", per the observation that there is evidence of discrimination against women when gender is identified."
Not sure how they come to this conclusion when they indicate that when the gender is identified, BOTH genders see a significant drop and men see a *greater* drop when they're known to the project. It's only when the women are unknown that their acceptance rate is lower... but even then, the acceptance rate of men and the acceptance rate of women's error bars overlap... it's entirely possible there's no difference between the genders when the contributor is unknown.
In fact, the only place in their pull request acceptance rate error bars don't overlap on p15 is where identified male insiders are rejected at a greater rate than women.
"We hypothesized that pull requests made by women are less likely to be accepted than those made by men."
Seems like bad research... start with a hypothesis and highlight areas of your study which weakly support it, ignore areas which strongly refute it.
" try to be a muslim in these states and run for office..."
Good point, the U.S. is so backwards that the religious majority influence the democratic election of their leaders. Whereas conversion from Islam in Iran is punishable by death. It's exactly the same.
The condo next door spends 6 hours pissing around with leafblowers, always on separate days, multiple times in the autumn. It makes it impossible to keep any windows or doors open.
It wouldn't be as bad if they took 4 of them for 30 minutes and systematically went over the grounds... but no. One fat guy walks all over the place in no particular pattern, just pointing the leafblower at dandelions and the odd leaf that just won't come free of the fence. I'm sure if they were raking, they wouldn't be at it for 6 hours. I guess it makes him feel like he's working.
The noise is one problem. They also kick up dust throughout the neighbourhood.
"a joystick jocky sitting in a cozy air conditioned room and going home to a safe warm bed in the USA "
Back in 2009 I met a drone operator on leave from Iraq while travelling in Eastern Europe. He was on his third redeployment. He was stationed on-base in Iraq and was happy. At that time, weaponizing drones was a rumour. According to the media, they were surveillance devices. I would have *loved* to ask him all kinds of questions about his job, but that would be very, very, rude. I bought him a beer and we hung out meeting nice girls instead.
What he did tell me was that he was thankful that although he was redeployed so many times, he shared a double room with another operator and admitted there were much harder jobs he was glad he wasn't doing.
Does anyone *know* that these guys are operating from the U.S.? You would think that the expertise is slim and training scarce. It would be complex to train people on new equipment, innovations, details of maintenance, to collaborate with other teams, etc. without being on-site. In IT, we do teleconferencing because it's cheap, but I don't think the cost of flying drone operators to some safe base where the drones *are* is expensive... they're all earning the same pay and have the same obligations. There would be big advantages to being on-site.
"What surprises me here is that government agencies who should know better dismiss plain old search engine stalking as a valid method for finding out what someone is up to, or has done."
The NYT is trying to tell a story. There might be a nugget of truth, but I'm doubtful that the government agencies are so dismissive of old tech.
We work in an industry where we can raise red flags, calling meetings, send urgent emails, harass people in chat and in hallways and not have our ideas heard. I'm sure the IRS agent encounters the same. It's not just old tech. Could be not-invented-here, resources, sound reasons to dismiss the lead above his clearance (as the agent expected), internal politics... who knows?
Ticket systems are nice for this. IRS opens a ticket and assigns it to the FBI. Date, time, assignee and management oversight to see that it gets worked on eventually. Whomever closes the ticket without a good reason, only to discover it solved the case should look for a new job.
It seems that any time anyone makes a generalization about Islam, there's somebody who comes up with a group who has a strict interpretation of this or that which refutes it.
These days I'm more inclined to say that opinions on religion are best left to historians. The rest of it, I'll ignore, because it's mostly spouted by people who's concepts of what is "truth" is very different than mine.
Apologies if you're merely citing historical references and not religious dogma through your faith structure or second-hand knowledge.
Hitler used gangster like tactics against his political opponents.
Wikipedia: "Hitler targeted Ernst Röhm and other SA leaders who, along with a number of Hitler's political adversaries (such as Gregor Strasser and former chancellor Kurt von Schleicher), were rounded up, arrested, and shot." (I can't bear to link to a Wikipedia article on Hitler)
Until Trump's opponents start disappearing, I think it's safe to say he's not that evil.
I never understood this market. Is it for people who are pretending to have processing power and storage of 10 years ago? In a desktop machine which is less portable than some current laptops?
"...when I fired up the WordPress app for Android, I realized that its simple editing tools were a little too simple for writing a long article.
"Firefox.... After rebooting the Remix Mini and trying again, there was less lag, but it was still a little too annoying to spend any serious amount of time writing that way."
"So I tried using the WordPress editor in Google Chrome. The lag was gone, but I got fed up with text selection and other quirks and eventually propped up a laptop next to the Remix Mini so I could write on one computer while referring to the other for test results."
I wouldn't inflict this on anyone. I've given away computers more useful than this.
"...the manner in which videos, articles or content has been accessed, saved and shared. We may use aggregated information to offer a list of top sites or content, or to make suggestions to our users or to report on usage and trends. We may also analyze and use aggregated information to improve the products and services that we offer, and to develop new products and services. "
It's written a bit slimy, making strong statements then giving really innocent examples. I'm reading it while trying to keep in mind that a service to store your bookmarks is going to have to have a privacy policy which allows them to store your bookmarks.
Everything free is malware these days, and many things paid.
"anytime we elect a majority government we are effectively living in a dictatorship."
Radical reform would be lovely, just like world peace. If you have a suggestion on how to achieve it, great. Until then, at least I know my MP will have input during this parliament, because Trudeau is a puppet of the party, the party being comprised of many people collaborating and thinking through issues for their mutual political benefit.
the Conservative party under Harper was unhealthy, MPs were destroyed for speaking their mind, thrown onto the back bench and "official candidate" status was revoked from people who didn't tow the line.
The former progressive conservatives were a little right of center. The Canadian Reform Alliance a.k.a. the amalgamation of the PCs and Harper's Western Reform party were much further right of center. The Harper majority was a terribly right-of-center dictatorship which used lies and pandered to racists to secure and extend their powers.
Slashdot Mirror
Crazy talk.. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programmable_read-only_memory
1. Patent the technology
2. Travel to 1955
3. Profit!
"Tamper-proof" is not a thing in infosec.
"you'd think they'd mention the standard they complied with"
p.17 of the paper:
" Maybe its a split between those of use who see computers as a tool for work vs those that see them as entertainment."
I was 16 in 1992. If you were under 8 or over 18, or didn't have brothers or sisters that age at this time, you probably missed this stuff.
Now you want scary... Skifree came out only 5 years before the debut of Slashdot.... And Slashdot is getting close to 20 years old.
https://xkcd.com/1393/
", per the observation that there is evidence of discrimination against women when gender is identified."
Not sure how they come to this conclusion when they indicate that when the gender is identified, BOTH genders see a significant drop and men see a *greater* drop when they're known to the project. It's only when the women are unknown that their acceptance rate is lower... but even then, the acceptance rate of men and the acceptance rate of women's error bars overlap... it's entirely possible there's no difference between the genders when the contributor is unknown.
In fact, the only place in their pull request acceptance rate error bars don't overlap on p15 is where identified male insiders are rejected at a greater rate than women.
"We hypothesized that pull requests made by women are less likely to be accepted than those made by men."
Seems like bad research... start with a hypothesis and highlight areas of your study which weakly support it, ignore areas which strongly refute it.
A giant all-night Assange look-alike rave at the embassy.
Thousands of Assanges.
The filters existed to get rid of his stories.
Can't forget the hellmouth Buffy connections. He would need to update his references. Maybe relate school shootings to Mockingjay or Twilight.
This doesn't sound like it's going to end in an epic rap battle between Neil deGrasse Tyson and Mr Killah over recreational drugs.
I thought the site was hacked and I was looking forward to some new content.
"Having actually been to the south pole, I can definitely say that there are NO NASA employees there."
Clearly you're involved.
" try to be a muslim in these states and run for office..."
Good point, the U.S. is so backwards that the religious majority influence the democratic election of their leaders. Whereas conversion from Islam in Iran is punishable by death. It's exactly the same.
The condo next door spends 6 hours pissing around with leafblowers, always on separate days, multiple times in the autumn. It makes it impossible to keep any windows or doors open.
It wouldn't be as bad if they took 4 of them for 30 minutes and systematically went over the grounds... but no. One fat guy walks all over the place in no particular pattern, just pointing the leafblower at dandelions and the odd leaf that just won't come free of the fence. I'm sure if they were raking, they wouldn't be at it for 6 hours. I guess it makes him feel like he's working.
The noise is one problem. They also kick up dust throughout the neighbourhood.
I'm all for banning them.
"a joystick jocky sitting in a cozy air conditioned room and going home to a safe warm bed in the USA "
Back in 2009 I met a drone operator on leave from Iraq while travelling in Eastern Europe. He was on his third redeployment. He was stationed on-base in Iraq and was happy. At that time, weaponizing drones was a rumour. According to the media, they were surveillance devices. I would have *loved* to ask him all kinds of questions about his job, but that would be very, very, rude. I bought him a beer and we hung out meeting nice girls instead.
What he did tell me was that he was thankful that although he was redeployed so many times, he shared a double room with another operator and admitted there were much harder jobs he was glad he wasn't doing.
Does anyone *know* that these guys are operating from the U.S.? You would think that the expertise is slim and training scarce. It would be complex to train people on new equipment, innovations, details of maintenance, to collaborate with other teams, etc. without being on-site. In IT, we do teleconferencing because it's cheap, but I don't think the cost of flying drone operators to some safe base where the drones *are* is expensive... they're all earning the same pay and have the same obligations. There would be big advantages to being on-site.
Any drone operators want to comment?
That cup of coffee kept that marine alert long enough to dodge that IED!
"What surprises me here is that government agencies who should know better dismiss plain old search engine stalking as a valid method for finding out what someone is up to, or has done."
The NYT is trying to tell a story. There might be a nugget of truth, but I'm doubtful that the government agencies are so dismissive of old tech.
We work in an industry where we can raise red flags, calling meetings, send urgent emails, harass people in chat and in hallways and not have our ideas heard. I'm sure the IRS agent encounters the same. It's not just old tech. Could be not-invented-here, resources, sound reasons to dismiss the lead above his clearance (as the agent expected), internal politics... who knows?
Ticket systems are nice for this. IRS opens a ticket and assigns it to the FBI. Date, time, assignee and management oversight to see that it gets worked on eventually. Whomever closes the ticket without a good reason, only to discover it solved the case should look for a new job.
These photos were taken with consent, and the parent poster's example was about selfies.
Confusion about consent has nothing to do with this. Written consent wouldn't make this different at all.
Had the coney fries, actually an awesome little place.
I mean the coney place is awesome. The town's got rough edges.
Poor people living in run-down housing is about right. Nothing *wrong* with that, as long as they don't get too run down. Right?
I'd stop there again.
"Islam doesn't..."
It seems that any time anyone makes a generalization about Islam, there's somebody who comes up with a group who has a strict interpretation of this or that which refutes it.
http://www.themalaysianinsider.com/malaysia/article/i-am-racist-and-my-racism-based-on-islam-says-umnos-annuar-musa
These days I'm more inclined to say that opinions on religion are best left to historians. The rest of it, I'll ignore, because it's mostly spouted by people who's concepts of what is "truth" is very different than mine.
Apologies if you're merely citing historical references and not religious dogma through your faith structure or second-hand knowledge.
Hitler used gangster like tactics against his political opponents.
Wikipedia: "Hitler targeted Ernst Röhm and other SA leaders who, along with a number of Hitler's political adversaries (such as Gregor Strasser and former chancellor Kurt von Schleicher), were rounded up, arrested, and shot." (I can't bear to link to a Wikipedia article on Hitler)
Until Trump's opponents start disappearing, I think it's safe to say he's not that evil.
I never understood this market. Is it for people who are pretending to have processing power and storage of 10 years ago? In a desktop machine which is less portable than some current laptops?
I wouldn't inflict this on anyone. I've given away computers more useful than this.
The patents may be extraordinarily lucrative.
That's a lot of setbacks.
Even old baby monitors don't transmit unless somebody visits the URL of the cam.
Failing to detect the traffic is meaningless.
"...the manner in which videos, articles or content has been accessed, saved and shared. We may use aggregated information to offer a list of top sites or content, or to make suggestions to our users or to report on usage and trends. We may also analyze and use aggregated information to improve the products and services that we offer, and to develop new products and services. "
Yep.
https://getpocket.com/privacy
It's written a bit slimy, making strong statements then giving really innocent examples. I'm reading it while trying to keep in mind that a service to store your bookmarks is going to have to have a privacy policy which allows them to store your bookmarks.
Everything free is malware these days, and many things paid.
"anytime we elect a majority government we are effectively living in a dictatorship."
Radical reform would be lovely, just like world peace. If you have a suggestion on how to achieve it, great. Until then, at least I know my MP will have input during this parliament, because Trudeau is a puppet of the party, the party being comprised of many people collaborating and thinking through issues for their mutual political benefit.
the Conservative party under Harper was unhealthy, MPs were destroyed for speaking their mind, thrown onto the back bench and "official candidate" status was revoked from people who didn't tow the line.
The former progressive conservatives were a little right of center. The Canadian Reform Alliance a.k.a. the amalgamation of the PCs and Harper's Western Reform party were much further right of center. The Harper majority was a terribly right-of-center dictatorship which used lies and pandered to racists to secure and extend their powers.