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I'm exhausted by this ironic and sexist, never-ending debate of the why and how to get more women into tech. If we* want to treat women equally, why is it our duty to provide support structures and incentives?

*we as in the general HN audience, which is safely assumed to be largely male
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clopen_set
should be able to run any number of ruby examples from here: http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u32/ruby.php
> The Von Neumann architecture won over the Harvard architecture for a reason

And then we placed restrictions on it for another reason: security.

See Data Execution Prevention http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Execution_Prevention
Which, like these file system permissions, attempts to divide storage into things that you can write and things that you can execute, and the two only meeting in special cases.

You're saying that Chocolatey needs elevated privileges to do it's special thing. Sure. Then it shouldn't be designed around the needs of users who can't get those permissions.
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> People who work professionally in STEM fields in the US tend to be straight white males.

I don't know about the US but in Europe this is not true. There are quite a few gay males (5% to 10% which is what you'd expect) in the courses that I took in maths, physics and computer science, and there are a lot of women in fields like biology. The number of women in mathematics and physics is also higher than in computer science, although still less than 50%.
? Top dollar for programmers mean finishing the product and shipping, also quality work.

Agreed. But the product is defined by the business talent, and not the programmers. If I give Linus Torvalds a job to make me Facebook for cats, he will deliver FB for cats. But I cant then turn around and say that Linus failed delivering the product. No. It was me, the guy in charge of the product.

Usually the founders are the business talents (regardless of profession) (or I'd hope so)

And that's the issue. Most "founders" are just people with an idea and not a fucking clue on how to sell something. Then they go and hire programmers, spend their ass out on stupid shit, and blame everyone but their own stupid self. The role of a "founder" is to get the fuck out of the way and try to be as useful as possible to those he/she hires to build a product. Nothing else. Founders are more like evangelists than anything.
That's not how he handles them, but more how he attempts to prevent to be flooded in issue reports.

He might be very responsive if you use this way to report bugs or he might ignore them. That page does not tell anything about it.
I would argue it needs to - marketing starts with thinking about how to communicate your product value to your customers and ends with strategies to keep them happy and around for as long as possible. A great product is the basis but if you don't spend time thinking about how to market your product, your company will most likely not scale
Nikon D7000 vs D3100: Is it an upgrade option?
I'm sure advertisers would still pay the same rates for junk mail that nobody sees, and it wouldn't reduce the value of the junk mail to those advertisers.
> Prohibited uses:

> No charity or cause funding. [0]

Indiegogo would probably allow it though. See for example [1]

[0] http://www.kickstarter.com/help/guidelines

[1] http://www.indiegogo.com/bearlovegood
Wow. Now I wonder why it took me so long to see this answer, it's so obvious in retrospect. Of course women don't go into CS in large part because they consider male nerds unattractive. Though male sexism is an important reason, I always suspected that it's not the main reason.

This explanation sounds offensive, but to me it's quite uplifting. Instead of giving women gifts to compensate for our "creepiness", we need to become non-creepy, and women will come. It's a winning proposition for everyone, no?
Earlier reviews today with discussion that were flagged off the front page.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5175190

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5176564
So how would you recommend fixing this? You mentioned hiring excellent workers and getting out of their way, but I'm hoping you could elaborate.
Depends on your attitude and approach...
I'm a dev that turned into a tester as I loved doing it and find it a great challenge. I'm currently helping test Wikipedia, enjoying it, so might go looking for other projects to help out
Probably another symptom of the same problem, and all the more reason to fix it. We not only want more women in web development, but all of STEM in general. There's no biological reason why there shouldn't be a roughly equal proportion of women in STEM, just social anachronisms.
Maybe I'm outing myself in terms of age, but not only do I pretty much agree with jwz here, but I'm happy to say that we[1] use Bugzilla[2] for our bug tracker[3] for all our open source projects.

Of course, you might argue that it's easy for us, as we don't have a ton of users opening gazillions of bugs. It is a fair point, that simply triaging bug reports can become a big time sink in larger projects. Makes me wonder if some technological tooling (eg, better "dupe" detectors, etc.) could help manage the problem.

[1]: http://www.fogbeam.com

[2]: http://www.bugzilla.org/

[3]: http://dev.fogbeam.org/bugzilla/
I have no idea what capturing and redirecting writes mean.

All explained here:

http://superuser.com/questions/384107/why-cant-i-edit-a-prog...
The title of this article is misleading. From the article:

At the time of the talk, Etsy’s had twenty women on its 110-person engineering
team, which is a roughly eighteen percent (or a four and half times) increase
from the previous year.

The year over year difference in growth rate is ~500%, the actual growth rate is 18%.
Like so:

install: --no-rdoc --no-ri
update: --no-rdoc --no-ri
Thank you for your first 7 points. However, I cannot agree that posting the name of the developer is "not cool". I attached an entire file of my back and forth to support my case. Furthermore, I am complaining about Freelancer.com, and not the developer.

Giving another perspective, I also agree that this puts you in a bad light. It's unfair, and it shouldn't do, but if you wanted to work with me, and I saw this post, I would most likely decline.

Why? Because it implies there might be drama attached, and no-one wants that in their life, especially when it's such a coders' market right now.

As I say: I recognise that this is unfair. There should be a good way to say "stay away from this person - they wronged me!" somehow. This isn't it, though.
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Kind of like the Sokel hoax, but cross-bred with hot-or-not.
What do you mean?

I mentioned male dominated industries (in terms of workers) not male dedicated industries.

I don't get it.
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This is just plain naive. See Shorel's comment, and to that I'll add:

That is YOUR definition of where to write data files. Not mine and certainly not everyone's idea. Saying that all apps should fit this model is just absurd.
The security vulnerability occurred because of Rails models' mass attribute assignment, which you wouldn't have in a less dynamic language. So yes, that's a problem at least partially attributable to the language.
That doesn't mean it has 124GB available for users.
We need to break the culture of entitlement that seems to run rampant with Canadian wannabe founders. I'm tired of the broken record, "people won't fund me therefore there is no capital". There is no capital for shit ideas and even less capital for shit founders.
As much as I dislike it, I can understand their course of action. If they were to stop enforcing whatever trademark, or copyright they may hold, another judge at another point in time could potentially use that against them.

That said, it's still not pretty.
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How eighteen percent is four and a half time?

four a half is 450%... ???

Can someone clarify to me?
"but less experience -is- a lower standard"

* If they are hiring for junior positions, perhaps not;
perhaps they just expanded their junior engineering team.
* If nobody hires junior female engineers now, there will
be no senior female engineers later.
Enterprise is $10 per month for what, per enterprise? Really? No

If it's really enterprise, forget any price tag under $250, you won't be taken seriously. If it's not enterprise, call it Pro.
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Is it a problem specifically for the future of open-source, or of software in general? My Apple bug reports never get acknowledged, either, and neither has anything I've sent to Google or Microsoft. If anything, I've been somewhat happier with the responsiveness of OSS bug-reporting.
Ah yes - I read too fast, sorry
Optimizing the ISS solar arrays, a Python solution to the NASA Challenge
Hello, this is the rest of the world. We don't want your buggy untested crap.
Yes, diversity is important.

However, if you are too focused on hiring female engineers, you can bring the overall quality of the team down.
Now I do not mean female engineers are any less competent compared to male engineers, but I will give an example from personal experience.

The manager at my current day job has (in a team meeting) expressed that "females are better". The reasoning was that females are more creative and in general, more social. This idea of "females > males" was expressed multiple times over my time here, and it has really begun to take off. In our last round of hiring a co-op, our team lead said "the new co-op has to be a girl". In the screening phase, the team lead decided we would not interview a few of the male applicants, for no specific reason. We then picked 2 people (1 male, 1 female) for interviews. The female candidate was interviewed by myself, a co-worker, and the team lead. This candidate was not exceptional in any way and was not more skilled than the other candidate. She was hired the second the interview ended.

A year prior, we had a female co-op student who was on a 8 month term. 3 months into the term, she was given an offer by the manager for a full-time position. This offer was in secret, and other teams were not to hear about it until her last month. As she was still in school, she expressed that she wanted the job but wanted to finish her last year and graduate. And so the position (and budget), was saved for her for the year, regardless of whether or not she was able to graduate.

I have no problem against hiring female engineers. However, hiring female candidates over male candidates simply because of gender is discrimination, and that's not something I agree with. This kind of discrimination can also be detrimental to the success of the team/company.

Simple example: Let's assume 10 of 30 (about 33%) applicants are female. The team decides to select 10 people for interviews (yes there are places that do not interview based on fit alone but fit + headcount). Since there are only 10 females, if we only select females, there are a few problems. 1) We lose out on any male candidates that may be a better fit (which also comes from a pool of 20/30). 2) We're forced to spend money and resources on candidates that essentially have a 0% chance of being hired because they would not have passed the screening if sexism were not in play.
This is link-bait sensationalism. Aside from the downtime, getting your heroku app recovered from being deleted is not a big deal, assuming you write into support in a reasonable amount of time.
When I lived in NYC two years ago, nerdy bearded men were in vogue. And everyone in every demographic was slouched in front of a computer for a large portion of the day.
How we improved our Github-based continuous integration workflow
I don't think I would have let that go for three months. Did you try to contact him earlier? Did you have work in those three months? Were you checking in code?
How does your product compare to Dropbox+encfs or Dropbox+boxcryptor?

How about FileRock?
If jwz reported a bug to me I'd tell him to go fuck himself , just to watch him rage.
>it is certainly interesting to see how WoTC has attempted to innovate to sell new products.

GW has no affiliation with WotC. Are you thinking of TSR, the makers of DnD?
I have mixed feelings about the write up. I think it gets clear pretty early on that the issue is in the NIC hardware at which point it is time to stop wasting your time investigating problem you can't fix and start contacting the vendor.
Why a hoodie is your best friend on long trips on a plane
Energy drinks have other stimulants in them than just caffeine. See some of the other posts here about stuff like taurine and guarana.
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Coursera forced to call off a MOOC on the fundamentals of online education
This reminds me of a talk by Brad Fitzpatrick about a year ago: http://blip.tv/djangocon/keynote-brad-fitzpatrick-5572560

Basically, if you put your email address in a project, you're going to get emails from random people for the rest of your life. Sort of like getting a tattoo, a spur-of-the-moment decision early on sticks with you forever. Just one possible reason the projects you look at don't have an e-mail address for the maintainer.
Amazon itself sells a few books with the term. Why doesn't the author ask Amazon to take down the other non-Warhammer titles or reinstate his? http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=sr_pg_9?rh=n%3A283155%2Ck%3A%22s...
The Linux kernel has not been a project of "love" since at least the time that Linus was hired by Transmeta in 1996. The bulk of the heavy lifting that keeps it going is paid labor.

In the mid-to-late 1990s, work on Perl was funded by revenue from books, employers, and conferences. Apache by financial donations to an NPO.

In the 1990s, the "community value" of helping others by offering free support in on-line forums was promoted by industry as a way to gain reputation enough to get a job. It was promoted by some investors as a way for commercial efforts to gain users and obtain free labor without paying the full cost of support.

Clay claims that it was "something new" when Linus could post about the kernel in its earliest days and get a "global network of collaborators". That's a remarkable claim that ignores not only the entirety of the GNU project effort that preceded it but decades of (quite often commercially motivated) software sharing the preceded that.

Clay has confused a difference in the modality of economic collaboration that becomes possible when source code is shared, with "love".

On the topic of motivation he is also too glib. He asserts that Linus' collaborators asked for nothing other than the chance to come together and do something interesting. That it was suddenly possible to do big things for love.

He ignores that it took all of 23 months before the founding of VA Research (as evidence that commercial interest was already, by then, a major factor).

This kind of talk bothers me because it takes what I think of as a high value (love) and misrepresents it and misrepresents history. He encourages a vaseline-coated rose-colored rememberance of industry history. It's not a kind of talk that leaves credulous listeners more informed -- pretty much the opposite. And worse, it leaves them in that state feeling all warm and fuzzy that somehow this must be love.
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The first coder we hired didn't have directly on-point experience, and we ended up firing him six months later, telling him "you're unable to keep up the pace we need, which is a pace someone who directly knew this stuff wouldn't find too onerous." This was shocking and hurtful to the coder, difficult for us, and slowed us a lot at a critical time. Replacing him with good (not PhD rocket scientist quantum mechanicians) people with direct experience in their area gave us a huge speed boost.
I think jbattle might have meant that you're exposed to a lot of articles about promoting gender diversity in CS since you follow CS/startup sites (such as HN). If you followed sites or news aggregators for fields where the gender distribution is reversed (nursing or psychology both come to mind), you might see some of the same concerns raised about the lack of male participants.

ETA: Just saw jbattle's post - guess that's not what he meant! Sorry to have spoken for you :)
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I don't know how much value you're going to get from a "in a nutshell" explanation here. PCI compliance regulations are moderately complex and have at least a handful of ambiguities and what-not, like any complex spec. If you want to "roll your own" payment processing and store credit cards, you really need to bite the bullet[1], download and read the spec, and - if you don't feel pretty confident that you understand it - hire a consultant who specializes in this stuff to help out. In either case, you should have a PCI compliance audit done eventually to help ensure that you really are in compliance.

Then, even after that, you have regular reports to do, etc., etc. Being, and staying, PCI compliant can be a huge time sink.

All of that said, would a service like Spreedly[2] work for you? I believe they can handle recurring payments / subscriptions, and they take care of making sure everything is PCI compliant, so you don't have to do all of that work. Unless billing and credit card processing is a core competency for your company, I can't help but think you'd be better off outsourcing that bit.

[1]: https://www.pcisecuritystandards.org/security_standards/gett...

[2]: http://spreedly.com/
Different denominator.

If they went from 1 to 6 girls it would be 500% increase

If they hired 1 girl last year and 6 girls this year, regardless of the total number of boys and girls at the company, it would be a 500% increase.

Basically, semantic games
Brand new OS, brand new hardware, what could possibly go wrong? Last time they did this (Playbook - new hardware, new OS) it was a gigantic hit, right?
Step 1: be Etsy.
Yes tell us more about how the system is incredibly biased against men.
I'm happy to discuss the details of my implementation here!
How to make videos fit in responsive layouts
Hey,

I would like better better search. I think I would use it, just need to see more data. It is cool having multiple web sources for a business. Also I like how I can click through to see the actually source, ie Google Reviews.
Confused: I read that title as creating cells. Instead they are printing using cells as the ink.
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My understanding is that KDE4 was itself the result of a significant refactoring. My guess is that it's only a matter of time before the conversion happens (and by the looks of it, the devs are already looking into it).
I was hospitalized after drinking 2 cans of Monster energy.

But I still defend energy drinks.

My hospitalization was due to too much caffeine that exacerbated a pre-existing bout of pericarditis-- the actual cause was most likely an infection or cold.

The individual ingredients of an energy drink have no proven ill effects:

- Carbonated Water - Completely Neutral. It might harm your teeth but the evidence is related to sugar + carbonated water

- Glucose - Major energy source

- Citric Acid - Needed for Krebs Cycle

- Taurine - Essential amino acid that has benefits for heart and blood

- Sodium Citrate - flavoring, used for kidneys and is an antacid

- Panax Ginseng - amazing supplement; good for mood, immunity, cognition

- Caffeine - good in moderation, bad in excess
- Sorbic Acid - preservative with no adverse health effects

- Sucralose - sweetener with no proven side-effects. Chronic effects occur on a dosage above 9 mg/kg

- Benzoic Acid - preservative that naturally occurs in berries. Stay under 5 mg/kg

- L-Carintine - wonderful little supplement that is good for you, potential nootropic

- Niacinamide - vitamin B3

- Acesulfame Potassium - sweetener, potential carcinogen although studies lack confidence

- Sodium Chloride - table salt

- Glucuronolactone - aids circulation, is good for your heart

- Inositol - good for you, prevents colon cancer, sold as a supplement

- Guarana Seed - caffeine source, aids memory and physical endurance

- Pyridoxine HCL - vitamin B6

- Riboflavin - found in your wheaties

- Maltodextrin - starch, no known health issues

- Cyanocobalamin - vitamin B12

Beyond that, there may be a dangerous interaction between two ingredients that has yet to be nailed down.

I have another theory-- the devil's in the dosage.

I can take down a pot of coffee if I have a good night's rest, but if I am up before 7 and have a single cup, it does not go well for me. This could be related to how caffeine interacts with existing cortisol levels, and if I am stressed and not well rested the effects are amplified.

This is probably why it's so hard to figure out an accurate lethal dose of caffeine, because small changes in biochemistry can significantly amplify how your body acts with caffeine.

I would also (weakly) argue that why we don't see many overdoses with coffee is because you don't start drinking large amounts of coffee on the first go-- because the substance is bitter, it is hard to down a full pot in one sitting.

Due to a built in taste moderation, it is hard to hit your natural upper limit. But because energy drinks are sweet and easily drinkable, novice caffeine users can hit their upper limit in a short amount of time.

And because the half-life of caffeine ranges from 5 hours to 15 hours (!) you can get a strong excess build up in your body in a quick amount of time. There may be an ingredient in the drinks that increase the half-life, which leads to higher risks over time.
It's an interesting reality isn't it?

Nearly 600,000 employees who retire at age 50 and draw salaries and benefits for the rest of their lives. Yeah, that's a formula for success. Guess who's going to be paying that bill.

Also, 250,000 vehicles according to Wikipedia.
But OXO products are not complex product. The majority of their products are injection molded plastic.

So, maybe their core is not product design at all - maybe their core is product concept and product selection. They choose a product type they want, develop the initial concept far enough along to pass it off to the industrial designer who models it - then its contracted out to low-bid/low-cost (presumabley previously used) plastic fab in china.

Seems like a really good model when you have very simple, typically single-digit-materials, products.
I read this as: 18% of 110 is 20. If they started with
4 and hired 18, that would be a "four and half times"
increase (perhaps modulo replacement or non-FTE hires).

In any case, good for Etsy for investing in training
rather than just spending placement fees.
<<But some feel the ban may be premature. Charlottesville Vice Mayor, Kristin Szakos, who voted against the resolution, said she "can imagine ways in which drones might be used for positive things". >>

True but there's no point in being hasty since out rights are evaporating a bit too fast before serious debate.

https://www.rutherford.org/
John Whitehead is seems to be worth reading:

The Fourth Amendment was intended to protect the citizenry—both our property and our bodies—from “unreasonable searches and seizures” by government agents. Unfortunately, as John Whitehead reveals in this week's vodcast, the rights supposedly guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution have been steadily eroded over the past few decades, leaving Americans literally stranded on the side of the road, grasping for dignity.
Does this cause you any problems? Just curious - I'm using play, don't know the gotcha's... I just let it run free like an untamed beast.