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This has already happened in web apps.

Whether you're hiring people based on experience with frameworks, or relying on Bootstrap, the central message is that you as a developer are easily replaceable. Experience is devalued in favor of what you know now. You aren't hired to think, you're hired to ship fast and break things.

I know I'm not alone in finding these terms unacceptable.
Do you think you'll raise your children to believe in Santa, HN?
Good reads on Rose Blumkin, one of the most hardcore founders Warren Buffet has ever bet on:

- http://www.buffettsecrets.com/rose-blumkin-nebraska-furnitur...

- http://www.nytimes.com/1998/08/13/business/rose-blumkin-reta...
Now you have infinite problems.
I was going to post a comment but I deleted it.
My response is, statutory regulation usually doesn't allow this, and they flaunt the rules anyway. I don't see how statutory regulation solves the problem you're arguing it's supposed to. Is your concern that courts do not punish contract violators as harshly as those who violate statutory regulation? Or maybe that allowing different management policies places too great a burden on consumers? Alternatively, I can see why hotels would favor blunt statutory regulation and that anti-competition aspect of it is of concern to me.

How many stay-at-home parents pay taxes on their income? Or would you be ok with AirBnB if payment mostly occurred through barter or a "gift economy?"
Not to be cynical, but isn't this whole thing a glorified research project with founders that can sound visionary? Maybe that's a good formula.
I'm using Dropbox for now, but looking for alternatives.

My wife and I have switched to Bittorrent sync. It's fast and you have the amount of storage that your computers have. We have one very low-power machine that is always on to assure that we can always sync.

Folders with important data are backed up using tarsnap.
This article was published in 2004.
You're right, I meant something else - publishing artifacts happens on Maven repositories, using a Maven POM file as descriptor (or indeed an Ivy file, but libraries are usually published Maven-style).

I like this a lot. Setting up your own Maven repository on your own server, that can be internal or whatever, can be as simple as setting up a server that serves static files and the publishing itself is just copying files by means of SFTP or whatever. The protocol for finding all the listed dependencies on that server is also simple, so in case of problems you can usually understand what's going on.

This is much saner than the alternatives I've encountered on other platforms.
Cool version but it needs the "continue playing" option like the original 2048 game has once you reach the end. I finished this one on my first try.
Violent video games might make white people more racist
I already pay Google for things they can't sufficiently monetize with ads. Why not offer service and charge for it?
First comment on OP says they ignore robots.txt
And we're working on something to improve the quality of Hacker News comments.

Wait, is this implying that we're actually getting an upstream change in the HN codebase for the first time in $amount_of_time_I_am_not_aware_of_exactly?

Or perhaps some sort of cultural shift, like increased moderation and less tolerance for certain views? I can't see the latter going very well, but it's too early to tell anything.

Otherwise this is good news. However, when I read this...

Many emails pointed out that our website shows nearly all men; we'll fix that.

I was reminded of the following: http://www.snopes.com/college/admin/uwmadison.asp. Hopefully this won't just be a clumsy doctoring for PR purposes.
I'd wager he said that because diversity for the sake of diversity would probably damage the micro climate and would be quite difficult to deal with politically(among participants and employees).

The entire campaign is centered around encouraging women to apply more BECAUSE they can be good founders, not because they are women, and men feel bad for not including them.

EDIT: ahh sama beat me to it.
Why not just fund the best startups regardless of whom their founder is?
To add to that, this is how I get through the times when I don't "feel like it": I tell myself I'll just sit down and get something done. It doesn't have to be a lot, but I have to sit down and accomplish something. Even just chipping away at small pieces of a task can add up over time!
> And we're working on something to improve the quality of Hacker News comments.

Excellent. Can't wait to see what it is.
For reference, here's a chart I made a few months ago of female and male YC founders accepted into Y Combinator by year: http://i.imgur.com/MCLqUm3.jpg (from https://medium.com/p/2613f58e5082 )

EDIT: The percentages in chart are # female founders accepted into YC / # founders accepted into YC. The 24% statistic in the article is number of startups with at least 1 female founder, so the chart may be biased lower than that statistic.
Well that is the legacy of East Germany, reflected in both citizens concerns and police habits.
For you, maybe. For others, maybe not.
This attitude is common, almost an industry standard IMO.

Common and standard in a hell of a lot of industries too. With something as tightly regulated as air travel, or pharma, or finance, you simply do not add features that are not required unless it provides some measurable competitive benefit.

Everything feature or bit of equipment you add becomes something else you have to check, maintain, regulate, replace. You don't do that just because it's a good idea, but because you have to or it makes you more money. Neither of things apply in a situation that arises once in a lifetime, unfortunately.
Ask HN: Best learning resources for System administration
Hello, I've been developing webs over shared hosts, and both desktop and phone apps, but I never had to configure or take care of a server.
is sam altman over rated?
Looks pretty slick, thanks for the writeup.
This is a great article.

If you believe everything you're supposed to now, how can you be sure you wouldn't also have believed everything you were supposed to if you had grown up among the plantation owners of the pre-Civil War South, or in Germany in the 1930s-- or among the Mongols in 1200, for that matter? Odds are you would have.

This is lost on most people. You'll just hear "of course it was wrong!" and this point won't be given further thought.

But if it was obvious that it was wrong, why did masses of people agree to this? They wouldn't have done it if they also saw it as wrong.

So why are we the exception today? Couldn't we be just as gullible or misguided? You have to move your own ego and preconceived notions aside to seriously address the question.
This is awesome! But, for me, totally unplayable! Being colourblind I just cannot differentiate the different shades of the lighter greens and the yellows. I so wish I could play this as it looks and feels amazing.
Only in that some intrinsically good ideas are fairly obvious. Others are not.
> True however if it was used for legitimate proposes like by Netflix what's your excuse for throttling if it's not piracy.

Without the Open Internet rules that were struck down, the excuse is "we're a for profit business, and (1) Netflix is a fat stream of revenue that we are enabling and we don't see a reason to do that without getting a big cut, and (2) Anyway, Netflix is competing with our streaming video services which are one of our major sources of revenue, so if our customers have degraded access to Netflix, that just makes our service that Netflix competes with more attractive, and brings us more revenue. So, considering both of those factors, its win-win for us to provide Netflix the choice of (1) give us more of your money, or (2) have your service work less-well, if at all, for our customers."

This is, fairly exactly, the kind of harm that Open Internet order was designed to prevent -- to the extent that broadband providers that are also video (cable TV or internet streaming) providers discriminating against competing video services was one of the things called out to illustrated what was prohibited by the non-discrimination provision.
software!
Political journalism in the US has been meta for so long, I don't think they even know the difference anymore.
I'm surprised nobody has linked a very famous deployment of a ballistic parachute: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXQKaxp6Rlk

In the above video, a pilots propeller hits another aircraft's glider towline which then wraps itself around the prop and engine disabling it.

I'm not a pilot, but this probably would have been fatal if it wasnt for the BRS.
He mentions -multiple times- in the article that they wish to avoid this. I don't know what could have prompted you to write this comment if you read it, he says it more than once...
Every time someone says something like this, I hope it is not out of ignorance towards the countries which actually do not have a democracy. Each country has its own inadequacies and I feel sarcasm might be of better use in pointing them out specifically.
5 Things We Learned At The GDC This Year
I agree that some markets have a greater tendency for forming natural monopolies. I think the reason for the desktop OS monopoly tendency lies in the fact that developing software and drivers for multiple operating systems is expensive. This, and the desire to have marketable skills, drives developers to one OS. And also, applications you do your work in were typically incompatible between platforms, thus creating a drive for users as well to band together on one OS... Some markets have a huge tendency for natural monopolies, perhaps mostly due to this cost of switching (or sitting in two or more chairs, so to speak).

But even in a market where you can easily switch one supplier for another, there often remains a helpful factor for grouping - everything costs less in large quantities ;) And many administrative costs can be reduced. Not to mention that perfect competition would, strictly mathematically speaking, drive profits towards zero...
Because that would be damaging to female-founded startups on demo day, and probably unfairly so.
Socialrank wants to build a Klout that’s actually valuable
That's cool. Their terms refer to US based law/courts though, I'd probably wager their servers are going to be in the US as well.
I was just about to get started learning how to use South migrations. Should I continue, or just focus on the development of the rest of the project while I wait for a stable Django 1.7 to get released? What sort of timeline does its releases usually follow? Is the API fairly consistent with South, seeing as its from the same developer?
Unfortunately most of the servers I'm working with are still on python2 by default. The latest Ubuntu LTS, 12.04, only has python2 by default so python2 is still my priority. But in this case, a port should be trivia so I'll look into python3 as soon as possible.

Yes, ncurses would be much better but I haven't had time for it yet. Clearing screen is simple enough and work pretty well for me so far so here we are :)
Maybe we're talking past each other here, but, Dan Walsh, author of SELinux, is working to bring SELinux natively to libcontainer / docker.

I'd love to talk more about your needs and how we can help. My email is always open - nick@docker.com
Design in Medicine
Take down Notice from Y Combinator
His book I, Robot is a series of short stories in which the laws have been tampered with in various ways. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I,_Robot#Contents
They are committed to this, he says so multiple times. Much of the piece is him acknowledging that there are systematic barriers in place that are discouraging many of the pool of "potentially best founders" from applying, and they'd like to lower them so more people, from many different backgrounds, apply. Re-read the bit on "greedy in the good kind of way."
Squants: The Scala API for Quantities, Units of Measure and Dimensional Analysis
Might need to scrounge around for my old XP license...
How is it that I never figured out that was possible?!? Thank you!
required female post.
One big learning from my time @msft was that the gender gap in STEM really starts in middle school. Everything else (YC included) is largely downstream. If you want to help get involved at the grade school level. For those who are interested here's one of the better resources they produced: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/collaboration/focus/wome...
Rephrased: people upvote because of who said it, not what was said
Simple MVC in Angular JS [ITA]
That's a good point, that it is about diversity but that it's only part of the entire picture.

I think people will complain about fairness even when they're not affected, because the tech community tends to have a strong knee-jerk reaction to this sort of thing. But it would be foolish to not consider diversity as one of many metrics to gauge how effectively one is avoiding costly biases.
Dropbox Zeros In on an Enterprise Strategy
I've read it and I believe a lot in you but I'm afraid external pressures might make you do it
Guilty as charged. I sometimes use upvoting as a means of simply marking a story for later, based on an interesting title or a familiar author. Unlike Reddit, HN doesn't distinguish between a vote for quality and a "save" action (as evidenced by the "saved stories" link in your profile).
The reason people don't buy TV shows is due to bad pricing and lackluster value.

I know a lot of people who wait to buy a TV series when it comes on DVD because they cannot understand why the sum of all episodes available for digital download costs the same as the DVD, when there are much lower expenses. Also they need to pay extra for any specials.

Hollywood and studios assume that people are willing to pay more for instant access than they pay for physical products. And there in lies the problem why very few people but TV shows a la carte.

On the people who download from p2p etc. a number of people would pay if the amount was lower, and within this group are a number of people who download from p2p now and buy the DVD when it has released.

This is also a big attraction for people waiting a year+ for a season to show up on netflix.

You reasoning is unfortunately an ad homeinem.
Easier said than done. First, how do you define "best"? Certainly personality traits like confidence are a factor, but it's naive to believe that men and women display confidence in the same way. So YC's selection criteria need to be updated to be more fair at identifying "best". Everyone on the team needs to re-learn all their methods of evaluation and all the processes need to be re-thought.

On top of that, there's a feedback loop involved. Women have traditionally been at a disadvantage and it takes conscious effort to dig out of that hole. The only way to fight entropy in a system is by inputting work.

Finally, your statement presumes that YC isn't already "funding the best startups". Obviously, that approach -- the status quo -- hasn't been fair to both sexes. For the reasons above.
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The problem is of course, that we still map these different effects to the human perceptible colors, and then use a human brain and a ontology shaped by human perception to understand the resulting picture. So this needs a footnote in the form of Nagel's What is it like to be a bat? [1]

[1] http://organizations.utep.edu/Portals/1475/nagel_bat.pdf
We want to fund more women because it's the right thing to do, but we're not doing this for diversity's sake alone. We want to fund more women because we are greedy in the good way--we want to fund the most successful startups, and many of those are going to be founded by women.

This is a huge thing that people seem to ignore when arguing "against diversity" (I put that in quotes because I don't think anyone actually argues against diversity -- they couch it in terms of meritocracy and egalitarianism, saying that the best people should succeed regardless of race and gender, it just so happens that the best people are overwhelmingly white and male.) I think Sam does a great job of presenting this as a thing of 'greed' -- or, more charitably, economic rationality.

In my mind, there are only two real possibilities (or, perhaps more realistically, two ends of a spectrum):

1. The VC ecosystem, as it stands, is almost completely unbiased and fair-minded with regards to gender and race. The massive disparities in terms of funding and founder backgrounds reflect that.

2. The VC ecosystem has some pretty systemic biases and prejudices (this is not to say that startup people or programmers or anyone is particularly evil; in fact, almost everything has systemic biases and prejudices), and as a result the current landscape does not reflect the best possible set of founders, startups, and opportunities.
I didn't; I've always showed my child the non-sense others believe without cause. Now 20, she has a solid grasp on reality and a firm bullshit detector.
Hostile AI: You're soaking in it
I should have specified I mean only the Robot trilogy. I have yet to read every book.
This is totally unfriendly to colourblind people like me.

edit: to be clear, the game usability is unfriendly
Where can we send feedback and feature requests? I absolutely love this concept, but it's just lacking what I would call essential features to make it really useable. I'm sure you're working hard on it.
It makes sense to invest on a plow instead of keeping hunting and gathering.
Hopefully they'll be nice enough to relieve us of these meat costumes and allow us to ascend to their level where civilization and machine can merge into one conscious entity and we can float around the sun for a few million years charging our batteries while we calculate a path through space that leads to our longest survival. When you can simulate the multiverse is there really any reason to travel through space to look for other life? Perhaps it may be interesting to come into contact with another super-consciousness drifting through space, but even then, would they really have much to offer? We would have simulated every occurrence of that too. The only thing left to do would be to somehow transcend space and time which I think is probably impossible.
For some reason I'm able to focus a bit better on the task of building up blocks when it's just colors. At first I thought I wouldn't like it, then I got into a few games and it felt subtly better.
The additional code involved in Java/Obj-c is less annoying since they are well integrated in IDEs such Android Studio or Xcode which auto-generate most of the boilerplate. After you develop for a while you depend less on the IDEs.

I always build an app to learn the language/platform. The only way you can really learn it is by building something. Combined with that I usually buy a book.

For Android, I hardly had to invest any time learning Java, since I came from Ruby and it's pretty similar. Most programming languages are all the same under the surface. Especially among OO-heavy ones.

Best android book: http://www.amazon.com/Android-Programming-Ranch-Guide-Guides...

Best objective-c book: http://www.amazon.com/iOS-Programming-Ranch-Edition-Guides/d...

Both books assume you know the languages but I jumped in with limited knowledge and learned the language as I went.
Symantec fires CEO
What if Netflix switched to P2P for video streaming?
People are rightly impressed by the personal connection aspect of this. It's awesome.

But I also think there was something great in in for McGovern. One of the ways companies go quickly to hell is for executives to stop thinking about the most important part of any business, which is line workers directly creating value for customers. Forcing himself to talk to every employee and know what good things they were doing was a great way to keep in touch with what the business was actually doing, rather than what his direct reports told him was going on.
Sublime Text (or Githubs Atom) works for me.
From a physics point of view, how would this scale up to commercial jets? Presumably you would need multiple parachutes to distribute the load, but still, how large would they have to be to support that weight?
Seems like a sentence that has nothing to do with the paragraph it appears in.
>Each factor of two a politician outspends their competitor in an election by only tends to get them another 1% of the vote.

Source? That's really interesting - I would have expected it to have a much larger impact.
This, I like.
So it's basically the same as the doge version (http://doge2048.com), only less hilarious?
And interesting UI/UX lesson would be to keep in mind colourblind people. Almost every time someone posts some graphs or stats I can't read the graph at all. I think having numbers and colours helps a lot.
>You mean like HIV/AIDs, cancer, autism, epilepsy? Of course there aren't side effects if you aren't treating.

I can see that you cannot even reason logically and understand simple comparisons. No comparison can be made between trying to naturally cure HIV/AIDS and someone with a short attention span while sitting at a desk all day switching to a more suitable job.

>You are begging the question. First you are assuming their is some growth to the number of people being treated that don't require treatment. Secondly, you assuming that they are bad because they are "mind altering."

This is not my assumption. It is a proven fact. The criteria for diagnosed ADHD has changed so dramatically over the last 20 years, a person who is suffering from stress or sleep deprivation (with side effects of a lower attention span and concentration abilities) is commonly diagnosed with ADHD and put on meds.

This conversation is done. I refuse to try and reason with an illogical and senseless person.
And don't assume that since you watched the "I, Robot" movie you don't need to read the series.
But it is no less true now.

If anything the explosion of ubiquitous and instantaneous social media has only exacerbated the tendencies towards branding unorthodox thinking as Thoughtcrime as a twittermob of snark and hatred can be summoned in hours if not minutes.
Thanks for bringing reason and sanity to such a politically-charged issue. The insults on Twitter when you asked for advice were pretty depressing even to a bystander, but it looks like you found the signal in the noise :)
Anyone who is interested in this topic should read the series on http://lesswrong.com
Thanks for the good read! ref: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mantis_shrimp#Eyes
Actually, prison is exactly the type of place we invented for the sole purpose of putting people we find disagreeable. We create laws to attempt to define disagreeable behavior and intentionally keep them vague enough that if someone gets out of line we can lock them up.
> as, indeed, it is hard to separate them when you get down to it

Indeed. For one thing, probably nearly anyone who has successfully had good ideas is a "finisher" to some extent (though to very varying extents). Isaac Newton certainly thought hard and persevered in his researches, but as soon as you're bringing him in as an example of a "finisher" as opposed to an "ideas man" you've pretty badly undermined any distinction you were building between the two.
Mobile devices are often limited by memory bandwidth, and by OpenGL driver overhead. Consoles have very little driver overhead, so number of draw calls is not as big a problem, but state changes are still costly, so doubling the number of state changes hurts performance. I could imagine some clever techniques to avoid doubling the number of state changes (perhaps a geometry shader that duplicates triangles to render both eyes at once) but I don't know how well that would work. VR rendering is still mostly unexplored!
"Elon Musk made the electric car cool.

Mark Zuckerberg created Facebook.

Ashton Kutcher portrayed Apple founder Steve Jobs in a movie."

Which one of these things is not like the others?