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But that doesn't mean that large eyes means white. Black people generally have characteristically large eyes too.

Please read the study, instead of making up rationalizations to avoid dealing with issues of stereotypes, gender bias, and the climate of science and engineering departments in colleges and universities. http://www.aauw.org/research/upload/whysofew.pdf

I agree with you except for the last paragraph about early sex education. If you wait until people are already having sex, it's too late.

Are you suggesting that it is all right for a charming man to be sexist, but not an uncharming man?

No, the point is that sexism is still sexism, even when sexism was (more) socially acceptable.

How does that make Feynman look better?

After I got downvoting power, I found that the downvotes I checked had no effect. Was it because I downvoted too many in a row?

"If there any girls reading this or any of you who understand girls really well, let me ask straight out, why do girls lie about their true intentions/desires always?"

If you actually think women always lie, then why even bother asking us, since you think whatever reason we give will be a lie?

I mean... yes, as a woman, everything I say is a lie.

But if everything I say is a lie, then I am actually a man pretending to be a woman. But if I am a man, then what I say may be true, which means that I might actually be a woman.

Seriously, though, your comment is misogynistic.

Upon learning about the $6,000 cost to get in, I shall think of TED Talks as a tax on rich people to provide free, online quality content to the rest of the world.

These instructions are incorrect. Clicking "turn off buzz" will only remove the Buzz label from your Gmail account.

You need to either (1) delete your Google profile first; or (2) if you want to keep your Google profile, edit your profile to not display followers, then delete any buzzes you may have posted, then removed connected sites, and THEN click "turn off buzz".

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No. It is unethical to risk user privacy and data just to benefit the company.

I find Hacker Newspaper uglier and less legible, because it's non-linear and harder to visually scan/skim through the items. However, as a non-linear format, it is inferior in design to newsmap: http://newsmap.jp/#/t/us/view/

Perhaps fatherhood, not motherhood, is the issue. Fathers need to be going on paternity leave at the same rates as mothers.

"Instead of doing what’s easy for you, do what’s easy for your reader."

It is easier for the author to convert the PowerPoint into a PDF, but what is easier for the reader is if the information was in HTML/web format. The author should package the information so that it enters our heads as easily as possible.

This is why user-centered interfaces are better than programmer-centered interfaces. The point is to make it easier for the user, not easier for the programmer.

One way the general public is kept scientifically illiterate is from locking up scientific journal articles behind subscription walls.

When peer-reviewed science articles are on lock down, and pseudoscience webpages can freely proliferate on the Internet, pseudoscience wins.

True, but a more accurate description of what you meant is "if you believe in evolution by natural selection, you'd have to put it the other way around."

> I doubt many fruits are NOT meant to be eaten by animals.

But plants did not evolve fruits to make animals healthier. Plants evolved fruits so that animals can spread the seeds.

A sample size of 31 is not necessarily invalid. See http://www.isixsigma.com/library/content/c000709a.asp#small

How can exams be conducted online, if we want to prevent cheating?

Ironically, TechCrunch itself appears to be running WordPress 2.7.1 instead of the latest 2.8.

TED Talks should have ratings too, and we should be able to sort by rating.

Unless they fake the data, researchers do not have control over the results.

Yet I hope the article is not being upvoted as startup advice: "Don't hire beautiful women."

Perhaps heterosexual men can also train themselves to think of beautiful women as people first instead of as sex objects primarily.

Try: +clojure

First I think visually about object classes and data structures, and how they relate to one another. Then I think in pseudo-code.

Then shouldn't it be "A programmer's wife"?

This should be titled "The programmer's spouse" instead of the programmer's wife. This makes it seem like being female is the cause of having a non-technical perspective.

He says "She knows about as much as you’d expect an optometrist wife of a programmer to know about computers", but are we supposed to expect something different from an optometrist husband of a programmer?

There should be more links about programming and science at Hacker News, not some heterosexual male programmer's anecdotes about his wife, with a title which suggests that there is a pattern among the behaviour of wives of programmers.

But don't choose Gmail as your webmail provider?