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Let’s face it no business manager would think about asking for the level of commitment and self-sacrifice that is commonly asked of software developers of a lawyer or CPA

I suspect the author has never been a just-out-of-college grad in any job other than development. I can assure you that there will be the expectation of providing your services for >40h/week in many industries.

Do you know how hard the big law/accounting firms work their new recruits?
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I'm curious to this as well. One project I'm working on is software that helps small assisted living facilities (think a house in a neighborhood with under 16 residents) maintain compliance with their state regulations. That price point puts them way outside of my budget. EHRs for nursing homes and hospitals? I might have missed it, but a detailed explanation of why their service is necessary would help convince that I need them, or at least who their target market is. Otherwise, I really like the idea.
> Though $3,499/month is WAY above what a small company like mine can afford.

In order to host a HIPAA-compliant application on Amazon, there is a $1,500/month per-zone fee. This does not even count the actual server or storage costs, let alone the costs of building (and then maintaining) a complaint server application plus managing the documentation for it.

You also have to pay this fee again if you want to host the application in a second region (e.g. for failover/redundancy).

So, an extra $2000/month to forget about all of those is a signficant cost, but still a reasonable price.
Nice UI and a comprehensive app. Congratulations on a job well done!

My only thought is that small to mid-sized churches may not have a Rails specialist, so a hosted option would probably be very popular.
I was thinking about writing a driver for laptops that have the touchpad in front of the space bar. Sometimes when I am typing, I accidentally move the focus by touching the touchpad, and my text gets entered in the wrong place. I think I could write a driver, or application, which recognizes that pattern and keeps track of the erroneously placed text. Then a magic keystroke combination could be used to invoke an automatic repair.
Steve is a really great guy. He's super friendly and incredibly accessible. I've emailed or tweeted him a handful of times and he's always been very helpful. I don't agree with everything he says but he has turned me onto a lot of issues I didn't know anything about especially feminism.
Javascript owes is a lot of its recent success to Rails. Backbone.js was seeded by the popularity of rails, which brought about Ember, Angular, and other JS MVC frameworks that are extremely popular today.
How is it punish?

You only pay on profit and it's clear up front when you start.

You can agree or disagree on it's efficacy on growing overall prosperity but to call it 'punishment' is strange.
Nice work, this is awesome.
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One objection I have is with hackathons. From my observations most hackathons aren't particularly inclusive environments - they may do more harm than good.

Examples include the intense focus on competition and prizes (I didn't think it was a good idea for YC Hacks to explicitly advertise the prize of getting an interview), the fact that many hackathons now have applications processes where more applicants are rejected than accepted (so that the net effect is more exclusion than inclusion), and the general vibe of having to power through the night with redbull while cranking out code.

Most hackathons I've attended I've usually gotten this exclusive, rather than inclusive vibe. From my own experiences, the most exclusive hackathons have been the larger, more monied, more applied-to ones that have more applicants than attendees. The most inclusive hackathons have been smaller, intimate hackathons where the problem has been not having enough attendees!

EDIT (reply to below): I'm referring to the general feeling of inclusion vs. exclusion (of newcomers, people not sure if they fit the mold of <quote>hardcore<unquote> coders, etc.). The next step is to argue that exclusion discourages minorities from pursuing the field.
> Mega-racist? What? Lost me a bit there.

I assume that was mostly a thinly-veiled jab at ESR; who is a racist and generally a giant asshat, IMO; but it probably isn't worded in the best way when taken out of context of the paragraph preceding it since it sounds like the speaker is conflating ESR with the Free software people (who I also tend to disagree with on a great many things but for different reasons). At the very least, I wouldn't associate libertarianism with the high-level FSF types.
Ah, but you're committing the very same fallacy! It's not possible that "everyone started selling their stocks" in 2008. That statement makes zero logical sense. Every seller was matched by a buyer. We might just as well say that everyone starting buying stocks in 2008.

I think what often links stock prices with demand for money is risk preferences. If stocks become more volatile (which they tend to do while falling), investors deleverage. This deleveraging reduces the velocity of money and thereby increases the demand for cash. If unchecked, this will cause deflation and requires the Fed to create more money in response.
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The only age you see in any of these is percentage.

Diversity shouldn't be a whatever convenient cause you want to look progressive on.
I see this issue a lot when people try to show off their projects. "Check out my new gui/platform/product/application/plugin - If you are interesting in seeing it visually, simply fork my repo, step through the install, and get it running locally."
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In fairness, a CPA is not likely to be "fresh out of college" recruit, and likely will be a bit more firm in what they will or will not due in regards to time commitment and expectations out of the company.
I feel compelled to bring up, as a public service, that 'patriotism' has nothing to do with one's government, and using it in an attempt to manipulate people into financing more and more mass murder is disingenuous and disgusting.
I just went through a process like this as a candidate. I was emailed a problem description and told, "Please send us the code that solves this problem. Do so at your leisure, and please don't spend more than x hours on it." This meant I got to use my own setup, and didn't feel as though I was required to come up with the "perfect" solution.

When you think about it, it's odd that most programmers aren't interviewed this way. As a firm, the most important question I want answered is "Can the candidate do the job?" There are obviously other important considerations, but that's numero uno. And the best way to tell whether the candidate can do the job is to ask them for a small sample to prove it.

I'm 100% certain I've been passed over for positions at other places because the hiring process isn't generally designed to answer that question accurately. It's something I want to keep in mind for when I'm on the other side of the table.
Is it supposed to look this bad? http://d.pr/i/XCGR
Pages about fonts should be written in the target font. On that note, what font is the page about the font in? I wish there were a fixed-width version of that font.
Give me a break. Cuban is the first to admit that he got lucky in terms of his valuation, but it wasnt his first exit and his extensive writing on business should show that his success was not the result of luck.

Further, if it werent for his intelligent investing, he would have lost nearly all of the proceeds from that sale, like so many others did(1). It was exactly his smart investing that allowed him to _keep_ his "lucky" windfall

(1) http://investmentxyz.blogspot.com/2006/05/cubans-collar-anat...
Congrats Tim -- you truly are a software evangelist!

Do you have any idea how many churches currently use the software? Are many of them based in Tulsa?
Rails really hit a sweet spot. It has the right culture and organization to attempt to not go too far off into spaghetti-code land, yet it's also very much about getting things done in the real world rather than writing a bunch of boilerplate junk.

I started using it sometime in about 2005/6 and am still very happy with it.
A friend at work who is a US citizen and has been living in Canada for ~15 years just found out he owes back taxes for those 15 years to the USA.

He's been told that as of July 1 2014, renouncing US citizenship will have no impact, he still has to pay back taxes, and forward taxes.

I'm doing some googling now, and this might be it, or at least related, I'm not certain

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/fatca-facts-what-canadians-nee...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_Account_Tax_Compliance_...
This would require significant tax treaty changes. http://www.crossborderalliance.com/Resources/NRA%20Tax%20gui... has some of the basics of how it works.

Essentially, this has major consequences on foreign investments which were built on the assumptions of a individual tax.

Further, there are trusts that can limit tax burdens. It is quite possible that the total taxation would decrease, and it would decrease on those at the top of the heap, not at the bottom.

We would have to figure out how to rebalance. Consider this a refactoring on code that is not easily unit testable.
Instead of 0, how about 20%? Right now the nominal rate for large companies is 35%, but they spend a lot of resources bringing the actual number lower. If we set the rate at 20%, then it becomes unprofitable for them to work so hard to avoid the tax. That means we get two advantages: companies can use that money for actual investment instead of dodging taxes, and the government might actually get more money since companies are dodging less and have more money to grow with.
There's likely to be big correlations between class and race. Gender is obviously a much more complicated one.

I think aspirations are likely to play a big role here, after all people tend to judge their successes relative to their family and close friends. So for a kid from a poor neighbourhood (who's more likely to be black), getting a good job with a decent salary and benefits is a great success already and running a startup is too risky so there's less incentive.

If you come from an upper middle class family and all of your siblings are training to be lawyers or doctors then that ups the ante a lot in what your "floor" to success is, and like you say risk is reduced because of family so starting "the next facebook" looks like a more attractive option.
He probably meant to link to something about the Yellowstone anomaly. The idea is you kill someone in the 50 square miles of Yellowstone National Park that is in the state of Idaho (most of Yellowstone is in the state of Wyoming).

The Sixth Amendment says in a criminal trial the defendant has a right to a trial by a jury from the State and district where the crime was committed.

The problem is that all of Yellowstone is in the District of Wyoming, including the 50 square miles that is in the State of Idaho. Hence, the jury must consist of people that are from that 50 square mile region of the park and state.

The permanent population of that region is 0, and it is a part of the park that is rarely visited so the transient population is close to 0.

No jury can be impaneled for your trial, and without a trial, you cannot be convicted.
I chose the word "punishment" because corporate taxes (and taxes of top tier earners) are dramatically higher than "everyday joe's".[1]

An argument can be made that they earn more/have more profit, and therefore can afford more in taxes -- yet that is the very punishment I'm referring to. "You are more successful than I, therefore you owe a higher percentage of your income".

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Income_tax_in_the_United_States...
Ivy League is an athletic conference, or at best a collection of prestigious schools from the north east:

The eight institutions are Brown University, Columbia University, Cornell University, Dartmouth College, Harvard University, Princeton University, the University of Pennsylvania, and Yale University.

I don't think this is what you mean.
1) I suspect that the bias against girls is "I don't think she'll be effective" rather than "I am sexist and don't want girls to succeed".

2) The bias doesn't seem to be that strong to me. This is a simplification, but I'd guess that girls start with about a 10% handicap. Meaning that in close cases, girls lose out. But in the cases of girls who clearly have ability, I don't see the bias against them as something that will prevent them from being successful.

3) A more important question is "what can we do about it?". I agree with the idea to showcase successful women. I think it'll help a little. But obviously it isn't anything close to a solution by itself.

Option 1: If people were less biassed in the general sense, the bias against girls would be reduced. I think that making people less biased in the general sense is an important goal, but ultimately unlikely to happen for some time.

Option 2: As there are more and more instances of girls having success, people will start to view girls as more competent, and the bias will be reduced. I think the fastest way to reduce the bias against girls is to increase the amount of successful girls.

The question then becomes, "how do you do that?". This is getting long so I won't go into this too much... but I think it needs to be active rather than passive. Don't just sit there and wait for them to come to you asking for help. Go out there and inspire and persuade them.
Cuban's not arguing this from an ethics perspective. He's saying that it may temporarily boost shareholder value, but the trade off is increasing his personal tax liability (he's assuming the tax shortfall will be made up by increased taxes to the remaining taxpayers).
Because of racist laws, policies and practices Black people have fewer opportunities from literally before they're born. Studies indicate that poor nutrition and other environmental factors explain the "IQ gap" nearly completely. The remaining points are most likely an issue of bias in the tests themselves. Most white people wouldn't do well in an AAVE based IQ test.

Black people (and other minorities) are being actively discriminated against. In terms of the neighborhoods they live in (white flight), law enforcement (stop and frisk, minimum sentences, racial profiling), employment, housing (mortgage applications) and so on. This active discrimination is an ongoing and constant problem that goes all the way back to apartheid. Black people will do better when white people stop holding them back.

Conflating black culture and active discrimination has racist connotations. For instance appalling Wall Street behavior is not condemned as a failing of white culture, but street crime is erroneously attributed as a failing of black culture. There are a thousand other examples. Black culture: music, food, dance, art, speech are not to blame. No more than white culture is to blame for WW2.

It's part of the racist discourse where environmental factors are described as if they're innate failings of people who are genetically no different from anybody else.

Now I don't believe you're a racist person (you probably don't think group X is inferior to group Y), but the arguments you make have racist connotations for the reasons I gave above.
I switched to Fira Mono from Mozilla. It's kinda similar, and I like Source Code Pro too, but I like Fira Mono a bit more :-)
thank you! I've been looking for something like this for a while now, been trying to mess with the API myself but a tad over my head.
That's it. I've had it with cancelled shows. I'm no longer starting any shows until the series finale has aired.
Its fantastic the gender issue is being looked at. And it's nice that non-US citizens are funded.

But what percentage of the founders were pg's age or older?
Why is competition a diversity problem? To me, the idea that aggressive competition selects for a specific age, gender, or ethnicity is itself problematic. Not to mention that I think that's not true.
You are curious why he thinks businesses are morally obligated not to select the optimal tax environment for them. Only he never indicated that he thinks that.

Your question should be: Why would Mark Cuban want to encourage companies to stay and pay taxes? The answer to that question is somewhat obvious.
I don't think the r in this typeface is aesthetically pleasing :(
Sorry, perhaps it's a little unclear.

Rudimentary Scan means you ran a scan from our homepage, pre-verification, and we couldn't run our full suite of modules. All that is saying is that now since you're verified you should re-run a scan which will look for quite a bit more. We figured putting it there would be the best way of not giving a false sense of security from our 'rudimentary scan.' We make it 'borderline unsafe' so as to prevent that false sense of security. I can totally understand your confusion, and we should make this clearer. Ideas / feedback are always appreciated. :)

The email address is an informational vulnerability, which is dismissible.

Does that clarify things? (cofounder of Tinfoil)
I would learn Go and help build out Bazil: http://bazil.org/

Solves a problem I've had for a long time.
Point 2: You are not paying double taxes on the income. You are paying taxes on the profit you made selling the investment. If I invest $100 and make $10, I pay taxes on the $10, not the original $100 investment.
The post title would be less offensive if you read the article more carefully, since it explicitly addresses ethnicity. And of course, calling foul when an article about diversity prioritizes gender issues is a way to trivialize gender issues. Was that your intent? Surely not, but the toxic subtext is there nonetheless.
I love using Cassandra; it's been a dream for analytics. Thank you Netflix et al. for not only moving the project forward, but providing research and commentary like this and others available at http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/ArticlesAndPresentations
Hey guys, author here. After being a long time free-rider, I thought to give back something useful.

Thanks for trying! Don't forget to check 'samples' dir. It should help you make an opinion.
So, I guess this means Cuban has no stake in Apple & Google to name a few?
> What companies are doing is nothing more than citizens within the US can and choose to do, they move to places where their tax burden is less.

Note that is one thing US citizens cannot do, if you mean a different country versus a different state. The US is one of relatively few countries that tax citizens (and green card holders) no matter where you choose to live, or where your income is earned. (There can be some allowance for taxes already paid.) You can of course give up your citizenship, but good luck getting back into the country.

The amusing thing is that corporations are legally considered people. Why aren't these now foreign companies forced to jump through similar hoops foreigners are, and also subject to the same restrictions on applying money to the political process?
> I cannot recall the last time I wanted to move 16 lines - that would imply I stopped to count the lines

I'm sure something like this is possible in Emacs, but in vim I have it set up so that my current line shows the absolute line number and other lines show the relative line number.

If I'm eyeing a particular line that I want to jump to, I just read off its relative line number and hit j or k, according to whether it's down or up from where I'm at -- I'm there. Because I use relative line numbers, the number is never more than two digits.

For more precise navigation (jumping to a particular spot on a particular line), I use a plugin called EasyMotion, which basically lets me jump to any text object on the screen with a few key strokes.
>I'm trying to not be rude here, but my inclination is to tell you to just go look for such studies or run such a study yourself

I am not the one who is asserting things, they are. Custom demands that the person asserting something is the one who is to bring evidence.

>HN has decided to move the conversation forward, and I give them kudos for that.

If we run around on hearsay and feelings, how do we really know what is forwards? You could end up damaging the very goal you are trying to get to.
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Then can I suggest you find someone who can - otherwise one if us Atheists will host it and make money off your hard work ;-)

Seriously, a simple hosted package, a non-profit org and I think you could find you have built a vehicle for doing some good elsewhere.
> Think about the open source software movement (OSS). One crucial perspective that the OSS shares with D&I is that both view discrimination as an impediment to progress. OSS licenses include several non-discrimination clauses (economic, field of endeavor, other restrictions). The licenses go to great lengths to ensure the technology is available to everyone.

While licenses may have clauses that deal with some kinds of discrimination, OSS communities are not inclusive and may actually be outright hostile to groups of people. The last Model View Culture had an article about this [1]. Suffice it to say that there is no common community behavior that appears in all OSS groups and what is exceptable in one group vs. another varies quite a bit.

> Or is it the open air bazaar, with all kinds of people talking (softly or loudly) in a place known for public discourse. A place where anyone can walk by and join in and become part of what's going on?

Well this come back to the very common myth of meritocracy in tech, that tech only looks at merit and thus avoids discrimination, personal and institutional. However, meritocracy in tech often simply functions as a way for people to avoid talking about bias or pretending like bias doesn't exist. Moreover, what it means to look for merit is often defined as those statuses and symbols that are comfortable to the dominant group of people in tech, white men of middle or higher class backgrounds.

> So this isn't really about embracing D&I. Instead, the tech community needs to start living up to its own rhetoric--it's own values. This isn't about adopting an external issue, it's about a community fully aligning with its own values.

Again, there is no consensus on values and often people actively advocate that there should be little criticism or reflection on what people and groups in tech value. Without that kind of introspection and discussion, little will change.

[1] http://modelviewculture.com/pieces/leaving-toxic-open-source...
Building out a separate network for IPTV is pretty wasteful, and then not letting customers use it how they see fit is just asking for these kinds of problems.
It's the last paragraph: "Google supports mRSS, [...]"; mRSS is a link to http://search.yahoo.com/mrss -- it seems like it should do a search, but it 404s to the Yahoo homepage.
Unless they're your own kids, in which case they're really intelligent!

It goes without saying that a 7 yr old human can do a much wider variety of intellectual tasks an adult crow, however.
The belief that African Americans were literally inferior to European Americans animated most of 20th century racism, so this observation is probably less helpful than your otherwise clear writing makes it sound.

"Girls" is probably not the word you want to be using, by the way.
That is actually a brilliant idea. I like it.
I've had almost exactly this on my back-burner of "things that would be nice to write if nobody else does". Thanks!
Yes, I was referring to ESR, who is mega libertarian and mega racist, and a large part of 'open source' rather than 'free software.'