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by jdp23 15y ago
Some other incubators fund more women and minorities than YC, so this seems like it's only part of the story. A couple questions this leaves in my mind: - what are they doing to broaden the applicant pool? - have they considered that somet
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by jdp23 15y ago
The author explained why the people making the traditional arguments do in fact illustrate how accurate his observation is. It's true though that articles won't reach guys are so defensive or clueless on this subject that they're not respo
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by jdp23 15y ago
Or, perhaps you should realize that the "logical" arguments are not actually logical and have been repeatedly refuted.
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by jdp23 15y ago
Yeah, I'm noticing a pattern here ... https://plus.google.com/u/0/115324919838980591640/posts/LaEL...
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SOPA Markup Halted; Opponents Get a Little More Time(adweek.com)
2 points by jdp23 15y ago|0 comments
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Microsoft opening ‘So.cl’ learning experiment to more users(geekwire.com)
1 points by jdp23 15y ago|0 comments
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by jdp23 15y ago
Chaffetz has been really good on civil liberties in general.
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by jdp23 15y ago
I think this misunderstands the goals of bug prediction, which are typically along the lines of - directing engineering resources to where they're likely to be most leveraged from a quality standpoint [what Google focused on] - estimating h
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by jdp23 15y ago
Defect detection != defect prediction
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by jdp23 15y ago
Indeed. Also, typically code "ownership" is at the file level -- and that's likely to correlate strongly with defects in situations where a peron who hasn't been well trained (or is just a bad programmer) is writing or maintaining the code
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by jdp23 15y ago
If you're into defect prediction, it's worth checking out the work the Empirical Software Engineering group at Microsoft Research has done over the years -- http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/groups/ese/publications....
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Ask HN: Has Hacker News been successful at minimizing trolling?
4 points by jdp23 15y ago|2 comments
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by jdp23 15y ago
In October, there were 120,000 unique IPs/day.
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by jdp23 15y ago
Wow, 15 points in less than an hour and it's not on the front page ... is there a penalty for cat-related stories?
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Russian President Caught In Twitter Flap(tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com)
1 points by jdp23 15y ago|0 comments
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by jdp23 15y ago
After we got acquired by Microsoft the option were converted over to MS options and the strike price was something like $1.14. Yeah, the stock plunged; but I was pretty confident they'd never be underwater :)
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The Right (and Wrong) Way to Die When You Fall Into Lava(wired.com)
12 points by jdp23 15y ago|3 comments
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by jdp23 15y ago
I wonder if the FTC will follow through on the settlement and fine Facebook $10,000 for each violation? There's a dozen or so photos of Zuck, so that's $120K already ...
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by jdp23 15y ago
Rotisserie Angel Investing!
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by jdp23 15y ago
I didn't mean to suggest that they're focused on excluding women from their roles. It's more that the people at the top have gotten there in the current situation. So emotionally they tend not to want to acknowledge what a huge advantage t
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by jdp23 15y ago
Yes, that's been examined and repeatedly discredited.
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by jdp23 15y ago
Totally agreed about asking ten women about their experiences -- with the caveat that you need to do it in a way that they'll be comfortable enough to be honest with you. It can be really eye-opening. Unfortunately as you say, in many situ
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by jdp23 15y ago
> Why is that the case? Any ideas? The situation gives men an enormous advantage. And the vast majority of the 90%+ of Fortune 500 CEOs and tech startups and VCs who are guys don't seem to have any interest in changing it. Why do you
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by jdp23 15y ago
The Wall Street Journal's Surveillance Catalog, which includes some of the same companies, has a much nicer interface although a lot less information: http://projects.wsj.com/surveillance-catalog/
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MafiaaFire just killed all censorship from the copyright industry(falkvinge.net)
2 points by jdp23 15y ago|0 comments
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by jdp23 15y ago
Check out "Ask For It: How Women Can Use the Power of Negotiation to Get What They Really Want", by Linda Babcock and Sarah Laschever. Their earlier book "Women Don't Ask" is well worth reading too.
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LaunchNow Turns Building Startups Into A Game(techcrunch.com)
1 points by jdp23 15y ago|0 comments
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Survey: Venture capital is very much dominated by white men(geekwire.com)
1 points by jdp23 15y ago|0 comments
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by jdp23 15y ago
I'm not sure I understand your point. Are you saying that since a conference without a screening process has a non-diverse audience, Y Combinator's screening process has no effect on your diversity?
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by jdp23 15y ago
The early data appears to show usage increasing until the pseudonym purges started -- which is also when the press coverage shifted from glowing to mixed.

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