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As coding and technology become more prestigous it will draw in the top female talent that has been pulled into companies with much more societal respect. Below is a list of a few companies that were built by a female founder/co-founder. The unpopular view that this "problem", will fix itself, is somewhat true in my opinion. There will be a day when a list like the one below doesn't exist, there will be a single one. Females (and everyone really) realize tech. is one of the most important components of the future and there are many shows/movies/media that reflect this societal change.

Until then, if you think the world would be better off with more woman in tech, help get young people excited about technology and entrepreneurship. The ecosystem is primarily men who started companies internet companies in the early days, which have splintered into tons of new ventures and startups largely comprised of people from those companies.

The list below are great companies (well, a couple have rough patches but what doesn't) and there doesn't need to be a qualifier like "woman" founded. Get out there and kill it, and if you are out there be civil and rational in your appraisal of others.

* Theranos, $9B Biotech

* Y COmbinator, >$4B VC/Tech

* Fanduel, ? Skill Based Wagers

* 23 & Me, ? Genetics

* Kabam, ~$1B Gaming

* CloudFlare, ~$1B Cloud/CDN

* NastyGal, ? Clothing
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> Electric boards clearly shouldn't be on sidewalks, same as bikes.

Regarding bikes, it depends entirely on where you live. If you are in an urban area, where the sidewalks are crowded, and cars can't get up to high speed before the next stoplight, then certainly bikes should be on the street. If you are in a suburban area, where sidewalks are empty and cars travel at easily twice your maximum speed, then the streets are not safe for biking.
Most partners don't really see all that money, but they still probably take home a significant percentage of it. IP litigators have very specialized knowledge, that's why they charge so much.
Jargoon?
Yeah, I don't really understand this, either.

Most of the sales folks (just look at her resume..) I've worked with 'look' like a non-technical person. They absolutely look like they're trying to sell me something - whether it's through mannerisms, appearance, attitude or way of speaking. I'm going to ask them if they're technical if they're giving non-technical vibes as they try to sell me a complicated piece of software. Why wouldn't I? Why does it suddenly become sexist if she's a woman?

One of the most impressively technically proficient sysadmins I've ever worked with was an extremely attractive, high-energy woman. She's often not taken seriously because she's a woman. How does she prove her gender isn't a factor? She does good fucking work and never, EVER, brings her gender into it because it's not relevant. That's how gender equality gets solved, dammit.

I understand that she's basically being treated as a piece of meat at these places.. But the focus of her article is that she's not being treated seriously as a technical person at a tech conference, despite NOT being a technical person! Fluff and more fluff.
Well, it's relatively easy to rile up identity politics on the web and place a collective responsibility with a reductionist solution like "calling out" as if it is absolute, more so than following these principles oneself.

For what it's worth, though it is convenient to analyze issues under grand models of identity and class warfare (and I've noticed your commenting patterns before as being quite reminiscent to that of a troll, one with far-left tendencies), people ultimately act out of varied individual motives. From my experience "calling people out" thus has a mixed efficacy.
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Not SMS, but I work on a call-center-over-IM product. Our customers usually end up relegating their phone systems to a second or third-choice option once it is rolled out and they get their staff trained. Some advantages they cite:

1.) There's no accents in text. Especially for outsourced call-centers and helpdesks, communication through text eliminates a lot of the difficulty in variations in spoken language.

2.) Higher through-put. It's just about impossible to service two phone calls at the same time. It's not nearly as hard to switch between two or three IM conversations.

3.) With enterprise IM platforms, you've got capabilities to step up into a phone call, transfer files and screenshots, do a screen-share, and other things you just can't do with just phone.

4.) Integrating with ticketing systems, customer tracking systems, whatever, is easier, since you can pretty easily look up the incoming requester by their IM username or email, and present that information to the agent servicing the request.

About the only downside is that, developing, you're often dealing with limited APIs, half-baked, incomplete and even downright incorrect documentation, and weird, little-known platform limitations.
How are men supposed to know this without taking some type of sensitivity class and why should being "ultra sensitive" be a pre-requisite to participate in society?
idk, change mp3 to youtube, the article is instant relevant today.
That's not IP
A lot of these articles just create pointless conversations that make people go backwards rather then be productive, it's common to be down-voted because of this.

You are already calling people jerks.
Articles about work-life balance don't get downmodded this much.

Is that even possible? I don't see a downmod button available on any articles.
That's what they charge for partners. Normal people easily get charged out for 50 USD per hour. Try calling a plumber to see for yourself.

That doesn't mean that they actually get that much money for every hour worked, since the billed hours have to pay unbillable costs like office rent, admin overhead, taxes etc.

If you are willing to look beyond the rich world: world average GDP per capita is something like 10k USD. At 2000 hours worked per year, that 0.5 USD per hour.

Your `average' person already makes 20 times as much as the actual average person.

(Keep in mind, that the median is lower than the average. Check out http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-17512040)
Sorry, I was fixated on the comment that directly preceded that one (which is obviously much more memorable).

I'm sorry for suggesting that the comment twisted the narrative.

I'll add, though: "are you actually technical" is an unpleasant way to phrase the question. It implies surprise that she might be.
"How much for the girl" is predatory behavior and a threat, actually, and anyway I don't agree with your premise.
It is getting a bit old now, but I showed the Warriors of the Net[0] video in the past to a few non-technical people who wanted to better understand things.

[0] http://warriorsofthe.net/index.html
Interesting idea. Sounds like you may hit scaling issues rapidly if this gains modest popularity though, since you're tied directly to a worker pool. I see there's about 300k HITs active on MTurk at any time, so even the startup pack at 1000 requests/mo would be a significant fraction of all MTurk activity.

Would you be expanding to other crowdsourcing providers as you grow?

Edit: Wasn't paying enough attention to the math. I guess without data like HITs resolved / second, it'd be hard to estimate just how many requests could be feasibly absorbed by the workforce. The rate limits look sane enough.
You may think you're being clever false flagging like this but you actually have to understand a position before you can parody it.
Nice work. I guess that for a sitegen so focused on photos and videos, a bash script works well - lets you do whatever you need directly with imagemagick and ffmpeg, no beating around the bush.

And I like your sites! Now... all I need is to be a better photographer, then I'd be able to actually create something nice with your script. Hahaha.
I always feel weird when I read (especially the comments on) stories like this. Hearing folks who assume that, if a woman is at a technical event, she is either incompetent, only there for the sake of her husband, or both, open their mouths is irritating enough to witness as an outsider; I can hardly imagine how annoying it must be to be the recipient of such baseless disrespect.

Hell, I almost incited a screaming match at my last job because one of my coworkers, who is a proud Republican, wouldn't shut up about politics and his only criticism of Hillary Clinton wasn't that her opinions would have negative consequences or her logic was poor, but because "she's got kankles". The only reason it didn't escalate is because he ignored me. It still pisses me off to even recall how stupid this was.

Maybe I've been fortunate enough to know plenty of great people throughout the years, not all of whom were men, that exuded technical knowledge and practical wisdom.

How many infosec folks can, in the subject of cryptography, hold a candle to Dr. Tanja Lange?

How many PHP programmers can hope to even approximate the Herculean efforts of Andrea Faulds to make PHP 7 something great?

We didn't get to where we are today, in terms of technological progress, because sexist ideas or behaviors have any merit.
Also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10376175 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10373768.
So all men are prison rapists? Sorry but I don't buy it. Especially not tech nerds. Ever been to an automotive convention? They typically have scantily dressed women posing next to cars. Am I to believe that a bunch of pasty nerds are more intimidating than mechanics?

Are you sure you just aren't stereotyping men and that perhaps you may be a little sexist against men?
That part I'm sold on. I'm wondering about, as another comment mentioned, what happens if you discover one day you're not self sufficient, even temporarily (significant illness, chronic illness, major injury - or something I'm not considering). If I don't want to be a burden on anyone on the grid, but don't want to depend on social services, how do I factor that in?
Yeah this is what I do with my T420s using tpfancontrol. Set it to zero rpm and keep an eye on the cpu temp with an alert at 65C but only gets that hot on the odd occasion. Now I don't have Flash installed all is good when browsing :)
Just in case the server does die, here's a snapshot someone took a few minutes ago: https://archive.is/TkaU4
(time to stick out my ignorant amateur neck for chopping)

I'm sorry if this feels like the wrong tone, but how familiar are you with Japanese aesthetics and philosophy? I am only slightly familiar, but my understanding is that kaiseki ryori is not about "tasty" but a form of philosophical statement by the chef (for example, seasonal touches referring to the impermanence of life), and also a means of linking with nature. For example, the rough, asymmetrical, and "used-looking" look of the tableware, in contrast to say the impeccable and ornate perfection of the Chinese equivalent, references wabi-sabi and is meant to both complement the seasonal and natural feel of the ingredients, and make you think about the bittersweet nature of ephemeral life. There might even be cultural references. In many cases you're supposed to get out still feeling slightly hungry. Each dish evokes a different feeling and the succession of feelings and the way in which they are executed are what a meal like Kikunoi is about. (dear Japanese readers please correct me)

It's like "no" theatre (not kabuki!): a highly formalized, stylized art form where the audience is expected to be familiar with everything already and is appreciating only the "how" not the "what" of the play. A no performance uses archaic language modern Japanese audiences don't even understand, but all the attendees know the words already. It would feel tremendously boring to an outsider (guilty!), with not much visually happening, whilst your Japanese host gets excited about the masterly way in which bending the head a couple of degrees down has utterly changed the implied feeling of the actor.

When I first travelled to Japan, I was frustrated by the lack of intensity present in, well, everything, from architecture to food (except fast food) and even fashion. My relatively frequent trips to Japan improved a lot after I took the time to read books to try and understand the local mindset, at least of Kamakura to Edo period Japan (when the warriors took over from the overly sophisticated aristocracy that ran the country from Kyoto in the Heian period). It is this refinement within the constraints of simplicity (with the tea ceremony the most extreme example) that makes Japanese arts so sophisticated. We sort of have it in the West too; Mozart is not impressive aurally in the way that, say, Rachmaninov or Liszt might be, but playing Mozart well (or something like Liszt's Pilgrimage Years) requires a lifetime of study and is appreciated for its subtlety and control and life experience more than the sheer block of sound and expressed ideas in the content.
Two things are probably happening here.

First: there are people who flag these kinds of stories, for more than one reason (some people, for instance, just don't want to see ugliness on the front page).

Second: not enough people have upvoted the story to counteract the number of comments on the thread, which is part of the signal HN uses to automatically detect threads with flamewar characteristics.
Some Americans make literally tens of millions of dollars per day
It definitely does. I'm 27, look 20, and work as a senior linux engineer at a relatively high profile trading company. Until people see the work I do, they think I've been hired entirely through nepotism. It's incredibly frustrating, but I'm finally starting to "get used to it".
> A hansom male at a beauty convention will likely be ogled by some of the women.

I'm not handsome, and I don't get "ogled" a lot, but when I do, it NEVER has this slimy, condescending air it too often has when men hit on women. It's either friendly sympathy or friendly lust, and I would assume if I was super handsome, there would be more friendliness, not less. The closest to getting uncomfortable is when someone is into me whom I find very uninteresting; that's just "awkward", and so extremely tame compared to having to wonder whether she is just a bit creepy or maybe capable of rape. When women invite me to somewhere or strike up a conversation, I can just be relaxed without having to keep one eye on the exit. I consider that normal but it's, sorry for saying it, a privilege. It really is.

My point is, it's not the "being considered attractive" by itself that offends and hurts people. I dare say everybody likes that, if it's respectful and unassuming, like a genuine compliment without expecting reciprocation or any other rewards. The problem is when it's not.
While I don't mind personally, it is generally frowned upon to use affiliate links on HN. Just FYI
I should note that each phase was pretty short lived, as in I barely scratched the surface of emacs.
> If you are willing to look beyond the rich world: world average GDP per capita is something like 10k USD. At 2000 hours worked per year, that 0.5 USD per hour.

No it isn't. It's $5 an hour, barely under the US minimum wage.
The title alone makes me all "Yissssssssssssss".
Most of the problems are organisational rather than with estimating per se.

If I'm doing prod support for three different products and build work for two products, then I'm naturally going to be juggling priorities. There are a lot of different and changing variables in the mix and it makes committing to deadlines very difficult.

If an organisation wants to isolate developers and have them work on only build work for a single product estimation becomes much more accurate. Of course most orgs would rather less accurate estimation instead.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10374064
The northern part of the Scandinavian peninsula has some similarities to northern Canada, if you're looking for that but with an EU passport. Not as gigantic as the continent-sized Canadian north (only Russian Siberia competes there), but still pretty large and mostly empty. The "everyman's right" also makes it legal to travel/camp/forage essentially anywhere in the countryside, including on private land [1], as long as you avoid active farms and the immediate vicinity of people's houses.

[1] http://www.ym.fi/en-US/Latest_news/Publications/Brochures/Ev...
Interesting references thanks yet "official deaths" inherently underestimates the caused by nuclear energy. For instance there are only 28 official deaths for the Chernobyl disaster [1].

The WHO gives the number as "up to 4000 could eventually die" [2].

And some researchers give the number as "985,000, mostly from cancer" [3].

Since it's so hard to tally long term harm from such a hard to pin down source such stats are very hard to accurately quantify.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deaths_due_to_the_Chernobyl_di...

[2] http://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/releases/2005/pr38/en/

[3] http://www.globalresearch.ca/new-book-concludes-chernobyl-de...
Idk about a punch to the face specifically (that sounds likely to cause injury) but a small pain inflicted as retaliation for being wronged does not really seem all that terrible to me?

Especially if there is a social convention for how it is to work.

Of course, the amount of pain would have to be significantly less of an offense than what it is prompting it.

But when pain is sufficiently small, I think the meaning behind the pain is more important than the actual pain.
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They don't make that. That's what you're charged for having them. Some of that goes to their salary, or however they're compensated by their firm. The rest of it goes to operating the business/partnership. Same for the juniors and paralegals.
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How do you manage the winters?
I bought one of these: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005GM1Q1O/?&tag=bcgpfeed-2...

It's dirt cheap ($10-20), easy to load linux on [1], and it can be a simple file server, it can run minidlna, google cloud print [2], all kinds of stuff.

800MHz is not a screamer, but most simple I/O tasks like A/V streaming and printing are a walk in the park.

[1] http://archlinuxarm.org/platforms/armv5/pogoplug-series-4

[2] http://geekvisit.com/hacking-pogoplug-mobile-adding-airprint...
Why is this unfair?
I guess it depends whether you see tech events as business setting or social setting.

Also, wouldn't the aforementioned dress code be deemed inappropriate in a business setting?
The Mythical Man-Month is REQUIRED reading for anyone who might ever come close to estimating a software project in any setting. +++++1
They could try listening to women about their experiences.
Completely agree - but if you look at these global companies, many just locate their headquarters in tax-free zones while not having a substantial amount of employees, or engage in tax avoidance strategies like the Double Irish. But you're right - it's not typically only for tax reasons.
"I don’t want a t-shirt—just a smile."

Is offensive ?
Thunderbolt is much closer to the PCIe bridge/RDMA style interface you seek. Not as ubiquitous or cheap as USB, though.
This behaviour needs to change, it really does. But (ugh, here we go..) this particular instance is probably learned behaviour from past conferences or situations some people have been in. I haven't been to many conferences, but there's been a few times where I've spoken to a woman at a booth just to be passed off to someone else when I've asked technical questions. I'm finding this happens less and less though. Really though, it doesn't hurt to ask the question you want to ask first, even if you do end up having to ask it again of someone else.
I guess, when they come out with microengineers.
In my post I suggested things are getting better, but we still have a long road ahead. It sounds like you agree.

Jokes in TV shows are absolutely not what I am referring to. I am referring to situations in which your colleagues — or even your bosses — make value judgments of your person on the basis of gender. I am referring to what the parent article and the article I linked directly confront.
If I'm ever asked for an estimate, it's after the project schedule has already been set in stone.

On my current project, I am the sole full-time developer. The requirements were gathered from the client without my involvement. The schedule was laid out without my input. Then the whole thing was dropped on me.
There's a lot of capital and expertise in the U.S. Most of the companies hope they can stay here.

But Terrestrial Energy is Canadian, and Terrapower is a U.S. company that just signed a deal to build their prototype in China, which is aggressively developing advanced nuclear.
I was at at a conference recently (codeconf for github Atom) and I noticed there were a number of women (30%?). I commented to a women next to me that it was happy that there was such a good turnout of women. (I have been to many conferences where there were none). She said she was there representing women in technology and she did not give me a happy look. I thought it was an improvement.

One step at a time.
Say NSA knows about a weakness --- perhaps something that requires an additional parameter check when receiving a point on a curve --- that comes up in only 1 out of every 1,000,000 generated curves of a particular form.

The worry is that NSA could come up with a set of possible "first principles" mathematical constants and search through 1,000,000 permutations of those constants to find that 1 weak curve. Then they'd write a standard suggesting that the permutation they chose follows naturally from mathematics, and their starting point was selected to be transparent and to guarantee that they hadn't manipulated the standard to weaken it. Obviously, they've done the very opposite thing, but the point of BADA55 is that you can manipulate standards surreptitiously this way.

The point isn't that it's possible to find weak curves. Of course it is possible to do that.
We are not actually built on MTurk. The tagline is there to allow people to quickly understand what type of tasks we can complete.

We bring on our own workers that have been vetted and tested by us - and are also open to working with workforce providers. In terms of scaling, we are not concerned about the supply (workers). There are a very large number of workers available - and quality can be moderated with the right onboarding and testing processes. The more difficult side of the equation is the demand side. By building a simple RESTful API - we hope to be able to generate consistent demand.