Vem ringde" ("Who called" in swedish). I believe the iOS does not grant enough permissions during an incoming call so when using the app on an iPhone one can only do the lookup after the call has finished (answered or missed) which explains the name (past tense). This is of course inferior to the Android functionality, but this might have changed since last time I checked.
Uh, pg straight up states that they are under represented.

"While 3 out of 12 is not 50-50,"
The first thing I do when I get home is remove everything from my pockets and put them on my counter. I usually forget that my phone is down there, so getting phone calls/texts on my wrist is better than missing them all together. Even if I get a call I at least know someone called and can call them back immediately if it's required, as opposed to not realizing that they called at all.
I think the whole liberal arts majors issue is a red herring. The problem students aren't the ones studying liberal arts, indeed they aren't even usually attending liberal arts institutions. I'd bet more on a literature major from Harvard winning out over a CS major from University of Phoenix.

The issue is lots of third-rate universities proliferating for people who just don't belong in college. That's the bubble—not particular majors.

In fact, many of these terrible universities offer far more vocational/non-liberal-arts majors than the elite universities. You won't find communications majors at Yale. Indeed, the abundance of liberal arts majors is probably an indicator of a quality institution.
Putting up an antenna for every individual customer (when one antenna would do for all) to skirt around the law is very much a dumb situation for anyone to be in. But that's what they're doing to remain within the law.
I do not know why US education keeps getting more expensive

There are two major hypotheses, along with variants. One hypothesis, advanced mostly by Bill Bowen, holds that colleges are eating the student loan subsidies and engaging in amenities arms races (the growth in the number of administrators fits into this hypothesis). The other is related to Baumol's cost disease, which happens when some goods experience major productivity improvements (think of most physical goods) while others don't (think of education or medicine).

See here: http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2012/11/mea... for one good discussion. See here: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/09/02/t... for another. See Why Does College Cost So Much? for an elaboration on the Baumol hypothesis.

I buy the Bowen hypothesis.

Tenure is not a major part of the cost story, but in any system that's not working so hot almost every part starts to come under scrutiny. I tend to favor limiting or removing tenure because of the way it distorts the academic labor market, but that's a pretty long discussion.
Am I being too cynical if I'm not quite ready to take training and performance data from the Tour de France at face value?
It's water soluble- this chemical cannot simple be skimmed from the surface like an oil.
Easy way: get a Slingbox and use the SlingPlayer App

Harder way: get an Elgato EyeTV

Most complex (but versatile way): get a tuner like the Silicon Dust HDHomerun and set up a Mythtv or Plex system.

(All of the above require an antenna.)

Edit: obviously, you can also use Aereo!
I think that's a false dichotomy. Without socialization it's very difficult to understand the people you're working with and this, in my experience, is often the root of friction between teams and departments.
Actually you are still wrong.

Try something easier, for example two dice. The probability to roll 1 1 is less than to roll 1 2, because 1 2 can be rolled either by first rolling a 1 or a 2, while 1 1 can be rolled only by first rolling a 1. That information is used often in dice games like backgammon.

Same with children: BT BT can only be "rolled" if your first child is BT, whil BT BW can be "rolled" if your first child is either BT or BW.

Do you see?
But the public airwaves are still publicly accessible. ABC's app change has nothing to do with the public airwaves.
If you pull your head out of your ass, you'll see Americans aren't all that different and they need all the same aid as each other in a disaster. Hell, American's aren't all that different than Canadians, but apparently you believe people are different species because they live one one side of an imaginary line or another.

The federal government isn't going to be dictating people in Austin all wear winter coats because it gets cold in Jeuno. But they are hindered in their ability to render aid to the very people they govern because each state acts like its own little country.
He's not talking about evidence as much as a lack of acknowledgement of internalized oppression: the fact that there are plenty women who believe their rightful place is indeed in the kitchen, plenty of gay men who think gay love is indeed disgusting, etc. etc.

If any evidence would be relevant here it would be something like results of implicit association tests on the topic. I for one would be very interested in the (effects of the) results.
This is so Fukushima'd up!
"one can't help but get the feeling that the image of the world brought to us by huge tech companies has gigantic holes in it."

Compared to the image of the world you get from your chair without those tech companies, I wouldn't describe it as 'holes', but as filling in 99% of the white areas.

Columbus didn't create a huge hole in the wolrd's map
> What's so defensible about a business model that is based entirely on taking advantage of someone else's product? Without the content produced by the networks, there would be absolutely no reason for Aereo to exist.

Aereo allows people to do no more than what they can already do if they buy and set up their own antenna and DVR/VCR. Thus they take no more advantage of "someone else's product" than TV antenna manufacturers and DVR companies, whose products also would not exist if not for content produced by the networks.
> The second paragraph amounts to a sexist version of "I'm not racist! I have black friends!"

It bothers me unduly much that it has become a common meme that saying this amounts to saying "I am a racist!" That may be convenient pattern-matching, but if someone has friends that are black, that is definitely some evidence that they aren't racists.

I think this really comes down to pattern-matching and goalpost shifting. There are many definitions of racism, and conflating them serves the purposes of people on both sides of the argument, which makes it an anti-useful rather than merely useless term. When someone says "I'm not a racist, I have black friends" they are referring to the casual/common definition of racism, which is that they judge individuals as individuals and not based on their membership of a racial group. Under this definition, calling someone a racist is essentially saying that they have views that are sympathetic to the views of extremist groups like the KKK. Under this definition, saying, "I'm not racist, I have black friends" makes perfect sense, because it implies that, even if they have tiny biases against people based on race, they are at least not so strong as to preclude having close personal relationships with them.

Another definition of racism, used by people arguing against them, amounts to "everyone is racist in some ways, so it's basically always wrong to say you aren't a racist." (Obviously this is a caricature of another end of the spectrum, there are intermediate definitions) Under this definition, you can have black friends, a black husband/wife, black adoptive parents, black children, and saying any of those things simply pattern-matches to a denial of the obvious conclusion that if you aren't black, you can't know black struggles and so are inherently racist no matter what. If this is the definition of racism you are using, there is literally no evidence you can provide other than to be black yourself to avoid claims of racism against black people. People who subscribe to this definition have had arguments with people who they believe to be self-evidently racist, yet who used "I have black friends," so many times, that it pattern-matches in their brain to "this person is a racist." This is an uncharitable view.

Having black friends or black family members is Bayesian evidence that someone isn't racist as it is defined in casual discourse, and I think it's time that people stop pretending it's the opposite. Similarly, having a female co-founder is valid evidence that you view females as having the capability of equal business acumen to men, no matter how much people dislike the way the argument pattern-matches.

Unfortunately, there is literally no way to be so careful with your language use to avoid this argument, because the issue has long, long since diverged from the norms of reasonable discourse. There will always be people on the side of "everyone is racist" who will just say, "He's just hiding his racist views by trying to use alternate terminology."
>1) Why don't you trust them?
It may be a selective memory thing, but in my eyes the current court tends to lean towards the interest of big business (Aereo being much smaller than ABC, et al).

> 2) What's so defensible about a business model that is based entirely on taking advantage of someone else's product?

The networks already broadcast the signal for anyone with an antenna to receive. If I own (or rent) a house or apartment where adding an antenna is not feasible (especially as a renter), I don't see why I can pay someone else to setup an antenna and DVR for me.

Does it make a difference that Aereo houses all the antennas in one location? If they were an antenna rental/installation (in your home) company would there be any argument?
Uh since you made the assertion that women "think differently", you provide the peer-reviewed citations.

Until we see what you are basing your silly assertion on, yeah, you are the one spouting bullshit.
I can read and respond to texts without finding or touching my phone. This is tremendously useful in the house or while bustling through a train station in a heavy coat and gloves. And if I have my bluetooth earpiece on I can take calls the same way.
As far as I can tell, it's a big deal because a lot of people hold as a normative axiom that the proportional representation of people groups (genders, nationalities, ethnicities, etc.) in organizations (businesses, governments, YC classes, etc.) ought to match their proportions in the general population. I suspect this is either an axiom, or a close conclusion from a broader axiom like egalitarianism.

As an axiom, there's not really a way to argue that it is illogical. You can only attempt to persuade the person to change their axioms.
I still can't justify anything better than my $20 Nokia burner phone.

There is literally nothing that has an advantage over it for me. Status and cost mean nothing.

I think the smart phone is purely an example of conspicuous consumption, nothing more.
>We may investigate and disclose information from or about you if we have a good faith belief that such investigation or disclosure is (a) reasonably necessary to comply with legal process and law enforcement instructions and orders, such as a search warrant, subpoena, statute, judicial proceeding, or other legal process served on us

Their privacy policy is very easy on the courts.
I suppose I was looking for double jeopardy.

The nature of this kind of discussion is always going to be hyperbolic and emotionally charged, which is why gender discussions here get nuked.

That's what I find so amusing about PG's foray today: PG could write the most innocuous treatise imaginable, and he'd still be getting into trouble, and deservedly so.

Ask yourself: what happens after this? Is YC going to be the shining light that brings sexual equality to the Valley?

Or does YC culture get to pat itself on the back for being less sexist than the other parts of tech culture and continue its general status quo?

This essay doesn't heal any divide; it just stirs the pot a bit more. It's about reputation, not solutions--which is somewhat a shame, because the second half of the essay (which essentially is a restatement of PG's initial comment) is pretty thoughtful and reasonable.
facebook also ditching sponsored stories as of apr 9

https://developers.facebook.com/roadmap/
Wowsa. Has anyone considered using TOR to post reviews?
Have you seen noticeable battery life improvements?
I've tried that but they disappear after a while. The ones you get from Facebook Ads are real people who will also normally like your posts etc.