skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not just the shipping costs, either. Apparently importing and exporting items in China is a hugely expensive bureaucratic pain: http://dangerousprototypes.com/blog/2016/02/04/how-to-china-... "In practice, almost everyone doing production in China has some variant of a story where they smuggle chips into the country in a backpack, pants pocket, etc."
While I agree with most of the article, I don't understand the part where the author is complaining about the bios of the founders/managers.

It's a startup, not old slow mega-corporation where making a joke will get you fired.
The article contains exactly zero evidence that "gender inequality" is a tangible problem; possibly because this is ideological drivel.
I'd say It differently.
Intelligent? Yes
Conscious? Probably not.

Does intelligence imply life? I'd say no.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/zfs-linux/+bug/160...

Unpatched on 16.04, referenced as supported in the article
FWIW, hundreds of thousands of Christian and Buddhist monks alive today all over our world live near to one another in cells or caves. A farming monastery in Arizona started 20 years ago is just beautiful and thriving. WV now has a Buddhist monastery. Buddhist monks are considered "ordained" but not most Christian monks. Lives of quiet or social Renunciation are everywhere and growing in number. Some even have fast WiFi. Go look on YouTube. I have been considering and schematically budgeting an urban ecumenical working monastery in Washington DC that would support itself with OSS testing, documentation and language localization.
First you say this:

>> for that sexism play A role, not the ONLY role in creating the gender discrepancy

Then you say this:

>> Yet of all the women I've known most weren't driven to excel to the same level of most men I've known.

I'll give you the benefit of the doubt in that I'm going to assume that it wasn't your intention to make a disturbingly sexist remark in a discussion about sexism.

You can replace women with African-American, and what you wrote sounds an awful lot like the racist drivel that came out of the South for 200 years. If anything, the author of the memo's attempts to argue that there is some biological basis for discrimination only serve to weaken his position. Furthermore, this 'biological differences basis' for discrimination eventually leads us to eugenics if taken to its illogical extreme. And yes, people have taken it that far in the not so recent past.

In the cases where what you wrote is even partially true, that some women (appear on the surface) to be less ambitious and less driven than men, did you ever stop to ask yourself why?

I've worked in tech my entire career, and I've witnessed appalling sexism. I have watched with my own eyes while women suffered humiliations like being told things like "no one invites you to meetings because you can't keep anything secret". Then there are things like code reviews. At work we recently had to institute a 'no abusive code review' policy because a small cadre of the men were using the code review process to hammer several of the few female engineers we've managed to somehow convince to come work for us. Like most places, our workplace policies are required largely due to behavior that was originated by men.

It seems like it's awfully easy to forget that women are half our species! How can anyone in their right mind think that sexism, unconscious or otherwise, is okay? How can anyone think that it's because 'women are less driven to succeed'? How can anyone think this when half their DNA comes from a man and the other half from a woman?

As a gay man (a gender/sexual minority), I can actually relate to how awful it feels to be treated like a second class citizen simply because of something that I do not feel like I can change (my sexual orientation). I'm not sure how much money it has cost me, but at the very least it has cost me the difference in filing single vs. filing jointly for the first 17 years of my marriage. Women pay similar costs when they're paid less over the course of their career, and/or when they're denied promotions for 'being ambitious'.

The attitude that underlies your comment -that you could actually believe that what you wrote is true and somehow justifies unequal treatment- is utterly, totally, and exactly why we need the programs the author of the now infamous memo argues against.
Very focused on Windows. What about other OS?

Of the assemblers supported I know FASM works with UNIX.

Also it needs no linker and can use libc.

Isn't arguing over syntax of mneumonics -- arbitrary abbreviations -- like arguing over tabs versus spaces? (Arguing about personal preferences.)

Isn't it the syntax of the instructions (hex/binary) that really matters?

The recent presentation on finding illegal Intel instructions (sandsifter) showed how a little known operand size override prefix could cause problems for most popular dissassemblers. That was a great read.
The answer is more complicated...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/storyline/wp/2014/09/12/...

... and was actually posted here not too long ago!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14651884
Those aren't personal attacks, the author points out a sentence later that they're from the company's own page.
I am not American. But I do live in a western society.

The author of the manifesto lives in a western society. So I'm discussing society with respect to our experiences.

I'm not sure how your comment relates. There are other societies in the world, I agree.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14938092
One of the demons hiding in this issue is the is/ought fallacy. People go from is to ought quite readily in these areas.

Let's say blacks really are on average better at basketball. Does it then follow that whites and asians ought not play basketball?

Nobody argues that because it's silly. (Or do they? I'm not in pro ball.)

People do argue that women should not be in tech. Women in tech regardless of ability get creeped on and treated like they don't know anything. I've met more than one with a fake male avatar on programming sites to ask questions, etc.

People are agitating for diversity in certain fields like tech, government, business, etc. because they are trying to reform fields with discriminatory cultures. If basketball had a culture that actively looked down on, excluded, and hazed whites then I would advocate doing something to challenge that.

I agree that trying to argue for a level of phenotypic equality that does not exist is a losing strategy but I get the motivation. I also have trouble thinking of another way to challenge these issues that doesn't involve taking a battering ram to a culture.
Are you okay with people questioning your questioning of gender differences? Obviously there are differences. It is frustrating to continually have to explain how irrelevant they are to performance in 99.9% of business functions.

1. The cohesiveness of the organization is more important than any particular individual.

2. Men have greater variance in many skills than women do, so there are more men on the high end and low end of the talent spectrum.

3. On average we are the same, and there are enough humans around today that few of us exist in a zone with no significant overlap.

4. The genetic and developmental formation of men exposes us to greater mutation rates than women. The mutations that add the extra variance in talent can have chaotic and deleterious effects in other aspects (for instance diminished social awareness, autism, aggression).

5. Socially aware individuals are more likely to seek and form stronger teams. A talented individual has a high productivity relative to other individuals, but teams can multiply in ways individuals can't.

6. High individual talent can be abrasive and egotistical. Egos are toxic on teams and in business because they prevent you from seeing the wider picture. A wide perspective is vital to obtaining a competitive edge. Abrasion over time causes other team members to burn out, causing loss of intellectual capital and a bad brand in the talent market. (Not all talented individuals are abrasive).

7. Without a solid team you have no chance at accomplishing anything worthwhile.

8. Empathetic individuals keep the team emotionally secure and are able to design organizational structures that best leverage existing resources.

9. Organizational diversity has been shown to positively impact collective performance. Every new perspective is an edge over the competition, an insight into a new set of consumers.

10. Gender balances out in the end. We are all taking our own roads through life and each of us has a unique skill set that we are using to make ourselves happier in this weird imbalanced society. In a hierarchical organization, one can leverage their skills to obtain higher posts even if they are not exactly the same skills of their predecessors. It all contributes.

It's simple. The argument is pointless. The only reason I'm posting this is because Yonatan put himself on the front lines of this particular fight and he didn't have to. He's going to have to argue his point down to meaningless details to convince those absurdly stubborn people who refuse to get their heads out of the sand.

Yes, we are different. That's a good thing.
Conversely, people usually go through profound behavioral transformations several times in their lives. Does that mean they are not "themselves" anymore?
I feel that answering any questions which could very well have legal consequences on Twitter is not a very smart idea. Legal questions are rarely well-answered in 140 chars, even if you're allowed to use emojis.
Agile is defined as http://agilemanifesto.org/

Scrum with its artifacts/ceremonies like standup is a specific interpretation.
Does this add something that the Clojure implementation doesn't?
I wish there were more pictures of the turbines/overall system! Does anyone know how much this costs to run in comparison to normal trash pickups?
Academia. Not an industry, but still a field of professional activity.
I don't think shipping from US to China is necessarily expensive, especially considering all those Chinese cargo ships are returning empty. I think the main niche of this service is sending controlled goods to China.
>This guy clearly thinks less of the women he works with

Can you cite the part of the manifesto which made you reach this conclusion?

>I doubt women at Google would feel pleased about that

Why? I didn't see anything insulting or disrespectful in the article. Perhaps your mind filled in things not said?

For example: I openly admit that I suck at empathy. I am socially awkward, I have hard time relating to other people. I may have EDD.

Not only do I recognize that women are better at it I prefer female managers to male managers because all my female managers innately understood psychological safety. And fostered such culture.

Is it anecdotal? Yes. But it is consistent with the author's observations that we are different. It is consistent with the Big Five personality trait studies in psychology.

So I think shutting down this line of reasoning is effectively an attempt to block attempts at better understanding of what makes us different.

And yet if we actually understand each person's strengths AND weaknesses we will be able to build better organisations!
But getting equal time on each pixel as you spiral out would be crucial to trigger the right phosphorescent equal luminance from your light-emitting material. Theta would not be linear with time.
Quite. A 30-year logistics industry veteran branching out is one thing, this is something totally else. And at heart is the same as all "disruptive" or "sharing economy" businesses - sidestepping regulations and pocketing the cost of compliance.
Yeah, and somehow he knows it goes against nearly all research.

That manifesto is obviously inspired by recent rise in popularity of Jordan B Peterson. That guy is a very good psychologist.
This is not a disagreement on political positions, this is a belief that women are inherently less capable than men at software engineering. It's a direct attack on the legitimacy and humanity of his coworkers. A disagreement over political positions would be if the author wrote a manifesto about the efficacy of sin taxes or nuclear treaties, not that his teammate Sandra is biologically inferior at her job and undeserving of it.
Cute but irrelevant?
Dammit, why didn't I know about this two weeks ago? This looks like a perfect fit for my flame maps page[0] - it even uses React for custom components.

How do you handle dynamically resizing windows/screens and canvas?
I had to jump through a whole lot of hoops[1][2] just to get it to play nicely with it

Especially on Firefox canvas does not seem to play nicely with flexbox, or any kind of CSS where you don't set the width/height explicitly in pixels.

[0] http://linnarssonlab.org/flamemaps/

[1] https://github.com/linnarsson-lab/flamemaps/blob/master/src/...

[2] https://github.com/linnarsson-lab/flamemaps/blob/master/src/...
Depends what the code is in (environment and language) and what it is for: nuclear or medical safety at the top end, CSS for a blog at the bottom.
>No one is "lowering standards" for diverse hires.

Google fast-tracks diversity candidates simply because they are diversity candidates. Other candidates must reach a higher standard to be fast-tracked.
It's actually not that bad. Before I left the Island last year, I had 100MB down / 25MB up in my house. YMMV, but I wasn't even in the metro area, which I imagine has even faster speeds.
Anecdotes but women in tech I spoke to dislike the diversity initiatives as they get seen a token employee who is only there because she is a woman and not because of her skills.

Kind of needlessly degrading.
It's the international agreement under the Universal Postal Convention.

There's a good summary here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9794971
Don't think is possible to give a right answer, it depends on the context of the problem, 200 lines for a html generation script is one thing, different if it deals with more complex stuff (let' say algorithm or low level stuffs)
Wordpress has themes
that's a possibility, maybe they are trying to present a persona that will resonate with a particular type of person that will try to 'beat the system' without considering risks.

(although I have seen different places with 'about us' pages that look like a frat.)
>No one is "lowering standards" for diverse hires. No one. Why are you even implying this?

Without wading into the general content of the manifesto, I haven't had the time to read it, and while not directly regarding hiring, there is at least one good example where the quest for a more diverse pool has lead to differing standards being applied, namely university entrance. From the stats I've seen, Asians in the US are fairly strongly penalized with regards to the grades and test scores they need to achieve in order to gain entrance to top universities when compared to their White, African American, or Hispanic counterparts. It certainly seems to me that the standards have been lowered for non-Asians in this area, and while I make no claim of this also occurring in the hiring process, I also don't think it's an unfair question to ask seeing as it seems quite widespread in university admittance.
FTP is a shit protocol so good riddance, see http://mywiki.wooledge.org/FtpMustDie

However if the other comment about less data being available it's a bit of a bummer, but FTP should die nonetheless.
No it is not discriminating against men. It is fighting existing discrimination against women. Women are already discriminated against in these fields, to try to stop that we have to encourage them to participate. Because it is Really Hard to join an industry or field where you are discriminated against.
Would you trust your life to a guy that has a bio that mentioned how much beer he could drink? This isn’t playtime – you are literally trusting some bro to know the nuances of Chinese customs and manage a team that is supposed to “inspect” courier packages before you trust your life with them.

Would you trust a surgeon with a bio that describes how thouroghly he can consume beer?

International air courier work isn’t the place to be trusting zany, hip dudes. It’s not the place for making jokes, that’s for sure.
The article isn't saying there is no discrimination though. It's just saying we shouldn't assume discrimination is the only factor we don't have 50% 50% representation in engineering. The author very much believes that we have cultural issues going on as well. This fact seems to be either misunderstood or deliberately ignored by a lot of people. But I can understand why.
ES2015 to Go source code transpiler and runtime
Not really. The idea is if everyone and their mom think they should buy stock then it could point to overheating in the market. This idea comes from Joe Kennedy's experience with a shoeshine boy during 1930 great depression:
http://archive.fortune.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive...
How are those less clear discriminators?

I am sure I could find a study showing that attractive people have a better shot at getting the job. Height is attractive.
The original doc doesn't argue women shouldn't be in tech, so it is irrelevant what some people suggest. It argues a 50/50 parity might not exist in part due to biology.

What if it turns out that one gender is on avg smarter but with less range of intelligence (with some magically perfect measurement of intelligence, to avoid claims of test bias). So if that was true, would we THEN be OK with other than 50/50 split in higher-intelligence games? I think to the people getting upset here, the very thought that this is even possible to examine is heresy.

All that Google would have to do is admit 50/50 isn't based on anything hard, and commit to finding out what the real number should be. They won't do that though because the thought offends them. And so they'll shriek racist/sexist/etc. and it'll be just as effective as it was at stopping Brexit and Trump.
Is this why France is hexagonal I wonder? Why aren't there more hexagonal countries?
Example: kelvin-helmholtz instabilities, applicable in dynamics ranging from vascular systems to cloud formations to interstellar nebulae, and so much more.
Another choice quote from a little further down:

> If someone told you that engineering was a field where you could get away with not dealing with people or feelings, then I’m very sorry to tell you that you have been lied to.

This industry seems to have a problem with socially maladjusted young men who actually believe this. Then when the reality of their careers doesn't match the tech-shut-in fantasia, they lash out, like the manifesto author has done.
Fair enough. I'll do some homework.

Here [1] is an article on how cultural gender inequality leads to poorer maths results for women, and fixing that cultural inequality fixes the maths results. This was commonly attributed to differences in biological traits in the past, that was wrong.

Here [2] is another article where spatial abilities relate to societal roles. Another area commonly attributed to biological differences (and which the author of the manifesto still seems to believe).

I've linked to Arstechnica articles because they are good summaries and reference the sources.

Notice that the trend here is that we misattributed something to biological differences and then science showed us that things were more fluid than we initially thought. That attribution to biological differences propagated extremely harmful beliefs that still seem to resonate, though.

[1] https://arstechnica.com/uncategorized/2008/06/why-judy-cant-...

[2] https://arstechnica.com/science/2011/08/gender-gap-in-spatia...
This was my first thought. If you don't want people to think they're doing something shady, don't call them mules..
That is not "lowering standards" for diversity candidates. It is giving them more opportunities to be measured up to Google's high standards.
UPDATE (I can't edit my original comment):

Apparently the source code comes with the app:

From Bob:

"Hi Guys,

Publii is built with Electron, so the source code is available, you can read it directly after installing the app. Here is where the files are located: ;https://getpublii.com/docs/install-publii.html

We know that there is no source code repository, we will publish it soon, but before that we have to finish work on the implementation some key features and polish the code.

The next release will bring a dev documentation with the Starter theme, I hope this will help you to better understand app and find out how the themes are built."

https://publii.ticksy.com/ticket/1265759
I guess you are just an ever changing object, referenced by a name, created by your parents and affected by your environment.

Human myName = new Human(mother, father, environment, spacetime);
Location birthPlace = myName.mother.getCurrentLocation;
location bithTime = myName.myMother.getCurrentBirthTime;
myName.removeAllLimbs();
myName.upgradeAllLimbs();
CloneUtils.cloneHuman(myName, 'myClone')
AssertEquals(myName, myClone) //false
Most of your post is talking about clothing size. I don't know what to say about it.

Why does any diversity except thought matter?

After all, that is the argument I have for racist diversity: "different perspectives".

If I can get those perspectives without being a racist, why bother?
They don't just need "mules", they need people with packages to send, they're whose paying for this after all. So whatever company persona would need to appeal to them too - if this were deliberate.
The reason is that the Linux and FreeBSD kernels are vastly different. The FreeBSD kernel is more similar to Solaris than Linux and this is what ZFS was developed for.

So in the end you have way more kernel "workarounds" for ZFS on Linux than the FreeBSD implementation. Especially the virtual memory implementation on Linux behaves very differently and has caused many issues over time, but I think it is very good now.
Monitoring Kubernetes with Prometheus (outside the cluster)
This is the first I heard of such a thing. I honestly can't believe anyone would agree to such a thing.
Former Vuze Developers Launch BiglyBT, a ‘New’ Open Source Torrent Client
Oh come on, it's obvious hyperbole. I wouldn't actually punch this guy in the face if I had to work with him, but I would certainly would silently wish I could.
In my frustration while writing my comment I'll admit I was a bit weaselly there and didn't really cite anything. The Akka.Typed[1] project is working on type-safe actors, but looking at it again I'm not sure how or if they can do hot-reloading or ensuring that you can soundly migrate actors in-memory before starting a deployment. That would be super cool to see. Maybe something for Pony to look into? If folks know of any academic PL research on this front I'd be very interested. But again, I'll reiterate that it's a use case that lies at the very extreme end of our industry.

[1]: http://doc.akka.io/docs/akka/current/scala/typed.html
There is no such thing as IQ either its also a conceptual model. But agree there is no such thing as EQ.
You are correct that the doc does not argue this. I'm arguing that the doc's author fails to understand the purpose of diversity measures. They are not to make people equal but to challenge culture. Only CRISPR/CAS9 or similar could actually alter biologically based inequality.

That being said I'm very skeptical of an innate gender disadvantage in coding. Some of the earliest coders were women back when it was considered a "secretarial" pursuit, then the field flipped to nearly all male. I also agree that this field's culture is very, very misogynistic. I've seen it. An attractive woman in tech gets ignored intellectually and then covered with creeper drool.

I am personally on the fence about these types of diversity measures, not because I don't think culture should be challenged but because I am not convinced they work. Trouble is I can't think of any other ways. Culture is generally impervious to reason.