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Even if it were true, "most women do not wish to be in STEM fields" would beg the question. Why do they not wish to be in STEM fields? One straightforward factor might be the isolation they'd experience in being a tiny minority.

The term "feminist" is being tossed around pretty casually, too. That's convenient for both sides of the argument but unfortunate for truth-seeking, since the term can mean whatever the arguer wants it to be. I presume most women do in fact want equal rights, for instance. Most women probably don't want the end of all men.

The term "STEM" is also being used haphazardly. Your assertion that "most women do not wish to be in STEM fields" doesn't square with the facts. What would have been more accurate would be to say that most women don't want to work in computer science. But that's a less defensible gap; it's hard to come up with a compelling reason why women would want to be chemists, doctors, or actuaries, but not computer scientists.
>Because most women do not wish to be in STEM fields.

I think the parent's (and general) argument against that is that we are socialized early on to have biases. That if you grow up exposed to a situation were a majority of those in a field are unlike you in some very obvious way, you are less likely to want to be in the field.

The argument is that traditionally underrepresented groups ( obvious things like race, gender) might benefit from being exposed to prominent figures in the desired field early on.

I don't think we can accurately claim "few women wish to be in X field" without some form of empirical data to back it up. And even if it was true that fewer women wanted to be in STEM fields, is this simply a reinforcement of the fact that few exist in the field to begin with?
Nothing. It's a good comment. Sometimes good comments get downvoted initially. It looks like yours recovered into the positive range at least. Try not to take downvotes (especially early ones) personally. It's impossible to induce everyone to take pithy comments in particular exactly the way you intend.
I use Ubuntu on my personal machines.

It's free, and works on virtually any machine, has a built in package manager, and the command line interface (eg: bash) lends itself to automation / script writing. Virtual desktops are also ingrained in how I interact with a computer, and Windows doesn't have a good alternative.

I've been using Linux pretty much exclusively for close to ten years - the biggest thing for me has been compatibility, but that has gotten a lot better over the years. I have a Macbook for work, and I've been pretty happy with the interface, but the keyboard is subpar, and there is no trackpoint.
I like the .coffee domain. Nice get. Although, with 190+ points, "I'll buy you coffee" might get a bit expensive.
http://www.nature.com/nnano/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nnano...
They emptied the mall
and put up an Amazon Slot

With a working hell, a geek
And a sweltering com dot

Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you've got
Till it's gone
They emptied the mall
and put up an Amazon Slot

They took all the middle class
Put 'em in a middle class museum

And they directed their chauffeur
a mile and a half just to see 'em

Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you've got
Till it's gone

They emptied the mall
and put up an Amazon Slot

Late last night
I heard my phone alert scream

and a big yellow Uber
Took away my all my old dreams

Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you've got
Till it's gone

They emptied the mall
and put up an Amazon Slot
No. That's not how dilution works. Common sense: if issuing stock were neutral to shareholders, then buybacks would also be neutral to shareholders. (Splits are neutral to shareholders.)
how they handle their moral and legal obligations to 1,000+ people is up to them and i am sure those 1,000 people will be able to get as much assistance as they need to hold them over. 1,000 people keeping their jobs is statistically insignificant to the tens (hundreds?) of millions of compromised, faithful users. i dont think it would even be a question for them if the circumstances allowed for no other options. i believe their users would fully expect them to do this.

"I really wish Ladar Levison handed NSA the SSL keys so I could keep my email"

-- no Lavabit user, ever.
The article goes on to discuss how despite similar impostor feelings, the responses of men and women to those feelings differ.

More recent studies affirm a gender gap in "impostor syndrome"; it was easy to find one from 2008 on Google Scholar, and I quickly stopped looking.
It would also be handy if it worked without location services... just let me enter a suburb/ city.
Pinboard.in is handy for that.
Kind of weird because you can totally wrap git for this use case as well (not like you need to commit all changes to your working set into one commit, and pretty easy to filter per-file changes).

A fun-seeming exercise anyways, I guess it doesn't matter what tool you're using underneath.
Well, if you look at it from the ecosystem's standpoint, it's just a check or balance. But the fungus is, like pretty much all life, acting in its own self-interest. The trees don't even have to "consent" to this — it seems that it's more likely that a fungus is acting as a sort of benevolent parasite than that very different trees have established some kind of cross-platform messaging system that uses a third, very different type of organism as a mediator. It's just simpler to me to think that the fungus is acting on its own and it ends up being a net gain for everyone involved.
New LA Tech Startup changing how we move?
The app is the easy bit. It needs a community.
Presumably you can't start your commands with "sh" either!
It is not an attack. It is an accurate description of his words.
If you're better as a rogue than as a student, that's like 10x the time to work on being a student. The real world? It sucks, and brilliant rogues are frequently punished shortly after saving the day. You've got 40-50 years after school to learn those lessons. Go to school for the experience while you're young enough to do it. Learn some philosophy, history, art or music while you're at it.
Seems lazy, especially since its ancestor Flame contained some "world class" crypto expertise.

[1] http://gcn.com/articles/2012/06/11/flame-world-class-crypto-...
Not sure why the title has (2011) in it. This was posted today, November 11, 2014
Hm. I'm thinking Mozilla may be a modern day NRA.

The point of the right to bear arms is to protect the people from a government engaging in tyranny. The point of TOR is ideally the same. Maybe it's time to classify encryption as a weapon again.
Thanks for making this comment. The cynic in my was like "I've seen this on hackernews before" but this comment shut up that jerk inside my head.

It's a good idea!
This is one of the best videos of the series. Rich with details. The Toussaint breakdown at the end was also great. I wasn't previously familiar with that story, so can't speak to its accuracy but it did a great job in driving the lecture's lessons home. The advice on reassuring people and pausing is great as well.
I like the general concept;

It would be great as a web app too. I'd like to post on my linkedIn / personal sites / profiles:

"Want to meet me for lunch? join me via colunchers.com/########"

They could see what public lunches I was hosting / attending . Or create a lunch and invite me.
I'm curious now: how do the AES implementations nowadays avoid the timing attack explained in that paper? From what I understood, its very hard to write an efficient AES implementation without using input-dependent table lookups.
Thank you for the kind words! It feels really good to hear support like this.
It raises the question. Begging the question is a logical fallacy. The most straightforward factor is that men and women are actually different. Many studies have shown that innate gender preferences manifest in infancy. I knew I was different from most girls when I was very young. The vast majority of other women I've met at work and at conferences have been similar. We were into "boy stuff". That's perfectly fine. But it doesn't mean the girls who are not into "boy stuff" are broken and need to be fixed.
Hopefully they simply don't back an architecture where the only option is to pull the plug.
And here I was hoping the meat of the blog post would actually be in the post. Nope, just a teaser for part two.

Also, why is this submission marked "2011"? It was apparently written today.
I'm working in Mexico with US customers, and the mayor point to work for the US market is better profit the salary goes higher that local market with any problem.

I think the US needs more engineers and the actual US schools can't provide enough students also look talent outside is a good way to expand.
Thanks for the detailed reply. In your analogy the 'last mile' is a monopoly - ie. comcast / community association. I agree that it's fair to regulate such a monopoly with 'net neutrality' rules.

But what about situations where there are multiple providers of the 'last mile' connection and effective competition between them? Should net neutrality rules apply in those cases?
I just don't understand you guys - I'm an introvert, and University exposed me to concepts and ideas I NEVER would have sought out on my own. And through that process I was introduced to people I NEVER would have met otherwise. Would I have met people just as awesome as the people I did meet, if I didn't go to school? Maybe, but judging from my friends in high school who didn't take "The Path", I think the answer is no.

I never would have written an OS kernel, I never would have built an ALU (and gained the deeper understanding of computer architecture as a result.) I never would have learned anything about AI.

Can I do those things, without going to school? Yes, absolutely. But I wouldn't have done it, and that's the point. Would I have met awesome mentors without university? Maybe, but maybe not. And the best part is I didn't even have to go out of my way to try and force it to happen. Going to university, it just happened because of who I am (a geek, smart, and a person who cares about good results.) It didn't matter that I was socially awkward, my work spoke for itself and others came to me.

Graduate work is something I never continued on to; once having my bachelor's, I went ahead and charged into Industry. And I'm totally, 100% OK with that choice.

So it makes me wonder - what were you doing for 8 years?
How Much Money Big Cable Gave the Politicians Who Oversee the Internet
Another disturbing aspect is that TOR itself is funded by the US govt. It is not so much of a contradiction. It is very likely that 3 letter agencies actively use and benefit from TOR backed services. But should the cost benefit balance tilt the other way, the money stream will probably disappear and/or its security compromised.
I use Slackware and run stock dwm as my window manager.

Once I tweak it to my preferences, I never have to think about it again. My configuration is portable to different versions, different distributions, and even different *NIXes to a large degree. Once in place, the system stays out of my way and I can focus on the task at hand. I used to keep an Arch Linux box around to keep up on the latest versions of things, but I got tired of the constant updating and breakage.

I also use Macs, relying heavily on homebrew (MacPorts before that), but the experience isn't as seamless as it is on Linux. OS X is a great consumer OS, though, so that's what I set my family up with.

I can't get anything done on Windows. I feel like I spend more time maintaining it than using it. The updates are disruptive and kill performance, the endless notifications are annoying and often meaningless, and the interface is byzantine. I haven't tried Windows 8, but I'm curious about it since I love my Windows phone.

Since I'm very keyboard-centric, I doubt that Mac or Windows will change in a direction that interests me. I've been thinking about trying out a ChromeBook because of the instant-on capability. If I don't like it, I'll just wipe it and install Linux (which is another reason I love Linux: I can easily repurpose old or odd hardware).
Not that interested, I'm an individual not a company! I meant if they were a product you could get off the shelf I'd be buying one, but I'm not that rich.
>I think the parent's (and general) argument against that is that we are socialized early on to have biases

Yes, but there is strong evidence that it is more nature than nurture.

>That if you grow up exposed to a situation were a majority of those in a field are unlike you in some very obvious way, you are less likely to want to be in the field.

Except I did grow up like that, and it did not influence what fields I was interested in at all.

>I don't think we can accurately claim "few women wish to be in X field" without some form of empirical data to back it up.

Many studies have shown innate gender preferences begin before socialization. It seems unlikely that STEM is somehow uniquely affected by it. Especially since the number of women in CS has been going down as we've been making such a big fuss about women in CS.
>Yes, because these days raw clarity and functionality most often take a backseat to cute design.

I've been having some serious difficulty with this lately. It seems in the last few months many sites i use have gotten redesigns that make them less functional and more "cute" (i guess)

Discover Card just redesigned their site to put their offers you can save on your card in GIANT boxes that you have to, get this, scroll horizontally. So rather than quickly parsing a list to see which offers i want, i have to scroll horizontally (can't use a scroll wheel), see about 5 offers, then click "view more," see 5 more, "view more..." Repeat. Takes 5x as long to go through! I... am probably just getting old but... i don't get it... why make a site so much less functional?

Myself, I haven't been using the web since inception... only for 18 years.
Thinking that one is attractive increases tendency to support inequality [pdf]
> Common sense: if issuing stock were neutral to shareholders, then buybacks would also be neutral to shareholders. (Splits are neutral to shareholders.)

Buybacks (and dividends) are indeed neutral to shareholders. You have a company that's worth Y and you buyback X$ using company cash, the shareholders now have in their hands a company that's worth Y-X and X$ in cash, for a total of Y.
The Tor Browser Bundle already comes with a bunch of hacks to make users more difficult to track. I suppose they could improve on that until you're no longer identifiable on something like EFF's Panopticlick [1] or Samy Kamkar's Evercookie [2].

For example, isolate each tab, nuke all tracking cookies by default, clear all local storage at a regular interval, access different sites using different circuits, and only allow JS to access a minimum of information about the system. Even better, expose fake, generic, but slightly varying lists of system fonts, plugins, and other information. (Fake information is better than disallowing access altogether, because the latter looks too suspicious.)

Of course, none of this will keep you anonymous if you log into Facebook using Tor... but at least the browser could make it extremely difficult for anyone to find out that the person who is visiting unrelated-website.com is the same person who just logged into Facebook. Automatically switching circuits when you visit a new site would probably do wonders in this regard, though I'm not sure how well Tor can handle that.

[1] https://panopticlick.eff.org/

[2] http://samy.pl/evercookie/
Somebody probably told them about SCO.
The unusual thing is that men are afraid of ageism in our industry. So if women have it worse, then it's doubly bad for us.
the only type of architecture that is resistant to this would have to be distributed. for anything centralized and under control of a US company, the US laws can compel them to install intercept devices. sadly, not everything can be distributed, there will be centralization somewhere.
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If you believe your stock is overvalued, sell it (or issue new stock). If you believe it is undervalued, buy it.

If, however, you believe that the market is 100% efficient and the price is always just right, then both of these actions will be neutral to shareholders.
Men and women are socialized in different ways. You're using an awful lot of conjecture to make points I wasn't touching and never intended to. When either gender does something out of their 'roles' it's harder.

Men are socialized to 'be smart', competitive, ect. Being a social, caregiver is what women are socialized to do. I never said that either gender, men included, can't do things outside of their roles.
This argument is so vague that it could be used to justify virtually any gender discrimination. If this issue is so simple and straightforward as to be disposed of in a 90 word comment, why aren't you able to connect any specific difference between men and women to the computer science field, or to explain why women are so comfortable in other STEM fields?

That aside: yes, I was intending to suggest that your previous argument was fallacious. I don't believe the premise of your argument was valid. But even had it been, it would still not answer the question it pretends to answer.
Considering TOR was paid for by the US government I think your concerns might be misplaced. That or TOR is a massive Honneypot and ....

NO CARRIER
I didn't downvote, but one possible reason: you didn't explain why using the verb "steal" is such a big no-no.
Not Linux bot relevant: At work I use FreeBSD 10 running xfce as my desktop.

FreeBSD, Macs OS X, Windows, and Linux distros are all in use at our office, in that order from most to least common.

The biggest issue I have is occasional difficulties with Flash. I'd prefer that be resolved by Flash going away, rather than by FreeBSD flash support getting better.
Looking at the demographics of my CS degree I'd say it certainly looks like women aren't well represented at UG level.
FastMail app for iOS and Android now available
I agree that this is the way back to sanity.

Most of the patents I have been noticing waved around are "Do something we did 50 years ago... but on a computer". Is the "on a computer" really a definitive mark.

On the idea of 'paper patents', what is to stop someone from registering something barely plausible today that may occur in the near future? Say, something like "3d printed food" where a file that contains the information on the material is structurally printed and heated/cooled. It isn't possible with our current tech, but when someone figures it out 5-10 years from now, you could spring that Jack out of the box and rake in cash.
Forcing developed nations with relatively decent educational systems to lower reproduction rates is not the answer. We need more problem solvers on Earth, not less. Malthus has consistently been proven wrong - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Revolution
I was surprised to find Enums in the list of unsupported features. On the surface, this seems like something which would be pretty straightforward. Are there some non-obvious technical challenges here, or is it just something that you haven't gotten to yet?
ODesk sets a minimum rate of $3.00/hour for all new hourly contracts
I may have not articulated this very well: Both groups in my metaphor (those who naturally understand the SAT questions from learning mathematical concepts, and those who are tutored on known SAT questions) were meant to be among the high scorers on the test.

This would imply that SAT scores will not predict real performance, and the same implications would apply to job interview questions that are gamed in a similar fashion.
Wrongs are wrong regardless of whether we cajole or entice the wrongdoers into stopping.
You're conflating two different comparisons: comparing the aggregate experience of two groups, which we use as an efficiency mechanism to see if we can make things better for lots of people, and comparing the personal experience of one person against a group.

With various spherical-cow-in-a-vaccum-ish assumptions, if women and men are equally qualified, then, by logical implication fully half of all women are below-average, and there are millions of women who are more qualified than every single software engineer at several companies. Neither of these facts are really the point of comparing women and men as an aggregate group.

As a man, as a person on Hacker News, as a person with whatever hair color you have, how clever you are is just how clever you are. That's it. (And this is exactly why we wish to reduce subconscious discrimination: unless there's an actual statistical difference, nobody should be thinking you're more or less clever knowing just your gender, any more than knowing just your hair color.)

Your job is yours, and up to your ambition and capability. The existence of millions of qualified people who don't have your hair color -- and, frankly, millions of qualified, more social people who don't have your hair color -- isn't keeping you out of your job today.

It's bad to hear "Women aren't clever enough for programming" because years of research have failed to find rational basis for this belief. If there is rational basis for a belief (and if the belief is stated in a way that doesn't cause most people to react to it irrationally), then sure, let's say it.

I'd be thrilled to help you with lack of confidence in anything I'm qualified to help with. I'm not particularly likely to do so in a subgroup situation, since this is something you yourself say is "personally" yours, but yes. I'm also happy to support organizations that do help groups where the group is relevant, and definitely happy to support all people with confidence in group situations where there isn't any definition of the group.
I don't believe they would simply close in that case; I strongly believe that they would instead choose to remain open under the logic that compromised but still working for user security / web "openness" is superior to folding and losing a force which aims to work for the "greater good". I believe this given their past choices in things like H264 and EME.

Given that, though, I also believe that enough smart people are in Mozilla that they would try to prevent themselves from being in a position where they would be a target such that they would face the dilemma. Which might be why they're only hosting middle relays, and not exits or guards :)
Thanks for letting me know, I always appreciate input like this.

Although in this case, not validating the emails client-side just means I have to validate emails after I receive them. Which is actually good in a way, I like seeing when people send stuff like "DROPTABLEuser" or "'SHOWPROCESSLIST'1=1", it's kind of a fun curiosity I suppose.
> since people will most certainly choose inappropriate names

Really? I can't imagine that being the case in a workplace. Particularly considering that name is the one that'd be set on their email account.
Well, you could say that proving the existence of this evil cabal is a lot like the devil's proof. Is it so far fetched to believe that a group of old, white males has an incentive to maintain the status quo?
I believe I've heard of cars that will make an obnoxious noise if you appear to be falling asleep.
As hackuser says elsewhere, Tor is not really a fire-and-forget security solution. My understanding is that in order to use it without compromising yourself you need to have a fairly sophisticated understanding of its limitations.
It would most likely have a very poor cost-effectiveness ratio. A surface aircraft-carrier expends no energy in maintaining itself, only for propulsion. Turn off the engines though, and a flying aircraft carrier rapidly becomes a surface un-carrier.
Yes, that's pretty far-fetched.
Loads of huge UK rock bands still have day jobs
The Four Types of Sleep Schedules
Yep, first up. Replaceing elisp with javascript!