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Why aren't more women in prison?
The recent question of "Why more women aren't in tech?" left me wondering why more women aren't in prison. Does something need to be done?
> One thing that sending in ground troops would do is hopefully reignite the debate as to whether we should be in that country at all.

Agree, but you're only part way. We really need to bring back the draft. On the ground in Iraq in 2008, watching ‘drone’ feeds of SF soldiers on missions on one screen and the stock market crashing on the other screen, all I could think about was “Don’t people care? There are soldiers risking their lives in foreign countries, doing things in America’s name, and all the TV talks about is houses and stock prices.”
The number of contractors in country was probably 3 to 1 or more compared to military - Kenyans providing internal security, Filipinos working in the commissary, Pakistanis working in the chow hall, and Americans driving F-350s all over doing maintenance or whatever. The SF guys hated their contractor counterparts who took none of the risk they did and made a $1,000 a day just to provide a little training for the Iraqis. Being a pilot on a ground job, I hated the contract pilots making $20k a month for a job I easily could have done.

Until we’re all in it together, we won’t see change. As long as Americans can get upset, then turn off the TV and forget about it, nothing will happen, the military and civilian worlds will continue to drift apart. And a private, separate military is not good for this country.
Flaxseed oil contains mostly the omega-3 called alpha-linolenic acid (ALA), whereas fish oil has a more balanced profile of omega-3s, specifically EPA and DHA. Many people can convert ALA into other omega-3s just fine, but some people have deficiencies in diet or genetics (e.g. MTHFR mutation) that prevent efficient conversion.
> baffles me

IMO pretty clear why, winner-takes-most economics emphasizes dev speed over quality, and then we need to maintain compat with it
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Just to clarify: nobody is blaming victims here (see my edited comment). I'm just blaming people who deny the science.
Thanks. A good option. Definitely would pay for itself over time if switch from a cable provider alternative. We've never had a DVR before, so hard to justify the jumping in cost.

It would be cool to see Roku or Apple TV combine this functionality.
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If you shuffle a deck of 3 billion cards, the order is less compressible than the human genome. It's still not special. Is it complex, by your definition?

How about my scribble, or a snowflake?
If you saw Travis on Colbert (which is awesome if you think about it) the first question was "how did you get here".

Travis: "I pushed a button and got a ride".

So here you go. Future, meet the future.
The SCOTUS agrees with you (in Dowling v. United States). Dowling prevailed, because while he committed copyright infringement (for profit!), he didn't steal.

Technically.
And Mosaic appears to be a UK-based publication: http://mosaicscience.com/about-mosaic
With the exception of the low power stations, if you're within 10 miles of the tower and have a 'good' antenna (for some reasonable definition of good), you shouldn't have any trouble picking them up. I'm about 15 miles from mine and get maxed signal strength using one of those flat piece-of-paper-sized Mohu with no amp.

Is there an LOS issue (huge building, mountain, etc.) between you and the towers? Is there something in your walls turning your house into psuedo Faraday cage? If your channels are VHF-low (physical channels 2-6) is your antenna rated for that and not just UHF/VHF-hi?
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If I can't watch a show or movie on my Apple TV (or other streaming devices), I just don't watch it.

Got rid of cable when I moved away for college, not going back anytime soon.
Until all of your data gets pruned from the blockchain in an update...
In this universe, for whatever its nature happens to be, where laws of entropy realize themselves relentlessly and indefinitely to increase chaos forever, bit by bit; where everything left to rot will eventually turn into pieces, shards, and break apart into dust there is―I might say―a force, or at least a mechanism―again, whether guided or scientifically spontaneous―that is working its way on the same river as this destructive chaos but to the exactly opposite direction of the downstream where, as shattered pieces of existence and remnants of structure, chaos is slowly but endlessly flowing down.

This force is what we call life and this force is of the nature that it just keeps pushing itself against all the natural destruction that is inherently prevalent in this world. This force constructs and maintains growth, structure, and produces organisms that are enough in some balance―chemical, physical, maybe spiritual, who knows―to survive further.

The force will push through the slightest openings in this river which is chaos, and just keeps growing and growing despite being forever torn down, consumed, and worn by the elements of entropy at the same time. This force, when put down and extinquished in one place will again and again remanifest itself in another place, and continues to create and grow against all the odds and the universal tendency for any space and matter to cool down and energy to return to the lowest possible potential.

Life is nothing but rare. If we blew up this planet into smithereens, I wonder, why would that force that is life stop swimming upstream at the very once? Why would it not reappear elsewhere? Some might say that the live organisms would just die with the Earth, but what started it here? Why wouldn't it emerge again elsewhere just like it did here?

If the force is divine it will exist somewhere regardless of the physical circumstances, merely waiting for a new opening in the physical world; if the force is not divine, then maybe it's some internal counter stream, an energy flow, in the the universe itself, where one part of the energy flows towards chaotic stillness but where the other part flows back into motion and higher potential: while entropy reduces the energy in action the potential must increase somewhere else, as energy cannot disappear. Or maybe you might choose consider the divine to be the universe itself―about that I cannot say a word. But there is something that makes this thing called life opt-in to this world where everything else keeps crumbling to pieces.

If that force is not special in itself, given the setting, then I don't know what is.
He is probably just syndicating this to medium with the new api's introduced.
Yeah, I've heard that more. I guess I still have to optimize that (the demo part of it is cool, the scrolljacking isn't). Thanks for your feedback, I appreciate it.
And Papers, Please
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I'm opposed to this on very basic grounds: freedom of expression, and the derived artifact of that, freedom of and from religion.

The economic case is somewhat compelling, but I'll set it aside for now, as that is an open and running political dialog playing out with trade agreements, treaties, etc...

Religion, in the US, is entirely optional. We don't have the concept of a "higher authority" codified in the law. We also permit nearly all expression, and in particular, that expression hostile to powerful interests and the government itself.

I often see and hear about things I find completely unacceptable in nations that have not gone there. Religious law, of various kinds, can justify nearly anything. Secular law is similar, but the debate can be meaningful and at least composed of things we can put into a courtroom and reason about.

"God says..." is irrational. We have absolutely nothing on record at all. Thomas Paine details this, and derives the basis for natural rights for us as peer beings in the world, as well as the concept of self-governance in "Rights of Man", and "Age of Reason" --The latter, saw him jailed for a number of years due to how angry Catholics got over that work.

On a basic level, we are all just beings here. If one takes that concept of fundamental equality, and mutual ignorance (no higher authority, no real definitive record or understanding of our origins), a lot of the social progress we've seen are obvious conclusions.

These things are very important to me. I want that basic realization and consideration just as much as I understand my peers here want it, and arguably we all need it too.

Borders do actually compartmentalize the world in ways that compare and contrast these ideas with other, older ideas, and it's very important that the increasingly connected people of the world see all of that play out, so that we may continue to see the social and human benefits expand.

Economics is another discussion, and it has just as much potential to do harm, oppress, etc... as the social issues do, but we are on the upside of social issues, and trading that for improved economics isn't something I feel good about.
Bitcoin is horrible for microtransactions. I don't know if there's another blockchain besides Bitcoin's that's better for microtransacations, but Bitcoin ain't it.

The transaction bandwidth for Bitcoin is laughably small, the ability for bandwidth to be added is limited (see how long current block size debate has gone on), and transaction fees required to get placed into a block add substantial fixed fees that represent a large % fee for micro transactions.

If a Bitcoin microtransaction service ever hit it big, it would immediately cripple the entire network.
They sell a culture/lifestyle rather than just a product.
I use ownCloud [1] on a pretty low end VPS and the recent released are greatly improved over the earlier versions. The clients (mobile, desktop) are also much better now.

[1] http://www.owncloud.org
Monosodium glutamate you can get it in a powder like salt. It is a seasoning that provides "the essence of flavor" or umami flavoring which makes lots of bland stuff taste way better without necessarily having lots of salt. Some claim it is bad for the health or causes MSG symptom complex with an array of common conditions like headaches but there's little to no scientific evidence that this isn't psychosomatic.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monosodium_glutamate
actually the chart shows the opposite. there were a lot of women in tech in the 80s and 90s. now there are fewer
Could you not?
Use an escrow service. If you are in the US use escrow.com. If you are in Europe use eco-treuhand.de. Would also get a lawyer to draft an agreement.
Well, that is also fair game...
It's one of the many reasons I own AAPL shares. They have such a great following with many people who would never even consider moving away from Apple products and shun other brands. I don't see this changing for a long while.
> After all, there's no logical reason attractive women can't be engineers.

The absence of a logical reason does not mean that there is not a popular perception of an inverse correlation between physical attractiveness and intelligence (and this isn't entirely restricted to one sex.)

I mean, unless we know the person in the lift was an idealized Vulcan, the absence of a logical reason to believe something that is implied to be the basis of a statement they made -- especially something where there is ample evidence of a common perception in the broader culture -- is not a reason to dismiss the possibility that they might have actually believed it and had that belief motivate the statement.
"However, we can still remedy that through the vote"

Only indirectly, you're talking about striking "to petition the Government for a redress of grievances." from the end of the First Amendment, and for Citizens United, heavily abridging the freedom of speech and the press.

To do that, you've got to go thorough the amendment process, or a constitutional convention, both of which require buy in from 3/4ths of the governments of the states. To which we elect representatives and governors, but....
The dictionary definition of special is "really weird"?

Literally: "better, greater, or otherwise different from what is usual."

So...if a snowflake is "beautiful" and "unique", you have the necessary and sufficient conditions for "special".

Just saying....
This is sweet! Good job dude~
I think I provided some decent caveats to my answer, I would hardly call my answer "definitive" or "strong", and I cited other credentialed peoples' answers, which I was pretty much summarizing anyways. I'm not going to reveal my identity, so any credentials/experience I would offer up would not be corroborable.
I can honestly say I have never heard the word "brogrammer"

Anyway, I like how this article has a lot of facts. I dislike many other things.

Diversity is great, it is an awesome thing to have, promote and embrace. But you can only do so much to force it. At some point, if females choose to stay out of tech, thats their choice. If they choose to get into tech thats great too. The fundamental idea of forcing society to change to have a higher proportion of women employed in "STEM" jobs is absurd.

Personally, I know quite a few women (a much higher proportion than men) who went through STEM programs in highschool only to go into bio or environmental Engineering.
Guess what? There aren't all that many jobs in those fields compared to more traditional tech/generic engineering roles. Some of them left their respective fields within a year for that reason alone
Why not just do a wire transfer? Or hey, it's 2015. We've got bitcoin.

Definitely an infinitely better solution than escrow.com, and assuming I've guessed the extension right you'd probably have to pay almost a thousand dollars of fees on there.

International wire transfers are irreversible, so that's just as good as having them give you a briefcase full of cash. Actually, even better since you can't really receive a forged wire transfer.

(Edit: Not sure why I'm getting downvotes, am I wrong?)
There's a price on storage. If you want to spend $0.05 for a few hundred bytes, you'll run out of money very quickly if you want to actually use it for typical file storage (e.g. your photo album or music library). But it's fine if you want to store or record for posterity something valuable, e.g. a $10m loan transaction [0]

[0] http://www.wired.com/2015/10/hedge-fund-borrows-10m-in-stock...

There's been a lot of work going into a market for transaction fees based on a supply&demand model that'd make spam not just costly, but exponentially more costly if you want to scale it. It's not perfect but it's looking pretty sensible atm.
Can you explain how a positional query is a subset of boolean queries?

Intuitively it feels like the reverse would be true.
Culture aside, it's an economic issue too. When someone is in a grocery shop and sees beef/chicken/pork/fish at $0.99/lb and sees a bunch of spinach (< 1 lb by weight) for $1+, what are you gonna buy?
Currently running with three ES data nodes per physical machine, with 30GB -Xmx allocated to each instance.
this ^^^^ especially with regard to companies. At least in the company where I work, the inability to self host is a deal breaker. Is this different for many/any?
Five reasons why Ruby made sense for our highly concurrent app (SuperIMAP)
Does it support Markdown?
It has been interesting to watch this play out in Colorado since the legalization of cannabis for recreational use. I haven't seen any analyses of data attempting to answer this question, but my sense is that, although it is more expensive, it is better in every other way and more than justifies the cost. There are certainly inefficiencies involved in regulatory compliance and taxation, but there are also plenty of inefficiencies involved in running an illegal operation.
May want to review that stance in light of the fact that, like most countries, all male American citizens age 17-45 are legally part of the US Militia (and, until creation of the National Guard, were expected to be suitably armed & trained). When one country is at serious war with another, targets may not just be active combatants, but anyone officially positioned to become one. There are relevant & valid axioms, held to by warring parties, which do not differentiate between "combatants" and "non-combatants". In an existential crisis, fine distinctions are often discarded. Ugly memes, yes.
> The lay audience understands the "code"/"program" distinction

In my experience, professional business people with a day to day involvement as business SMEs on IT projects are quite likely not to really make the distinction you insist the "lay audience" understands, and I doubt very much that the general lay audience, with even less awareness of computing, does.
I've migrated to Bittorent Sync: http://getsync.com it's a "no cloud" solution. They don't see your data.

I'm happy with it but I do have a NAS at home that serves as a "always on" sync point for my other devices.
Also, templates can be visually unappealing and slow to compile.

(Of course, these are generalizations, and only how they work without particular care.)
Agreed. Too many products are named Paper and I immediately thought of Facebook's Paper.
but the number of women in tech is growing slower than the number of men in tech.

To be fair, its not that "its cool now, so they want in the party", its actually that so many women just dont want in. I dont understand acting like the whole world needs to change because their are trends in peoples personal choices.
> If people start using it as a storage, its size will skyrocket and it will be unsustainable.

If a misguided - not even malicious! - use case can make it unusable, maybe it's not destined to live all that long.
Crpytocurrency/Money isn't the only way to incentive people. If a group of decentralized entities have a common interest that could be solved with a blockchain-type technology, it might make sense for them to throw computing power at it because it still creates value, even without a currency.
It is incredibly frustrating to not have more options outside of California (from Michigan) over IC engines. Modern gas engines are getting more and more complex in order to meet stricter emissions standards while still delivering fuel economy and power. I have no interest in direct injected engines that make 200hp/liter, they are far more complex and unreliable than engines from 10 years ago. The IC engine is far past its prime and yet the political and market forces are keeping it around because of legacy costs.
I use SpiderOak, since it allows for client-side encryption (zero-knowledge on their part, they have no way of seeing my files).
While not necessarily "excuse making", the original poster gives a reason he thinks poor people don't exercise (because they are working too hard). I believe, in general, the reasons poor people don't exercise are not that at all, but results from the same types of behaviors and attitudes that encourage poverty.

I'm not assigning cause necessarily... I agree when you say the problem is likely often cultural. People from different cultures or with different metabolisms certainly have an easier/harder time dealing with certain things in life. But until attitudes and behaviors change (by whatever means), the facts on the ground stay the same. Very rarely is outcome 100% happenstance.
> My apologies for bring this up again,

Don't apologize. Bring this up every single time. It's relevant every time Dropbox is mentioned, and easy for them to change.

> the views of their board members

It's not just the views. It's also the basic resource of trust: Dropbox is not a trustless vendor - their basic service requires trust. And yet they have a board member who has unambiguously and without apology violated client trust in her previous engagement.
This could be useful information to someone learning not to make typos!

Or it could not. Probably that one.
That is closer to the heart of what makes life unique, in that life can (and does, as a matter of existence) decrease entropy. At least locally. Life will rebuild a ship instead of watch it rot.
nope. I completely agree
The "why we need women" section is interesting. What's the cause and effect?

Companies with women on the exec team get higher valuations -- perhaps that's because women are better at choosing winning companies? Or, since there are fewer exec-team-level women than there are men, they can be more choosy with their opportunities?
I know that but if I decide to use Rust instead of Swift, why would I be wrapping Rust in Swift through C? And still it doesn't solve a problem how Rust can call anything from Cocoa or my existing code.
It looks like the Scheme version of Flow-based Programming (aka dataflow programming) or hardware synthesis. Not sure how well that works for general software but Paul Morrison led a lot of work using it in industry (eg banking apps). It's also made a comeback in recent years for acceleration of software, optionally with hardware engines.

So, could an expert in these things tell me what this paper innovates or offers over mature Flow-based programming's way of doing things?
Excuse my ignorance in this -- is there any verifiable evidence that such a fundamental cascading vulnerability exists, and was the result of an NSA action, or are you speaking in hypotheticals?
>it counts any unknown males killed in the strike as enemy. It doesn't use that assumption to do the strike.

Imagine for a moment that someone (be it some foreign agency, US police, army or whoever) did the same in America, to American citizens. Would you be outraged by your explanation?

"Hey, it's not like they're targetting them specifically. They're just deciding that they were all enemy combatants post-factum."
As usual, when one looks at the sources, it's disappointing: http://www.nextgeneration.ie/sources-women-in-tech-project

Very few empirical sources, and lots of political soap-boxing.

Why are there few women in tech? The intellectually honest will begin by pointing out that nobody really knows. From there, we can talk about what we think might be responsible, but if we're going to continue in the spirit of intellectual honesty, we must acknowledge that the gender gap in technology is part of a large and very robust phenomenon by which women prefer to work with people, and men prefer to work with things [1].

Granted, the people vs things dichotomy may well be the result of social conditioning, but it might also be indicative of an intrinsic difference. (At this point, intellectually-honest feminists who oppose essentialism must also admit that the latter is a political and sociological theory, and therefore has no bearing on whether or not there actually are fundamental differences between the sexes from a cognitive and biological standpoint.) Indeed, just as de facto gender differences can be fueled by social conditioning, so too can social asymmetries be fueled by biological factors.

While there certainly is evidence suggesting that the gender gap in technology is the result of systematic bias (or even discrimination), we must take care not to lose sight of effect sizes. I have not looked into this myself, but I would be extremely surprised if, say, the use of gendered pronouns had an effect size that even remotely resembled the people-vs-things effect. Social conditioning effects tend to be small compared to their biological counterparts (with notable exceptions).

So why are there fewer women in tech? Those claiming to have the answer are at worst intellectually dishonest, at best ill-informed, and in all probability pushing a very narrow interpretation of feminism.

My fellow feminists (in name only, sadly): disguising political ideology as science and abusing the connotations of the term "source" ultimately hurts your cause.

[1] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19883140
Great point and very important in times when bundling howmany? js dependencies for client apps.
I'm thinking that coffee shops are not a leading indicator, which is what he should be looking for. I have no idea what would be leading indicator for up and coming neighborhoods though.
Technology Does Not Matter
War is the health of the state.