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The article addresses that idea.

> The findings will likely seem controversial, since the idea that men and women have different inherent abilities is often used as a reason...to argue we should forget trying to recruit more women into the stem fields. But...that’s not quite what’s happening here.
> In wealthy nations, [women] believe that they have the freedom to pursue [other] alternatives and not worry so much that they pay less.

The research does not seem to find that it is gender aptitude or interest differences that accounts for the disparity in STEM graduates.

> ...the percentage of girls who did excel in science or math was still larger than the number of women who were graduating with stem degrees. That means there’s something in even the most liberal societies that’s nudging women away from math and science, even when those are their best subjects.
Away from sharing all of your data with Google, I'm not sure what's the downside of using Google Analytics. Yes, that might be a rocket, but it's damn easy to use rocket.
In 2016, I came across a Show HN for a laptop powered by your Android phone (called Andromium at the time, now Sentio). I thought the idea was amazing, went over to their office, met one of the founders, and the other soon after. They gave me a shot working for them in a partnerhips / growth role, even when I hadn't had any experience doing that kind of work before, but had a strong desire to learn. Can't express how grateful I am to have met that bunch and worked with them for almost a year. So much learning. Lifelong friendships. And I was able to see from up close the challenges of delivering a hardware + software product from both engineering and a distribution standpoints. Definitely influenced my current path. I’m working on a product now that I’m excited to ShowHN in a few weeks.

Back in my 2nd year of college, when I first found HN, I was inspired by many cool projects that were posted here. Within a year, I decide to take the plunge to build an app from scratch. Ended up taking a lot longer than I had thought (didn't realized how complicated a simple looking app could be), so I skipped a semester and continued to work on it with a friend. It was a great learning lesson that gave me the confidence to try and build out ideas when I had them and see what would happen, rather than just sit around hoping someone would build things that I would want to use.

Lastly, I admire the culture here that focuses on creating actual value and doing things rather than chasing status. That has been a huge influence for me - as someone who was very influenced by social pressures and craving for status during high school, and early college (e.g. getting into a top college, getting a job at one of the “top” 5 tech companies), I believe I’ve slowly shifted towards valuing actual work that creates value for others in a meaningful way and caring less about other proxy symbols of “success”. I have a long way to go, but I’m grateful to have been exposed to thoughts and a culture that pointed in this direction, during a time when my mind greatly craved the opposite.

Thank you.
I just discovered that where i work (Algeria) there is hidden rule in hiring new devs that wasn't known publicly it's simply no women, seriously i work with 20 men for more than two years and i just discovered that our head of recruitment doesn't hire woman at all no matter how she's talented because of so many reason most of them are racist but kind are hard to argue with him like if woman get married she will stop working and yes like 70% of this happened all time when women get married her husband will force her to stop working, even if she doesn't when she have kids she start working less hours i mean like 50% less
and the big reason that they can't handle pressure at all specifically if production server is down she simply get cracked down and where i live woman never work full time never that is like freaking problem and they never work for additional hours (despite we pay for those hours). so if he invest in woman she's going to get him like 30% productivity of men.
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Hehe yeah. Hypocritical, you mean maybe. At least I didn't say there was nothing new, and I restricted my..criticism to the bit I actually read. But I'll upvote that. :-)
I would take the whole equality movement more seriously if I had been able, in the past decade, to spot a negative news article / report on women.

When you get all the time exclusively negative news about men, you could start thinking that this is a coordinated (or emergent?) campaign.
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Doing a quick search on the About TechCrunch page and TechCrunch wikipedia page for "Keith Teare" will yield no results.

Another reason to do your due diligence when investing in ICOs.
As someone who remembers the usability horrors of the 90s as wr stumbled our way to figuring out what worked, I think the author is misidentifying the issue. Websites work just fine now - the issue is Amazon having an economy of scale and business model whereby they almost all other e-commerce sites are an irrelevance.
most of our traffic and customers for our cryptocurrency trading stats dashboard and prediction engine https://bitbank.nz come from hacker news

Lots of interesting discussions and learning materials just like this post here allow learning from great people and can sum up to have a great benefit on your life/career
Your phrase "it was like a new world was opened to me" really took me back. Before "the orange website" cynicism, before disillusionment with technology, before deciding startups were a tool to exploit engineers. I remembered finding HN in university - this weird non-web-2.0 website - and learning there was so, so much more to know outside of the narrow computer science curriculum. Things I first heard about on HN include:

* TLA+, now one of my main extracurricular technical interests

* The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, kicking off a tour of philosophy that seemed like simple intellectual exploration until I needed it most

* Conflict-free replicated datatypes. I loved their mathematical purity, noticed the CRDT Wikipedia article was a stub, decided to write it, and so got back into editing Wikipedia.

These plus countless other things I don't recall, some of which permanently joined my amalgamated pool of knowledge and influence me in ways I don't even know.
You’re inadvertently making the parents posters point. The reason why most founders stem from a demographic that allows them to either find a solid paying job or fall back on (parents, spouses, ...) financial support is that he current way of doing startups selects harshly for exactly this. No one else can afford that risk and gamble. If you’re single, your startup fails and you have to move in to your parents place for a while, that’s tough luck. If you have a family, a few kids and maybe parents that rely on your financial support, a single dry month without income may spell disaster.

The current way of doing things self-selects for types willing to put in crazy hours and with access to money.
Standard practice back in the MS-DOS days, what Microsoft now calls xcopy deploy, because that is how we used to do it.
Meh. I hardly consider

max [a, b, c]

to be boilerplate.
Transport for London are currently trialling in-tunnel 4G service on the Waterloo & City line, with a full rollout across the whole London Underground network planned for 2019.

https://tfl.gov.uk/info-for/media/press-releases/2017/novemb...

The tunnel gauge isn't a major problem. The standard technology for providing wireless coverage inside tunnels is a leaky feeder or radiating cable - a length of coax cable with a perforated shield. The leaky feeder acts like an antenna with a very elongated radiation pattern. As long as the distance between stations isn't too great, then you don't actually need to put any equipment inside the tunnel other than a length of cable.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leaky_feeder
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Indeed not, but that doesn't quite mean the scenario outlined above - the current government tries to keep up a facade of a democratic state.
That's why you'd need to have a common formally defined semantics underneath, that all syntaxes will be forced to comply with. Solves the halting problem (unless somebody invents a truly weird syntax with meta-meta-templates and context-dependent grammar or whatever - like the "look, I can use C++ templates to implement a compile time Lisp interpreter" horror"), but, yeah, inventing a practical way to enforce that formally defined semantics is a hard problem in itself, and waaaay above may level of compsi knowledge :)
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A gigantic inferiority complex
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> The number one benefit you should get from a scripting language as opposed to a compiled one is higher productivity

As I understand it, neither lua nor python are compiled languages, they're both dynamic, scripting languages. Which one do you think is a compiled language?
There really has not been a long-term drop in the stock so that would have been (and still would be) very risky. You were smart not doing it.
This phenomenon isn't entirely new. Some man have seen it as "Scandinavian gender paradox".

Still, why are we surprised? We know instinctively, that there will never web 50/50 in some fields, because man/women just don't like it as much. It's sad that some people have to pretend to agree with the feminist narrative
There's an even more similar bug in the PowerPC CPU used by the Wii U: all atomic operations have to perform a cache flush (dcbst) between the load-linked (lwarx) and store-conditional (stwcx) instructions, or else they won't work properly. (But I believe the issue is that the operations aren't being propagated from per-CPU caches to main memory, so it's sort of the opposite of the I.MX7 bug where operations are skipping the cache.)
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How can a single unicode char make crash an operating system? It works also on MacOS terminal. Is it due to a keylogger bug?
It’s easy to forgot how prevalent ASCII art was. W3C’s Web Content Accessibility Guidelines from ’99 specifically call it out as a problem, and have examples of ASCII art charts(!) that will need alternative text for screen-reader users: https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG10-HTML-TECHS/#ascii-art
Career Successful women in stem told me that she would have pursed for a different career if she wasn't the daughter of immigrants. She was destined to be an engineer or a doctor.
Go can do some kind of manual memory management, via global allocated arrays or just calling OS APIs directly.

C was owned by AT&T, and now by everyone that can afford to have a seat at ANSI/ISO C meetings, apparently it is easy to forget this little fact.
I've come to the realization the key difference is working code needs to be an order of magnitude more robust than hobby projects. There is a major difference in energy needed to get there. Spending this energy costs and there comes a point where programming becomes taxing instead of recharging.

Take care of your recovery, have outside interests to programming and realize as you age your ability to recover slows down even more, but your abilities also change. Wisdom accumulated along the way make you able to use your energy wisely.
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I think VLC can do that: https://techcrunch.com/2009/09/25/output-video-as-ascii-art-...
Agreed. When I quit my day job to start a company, I had savings to last me another 2 years. My plan B was to get back into a 9-5 job if things didn't pan out.

You do hear horror stories (like that indie developer who quit his day job to make a game and went broke), but that has more to do with little to no planning for plan B.
In a free market such companies would be at disadvantage versus the ones who also attract top talent regardless of gender or race or any other demographic criteria whatsoever.
One reason could be - in poor/developing countries STEM is understood as the escape path from the poverty, while in developed countries people seem assured in their future even if they go in humanities or any other non-tech field - thus following their interests/hobbies rather than the need.

EDIT: unintentional tl;dr as it seems :)
Given the diversity of items in Japanese vending machines, this effectively already exists. It's just that it's in a classic store layout.
The equality situation cross-culture is different.
I think the US exceptionalises female STEM careers (as a proxy for discrimination) which can then add more pressure.
And just because women have an explicit right to choose STEM work, doesn't mean that the discrimination doesn't put them off entry, as they're still painted in the same fashion as they were for the last fifty years. As seen in google-guys all staff memo-rant.

I've been in the industry for 20 years and haven't seen any relaxation of the bigotry and ignorance towards some people in IT. In fact, I'd say it has got worse of late, with the current trend of having the right to voice an "unpopular opininon" creating a platform for casual discrimination.
so in STEM it's only sexism and not the fact that there are less women/ less women with interest?

Where's sexism in medicine, sociology, biology?
But s/he's made two comments, and neither has been killed. Both are heavily down-voted, but that's not the same.

Even so, if anyone keeps getting shadow-banned then I'd expect that they'd learn how to make comments that don't get them shadow-banned. If they just keep banging against the moderation without changing their behaviour and without adapting to the community, maybe they really don't belong here.

<fx: shrug />

Finding it hard to care, given the comments I've seen.
As indonesian, i couldnt be agree more with this.its complicated. Especially if everythings what you did needs to be related with religion(goverment, business, relation) You cant hide it. Many people worried with the future in here
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This, and similar research I'd seen before seems to point to women being equal or better at STEM than men (and also being better at non-STEM stuff), but actively avoiding it as a low-status role when they have better options.

Slightly baffling to see this celebrated by men in these careers as some kind of vindication.

The data appears to be saying you (we) suck, but that's a win if you think the data was going to show that one gender sucked (and you ignore that you secretly thought it was them).
As already proven by many attempts to implement safe OS, a GC is not an impediment in a systems language, religion and disbelief against GC are.

Joe Duffy has putted it quite nicely regarding how many in the Windows team saw Midori, even though it was proven to be running right in front of their eyes.

RustConf 2017 - Closing Keynote: Safe Systems Software and the Future of Computing by Joe Duffy

-- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVm938gMWl0
Depends how fast you're going. 100kW input power at 80% efficiency = 80kW output power.

P = F * V

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Clickbait title and not very interesting reporting. I stopped when the author posited that Buffet was treated "like a Kardashian" by the press.
I think men celebrate it in the hope that this may trigger a culture change where they don't have to be seen as less desirables or inherently sexist members of the patriarchy.
Forcing people to change their interests based on an agenda only results in them being even less interested than they were in the first place. There is also the backlash to the nonstop pushing of politically-based hiring instead of meritocratic practices. Some even state "meritocracy" is outright oppressive and should never be applied.
Love this book, it's a great intro into statistics based learning.
An article about this research was submitted to HN earlier today, and provoked vigorous discussion with 271 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16407678

Here's a link to the actual paper: http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0956797617741719
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What if simple success would do? I think that delivering an high quality end result within budget and scheduke is much, much more important than being übercompetent 10x developer who only works alone.
Possible. So possible in fact that is mentioned in the article itself, citing the original authors.

> “Countries with the highest gender equality tend to be welfare states,”

> they write, “with a high level of social security.” Meanwhile, less

> gender-equal countries tend to also have less social support for people

> who, for example, find themselves unemployed. Thus, the authors

> suggest, girls in those countries might be more inclined to choose stem

> professions, since they offer a more certain financial future than,

> say, painting or writing.
Well they might act differently, unless they're from a country like Hungary, Russia, or Sweden, and then they are just like men in math. Nurture or Nucleotides... the experiment has already been run. The results are in, accepted or not.
No, the duration of a solar day would decrease with the duration of a lunar month.
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This is one of those truisms about life. That it is well understood is expressed in the cliche about “having to play the hand you were dealt.”

Lewis is making an observation here about the bias of the lucky, which blinds them to the objective reality of their situation.

I like the point.
Being good and being capable are different things: I am very capable of cleaning toilets, but I am not very good at it since I do not do it with a passion.

Edit: and I obviously do not imply with my tongue in cheek joke that women are the ones cleaning toilets. Just going the extra mile here to avoid offending anybody.
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Preferences aren't static, and are part of a dynamical system. It needs to be explained why preferences are the way they are. Environment could be changed to address causes of preference
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I don't think the myth of a theoretical "free" market holds any water and can be applied sensibly to any real world scenario. In the actual free market a giant megacorp would swoop all promising hires and suppress all competition by selling at a loss until nobody else dares to enter the field.
This is a very important lesson for Michael Arrington and many people reading this can learn from it without losing too much emotions or money themselves:

Someone, who claims this to be a cofounder of your business even once, is not your friend! Don't support their claims, don't pity them. They try to exploit you.

This kind of person is really good at keeping you emotionally hooked, and therefore even let you find excuses for their behaviour. Think for yourself: Would you claim ownership over their pet project like that? Probably not.

So be strict with yourself and let that person go. The earlier the better. They won't change. Your interpretation is not wrong. It's not your fault. And most importantly: You have earned and will find true friends that support you. And with them together you will make lots of money if you have that in you.
Well, sure, but it is not what we mostly consider a JIT. The "JIT" part is just an AOT compile at runtime, without most of the nice things that we generally consider being a JIT.

Take a hypothetical example: (for ([i (in-range a b c)]) (display i)). At compile time, chez has no way to know whether c is positive or negative (if it is set at runtime), thus making each iteration check whether c is positive or negative. In racket such code has negligible performance impact because the runtime will generate native code "just in time" with optimizations deduced from run-time information.

The JIT of chez is just a side effect of the AOT being fast enough to run on the fly. SBCL does the same.
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Not the grandparent poster, but stepping in.

Lisp, due to its easy metaprogramming, gives abstraction enthusiasts rather more rope to hang themselves than languages which make abstraction inconvenient (e.g. Go, which has a simple type system, or Java, which is very verbose). So, if one isn't careful, it's possible to write a very clean, very nice Lisp DSL which is totally incomprehensible to anybody but the author, and thus hell to maintain over time.

Relevant quote, from https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/07/22/microsoft-goes-bon... –

> When great thinkers think about problems, they start to see patterns. They look at the problem of people sending each other word-processor files, and then they look at the problem of people sending each other spreadsheets, and they realize that there's a general pattern: sending files. That's one level of abstraction already. Then they go up one more level: people send files, but web browsers also "send" requests for web pages. Those are both sending operations, so our clever thinker invents a new, higher, broader abstraction called messaging, but now it's getting really vague and nobody really knows what they're talking about any more.

> And if you go too far up, abstraction-wise, you run out of oxygen. Sometimes smart thinkers just don't know when to stop, and they create these absurd, all-encompassing, high-level pictures of the universe that are all good and fine, but don't actually mean anything at all.

More here: http://wiki.c2.com/?TooMuchAbstraction
One example would be:

> Google has created several discriminatory practices: - Hiring practices which can effectively lower the bar for “diversity” candidates by decreasing the false negative rate

To me, that translates to: "Google creates programs that lower the bar for hiring "diverse" people. This directly implies to me that at least some "diverse" people who got hired got hired primarily because of their gender/race/whatever. Now, I work in a team with 3 female software engineers (out of ~10). According to his conclusions, probably at least one of them didn't pass the mustard, and only got the job because of her gender.