skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is the problem that VCs are ignoring startups with female founders, or is it that women are not becoming startup founders in general? For the first one, that's a problem that VCs need to fix. For the second, if there's something systemically keeping women out of tech startups, that's a problem the world needs to fix.

Assuming that VCs always pick the most promising startup founders without discrimination, the next question is would everyone rather VCs fund unprepared or unqualified founders in order to be more inclusive and look better from a PC standpoint, or pick the best founders that come in front of them and accept that there may not be a diverse mix of people at the company?

It's really easy to prove that they're not funding female founders. It's just as easy to shame them for it in the media. It's a lot harder to prove that this is done out of bias or malice. It's even harder to make the business decision to fund more female founders if you're fairly certain that the female founders that approach you for funding are not prepared to be startup founders.

So what can we do? Women leaders in tech aren't exactly uncommon, nor do they necessarily make the news more than male leaders. I'm sure there are fewer female tech leaders than there are men, but that brings us back to the question of is there actually a problem, and if so is it for the tech companies to solve, or is it for the world to solve?
TLDR; In this hypothetical, thieves robbed MtGox in 2011 and the operator has been desperately trying to cover for it and delay since.
Aether's $399 Cone is a speaker that knows exactly what you want to hear next
Hum, who says the broadcasters aren't supposed to have copyright on the material? That makes no sense, if they didn't everyone could just capture it and rebroadcast to the whole world at will.

I believe Aereo's position is not that the broadcasters don't hold the copyright, it's that they aren't violating it since they just do "location-shifting".
I wonder, why would ATMs use XP instead of Linux which sounds like a much better fit?
just remember: knowing you don't know what you're getting into isn't knowing what you're getting into. :)
If dates are generally a prerequisite to relationships than the numbers issue tends to have a lot of influence (age does too).

My impression from living here isn't that it's people worried about their status, I think it's just that there aren't enough people - do you live in the bay area?
Being in a condo that has Condo Internet myself, there really isn't much need for Google Fiber. Instead we get a local and responsive company with actual 24 hour tech support that provides high speed, low latency connectivity for $60.
Who cares?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Descriptive_linguistics
Go also has a very highly quality crypto implementation. It has all of the good-code features that gnutls lacks: comments that make sense, unit tests, automatic memory management (of course), useful types, etc.

Compare http://golang.org/src/pkg/crypto/x509/x509.go to https://www.gitorious.org/gnutls/gnutls/source/6aa26f78150cc...
I doubt this would get into the App store, but that's not the point, is it?
The question for me after all this is simple:

Is it that 'Everything is a Ponzi scheme until it isn't' or is it that 'Nothing is a Ponzi scheme until it is'?
What would be really interesting is if they implemented a system like the old ESP game. For those unfamiliar, it was a collaborative game with strangers over the internet. You and your stranger partner are both shown the same digital image, and you have a textbox to enter tags for that image. There was a limited time and the goal was to get to a point where both of you had entered the same tag. Over time, as the database got trained, common tags such as girl, man, bird, etc were blacklisted, and so you and your partner had to come up with more informative tags to play the game.

Unfortunately, Google bought out the ESP game, and then after shut them down.
Two things prevent this from being a cogent narrative, in my opinion:

- How do these figures compare to the overall population of applicants?

- How do these figures compare to the entirety of VC-backed startups?

Without that knowledge, this is just extrapolation around a set of isolated data points.
Many XP systems cannot be upgraded to another version of Windows, at least officially the hardware isn't adequate. On the other hand there was a huge opportunity to switch these systems to Linux if there had been a savvy distro with a little cash and a business model. But I fear that bus has left the station.
More curators, collectors, and catalogs are the biggest goals right now. There's a critical mass of users that needs to be reached for the site to be useful for a majority of collectors.

Collectors for adding Haves and Wants, and for buying and selling. Curators (who are also collectors) for building catalogs that collectors are clamouring for.
An Aereo opposer could claim that leasing to your neighbor would itself be a copyright violation.
What do you collect that isn't on ShelfLife yet? There might be a curator working on it right now.
This is a good opportunity for institutions to move to Linux instead of Windows 8, if they're going to have to train their users to use it anyway:

https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/community/osor/news/education-mi...

As for why ATM's aren't using Linux, is beyond me. I guess Microsoft got to them first. This is the problem with open source projects over commercial solutions - there's hardly anyone out there working hard to promote that solution to users, other than the "community".

Things are changing and the community and social media can have a bigger impact, but not when these ATM owners had to make the choice, and Microsoft is still spending billions on promoting their stuff.
"was" sounds correct to me (US), but everyone learns a slightly different language model.
Well,

Regardless of how exactly it happened, I think the big thing is that anything that operates as "just an exchange" has the potential to operate as a fractional reserve bank instead (IE, just operate with enough money to cover day-to-day transactions and not-have/use-for-something the remaining funds people think you have in your vault).

So basically, trusting any unregulated entity that claims to have stuff in its vaults is an inherently dangerous thing since such entities inherently tend to fail all at once when they fail (because they can mask either a series of small failures or a failure large enough to bankrupt the company but still not large enough to clean out the customers - yet).
If YC want to put more figures in the spreadsheet I'll remake the graph.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1tZVHgKnNS5ghjkQou4QO...
UrtheCast are working on something similar. Their camera recently made it to the ISS and the next step is a spacewalk to install it.

http://www.urthecast.com
Well it depends. A lot of startups have very flexible vacation policies. At my current job I took a 2 week vacation for the christmas season within my first three months on the job. I have a coworker who goes on 3-4 10-14 day long snowboarding trips per year. Our lead developer just took a month long vacation to France. The vacation policy is essentially that there is no vacation policy. You can take quite a lot of time off if you want, as long as you've been handling all your responsibilities and you give enough of an advanced warning to your team members.
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Writing Conversion Methods in Rails
Animal protein-rich diets are also bad for land, water, and energy conservation.
Totally read this as scaling at Etsy. Still interesting though. And somewhat accurate.
If you get far with Linux desktop evrioment, let us know. I still haven't found anything decent that doesn't scream it was designed by the same guy whi is also responsible for kernel dev.

Above all i think Linux world needs mire unified ux experience, how its possible with sone many desktop environments out there, I don't know.
"The development of the new tool is an example of the unanticipated benefits of basic research."
TextSecure is solid as far as I know. What I meant with my comment is that Cryptocat/Telegram put marketing and accessibility over security. They rather sell a veneer of security in a cute package instead of actual security, along with the difficult problems it brings. Both products ignored (and actually told off) expert advice, which is quite telling.

IIRC, TextSecure was created by crypto expert[s].
Driver support for various touchscreens? But that's just a guess. I would imagine the license cost is not a huge factor in the price of an ATM.
Of course, the idea is that the app would actually do something useful, would do that useful thing correctly, and only activate the malicious code for targetted users (none of which would be Apple testers).
TLS-encrypted rsyslog tunnels use it. I'm just off to update my central logserver...
Good idea for toilet paper
Though the idea of wallpaper symmetry may seem a bit frivolous, in truth the mathematics of 2D and 3D symmetry groups plays a huge role in materials science and physics. Every crystalline material is made of atoms in some pattern, and the symmetry of that pattern has big consequences for what the material's electrons do. Understanding the symmetry of a crystal will often aid you in understanding its properties.

This knowledge can also be inverted to design materials rather than merely understand them. An example of this is the idea to use crystals without inversion symmetry to make new ferroelectric materials (because ferroelectricity requires inversion symmetry breaking). A simple way to make a crystal without inversion symmetry to stack layers of atoms in an ABCABCABC pattern. Here's a technical description if you are interested and have access: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v452/n7188/full/nature0...

If you'd like to learn more about the study of symmetry in crystallography, there's a nice MIT OCW set of video lectures here: http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/materials-science-and-engineering...

I'll close with a good quotation from a famous condensed matter physicist:

"It is only slightly overstating the case to say that physics is the study of symmetry." - Nobel Laureate Philip Anderson
Why would a small American startup not give generous vacation to its employees?
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Dating Ring couldn't wait until a single date's worth of Groupon signups were had before moving on to the next pivot?
http://www.groupon.com/deals/the-dating-ring-1
Simple Data-Scraping Tool Could Change How Apps Are Made
The unintended consequences of public reporting of mortality outcomes
Unit testing is not terra incognita, it's industry best practice. Personally I write at least twice as many lines of code in tests as I do in the implementation under test. That's the nature of test-driven development.

If you doubt that TLS can be tested, may I direct your attention to the extensive suite of unit tests in Go's crypto package. For example http://golang.org/src/pkg/crypto/x509/x509_test.go and http://golang.org/src/pkg/crypto/x509/verify_test.go among many other source files.
> Open-source typography is flourishing, but that doesn't mean commercial typography is dead.

Agreed, I just think the pendulum hasn't swung far enough on the open direction, because of the relative newness of the tech. In other words, it seems that branding agencies sometimes use proprietary type families out of habit and ignorance, not because they've evaluated the tradeoffs and made a careful choice.
Why do I still use Windows XP? Because Microsoft charges too much for Windows-8. Right now I am running XP in virtual box on my Linux workstation, and everything works fine. Why would I pay to upgrade to Windows-8 knowing that I might have trouble installing Windows-8 in virtualbox. There is no point.
App Store Rejected My App Due To Release Note
You're in danger of comparing apples to oranges.

If the SaaS has ongoing value -- for example, if it involves a hosted element that uses resources each month -- then it can be worth ongoing payments. Its value to the customer increases over time.

If the SaaS is just a static piece of software -- or something that might later receive updates of unknown value that you might or might not actually want anyway -- and it's something you will need for the long term, then it probably needs to be much cheaper to rent it than to buy it outright before it's economically worthwhile. Its value doesn't increase over time, so you have to compare the expected cost for as long as you think you'll need to rent it with the one-time cost of buying outright. Even then, you still have the security of your investment to consider if there is no guarantee that the software will still be there or still work the same way when you need it later.

In other words, yes, a lot of SaaS is also greedy.
I'm in Austin. I pay 48ish for 15 down 3 up.
The first two chapters of this online book cover similar ground, but for PHP and the symfony framework:

http://symfony.com/doc/current/book/index.html
Then you end up with what happened with the housing market in 08, ratings agencies rubber stamping things for profit. Why should I trust what they say?
Hardware and software support mostly. OEMs and vendors often write software and drivers for Windows only, or have better support in Windows.

But there's no reason I know of to keep using XP instead of 7 or 8 for these applications.

Disclaimer: I work for a company that engineers software for self-service patient check-in kiosks.
What could be interesting will be percentage of computers running Windows 7 at EOL. My bet is it will be the same or higher. I don't see many companies jumping on the Windows 8 bandwagon any time soon, especially with how much "less buggy" 7 is versus 8.x.
Your blog post is an excellent example of how code like this should be cleaned up.
some commentray here on the YC Female Founders conference this weekend: http://blog.ellenchisa.com/2014/03/04/yc-female-founders-con...
Female Computer Scientists Make the Same Salary as Their Male Counterparts
"Not invented here" syndrome is not unique to the IT world.
Those can be detected. Facebook rules them out of its phone verification process, for instance.
Because their software only runs on Windows. If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
I do live in the Bay Area.

And my point is that there are enough people around that getting dates should not be a significant problem. I went out with about 25-30 people before finding my girlfriend; to get to that involved about 200 OKCupid messages. There were about 5 dates in the 3 weeks before and 3 weeks after I first met her.
I love the web app, I believe this one will be great too
Roku's new Streaming Stick works with most TVs, drops price to $50
Compiler/library support for C++ is much less complete(standards were published in 1998, 2003 and 2011, and none are completely implemented in any compiler)

Clang begs to differ on that point http://clang.llvm.org/cxx_status.html

and gcc claims to implement "all of the major features" so you may be right on that one http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.8/cxx0x_status.html

At any rate C++11 features are quite well supported IMO. Even VC++ is catching up.
If you're on a Debian derivative, you can find out which installed packages depend on an item with "aptitude why [foo]"
> people who claim to uphold liberty of conscience simply will not allow Christians to express their views on marriage.

That must be why you never hear anyone objecting to gay marriage any more.

[/sarc]
Were there any first-time founders in their late 30s and 40s?
I don't either, but not just because the the bugs. The whole focus on tablets and touch screens is a big turn off to most businesses I would think. Even though Microsoft is finally considering switching 8 to more of a classic style, I think it's too late for that.
As far as I could tell Conlin hardly campaigned. I think it shocked local politicians that he lost.
So, I guess the future of Google Maps is where your GPS actually shows your car driving in real time down the highway.

I love living in a video game.
Nostalgia Rathole
YC Female Founders Conference Video Just Became Private
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDaqt9NzDUc

Sorry I was half through the video yesterday and now it is private... Will YC care to open up the link again?
There is another initiative that is approaching the problem from a different lens. Its called Menstrupedia (www.menstrupedia.com).

They are making an educational book in comic book format to dispel the massive amounts of myths around the topic.
Honestly, I would also think that most of the applications for ATMs were created before Linux systems gained much popularity. Plus in general Linux isn't used to often commercially, I believe.
Though the government is pretty corrupt, you seem to be paranoid in your criticism of it.

> "Use iodized salt in food else your children will be born retarded".

"In India, the entire population is prone to IDD due to deficiency of iodine in the soil of the subcontinent and consequently the food derived from it. To combat the risk of IDD, salt is fortified with iodine. However, an estimated 350 million people do not consume adequately iodized salt and, therefore, are at risk for IDD. Of the 325 districts surveyed in India so far, 263 are IDD-endemic."[1]

> People used handmade soaps and herbal alternatives for soap.

Handmade soaps are fine. The ads never said you should only use big-brand soaps. Just because it's called "herbal alternative", it does not mean that it is effective. Each family or each region has its own "herbal alternative". Are you saying that they are all as effective as soap?

> 5 different types of leaves, gargling with hot water mixed with a mixture of 15 different kind of powders

I have visited villages for various reasons. Most people I came across used one of three methods: neem twigs, salt, charcoal ash. Neem has some antimicrobial properties, but those who cleaned with salt were ruining their teeth. I doubt that ash benefited their oral hygiene. I dare say these villagers are better off with modern products.

> The reality is, even in rural areas the level of hygiene is way better.

Better than what? If you're comparing villages to urban slums, sure. Are you forgetting that in villages, most people crap out in the open? And don't using soap afterwards? And did you read this article about women not using sanitary pads?

[1]: http://www.icmr.nic.in/ijmr/2013/september/0922.pdf
Assuming that MtGox (let's say MtGox, not Mark) did indeed introduce transaction malleability as a feature, that should be very easy to prove with source control commit logs. But if the malleability vulnerability was already there to begin with, it would be very hard to prove indeed that MtGox was taking advantage of it.

Edit: I should also add that Mark in particular has not proven himself smart enough in my eyes to pull something like this off. In terms of technical skill, yes, but this requires a very human approach to deception which I, based on the conversations I've seen him have, do not think he possesses.
> Every sign of unjust discrimination in their regard should be avoided.

But just discrimination, like trying to stop them marrying someone they love, even in a purely civil ceremony which objectively speaking is none of our damn business -- why, that's just dandy.
Are they somehow streaming the ATSC signal over the internet? Or are they changing the signal into some other format, storing and then sending it later?

That's at least a difference.
Cool idea, but I'm experiencing cognitive dissonance. The great promise of Bitcoin to the regular consumer is supposed to be transactions without the surcharges of financial institutions and privacy, yet here we have a service that takes a large cut even after their money processor takes its cut, and requires you to sign up through an organization hardly known for its privacy (Facebook).

I don't mean to beat on Tinkercoin, because I think it sounds like a totally decent way to....well....tinker with coins, but I am critical of the overall hubris behind Bitcoin.
“Don't think, Feel, it is like a finger pointing out to the moon, don't concentrate on the finger or you will miss all that heavenly glory.”

From 'Enter the Dragon': a quote from the great Master Lee himself!
I said from the beginning that transferring data to a computer before you transfer it to another computer is wasteful and inconvenient. Apparently when I use an example that you can't dispute you call this "moving the goalposts".
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I hadn't seen this article... and it's actually quite surprising seeing as every other mention of this issue seems to say women aren't treated fairly in this industry and are belittled by their peers and paid half as much.

If you've seen it, ignore it.
MtGox didn't use source code control.
Peter, the social worker, agreed. “I will say I have been more emotional since the study ended, and I don’t mean always cheerful,” he said. “But I think it’s better to feel things strongly — better to be alive than to merely function.”

It's interesting that society has long been comfortable pushing drugs that have the opposite effect, resulting in poor compliance by patients who complain of feeling "dead" or "not there."
First, I will point out that when a bunch of people are talking about some guy by his name in a way that feels like everyone kind of knows who it is, it is natural to be curious. However, in this case, there is a very important reason why this is the first thing you should ask: the meat of the message is a threat that "Rob" will somehow build something and replace npm: if Rob were someone well-known in the community, is someone who maintains a package manager for another large community, or even if he had a history of rampaging through communities and disrupting them with successful solutions, this would be a meaningful threat; if Rob is just an angry user, then the threat is hyperbole which should be ignored. Like, I appreciate that "arguments should have weight regardless of who said them", but applying that knee-jerk as if that is true in all situations is harmful to discourse... in this case, what we are looking at is mostly a rant and a threat, not an "argument": it matters greatly who the speaker is.
There is yeah, but a self funding system is likely to get bigger and be less vulnerable to being shut down.
Do we even know if they used version control? Given the hectic organisation of the code I've seen so far, wouldn't be surprised if it wasn't controlled.
Break the Chains of Version Dependency
Another great reason to assume ignorance rather than malice.
A profound revelation, I would imagine in this sense, is being defined as being based on experience that corresponds with some fact about yourself or the world as it actually is.

E.g.
A fact about yourself - realising that you love someone.

A fact about the world - realising that all matter is energy condensed.

At least taking the "open your EYES man" statement at face value. But a profound experience on hallucinogenics is realising that ... ? What's the mechanism even meant to be to entangle the experience to the reality it supposedly represents?

Of course, there is the other meaning of the word; great, intense. Profoundly in love, profound hatred - and so on. Certainly drugs can induce that sort of profundity.
The other possibility is that women just aren't as interested in tech as men. The same is true of other professions like pilots and car mechanics.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_in_computing#Female_and_...

Men and women's brains are wired slightly differently, so this shouldn't really be a surprise. We just need to make sure that women are given sufficient opportunity to enter the tech industry.
How.. convenient.
The Command-Line Office
rheide was talking about the Bitcoin source control.
Has there been any difference since they got bought out by Wave?
Just curious, why are you using XP in a vm instead of just using Linux?