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@Brc, I agree with you a 100%. Obviously this has to be discussed and does stir emotions. It is fine but people have to understand although you can raise a kid a certain way, they won't always do what you want. We also have to consider external factors that influence such decisions and why a person decides to choose a specific field. It will be nice for the ratio to be 50:50 when it comes to these things but it does not work that way.

Not going to hijack the thread but I am going to use myself as a guinea pig. I am a young black woman who likes hanging out here. I personally don't believe things should be handed to me. I expect to be judge based on my merits and as such. Did someone force me to come and be on hacker news? No. It a place I really like and learn alot and has been welcoming. So if women want to be in tech, they just need to make the effort and show the desire for it. They can start by choosing courses in universities and seeking out help and asking questions. They can also do research and see where like- minded individuals hangout if they are really serious about learning.
So, my gas station sign and blackboard telling what my restaurant is selling tonight are illegal? The movie theater marquee? The simple sign in the window of my store would fall under your rules.
While I have read science fiction, it's not high on my list. I prefer various forms of history to SF and I have read one fantasy series (Katherine Kurtz). Perhaps I just prefer to look backwards to understand today (and the near future) rather than far off to anticipate the future? I think I'm more of a problem solver than a visionary.

I also have a problem with anything where the science (or engineering, I guess) isn't right or consistent in my eyes. I find such things TERRIBLY distracting, slaughtering what might otherwise be a good story. Anal, yeah, but then you probably suspected this as this is HN, after all.
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This comment says everything better than I could say it.

Programming is a solitary activity where you solve logic puzzles. Anyone can do it. Another activity that is very similar is playing chess - yet no one is up in arms that chess schools aren't including 50% girls in elite chess training.

If you took a group of girls and a group of boys and put them in a room where they played chess for a few hours, then asked them how much they enjoyed it... more boys would rate the activity higher. Is it because some stupid poster on the wall??? No it's not. On average, men and women are different and have different average preferences.

Programming is not an activity where you need social support groups to succeed. It's the one activity where being a hermit who takes initiative and learns everything themselves can be an advantage over being more social. A large portion of programmers are self-taught online, and just start tinkering with things because they enjoy the activity. You can't force that.
Great points - also, since you have one less company, the VCs now have relationships with a bunch of potential new employees for their other companies.
Agreed, it's not as deep as SC4. Colossal Order has a lot of plans for DLC, and in the meantime there are mods and assets all over the Steam Workshop. It's enough to tide me over until they reveal their next expansion. :)
Polarized sunglasses sometimes cut out advertisements displayed on screens. http://imgur.com/doze8mP Maybe we can legally enforce all large public ads to be polarized so that those who wish to not see them can put on a pair of glasses.
The issue is that you assume that the payment models will also encourage the behavior you pointed out.

For example, Medicare doesn't pay hospitals more money to treat patients longer. They pay them a flat rate (based on what an average stay would cost) and that's it. Patient gets better quicker? Great hospital made a big profit. Patient gets more sick and stays in the hospital longer? Well I guess the hospital takes a loss on that patient.
What tech companies have product management internships?
I'm a junior at Case Western with coding background, but don't want to be a programmer. I really am interested in being a product manager. I know Google has APM program, but what other big tech companies and/or startups have programs similar to that.
More appropriate analogy: law students being put off by Sex In The City.

That's in some hypothetical world where the law industry is for some bizarre reason as obsessed with Sex In The City as the tech industry is obsessed with science fiction. Conversations among coworkers return to Sex and the City references with tedious regularity. The meeting rooms at your firm are called Carrie and Miranda and Samantha and... the other one. Your firm's senior partner shows you, with pride, the signed portrait of Sarah Jessica Parker that occupies pride of place in his office. I can imagine that would be pretty alienating for anyone who isn't a SatC fan.

Luckily law isn't so ridiculously obsessed with some tiny facet of pop culture.
I feel that you're strawmanning the original post by changing it from something like "death is necessary" to "death is good". Clearly there's a difference between a body becoming frail vs. somebody intentionally fatally injuring it. There's also a difference between stopping disease and stopping aging (well, at least if you define aging as not a disease, which I think is fair since AFAIK it has a different mechanism than disease.)

> there are plenty of kinds of change that don't involve ending a person's life without their consent

Is "without consent" another reference to murder, or just the fact that most people don't want to die? I assume the latter. How do you know that the kinds of change that do happen, aren't mostly because death as we know it exists and subtly influences all our decisions? Maybe there really would be less change without death.
The issue is that Norway created a social services network that was dependent on the oil money coming in. Will they starve if the oil runs out? No. Will they have to cut back on social services? Yes.
I 100% want more women in tech so this is only a comment on the star wars posters side of the thing

making video games is/requires programming so there's bound to a be a large overlap in programmers who are interested in video games.

Sci-fi inspires lots of people to get into programming. From wanting to create R2-D2 and C3PO to wanting to create projected holograms, wanting to create tricorders, computers that can take voice commands, touch surfaces, fancy new interfaces, virtual reality, AI, and many other topics touched on in sci-fi that are all directly related to programming.

Sports are not directly related and do not directly inspire most jobs but sci-fi does directly inspire many programmers to program and probably many other STEM careers. video games also inspire many programmers to program since video games are programming.
Assuming that the ability to upload our entire brain to a computer will not be available during out current lifetime, what about the idea of mass data collection of our experiences, storage of this data, then periodically run improving algorithms that combine all our experiences into a consciousness?

This would maybe involve wearing a camera 24/7 to record everything we see and hear, and also some feedback on our own inner thoughts and our own recording of our emotional responses to things. When we finally die, a computer crunches all this data using neural networks to create a consciousness based on our life experiences and emotional responses.

This would initially be maybe not fantastic, but as technology progresses the crunching of the source data improves and every decade a new iteration of our consciousness can be produced, hopefully coming closer and closer to the real us.
There is a huge range from slightly smarter than human AI vs the kind of 'magic' AI it would take to make the singularity happen. An AI that's 10% smarter than any human would probably not be that noticeable outside of testing, as it's not obvious who the smartest person in a room is. And it would take a decade of study to catch up to the cutting edge on just one field. 10x that and your doubling the rate of progress that a single person was making, but that's not really going to change much.

Suppose we develop an AI that's 100x better than that, or 10 times as fast as any person as in they can do in 1 hour what it would take a highly trained and educated person 10 hours to do. Well, after a year or two they could probably be roughly as capable as a really good 20 person team due to lower communication overhead, but adding one more 20 person team is not going to change the world much. A million of them, might double the rate that the world progresses, but that's both a long time coming and probably not going to change things much.

To really get the singularity type progress, you need an AI that can make it's self smarter though better software and hardware, which seem like a far harder problem than just building a working AI. After all what if the first thousand just want to sit around and read Fan-fiction all day.
> who knows what that will look like

Some brains will want to run on some sort of trusted infrastructure and be stored in an immutable datastore. Mine for example. Or...

Consider for a moment there will be a singularity in the future. What if it's a critical, recursive part of existence? If there is a singularity coming, it's likely to have happened before now. I'm not saying we're not experiencing it for the first time here, but maybe this is the nature of things...to be recursive in creation of a thing and then that thing eventually discovering its true nature of oneness. Maybe we're the big uploaded uni-brain already, but sliver of it chose this reality for ourselves because we can all come here and exist together separately on a somewhat level playing field. Some may choose something else for themselves eventually, like uploading their brains to...wherever this is running.

Me? I sorta like it here and want to stick around for a while.
No matter who you are, applying broad strokes to the industry is going to paint many incorrectly. The idea that there is one factor that "really" keeps women out of tech implies that the other reasons are false. In reality, it is very subjective. I would also have been put off by her experience with pressure to "act like a man" and I'm a man. But, just as anecdotally, I only encountered this once: the cs department of umass. Every job I've held has been much more diverse in terms of interests than one would think reading this article.

Perhaps not speaking for huge swathes of people based on anecdotal evidence would lead to better insights. I see the hiring pipeline as a problem. A college professor might see high school as the problem. The high school might see the parents as the problem. The parents might see society as the problem. Etc etc. In reality, there are so many opportunities to become persuaded or dissuaded the idea that one dominates requires extraordinary evidence.

Personally, I'm a queer, anti-authoritarian, emotional, book worm nerd. I feel repulsed by nerd/tech culture several times an hour. It's honestly embarrassing to be associated with it. If ONLY that were the only problem.
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So far "Moments" has only served to remind me how much I miss the "Discover" section. That at least tended to serve up some interesting stuff. "Monents" is filled with nothing but the sort of generic stories I don't really need to see a bunch of tweets about.
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Are leaf blowers loud on purpose?
I can't be certain, but I'd bet quite a bit someone made the same argument about women working outside of the home.
Set up a double-blind test, where there's a fake private school where the principal on down don't know that they're actually government-run. At the end of the school year, have Aston Kutcher show up to the school with a TV crew and tell everyone that they've been working at/attending a public school for the past year!
You're extrapolating from a few select examples.
ASCC and many other computer precede ENIAC, and their programming was absolutely not a "women's work".
Every age has been the "Age of Infection".
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What is the "laser file" mentioned in the article?

"Fortunately, much larger files are becoming available. The laser file made by Precision Instruments Inc. is claimed to store a trillion bits and costs $ 1,000,000."
> Trouble is that San Francisco is a terrible place, geographically, for a large and ever-expanding industry.

So a bit like Hong Kong, Singapore, or Manhattan?
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Speaking of which, in this book Tom tells a story about connecting an amateur transceiver to a massive broadcast array in Hawaii:

http://www.n6bt.com/n6bt-AAOL-3rd-1.htm
Indeed. You can show by simple calculations that slight innate differences giving slightly different preferences lead to significant differences in recruitment if you select entirely fair and purely by merit. In fact, restoring the 50/50 split requires significant amount of discrimination to counter the natural disproportions.

We do that in CS because it's a hot sexy field with shittons of money, so everyone wants in (also makes this field sucks more, it was better when people actually cared about doing great work instead of earning a lot, but I digress). Nobody cares that there is serious (intentional) gender imbalance among e.g. shop clerks or bank tellers. Those are not sexy jobs.
The real issue is that our society tells girls it's more important to be attractive and have lots of friends, instead of being smart and intelligent.

The posters aren't the problem, the pipeline is, and the pipeline starts with parents.
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I don't see any indication that these studies have been successfully reproduced. Do you know if these results have been independently verified?
I had a big long post written about the why and how of the gas tax in the USA, and the economics of consumer preference, the history of American car design, and the implications of the historic price of fuel on car design, penetration of auto use, and the effect of all that on urban planning.

It was too long, and I fear it might be boring. So, to summarize: due to historic accident, Americans like big cars. Moreover, no matter what cars they might prefer, ownership of a car is an economic necessity for most Americans-again, historic accident. Those Americans are also not very well off, at least by northern-Europe standards, so money for gas is a big line-item in the family budget. A regressive tax increase on fuel would be clearly felt && very unwelcome, even though many if not most could see the logic behind it.
Yes... I find the "global movement" label sort of annoying, because it's very much a local issue.

Some places suffer from excessive advertising, other places are energized by it, and the actual contents, presentation, placement, and other details, all of which are intimately tied in with the local culture, matter a great deal as well.

A city like Tokyo would be very, very, different without outdoor advertising, and it's not at all clear that it would be better...

https://www.flickr.com/photos/snogglethorpe/9503120600
Right, if the problem is slow starters (say, RabbitMQ), then restoring from an image where initialization has already been complete would resolve it. For more complicated cases where there is a race with acquiring some resource, then a readiness notification mechanism could be supported as a niche feature. I'm still not convinced of it in the general case.
As an aside, comments such as "which is far more rigor than proponents of diversity tend to give policy proposals" tend not to make your arguments more persuasive.
We need to start holding people accountable for self-induced disease. Perhaps with taxes: tax the obese.

However, even the people who think that "Alzheimer's" is "Type-3" diabetes don't believe that all senile dementia is "Type 3 Diabetes" or is diet-induced. Just certain types of it.

But being obese is so unhealthy, and so easy to control (just eat LESS) that to not hold people accountable for it is not good or just.
> I'm certainly not saying that a "no rent control" situation would be ideal

Quoting Paul Krugman from 15 years ago:

"The analysis of rent control is among the best-understood issues in all of economics, and -- among economists, anyway -- one of the least controversial. In 1992 a poll of the American Economic Association found 93 percent of its members agreeing that ''a ceiling on rents reduces the quality and quantity of housing.'' Almost every freshman-level textbook contains a case study on rent control, using its known adverse side effects to illustrate the principles of supply and demand."

http://www.nytimes.com/2000/06/07/opinion/reckonings-a-rent-...
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So, to justify their "just accept death, guys" conclusion, the author makes broad sweeping statements like "details quite likely far beyond what any method today could preserve in a dead brain" without providing any specific arguments about the limitations of vitrification whatsoever. Not even a bald assertion that "cryonics fails to preserve structure X". Yup. Okay.
> I'm not going to use awkward circumlocutions to avoid the possibility of offending someone.

I thought I had a large vocabulary. These days, it is rare that I have to stop reading an internet post and reach for a dictionary (I mean, figuratively, you know... Google). Anyway, thanks for the new word. I can't wait to work it into casual conversation sometime this week.
You're not the only one I've heard this from. Do you mind if I ask what kind of sites you're getting this from? I can't tolerate TV or radio ads. I've never used any ad blockers on the web, and I don't find much objectionable advertising other than clickbait link farms.
I think it's this: http://www.google.com/patents/US3657707
Sure, here's the pastebin of the postgres one:
http://pastebin.com/Phc8KnYU

I thought I was doing something wrong, so I asked on SO:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/32755348/group-by-count-q...

This is a very simple example, but I always run into major performance issues with Postgres. Some of them are my fault, from not knowing that array aggregation is a slow operation.

MySQL advantages for me are that there is an actual UPSERT operation (an inferior version of which might be added to Postgres 9.5), that the CLI is miles ahead, and that it's much faster for a small number of tables with a lot of data and with non-complex operations.
Once the work of getting the first human-level or better AI is out the door, engineers are really good at mass-producing it or optimizing it.

I could see someone investing in a factory to manufacture a billion of them within 10 years, once someone has demonstrated that it's possible.
Any link for complete list of new features/changes from current version to 2.0 version?
The default reaction from any sane person is always "Something has to be done" -- but that "something" is not easy to come up with. A knee jerk reaction to do "something" just because "something" needs to be done can have far reaching and dire consequences. We need a plan, and we need to know that this plan will actually have an impact and make a difference, not just take rights away from people. Emotion must be taken out of the equation.
It isn't just Moments, Twitter is failing on a lot of fronts.

* Spam bots that are way obviously spam still make it through, and some days constitute the majority of my new followers. (These are not subtle spam bots, but rather accounts that come in groups of 4 or 5 all using the same strange URL shortener.)

* Moments seems to be what was previously codenamed "Lightning" if that's the case, I'm super disappointed. Not even close to the "game-changer" I had heard about.

* The direct message limit was raised, thankfully, but honestly a little late. I've actually had DMs like "Hey let's switch to GChat" because it was just to communicate and use their site for more than anything tiny.

* People in this thread are already talking about stale content on Moments. The last few times I've logged into Vine, it still highlights the VMAs—which happened in August.

* I used to be OK with the Ads in my Twitter feed, but they've gotten to be too often and too out of touch

Put another way, Paul Graham once mentioned that a mark of something great was when you can't imagine the world without it anymore. The example he gave was with HelloFax. If Twitter went away tomorrow, I'd say, "meh," and move on.
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This is part of the cultural problem. Why should anyone be called upon to justify their non-interest in something?
The companies I have to deal with for my loan for the most part are absolutely disgusting. Two out of three do not allow me to setup recurring payments and do not send email reminders before payment is due. They only let me set up scheduled payments two months in an advance. To keep a rhythm I try to pay every month at the same time, however the worst company does not count those monthly payments against what is owed every 3 months on a random day. Theres no email reminders but if I'm a day late I immediately get an email saying how much I owe and how much extra I have to pay now.
And America's general anti-intellectual culture. Basically, the idea that it's not "cool" to be smart. Also, society generally socialized boys to be more independent (hence making it easier to ignore anti-intellectualism).
It's certainly not explicit fraud, but it is a type of social scam, which becomes a trap, and yes, I think the solution is to turn down the loans, and force the landlords to deal with lower rents, because, as you say, now they have tremendous price gouging incentives. And while it's bad in Berkeley, it's really bad in Westwood, where the UCLAers live.
The articles reference studies and books which have the data. See work by Ford, Autor, Acemoglu, Autor, Brynjolfsson. If you want to read just one thing which has plenty of data, read the book "Race against the machine" - they talk all about the studies used to come to their conclusions:

http://raceagainstthemachine.com/
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10353954
Wow. I've always assumed that the US would have the most aggressive and terrible ads, but real-life auto-play videos are a level of evil I hadn't even imagined. I can almost imagine the IAB's explanation of how blocking inter-uterine advertising is "stealing" from someone.
Leaf blowers aka. gasoline is free, infinite and burning it doesn't pollute at all.
And if you dispute it, you still have to pay the penalty first before you can pay any of the outstanding loan amount, allowing them to hold the funds and determine, with your funds in their hands, whether or now the dispute is valid. Imagine 9 out of 10 times what that will result in.

Once you've lost control of the money, you've lost the dispute. The money is the only leverage you have in the dispute.
New analysis of the impact of tech buses in San Francisco
For non-native speakers wondering like me, urbandictionary says STEM = Science, Technology, Engineering, Math
I'm a scientist who doesn't like sci fi much. I don't hate it, I enjoy some of it, but not the genre as a whole. I like Star Wars for the big pew pew spaceships as much as anybody but I don't like Star Trek at all.

To me, a lot of it just comes across as unimaginative. Oh sure, we've travelled half way across the galaxy to meet an alien race and it turns out they're Space Russians, or Space Jews. Maybe Space Ancient Romans for a change.
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