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>English is not structured to be gender-neutral. I'm not going to use awkward circumlocutions to avoid the possibility of offending someone.

Using singular they is hardly a "circumlocution", I do it without thinking about it. It's not hard to learn once you actually decide to take responsibility for your own speech.

And it's not a "possibility of offending", it's a "certainty of papercuts". If you habitually use male pronouns you will inevitably refer to women with them, and they will most likely be put off by your apparent assumption.
> It's certainly kept me from responding to FB recruitment emails.

Maybe respond with your concerns?
In software, qualification and even experience does not correlate with ability.

If you have a newly qualified accountant, doctor, architecture it is assumed they are at least competent to some basic standard (and it is expected there competence increases with age + experience).

This is NOT the case with software, it's possible to be a software engineer with 10+ years experience and still be terrible.

My own experience is that I don't test well, and this has made it terribly difficult for me to get jobs. I have two startups behind me yet it's made almost no difference.
I don't think it was intended as a slippery-slope argument, but rather as a demonstration that the proposed method was inherently indiscriminate.

In other words, it amounts to "stop doing things I don't like", and doesn't take into account the reasonableness (or lack thereof) of the person taking offense.
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> At university, the furthest I could deviate from a pure CS module, was "Russian for Scientists" and a few maths/stats modules.

Lucky you. I was not allowed to take any more Math/CS courses by my last semester because I had already taken 'too many' and needed to fulfill my 'non-math' credit requirements. No joke -- the requirement literally just said 'non-math - 5.0 credits'.

What a load of bullshit.
Valve has never taking funding[0] - which is how the Unicorns got their valuation: they were funded at a particular value (eg in AirBNB's April 2014 round they took $475M at $10B valuation[1]).

[0] "Valve is self-funded.We haven’t ever brought in outside financing." pg 3, http://www.valvesoftware.com/company/Valve_Handbook_LowRes.p...

[1] https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/airbnb/funding-round...
Imagine Burning Man, but with full moons, rivers and mountains
160,000 Photo Archive of Finland During WWII
It would be interesting to see the effects of a combination of something like AngelList together with robust decentralized technology for identity and smart contracts. How much work is still ahead of us until I'll just have to set up a new team on a service like AngelList which will be a globally accepted business entity?
I never said one is better than the other. Although I'd prefer shitty 'tags' with content that may be relevant to someone in 0.0001% of the cases over a shitty squiggle on the wall.
aggressive Israeli sales people?
That's stupid. If you use a credible pseudonym, they will never ask you for your ID.

If they ask you for your ID, send a fake one. It has worked for me three times. They were laughably bad and they accepted them.
Meanwhile "She++" [1] is perfectly okay, it seems.

[1] http://www.sheplusplus.org/
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It's not true for England. Diesel has always been more expensive; the tax has been the same.

We have good statistics for this.

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/oil-and-...

EDIT: The fuel has been more expensive; there were tax breaks on the vehicles.
There's essentially no evidence that women are biologically predisposed against CS. There's quite a lot of evidence that social factors do push women away. That doesn't guarantee that there's no biological component, but even if there were, we'd still want to fix the social factors.
Glad to hear the situation improved after my time. Even back then, I observed that logic treated its students better than maths did. There was precious little help for us in prelim prep, just a student-run seminar and problem book, while I don't remember logic even having a comparable test, or if they did, it was not designed to filter out over 50% of students as the maths one was.

Don't understand your last paragraph. If demand for jobs exceeds supply from the employer, that suggests there will be downward pressure on wages, i.e. the labour becomes even cheaper. Maybe you're suggesting that the jobs can't be that bad if people want to work at them, but that wasn't what I said. I enjoyed being a TA immensely, and it was a flexible job that fit my studies well so I did it even though I had funding - but that doesn't mean I wasn't still massively cheaper for the university than hiring Dr. Coward, or that there wasn't a cynical strategy of getting us students to teach calculus cheaply and then dumping half of us on the street.
That can all be dealt with by making your profile private, and not public. Additionally, you simply block the bad/dangerous/stalking party (assuming you are aware of them).

I see countless individuals making their Facebook profiles entirely public, and it's quite frankly scary. At that point they have no control over what the internet sees of them. You can't even change it after the fact, as it's probably been indexed in search engines and cached in internet archives.
I thought journalism was supposed to be unbiased.
Australians will slap an ad on anything. For example, in the US, football has a ton of advertising all over the place, but the pitch is relatively neutral and there are severe limits on the advertising a player can wear. Not so here in Australia - shove advertising on the hoardings (unsuprising) on the goal posts, on the players, on the grass... and while we're at it, shove advertising on the damn football itself...
Really nice and the speed is impressive. A useful feature for me would be a subtle drop down of close matches/other possibilities.
How does that work exactly? They were already harassed, so the harassers already knew their real name, I take it? How would abolishing the real-names policy help them in this scenario? Genuinely confused.

Edit. Word missing.
Hence why bare coding is being off-shored with the real engineering (Architecture, Design, Planning, Customer Relations,...) is left on the destination countries.

Those that want to stay pure coders will be left behind, given the current market trends, even here in Europe.
More likely the opposite. Departments don't like people who generate this much drama for simply being let go. Why would anyone? This unfairly hurts Berkeley's reputation.
It's not just enterprises that use client certificates, Estonian ID cards use them too.

https://www.ria.ee/public-key-infrastructure/
I could imagine that, when you take the CO2 from the air, you could build those plants in remote locations, where it is difficult to get fuel right now. Like, in the desert.

But I guess that would work only in theory, because those plants would probably need quite a lot of infrastructure - right?
"Ignorance is Strength"
"Who is John Galt?"
The National Science Foundation (or other group) should produce high-quality video lectures for all courses.
Bonus video of 2011 news?

http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2011/11/18/Worlds-lightest-m...
It seems that people (in power; but especially ones commenting on such articles; those with cynical spin mostly) perceive life in a country as a computer game.

Where "dissidents" will happen to your country, and you have to implement "measures" to make them go away, and then you call it a day. Because game rules incentivize you to do exactly that.

The reality is: Life happens to your country. People happen to your country. Things happen to your country that are outside of your control. DDR's Stasi had kilogramms of dossiers on every its citizen, and it got scrapped in a few days with as little as a handshake.
Mine did, then again Portuguese universities aren't pure CS, rather "Informatics Engineering" and teach a bit of everything.
Do you think they haven't heard these concerns?
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"there is, now"

for the last 10 years there hasn't been. (even at college level)

the closest that comes near is the BTEC National Diploma in IT systems support (which I took) which teaches you the OSI model and how to crimp cables. (and also that Worms are "bad" and viruses are also "bad" and hackers are "bad" etcetc)

it's definitely not computer science but it's a somewhat close approximation for the low skilled workers that will someday become level 1/2 support.

if that's your intro into university then it's still a very low base to take you forward.
Go there through google:

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&c...
Medicine has great job security, good salary (with the potential of doing private work on the side) and is very high status, law is high status and if you manage to make partner at a decent sized law firm (which everyone think they will as they don't know about the "up or out" policies a lot of firms have) then you can be making pretty serious money.
It is a response to a passage quoted from the article under discussion in this thread on hacker news, an internet site that is structured around discussion of articles.
This list would be useful for my attempt for a list of parked/squatted domains..
I see. But I'm not convinced, let me explain why:

- Until proven otherwise I assume that the demand for VMs in clouds follows the general "internet load curve" (peak demand = 1.5x avg demand; plateau during the day; peak at 19:00). With the normal monthly billing you just see the variable load on the host node, and the server must have spare capacity to handle the peak load. With hourly billing, the peak load will not vary, only the fact that your customers spin down VMs on non-peak times.

So basically my point is that hourly vs monthly billing doesn't change anything demand/load-wise. The only difference is the billing; you basically have to recoup your lost revenue from the non-peak times by generally higher hourly pricing.

- If you colocate your (few) servers you can also shut them down to save energy. If you have a contract with usage based power bills.
It's a pity this article is based on a false premise since it could have contributed to the discussion more usefully. What's being removed is the keygen tag, not client certificate support - the two are independent.
It's supposed to be at least true... VICE frequently fails this test in subjects I am familiar with. For example, I watched thier ISIS documentary on the weekend, it's full of staged battles.

But I admire them, they have figured out post mainstream post adblock monetization of news.
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Reminds me of Aerogel:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerogel
Medicine is a bit of a unique case in the UK.

Otherwise I would absolutely think that the best jobs would go to those who start work early. Certainly bears out my experience. I know plenty of graduates who didn't really think about careers until leaving and suddenly found themselves at a disadvantage.

Computer Science and tech are unique in that programming talent can be gauged to some extent and companies actually are interested in doing so.

Consulting, accountancy, banking, law, etcetera all seem, superficially, to be based a lot more on the ability to put up with long hours and some sort of prestige test.

If anything tech workers have it easier in my view. You don't just go and interview and get a job working in biology regardless of how special you are. (OK; I suppose if you had a cure for a cancer that may not hold).
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Being healthy or not might depend on your dad
Uber may soon face a major setback in Australia
I forget where I heard it, but I always liked "Advertising is someone taking a dump in your brain."
Housing boom was a bust for African Americans
Goodbye to the entertainment industry, I guess. No more seeing a billboard about an upcoming gig for a standup comedian or a band, teasers for movies, reminders about game time...
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Just the fact that facebook asks an official ID is maddening.
They aren't a governmental agency. In Portugal the official ID card has your SS number, fiscal number, and health number. I don't want facebook to know any of those, seriously.
The previous poster's calculation of taking 31 years to earn a billion at 40% of $20m/month assumes net margins.
XKCD-style sketch plots with Matplotlib
Any university library will give you a day card and you can view or print this.
The library of congress might have it?
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This is capitalism. As people like to say, you're "obliged" to get the best deal for your current shareholders.

As long as you don't lie or omit required information, you're not required to point out that a particular growth metric is slowing down, and can point to a different one.

(and as one of the other comments has pointed out, quite often the acquirer will shut down the acquired)
I'm not sure I agree with the idea that you should be doing extra work just to get hired (there are cons and pros), but CS is a special case, along with a few other professions. These professions have a simple way to practice and extend your knowledge outside of work. You say medicine is different, but I'd say it's in between - you'd rather hire a more skilled doctor, right? Well, to get more skilled they pay for extra courses and exams with their own money, spend extra time and get more credentials. But they can't easily practice what they do in their free time. While junior doctor positions are not free internships, add course costs and they're not far off.

How about translators then. You've got two translators with (officially) the same level of training. But one constantly reads specialist literature in foreign languages, while the other one doesn't. Would you not hire the first one? Would you still claim that's foisting responsibility?
It doesn't just affect people with pseudonyms, too. If you're from some ethnic background which has unusual names, if you have some uncommon or fake-sounding real name, you might also get tripped up.
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I have done it. I quit my job and started a company. And I have to say it was the best decision I’ve ever made.

http://talk-about-jack.com

Since I’m a tech guy and starting a company is about more than just having an app, I asked two friends of mine - which happen to be pros on their respective fields: business and marketing - if they would join me. They liked my idea and both said yes and quit their jobs. So, it can’t be that bad of an idea, right?

The first thing we hear every time we tell someone about Talk About Jack is: “But webchats do already exist? Why another one?”. We aim at getting a chat app out that is used for personal stuff as well as for when people need support from companies or even when they want to buy something. We want to establish a one-fits-all webchat solution like when you use your telephone to call a friend, call the support hotline of your telecom provider, or even call a shop to order something.

Our company and product are both still in an early stage so feedback is very welcome!
Imagine some combination of the crowdfunding website Kickstarter and the social-networking site LinkedIn, only everyone on the site has to be an accredited investor. Early-stage startups show up, hat in hand, and 165 different angel investors, called “leads,” evaluate them.

If an investor likes what he sees, he can put in some of his own money, while encouraging other investors, who are part of what is known as his syndicate, to fill out the investment with their own funds. These first investments average around $315,000 per startup.

Wait, what? We joined a few years ago and put several of our existing investors on there. We're not well connected on the west coast and I never heard from anyone major on the site. Was our company evaluated by one of those 165 people who then lead a syndicate? How does it work exactly? How do they discover startups that are on the site?
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Its a massively profitable business model (at least once you've got the initial momentum building via discounts and freebies out of the way).

Lets look at their "Classic Box" (https://www.hellofresh.co.uk/food-boxes/classic-box/), which is £39 a week for three meals. I priced up what I could see of the box contents using Hubbub (https://beta.hubbub.co.uk) - largely because I work there, and so know my way around, and it came to a little over £20, and that's without any real effort to match the portion sizes they're shipping, I could probably get it down to more like £15 just by buying just the amount of each ingredient needed for the meals being made, and going direct to the producer rather than via high street shops who are going to be adding their own margin.

That leaves, pessimistically about £20 to cover delivery, and the customer's share of central costs such as recipe development, packing, and the usual business expenses of a web based company. At the sort of volume they're doing, I could see them easily making 40% profit, and potentially more than that.
To play devil's advocate, if you apply the same reasoning to seatbelt laws, the flaws become obvious.

It's your body, yes, but it's our society. Your reckless endangerment costs money and ties up limited resources.

The fact that prohibition is not an effective strategy makes for a good argument, but "it's my body" rarely does, IMHO.
> should try simple approaches

That's all well and fine. My statement was conjunctive, "... and try to encourage others to use it." You README implies that others should use it. I'm saying that you need big huge warnings that try to keep people away.

You say the Arduino lacks computational power. DES ran on 1970s era hardware. I ran it on a 4.77 MHz 8088. Even that weak cryptosystem cannot be brute forced "in a timeframe near to a second" by a smartphone.

Searching now, http://crypto.stackexchange.com/questions/12891/aes-algorith... gives links to 6 different projects that have implemented AES-256. Including implementations "that run directly on the 16 MHz Arduino [and] can encrypt approximately 1 block per millisecond, roughly 32 000 bytes/sec".
> If you use a credible pseudonym, they will never ask you for your ID.

Unless you're trans. Unless that 'pseudonym' is actually your real name because you come from a non-majority ethnic background.
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While I agree that the most important thing is convincing the 1 person out of 1,000 to be a math major (or physics or whatever) I'm afraid the university isn't ok with handing everyone else As without mastering a certain minimum skill set.

Besides, the math department isn't a free agent in this. Other departments expect students who have passed math 1A to have certain skills. If the math department was free to teach math 1A as an advertisement for mathematics (the way other departments get to teach their base courses) it would be a much different class. Hell, it wouldn't even be about calculus.

So long as the physicists, economists, chemists etc.. etc.. say "we need students with skills X, Y and Z" there has to be a class whose content (and hence a decent grade in) is X, Y and Z. The name of that class is 1A and it helps no one to just teach a different class under that name without reforming the system.

The math department ALREADY OFFERS OTHER CLASSES DESIGNED TO DO EXPOSE STUDENTS TO MATH IN EXACTLY THE WAY YOU MENTION. These are courses that deliberately avoid the equations and rote memorization that generated so much fear in high school and are designed to be low stress while showing off the wonder and creativity of mathematics.

Unfortunately, few people ever take these courses because students don't want any more math than they have to take and the guidance counselors and university won't push or require them.

As you said about the final (which I wholeheartedly agree with) if you give students the choice how is it the department's fault you take it. Students have a choice to approach math in a more exploratory, more encouraging fashion but they choose to do the minimum needed to take whatever other class they need. It's ironic because that's also what makes calculus so hard for them...they want to apply a rule and confidently move on...not think hard about a math problem in ways that might be dead ends.

That is what's so sad about math education. Understanding comes from trying to fit the concepts together and even (especially) professional mathematicians fail 90% of the time. Students, especially those who haven't done well in math find that very distressing. Hell, pick any subject you aren't good at (which has clear success/failure conditions) and really try to do it well. It makes you feel dumb and you give up. Add to that years of pre-college math (often taught by teachers who themselves seek the reassurance of rote procedure) which brain washes the curious kids into believing that doing math is just applying procedures and it's an uphill battle.

Ultimately, I think the problem is that we try and force kids who aren't really interested to know math they don't need. Just like other subjects let the students who want to learn come to you. With the advent of modern computer algebra system no one benefits making kids memorize rote procedures beyond basic arithmetic since without understanding they will never apply it in the real world.
You and your new-fangled "perl5". In my day we didn't have "say", or "use", or these fancy "refererences". :)
yea that is begging for elaboration ...
I agree, but to be picky you can easily cover those up to just display your name.
Sure. But you do realize that means he teaches at least as well as anyone else in the department, if not better. And he's beloved by his students (as evidenced by the evaluations).

So would you rather have a professor that teaches on par with the department and has strong rapport with his students, or a professor that teaches on par with the department and does not have strong rapport with his students?
That's insufficient for all the people that do want to be identifiable by the name they go by amongst people they do want contact with.
An earlier comment has a video link...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10372658
If they hear them from someone they're actively attempting to recruit, I expect it would carry more weight. At the very least it will make FBs HR department aware of the issue. As the parent commenter said, there are a lot of people at FB who aren't even aware of these issues.
You know, the grade distribution for one of Coward's classes (16B) is available online for you to check: https://schedulebuilder.berkeley.edu/explore/courses/SP/2016.... It shows his class average was a B-, whereas most other professors around the year he taught had a B or B+ average.
Should departments have standards they expect their lecturers to enforce?

People would actively welcome new approaches to teaching math. It's fucking frustrating not getting through to your students or having them dislike the course. Most of the faculty has tenure and the focus is largely (but not entirely) on research. THE IDEA THAT PEOPLE ARE THREATENED BY HIS SUCCESS IS ABSURD.

He is succeeding in the truly obvious way. Lowering standards and making it easy for students to ace his class without the skills the university has deemed necessary.

If he was really so deeply gifted at teaching he could have just used the same final exam as another faculty member and taught his students that material. Why doesn't he?
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