skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a trivial problem to solve. Simply don't even mention you're the founder. Or demote yourself to a tech lead, or someone. It's only a problem if you glamorize yourself and jump and shout to everyone that you're the founder of so and so.
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would you mind opening an issue (at GitHub) and attaching the problematic .mm file?
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It's more than just about female founders. I'm sure there are many male founders out there who'd like to ensure that the organisations they're building are places where female employees would be happy. It can be difficult to get that perspective but the info from events like this could be valuable.

In time (assuming this event is as successful as I expect it will be), then putting more female founders and early employees on stage at their other events will help further.

Edit: Apparently it's going to be streamed [1] so I assume that will be open to all. Looking forward to it.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7097557*
My objection may stem from religious beliefs, but that isn't to say it isn't arguable from non-religious standpoints.

People use a hill of solid reasoning with a kernel of faith at very the bottom (kind of like the L4 microkernel family), whether that faith is in religion or something else. At the end of the day, everyone's argument will always come down to "I just think that's how the world works best."
There are two reasonable choices for Intel to follow:

1. They decide to implement the best possible x86 compiler for all CPU vendors. In this case, they optimize for AMD chips (and anyone else selling x86 chips) just like they currently do for Intel, possibly including AMD-specific code paths.

2. They decide to implement the best possible compiler for Intel x86 CPUs. In this case, they should just ignore the existence of other vendors and do the best they can for their own stuff. If it runs fast on AMD, great. If it doesn't, not their problem.

I'm not sure which of those two what you said falls under, but I think it's one of those. Unfortunately, they have chosen a third path, where not only do they specialize for Intel, but they check for non-Intel and deliberately pessimize performance there.
Segregation on an axis requires discrimination on the same axis (if you don't make distinctions, you can't separate.)
"I'm against gender discrimination"

Do you believe that no gender discrimination in favour of men occurs in the rest of the industry? Are you against any particular act of discrimination that you happen to witness, or are you stating a preference for a system in which no discrimination occurs?

(I, too, am against gender discrimination, which is why I am for these.)
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And that is why I said "at least in this case."

Your position may be arguable without religion, but you're not doing that.
I'm a postdoc at the moment, but I've taught survival analysis before. It just struck me as a particularly straightforward example with pretty clean data, a visible separation of the different groups, etc.

Basically, lots of people use the "Iris" data set to learn either data visualization or machine learning based classification. The same could be true of the "Backblaze Hard Drive" data, but for survival analysis/time-to-event statistics courses.
In gaming: all of the idTech engines, the Unreal engine, and so forth.

Unix was an internal tool at Bell Labs, as was C.

Rails was pretty much just a framework over at 37signals before it spread.

~

This happens a lot in software.
Except that this kind of data is already being generated outside official channels.

http://www.ratemyprofessors.com/SelectTeacher.jsp?the_dept=A...
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What makes you think that 50:50 representation in given field is "the correct" one?
This has not been my experience. We run a bunch of GP drives, 1TB, 2TB, and 4TB, and I have not experienced them spinning down ever unless explicitly commanded to. They park heads for sure, but don't spin down. (These are normal GP, not AV-GP, never tried one of those.)
I got tired arguing with people with vested interest in Bitcoin that Bitcoin is not cheaper. You see a lot of people on Reddit getting super excited buying junk at Overstock and saying: "The banks got nothing!" without realizing that: 1) Coinbase sold their bitcoins at Bitstamp. 2) When more people sell than buy, Coinbase needs to wire money from Bitstamp to their European bank account and then to their US one; 3) Overstock gets an ACH daily from Coinbase; 4) If you got your bitcoins from Coinbase, an ACH was made for the purchase and if Coinbase gets more buys than sells, it needs to daily wire money from their US bank account to their European one, and then from it to Bitstamp. In other words, this over complicated process involves a lot more banking activity than credit cards! I get 1.5% cash back without any limits from my PayPal Debit Card and Coinbase charges me 1% + $0.15 to buy bitcoins.
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This seems like a fork of Cocosbuilder http://cocosbuilder.com/
I should've been more specific. I'm aware of the study and have seen it, but to my knowledge they refused to publish data regarding the manufacturers, probably for legal reasons.

It's curious that other replies garnered from my post the implied information that I was relating to a lack of specific/specified manufacturers, and you're the only one who took it completely literal. :)
Well don't despair about your Seagate purchase. We're still buying them. Plus, over 80% of the drives that we have in production are over 4 years old. You should be just fine :)
Nice work. Have you looked at Shen? It's highly praised by many.
I love the goat-herding idea, but here's something that may help you short of taking such a big step. Grab a plastic garbage bag, and go walk two miles out along a road, and then on the two miles back, pick up all the garbage you can.

(It's not a solution to all your problems, it's just an experiment to see how it affects your consciousness.)
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It's important to note that Grunt can be used in 2 (more?) ways:

1.) As a build tool

2.) As a continuous build tool (with watch and live reload)

React's Gruntfile is well organized and is a great option for #1.

However, use of this approach for #2 will cause a slower development process. Obviously, part of the performance hit could be offset by conditionally including only the files required for each task. However, reading files from disk will result in a slower reload.
Lesson learned. Won't make that mistake again.
Haven't had time to read and digest the entire paper yet, but I would like to point out that not all economists shun simulation. There has been quite a bit of work around Sugarscape[1], although I'm not sure what the most recent such work is. But Sugarscape was mentioned quite prominently in Eric Beinhocker's The Origin of Wealth, which paints a picture where economists who associate themselves with "Complexity Economics"[2] are more amenable to simulation.

And, indeed, the description of Complexity Economics from Wikipedia reads:

Complexity economics is the application of complexity science to the problems of economics. It studies computer simulations to gain insight into economic dynamics, and avoids the assumption that the economy is a system in equilibrium.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugarscape

[2]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complexity_economics
This sounds awesome. I remember buying a ticket for a "female founders grub with us" thing run by jl as a present for a female founder friend.

I wonder if some companies could sponsor expenses for non sfba female founders to attend. I think it is a lot easier for female Bay Area founders than female Midwestern founders, so it would help them a lot.
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I wonder if moot would've been able to turn DrawQuest into a revenue generating product if he'd had more runway?

I guess my question is this: what is the difference between DrawSomething today and Google and Twitter before they started making cash? All three seem to have great usage and engagement? Is it just market size that prevented more capital being deployed?

edit: I meant DrawQuest but wrote DrawSomething, thanks for the bug report tricolon :)
For me it's still residential real estate.

Between 2010 and 2012 or so I picked up some condos here in San Diego at short sale for about 1/3 of what their price was a few years earlier. I get about 1.5% of their purchase price every month in rent. At the same time, the property values have appreciated so the rents are starting to increase as well.

The longest I've had any of them vacant was about two weeks and that was only during the time I was replacing carpet, appliances, furnace, painting walls, fixing stuff, etc.

To make it completely passive I have a property manager (I live in the area, but I value my time). That along with HOA fees and real estate taxes eat into my bottom line, but combined it's only about 1/5 of the monthly rent.

These properties allowed me to quit my job, self-fund my company, and I'm actually putting money away every month. Go figure.

I'm not a real estate expert, but if you have any basic questions feel free to get in touch (contact info is in my profile). As background, I bought my first house at 21 and owned 5 homes by the time I was 27 (I'm 29 now). I was in the military until a few months ago, so I didn't make a whole lot, but I'm pretty good with money and invested wisely. I didn't grow up with much, so I learned what not to do with money. I'm also pretty deliberate about how I spend my money, which is different than being frugal.
It was introduced in v12: https://metacpan.org/pod/release/RJBS/perl-5.18.2/pod/perl51...
I also have no "insert" key on my keyboard. And tab just cycles through various form controls on the right..
For those of us who are business ignorant, what is the difference between President and CEO? What are the typical responsibilities of each and such?
Why does everybody have such a raging hard-on for the IoT these days?

Especially when we know machines are routinely compromised to circumvent user freedom, why on earth would you want to help give a foothold to others in your personal space computationally?
Clicked on. Empirically it says a lot more about their titles, rather than content.
And besides not being included on every keyboard, it's not an command key, but a text-mode toggle, in every other desktop app.
Is my understanding that higher frequencies mean less range and more interference correct? I want good coverage and uniform performance over extra bandwidth. I also want good latency over speed in lots of cases.
Yeah, I was hoping to see my code render on the right as the pieces on the left are assembled from the bottom up (hierarchically, that is, not from the bottom of the code).
I imagine, if nothing else, non-naturalized immigrants have unique concerns and obstacles. Visa concerns, ITAR (admittedly probably rarely an obstacle for YC style startups), etc.

I can't say I have any personal experience with any of that though, that's all just a guess.
Are we talking about individual incidents or the overall impact on the economy?

The health impacts of contraceptives are insignificant compared to the benefits.

To put it another way, look at how expensive kids are in the developed world. Now think about handling that expense when you are part of the extreme poverty bracket. The economic benefit of not having kids when you don't want them is huge.
Why not take that to it's logical conclusion? If having kids is such a positive effect overall, to the point where people shouldn't be allowed to have sex without natural chances of procreation, why not require them to have kids? Why not fine people that are not procreating?

I don't understand the point of saying producing more human life is so important, it's worth robbing people of the freedom to decide how to live their lives. That it's worth more than the personal and societal issues arising from having unwanted kids.

If making babies is such a moral imperative that trumps so many other considerations, then it seems you've got some contradictions if your position doesn't include always strongly encouraging people to have more kids.
I am arguing for it without appealing to religion, but my replies are kind of scattered and drowned out by requests for them. This whole thread is really hard to navigate. Shouldn't have started it out the way I did. Lesson learned.
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The next release after 0.12 is 1.0. They want to be sure that the APIs are stable, secure and well designed before they push the 1.0 release.
> OK, but now you're arguing that Yale students shouldn't be exposed to free expression because they're incapable of handling its consequences.

Odd, I read jsun's comment to be claiming that the professors were incapable of handling the consequences, not the students.
Exactly my problem too, playing real time games over WiFi is painful, especially if your computer is the server for all people too.
Just 'Feminist and transphobic' somehow seemed wrong language-wise. That might just be because English is not my native language though, so I've edited the comment.
If armed men want to stop you from using bitcoin, they can. On the other hand, if Paypal doesn't do business in Cambodia, I can still hire a web designer there.
I may be wrong, but it appears that many of the new model Seagates are Chinese labeled ones. I gather from some previous reading that their manufacturing process is slightly more variable than other locales with quality to match.

Also, you raise a fantastic point about the work conditions. We hear things about Apple's plants and other mobile device manufacturers, but I don't know of any study that includes hard drive makers and the worker conditions at those plants. Very good point.
Treating differently by "distinctions" is discrimination, not just making them. Otherwise the whole concept of gender is discriminatory.
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Why is this a free expression issue? Yale is simply saying you can use the data we collected, but in order to do so you must show ALL of it, including comments. If Yelp changed their open API rules and said you can display the star ratings for a restaurant, but you have to display the text of the reviews as well, would everyone be up in arms about it?
I do not know if it is still the case, but if you used the "Camera Upload" feature in the past you could get extra space at 500 MB for each 500 MB uploaded up to a certain capped amount. When the feature was in beta it was capped at 5GB extra, but before it went stable they lowered the cap to 3GB.
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Nice! I hope this inspires more women to kick ass in the technology scene.
Nothing is worse than a perfectly rendered frame of a porn video which then stops due to buffering because the Wifi has flaked out.

A drop in quality corresponding to lower bandwidth--delivered reliably--is acceptable. Freezing on a perfectly-detailed closeup of a stupid expression because someone came as the internet went (out) is not.

Reliability >> speed.
You will find irrational extremists on either side of every political issue. In the case of gender relations, you have the religious right and MRA wackos on one extreme and the mysandric, transphobic "RadFem" fruitcakes on the other.
No, you're stating your opinion without appealing to religion, but you haven't argued for it at all.

Basically, you stepped into a community that heavily leans atheist and rationalist, stated an opinion based on religion that the community disagrees with, and said that this makes you feel like an outsider. All I can say is, duh. And if you aren't interested in actually defending that opinion, what is the point? As far as I can tell, you were just looking for a little hit of persecution and martyrdom.
Sexism is a reality in the tech industry. Something has to be done. I agree with the intention, 100% -- I am much less sure about the means. Self-segregation is only reinforcing a us-vs-them attitude. Sexism starts with a cultural attitude that ignore the issue of micro-iniquity: it starts as a mental construction based on conscious or unconscious value wrongly bestowed to the members of some broad cultural category: it's this fallacy that needs to be removed. Self-ghettoisation is, at best, a remedial plaster on a wound, at worst it makes things worse. Not to mention that us girls often partake in broad categorisations, prejudices and stereotypes, sometimes against our own 'kind' (see the women attitude described in http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2012/09/14/1211286109.full...)

Today the problem is women, tomorrow (and, well, today too) black people, LGBT... is it really the shortest way towards the elimination of unfair handicaps and perceptions, to tackle one 'category' at a time?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intersectionality
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It helps to think that a person is not their ideas. An idea might be very successful and innovative. It might catch on and do very well. It means little to the person who realized the idea, except that they were the one to have it and make something happen with it.

It is kind of encouraging. It lets you remember that it's not that these people are magical forces that the best ideas come to. It's more that there are some people who, when the right idea comes to them, can make the most of it. That anyone might have a great idea, they just have to be able to work with it.

DrawQuest wasn't a great idea. He did it anyways. You don't always know what is going to be the best idea until you try it. If someone were to propose 4chan, without foreknowledge of how it would turn out I would expect it to be a flop. If Chris thought the same way, he might have never bothered writing it. Taking those risks means you don't lose $3.6 million making DrawQuest, but it also means you don't make 4chan.
> for 99.9999999% of us, that outcome will never happen

Note: As a fraction, the number you give for this is that it will happen to one in a billion people.

You are claiming that there are 8 people in the world that this outcome will happen to. While your general point may be true, I want to emphasise that this number is quite absurdly off. (It's off by at least two or three orders of magnitude.)
> there are also principled concerns about using tax dollars for aid projects

Are you using the typical "let the church handle it logic" not specifically religious entities, but that if the government didn't waste money on aid then people would make up the difference?

Because if that is what you are saying it is based on the flawed logic that aid is a zero sum thing. It is certainly not at this point.

I can guarantee that the US stopping foreign aid would reduce available foreign aid by nearly the entire amount it currently spends, given that the total budget is around 0.1% and no one would notice an increase of 0.1% of their income.

This is not to say that the US should increase their aid, just saying that some level of aid makes sense since it has a significant impact for a nearly negligible cost on the total scale.
I'm getting a map centered in Brooklyn. I'm in Midtown Manhattan... so, maybe its trying to find our location?

Are you close to Topeka?
Yeah but simply mentioning his association with a project will lead to 10s if not 100s of thousands of users basically instantly. They're just not the kind of users who you can monetize easily.
Yeah, that's precisely what I intended to convey. I admit my comment didn't specify what I meant by unpublished data, but I appreciate that you inferred exactly what I meant.

Performance and longevity metrics are curious but they're almost useless without naming the manufacturers. To that extent, the data may as well go unpublished from a consumer's perspective on the merit that it--as you said--contains no actionable data. The Backblaze report does, and that's why I find it useful.
Freedom of expression and freedom of speech are synonymous, but I think the former is a clearer phrase. Freedom of expression is generally never absolute (e.g. the US has libel and incitement laws ruled consistent with the Constitution), but for what it's worth, I believe European laws against offensive speech are absurd and make a mockery of free expression. It's not really free if people liking it is a criteria for being able to say it.

The law, of course, is not in play here, because Yale is a private institution not wielding government authority. But the degree to which it supports free expression is exactly the degree to which it lets people say whatever they want.
I tried to install a light flash app (like the author) and when I saw how much privileges it was asking for, I passed on the opportunity. Out of curiousity I googled to see why a flash app might need all these permissions and it became apparent that some of these apps are doing all kinds of things that have nothing to do with the utility of the app.

I don't think users are that fond of giving away their data when they actually are aware of how it is being used. Maybe in the Disney setting, users aren't thinking about any downsides.
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I was hoping it would allow me to "play" my git repo.

What I want is the ability to see how a function has changed over time. I want to zoom in on a particular function, and watch it grow from a stub to a hairy beast, as the project matures.

Does something like this exist?
In moot's own words: http://chrishateswriting.com/post/74083032842/today-my-start...

I'm really sad to see this, because I saw myself that DrawQuest was gaining traction.

That said, I really appreciate what Everpix did, and I'm glad that moot seems to value that transparency as well.

Failure is a really important part of the startup process - it happens over 90% of the time - and yet it accounts for less than 10% of the dialogue.

When startups and founders share post-mortem data like Everpix did, it's an incredible gift to the community. A startup may failed, but let it not have died in vain.

I know moot reads HN, so hopefully he sees this. Thanks for giving back to the community.
I wonder, does the dev do QA with his wife/gf?
I'm curious: to whom does this matter?

The title is a formality, their organization is notoriously flat and being co-founders they probably don't make major initiatives without the other's approval anyways. If anything they're probably just swapping "who sits in the spotlight for this year".

And when you head a tech-oriented company, the difference between CTO and CEO is probably negligible anyways.
Lets say we distribute this wealth in a more equitable way. That will mean a little more dollars in the hand of poor and a little less in the hand of super rich. Now if we assume(reasonable as far as I can see) that if you are feed and have home you will spend next dollars into healthcare and education. So poor people with little more dollars would attract more workforce towards providing education and healthcare to their kids (instead of writing code for Bill Gates and make him rich) and thus making this world more peaceful and beautiful for all.
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I'm pretty sure most men seek advice from their peer group and/or founders they know. Because there are fewer female founders, there are probably fewer dispersed among the peer groups.
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