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Not trolling, I'm genuinely asking:

Would you consider it sexist if someone started a developer list only for people that identify as male? Would you consider it racist if white people started a conference where only white people could attend?

I can't make the leap to consider female-only developer lists not sexist or exclusionary without setting aside hesitation regarding the concept since my brain wants to consider it a double standard. Even in the face of privilege, another concept I can't really wrap my head around, but which even daring to question or seek explanation of inflicts the wrath of people who hate my privilege. (Nothing has come easy to me in my white male life. Nothing. I hate when people tell me I'm privileged, as it makes me feel like life is pretty hopeless, given the painful career and personal life I've experienced thus far. My life should be easier if I am privileged, right?)

As a man, I'd look down on a male-only mailing list, just like I somewhat look down on female-only mailing lists. How about a mailing list for human beings? I just don't get it. Why do we have to identify so hard with what we are?

Maybe I have a different perspective on privilege because I'm fat and ugly, and only the attractive white men get it, or something. But seriously, if I have privilege, how do I take advantage of it? Is there something I have to do to make it happen? Because I'd sure like to see it since everybody tells me I have it.

(I genuinely loathe "oh, you're a white male, life must be easy for you," just as much as you surely hate people snubbing your gender. I wasn't born into money. I wasn't born attractive. I wasn't born in a great town. I have a felony conviction. This is my second career. I've had to claw my way to success just like everybody else.)

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EDIT: Thanks for having a shot at this, men. I'm interested in OP's answer.
Much in the same way that most reasonable people don't go into the circus that is politics?
I read some of the blog post comments, and got the impression that there's not currently any live demo. — If in the future you publish something online, then, if you want to, please feel free to send me an email. I live far away in Sweden though, so I'd be mostly interested in the tech parts (rather than contributing). (Perhaps I could help you with usability testing though, or give you related feedback, if that'd be useful.)
Maybe not everything, but certainly a lot of places. There are two women I work with and they have had similar experiences to varying degrees in the past and it seems to be that the smaller the comapanies (as in our case) the less likely these instances happen. Preconceptions are harder to hold on to (unless there's an ultra-douche on the team, in which case it's a management problem as well) when you really get to know someone.

It doesn't help that it starts early on -- I'm hopeful the millennials will be raising their children differently -- and the infuriating and frustrating preconceptions that women endure now will fade to nothingness.
That is of course the proper way to do it. You can thank Big Academia for getting rid of the sensible LLB here in the U.S.

Indeed, even if you are an American and really want to be a lawyer it's not necessarily a bad idea to try your hand at an Australian or British law school then do an LLM in the U.S. Or learn to speak Cantonese and head over to Hong Kong (or Hindi and head to India, or Portuguese and head to Brazil) where economic development has created a large demand for lawyers.
Even those aren't maintained very well. Best to just have a good visa desk at work that keeps up with all the nuances.
http://www.plantuml.com/plantuml/

Although I find that the server will start to choke on medium to large sized diagrams, but if you are just using it to generate the image manually it works well. I currently am pointing a media wiki plugin at this server and 2 out of 10 times the server will choke on a diagram and just by retrying the request it will work.
Canadia also.
That doesn't seem to apply. "Suck it up and deal" wasn't the suggestion, it was a clear case of lack of understanding of the issue. "Suck it up and deal" implies that the person acknowledges that there is a problem (something to "suck up") but that it is not very significant and should be ignored.

The real problem here is that the "my wife doesn't understand..." statement implies a camaraderie among men to the exclusion of women. And that type of exclusion over time will lead to feelings of unwelcome. Even if there is no direct offense or exclusion intended.

This particular issue likely wouldn't be an issue at all if there wasn't such a gender disparity in the first place because it would be more difficult to mistakenly imply exclusion when there is no hint of exclusion in the environment. And that's sometimes the problem with these difficult to appreciate minority issues. It's hard to even understand what the issue is without being part of the minority.
The post isn't short on examples.
South Korea attacks spread by hacked antivirus updates
TGP is mostly dogma. The title should make that very clear, but unfortunately, as usual, Crockford is short sighted so the title of his book is misleading, implying you might learn something about the language by reading it.

A much more appropriate title would've been "JavaScript: Crockford's Best Practices for Experienced JavaScripters", or "What's Wrong With JavaScript According to Crockford." Then it's pretty clear what the book is doing, and doesn't trick readers into thinking it's an introductory or learning book.

A few of Crockford's opinions are fairly widely accepted as good advice, but much of it is controversial at best, and in practice incorrect or misguided.

If you are considering buying it, just watch the talk instead: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQVTIJBZook.

As for the article: it's mostly sound advice. I will reiterate reading the source to underscore and backbone. I started recommending this lately to people after they get comfortable with the language. Many popular patterns and techniques are used in these code bases and they're very approachable from a reading perspective. I read both a few months ago to get up to speed on a new project and I found it quite enjoyable compared to reading the likes of jQuery or Angular.
Hunters and Farmers - A Failed Sales Model
Australia's education sector is catching the bug though. They want the profitable grad education, and thus Melbourne uni now offers only a JD (3 year graduate program).
You're reading an awful lot into my sentence. You may want to think about why that is.
Aaron Swartz case an issue in Massachusetts Senate race
But ... the example used in that description doesn't match this case at all.

"My wife doesn't ..." is a simple descriptive (and presumably accurate unless there's some reason to believe otherwise) statement about a specific person, not a stereotype.

Complaining that your spouse doesn't understand/appreciate something that's important to you is very, very, common—regardless of their sex—because the opinion of one's spouse is something most people value and worry about.

If the person had said "my wife, being a woman, doesn't ..." then it would be a stereotype, and maybe the entry you quoted would be relevant...

[EDIT: reading the original quote in context, it actually makes more sense there: it's easy to imagine that a line intended as a speaker's joke at a conference really is intended to riff off of a common stereotype (and the assumption that the audience shares this experience), rather than being a simple complaint about the speaker's personal situation...]
Generally, in modern social justice circles, the more privileged person is considered the aggressor and the less privileged person is considered the victim.

If a person is targeted by multiple "isms" then they can be the victim of people targeted by fewer "isms".

However, it is not possible for a privileged person to be the aggressor in a conflict with a less privileged person.
Technical Partner Needed
Hi all! In case it isn't glaringly obvious, I'm new to this community. I'm in need of a technical partner (coding, design etc) to help make my app business a reality. I've got some pretty solid ideas, but lack the skills to execute the apps properly. I'm looking to apply to Y Combinator with this partner!
Yup, it's even a common marketing angle. Ever heard of greenwashing? SUV marketing often depicts a vehicle being driven offroad and/or through rough conditions, when 99% of their buyers will never use the car like that. They are playing on buyer's desire to cultivate a certain image.
edit: Hi, sorry about this tree. Wildly off-topic and unproductive. Page down a bit until you find something interesting.
Why The Real World's first season was extraordinary television
At some point you wonder if putting more teabags into the same pitcher doesn't actually make it any stronger. There's gotta be a saturation point for tea solutes. Except maybe for the flouride in them.
In the specific case of offsite tape archival, let's say someone who has the authority to do so requests that they destroy all tapes.

Most service providers (who stay in business) have enough compliance features in place so that multiple authorized people have to be in collusion, a sufficiently senior executive must make the request, or there will be a "package" ready to be served to the client and relevant policing unit (police, FBI, whatever) so that charges can be brought against the malefactor efficiently.

While you may be limited in financial compensation by your contract with the service provider, it is absolutely in their best interest to avoid the situation with procedures (they do not want to be a party to a crime) and if those fail, to provide extensive records of the movement and disposition of those tapes.
Thanks for elaborating for me. The key point is adding to the conversation. Novelty accounts tend to be the realm of Reddit but one of my favorites is the one that says "Anyone looking for more information..." and goes on to list past posts of a link. That's infinitely better than simply "Repost"
Name a community where that's a barrier to entry.
Here he says only 25% have something wrong: http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/15doqt/mark_cuban_this...
The difference is that there is systematic injustice against women in our industry (and in society more broadly). One thing that can help fix this is by creating female spaces that help support women in the industry while being fre from overly-male culture that is the norm in our industry.

Here's a previous comment I've written in response to this question: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5340455
http://www.phdcomics.com/comics.php?f=1174
This has nothing to do with gender segregation.

There was an instance where part of our team was going through a java object used to encapsulate paging behavior for our service. We had a user story that looked like it it could use it, but the paging object was too specifically designed.

I referred to it as a square peg in a round hole. All of a sudden two of my co-workers started giggling. "haha, get it? You always make innuendos like that, honestly hahahaha" I honestly wanted to throttle the life from them for a brief instant.

I am male. I'm fine with sex jokes, but what these women are complaining about is not the terminology, but the professionalism of the people they work with. They only think it's a gender issue because they only see males giggling. Imagine their surprise should they ever end up in an all female team, and it turns out -gasp- women can be unprofessional too!
If only it had some kind of noise making device that could be used to warn kids.

Like an air horn. ;)
I agree, I chose to mention Greasemonkey because it's been around the longest, not because it's the best.

I also think the plugin he wrote serves a niche, and since writing my initial comment, I've been using it. I like it.
Hey Alex, before Christmas you offered me to spend Christmas day at your place, while I turned it down for an offer from a friend I would love to repay your kind offer with some free labor :)

I get paid on Thursday (relevant for bus costs), I live in Darwen and I'm free next Sunday, so if you still want some help I would love to come down!
Would you consider it sexist if someone started a developer list only for people that identify as male? Would you consider it racist if white people started a conference where only white people could attend?

From the perspective of contemporary social justice theory, such things would indeed be considered sexist and/or racist because they are used to support privilege, whereas a women-only context or Black-only context would be used to deconstruct privilege.

(Some people consider this standpoint is completely insane, while others consider it a self-evident truth.)
Bit us in the behind as well, with a long-running report. I feel your pain.
AI can only consume if AI can earn a wage.

Maybe the Objectivists are right – we need to program our AI to be selfish.
Using an API to create single-click order experience
It's pretty strange nonetheless that it compiles at all. Underlying it is that a switch statement isn't a proper control structure but syntax sugar for goto.
I believe the parent's point is true. In my location (there is variance here), a graduate of a four year program needs to earn something like $43,000 per year to earn on par with a minimum wage worker without a post-secondary education when you consider the accumulated costs and lost opportunity.

The average income of a college graduate in my location is $34,000 per year. That means the majority of these graduates are effectively making less than minimum wage, yet the enrolment only continues to rise, if anything. That definitely seems inelastic to me.
The portions of my comment where I discuss privilege are the clues that I already knew that; that doesn't really answer my question. Your linked comment sort of does, but not exactly.

I still don't see it. This sentence is going to sound like I'm marginalizing women, but I have no other way to phrase it, so I'll just be blunt: do women want to be treated equally or do women want to be treated specially? Based on the winds of the industry, I sort of expected the former and don't see the place of female-only mailing lists in the world of that.
"A total of $3,600 which also happened to be the hard limit my wife had imposed on this particular invaluable transaction." cough
"This was predicted, so therefore it is wrong," is not a persuasive argument. Naturally, many people have pre-written responses to things they find disagreeable. That some parties have collected these pre-responses into one location and given it a name does not make that collection authoritative. You might do better to simply make your own point rather than weaken it with these citations.
It would save everyone a lot of money and cut out the middle man if all employers could just look at SAT scores and LSAT scores along with high school GPA. There would be no more need for academia as we now know it.
Why do you use a question on the headline if you don't answer it on the post? I read:

Why HN is broken? Because I think it is.
Perhaps the problem with SO in the long run may be that moderators are, in the end, people who seek to be moderators.
My wife and I both have a 70-80 mi round trip commute. Between our two cars, we average about 41MPG commuting. Also, we both don't commute everyday, that said, we still manage to have put 50k miles on each of our cars in 3 years. California is not a small/compact place.

Given how little I currently commute (2x/week), I am actually considering trading in my diesel VW for an old vanagon -- to facilitate some camping trips and the like. It will mean less milage efficiency, but 2x/week commuting won't take a huge hit.
Professional network for CTOs?
Lead architect turned CTO here-- my partner- a more experienced CEO has a great mailing list for sharing tips, struggles, connections. Anyone know of any community like this for CTOs / engineering leaders?
It appears that they are no shortcuts, or getting rich with banking by becoming a low tax banking center (see Ireland, Iceland and now Cyprus).

And that will work against you when you need help from "normal" countries. Cyprus got absolutely no mercy from them, take it or leave the EU. They cannot leave EU so they must do anything else asked.
Perhaps, as with PHP, there are simply too many obvious options.
Substitute "partner" instead of a gender specific term and you won't offend anyone (hopefully)... except maybe the forever alone crowd.
Add HN-style "about" field to user profiles [on reddit] and remove the 10:1 rule
better keep kids away from school buses, clearly dangerous

/sarcasm
I don't. That's sort of my point; we snub groups on the other side of this coin.
We mock the fools who joined CS programs in undergrad to pursue a love of money but didn't care about computers. Why should we pity the law students? There is still plenty of work available for someone who wants a law degree in order to defend the defenseless and fight tyranny. But the market for predatory loan paperwork and anti-competitive M&A's s drying up. Those lawyers can cry into their beers with the RIAA lobbyists and the infamous buggy whip manufacturers.
I have a relative who got into of the top 15 law schools. Despite getting a scholarship, he's still borrowing 30K per year. He was having doubts about being a lawyer; he was doing it mostly because people were saying "you're smart; you should do it." and he saw the JD as a means to an end. (I'm not sure what the "end" is, but he had no intention of being a lawyer "for life".)Anyway, though he did well his first year, he hated almost every second of it. He's cutting his losses, getting a job (hopefully - he's had promising interviews) and leaving after 1 year with only 30K in debt.
Will Everyone Please Eat Gluten? Because You Are Literally Killing Me, Kind Of
I suppose it's because I've encountered a lot of people who say many of the things that you do that attack anyone male, regardless of their role in the oppression of women.

In fact, you are offering non-oppressive behavior of others, and your negative emotional reaction thereto, in the midst of a litany of examples of you being oppressed. It reads as an accusation— aimed at the wrong group.

Why do people drinking heavily make you feel unsafe?

What is your ideal resolution to such a circumstance wherein you are made to feel unsafe because others are drinking heavily?
I can post this again if anyone here wants me to.
ah thanks, I didn't know about that

though a word in my defense, it's not specifically a re-post. The one listed here and the one I posted deliver a PI Day package in 3 minutes and 14 seconds.
You rephrased my comment's discussion of privilege and wrote it back to me. The parenthetical is what I'm asking about.
Do run those numbers on a per-major basis, though. And try (though is is hard to get data) to separate the cohort who went to study and the cohort who went to party for 4 years.
These practices and the philosophies (i.e. the presumed world models) go together. It helps if you read J. Krishnamurti or UG Krishnamurti.
I don't, again, and since you lead me down this path I was hoping you did. I meant we snub the KKK and neo-Nazis.

For what it's worth, I spent four months around neo-Nazis when I went to prison. Not what I expected, but that's irrelevant to this point.
The point of alcohol is to lower inhibitions. More Bad Things happen per person hour under intoxication than sober, by design of the substance.

Recently, I've had the thought that feminists and hardline social conservatives ought to find common ground around the alcohol/party culture. Feminists should also ask themselves - for whom and by whom was this culture made in the first place? Does it work in women's favor? It's unrealistic to think that we can reduce sexual aggression while leaving this culture the same.

I wonder what percent of sexual assault occurs while both parties are sober?
I came across Nginx, for the first time today, when I was trying to figure how to make 'cleaner' URLs for the wiki I'm making. Totally going over my head and out of my comfort zone…what a coincidence this article pops up on HN the same day…maybe it's a sign I need to figure this Nginx thing out.

Thanks for the link!
So what is your strategy in this case?
Unrelated to the topic, but holy cow that website looks amazing!
Whoops...overlooked that this was an opinion piece (tries to extract foot from mouth)
If high SAT scores meant that someone had learned the equivalent of a 4-year CS degree, sure, I'd be willing to consider them equivalent when hiring for a technical position. But high SAT scores just mean that you know basic, high-school-level arithmetic and reading comprehension, which is not quite the same thing.

It would be interesting to have some kind of exam showing equivalent knowledge, but I haven't seen attempts in that direction that aren't worse assessments than the degree/GPA. For example, as weird as law-school is, the bar exam is even weirder (deliberately so), and generally a terrible model to follow.
Excuse me? This from the linked article (and in the paper abstract):

"These micro-supercapacitors demonstrate a power density of ~200 W cm−3, which is among the highest values achieved for any supercapacitor."

Granted its not a legitimate energy density (wrong units) but lets guess it is 200 Ws per cubic centimeter. I make that guess based on the comment in the video that they ran an LED for 5 minutes. So an LED is like 15mA and with a forward drop of a couple of volts so 30 mW. For 5 minutes your looking at 9000 mW-seconds, or 9 Ws for the small capacitor they showed in their video which could have been about a cm ^ 2. So if the cell they had made was 1/2 mm thick then a stack of 20 of them would be 1 cm^3 and 180 W-seconds (in the ball park of the abstract). There is a fun presentation on Supercaps [1] that was given to DoE in 2011. This computation does suggest that 200 Ws for this material would be a decent jump in capacity.

That said, I immediately dug an old LightScribe CD recorder out of my junk bin to start playing around with making graphene sheets :-)

[1] http://www1.eere.energy.gov/vehiclesandfuels/pdfs/merit_revi...
Parental neglect is a well established law as well.
I run one, feel free to contact me to find out about it: http://pixelmonkey.org/contact
I think that, and feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, women want to be treated specially until it is sustainable to treat them equally.

If that makes sense.

EDIT: But the phrasing of that dichotomy I think misses what is really being asked here. If you accept that these passive aggressive acts are a sort of negative reinforcement brought on by neglecting to think about women as people. Then the request would be to keep women in mind while you go about your activities.
It should have more classic examples, such as the already mentioned Fedex logo, or the Carrefour logo (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrefour)
Number of Google m/billionaires who saw many people getting rich from a CS degree when they were in school: 0.

Fighting the previous war is always foolish. Money is made by leading the pack, not following it.
UWA recently did this too, but then they partly backpedalled by offering guaranteed places in the following law degree.

So really what you're getting is a 6 year double degree instead of a 5 year double degree.

I think it's a bugger up, but I got my BCompSci (H1) and I'm happy I got in before the Melbourne Model struck.
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There actually isn't. My friends from law school who sold their souls to corporate American mostly found jobs. It's my friends who wanted to defend poor people, fight racial injustice, or save the environment that had problems finding jobs. Corporate America is doing fine--it's the public sector that's really been gutted by the recession.

Not that I think this is a positive state of affairs, mind you. Karmicly, those people are a lot more deserving of jobs.