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My problem with YCs push for more "Female Founders"
First off, Sam Altmans post about female founders comes off as a bunch of hoopla trying to save a very-damaged YC company that has never done anything for women before. We have no reason to believe that this sudden change of heart is for anything other than PR.

But that's not the point of this post. I am upset because YC has basically said they are now going to predominantly accept two groups: White males and Females. This, obviously, leaves out an entire group of people who fall under a different category: Male founders who are minorities.

There is this misconception that simply because you are male, things are handed to you/easier. Ask any black male or aspiring mexican entrepreneur. If you think we don't struggle (yes, I am a person of color), you are absolutely blinded. So my message to YC: either shut the fuck up and continue to operate your merit-based acceptance, or create something to help ALL groups who are struggling for entrance.

Sam's post comes off as uninformed AT BEST, and absolutely ignorant at worst. Don't try to say you are not promoting diversity just for diversitys sake when in reality there are tons of amazingly talented colored people who are not a part of YCs classes. Yes, female founders will create great companies, but to think we haven't given the short-end of the stick to non-white males is just absurd.

Would love to hear the YC community's thoughts on this.
1. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQVTIJBZook around 11:30. This is common knowledge, we should not have to repeat this every time we talk about this topic.

5. Where in npm (I've no clue what that is) can I find:
1. a calendar widget to put on my page?
2. an email, password, confirm password form to put on my page?

You're not getting his point.
What I understand.

1) Rapidly post/cancel trades, risking a fill.
2) ???
3) Profit!

The ??? represent the part I don't understand.

(If you are actually interested, "quote stuffing" is typically the result of algorithms interacting in unexpected ways. It's not intentional or beneficial. I've spent weeks trying to reduce the amount of it.)
"Cloud based" is a little misleading, but the service they're offering is a very good idea. Batch PCB services have existed for a while and several have settled out as popular choices. Now the hacker / small product dev community can have suitably downscaled assembly services too.

Hopefully the part standardisation will also include footprints for the PCB tools; setting that up is a common pain.
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Unless I'm mistaken, C++ was (deliberately) specified in such a way that such a redefinition does not affect the behavior of (most) already valid code.

Perhaps it doesn't change the implementation, but I know I've used the above trick to get access to private functions for unit testing (yes, yes, I know you "should" only test interfaces, or make internal tests; spare me and realize it's useful: http://mrzechonek.github.io/tut-framework/faq.html#can-we-te...)
Considering this really isn't a, "have to have it right now" type feature, it's simply easier to kick off the compile and walk away.
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That VFX companies often write their own software (happening less and less these days) to do something commercial packages can't - or at the very least heavily customise something like Maya.

So the lack of diversity in software for VFX doesn't hurt the big studios that much.
That your boss has helped strip you of your civil rights.
The UK is finally making it legal to rip a CD on June 1st
Seems like this approach might also work for building type-specific collection implementations as well!
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I feel you about the inadequacies and oddities of JS, HTML, and CSS, but who's going to engineer this clean break with the past? What entity or entities are cohesive enough in purpose and broad enough in interest to produce something that could ever hope to rival the existing, impressive-if-frequently-kludgy, broadly-installed functionality of the web platform?

What is so broken ("broken"-broken, not just "hard to do correctly", "inconvenient", or "inconsistent") about JS/HTML/CSS?

You bring up general software development, so I want to say: "custom elements defined with HTML templates rendered in a shadow dom" must just sound like layering crazy on crazy, but it's actually a really old-school idea: encapsulation. Encapsulate the HTML structure, the CSS that styles it, and the Javascript that adds behavior and/or fully elaborates the structure into a single thing and maybe some of the crazy can be controlled.
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Surely we can discuss different threat models without it becoming a "war"?
And for the virtual DOM concept, there is not only React but also ractivejs, and mithriljs, and I'm sure many others. And just in this one little example, each of those libraries I mentioned are very good, and it's not at all clear which you should be using, especially if you are new to all three.

The OP is talking about a real problem. Unfortunately I don't see any good obvious solution, and I agree that everyone agreeing to use Framework X is not one.
Hum, if I got the initial post right, that was the very point made here. If we would want to have developers to invest in original ideas in a market that has so little barriers, it's probably up to the customers (and their long term strategy) to care for this. Otherwise, it wouldn't be wise for anyone to invest in this market place at all, which would probably effect in a total lack of originality in the goods traded there.

Edit: Please note that it is in the very nature of a game (being it a mobile game or a board game) to have quite simple mechanics and a limited set of rules, in a sense of "simple to learn, impossible to master" (as mentioned by the authors of Threes!). So it's in the very essence of a good game to allow copies with an effort that is in no relation with the effort that has to be invested to come up with the rules and mechanics in the first place.
I'm impressed with Apple's work and it reaches all the way down to the user experience (I can play GTA San Andreas on my 5s), but the pace of Intel's research over the last 10 years has been absolutely demonic. I think for Apple to compete on that front would require an extreme investment.

For example see the second chart here: http://preshing.com/20120208/a-look-back-at-single-threaded-...
>Having liquidity available to take is not useless.

Um, I covered that point pretty thoroughly.

>It's not a tax. If you choose not to take liquidity you don't pay for it.

It isn't a choice. You cannot chose to not participate in an equities market without HFT. Not right now, anyway.

>If you do choose to take liquidity

You you even understand yourself what that phrase means?
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and this:

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and this:

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How do you do documentation in Haskell? For Python and Clojure, there's docstrings. For Java there's Javadoc. For Haskell, there doesn't seem to be any well-established documentation practices.

This is of course not counting the occasional comment explaining why/how you're doing something convoluted.
This is a good example of why everyone should avoid using reflect package as much as possible.

I use reflect for quick development and then remove it before production roll out.
Interesting, I've never met a domain squatter that didn't have a price, but setting that aside for now, is the word '4chan' trademarked? Ahh I see it is [1] as of March 5th of this year. This will be interesting to see how it plays out.

[1] http://trademarks.justia.com/858/67/4chan-85867485.html
I'm guessing you don't own their stock. They have one of the best dividend payouts in the sector. MS in the last decade has been low risk and steady rewards.
Nothing truly prevents them, but competition provides an incentive for doing otherwise.

Of course, that only works if you use provider-agnostic services (e.g. raw VMs, services with standard APIs) instead of locking yourself in to some proprietary service/API, otherwise the switching costs might be prohibitive.
Thanks. I actually had those repros starred on Github but I must have forgotten about it. I'll look into porting mach_override to Linux.
Though not directly related, ideas like this will inevitibly lead to the mainstream robotics era. Even today, it is very hard to even 'get' the right components for your design. If this works, then the 'first entry' barrier to the field will be removed, and it will be easier for someone to work on the ZX or Apple II of the robots.
If it's not a tax, then why was the RBC guy able to save millions of dollars by using software to ensure that his orders arrived simultaneously at all the exchanges? If, as related in the 60 Minutes story, institutional investors are each being charged hundreds of millions of dollars per year, how can that be seen as anything other than a tax?
Simple Answer: Competition.

The cost per performance ratio is always going down too, which translates into lowered costs for them and ultimately the customer. They also can't collude together (at least not legally) to raise prices.
Define squatted (or define legitimate use) - if the owner is using the domain for email and simply finds serving advertising provides some income, is that squatting; given there is no confusion issue. If they have a project in hand, or bought it to give to their child when they're 18, or ... are all those squatting?

How about, as for me, they renewed for a client and then the client didn't pay but now wants "their" domain back. Is me having that and serving ads to recoup costs (rather than wasting time on courts), is that squatting?

>Or even worse, told them they would post porn redirects at all the sites if they didn't buy them at huge markup? //

Extortion and practices intended to affect the business of a RTM are already unlawful of course.
The red-haired guy is Patrick Collison (co-founder of Auctomatic and Stripe).
At the moment this is the winning result of a competition (first person to run Qiii with the open source drivers at 1080x? At 20 fps) so there are further optimisations to be made.

Once the code has been tweaked there'll probably be an image for it somewhere.
Just curious why did you chose Google cloud over AWS or Rackspace. Migrating from internal servers to public cloud makes sense in some instances. Have you looked at private cloud for example using OpenStack or vCloud?
Does it have two-factor auth yet? I'm not dropping Lastpass until it does.
I hate XML as much as the next guy but in this case I would blame a poorly designed (or maybe very misused) API.

There's no reason why any file parsing library would end up fetching remote data without being explicitly asked to do so. Actually, it shouldn't even be the library's concern to fetch those files, an XML library has no business with networking. It's a security concern and a maintenance hell.
"Cloud based" was used because we just couldn't think of a better term.

Footprints for part standardization is absolutely the goal. If we get a known footprint then we can guarantee a better yield because we know it's reliable. How many 0603 footprints do you think exist out there? How many times have people created that? So much redundant effort...
> As long as you're incorporated, you're personally shielded from incurring those loses yourself or anyone going after you for those losses, as long as you didn't personally guarantee those accounts

That's not necessarily true. There are a number of things which can allow the "corporate veil" protecting stockholders from personal liability to be pierced, including a stockholder that is also a corporate decision-maker engaging in grossly negligent or reckless acts as a corporate decision-maker that produce the corporate liability.

Incorporation provides a shield against personal liability, but it is not an absolute, unconditional shield, especially for stockholders who are also decision-makers in the corporation.
>Please explain the mechanics of this.

You say that a lot.

I already explained the exact mechanics in this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7500223

...which you did not respond to.
TL:DR; The richest rich are much richer than the least rich rich, and becoming richer still.

I'm kind of struggling to find the personal relevance of a story reporting churn within the top 1%.
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C++ will put this in context
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But bandwidth isn't free. Someone's gotta pay for it in some way or another, and if a major company lets say is using your hosted copy without asking, then perhaps they should host their own?
That's great.

I haven't looked but are there documentations to allow 14 year olds who have never done this before?
This script is used by rawgithub.io. It allows to punish the 'abusers'. There isn't really a notion of open-source in it.

I think the idea is more that if someone is eating your bandwidth by hotlinking your jQuery.js, then you can serve them this instead.
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I understand your point but the goal here is to get a better Blender and hopefully a successful demonstration of a new production model. These are the artifacts that tie into the world and hopefully that would mean you would see more entertainment and fun created for you in the future.
You can tell that the article has been penalized by comparing it with the articles above it. Currently this article is at #7 with 168 points and 2 hours. The #6 article is at 179 points and 6 hours. The #5 article is at 172 points and 4 hours. Because time is weighted heavily (an exponent of 1.8), the NSA article would easily rank above these ones if there are no penalties. Thus, due to penalties, the NSA article is ranking a few spots below where it should, but is still on the front page.

Source: I did the righto.com analysis of how HN ranking really works.
thank you.

i guess i'll have to believe what the military sais. and the witnesses must have seen ghosts, then.
My first thought was that there was no way I'd want to make my deploys dependent on yet another random webservice. But it looks like there's a standalone version, too. https://github.com/crohr/pkgr
It doesn't, as a cursory glance at the source would show.
I'd like to see evidence.

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"We trusted them because they are charged with security for the U.S. government and U.S. critical infrastructure."

Which is true, and as examples we have SE Linux and apparently strengthening the S-boxes of DES against differential cryptanalysis, which had not yet been independantly discovered by public researchers (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Encryption_Standard#NSA.2...).

However, that was then; now, we legitimately trust the NSA a lot less, but I'm not sure we should blame RSA too much for not noticing the transition.

I'd also note that I arrived at MIT a couple of years after RSA was first published, and I heard various rumors that there were rather intense sub rosa interactions between the team and the NSA et. al. in that period. With a good outcome, but threats were made etc.
That's right, we created a Python/Django Learning Path because that's what we knew best (also, there seem to be fewer resources on the topic).

We'll be sure to check out the book for the Ruby version of the Path.
On balance, I think that Apple would use most of the energy savings from reducing to 20nm for other things: longer life and lower weight for the battery, improvements in the camera, wireless, increased RAM.
Based on my own design attempts, I think two things are holding back open source hardware design: (1) assembling and reflowing complex boards with parts in small, modern packages (0402 or 0201, QFN, fine-pitch BGAs) and (2) modern CAD features like length matching, differential-pair and multi routing and impedance matching: all the things you'd need to design a fast, wide DRAM interface, for example. (I know some off these features are available in free packages, but IMHO they're just not there yet.) These would open up the kind of designs that are currently only available to elite designers with Altium, things like the RaspberryPi, BBB or bunnie's Novena.

I built my own oven and had reasonable luck with two-sided boards with small packages (e.g. 0402) and large 1mm pitch BGAs, but I haven't been able to consistently reflow QFNs. However, it is expensive, time consuming, not buying in bulk kills you, and for complex boards with expensive parts, yield becomes a significant cost factor. I'll be interested to see what their costs are like. A service like this could be transformational.
My exact reaction. It just seems mind-boggling that anyone would set something up like this as a side project. I'm not even sure it would be legal in the U.S. One thing I am not at all confused about: I would shut it down right now. Literally. Go shut it down.
I've had to use reflect due to missing functions in an upstream API. We could have forked the upstream package or used reflect in one function.

We decided to put in a patch and use reflect until it is accepted.
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The whole point of encryption is that you can give it to a malicious third party and they won't be able to see what's inside. Why would this be an issue for you?
I see from your profile that you're based in London. Do the advantages that you mentioned come in useful for yourself? For example, do you do a lot of travelling/working between European countries?
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> I often feel like always telling the truth is the result of privilege.

Maybe, but the converse seems to also be supported: that ease in lying is the result of privilege: http://mors.haas.berkeley.edu/papers/Carney.HowPowerCorrupts...

If both the ability to lie frequently and/or tell the truth as a rule are the result of privilege, what explanatory effect does privilege have?
To see another way that operating systems (could) have gone, you could read about Niklaus Wirth's Oberon system that Zurich university still uses and develops on. He & Jurg Gutknecht designed/built the system from processor & peripherals to the language and end user applications. Total stack consistency.

* a better motivation: http://ignorethecode.net/blog/2009/04/22/oberon/
* Project Oberon pdf: http://www.inf.ethz.ch/personal/wirth/
* development branch head: http://bluebottle.ethz.ch/
Not to mention, "29% of all disasters are caused by accidents". What on earth are the rest caused by? I'm sure a few are caused by malice, but I strongly doubt that it's 61%.
OP here, thanks for the comment. fpm is a great tool: PKGR is based on https://github.com/crohr/pkgr, which itself uses fpm. That being said, you indeed need to make sure your build system is close to your target system, and it is not that easy to package complex apps with specific dependencies. Generally, (Web) Application packaging does not have the same needs as OS packaging.
It is trademarked, though it's to an LLC called 4chan.
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1. JavaScript has "bad parts", yes, but we can just ignore them. Allow me to use an analogy here: Image you have a smartphone that has 100 apps installed, and of those 100 apps, 10 are crapware (e.g. pre-installed vendor-specific apps that are just bad). Does this make the phone horrible? No, of course not. Just ignore that crapware. Even if you can't uninstall it, it's not an issue for you. Use the good apps, install more good apps if you like to (analogy to JavaScript libraries) and ignore the crapware (JavaScript "bad parts").

2. That's literally what web components are for. Read OP's post. We will have <calendar-widget> and <login-form> and many more custom elements with plug-and-play functionality.
Where is all this leading? Is someone leading some kind of action to change this or are we just gazing at the issue making ourselves all feel terrible? Is it worth changing?

It seems like this situation is pretty historically standard anyway yet there is progress on all counts.
Many of us become cynical about technologies that promise big breakthroughs in productivity, so we become overly careful in our choices, but this is a good question for managers to always be asking:

"Why would a large organisation with a mix of technologies and legacy systems want to muddy the waters with a completely new language?"

If you want to make the conservative choice, and stick with what you already have, you should be able to articulate the reasons as clearly as you would if you were choosing a new technology.

This certainly hints at the productivity power that I have discovered via Clojure:

"Could Clojure be used to build the bespoke CMS? Is it too bleeding edge? Would his team get it?"

When Colin Steele wrote about his experience as CTO at RoomKey, he also emphasized the incredible productivity benefits of using Clojure:

"As of this writing, we’re on track to having 9 million uniques a month, from zero at the start of 2012. We did so with absolutely no fuss, no late nights, no hand wringing, and a laughably small amount of additional opex spend. "

http://www.colinsteele.org/post/23103789647/against-the-grai...

And in this article Dave Elliman is describing an architecture very similar to what Colin Steele describes, and with similar gains in productivity:

"After brainstorming some ideas we decided to put forward the idea of a Javascript based Single Page App (SPA) with a Clojure back end and a set of small Clojure based micro services sitting on top of MongoDB hosted in Rackspace."

I haven't done the Javascript thing yet, but the Clojure/MongoDb/micro-services approach has worked out very well for me. (I'm using "micro-services" informally, as in "lots of small apps that work together").
What if someone hotlinks evil.js?
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> The biggest drawback of Berlin would be the language, in my opinion.

Its not a problem for the Germans, they like speaking English. I agree that it might be a problem for English speakers who irrationally decide that its a problem.
I struggle with finding that delicate balance between the truth ...

Oh, so you lie, but lie by omission? Or one of the other forms of lying we tend to morally wallpaper over? I don't see how else to read that because you said your goal was to avoid making false promises, not to avoid "bending" the truth.
So we can check the hostname from our code and hot-link evil.js from http://kitcambridge.be/evil.js/evil.min.js :)
If you are not checking it, how do you know your drives are not flipping bits?
If I post an ALO order and don't cross the spread, what "tax" do I pay to the evil HFT?

And why would I not be paying this to a human market maker, in the event that HFTs hadn't driven them all out of the market?