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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.

Yeah it is. Hear hooves, think horses, don't try too hard to eliminate zebras.

EDIT: I am one the many reasons women don't like working (in tech). Friends of mine are at work, overly enthusiastic when engaging with female colleagues - nothing overt, nothing offensive, but noticeable.
Smarmy perhaps. It's something most women at work seem to accept as normal if distasteful. I am reasonably certain I am on the smary spectrum. Problem is I don't tell my friends, so they don't tell me.

And the fact that it has taken me till my forties to have sufficent self- knowledge indicates the world is full of guys like me - and that's not a world I want my daughters to work in.

Edit2: perhaps a simpler approach - I get fed up watching people demand incontrovertible proof that they are part of the problem. If there are climate change deniers, there are sexism-is-a-problem deniers.

(Yes of course the two problems are not of same magnitude, but the psychological issues at play are the same)
A reach of 1.7 billion people is a nice start I'd say :)
The increase was caused during 1.4->1.5 by translating the whole compiler toolchain from C to Go. The core devs focussed on correctness over performance on the first pass. They clawed back a lot of the performance already, and though it is slower than it used to be, it isn't at all bad compared with C++ and other languages I've used.
You correct people and not pull a tantrum based on one comment. Please, teach yourself respect. The OP obviously understood the point.
The compiler was convert/rewritten from C to Go.
On desktop I only use DDG, mostly because I think their visual design & typography is much more pleasing than Google's, and the search results are usually just as good.
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Vendoring:

> Go 1.6 includes support for using local copies of external dependencies to satisfy imports of those dependencies, often referred to as vendoring.

https://tip.golang.org/cmd/go/#hdr-Vendor_Directories
> pretty much the only article about gender discrimination that is allowed to be on the hacker news front page

WTF?

There have been dozens of articles about gender discrimination on HN front page, and comments have always been supportive.

In what alternate reality do you live?
I ended up giving DDG a chance as well this year and I had a similar experience. I recognize that part of it is probably how I'm conditioned but it's really frustrating to feel like I'm fighting the thing that's supposed to be helping me (which is how I felt).

Hopefully it does improve over time, I do value my privacy, but I still ended up back with Google because it became too much of a hindrance.
Eh, "the right thing" is in large part about simplicity and uniformity of interface, not just punting on corner cases to save 100 lines of implementation. That Plan 9 managed to keep it's LoC down is credit to the Pike et al but (in part) because Plan 9 actually pushed everything is a file far enough to be useful Plan 9 is -at least compared to Unix- waywayway closer to the right thing than it is worse is better.
> and comments have always been supportive.

There's a sizable minority of HN commenters who deny sexism exists.
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Without having a position in this debate myself: I think that's not quite fair.

My understanding is this: They got a report that a server can be compromised and fixed that vulnerability. Unbeknownst the reporter grabbed a huge amount of (remote! not on that server, btw) data to play with.

Later the reporter returns to Facebook and says 'Btw, I got all these valuable pieces of information and have those for quite a while'.

Only at that point can you panic and rotate keys, but now you notice that a third party had access to all these keys for a month already. What else did they get? Maybe the researcher sat in a posh coffee place and grabbed interesting Instagram credentials (using the certificate) or escalated this further, gaining even more access based on the exposed information so far.

In my world, Facebook/Instagram are basically completely owned and have to assume that this guy grabbed ~everything~. They probably need to hire (vs. doing a bug bounty) people to grab the same data from the same buckets to look for potential follow-up targets that were _not_ disclosed, but might've fallen to the same bug hunter.

Who's to say that the guy doesn't come around on New Year's Eve with Yet Another Disclosure based on the same 'attack'?

I hate the 'contact the employer' part, but I'd hate to be in FB's shoes far more. I can hate the company and feel for its CSO/IT staff in this aftermath at the same time.
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That will not work for all types of search, like things related to the news (like "Paris terrorists"), and Google might block them (I think they block you for a while if you try too many searches in a short period of time).
How does that work? Does Plan 9 run the display in the kernel?

Also communication with the X server can use shared memory - AIUI the modern GUI toolkits render everything to buffers themselves rather than using X drawing protocol calls, so I suspect drawing on modern linux is mostly a shared-memory thing.
> It’s impossible to know, especially since they don’t know either! If you confront them on their sexism, they will deny all of it, and truly believe it. It takes a lot of introspection to see one’s internalized stereotypes. Therefore, a lot of the time, you cannot be sure if you have experienced sexist behavior, and there is no way to find out for sure, since the perpetrator doesn’t know either. There are many false positives and false negatives there.

Thousand times this.

I know that things like racism and sexism is bad and evil. But I also know that I am these things — subconsciously. Having lived in a country with a long tradition of racism and sexism, and given I've ever talked to a black person for a first time half a year ago, I know that there's no chance that I don't have these stereotypes inside on some level. Of course, I try to fight that and become a better person, and on a rational level I know exactly why these traits are evil.

But when I'm trying to explain it to someone, too often they just hear "I'm racist" or "I'm sexist" and decide that I'm a total asshole :(
Almost all problems with gender discrimination in tech that get my attention, originated here in HN. I seriously doubt that the majority of the HN community would in any way be in favour of sweeping gender issues under the carpet.
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Glad to hear the positive side of this. I can't say I've encountered any negative behavior in the course of my career that I would consider sexism.

I typically avoid crude humor and innuendo in the workplace because it's impossible to know who is going to get offended. That said, I wouldn't be surprised if I was more even more cautious around women lest something be construed as harassment.
HN is a bubble made of few making it real, mostly in the Bay Area, and a lot of marginal daydreamers from all over the world. For this reason, the mood and the overall narrative is sometimes bizarre: we have a front page with one topic bashing India as corrupt (it may be 90-95% of the planet, actually) and this one where gender (race, age, culture, attitude) does not affect the industry. A bit detached from ordinary life, both the makers and the dreamers, uh?
>in your browser

My browser is Firefox, this works only in Chrome. :-/
Does anyone use Inferno in a commercial product right now?
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When a developer doesn't have a clue how to fix a bug, he declares it "a feature".

When an archaeologist doesn't have a clue what something is, he declares it to have been "for ritual purposes".
Why do you suspect that?
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I don't think it's as obscure as a problem as you think.

I've been trying to learn Go as a sideproject for less than a month, and even I realize what the problem is and how the vendor spec solves it (at least once getting to the end where it says that with vendoring enabled submodules are automatically retrieved with go get.. I don't know why they didn't get to that earlier.)

One of the things I miss the most when working in Go is PHP Composer, and it's pretty obvious how the vendor design doc solves the same problem in a more Go idiomatic way.
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Brighton36 is Factom's favorite troll. Searching brighton36 and Factom will yield more information about our project than nearly any other you might use.

This idea of selling "checksums" is his current favorite smear, but it is of course obvious nonsense.
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>Yeah it is. Hear hooves, think horses, don't try too hard to eliminate zebras.

Not sure what you're trying to say there. No studies have empirically gotten at the root causes of the gender gap. Sure, sexism probably accounts for some percentage of women deciding not to choose such a profession, but there's no evidence to think it's a predominant role.

Sounds like you may be projecting your own attitude towards women onto others, possibly? I've never acted smarmy towards female coworkers, and haven't seen anyone else do so. Nor have I ever heard them complain about such a thing. Occasional social awkwardness; some older gentlemen being a little too eager to help (not in a smarmy way or with romantic/sexual overtones or anything like that, just polite "old-fashioned" behavior); but that's about it. That doesn't mean it hasn't happened to them, but if it did, they probably would have said something to someone if they felt it was a big enough issue.

Of course, I can't speak for women in general; maybe a lot of them do deal with smarminess in the workplace. All I have are anecdotes. But your anecdote doesn't mean you can speak for them in general, either. Are there any blog posts or testimonies by women in tech who've discussed this that I could look at?
Almost invariably there will be a minority of any community that will disagree with any issue. What makes HN interesting is that it will never be the same minority.

I would take exception on your use of the word "sizeable", but we could debate that one all day and not get anywhere, so I wont bother.
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For example (pseudocode):

random Boolean IsRunning ~ BooleanDistrib(0.001);
random Boolean CarNearby ~ BooleanDistrib(0.001);
random Boolean HasGun ~ BooleanDistrib(0.002);

random Boolean IsTerrorist ~
if IsRunning then
if HasGun then BooleanDistrib(0.95)
else BooleanDistrib(0.04)
else
if CarNearby then BooleanDistrib(0.29)
else BooleanDistrib(0.001);

obs IsRunning = true;
obs HasGun = true;

query IsTerrorist;
I used to host my personal web site on a Gateway 2000 beige box running OpenBSD installed on floppies. Those were the days.
There are definitely good experiences. I think the problem is when management pretends they did not hear something. I remember another female colleague (absent at the meeting) being referred to as a 'chick' and the other men laughing it off. It was a very bad experience. Being the only woman in the room, I did not speak up but I wish I did.
It is time to specialize. You say you're a jack of all trades, but you probably have to spend a bit more time thinking about what are you a master on, because I don't believe you haven't become a master on something after 10 years working in the same place.

You might not be an ace with HTML or CSS. Heck, you might not even be a great coder (I suck at coding!), but you've probably learned very valuable lessons about how a local newspaper works and how your work could add value to them.

Can you remember every time you had an opinion about how to do something and it was shut down by someone else? Do you still think you were right? If yes, that means you think you can do better. What about those ideas you've never shared but still think were great?

Why don't you sell this knowledge to local newspapers? You could start an IT consultancy specialized in the newspapers business. You could sell again your services to the same newspaper that just let you go, plus other newspapers in your region.

This is my advice without knowing much about you. I hope it helps you in any way :)
Would you seriously hold a door open for a woman, but not a man? That's ... weird.
I am also racist and sexist although I'd imagine that no one realizes it.

I work hard to take individuals as I find them and not prejudge. I think the best thing to do is try to minimize the effect of your biases on your actions and keep working to eliminate them. Not sure what else one could do.
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> gender discrimination isnt really a problem

Nobody sane would agree with this, and it's a totally skewed image of the real compliant many people have.

The real argument is, that it's much more likely the person isn't sexist, but a common asshole, as it's really hard to distinguish between the two.
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Yes anything that is 6,000 years old is awesome. That there are sacrificial altars in a temple is just a horrible title. That is like saying 6,000 year old temple found with door ways and steps.
That's the point. It's crazy that instead of getting IPv6 working in AWS, Amazon chose to build a NAT gateway service instead.

The forward thinking way to deal with IPv4 shortages would be for Amazon to support IPv6 end to end, and offer IPv4 connectivity via ELB or a NAT64 Gateway so that the non-IPv6 internet can reach your servers.
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There's a sizable minority of HN commenters that perceive (or misconstrue) any questioning as straight denial.
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Efficient for you as you can easily (I presume) pay the bribes... but for 99% of people what impact does this have on their life, when they can also end up being forced to pay when they AREN'T breaking the law.
> Am I the only one who thinks "sexism" is overrated?

> I'm still not convinced that the lack of women in tech is due to sexism. Maybe women just aren't as excited by the field as men?

>> Stories like mine should become the norm, not the exception.

> We don't know if that is not the case already. The echo chamber is powerful and viral.

Given the comments that happen in these threads, I am not sure whether its the word 'sizeable' or 'minority' in question.
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I find the culture itself interesting. There's a wikipedia page for the Trypillians: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cucuteni-Trypillian_culture

These were the biggest cities in Europe at the time, and I tend to believe the altars were altars, because they also burned down their own cities every three or four generations.
I wasn't the one who made the comment you're referring to. I'm just saying there is no evidence of a "no true Scotsman" here, as far as I can tell.
My thoughts on this in blog form: https://www.peerlyst.com/blog-post/on-facebook-bug-bounties-...
I totally agree. I tried DDG one or two years ago. It didn't last long. Google simply had better results. It took a lot less effort when using Google to find something useful. Several months ago I tried again. This time it's different. I just try harder. It takes effort.

I still use Google, especially at work and for tech (computer) related stuff. For the rest DDG is my first choice and I'm getting used to it.
I'm still studying and have never encountered obstacles set up by people with institutional power over me, so I am to a degree naive and privileged, however I was talking more about the day to day interactions that happen with a myriad of different people, mostly your peers (which apart from a few instances where it was the "bosses of tech" causing the problems, from what I remember reading the sexism usually came from the coworkers of the women). I definitely wasn't commenting on the application of the author's thoughts to all of human interaction, and didn't mean to come off that naive.
This feminist wiki says, "Any form of 'fuck' that assumes penetration is a bad thing for the receptive partner" is misogynist[1]. So I guess something like "Yeah, they really fucked us over on that one." could have been what he said, and it would be misogynistic and thus makes sense to be something that shouldn't be said around women especially. The next step is to eliminate saying it around men too, because misogyny hurts us all.

Yes, I'm being half-sarcastic here. It seems like if you want to question this definition of misogyny, you have to concede that every such thing, like casual uses of the terms "trigger" and "microagression", is suspect. Why is "fuck" so acceptable to say around women that they feel left out when you try to abstain, but saying "forking" and "dongle" was a mini sexual assault that one time?

[1] http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Guide_for_foul-mouthed_fe...
Unitless scores with no "higher is better" label meant I spent far too long trying to guess what the graphs meant.
"Corruption" had nothing to do with it, the military deposed Thaksin because his politics threatened the interests of the royalty/army axis that has ruled Thailand since approximately forever.
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It's a shame how far GTK is falling behind. From a user's perspective, I liked GTK2's smooth, clean interfaces much more than anything made in Qt, so much that I didn't even mind putting up with its insane APIs.

But now? GTK3 interfaces are horrible from an user's perspective – client-side decorations are a sin that we should know better than to repeat, plus a whole load of changes just for change's sake to spite users (the file chooser dialog has a much worse UX; mouse wheel support was widely gutted because apparently I'm supposed to want touch interfaces instead?) –, and the APIs are still as bad to use, most changes seem to have been made out of spite; a small shim would have allowed most programs to switch from GTK2 to 3 without code changes, had it not been for those.

Now I find myself increasingly switching to Qt programs. While the interfaces are still somewhat rougher than GTK2 ones and not as unified, it still beats GTK3 crap. That seems to be turning from "a reasonable toolkit for all X11 invironments" into "the official Gnome 3 toolkit, beg us if you want interoperability".
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A lot of the need for this design is for backwards compatibility with existing corporate network designs that will likely be on IPv4 for perhaps another decade or two longer. Most corporate networks despise changes and seek to gain stability of their environment through minimizing changes.

My current contract customer absolutely wants this and requires it, in fact, for compliance with internal security policies (nevermind the litany of security issues using IPv4 in the first place). The limitations of this solution include the fact that we're unable to get much control of these instances because we use third party software galore on these type of NAT instances like IDS, firewalling, caching / proxying, and traffic shaping. So unfortunately, all this new service does for us is let us separate out one of like 12 functions to a (granted, high availability) service and in the interest of saving money on not creating 25+ instances for these 12 services it's not unheard of to collapse these into 3-4 load balanced / distributed much larger instances for the sake of easier manageability. But for a lot of folks, I can imagine this is a great service that meets their needs sufficiently well.
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I guess it was expected that Google would want their tech to take center stage, but why can't they go the BizSpark route and provide resources with no strings attached??
I'd say you're absolutely correct. I laugh when I see feminist friends of mine who complain about "creepy" guys approaching them at coffee shops and days later they'll talk about how they hate being single and want to meet someone.
According to Google, "men in education" is the more common of the two phrases, for whatever that's worth:

"men in education" = 2,070,000

"women in tech" = 528,000
The problem is that they're never mentioned by anyone else, e.g. by mainstream media.
No, it is a property of all hash functions - if you reduce input of arbitrary length to few bytes there will always be short circles. It is why you should always think twice before feeding output from one hash function call to another as the set of possible output values might be smaller and smaller with every repetition.
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I think it's fair to assume that the OP was speaking within the context of working in the IT industry
Unfortunately, the packed WebGL file size for a scene with nothing in it comes at ~80mbs which is still way too big to be a reasonable alternative to three.js-based libs.

I hope they'll be able to trim it down in the future because I'd really like to use unity to deploy to WebGL. It just doesn't seem to be something that they can do, for whatever reason.

Edit: The benchmark seems to have a minimalist packed size of just under 10mbs. Cool that they achieved that. I haven't been able to with my project.
Wrong. Here is a thing, soviet spaceship Buran, which was performing fully automated landing in 1991, was programmed with this stuff - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DRAKON. Teams of software engineers created this language so rocker scientists would be able to programm spaceship without software developers.
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In my experience, with my friends, male friends are much more likely to swear than female. So it's reasonable to assume they would also be more accepting of other people swearing, and generalize this assumption to other people.
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You might want to look at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DRAKON. Teams of soviet software engineers created this language in 1980-s so rocket scientists would be able to program spaceship without software developers. Buran was programmed to perform automatic landing using this.
A relative few of the biggest elephant customers of theirs are deploying IPv6 or even have it on a roadmap. There is a gigantic amount of money that can't be ignored by catering to these lumbering giants of Faustian bureaucracy that will be multiple decades behind current technologies and continue to fall even further behind despite any "cloud transformations" that they spend a small country's GDP on. This is a potentially dangerous path for AWS as they need engineers to work on both up to date technology and other engineers on outdated, obsolete legacy technologies that few engineers would prefer to work on. The good news about outdated technology should be that every competent engineer should understand something about why it's obsolete in some respect, but the truth is that few engineers on even HN understand the shortcomings of, say, COBOL and Fortran 77 over Java 7 and C# 5.0.