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But where was the non-public information? Where was the gaming? Without proof of those things all speculation about insider information is moot. Pump-and-dump's are specific types of gaming the system. There is no proof this was that.

The only thing we know is that a news source incorrectly reported bad news. The market responded to that bad news in the way we would expect and then when it was obvious that it was a hoax corrected itself. That is a stable system.

It would have been proof of an instable system if either A) the market moved for some incomprehensible way or B) did not correct for obviously bad behavior.

The market took all public information into account and corrected itself quickly. Precisely as we would expect in an efficient market.
How about we fix the broken, corrupt stock system by making everything trade like mutual funds.... only EOD. There's way more value being stolen or lost than created with the way the market has progressed. We'd all be better off if a "slow Wall St." movement took hold and eliminated all the skimmers out there that are stealing from the majority.
Why not add "underprivileged men" to make it a three-pronged approach?
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Wow, I hadn't read the book and never knew that about Feynman. Very disappointing.
> The goal of getting women into tech should be to equalize the gender ratio of the people who actually _are_ in tech to that of the people who _want_ to be in tech.

That's a bad idea -- it would stigmatize those who entered the field by such a program that they were given their positions, rather then earning them. The same problem exists in race relations, where equality by law conceals equality by merit.

Women are fully qualified to take their place in science and tech -- that's well-understood -- but to force equal numbers would obscure the fact that women can easily earn their place in science and tech.
Nor do they love science. Most of the things they post are not accurate. The picture of the universe and a synapse for example springs to mind.

They are just a "Like" farm. They use their tracking of likes to mine relationships so you can get personalized spam that appears that it came from your friends.
Speaking of which facts you focus on, did you notice that the article was not written by a dude?

Yes, I use the term regardless of gender.
> Recent posts on the problems of gender inequality in the tech and science fields have continued to reinforce the idea that women are subordinate to men.

This seems to be one of the main points of this post, but I do not agree. By and large women are subordinate to men in the business world and women do encounter personal and institutionally oriented sexism in tech. Acknowledging and talking about living and dealing with that reality do not reinforce that sexism, that sexism already exists and is a prevalent force and women already know this because they live the experience. On that:

> The sad thing is the effect of repeating these issues on those people who are already affected by the issues themselves, i.e. women who are struggling for equality in the tech and science industries. Hearing that this is a problem, that their field isn’t fair, that men are not including them in the industry the way they should… these negative sentiments are being drilled into the minds of people who could actually change this for the better.

Isn't part of the problem that women are undermined in their attempts to make their working industry and business lives better? What efforts are taken and how they are hampered is directly linked to the current state of how people are treated in business and tech. Sharing that experience is one of the few ways that women can begin form the basis of action that changes communities for the better or creates communities for themselves.

I totally agree with the OP's points of action. However, there are limitations that are externally imposed by women who entered in tech and they have a right to know that. Others have a right to criticize and call out others for sexist rhetoric. On this the OP says:

> No more ‘calling people out’ for making mistakes unless we’re offering to help them fix it.

Someone who is receiving unfair treatment has absolutely no obligation to the person treating them unfairly to be nice to them, so I do not believe this can every be helpful advice where there is a power imbalance. For folks who are peers or part of the same peer group, calling out sexism is an important part of not letting that sexism perpetuate.
You sound awfully silly saying that race is a "meaningless concept" and then knowingly talking about a "white person" the very next sentence.

Your own mind subconsciously knows the nice ideas you want to believe are nonsense. Interestingly, that is analogous to the otherwise open-minded subjects of the study at hand who subconsciously favour their own.
The article is a bit wrong about supervisord. You can load environment variables from a defaults file - just use a wrapper script. Eg:

#!/bin/sh
source /etc/myservice/defaults
exec celeryd $@

And start that from supervisord.

Also, another nice thing, very useful for daemons that spawn their own subprocesses is killasgroup option. This is worth mentioning given the celery examples - celery can and will leave orphan processes around between restarts ...
Thank you for your valuable contribution to the discussion.

edit: Yes, keep downvoting me for pointing out how useless his post is. I love HN!
Do you know about the 'thrust' library?

http://thrust.github.io
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> Why do you think this ratio is currently around 25%?

I don't know, I can only guess. You can see my guess below.

> Do you think it's because women are inherently much less interested in tech? Or do you think it's because our society imposes stereotypes and values on women, and gives very "macho" impressions?

It's probably a combination of both, I'm not ruling out either case (or even getting close to ruling out either case).

I feel like too many people are ruling out the former entirely (or just not realizing it's a possibility altogether) which doesn't make sense.
You have to keep both in mind, and realize that your goal isn't an absolute 50%, it's the natural ratio, which may of course change over time.
Reality: fake tweet causes scoreboard to indicate inaccurate value for several minutes. Nothing has been erased.
Actually, think very hard about what you're proposing. OK, let's propose a humanity where there is absolutely no group cohesion whatsoever. What's the result?

It certainly doesn't look much like the world you're familiar with.

If you look around, there are plenty of species that work that way. You really shouldn't have to imagine that hard.

I often amuse myself when the recurring gender debate (or other similar debates) come up on HN by trying to convince participants to first concretely describe the world they are actually trying to produce before they go too far off into la-la land making wild prescriptions about what needs to happen. This is another example of that sort of thing. Are you sure you want to produce a world in which nobody, ever, for any reason, has any sort of preference for one person over another and gives any sort of preferential treatment as a result? If you really think about it, probably not. Trying to take the ultimate hard line on "no discrimination" isn't a sound solution. It is neither logically nor socially viable. The method has become mistaken for the cause itself, the direction for the destination.
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It's quite likely and the conclusion of this Norwegian documentary (well worth watching if only to see Sacha Baron Cohen smarter brother (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hjernevask)

You can think of it in terms of Maslow's Pyramid.

Societies at the top of the pyramid are filled with individuals that no longer need to take the highest paying jobs, but can now take jobs that uniquely fulfill their interests and desires. And it could very well be that taken as two bell curves, the interests of women are different from the interests of men, two overlapping bell curves, but with different means, and different variances. Concluding that try as hard as you might, it just may be that women do not want to work in tech and preferentially prefer different sorts of occupation.

There's a story about boxing in America, and that is as various poor immigrant groups came to America, they each in their time rose to the tops of boxing. The Irish, the Jews, the Italians, & the African Americans. These groups saw boxing as a way to rise above their income levels. And as the various groups either assimilated or as a group rose above their resources, their interest in boxing waned.

http://voices.yahoo.com/ethnic-boxers-america-part-i-105696....

Throughout the 20th and 21st centuries, boxing has been a sport dominated by men of meager means and questionable sanity. Who in their right mind would choose to pursue an occupation in which you expose yourself to habitual beatings? Such a calling speaks to men who possess an overabundance of rage, and a dearth of opportunities. Historically, ghettoes are the environment most likely to produce such men. These are neighborhoods where too many people compete for too few resources, and the inhabitants face daily frustrations more profound than those known by more prosperous men.

Something similar could be happening in tech as women in general might prefer occupations that are more female friendly, more family friendly, more human centric, more social, etc., like medicine, or law.

I am explaining this theory, I am not necessarily supporting it. I have no idea why their is a dearth of women in programming. I know in the places I have worked, as a whole there are many women who are often lead developers and managers.
What exactly is the 'socioeconomic background' of the people on top in the United States? I don't intend this to be snark. I'm just not sure such a blanket actually exists. I'd be interested in hearing a description.
Journalism isn't supposed to be fiction. The information comes from some place other than the journalist's mind, and often that information originates in a press release, though that absolutely should not be the end of a journalist's research.

Still I don't understand why journalists (including some of the ones I have hired as freelancers) are willing to regurgitate a press release and leave it at that. Some even plagiarize releases and put their bylines on the story, which is beyond shady. But beginning and ending with a press release is lazy. Sometimes more information just isn't available. Sometimes.

I cover technology. There is no technology that isn't announced in a press release. It's just the way the industry is. It's either a press release or leaked information that will appear in a press release later anyway.

But press releases, as someone here mentioned, are often lacking in details. They're also often just plain inaccurate. It is a very rare PR person who has any grasp of technology beyond Twitter and Microsoft Office.

Why do people write stories based exclusively on a press release instead of getting hold of the software or hardware, reading spec sheets, reading manuals or at least visiting the product information page online?

You write a story about a new projector. What ports does it have? Those aren't in the press release, but they're easily accessible. Throw ratio? Weight and dimensions? Lens options? Throw distance? All of those pieces of information are important to your readers and can easily be learned by looking outside the press release. So why skimp when your audience is counting on you?

Now, all of that said, I think the premise of this tool is a joke. Google works fine when I want to find out if my writers are plagiarizing verbatim, which I have caught some doing. But other than that, every single piece of journalism is based on information obtained from somewhere, whether it's a press release in your mailbox or a press conference in the White House, whether it's a whistle blower meeting you in secret or a piece of damning evidence you found in a dumpster. It all comes from somewhere.
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>>Anyone who believes that women inherently do worse in STEM subjects needs to be called out, in the most negative of terms. No one should say it, period.

I don't think the point is that they inherently do worse, but rather that, currently and on average, they do worse.
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We threw a organic fair trade bike trainer under an open source standing desk so you can just visually see your Apple environment right in front of you as you make apps to submit to the App store, dawg.
Samething they did to:

https://www.facebook.com/scumbrain
$language in this case is C, the lingua franca of computing.

It is almost always the first language ported to any system, almost every computer science program at least covers the basics, it has been in 1st/2nd place on the TIOBE index for over a decade, its the 5th most popular language on github by commits and it is over 40 years old.

But- I'm willing to accept there might be people on Hacker news that don't know C, thats why I gave suggestions to the author to expand on the content and make it interesting to a wider audience. That was the point of my post.
50% is an easy first order approximation. Better approximations are great, but I see not obvious winner for a better approximation whose error bounds do not include 50% and has or is likely to gain significant mindshare.
Why does opening something in a new tab obliterate your history?
Is there a good reason for this that I'm missing?

In modern browsers, if I click on a link in an article that I'm reading and I'm taken there, I can press back to go back to where I came from. If I decide to open it in a new background tab (so I can finish the article and then read the newly opened tab), that new tab will have its history erased. Why? I would like it to stay so I could press back and figure out where I came from.

It happens quite often that I end up trying to find where I came from on a tab that happened to be opened as new, and hence has no back history. (One hack that I've learned to avoid this problem in desktop Chrome is to duplicate the tab, then click a link regularly. This preserves the back history.)
A little off-topic...but I was just reading "Coders at Work" and of the 15 coders interviewed, only one was female (Fran Allen):

http://www.codersatwork.com/fran-allen.html

Despite this, the author (Peter Seibel) begins his introduction by mentioning Ada Lovelace in the very first sentence. In the next sentence, he talks about the six women - Kay Antonelli, Jean Bartik, Betty Holberton, Marlyn Meltzer, Frances Spence, and Ruth Teitelbaum - who were called to be the first programmers of ENIAC.

I don't know if this was explicitly intentional on Seibel's part, a sort of gender-balancing of the book given its one female interviewee, but it was a nice reminder of how, at one point in time, it wasn't strange at all that women were among the forefront of computer pioneers. Today, the numbers have receded to the point that some people just think that women are inherently not "built" for programming. Well, some clearly were...this isn't like arguing whether the Navy SEALs should let in a real life "G.I. Jane"...given the history of women in programming, it's still a strong possibility that the gender disparity is heavily influenced by social trends and stigma and is something that we can mitigate.

(note: I'm not accusing Seibel of not having enough diversity in his book...it's very likely Fran Allen was the only woman available for his book and who played as interesting a part in history as Robert Knuth, Peter Norvig, and the other big names that Seibel interviews)

Edit: Also, the Fran Allen interview is really interesting. I jumped to it to see her thoughts on the gender disparity, but most of the interview is on her thoughts about early programming, teaching scientists to code, and how C ruined the art of compilers
I don't know if it's necessarily fair to call out "I F*cking Love Science". The same could be said about Reddit/9gag/thousands of other Facebook groups/etc.

It's an Internet-wide problem, not just one FB group.
Here is the challenge. If you don't make men aware of the ways that we as an industry fail to be fair, there is no hope of changing it. But if we rub the unfairness of the industry in women's faces, we are creating barriers to fix the problems.

The solution, put in positive terms, is that if you want things to be better, you need to encourage women to look on the positive side.

In that light, I think that if http://www.kalzumeus.com/2011/03/26/software-for-underserved... gets taken to heart by people in the startup community, that will do more to address this issue than any 10 heartfelt rants about the inequity of the present situation. (For those who don't follow the link, it is patio11 pointing out that if you want to create a successful consumer business, the odds are very good that your primary customers will be women.)
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I think we should relax about the idea that most people post inaccurate facts when they're cheering science.

What they're doing is cheering for the idea of science. It's similar to people cheering at a basketball game. They're not basketball players, so most of what they have to say about the topic is going to be wrong. But they're still rooting for you, and this is a good and powerful thing.
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Techcrunch says 25 employees.

http://techcrunch.com/2013/04/23/google-buys-wavii-for-north...
Yes, if Google/Facebook/(whatever domain you want) provide Persona endpoints, the user would be redirected to that Persona provider to sign in to your site.

From what I understand, it's exactly the same workflow as Facebook Connect, except it's <each user's Persona/mail provider> Connect.
There are only two ways the percentage of women in tech can get higher: 1) more women could enter tech. Safe for getting a sex change, men can't do much about that. 2) less men could enter tech, men already in tech could leave tech.
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* markdown renderer

* jQuery core

* crypto

* gzip/deflate/xz/zip compression/decompression
Subtitle should be: Realization that Tweet was Fake Creates $136B in Stock Market. In less than 5 minutes everything was back to normal.

The interesting question is whether the people panic selling were skittish human traders or twitter-based algorithms trying to get a jump on the headline.
I feel like it's a little bit unfair to Facebook Inc. to have their name as the first word of the title since a glance at the title makes it seems as if Facebook yet again overstepped their boundaries (though it speaks volumes to FB's past behavior that I have that reaction right away)
The reason it's useful to explicitly "break the rules" like this is because it's important to know what assumptions you can in fact rely on, regardless of what standards bodies have to say about it.

Given that compilers do break when programmers violate aliasing rules, you should recheck what assumptions you think you can rely on. Non-strict aliasing is not one of them. Unless you want to slow everything down with compiler-specific flags like -fno-strict-aliasing.

uint8_t foo[4]; *(uint32_t*)foo = 0;

Besides even without strict aliasing, the above is not at all guaranteed to work since not all architectures support unaligned loads. (and if you think "well but no one uses them, just like no one uses 1's complement architectures anymore", keep in mind that this includes ARM)

(also use stdint types already)
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I'm going to take a huge leap here and assume Project Manager.

A pretty common abbreviation in tech, the context should have tipped you off.

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edit: One startup I worked for that focused on improving federal regulation compliance in the banking sector had a team of 5 project managers, 1 was male. Our product management team was entirely female.
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I'm talking about something like this: http://sseplus.sourceforge.net/fntable.html

I'm not an SIMD expert, but it seems like this implements similar primitives to those that are available to assembly (and not C). My question is basically whether the algorithms you're talking about could be implemented with these primitives. Although I guess no such library yet exists for AVX2.
Outside of a university context, I would agree with you.

So non-academics don't have the right to an inquiring mind?

Also, what other lines of inquiry should be forbidden?
> It's a valid operation regardless of whether a standards body says it's not.

Whoa there, cowboy. You may not feel personally beholden to standards bodies, but compiler vendors are following their lead. The major compilers are getting more and more aggressive about optimizing away undefined behavior every year.

> The effect is to set y to the first two bytes of memory from x.

No, it's really not. It's undefined behavior and the compiler is free to do absolutely whatever it wants.

> One source of confusion is that int and short are essentially, for all intents and purposes, undefined -- they are of course defined by the standards, but their implementation is allowed to vary so much that no programmer can make any assumptions about their size (in bytes) at runtime.

I agree with this, and have made this argument before: http://blog.reverberate.org/2013/03/cc-gripe-1-integer-types...

But this is an entirely separate issue.
Another linked article today indicates it was algorithmic trades, not human ones, and that the algorithms, which track tweets and social media, read it wrong -- they should have been buying, not selling.
A fellow robs my house. I catch him and hold him for the police. He complains, "No fair! Most robberies are unsolved because we lack the manpower to chase every lead!!"

Lie is indeed "unfair" to him in some statistical sense, but I am absolutely not being "unfair" to him in a moral sense.

Or to put it another way, the reality of the Internet as you describe it is that a certain %age of copyright violations go unpurusued. It's a statistical model, just as it's a statistical model that a certain number of robberies are unsolved and a certain number of people are killed by lightening.

Is that unfair? It may seem so when you're being struck by lightening, but someone has to be struck by lightening.

Likewise, given enough copyright violations, someone is going to be called out. Today the blow falls on Elise.
What sane woman would get into tech, when being a lawyer or MBA is so much more lucrative?
After a blow-up in my town a few months ago, I tried to encourage a few notable female tech proponents that negativity was not the way to win the fight. I was publicly lambasted, called denigrating names, had false information spread as far as cities 3000 miles away, and even had a meme made about me (containing incorrect info, imagine that). Negativity breeds nothing but negativity. I often fall into the trap myself, so it was pretty disheartening to see others fall into it so hard when I tried to warn them away. To be fair, I didn't handle the situation perfectly, but at least I know that and am willing to change. Effective communication starts with introspection. Tolstoy said it this way, "Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself."
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Some of the depictions in the 1960s, interestingly, played up programming as a stereotypically "women's" occupation, complete with pop-psychology explanations of why women were particularly suited for it: http://blog.fogcreek.com/girls-go-geek-again/
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