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Exactly. Sexism is not identical to misogynism. Where the latter is about being nasty, sexism is believing something about somebody solely based on their gender.

So if I assume you don't like pizza and football because you're female, so instead buy you frozen yoghurt, I'm being sexist even if it's with the nicest of intentions.

We're all human and we all make mistakes, but sometimes people blow those mistakes out of all proportion. We just need more understanding and patience on both sides of the fence.
That's just a definition of the term, how is it ideological? You can use the definition without believing it exists.
That means basically the whole article is innacurate (a lie)?

That's more than clickbaiting, it is fiction sold as journalism.
There are so few male preschool teachers because our society is very sexist against men when it comes to interacting with kids. This is societal and not innate because in many other countries male teachers are the norm.
It's not so much the problem being simple, but more about it being a problem you have already solved. If you give me a blitter API and ask me to write a composited then yes, I can churn out the required quantity of code with ease each day. I know the problems, I know at least one solution, so I won't ever have to head up dead end alleys, stop and research options on the Internet, discover that I've chosen a really inefficient algorithm that requires a near complete rewrite to avoid, and so on. Ask me to patch an existing code base that I'm unfamiliar with to add a new option on a settings screen, and those 5 lines might take me two or more weeks to write, even though the task is simple.
> 2) I suspect that the difference in search results may partly be conditioned responses. We are accustomed to what we find through Google, so when DDG presents something that looks different

It's not just that.

When you search with DDG you may need to structure your search differently than you would do when searching with Google.

People are just so accustomed to using Google-optimized search queries that they don't even consider that they are Google-optimized and thus they don't realize how unreasonable they are when they expect Google-optimized queries to yield equal or better results in non-Google products.

Let me put it the other way: If I use my regular DDG search-terms in Google I get poorer results than I get in DDG, is that Google's fault?
Knowing several technologies and tools is a good thing. But you really need to pick one to master. It might be PHP web development (or Wordpress plugin development); it might be JavaScript front-end development; or ad campaign management. Something that you get to know very well, and become very efficient in.
At least they are building up like crazy. No NIMBYs there.
Because my government is bad at technology.
Poor and oppressive countries (India, Ukraine, Saudi...) typically have more women in tech compared to western countries. There are not that many job options, and IT is often only reasonable option to get western salary.
I couldn't see where the checkout button was, maybe AdBlock had blocked that element?
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And you missed the point of the GP poster. The GP would have apologized for this to anyone he didn't know well. Why would it be GP's fault for "making" someone feel "out of place" by treating them with a certain respect that has nothing to do with any personal characteristics? Her role wasn't "lady" or "engineer", it was "person I don't an F-bomb-level rapport with."

At least that's the main point of GP's post. What the guy in the story was thinking is debatable I guess, but I don't see much point since we can't know.
Here is my personal experience with the fringes of this issue over a lifetime of watching it play out before my eyes...

If a female is attracted to the guy, things he says or does are considered "cute", "flirtatious", and/or "interesting".

If not, the same actions are often considered "creepy", "jerkish", and yes even "sexist".

I think its just human nature to perceive things in this way, and since women grow up in such a vastly different, sexually charged environment (I'm watching it happen with my 13 year old daughter right now) as guys do, it is, of course, impossible for me to understand all the nuance.

Just my anecdotal thoughts on it...btw it is good to see this woman make an attempt to address the issue.
In what way is it inaccurate?
> There's a lot of logistics involved in releasing at least six thousand prisoners [1] at once.

So stagger the releases by compressing their remaining sentence from n years into n weeks, truncating at a sensible maximum. And in the meantime unlock their jail cells, permit food delivery, and let them chill.
I believe 4am is a single person, not a group.
The Vanhawks bike looks incredibly gorgeous (first time I learned of its existence), however isn't it better to buy a smart sports watch like the Garmin Fenix for example, and use any bike with it?

Also: no mudguards??
Why can't she be treated as both simultaneously? Why does treatment as an "engineer" require the abolition of her "lady" role? Are the two roles not compatible?

I personally thing it is more sexist to try and deny gender differences than simply recognise them and deal with people respectfully. I find the implication that the only way to not be sexist is to treat everyone as gender neutral disturbing.
I was looking for this too. Disappointed to see no mention of it as compilation time doubled in 1.5.
> Are girls equally likely as men to be recruited as child soldiers?

Yes, girls are likely to be recruited as children. Sometimes that's as a child soldier, sometimes that's as a sex slave.

Some armed groups see women (including girls) as equal to males.

>> About 40 percent of the hundreds of thousands of child soldiers scattered across the world’s conflicts today are thought to be girls, but the numbers of girls enrolling in child soldier DDR programmes dwindles to five percent or less.

http://www.irinnews.org/report/97463/analysis-girl-child-sol...
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win: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0Bwh3wi9gnmg4bnNLTjlCZ0hodE...

mac: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0Bwh3wi9gnmg4Mmp4cWYtRXpfd0...

linux: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0Bwh3wi9gnmg4Mmp4cWYtRXpfd0...

VR: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0Bwh3wi9gnmg4XzhMU2xVMGJCUn...

-OneDrive-

win: https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=9CE2F3A7162E1D05!1068&...

mac: https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=9CE2F3A7162E1D05!1069&...

linux: https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=9CE2F3A7162E1D05!1070&...

VR: https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=9CE2F3A7162E1D05!1067&...
The researcher has already updated his post regarding the use of his company email. Apparently your original point still stands:

> I never contacted Facebook or Alex using my work email account. It was only after Alex contacted my employer via email that I sent a reply from my work account. Alex indirectly contacted me at work, not the other way around.

Also, why would he be doing this work at the behest of his employer when (IIRC) Facebook's bounty program only pays out to individuals? It would automatically make him ineligible to claim the bounty.

To me it seems like Alex Stamos tried to use some good old threaten-your-livelihood intimidation tactics and failed miserably.
As a man, I'm really glad to read things like that. You know, the sexism problem makes both sexes feel bad. I think it is really important for our society in general that we don't let differences like sex get between us. It's silly and petty.
It's really good to see that even in a such powerful monopoly that it is, the "search" who Google has, it still have space for competition. DDG focus on a niche on this, and they are growing.
It's never too late. I didn't start programming until I was about 13 (admittedly, I'd only ever seen one computer - an Apple II - before I bought my Spectrum), but I know a lot of people in IT who didn't start until their late teens or beyond.

If you are still keen on getting her interested, have you ever tried something like Scratch? It's very easy to learn and the kids that I've taught it to really seemed to enjoy making silly animations or very simple games with it.
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You don't need to, you can activate the region button on the top right [0].

It's not the same as Google, but it's good enough in many cases.

[0] https://duck.co/help/settings/regions
> Sacrificial altars

I fail to see how this is news worthy. No sacrificial alters would be news worthy.
In a possible unfair but nonetheless relevant way, yes it is their fault.

Whether it's the intuitive way to ask a search engine a question or just a way that has become intuitive through using googe, it's how people interact with DDG. It doesn't make a difference in any practical way if that intuition has been formed over time by interacting with Google.

If you are inventing a new alternative to spreadsheets, most of your users intuitions will have been informed by excel. You'll need to live/deal with that,
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> JS is in exactly the same league with Python and Ruby and Perl other similar dynamic languages

I don't know about Perl, but Python and Ruby both give you a type error for [] + {} or {} + [] or 1 + "1". And both Python and Ruby give you an error when you do something like "".notavalue, whereas javascript just gives you undefined. They might look similar enough visually, but under the hood they are different in terms of strictness and types.
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The privacy of DuckDuckGo is worthless when I click on the first link and it includes ajax and fonts from the google domain (and facebook and twitter buttons and whatnot) - might as well just type my search term in google.
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From Wes' updated post:

> I never contacted Facebook or Alex using my work email account. It was only after Alex contacted my employer via email that I sent a reply from my work account. Alex indirectly contacted me at work, not the other way around.
There is also those who see vulgarity as a form of Sexism/racism.

It only helps alienating people if you brand anything as sexism.
Haven't seen the movie, but I'm not sure you need to be super weird to be that person. I believe the word you are looking for is integrity.
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What if the reason she was "singled out" was actually that she was the only person the swearer didn't know well enough to feel OK about swearing around? Or was the only one he considered to be in earshot? Or she was just the closest and he felt he should make some gesture because he regretted it, but it wasn't bad enough to personally apologize to every last person?

I guess the author's impression trumps ours (and only the swearer's honest account of his thoughts could trump hers), but she didn't really address those, so I have some doubts on whether it's as clear-cut as you say.
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It's also asked how prevalent those programs are compared to IT. "Women in Tech" is now a common phrase in IT, is "Men in Education" as well?
Wow, I've never been there before. No wonder I've been so lonely.

I have to take my son to school really quick so I'll have to do it when I get back. Btw, if anyone wants to go ahead and share this anywhere, feel free! I just want to make fun things and if you share that fun I'd be grateful.
Yes, I do know about that but it still fails.

E.g. I live in country `x` and set my region correctly. I search for `foobarbaz` which is some thing in my country. Though in country `y` there's also a thing called `foobarbaz` and apparently this thing in country `y` is either much more popular of that country is much bigger, so I can't find `foobarbaz` in my country, or I must look deeper into other pages.

Google now works so good, that I do not need to scroll for 9 times out of 10 and almost never go to other pages, whereas with DDG probably 1/3 of local searches ended up in looking in other pages.
> Now, I know, DDG can specify where I am (or I can tell it), but the thing is that it still does not work, as I expect.

I know that this feature exists, but it does not cut it.
I just posted some mirrors on the main thread.
I love the idea of Poe tormenting schoolboys with baroque pedantry. There are moments in the Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym (a book I love) when his disquisition on some nautical matter achieves a kind of sublime boringness.
DDG is basically a meta-search engine. It is then better to host it yourself with https://github.com/asciimoo/searx

Set it up remotely and you basicially have your own DDG.
A lot of drawing on linux already goes over a "file", a PF_UNIX socket from the application to the X server - with the added penalty of making an additional round trip to the kernel, whilst on Plan 9 you just go directly to the kernel(as long as the application and display is running locally)
That is on possibility. However there is strong evidence that people judge the same work worse when it comes from a woman. Here's[1] a study where identical resumes were sent to science labs applying for a sciency job. The women were rated less suitable.

And yes, people do look into why there are fewer male preschool teachers[2], and blame sexism.

Some people want to believe that the world is 6,000 years old, or that Big Phrama wants to hide the fact that vaccinations cause autism, or that tech is a meritocracy where code and only code is valued. But sometimes the evidence doesn't support that.

[1] http://www.pnas.org/content/109/41/16474.abstract#aff-1
[2] http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2012/05/09/30maleteacher_e...
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That BBC has a lot of untrue, lying or simply worthless articles since some time. Somebody could invent a conspiracy theory around it, but I believe the "conspiracy" is just among the managers who want "profit" no matter what. And nobody who can influence them will consider "bad" what they do.

For example, they quote a guy as the source. They just report what he says.

Not checking the facts.

As this specifically is "not for the UK public" nobody can even complain that they "uneducate" their own citizens.

Sad, knowing that under same name some of the best scientific programmes were produced before.
I've been using DDG almost exclusively for the past two years. It's improved a lot in that time and now I hardly ever have to !g.
Yes. We are different and there is nothing wrong with that. Hell, we might even have different skill-sets, meaning that for a given task, a certain sex might be a better choice than another... still not a problem.
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And you are right, too.

But isolation doesn't mean translation. It is crazy that we have to use translation to overcome problems with IP space scarcity, but I guess we all got used already.
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You are going to have to make an argument on what the gender difference is that would result in it being considered appropriate to cuss in front of males but inappropriate in front of females.
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Just because he's a symptom of something, doesn't mean he's not also the problem. The fact that there are many other people like him doesn't mean that each one of those people isn't a problem too.

The "Why people think he's an ass" section of the diagram keeps on expanding to encompass more and more things about him as they are revealed over time.
Americans need to be much more worried about corruption than India. At least it is illegal in India.
"Finally, I assumed that most everyone played Minesweeper at one point and I wouldn't need to explain the rules."¨

I stopped making such assumptions since I started interviewing.

Warming up question: "How would you check that two strings are the anagram of each other ?"

"What's an anagram ?"
Also that most of the people who buy their way into a government job are most probably incompetent. It's a self-fulfilling prophecy because the ones who themselves bought in their way using corruption are very much likely to repeat the same with others once they are in the government.
I'm not a woman, but if I were one, I think I'd be pretty irritated if I was given special privileges or encouragement over male peers to "help me succeed" or something. That seems condescending and unfair.
It really isnt surprising this is pretty much the only article about gender discrimination that is allowed to be on the hacker news front page.

Lea is obviously a talented and confident person and it is great that she has had such a positive experience. Entirely agree that she can and should share it.

It is however sadly predictable that the comments on HN lean very much towards self congratulatory 'gender discrimination isnt really a problem!' discussions. The huge amount of discussion around the problematic areas of tech culture are routinely censored from this site giving people who have the privilege of not having to suffer from the systematic discrimination an easy pass to believe that there is no problem when even a token effort to look makes it more than obvious that there is a massive problem of discrimination in our field.
It used to be the same here in Sweden but unfortunately it has started changing for the worse. It's mainly centered around higher up municipal government officials who take bribes to let certain companies win contracts for the municipality. While citizens have yet to bribe the officials we still suffer because of sub-standard products from/work done by companies that "win" the contracts.
It is in Python 2, but not in Python 3, where str.encode() and bytes.decode() have been restricted to only convert between strings and bytes.

>>> "foo".encode('zlib')
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>OECD's Social Institutions and Gender Index Is at http://www.genderindex.org, and is a litany of baked in prejudice, violence, lack of access to education, lack of access to property and other normal legal rights.

You have me.

>When we compare the lot of a 16 yo girl in Rwanda to a High schooler in SF, yes it is hard to find where the High schooler is having problems, but we just have to look at the ratio of men and women in tech to see there is a problem - even in modern, western, progressive San Francisco.

>So globally, sexism is a violent oppressive force holding back progress for billions.

Yeah, you lost me. Not only are you comparing things of very different degrees, your second example doesn't even support your point.

Of course sexism is a major problem in large parts of the world. But you completely failed to apply that to San Francisco. Evidence of an employment ratio difference, or even a wage gap (without careful controlling of as many variables as possible), is not necessarily evidence of sexism.
I think, when we see things like this, we maybe need to clarify where (country) these experiences come from. I suspect that the worst of sexism in tech comes from the US, and that Europe is generally great...
Uhh 6,000 years old? It's a probably a historical goldmine.
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>We just happen to live in peace and don't need or want your constant superiority complex in our face.

Yeah, well, the only reason you live in peace is because of Americans with their free speech and school schootings, and the Soviets with their communism. We all saw what happens when Europe is left to its own devices.
Good point! They could definitely be an option then.
Okay, the implicit association test here is bs. I mean with race you can look at a face and instantly identify the race. I don't have an automatic identification of the NRA emblem or greenpeace. Also the notion of republicans as red and democrats as blue is very recent in modern history. Also, very interesting how the article states that political affiliation trumped race, but the data expressed makes it clear that this was only the case with white, and not blacks.
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Why is it generally okay to swear in front of men but generally not okay to swear in front of women? That's a pretty sexist, and condescending, point of view.

Sure, there are gender differences. But I don't think "genetic vulnerability to profanity" is one of them.
No it's not reasonable - that's the point. The OP came up with "sexism is overrated" - I wanted to point out that if you are a girl in large parts of the world that's a frankly laughable statement. It is also wrong in modern western world, but not to the same degree - but it is still measurably wrong to think sexism is over rated.
Any idea what causes this increase? I'm surprised as I understood fast compilation times to be one of Go's major strengths.
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But this article doesn't really say or support that "there is no problem". Rather that it's sort of important to have both carrots and sticks. Having just one of them will entirely kill the motivation of doing anything about it.

edit: It's quite possible that I misread what you are trying to say here...
This is a real orgy of authoritarianism, folks.

I once knew someone who has contributed to this catalog. Their justification for participating in this heinous orgy of totalitarianism, was, simply: "I hope your children and loved ones are safe". 'twas the last I had to do with them - I cannot be friends with someone who justifies the creation of these devices, nor their continued application to society. Especially when they invoke terror to justify the crime.
We must be reading different editions of HN, because I see them here regularly.

The GitHub CoC related stuff alone had the frontpage several times.
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