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This is a very important point and I agree, but the question posed by the article is why was there a sudden decline in women in CS. Before 1984 they were well represented and enrollment literally crashed to levels lower than they were 15 years before.

We can't say systemic sexism caused the crash in enrollment, which happened very suddenly. It is certainly a factor, and probably a bigger factor over time explaining sustained low enrollment.

A snap drop in enrollment is more likely due to a shift in the culture somewhere. Someone pointed out that the game market crashed the year prior, that was probably a factor. Was it Reagan? Was it the number of high profile movies in which nerds were stereotyped?

It is hard to say and a very interesting question.
Someone will make one that's comfy, like an RV that is a moving bedroom. The modes you mention either have to accommodate a driver who can't sleep or they have to squish a lot of people in to make it cheap.
The darnedest thing about stereotypes and generalizations is that everyone is atypical in some way or another.
I found this (mental health issues of colonization) to be one of the most interesting parts of Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy. It drags on a bit but plenty of folks go batshit, so that lends a tinge of realism.
The reason it's so expensive to live near SF is because of people like this.

Your landlord knows how much you'll pay if they know you work in the gay area and will tolerate a 5-hour commute.

It's the same reason NJ is becoming more expensive. They know you'll pay because you're willing to ride PATH every day to get to work.

Don't commute more than an hour to work. If you can't afford to live close to your work, find different work.

People like this are making it even worse, and not just in SF, in NYC, in Boston, in and around Raleigh, in ATX, everywhere.

Commuting is making it harder for other people and yourself.
> Aaron Klein had posted a copy of Laurel's complaint on his Facebook page. The complaint included Rachel and Laurel's home address and phone number. Rachel and Laurel received hundreds of angry and threatening messages in response to Klein's post, including death threats. Klein later testified he was unaware that the women's personal information was on the complaint when he posted it. The BOLI decision found his denial was not credible.

http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-25119-bittersweet-cake...
Isn't the door pull thing for handicapped accessibility?
And titanium does scratch, dent, and bend. Just not to the extent of aluminum. I'm looking at a titanium hammer right now.
We've banned this account for serial trolling. Would you please stop creating accounts to break the site guidelines with?
Making Visible Watermarks More Effective
The internet isn't run by the government, it's mostly run by private companies. These private companies want to create and enforce a sort of tax policy around internet consumption. Companies can tax you in multiple ways (slowing page load speeds, censoring content, denying access to services etc...) and they can do it for multiple reasons (business interests, lobbying from their friends, censoring dissent etc...) Net Neutrality is the idea that private companies should not be able to create tax policy on core internet infrastructure, and instead it should remain tax-free for all users.

The ultimate irony here, is that this battle is pitched as Silicon Valley vs. the U.S. government, with Silicon Valley fighting for a free and open internet and the government trying to pass legislation to pave the way for private companies to enforce tax policy. But in actuality the battle for a free and open internet has morphed into the people vs. Silicon Valley, with tech companies as the villains in the story.

The arbitrary censorship on social media sites (such as Facebook, and Twitter) has gotten really bad. Platforms like Youtube for content-hosting and Patreon for fundraising have begun demonetizing and delisting their political opponents. Lower level infrastructure such as GoDaddy and Cloudflare have even now begun to enforce political delisting.

Wake up. Private companies are already enforcing a tax on your internet consumption if you are guilty of wrongthink. Whether it's Verizon, Twitter, Patreon or Cloudflare, who cares, it's the same thing.
Keep going up the chain of causality. Property Owners are so NIMBY because there's an economic incentive to behave that way. This is only the case because Prop 13 caps their property taxes. If California had property taxes that, like other states, could increase as the assessed value of your home increases, the incentive to oppose new building would be significantly lessened and it would then be in everyone's best interest to keep housing costs low, not just those who rent or are looking to buy.

Prop 13 is immoral and has not only wreaked havoc on real estate market in the state but has also gutted the state's public education system. It needs to be repealed before any progress on these housing issues can be made. There can be provisions to ensure that people don't lose their homes to rising property taxes...Texas, IIRC, has one that allows property taxes to accrue and only need to be paid when the title of the property changes hands, which seems like a good compromise. But the state's population is going to go up which means we're going to need to build a lot more housing, and our laws need to create an environment where that can happen.
Which is the people who make software for the rest of the users, so they'll buy this phone and write software for it, making it desirable for others.
Yeah, I think I like that better. Although I may put spider as worse than cockroach.
Raspbian Stretch Has Arrived for Raspberry PI
Why not punish companies for creating jobs in an already crowded area? How many attractive, high-paying jobs in SF are tied to the city by any physical necessity? If companies want to avoid being punished, all they have to do is move their offices to a less crowded city.
Not at all. Rule 41 just says that if the FBI already has a warrant to hack your shit, they can hack your out-of-jurisdiction servers. This seems like good policy to me. Am I missing something about it that 'paints a target on my back'?
How about Lindau? 80 miles from Zurich across the large body of water? Google shows 2:30-3 hours of morning commute by transit.
Does it have an Ingress Protection (like IP68) rating? Isn't mentioned
Install Phalcon Framework on Windows 10
Offer HN: I'm Learning React Native, can build your app for discount
I'm currently picking up React Native and hoping to get a couple of real world projects done so I can add to my portfolio & hopefully get a testimonial or two. Given the circumstances I'd also be offering a very good rate for development.

I am a long time web dev and I do have several years experience in mobile development with Appcelerator Titanium and before that, PhoneGap.

Email is in my profile if you have an app you'd like built. Happy to discuss more and show you my previous work.

Hope this doesn't break any rules, but if so I apologise and will feel shame for many days.
This. Atom kills my CPU fan, but VSCode is pretty quiet.

I also noticed that Slack was significantly more performant when I went from being on 5 different Slack teams to just one. Which suggests that there might be something related to how Slack handles background chat updates.
Secure your own face-mask before securing the face-mask of those sitting around you.

A couple situations where it will help you: The justice department issues a subpoena for your IP address because you visited a website about a protest, your ISP wants to sell your internet history to the highest bidder.

I am fully cognizant that we need to be working on NN at a collective level but individual protection is incredibly important in 2017.

Edit: To answer the comment below that I cannot reply to -- I am the VPN provider and I wouldn't do me like that.
Apparently you should give that advice to Google Chrome, which spends hundreds of thousands of money into making their developer tools better, a feature only a tiny fraction of their users want.
Hilarious comment. Hyperloop is literally a bomb.
Yes, I would guess you are correct. Hmmm... bug report button...
We've banned you for violating the site guidelines repeatedly elsewhere, but I want to let any readers who saw it know that the following, of course, is untrue:

> I've seen mods threaten users with doxing and worse and then delete it afterwards

Pretty ridiculous actually.
I think you are essentially right, but I want to make a distinction. Just because a product or service is perceived as valuable, does not mean they benefit the consumer. Examples include products laced with sugar or other drugs (legal/illegal). Sure consumers want them, but they also hurt consumers (addiction of one type or another).

I guess what I am saying is, sure their interests may align with ours, but are our interested aligned with us to begin with? If our interests leads to self destructive tendencies, is that still ok?
No way a cheap $150 Chromebook will last 4 years. I've been buying Chromebooks for my wife for a while now and you really do get what you pay for. It's like that parable with the poor and rich person's boots.

Sub-$200 Chromebooks are plastic so they break easily. I've had issues with keyboard switches not working any more. The hole where the power adapter plugs in gets loose and stops making a good connection. You're looking at about 2 years of everyday use before something critical breaks MAX.

A good, aluminum Chromebook that will actually last a few years of everyday use is about $300.
TL;DR on my own comment: she's in her early 60s with all that entails for jobs and job hunting. She's making the best of being basically trapped.
You will probably get replies when your own comments are sincere and thought out.
Oh wow I completely mis-understood that! What a super effective way to stop speech!
This guy’s having the worst luck ever…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0sW8HGonB8o

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4s6faeBSGk
Since the actual size is tiny, tried using webpack to combine some of the resources. Saved ~40% of that size with minification and dead code removal, and saving that many requests meant that it takes a tenth of the time to load.

Might recommend you try it too for releases, as a lot of people might not know how & will use this as is.
I wasn't able to find a source in a quick search, but I wonder if (traditionally) the charring of the barrel is also done with peat.
> So - what if the hosting company decides to hand over the data because the higherups are very patriotic and find it distasteful that anyone would disrupt the presidential inauguration?

I don't understand the reasoning that prompted you to ask that question. This issue is not that Dreamhost willingly handed the information over to the DoJ, the issue is the government is trying to force them and Dreamhost doesn't want to.

> In both cases it's private companies making their own laws, and that is really worrying

What do you propose? All companies and citizens have to ask the government every time they make any kind of decision?
I enjoyed Circuit Cellar although mostly vicariously. You were entering a period when doing interesting electronics projects tended to require more dedication and effort than I was really willing to put into it although I played around for a time.

You were getting past the time when Heathkits and so forth were really practical, surface-mount was becoming common, etc. but obviously well before the current wave of Arduinos, Raspberry Pis, and so forth.
https://goo.gl/maps/BeMyux1Ha2T2

in less than 1.5 hours you can be in Zurich from Konstanz without a transfer (if you insist on 7am sharp then it's one transfer taking less than five minutes). Just in case you want to live in a nice university city and not a little village. And it's way, way cheaper than Zurich https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/compare_cities.jsp?cou...
Microsoft gets sloppy with Surface
But the thing is that you (Bay Area landowners) are not really bearing the cost of insufficient housing. In fact, you're benefiting through increasing home values (for which you are not taxed due to Prop. 13). It's renters and others like Ms. James who are being hurt. The particularly cruel aspect of this is that once these people have been forced to the edges of the Bay Area, they no longer get to participate in the future decisions that will either exacerbate or alleviate this problem. Ms. James no longer gets to vote in Alameda, and thus has no say in the decisions that keep housing costs high and her commute long.

That's why I believe housing policy needs to be decided at the Bay Area or CA state level. When these decisions are made at the local level, it's people like your friends who selfishly vote to inflict the high costs of housing on to others. Hopefully this NIMBY-ism can be averted by making sure that all stakeholders get a say in the housing policy of a incredibly interconnected region.
But one actor can always read the state of the other actor, and modify their actions accordingly. The state of each actor is immutable, so each action taken based on the state is sure to be conflict free. As opposed to imperative programming, were each actors position might not get updated correctly or in time until too late. Deadlock and starvation don't happen when you have pure functions with no side effects and immutable state like they do in non-FP languages.

Timing is harder to get right when everything is async, but if your game design is good, you just need to better implement it to get it right frame by frame. He also talks about having monads to handle things like this.
Exactly! Sharp was the one who started this thin-bezel trend with Sharp Aquos Crystal in 2014.
At the same time, aren't "you as the white supremacist" working to ruin the lives of hundreds, if not thousands of strangers?
> You know what would be an interesting consumer product? A $100 black box you can plug into your home network that runs email, media, and social, applications with no hassle.

This basically exists, no? https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0181JTPCU/
If you don't plan to return to Earth, the whole thing could conceivably be a win. Less bone density but considerably less wear on the joints. It's anyone's guess at this point, but it'll be interesting to find out...
I know, I'm not talking about vacation, I'm talking about things like doctor's visits, weddings, etc. The things that don't fall into the buckets of "work" or "vacation" but which require you not to be in the office.
My company is 100% remote, but it is not without it's challenges. As you mention, the whiteboard is a big one. There isn't a good digital equivalent yet that isn't a fortune.

But not everyone wants to work remotely. I asked my friend, and he said he would never work at a remote company because, "I enjoy having face to face conversations with my coworkers about work."
Images of the site don't load here. The video of the phone falling on the ground does, some other images do also, but a lot of the page is gray or black or blue spaces where I imagine pictures should be.
The price of land dwarfs the cost of construction. Outside of the Bay there are huge housing developments underway and although I am sure property developers would rather have less regulation they do not seem to be struggling to build homes.
In a state with active fault lines and environmental pressures from much of it being in the desert deregulation is not going to help our long term prosperity or safety.
Curious if you hand wash or use a dishwasher for the baby bottles? There's a hygiene hypothesis to explain why allergies are more prevalent in 1st world countries.
I think the answer is she's making a choice based on her preferences:

1. Live and Work in SF make $80k, and live in small expensive housing

2. Work in SF and make $80k, live in Stockton and get more and pay less for a house, and spend a ton of time commuting

3. Live and Work in Stockton, make way less, live in a place larger than SF but Smaller than #2 and not have to commute

She chose #2 - others make different choices
Mark Zuckerberg: “We aren't born hating each other”
I think OP was implying that you could code in a non-lazy way while using electron. For example, a lazily coded app would use too many frameworks (e.g. jQuery + jQuery UI + angular 1, 3 http clients, 3 underscore forks) and bad coding practices (many memory leaks and unnecessary duplication, no optimization attempts, team never learned the language, shipping dev builds with extra debug tools to production). Maybe electron isn't as bad as the bad apples draw it down to be. Personally, I'm still interested in something like react native for desktop.
Energy+plus+Environmental+Consulting+–+A+Hot+New+Vocation+Path+|+BSITWZ8
They'll just raise prices in the exurbs.
Uhh, he is bashing Apple...

Sure, that much is obvious. The question is, why even bring it up unless supporting a narrative that no one asked about? There's no mention of Apple in the replied-to comment.
Lack of infrastructure as well. Despite the low density, it is pain to get around SF and bay area generally unless you are luck enough to have a trip that starts or ends near one of the few rail lines. Double the density, and getting around would go from bad to worse.
Startup – looking for feedback from a bright bunch
https://www.efemex.com/

Good, bad or ugly? your thoughts and creative criticism are most welcome. From design to concept and beyond.
I've eaten tons (possibly literally ;) ) of both, and the body meat of blue crab is much better than any lobster I've ever had. I'm not saying lobster is bad, but it's possibly overrated.

At the end of the day, I would take oysters over both because I prefer salty to sweet. A fresh local oyster from the water that morning either raw or lightly steamed is delicious.
>intentionally releasing material designed to hijack human brains via emotion.

That sounds like every news station since the 80s, or the Washington Post forums. People on both sides do nothing but prey on emotion, it's a common tactic. Their opinion and even news articles prey on emotion. Fox of course does it as well. News is now a liability in the US; sold their soul for the almighty dollar.

>And we have nothing to defend against it.

Reason and logic. A good BS detector helps too. I understand our educational system is in shambles though. I don't disagree that is a problem, but censoring it won't solve it, at least censoring by blocking websites to register.
Yes, Chrome is a memory hog, but that's nothing new. The thing is, Chrome still runs just fine on the laptops-of-old with 4 gigs of memory. I've always just assumed that Chrome likes to use whatever memory it can find (which, for people with a lot of memory who only browse the web, is probably what they want). Acting like these Electron apps are un-useable without supercomputers is silly.
Bluetooth keyboards work great with Android devices. No cables required.
> What if Mike Pence becomes president and uses the precedent set by these lawsuits to justify the passage of his version of Christianity into law?

Wait, how exactly would the precedent set by lawsuits under state laws forbidding certain private discrimination in public accommodations enable federal establishment of religion?
Nah, there are much more viable market solutions. There will be 4 sandwich makers sharing that apartment, or they will commute for hours, or the sandwiches will be made somewhere else and shipped in, or the sandwich shop will make you build your own sandwich, or it will understaff and you'll have to wait 30 minutes for your sandwich...
I also graduated high school in 1984. By that time, even my small-town American school had a room full of TRS-80s (cassette tape storage!) and a semester-long class in BASIC.

I remember the class being evenly split between boys and girls, and nobody finding that remarkable--some of us even had moms or aunts who worked with punchcards and mainframes.

The top students in the class were the same diligent girls who prevailed in the honors math and English classes; again, not provoking comment. The understanding was that we were acquiring practical skills for a drab something vaguely understood as "business," so intense interest in programming would have seemed very strange.

By the early Nineties, I noticed that programming had obtained this alienating macho reputation, which I find ironic considering how much GUIs made it so much more accessible, and the Web made it so much more interesting. I haven't read a thorough treatment of this period of computing history--any suggestions?
Google has a vested experience in improving the internet for all, because the more man-hours that are spent online, the more people are interacting with Google marketing and products.

To that end, they've always been very vested in improving web development for everyone.
Not really a bad thing, just maybe disappointing. I've been a professional coder for 10 years, and now am at an "executive"-level at a small startup, and I make the high end of that. In my area, that is a very strong upper-middle-class salary, though 180 would be better.

It's sad at first to see that someone who is simply in a different area geographically is afforded so much for so little effort. However when you factor in the cost of living there, it feels (slightly) better. I say slightly, because every time I've visited SF the actual costs of things has not been significantly different. I haven't had to pay rent or mortgage there, though.

Edit: And I don't live somewhere off in the woods, either. The county I live in is in the top 10 wealthiest counties in the country. There is something wrong in SF that is not just cost of living.
"Mostly in the US"?

Of course, it's only being sold in the US. Do you know how awful it is for a single customer to try to buy something from another country?
one thing AI bots can be good for is testing to see if games are balanced. For instance, I am a zerg player and I bought star craft 2, but it was immediately clear to me that the game was heavily unbalanced. I quit playing.

whether you agree protos was over-powered or not, I think we can all agree that game developers can benefit from AI with human limitations. it can help them design better games
"artificial monopolies created by the state"

I'm sorry, what?

While I'm sure you're going to beat a drum about "regulation" and "free markets" it might be worth stepping back and actually assessing the issue from a practical, rather than ideological stance

Utilities naturally gravitate toward monopoly. Would you want to have multiple sewer lines running to your house, because your upstairs bathroom costs more money than downstairs with a different "provider"?

Stringing up competing sets of coax cable, telephone lines or fiber optic cables is a losing proposition for the ISP's themselves

Why subject yourself to competition, when you can simply carve out your own market and be "the" provider in an area? Comcast doesn't want to overlap with Time Warner, because Time Warner is the incumbent provider. Even if Comcast offered a faster internet service, they'd be building their market share from zero
Correct. It's odd that someone could contrive a meaning to do pornography. I also don't think "dirty mac" (as in "dirty mac brigade") is a term used in the US.
I've heard that in the 80s, that at the same time many more people started wanting to study comp sci (due to the home computer boom) many faculty were also leaving for industry. This led to a shortage of teaching professors.

Due to this, many schools started only accepting the top tier students for their programs. If HS teacher biases were hurting women's performance in mathematics and such, this would be reflected in their lower participation in college comp sci programs