skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The real story is that the founder refused to give a straight answer to a simple, explicit "yes or no" question when directly and repeatedly asked. Where there's smoke there's fire! His non-answer shows he knows there's a problem, and he's actively trying to deflect attention away from it.
If we're going to do proof by paper (always dangerous in psychology, but never mind), consider this about IQ:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4557354/

The evidence that IQ predicts success is dubious, and certainly not settled.

I also consider him wrong about EQ, although for more anecdotal reasons:

I have known people who can read individuals and social situations with extraordinary skill, make astonishingly accurate predictions about social and personal outcomes, and manipulate both with extraordinary efficiency and effectiveness.

I've also known high-IQ individuals who were worse than average at all of the above, and who suffered poor social, political, and financial outcomes as a result.

So IMO EQ is a recognisable skill, and it's clearly not the same as agreeableness in the Big Five.

It may not have been well-defined or well-researched in psychology, and the original book definition may not be accurate either. (I haven't read Golman, so I don't know what he says about it.)

But it's nonsense to pretend it simply doesn't exist.
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Writing the 900th SQL query is not hard science, it's engineering. And every engineering discipline, to my knowledge, has a large gender gap in participation. So, it is not necessary to "establish either that CS is somehow fundamentally different from every other hard science".

As I've pointed out before, that shortcut doesn't work.

If we just look at the higher level computer science your jobs, then again we will see that in the most comparable field, mathematics, women underparticiate something like 30-70.

If we ignore all that and pretend working with computers is uniquely bad for women judged against comparable careers, can we start calling out the enablers yet?

Well, bad news, there's another hurdle to jump, which is that female participation in computing is inversely related to a country's ranking on gender equality tables. I've yet to see that stubborn fact integrated successfully into the argument. It is mostly just ignored.

And that's off the top of my head. There are probably more. It's a complicated question to answer. So you must demonstrate at least familiarity with the obvious hurdles before questioning the moral worth of the people who disagree with you.
Agree. A violent reaction would be justified. It's like mugging someone with a fake gun. The victim has no way to tell whether the gun is fake or whether his life is at risk, and a violent reaction would be legitimate.
Alright, I'll bite. But, I've never heard of any research suggesting women have a different cognitive capacity than men. I read some research a number of years ago suggesting cross-culturally women had better language skills than men, but I don't know if this is still considered to be true.

I can't remember reading anything in the manifesto which suggested women are less capable as software engineers. The essay did suggest women were less interested in programming than men (obviously true - see enrolment figures) and that at least some of the effect size is due to biological factors (probably true - see below).

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None of these links suggest any capacity difference. Only that there is a biologically influenced gender difference in interests.

Here's an essay contextualising and summarising the historical specifics of male and female gender roles in society: http://www.denisdutton.com/baumeister.htm

Here's a study of how prenatal androgen effects psychological thing vs people orientation, and how it influences career choice:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3166361/

A summary of studies looking at big 5 personality distributions and other effects. Of note is the long section describing blindspots in current research:
"Gender Differences in Personality and Interests: When, Where and Why?"
http://sci-hub.cc/10.1111/j.1751-9004.2010.00320.x

Here's a Dutch documentary where they send a camera crew around asking different researchers about gender differences:
https://youtu.be/cVaTc15plVs?t=30m49s
The full documentary is great. Their conclusion is that biological factors result in an overlapping but different distribution of personalities between men and women. These differences result in statistically different career preferences.

A talk by researcher Steven Pinker on the subject, where he argues that biological differences result in at least some of the effect size in STEM interests:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n691pLhQBkw&t=1057s
This is part of a debate on the subject. (Not linked) Prof Elizabeth Spelke responds, but I found her argument to be much less convincing than Pinker. Watch both, make up your own mind.
If you know Bob is a genius coder, but is guaranteed to creep out a potential client, you're making a prediction based on your assessment of Bob's EQ.
Find a woman. First, she will make your life amazing. Then, she will destroy it. But it's just something to do, you know? You won't so bored anymore; kills time.
Note however that Gizmodo say

> Two charts and several hyperlinks are also omitted

The links that were removed are probably relevant. Some passages in the text even have quotation marks around them where I assume that links to sources were removed.
There is quarantine, though:

http://www.interstatequarantine.org.au/travellers/interstate...

Driving or flying to or from WA, you will see inspectors and dogs.
Find a woman. First, she will make your life amazing. Then, she will destroy it. But it's just something to do, you know? You won't be so bored anymore; kills time.
I'm sure it's more than that:

The express lifts remain for too long at the "key" floors to pick up more people. This is probably some energy vs practicality balance that can be adjusted, and that we're very likely guilty of.

The normal lifts will happily depart with nobody inside if you don't sprint to them because the consoles are 25ft away.

You book 2 adjacent floors, you get 2 lifts scheduled for only those floors. So much for saving energy, and also, now 2 lifts are busy instead of 1.

The fancy giant touchscreens are a nightmare: small touch targets, 80% of the screen devoted to static diagrams, the resistive touch film already failed in the hot spots, esp. because you are forced to touch some areas even though you have no choice!! (Choose north or south tower. Oh you chose the south tower but you're in the north one. Sorry you can't do that).

I could go on... but, in a nutshell: these people can do hardware. They fail big time at software, both the scheduling engine and the UI.
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Would have thought at that point it'd be worthwhilr putting GPS devices somewhere internal.
> The manifesto claims empathy for colleagues and customers is not required, but clearly it is.

Can you help me understand how you reached that conclusion? Here is the relevant section of the original:

> De-emphasise empathy.

> I've heard several calls for increased empathy on diversity issues. While I strongly support trying to understand how and why people think the way they do, relying on affective empathy — feeling another's pain — causes us to focus on anecdotes, favour individuals similar to us, and harbour other irrational and dangerous biases. Being emotionally unengaged helps us better reason about the facts.
> If you say that someone is short, it goes to say that you have a comparison model, and that something is tall.

Since you bring it up, I will observe that I found New York to be a lot more tolerant in practice. Statistically, the political leanings are pretty comparable, but somehow people are less strident in practice, even during my tenure at a company with an explicit institutional commitment to social justice causes.

Among other things, I suspect it may simply be that a lot of people come to New York from a lot of places for a lot more reasons than they do San Francisco. But at the end of the day, it's not even really that Bay Area culture is stridently anti-Christian per se. It's just strident about everything. San Francisco is the sort of place where people scrawl anti-parenting graffiti on the changing tables in the restrooms at Whole Foods to shame new parents for their crimes against the planet.

(My circle of acquaintances in London is still quite small, so I hesitate to generalise, but at least in the tech scene, everything is very international.)

> The Christians I know around the Bay Area are under no such threat. If anything, churches are enclaves of extreme quality in the Bay Area. It goes to show what a fertile ground this is for diversity.

1. There's something about describing religion merely in terms of "churches" and "enclaves" as if there's a box around the realm of acceptable religious activity. Telling people that they are permitted to meet in a consecrated building weekly is the start of religious tolerance, vaguely akin to not prosecuting people under sodomy laws.

2. If you don't know someone with a strong negative opinion of AB 569, you're not really in touch with that diversity.
The entirety of scientific knowledge is a conceptual model and all models are wrong.
Ask HN: How should an e-commerce chatbot work?
In my country, most of online commerce happens on Facebook's Messenger, I would say upwards of 95%. Messenger has a lot of new templates including lists, and receipts. But how should the whole thing work? Should it be conversational, or should it mostly present canned responses with choice buttons, with one button always being "Talk to representative"?
It's an inequality coefficient, not any kind of measure of how "nice" a country is for someone living there.

Countries with a high Gini, tend to segregate more heavily than those who don't, which for the typical 'rich' software developer means that they'll live in a trendy area and know to avoid the 'ghetto'.

For example, Miami has a high gini at ~0.6 to 0.7 which gives you the palaces overlooking shacks effect of Miami Beach.

High gini also correlates with extreme economic growth, where the benefits fall onto a small group (e.g. software developers), and a reversion to the mean hasn't yet taken place.
I think the theories in the other comments are more likely and I would prefer that this one was not correct: Seattle is one of the largest sanctuary cities close to the US border and a spy plane would be one way to try to gather evidence of illegal immigrants and to try to intimidate city officials (who might be unofficially alerted to the reason for the plane's presence).
> I disagree with the use of the word "deprecating"

Then you disagree (literally) with Red Hat's official statement as a matter of fact (not opinion). From Chapter 53, RHEL 7.4 release notes: "Btrfs has been deprecated ... Red Hat will not be moving Btrfs to a fully supported feature and it will be removed in a future major release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux."[0]

Pretty definitive.

[0] https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterp...
A good example of what senior managers at Google think of people who actually write their code. The manifesto writer is an idiot, but this Yonatan Zunger guy doesn't paint himself in a good light here either.
It's listed as a territory of France in the Natural Earth dataset, so it's easy to exclude it accidentally when selecting South American countries.

Réunion, Mayotte and the Southern and Antarctic Lands are missing from the example with Africa.

It's stranger that Venezuela is missing from one of the other examples.
I once watched a shepherd put his hand up a sheep's vagina to help with a birth during lambing time.

If you think it's an easy or fun job, you might want to spend some time doing it before committing.
https://www.airmule.com/terms-of-service/:

"Please note that, as stated above, the site, application and services are intended to be used to facilitate travelers and senders connecting and arranging item transportation directly with each other. Airmule cannot and does not control the content contained in any package and the condition, legality or suitability of any items and luggage. Airmule strongly advises each traveler to inspect each item carefully. If a traveler does suspects an item is illicit, do not transport and contact airmule. Airmule is not responsible for and disclaims any and all liability related to any and all available transportation. Accordingly, any inquiries will be made or accepted at the member’s own risk."

I don't know how long that has been there, but it is clear. They are brokers, but don't accept any liability.
> The vast majority of bitcoin users don't use a bitcoin exchange to store their coins. They also don't download the entire blockchain.

I couldn't find numbers on this when I went looking, but that's a numerical claim. Do you have numbers on this?
Just to clarify, a violent reaction (in self defence) might be justified. It's not automatic, and would have to be proportional. For example, it might be enough to simply grab the person and hold them down on the ground until the police arrive unless it quickly became obvious that it was just a harmless prank. If they sprayed you with something harmful, or decide to resist being detained then yes, it may be necessary to use increasing physical force.
No agfiliation, but Mixer/Beam [0] had a much lower delay than twitch. It unfortunately has the issue of not having anywhere the popularity of twitch.

[0] https://mixer.com
Go home /pol/ your drunk.
What airport security had to say about a regular person impersonating security agents?
Huh that's so interesting. I've done plenty of flying along Eastern Australia so I never had a reason to presume there was anything more over in WA.

Thanks.
Ask HN: Why did 4GL tools like FoxPro, Clipper, Clarion, DBase disappear?
These combined database and programming language products were described as 4th Generation Languages (4GL). They were powerful and far more accessible to beginners or casual users than stand-alone programming languages. Why did they disappear?

These 4GL products seem tailor-made for web projects that require database access. Where enormous scale isn't required (i.e. the majority of web development projects), the 4GL approach seems like a perfect fit. Instead we've settled on a mish-mash of clumsily glued-together (and needlessly complicated) solutions for web development with databases.

Why did 4GL fail to adapt to the web era? Were the tools and language too restrictive? (Hard to believe this when CRUD is the bread-and-butter of many web apps. And these 4GL tools made accessing data far more easily and seamlessly than the solutions today.)

Or was there some snobbishness amongst programmers who didn't view these products as 'real' programming languages?
They can't legally use anything except CDDL. If anyone could just pick and choose to alter the licensing, there wouldn't be any point in having licences.
Sounds interesting. Anything that makes reading source code easier is to be welcomed, but I'd like to see the paper, some results, and a working tool before judging this particular 'idea'.

To me the abstract sounds as though they are trying to create a tool that automatically discovers the real organization of the code as compared to the way that it might be actually represented in the various files that make it up at the moment. I very often see code in the big application that I work on (>1M lines) that is placed in one source file where it clearly belongs in another and many modules where there is a very miscellaneous collection of functions that have no obvious relation to each other.

However the submission date is 2017-04-01, also known as All Fools Day.

So could Messrs Amir Saeidi, Jurriaan Hage, Ravi Khadka, and Slinger Jansen please join the conversation (and bring the paper with them)?
I hate the high end examples, because people want to argue them. The case is also true the other way - there are more men at the bottom of the IQ scale. Can someone come up with a reason why an IQ test would make men appear more often in the bottom of IQ distributions?
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> it doesn't work like that in countries like China

It doesn't work also in countries like USA. (I think we agree.)

And it doesn't work in other countries where the security is not so tough like Argentina. [Hi from Argentina!]

It's not exactly the same case, but ... from: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/10/magazine/the-professor-the...

> [...] but when he arrived at the airline counter, he was greeted by several policemen. Asked to identify his luggage — “That’s my bag,” he said, “the other one’s not my bag, but I checked it in” [...]
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"Not writing as well as Scott Alexander" is a pretty high bar you're setting there.

While the document may have been influenced by that post, and while both authors seem to have a similar "non-feminist left" political position, it has a different focus: Acknowledge people's natural strengths, weaknesses, preferences and accept diversity of political views vs. influence of sexist microagressions on gender representation.
> One theory is that Canonical has essentially forced Oracle to decide whether it wants to crack down on inclusion of CDDL-licensed code being shipped with Ubuntu's stock kernel, so Red Hat may be waiting to see if Oracle sweeps in or not before following suit.

That is not a "theory" that anyone who understands the basics of the licenses adheres to. The possible threat is that linux' GPL could attack ZFS; not the other way round. There is nothing in the CDDL in the way of using ZFS in linux.
Ok 60X50 is 3K even with extra 3K Supermicro is still a lot cheeper
1) the contrast metaphor is apt
2) the social conditioning too

I am subject to the social conditioned trigger, that's why I avoid people, I feel like a liar, it's unbearable. In my previous job, I was shifted off 1 hour such that when people left at 6pm I had one hour of empty floor to work. The minute the last one leaves, my brain expands and I feel like a butterfly.

Also I can't stay with people because I suspect they also feel this but are still believing in society and thus try to play that absurd game even if they rot inside. Finding disguised ways to escape. I don't want to be there to ask them if they're sad, or worse if they try to lie. I don't have the energy to amort this kind of interaction right now.

I often wish leaving in a remote place with enough space to grow some fruit and veggies and then run and read. But ... I also remember that odd feeling when running cross country far from any familiar place. The woods got me hyper focused, borderline paranoid. I felt deep paranoia before (mugged 3x in a row) but this was different because it came rapidly but not violently. It felt like my reptilian brain was waking up. I didn't like that as much as a I did.. because the density of awareness was refreshing, every sensation became more focused. Sounds of the leaves, the movement of branches .. because I wanted to make sense of a foreign environment and it felt important for my safety, my mind started to tune up to everything without a feeling of drag. I also read people (reddit threads) living in the woods having frightening encounters so .. I'm not sure what I'll do.

ps: about 1), I feel that western modern society is all about raising the contrast on everything, but when everything is bright.. you actually lose something.
Since ZoL 0.7, Raid-Z parity and checksumming (Fletcher4) operations are accelerated using SIMD instruction sets (in case of ThunderX, using aarch64 NEON)
Pretty easy to link to a company FAQ. If somebody was asking Airbnb similarly serious questions about liability, just imagine if they weren't ready with an FAQ, and one of their execs tweeted in response to a question, "Hey, I'm at Costco at the moment!" Right.
> it's actually impossible to accurately value real estate.

Do you mean measure it accurately based on a single metric?
Acid attacks are mostly related to business disputes, sex, marriage, robbery and honor disputes. The stats and location's where the acid attacks take place:

https://www.statista.com/chart/10289/acid-attacks-in-london/

and

https://www.met.police.uk/globalassets/foi-media/disclosure_...
Skimming the article for that study, I don't find anything wrong with it superficially, but while the effect might be statistically significant, they are tiny - I.E. from 4.2% of donors to 5.5% had K initial in Katrina, and 10% to 12% in Hurrican Mitch (though the data might be bad, since the actual data did not contain the exact information they needed).

Also the effect was apparently not noticeable in Hurrican Rita.

There is also no mention of the percent of people starting with the letter from the given population - since the dataset for before the hurricane was much smaller (Katrina- ~300 before, ~4000 after), it's very likely that the proportions of named individuals drifted to the average, as what happens in larger datasets.

The number of hurricanes tested was also small - I.E. 3 , I'm not sure an effect can be inferred from such small numbers.
I recently had the information for three legs of a flight (on three airlines). That's an innovation, AFAICT.
> "You can test it yourself: Read 2 random digits. Immediately repeat them. Then do that for 3, 4, and so on. There will be a number (typically between 5 and 7) when you cannot repeat the sequence without error anymore.

There you have it: A measure for mental capacity."

Not really. Almost anyone can get better at games like that without expanding their mental capacity. Here's a selection of well established tricks for enhancing memory recall:

http://lifehacker.com/top-10-tricks-to-boost-your-memory-and...

IQ isn't about skill, it's about capacity. Also, it's biased towards certain forms of intelligence. I happen to have a good memory, but that doesn't make me equally adept at all forms of human activity. EQ was an attempt to highlight this shortfall.
> so it seems that Oracle could in fact sue.

Says the SFC. But Oracle has had plenty of time and they have not sued. In fact, they have not criticized Canonical for integrating ZFS.
Back in the 90s I knew people who would fly back to Japan carrying parcels, in return for reduced tickets (not $99 though, but it might have been £300 instead of £400). I always thought it was kind of sketchy, but as I understand it what was carried were documents, and no one I know ever got into trouble.
Thanks for flagging. Will fix asap.
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I remember an article at WSJ years ago on how many startup founders choose such tongue in cheek / humorous names and how that is almost always a bad choice. But calling this airmule is insane.

On the risks, I wonder if making the person carrying an extra bag the temporary owner of it (and showing him the packing of the luggage) so he can always say no would help making it safer for the user. But I personally would never do this even in this setup.
Who'd a known? Repeated observations in all types of human societies everywhere for thousands and thousands of years turn out to be true.

Thank god we have science to confirm that to us!
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You mean the world subregions example? Venezuela is missing in the thumbnail, but should be there on the actual map. Thanks for flagging the missing territories for Africa.
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