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> How can one expect that the same fate won't befall those who want to master <insert any language here>

FTFY.

No programming language requires proximity. The only jobs you can expect to never be offshored are in (literal) plumbing.

This said, anything involved with Very Big Companies is probably more at risk, because it makes more sense for them to move entire departments offshore just to save a few percentage points on aggregate costs (actual productivity be damned). So I expect this will soon happen to the likes of Salesforce, if it's not already. AWS is definitely already happening.

Also anything getting too mainstream, because then it makes sense for outsourcers to invest in training high numbers of people. I expect the market to soon be flooded by Python outsourcers, now that it's making real inroads in the enterprise space (with bigdata etc).
This constant "Men vs. Women" narrative really doesn't make any sense to me. I've always seen people as just that, as individuals, with strengths and preferences that will most likely decide what they will work as. Making everything about gender just annoys me, no matter who does it.

Was physics built by men? Sure, probably because women weren't allowed to, or maybe they really didn't want to, who knows. But this outrage isn't about those women in the past who could have made it big, is it? It's about the present day situation where gender is not a deciding factor (or a factor at all) in who is allowed by society to do what.
Conspiracy implies co-operation and planning. The far stronger argument for this is pervasive unconscious bias.

Edit: You added your second sentence after I posted this (that's fine, I do the same sometimes)

And indeed, his slides agree with you. There appears to be no substantial bias towards citing recent work by women. So that doesn't really counter what I said except in the sub-case of older papers.

That sub-case could easily be explained by there being a bias towards citing older work of people considered to be the key people in a field (I would expect so), and a bias against considering women to be the key people in the field. That second bias could be explained by a bias against considering people with female names key people in the field, or it could be considered a bias against considering people with fewer papers (see data/previous arguments for this) key people in the field, or both.

This is a giant unsupported hypothesis. I don't pretend otherwise. It seems to be just as supported as the hypothesis that women are just worse at physics then men though.
Well, some flaws I see in his reasoning: qualification is based on publications and quality of work is based on citations. With the ongoing discussin about "publish or vanish" (I'm following it as a bystander, not being a scientist in any way myself) raises the question if that is really the best indicator or if less publications are rather a sign of more diligent work. Working at CERN one would think he is in a position to judge the quality of work himself.

Also, this approach fails to identify the underlying reasons for the perceived difference in citations. Is it due to some inherent discrimination that women get publiches less and thus cited less or not. I would have expected some deeper analysis of the numbers and data he worked with. From what I saw he just picket numbers to confirm his own POC, classic case of confirmation-bias and pretty self-revealing.

EDIT: To make it alittle bit clearer. I don't just doubt his conclussion / message, I already doubt the way he is trying to measure the different quality of work done bymale and female physicist as deeply flawed and error prone.
Their website

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Yup. Some states, with more direct democracies, have many citizen initiated propositions that people vote on as well.
Here the author, for any question feel free to write me.
If you're going to lob grenades, own it instead of hiding behind "but I might be wrong."

The math/science magnet high school I attended is now predominantly Asian, in an area that's predominantly white. My hypothesis is that Asians are better at math/science than whites. But I could be wrong! At the very least, the "assumption of identical brains is ideology." /sarcasm

^^^ Do you think that's a useful analysis of the situation, or is it unnecessarily inflammatory given the shaky reasoning underlying the point?
do you have a reference for that? (not that i don't believe you, but i'd like to read that story and share it as a good example how bad this system is)

given the amount of star trek fan-films on youtube (there are thousands, literally) spurious takedowns would be noticeable. so i don't think i am naive here. as long as all your sound and images are original or from a creative commons source a takedown should be unlikely. (that doesn't mean it can't happen though)

greetings, eMBee.
Preferential treatment of anybody when for anything other than merit when it comes to science is just blatantly idiotic and unproductive.

That said, discriminating based on whatever factor outside of control is also idiotic. Saying things like "Women scientists are harder to work with because if you criticize, they cry" is just plain wrong. Not all women scientists are that way, and saying so or judging women scientists in general is wrong.

I wish CERN kept the slides published and opened a scientific discussion instead of hiding behind the bushes.

Making any minority(based on age, race, gender, whatever) artificially preferred is going to be unproductive to science. Science progresses by hard work and innovation and not by invitation indeed.

If a person from minority is given a easy ride just because they're minority, EVERYBODY loses. In India, where I grew up, a person from a "lower" caste(not backed by financial standing, only birth status) is given a lower standard to clear to say becoming a doctor. Which only leads to bullshit doctors. If you really care to be inclusive, make the minority groups become eligible on par with everyone else. Give them financial incentives to study harder. Don't tell a minority person that they only need to run 80 meters to finish a 100 meters race. That's just stupid.

/rant.
And people should respect your dogmatic religious beliefs.
Not directly my area, but still, the most eye opening textbook I ever read: https://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Thermal_Physics.html?...
EDIT: Deleted my question to save HN karma
Exactly my point. :)
Don’t forget when the too big to fail banks were given passes without so much a slap on the wrist under Holder’s oversight. The whole thing is a joke. Oh and he is now back serving the masters he protected. I can only imagine how much they are paying him for doing their bidding.
Okay, I think you didn’t read the article, or more charitably, cherry-picked a straw man example to make a point. Save the ad hominems, and address how the behaviors in the article are “just breeding”. Start with an easy one like tail-chasing if you like. Be sure to address how “I raised a couple of dogs when I was a kid” makes you such an expert on dog behavior that you can talk to people in a condescending tone.
pervasive unconscious bias towards...citing relevant facts in your peer-reviewed research papers?
> could actually be rephrased as "Why Don't Everybody Agree with the Left?

"the left" doesn't mean much of anything other than meaning "those i don't like".

it's a general derogatory phrase used by (for example) commentators like ben shapiro... on most episodes of his show, it's an handwave reference to indistinct millions of people that is almost always followed by chatter about how terrible they are. just the absolute worst. evil people. etc.

being one of "the right" doesn't mean you would like someone like steve bannon.
What do you think makes Python more difficult to learn now than it used to be? It seems to me that there are even more tutorials now. Also, the confusion between learning 2.7 or 3+ is pretty much completely gone at this point, while the base core of the language remains as simple and readable as the older version in my opinion.
Yes, someone with a strong competency developing software in any language should be able to learn to write Assembly/any other language. There will be a learning curve, but the ability to reason abstractly is fully transferable.
I meant to ask which frameworks are most used in Ukraine and makes it easier to recruit programmers ?

We cant use PHP.
I was really hoping for some more legitimate "cursed rocks" in history. Generally cursed gems and such are considered cursed for a reason:

Arsenopyrite, if heated, releases arsenic. it was popular to coat spears in the dust in the past.

Chalcanthite will kill you if its introduced into a water supply.

Torbernite and Cinnabar are also lethal if heated thanks to Radon and Mercury.

its also worth noting that powdering or ingesting these rocks, as was pretty common up to the victorian era, will absolutely send you to the grave in agony.
I do wonder whether humanity will suffer through us aiming for equality of outcome rather than equality of opportunity. Won't we inevitably end up with less talented/innovative/productive/etc people at the top since some will have come through purely to meet a quota?
> For instance, we think black holes can consume matter, and then convert it to energy in the form of Hawking radiation as they slowly decay, without having to bother with eating an equal quantity of antimatter.

> we're just guessing

Black holes (BHs) are not a very realistic candidate for solving baryon asymmetry. Where's the antimatter outside the horizon of a modern (as in after structure formation) astrophysical BH? If it's not there, it can't fall in. This is really hard to work around even for early direct-collapse super-massive BHs; hierarchical growth is already essentially ruled out. Worse, how do you keep signatures of annihilations out of the region near the BHs, including the accretion material and any jets?

Or are you expecting primordial BHs to couple differently to baryons and their antis? How do you suppress that difference in the weak field limit, or more generally after first light? (And in either case, how do you make sure that virtually all of the antimatter is locked up in BHs?) Essentially you keep coming back to having the stress-energy already significantly (really, almost entirely) segregated into particles and their antis, around the time of gravitational collapse, or you depart dramatically from General Relativity in a regime in which it is already supported by evidence.

Finally, where are you hiding all these black holes, whenever they formed? If only BHs break baryon symmetry, the contribution to \Omega implies a lot of lensing. (Speculating in the direction of a dust of tiny remnants or the like is also hard work, and usually involves beyond-the-standard-model new physics anyway, although there is a small literature that involves operators like \partial_{\mu}F(R)J^{\mu}, where J^{\mu} is the baryon or lepton current, and R is the curvature scalar or the Riemann tensor (R_{\mu\nu\rho\sigma}R^{\mu\nu\rho\sigma}) or a more complex term, and afaik none of these model-builders take backreaction into account yet.)
£20k for a 21 y/o would be good, more than many entry office jobs. And jumping to £40k would put you ahead of many office and other roles that 30+ y/o might hope to get (more than a local teacher with a few years of experience for example). Yes there are some higher paying jobs in the area - but if you are looking for a first role fresh out of uni - that would be pretty good. Exp if no experience needed.
Why would it have to account for people going backwards? All you want to check is if people have driven through them all, isn't it?
Tried this out on the day it was released, and it's been awesome so far.
Usually structuring images would take a lot of manual tweaking to get the layers just right, but with this I just adjust the number of layers and watch magic happen :)
Average push size down from over 300MB to 15MB for an image of over 1.4GB, and takes like 15 lines of code to write.
Reminds me of MUD games from the mid 1990s. A big MUD might've had three or four talented programmers, a dozen or so level designers, and dozens of administrators. All putting serious time into the MUD, and all without the faintest thought of making money out of it.
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"If enough software services rely on a specific cryptocurrency as payment, then it has actual intrinsic value"

I wish I'd seen this earlier. Pretty sure this is false, but it is an excellent summation of the thought behind what's run up digital currencies.
Frank Harrell writes a lot of great stuff and his answers on the Cross Validated Stack Exchange site are worth just reading even if you didn't think you wanted to ask the question they reply to.

His blog, http://www.fharrell.com, also contains interesting posts.
He didn't say that though, and it wasn't a complex sentence.

Logically speaking it's the other way around. People who are for this law are sexists (they want discrimination on the basis of sex) and the people against it are the non-sexists (appoint purely on merit). Obviously it will be inverted in many discussions: Orwell didn't invent the term doublespeak for no reason.
>>Well, Indian offshore companies have been training many COBOL guys since Y2K.

COBOL in Indian offshore companies is often a shorthand for Mainframe experience. And many people do Java on Mainframes along with COBOL.

>>These days, most of the SAP related jobs are outsourced to India.

Been happening since more than a decade. You could point to any random tech, and some one in an big IT offshore firm will be working on it.

>>How can one expect that the same fate won't befall those who want to master COBOL now?

What fate? Until a while ago, mainframe skills were one of the most important ones in the industry.

>>How about salaries?

If you work for somebody through a third party contracting firm, your salary is going to be low. Not just if you do COBOL, but any tech.
He didn't really present facts. Objective and intelligent people who saw the talk and the slides recognize that.

That said, I know that HN is a "safe space" for white male bigots, so feel free to pretend that you're very smart and insightful.
Super neat, and cool to see you act.
About a year ago I discovered that California has its own tartan pattern. Unfortunately I was unable to find any manufacturer which currently makes a flannel shirt in this pattern. It's a shame, the pattern is quite nice, but it's unclear to me whether it's ever used anywhere.
WaystoCap (YC W17) is hiring a lead software engineer
I've used EverOrg[0] to convert my evernote files to Org files, retains the attachments (images, PDFs, etc) wonderfully too.

[0]: https://github.com/mgmart/EverOrg
> However, the moment you dip into libraries you are dependent on someone else's work.

Like every other programming language?

> Then you run into a problem because Native doesnt let you use a specific library

You are confusing runtime and language.
Mar's law: Everything is linear if plotted log-log with a fat magic marker
The principle is broader. In this specific example its application is actually reasonable.
Let's just ignore whether this guy's arguments are valid or not for a second, why, why would you present them in a room full of young, presumably aspirational, predominately female scientists at a conference focussed on getting more women to science? You can question whether such a conference should exist, but this isn't the way to make your point. Particularly when bringing up studies suggesting women like working with people and men like working with things - all those women in the room seemingly don't fit into that reductionist rule, so it's irrelevant in the context at best, and flat out wrong at worst. He's not a crusader, he just seems like a bit of jerk.

> given free passes into the field based on gender

Free passes aren't given based on gender, though preferential treatment might be given as part of an affirmative action program. Personally I think that is absolutely necessary, in all of STEM, because I believe there is a structural imbalance in our society against women. I'm open to the idea there isn't, and there are immutable biological differences at play, but unless we do something meaningful to correct the societal factor we'll never know. But it's super easy to say there's no chance of that and we should treat everybody totally equal, when you're not the one with the disadvantage.

As to his arguments, so much of the evidence he points to can be shaped by the same societal forces he is trying to dismiss. "I made some simple checks and discovered that it wasn't, that it was becoming sexist against men and said so." Anybody who thinks they can unravel this in a evening on google is arrogant, and totally wrong.

> speaking some truth

Real scientists don't talk in terms of absolute truth, they deal in scientific consensus given the available evidence. Please consider being less dismissive, when almost 50% (and in some ways, 100%) of the world's population is affected by how we view and respond to gender.
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I agree with you about "Cultural Marxism", the author clearly is not presenting neutral facts. However he also poses a theory based on existing data.

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For those who don't know:

"Cultural Marxism" a term with two meanings: Obscure and irrelevant meaning and more common based on conspiracy theories.

If you have been reading about "Cultural Marxism" and have thought it's something you can just drop into dissuasion, maybe check your facts. It's about as neutral and academic term as "capitalist pig" or "Illuminati".
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On both sides, yes. I'd say the Democrats are more dishonest. GOP claims to be the pro-business party, so no surprise when they act that way. Democrats take the corporate money, pay lip service to the left, and act pro-business as well. Look at Obamacare - we didn't get single payer, we got government subsidies for insurance companies.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/15/us/politics/voter-id-laws...

Unusually, this links to the actual court result: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/07/29/us/document-A...

The bill was specifically and deliberately amended to choose only those specific forms of ID that African-Americans were least likely to hold.
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I've created something temporary here, feel free to add anything :)

https://gitlab.com/cunidev/gestures/wikis/desktop-specific-c...
In, unconciously, slecting these facts for your paper and ignoring others. And with facts being facts even peer-review only helps you so much. Also it was just a talk / presentation and no peer-reviewed paper. He's a physicist and not in social sciences after all.
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Replying to the title here, but from my experience knowing how to program COBOL was only one small part of the problem at my previous employer. Knowing what the programs where doing and what other programs the output affected mattered much more. Such knowledge was not set in documentation but rather in people's heads, more often than not that knowledge disappeared as soon as the person that had been working in that part of the system retired.
Eureka! We have discovered a complete ignorant fucking shithead.
Slides: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1c_NyUhOZ8erdqU2AGZJZtNfFeA9...

This is PC landmine! In fairness, how different is silencing him and the likes from witch burning?

I am not endorsing him but it's obvious that he will face retaliation. Check his last slide
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That looks impressively ugly. I would hope some polish would be applied (perhaps literally?) before display.
The community response to this is very telling.
It's not the right forum to express this evidence/conclusions. It's insensitive, and entirely without empathy. People have good reason to be upset.
Ha, like Eve's sniffer ring from my Internet of Smells story http://telegra.ph/Internet-of-Smells-04-26
Except he continued using it until he was 28.
> In India, where I grew up, a person from a "lower" caste(not backed by financial standing, only birth status) is given a lower standard to clear to say becoming a doctor. Which only leads to bullshit doctors.

I'd like to see a credible source to this statement.
> There might be a job for you

That pays just over minimum wage.
What better way to fight for states rights than to fight for the rights of the states that, you know, you govern?
Then 8 billion people will have to compete for enough food to feed half a billion people.
Reminds me of the ABC 800 (Swedish Z80 computer) color monitor. Heavy bastard, built like a tank in sheet metal and painted in some kind of brown shade suitable both for the tax office and the military radar station. Great high quality RGB monitor for your Amiga, Atari, or what not - except it had a logic board which "truncated" any analog signal into 16 (or thereabouts, possibly 8) colors. It could be rebuilt by your local geek for a case of beer or equivalent value.

I was a little late to the party and without the electronics chops myself, I had to let my Amiga be bereft of 4080 of its 4096 colors.
I think I can live with the drastic changes. Can the elite?
Seems like Damore 2.0, same arguments.
That's a little too simple. The basic fact is they have consistent and helpful sources who put a nice little bow on an easy-to-write story that nobody will really object to.
Right. The thing is that there's gender disparity going in the other direction as well, fields that pay well and are well respected but that are dominated by women. Nursing being an obvious example.

Any theory that explains why physics is gendered should also explain why education is also gendered. It's unlikely that those two fields ended up with skewed gender ratios for completely different reasons.

So, why do you think psychology, education, and nursing are all female dominated fields?

If it was simply a pattern of shitty behavior, what I would expect is some fields that women obviously don't have access to, and a more or less even gender ratio in all the other fields.

What I'm seeing instead looks a lot like gender ratios are a gaussian distribution, which I don't think fits your hypothesis that the gender ratios are caused by "a pattern of shitty behavior". That probably is a co-factor, but it doesn't explain the female-dominated fields very well.
1/4th of my $500 net worth! :P
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It displays a randomly selected picture from a preselected set of six. Swapping to your own screensaver requires jailbreaking your kindle, and if you're going to do that, save the $15.
Not on iOS devices
I've always seen people as just that, as individuals

The problem is that there is lots of research indicating that while many people will swear up and down that this is what they do, in many cases it subconsciously isn't the case.

Had you asked me two years ago or so I would have absolutely sworn that I was no way biased with regards to gender, but about a year and a half ago I started to seriously introspect on these issues, specifically trying to focus on my subconscious actions and running through past interactions, and now I honestly don't feel confident claiming that anymore. I obviously never actively discriminate and try to be aware of my action, but the subconscious is a hard thing to control.
Here's a useful list, in case you're interested:

https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/~srugheimer/Women_in_STEM_Resour...
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