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We do not know this and it would be questionable if the risk associated with such an act would be worth it considering that Google can actually use its resources to move things in a legal way. (via courts, lobbying in Washington etc.)

Google's legal initiatives are largely just naked lobbying for its own corporate interest. SOPA in particular. Nothing wrong with this but it's a lot different than using its legal team to fight government abuses. Google is reasonably scared and chastened by Microsoft's massive antitrust battle, and Eric Schmidt pragmatically ramped up lobbying and philanthropy when he took the helm.

They let you take all your data out of all Google products: http://www.dataliberation.org/takeout-products

Do you think this removes it from the system that the NSA has access to?

They fight governments data requests in courts (sometimes successfully) and release strongly worded statements when they are allowed to.

Strongly worded PR statements while being 100% cooperative. My guess is that the statements are run by the NSA for approval before they are published.

Suggesting that we ended up with an abusive goverment because Google slavishly followed orders seems unrealistic to me.

I did not argue this. But it's a very slow and gradual slide into tyranny, and Google has done nothing to prevent the obvious abuses. I again point to the Government's treatment of Microsoft as a significant driver of Google's supplication.

The survival of the NSA does not depend on public trust and a positive public image - Google does.

Only when the information is kept secret does the NSA's survival not depend on public trust. I'd argue that the NSA depends more on public trust than Google, since Google's motives are very clear, at least insofar as the shareholders are concerned. The NSA is there to protect US interests which generally are not documented and are subject to the whims of both high level and low level officials.
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The point of the commodities market is to provide hedging instruments for commercial producers and consumers. It's difficult to imagine the commodities market being useful if you ban every potential customer and leave nothing but speculators.
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For example, she found a puzzle game on her phone that she would play obsessively

Actually an interesting observation on how difficult it is to draw the line between obsession and passion. It seems that she (can devlop) an extremely high level of focus, something that what would probably regarded by many as a trait for becoming successful in a specific discipline.
You probably would if you travel, or go to conferences...
I suspect(I could be very wrong) that a lot of people do the majority of their dating & find their spouses in college, so the dating prospects are almost as important as the quality of education. Just like how nightclubs reduce admission or drink prices for ladies; thus drawing more ladies and of course the boys follow... college is, wether they like it or not, is the main place to "hook up". It's just statistically higher quality than the random person at the bar/nightclub.
> Everyone loved the housing bubble.

Well, everyone other than people just trying to buy a house for their family. A house in which to live, not to flip-off in ten years time.
So basically, you want banking CEOs prosecuted because they constructed an alternate mortgage registry that has lower transaction costs than the existing system?

tl;dr; the financial crisis happened, here is something unrelated which might be technically illegal. Lets get em!
I'd never thought about this line of reasoning but it's an interesting hypothetical question. The Wikipedia article on insider trading is surprisingly informative on the counterarguments:

"Milton Friedman, laureate of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics, said: "You want more insider trading, not less. You want to give the people most likely to have knowledge about deficiencies of the company an incentive to make the public aware of that." Friedman did not believe that the trader should be required to make his trade known to the public, because the buying or selling pressure itself is information for the market"

...

"Legalization advocates also question why "trading" where one party has more information than the other is legal in other markets, such as real estate, but not in the stock market. For example, if a geologist knows there is a high likelihood of the discovery of petroleum under Farmer Smith's land, he may be entitled to make Smith an offer for the land, and buy it, without first telling Farmer Smith of the geological data.[2] Nevertheless, circumstances can occur when the geologist would be committing fraud if, because he owes a duty to the farmer, he did not disclose the information; for example, if he had been hired by Farmer Smith to assess the geology of the farm."

...

"There are very limited laws against "insider trading" in the commodities markets if, for no other reason than that the concept of an "insider" is not immediately analogous to commodities themselves (corn, wheat, steel, etc.). However, analogous activities such as front running are illegal under US commodity and futures trading laws. For example, a commodity broker can be charged with fraud by receiving a large purchase order from a client (one likely to affect the price of that commodity) and then purchasing that commodity before executing the client's order to benefit from the anticipated price increase."

It doesn't feel that contradictory for me to believe insider trading should be a illegal in equities but legal in commodities, if only because of the externalities involving trust in corporate governance, the conflicting incentives (if the CEO can short his own stock, that creates some perverse incentives). But there definitely a pro-market-signalling argument to be made WRT to the OP's article.
Plus she makes it very clear that it's a generalization that doesn't necessarily apply to individuals: "Of course, there are female tinkerers who like to work with things and gladly enter occupations such as pipefitting and metallurgy. But the number of men eager to enter these fields is substantially greater."
What are these things called? And how do I make one and append into my code?
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Heroin has properties attractive to people in a hopeless, brutal war beyond what they can get from bridge club. Self-medication is not exactly recreation.

You should also look skeptically at claims that having unprotected sex with possible HIV carriers guarantees that you will get HIV. But you should still put a goddamn condom on.
Have they finally updated the lectures to use SI units?
Do you have a citation for that claim about WPS and home users?

While it certainly could be the crowd I hang out with (not all of which are techies, mind you), but I've never met anyone who uses WPS.
I was hoping someone would get the ADOM reference.
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Do you really think 18 year olds (male or female) don't take the social scene into account when deciding which college to attend?

In business you have to know your customers. If you're selling to 18 year olds, you can't ignore dating and sex. Especially if you're asking them to spend most of 4 years of their lives and $100,000.
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You compile it and do the same things to it Apple would have.
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First off, the article is partially about high school with 14 mentions in the article.

I also think that with the rise of single parent homes, male role models in education are the only likely older male role models they will be able to have ready access to. They are some studies [1], but those seem to be focused on primary school as opposed to older children, but I think the same would hold true.

Basically, I think that the role of male teachers, isn't limited to just teaching the curriculum but also providing a role of a functioning male role model to kids that may not have that around.

[1]http://www.theguardian.com/education/2008/sep/30/primaryscho...
It's not so much try it once and you're hooked, but for a certain percentage of those who do try it can get hooked in the first try. For many or most others, it takes persistent use (which will often happen when the first try doesn't get them hooked).
Not sure that []["filter"] is all that funky of an example as it's just grabbing the arrays prototype method "filter" using bracket notation.

Here's some better examples of JS oddities: http://stackoverflow.com/q/9032856/1538708
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> As for voltage - 5V is universal with USB

Nitpick for interest's sake: apparently there's a new (2012) 'USB Power Delivery' spec[1] which specifies two new voltage levels (12V & 20V) in addition to 5V, with higher current limits (2A at 5V, 3A at 12V or 20V for microUSB connectors). Obviously both ends (and the cable) have to support it; I don't know if anything actually does yet.

[1] http://www.usb.org/developers/powerdelivery/
Google don't need your Wi-Fi passwords, they have admin rights to a computer inside your network (your phone).
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I thought that was a bit off putting too.

The school I go to is ~75% male and I've overheard women complaining several times about how they wish there were more girls for them to hang out with. I hear pretty much the same thing from the guys, but that is to be expected. Overall, I think most students would prefer a college to have nearly equal amounts of each gender and any imbalance will cause complaints.
Yeah good question! Reading that story, I understood first that rats like sweet things and hate bitter things. Second that rats are usually willing to take Hobson's choice, and the point of the article being that most scientists don't realize that's what they've actually been testing.

I understand that heroin withdrawals are pretty terrible, I've even heard said that "you'd do anything" to make them stop, but they can't kill you in a sort of way that alcohol withdrawals can.

It sounded from my reading more like toward the end of the experiments though it was becoming clearer that the rats in Rat Park genuinely did not like the effects of the drug on their normal lives, and when they had the other option of socializing, they were only still taking the drug to get at the delicious sucrose.
My various schools all had computers everywhere - I didn't learn programming until the 3rd year of my (physics) degree.

In secondary school ("high school"), The only computer subject they taught was IT, and people weren't allowed to take it unless they had a special reason not to take a foreign language. It was rumored to be ridiculously easy.

The UK is supposed to be bringing in a programming GCSE - I'll believe it when I see it.
Please google "hatefacts". Alternatively go to the criticism section of Stephen J. Gould's Wikipedia article or read the article on the Bellcurve followed by the American Psychological Association's statement on same. For a third possible example read the Full Text of the speech that got Larry Summers fired from the presidency of Harvard.

Being right and having the evidence on your side will not protect you if the mood of the times is against you. "The truth will set you free" is as true as "Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door."
Don't have just one. I'd suggest two:

* What is your full name, including title? (e.g. Mr John Jules Smith, Señor José Hernández Fernádéz, Kim Ban-Moon)

* How do you wish to be referred to? (e.g. Mr Smith, John, Sñr Hernández, Mr Kim)

* How should we address you? (e.g. Mr Smith or John)
Or anything else, for that matter. Postgres, MySQL, even SQLite beats Mongo for any use-case. Cassandra, HBase if you need a distributed DB. RethinkDB when it gets mature.

MongoDB is in its own class of terribleness.
Actually its from further away than that with a high gain directional antenna (I've hit WiFi hot spots about a mile distant using same) but the point is that they can do this from outside your property. You would probably know if someone was in your house but you'd be hard pressed to notice a Yagi antenna pointed at your window from across the street or down the block a bit.

That said, I read the article more as 'yet another reason this whole compelling third parties is an issue' sorts of reasoning as opposed to this is some new threat that we didn't know about. The author points out it has been covered in lots of places. The argument is that more for the folks who aren't thinking they are affected by this because they aren't dissidents or people of interest (yet).
There are a lot of disclosure laws in real estate, though. When you go to sell a house (in my state, anyway), it is against the law to say that the basement has never flooded if it has flooded.
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> Other guy climbs a mountain that others have climbed, also unprepared

You're saying he's unprepared because he didn't take every single possible device to aid him (oxygen).

What about all the people that take every single thing possible, spend years and years training, are extremely prepared, and still die anyway.

Are they dumb asses?
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All big-O has an implied "+C", so O(n) is equivalent to O(n)+C by definition. Where is the confusion?
While the idea of Google knowing every wi-fi password is bad, they already know everything you search for and they also have a very good idea about all the websites you visit. So ...
I saw a mention of something like this at BMVC this week.
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I'm not certain we attribute "that someone" with the free market in many cases. Education is quite solidly considered the purview of the federal and state governments these days, which I think contributes to that last second feeling.

When an opportunity for work appears in the free market, there is quite often a surge of responses. I hope it doesn't come across as cynical, but, I think often when there's an opportunity for work in the public market, there's quite often a surge of analysis and discussion and waiting until a response has to be given.
Not really, especially from a legal standpoint (not a lawyer!).

> The homebuyer always wanted this. The difference is that during this time, they were given this, and allowed to leverage the value of a piece of property that would always rise and never fall in value in order to pay for it.

Why was this? I'd argue that it's because the whole system wanted that to be true: politicians wanted people to be buying bigger and nicer houses. People wanted access to a nicer house than they can technically afford. Companies wanted to push mortgages out, then slice them up to try to minimize risk. The entire system from top to bottom wanted this.

> Everybody who saw that the housing bubble was stupid, and made money from it anyway by selling it as sustainable.
Just like the dot-com bubble, it's really who got left holding the bag. Many, many people made money off of it. Many middle class families also! People who sold a house when home prices were soaring. People who locked in low rates. Everyone knew that the home market wasn't going to grow forever, it was just a gamble as to how quickly the growth would slow, and how wide-spread defaults would be.
Right. I was responding to the concept of insider trading in general, even after reading the article, I don't feel that I know nearly enough about the arcane commodities market to speak to that scenario.
Most likely more than 50% of women have a comparative advantage (relative to their husband) in caring for children.
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>> How to Make School Better for Boys?

Make them run more, damnit.
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AFAIK, Chrome "certificate pinning" may not exactly be what you think "certificate pinning" means. It should be more precisely called "certificate authority pinning". What it means is that Chrome will not trust certs for Google properties except those issued by certain certificate authorities. Reference: https://www.imperialviolet.org/2011/05/04/pinning.html

Unless things changed since I last checked.

In contrast, "real" "certificate pinning" as done in some mobile apps (IIRC Twitter) involves storing the hash of the certificate itself in the app. No other certificate, even from the same CA, will be accepted.
Maybe it's just me, then. I know when I was looking at schools I didn't even consider the gender breakdown of the school. It wasn't anywhere near my top concerns - it wasn't even a factor I looked at.

Also, I'm not sure how valid the author's statement actually is. I didn't spend a ton of time researching it, but I was curious. Here are the application numbers for two recent years (couldn't find University of North Carolina):

Boston College | 38.2k -> 41.7k (+9%)
Brandeis University | 7.7k -> 8.9k (+15%)
New York University | 38k -> 42.2k (+11%)
University of Georgia | 17.4k -> 18k (+3%)

Each college continued to receive an increase in applications that was (with the exception of the University of Georgia) on par with other colleges.

If people are still applying to those schools, and they aren't seeing decreased applications, doesn't that mean the whole "tipping point" argument where no one will want to go to those schools is invalid?
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> I think it pin's google's certificates.

That's what I understand as well but I don't think they pin much more than that -- and certainly not every SSL certificate on every site one might connect to.
Yes. House of Cards is as important as anything that has happened in mainstream television in the last few years. Maybe the author will include an afterward in future editions?
The studies are generally very careful to frame their conclusions narrowly, as pointing out empirically measured differences in particular populations, not showing that something is a "deep-seated need" of boys or that they are "born tinkerers". People doing those studies are usually agnostic on whether the cause is biological, due to parenting, due to other aspects of social environment, etc.

The stronger interpretations, like in this article, tend to come from pop-science commentators.
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It is an objective fact that 18 year old people, men or women, are highly interested and motivated by dating and sex. If you are trying to sell them an immensely expensive and time-consuming service (college), you better take that into account or you will go out of business. That's what that quote is about. Your switch is just as true (and no more or less offensive) than the original.
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And just to let you know, that if you support the cause of increasing child literacy and gender equality in education then your donations are incredibly welcome.

One way to do so would be to go to this page:
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And perhaps surprise some cyclist by supporting him/her. Maybe some of the ones who haven't raised much yet... they're at the bottom of the page.

Believe.in are not taking any processing fees. And Stripe have waived their fees too.

So 100% of anything that anyone donates (from HN or elsewhere) is going to go to the charity Room to Read and make a real difference.

You might even notice a few names you recognise on that list, as some of the riders (inc myself) are active on HN.

We'd love your support. I won't kid anyone, it's not an impossible and massive thing, a cycle ride... but the cause is a really great one, and that's what matters.
I do not put weight on gender as an indicator of anything.

I did not think I would have a better chance at becoming a Lawyer because many men are lawyers or that I would have a worse chance at becoming a Teacher because most of my teachers were Women.

I don't believe there need to be more women in tech, or more male teachers. There needs to be the best at what they do doing it. Gender is not a measure of merit.
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Like Google, both Mozilla and Canonical have shown an interest in selling hardware.

If the Ubuntu Edge campaign had gotten traction Canonical would absolutely have pushed forward and marketed that sucker hard. I would be surprised to not see another phone attempt from them in the next 18-24 months.

FirefoxOS gets market traction if those phones sell, because the conversion rate of Android phone users to picking up FirefoxOS is going to be very small.
> Yet there are way more female lawyers out there than programmers.

> Yet somehow programmers seem to be able to scare women away where in other areas they don't feel intimidated.

We're in agreement that it's the programmers who are the problem, and not just "women choosing not to do it," then?

I guess you're trying to attack the validity/veracity/relevance of blog posts in general? That's an interesting discussion to have on its own, but I'm not entirely sure what your first and last paragraphs have to do with the question I posed before:

Women say they are discriminated against, but you haven't seen any of that in your personal experience. That's great, but it's not logically sound to generalize your experience to the entire industry when there's a mountain of evidence to the contrary. So should we believe women who have first hand experience with discrimination, or your second hand account of it?
>One thing that I've noticed is that even when they get off of the substance, the addictive personality traits are still there -- years later.

The OP can chime in, but your interpretation (which I considered) doesn't seem to fit what I just quoted.
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I don't have a resume. I got employed to do marketing/customer aquisition for a tech firm on the basis of my blog, where I primarily wrote about local political issues.

Everybody should blog! A resume has unnecessary limitations.
If you look at heroin and meth addicts, I think it's pretty easy to see that it's not only dependent on price (which for meth is quite cheap in some countries). A lot of addicts will in the long run be unable to hold a job because of their drug use, and will only turn to crime when that happens.
Spaces are also common in last names. Among our friends and neighbors we have surnames like La Rosa, Van Meter, Del Toro, Di Giovanni. We expected that there would be ambiguity around whether the two names were middle and last, and even joked about the poor grad students trying to figure out how to cite her work. We did not expect that major institutions (like the state we live in or a multinational bank) would be incapable of storing a last name that contained a space.
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Evolutionary psychology is always fraught with controversies.

I don't know if someone could read the paper referenced [1] and give some insights on the methodology used.

I ask because studying the innate differences between men and women is extremely hard, cultural bias is huge.

After reading many papers (on both sides of the "women and men are different" fence) I've come to the personal conclusion that you can't really treat evolutionary psychology as a hard science. It's just too controversial as it is, everybody seems to be pushing a personal agenda. Just read the studies if you can access them and make up your own opinion.

Maybe in a few decades when the dust has settled we might be able to reach a consensus. As it is, I really wouldn't treat those papers as "facts".

[1] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19883140

I would like to cite more sources but the only ones that come to my mind right now are in french. Maybe this would be a good starting point:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_evolutionary_psyc...
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