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That's implying that law firms are more professional just because of a veneer of 'professionalism' (whatever that means.) Law firms are notorious for sexism and classism. If anything that fake 'professionalism' simply masks the true deviousness of the male-dominated law firm. 'Professionalism' has nothing to do with clothes or Star Wars; it has everything to do with attitude. A graphic design firm has a far different version of professionalism than does a law firm, but that doesn't make design any less professional. Professionalism doesn't mean 'generic.' Also, what's sexist about Star Wars? That implication that girls don't like Star Wars is itself sexist. By removing Star Wars from your desk, you're actually being more sexist by suggesting that girls might find it offensive. A suit and tie have nothing to do with professionalism in general; it's contextual. Software engineers aren't going to the courtroom, just like lawyers aren't playing in the NFL. That doesn't make any of those professionals less professional. The IBM white shirt black tie uniform back in the day didn't encourage more women to enter tech and it could be argued that those guys oozed professionalism. Is Mark Zuckerberg less professional because of his attire? Professionalism is an attitude, not a uniform or style of decoration. Professionalism is about maturity, fair mindedness and respect, not whether or not Chewbacca is in your desk.
> But I rarely, if ever, come across articles about women who have been fed up with some job and formed their own companies with other fed up women and strove to put their former coworkers/employers out of business

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1168182/Catfights-...

It wasn't in IT, but it happened for many of the same reasons as stated here.

The outcome is just one of several possibilities, and the media field may be more prone to have divas (although IT has too many divas of all sexes, IMHO), so I'm curious how the tableflip subculture will fare (hopefully much better).
Using male pronouns for someone who is actually female is offputting regardless of your opinion of "correct" grammar.

There are plenty of ways to speak in a gender neutral way in English that don't involve trying to rationalise using a gender specific pronoun.

My preference is for singular "they". (It's not as clunky as "he or she", and not as confusing for the unfamiliar as "xe" or similar).
Thank you for doing this - I'm going to read this with a lot of interest :-)
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Isn't the problem right there in the first sentence? - "Almost every university in England offers courses in computer science".
Obviously not all institutions offering a CS degree are equal & a quick look at a league table [1] shows that the 'Graduate Prospects' range from 100 (St Andrews) to 38 (Bolton).
Elsewhere in the thread someone mentions software apprenticeships and I think anyone thinking of enrolling on the CS course at Bolton might be better off doing an apprenticeship instead.

[1] http://www.thecompleteuniversityguide.co.uk/league-tables/ra...
Yet another anecdotal proof that the idea of elite universities is not practically useful. I studied math in Germany and the quality as well as the level of lectures is mostly quite awesome.
VMware is also scared of SDNs and public cloud infrastructure. They try to remain relevant, and they may have an easier path forward than Dell and HP, but their business model is built on virtualizing old Windows boxes. It's the stepping stone for businesses as they virtualize their infrastructure. Just move off physical boxes and into the VMware cloud.

But that's quite different from native-cloud applications. Right now you may need to incorporate VMware in your deployment toolchain, but it won't stay that way forever. None of the big public clouds (Google, Amazon etc.) run on VMware, and I wouldn't want to bet on internal virtualization infrastructure going the other way.
> as Bill Gates has said, doubling the size of your workforce cannot help but improve things

Especially for those who are paying the wages and don't like to be in a seller's market.
> Surprise surprise, the students like the guy who doesn't make them learn

His students go on to do other courses. Those students do better in those courses than the students of his colleagues. Do you disagree with that?
The criteria aren't wrong: I want to save money on my car.

Diesel fuel is cheaper, by a lot. Diesel cars drive further than a petrol car (I get about 3.7l/100km). A diesel car produces less CO2, which makes it cheaper to lease (14% instead of 20%-25% for added tax).

If the government taxes the diesel car equally to a petrol car, then people will pick the cheapest.

Just get a cheap decent EV out there with similar properties of a fuel car, and people will pick that. And cheap is in the range of 20000-25000eu, not 60000eu like a Tesla.

Fuel is already taxed heavily here (just compare Europe fuel prices to US fuel prices).

And I don't know what a DPF is, how it works, or that my car has it. I shouldn't have to care about all the hundreds of components in my car. I have enought things to worry about already.

If the startup time is 15 minutes for that filter and that is too long, maybe there should be some force applied to reduce this startup time to say 5 minutes.
Were also using authentication with client certificates. Even with Firefox its a mess. We had our authentification break twice in the last 2 years with Firefox.
Chrome sometimes just doesnt work and IE seems to work pretty often. But if it doesnt even a settings reset or IE reinstall doesnt fix it.
Installing Windows again so it works feels like the good old times with Windows 9x.
Cool stuff, certainly. But why take C02 from the air, when there are large stationary sources of CO2 readily available, like any bloody thermal power plant? It... seems very wasteful to me.

EDIT: also, one tonne per day, very wow.
Both browsers take patches. If enterprises need them so much, get some of their vast mountains of money from them to fix the problems.
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Hmm, my experience in 2001-2008 wasn't the same. While there were certainly funding issues the department worked pretty hard to try and do what it could to help. Then again technically I was in the logic group so things were a bit different for me but I'm conveying what my math grad officemates and friends experienced (i.e. they said they had pretty much the same situation).

Yes, some people didn't finish but math is hard and while the department is large and can be impersonal there were no barriers and efforts were made to assist the students.

The cheap labor argument doesn't really hold water (at least during my time). More students wanted teaching positions than positions were available.
IMHO - making a static full copy of my current personality is useless to me. there is no immortality of myself, just copy of mine, and we already have that in a bit different fashion - kids (I would say that's even better approach compared to 100% copy).

facing my copy, there wouldn't be a reason to feel immortal - I would die anyway, and the other guy would continue to live. so immortality for me means preserving my own instance of me, anything else is just not there. it seems to me this would be much harder to implement compared to creating a copy, so this would be available much later, and who knows with what consequences.

this is not possible in our timelines, and frankly, I don't mind. kids are good enough solution, and as previous generations made space for our, I will make some space for next ones, hoping they'll get a bit closer to stars than we did. once we settle through Milky way, our extinction on short or medium time scale should be less probable compared to single-planet situation.
> To complete the large incentive toward diesels, EU governments also manipulated the price of diesel fuel itself, keeping it below gasoline. They also taxed the registration of diesel-powered passenger cars at a much lower rate.

I'm not sure about the rest of Europe, but I know as a fact this isn't true for Italy. Diesel fuel used to be cheaper when most cars were gasoline powered, and cracking needed to be used to get more gasoline from the same amount of oil. Now that consumption moved heavily towards diesel, the price is almost the same as gasoline (as is expected). They are taxed exactly the same AFAIK.

As for registration fees, until I think 15 years ago we actually had much higher cost for diesels, because they were more polluting (particulate and other nasty things). Those surcharges were only scrapped after technological advances greatly improved those pollution problems.
> How are we learning anything more about your perspective on this issue

I learnt a lot. It was a pretty big flag.
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I've seen these threads numerous times, because the exact same effect has been seen in numerous western countries and studies keep popping up. Invariably commenters try to explain away the results, typically by blaming the people afflicted, and I can see it happening already in this thread. E.g. the popularity of CS in the media means that it attracts poor candidates; the quality of courses isn't good and people should choose carefully; people can't expect to get a job without spending all extracurricular time in quality internships and having x number of projects and OSS contributions under their belt and an active Github account; [insert country] is different because of [insert reason] (ignore that the same thing is occurring in many countries), etc etc.

My question is, why should CS be different than any other subject in terms of foisting responsibility onto kids who just want to gain employment? I have a feeling that if you started telling medicine/architecture/engineering/science departments that they need to start teaching students about entrepreneurial skills, and that students need to spend their spare time working on projects and battling for internships or they'll likely remain unemployed, that you'd be laughed out of the building. I'm not sure why CS is a special case, and why practitioners perpetuate this situation via blame in threads like this. It makes intuitive sense that employers want the best candidates, and these are mechanisms by which candidates can demonstrate suitability, but every other area seems to cope without them, so...why CS?
It depends if you are talking net margins or gross margins.
I was introduced to stoicism through the writings of Admiral James Stockdale who was shot down in Vietnam, and was a prisoner of war for 7+ years.

In his philosophical writings, he talks about how during those seven years, when everything else failed him, he could only fall back on that which he could control, the heart of stoic philosophy.

This is from when he is ejected from his plane, after having been shot down by enemy fire:

"After ejection I had about 30 seconds to make my last statement in freedom before I landed on the main street of that little village right ahead. And so help me, I whispered to myself: "Five years down there at least. I'm leaving the world of technology and entering the world of Epicetus.""

Here are the two essays I read, and would recommend.

http://www.usna.edu/Ethics/_files/documents/stoicism1.pdf
http://www.usna.edu/Ethics/_files/documents/stoicism1.pdf
I think that who is interested in crypto analysis like me, should try simple approaches like this one to learn and be aware of the rules of cryptoanalysis.

Arduino has 16mhz. On your phone you could have enough computational power to break every type of encryption made by an AVR in a timeframe near to a second.
I you want to crypt something with Arduino really in a difficult way the procedure could last hours if not days (something can be made in less then a second on a smartphone).

So in any case an Arduino compatible system is not secure because of its lack of computational power.
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In Finland, Diesel is noticeably cheaper than gas (currently below €1.20 per liter vs gas ~€1.45) and there's an offset in the yearly "diesel powered vehicle" tax that is around €350-€400 a year, depending on weight. That offset is easily countered with the Diesel engines outputing better mileage.

I drove a 1988 diesel Mercedes for a year. For a fair sized sedan and for its age, it traveled with 5.5 L/100 km, or 42 miles per US gallon. I bought a newer Toyota roughly in the same size class, slightly smaller, and it needs 6.7 liters per 100 km (35 mi/g). I was saving nearly €700 a year by driving an arguably nicer car (heavier, larger, better isolation). Too bad I had to wreck it.
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Ask HN: Copy of “The Electrical Tabulating Machine” by Herman Hollerith (1894)
I'm looking for a free copy of "The Electrical Tabulating Machine" by Herman Hollerith, published in 1894. The JSTOR entry is at http://www.jstor.org/stable/2979610

I'm thinking this should be in the public domain by now but I can't seem to find a copy of it.

Can anyone make this available as a free resource?
When considering intelligence amplification, the book that comes to mind is Psychohistorical Crisis, by Donald Kingsbury. Computer-to-brain interfaces may go a long way in the next few thousand years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychohistorical_Crisis
Teaching positions for grad students aren't predatory. They are really a form of financial assistance. In return for teaching 3 hours a week 2 hours sitting in your office with the occasional student visitor (with say 5 hours of prep work that could be done during office hours and 3 12 hour days grading exams). That's 8 hours of work a week which works out to a pretty decent hourly salary.

It's hardly luxury and when the state/university system yanks funding out during your tenure THAT is somewhat predatory but usually most departments find a way to tighten belts and make sure current students have sufficent funding.
They are advertising faster speeds, but propably not Tesla like (16% faster than ICE scooters).

And that's basically the only point they raise on their advertisement webpage. They show you some of the special & cool features (suspension, drivetrain,...) but every single one is very propably too expensive and there are much cheaper components to aquire on the market. E.g. the water-cooled engine with planetary gear looks super expensive. They absolutely need massive economies of scale or they will fail. And I don't see the appeal of this scooter. There is no reason to pay double what a cheap one costs. I don't think you can compare an Apple phone with a scooter (style vs utility).
I think the problem is more general than that, and it has to do with the fact that "SJWs" (for lack of a better term) assume that social justice should be the primary concern of all organizations.

In other words, it's not enough to make a good faith effort to be inclusive and kind -- you have to make their kind of absurdly extreme effort, at the expense of an organization's primary operational goal.

I think the only appropriate response to this kind of demand is a polite but firm "no".
Probably because your comment didn't add anything to the discussion. There's somewhat of a culture here of downvoting "Me too" or "+1" type content-free comments, and even jokey one-liners that don't progress the discussion.

My respectful suggestion is that when you want to comment, try to say something that uses your own experience or opinion to add something to the discussion, rather than to mirror or agree with some point in the article or in a comment. I'm far more likely to upvote something that makes me realize something I hadn't already thought of.
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This is where IBM cleans shop. POWER is pretty mean when it comes to bandwidth. You pay the tax to be a couple years ahead of the Intel curve if you need it.
Not 'had', 'have'.
The problem is that stoic people can suffer a serious social penalty to their interests and the cooperation they get from others. It's expected that, once you are in a bad situation, you fight in an outwardly visible fashion. If you don't display the markers of frustration in an easily understandable way, people will think you just don't care enough. Meanwhile, there is little downside to histrionics and unreasonable demands, putting the stoic at a severe disadvantage.
One of the thing that's bothered me about the English education system (basically since I realised what was happening), is that it's basically a continuous process of limiting your option. For GCSEs I did 3-4 fewer subjects than the 3 preceding years, for A-Levels I did 8 fewer subjects than that. For university I did exactly one subject. And commitment to a subject at each stage is for the full duration of that stage (more-or-less). There's no concept of dabbling in a subject for a semester to see if it takes.

At university, the furthest I could deviate from a pure CS module, was "Russian for Scientists" and a few maths/stats modules. If you wanted to do anything more diverse, you needed to get special permission. I certainly wouldn't have been able to take do a calligraphy module and revolutionise computer typography. And if i'd decided computer science wasn't for me, i'd have had to throw away all degree progress and start over with the new subject, there was no concept of carrying over any accumulated credit into the new degree.
"We're having a conversation!" is a perfectly legit saying, even to someone who is not a stranger on the street. On the other hand, Naval is a celebrity, and it's more expected for a celebrity to get such requests - maybe not wanted, but probably common. The deeper question is less anecdotal: to what extent, to cite Kevin Spacey (who cites Jack Lemon), the tech community sends the elevator back down. In this respect, AngelList has done a tremendous change to open more opportunities to more people. It actually opened the closed doors to many, and great news they are taking it to the next level. If this fund succeed, even more funds will follow.
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I wonder if other universities are lining up to land him since he seems to be an excellent teacher. My guess is that it won't be the case since the problem is systemic. Hope I'm wrong, good luck to Mr. Coward.
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I think your point regarding how bad hardware-design software is correct.

But I think that understates the many other problems with hardware.

Just off the top of my head, the following are problems that are incredibly hard to solve for any new hardware company:

Distribution (how do you get your device into the physical and online stores where people buy)

Logistics (how do you bring the parts together, make sure you always have the correct parts, ship them to distributors etc)

Fast followers (If you do have a good device, why can't an existing manufacturer copy what you made and use their better distribution to outsell you and their bigger scale to get better prices on parts?)

Regulation (Many hardware devices need certification of various kinds before you can even try to sell them. I'm not opposed to this, but it is harder than in the software world)

etc, etc
I see bootcamps as one of the few viable options to get a previously inexperienced person into a position where they're able to take on a software apprenticeship. I may be grossly simplifying things, but it feels to me like a trade such as plumbing or gas fitting can be picked up on the job.

Software development requires a pretty extensive grounding in the basics just to know what you're looking at when someone shows you new techniques - to stretch my already tenuous metaphor even further, most people at least know how to remove a spanner from a toolbox and which end to hold it. I'm not sure the same can be said of opening a terminal.

As for the discrimination against apprenticeships as being a lesser thing than the default route of school -> college -> university, that's a wider issue that needs addressing, and I don't think its going to be helped by inventing some new name for the same thing, especially in the software industry. I also took the vocational route in, and I don't think its ever put me at a disadvantage (if anything it means I have three years more professional experience than my peers). Most of the software developers I know studied unrelated subjects at university anyway.
They should just re-introduce the ability that they removed about a year or two ago: ability to remove your name from being searchable on facebook, unless the user knows your actual facebook.com/url.
There's a "web" link under the title at the top now. Click that and you can click through to the article on Google to bypass the paywall.
>Great attempt at a moral hazard. It's a business contract. Default on the contract, face the consequences. There is no "right" or "wrong" about it.

You can't default on student loans, right? So we're all good.
I'm an undergraduate at Leiden university in the Netherlands. I can confirm that this is still the case, at least here. I would say it's around a 30/70 split between practical/formal teachings.
>this is about respecting other people's boundaries.

This is about those boundaries being completely unreasonable. We're talking about the homonym of a gendered noun -- not even the (otherwise neutral) noun itself!

>Substitute "bro" for any word that you would find inappropriate and the problem becomes obvious.

Replace any loving, sensible statement with "black people should be lynched" and the problem becomes obvious.

Give me a break.
Statistically insignificantly better. As tested by the chair of one of the top statistics departments in the country. Yet AC is convinced all these people are out to destroy his life. He is hired as a lecturer as part of an experiment to see if lecturers can teach calculus more effectively than permanent faculty. Statistics shows he isn't significantly better. Add to that the fact that he's disliked by the math department for personality issues, and there's really no reason to keep him.
>A lot of people take it as an article of faith that there are no human group differences, so they're forced to look for discrimination in order to explain the world. For these people, no amount of evidence can prove the fairness of the CS world, since the idea that (gender disparity -> discrimination) is a necessary logical consequence of their worldview.

I think that you would be hard pressed to find people who actually believe that. Most who point out problems with the CS environment probably feel no need to have any sort of robust view of innate differences between groups, and many are likely to be open to the possibility that some of the gender gap can be explained by such differences.

Note that much of the discussion of this issue has focused upon ways in which the CS culture is one which is overtly and unnecessarily hostile to women. It's not just that men vastly outnumber women in the field, it's that those men frequently engage in behaviors that are hostile, threatening, and demeaning to women. It is not implausible that these behaviors play a significant role in determining the gender imbalance in CS.
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> that students need to spend their spare time working on projects and battling for internships, or they'll likely remain unemployed, that you'd be laughed out of the building.

Fighting over unpaid or underpaid internships and ass-kissing with professors so you don't wind up unemployed is standard operating procedure in every industry other than tech.

I can't believe the things my high school classmates in law and medicine put up with and how little money they stand to make until they hit 30.
Same for Netherlands. Diesel is only cheaper if you drive a lot. Owning a diesel car is much more expensive tax wise. So in practice people driving short trips do not own a diesel car.