skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How dare they go after some members of a cartel?[0] To be fair, they've also gone after Jeep & Ram diesel trucks recently[1], but I don't know the status of the lawsuit after they certified updated emissions controls on current models. Most manufacturers at this point realize lying to and impeding an EPA investigation on top of the collusion for the defeat devices would yield the sort of charges that Oliver Schmidt plead guilty for[2]. I mean, they formed an engineering task force to conceal the defeat device wrt the ICCT study & regulators.

>“VW employees determined not to disclose to US regulators that the tested vehicle models operated with a defeat device,” says the criminal complaint. “Instead, VW employees pursued a strategy of concealing the defeat device in responding to questions from US regulators, while appearing to co-operate.”

While Trump is unquestionably protectionistic, that doesn't mean the case isn't without merit and other countries & regions wouldn't have done the same. The EU is hampered from action because only the member states have the authority to do so as well as the politics of it all[3].

For the record, South Korea was the first country to jail a VW executive regarding the scandal[4].

[0]: http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/the-cartel-collu...

[1]: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-05-23/u-s-files...

[2]: https://www.ft.com/content/04aa04aa-d648-11e6-944b-e7eb37a6a...

[3]: https://phys.org/news/2017-02-eu-pains-vw-dieselgate-scandal...

[4]: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-volkswagen-southkorea-idUS...
There are more bacterial cells in your body than there are human cells. Where exactly do you draw the line between what constitutes "you."
Look at desktop metal, they're killing it.
Yes but to speculate that a baby's desire to look at a face more means they're less able to negotiate their pay is a bit of a leap (as opposed to that being social or cultural).
Sure there are literal differences between gender but one still has to ask that if those differences are big enough to make a difference following the YEARS of nurture or not.

I'll wait till the genetic data mining transitions this from speculation to fact thank you very much.
I wish the paper carried a GitHub link to the repo of reference implementation.
He might be able to get out of it by arguing that he didn't know about any particular crime they would commit, or that he thought they had good faith reasons to buy the software despite being criminals in general. I think this hinges on exactly what he knew.
It sounds like you're suited for management or teaching.

You're humble enough to have impostor's syndrome. You're at the sweet spot for management/teaching age.

Despite what you feel now, you've probably learned a lot about different kinds of tools and which one to pick in what situation, even if you're not great at using them. You have also learned how trends evolve in time and have better instinct for when to adopt a new technology or use an older one.

Management isn't that hard either, but it needs someone who can understand what the engineers are going through and get things out of the way.

My hack was to start a startup and see it all the way through, but I wouldn't recommend it unless you're really desperate.

Another approach might be to teach bootcamps or some community college. You're probably extremely qualified by teaching standards, unless you hate teaching.
The article is objecting to special pleading in a different direction. In other words, there's another train of thought:

1) Sexism exists

2) ???

3) Differences in representation are explainable by sexism

I think the original article was making a more nuanced argument allowing for an interconnected set of factors explaining the gender imbalance.
Here is a link to an interaction between a user and developer from June 23rd 2017 RE: publii source code:

https://publii.ticksy.com/ticket/1216232/

From Bob:

"We still preparing the dev documentation and I think it will be ready this holiday. Right now you can browse the themes packages and see how they are built. Below you can download the .pdf with handlebars tags used in Publii themes.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B92PpHk85ShpZk50NVFVQlZjX3c...

Referring to repository question, we will need to reflect further on this matter, but probably the GitHub is the best solution for that."
You have to consider that Gizmodo has acknowledged having stripped the essay of several hyperlinks, probably lending support to his claims.

This comprehensive recap could be one of them : https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/rabble-rouser/201707/wh...
I'm sure that there is some interesting technical work being done by various political participants. Tweets do not present novel technological problems; I'm not sure what the HN interest might be.
This is off topic, and strikes me as trolling.
> A small minority of people takes victim mentality and makes it near religious internal dogma. The rest just go along with it due to fat paychecks and the lack of desire to get fired for not being PC enough.

As a current Googler I am surprised to hear this. I think most of the people I work with would agree that while it might be normal to think something like that, you should keep it to yourself.
Fat paychecks are rather nice and I've been fired. If you believe in something, you shouldn't be unwilling to risk that. Also, I'm unaware of any blacklist. Google looks good on the res and there's plenty of jobs out there.

Colin Kaepernick believed in something and he's paying the price. If you're expecting me to feel sorry for this cupcake, that ain't gonna happen. I have a sliver of respect for him for writing it and zero respect for what he wrote. I sure don't think I'd want to work with him.
your intentions don't excuse inappropriate behavior.

if you really didn't intend to say something that made someone feel disrespected, your response should be "Oh, I am so sorry, I won't make that kind of comment in the future", not "Well you're wrong for being offended." that kind of response is basically saying "your feelings don't matter, all that matters is what is going on in my head and not what I actually did and how it actually made you feel"
Reading the lists of micro-aggressions, like this: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/201... one can not fail to notice that some of them are clearly political disagreements and that disagreeing with the left tribe dogmas is declared to be micro-aggression there. I can agree that this is ridiculous, but apparently whoever wrote those lists does not think so.
This is one of the best comments in this messy thread. Thanks for taking the time to write it.
Yes but this is looking from the micro-POV. The point is to look beyond your own achievements, since in the grand-scale they are really only yours. You should be proud of overcoming your challenges because YOU overcame THEM rather than evaluating them on the merit of their relative differences between other people. This allows you to maintain a sense of self-worth while recognizing that IN GENERAL people like "you" had it "easier" than people like "them".

The micro-scale achievement is not invalidated by the macro-scale injustice.

If I am an excellent businessman, who makes several cruicial business decisions that save my business from disaster - it doesn't really matter whether my industry is in a good position right now. I still survived my own disasters. And it still allows me to empathize with business leaders in failing industries who were able to turn themselves around as well. They may have had it a little harder, but we both still kicked ass and that's what matters. It just means I might be more empathetic to that business leader when something comes up down the road. I think this is analogous.

Your issues and tribulations are still meaningful and important. We're just trying to make macro-scale decisions for macro-scale groups. It doesn't invalidate your accomplishments, seriously. There doesn't have to be a hierarchy. Since there is no way to evenly evaluate every single injustice someone has overcome in their lives, we can only make vague estimations and attempt to correct for them as best as we can. An insistence on maintaining the status quo, would only maintain what is already a flawed situation for many people.
Read 1984
>What "violence"? What kind of framing or mental gymnastics are you using to interpret any of those posts as "combative" or interpreted as "violence against others"?

The same violence you are imposing upon on me with your words. Albeit these are in the realm of microagressions, it is violence nonetheless. A more modern violence.

Throwing pejoratives at people is verbal violence: What kind of framing or mental gymnastics...

As is responding with loaded questions, like: Women should just stay in the closet instead of pointing out problems in the workplace? This is intellectually dishonest and does more to insight altercation than have an informed and open discussion.

Coincidentally, these are not too far off from the author's comments.
Speaking as a cyclist - I've seen drivers do far stupider things every single day =).

Everything from not checking for pedestrians (or cyclists) when turning, not indicating when turning, using a mobile phone whilst driving, trying to squeeze their giant SUV into tiny gaps, changing lanes every 20 metres because they think it will get them "ahead".

There aren't rare occurrences - but things that are illegal - yet the majority of drivers do them (in Sydney), because being an aggressive driver is seen as "normal".

I've even asked friends - one of which has had two accidents related to mobile phone use - why do you talk on the phone? Apparently they consider it a badge of bridge that they're "good enough drivers that they can text and drive"...

And let's be realistic - unless you have a deathwish, most cyclist aren't going to take needless risks. When was the last time you saw a cyclist try and text and ride? Unlike a car, you don't have airbags, or slabs of metal, or crumple zones.

Yet drivers have all of those, and so yes, they do act with more impunity.

Also - when was the last time you saw the headline "Cyclist maims SUV driver in brutal collision"?

However, I absolutely agree with you that unpredicatbility is very bad.

In fact, that's exactly why cyclists ride on the road, and don't weave in/out on footpaths. You pick a straight line, and a constant speed, and stick to it, ignoring all the loutish drivers who beep at you for not riding on the footpath.
I have Verizon Fios set up as a business account to my home. However that bandwidth is for SAN to workstation data processing and analysis. There's only half a gigabit of external internet bandwidth, but I have hundreds of terabytes of data (and high tens of gigabytes are downloaded per day) in local storage.

With 128GB of RAM I can only load small amounts into memory for targeted analysis. Processing the rest of the data requires loading it directly from storage. To improve I/O performance I parallelize the transfer across link aggregated ethernet interfaces. Naturally that would cause disk reads to become a bottleneck; to take proper advantage of the network transfer speeds I hold all data in RAID 0 with 7200 RPM drives.
Android is not a desktop and has a store model.
Besides all the managerial stuff, you're at a point where you need to exhibit what I call "higher order leadership". At this point you should be able to help others become leaders themselves and find people in your team that can eventually replace you. Also your team is your responsibility, hiring and managing growth is likely the most important thing you have to deal with.
You know why I don't complement women's outfits in public? Because I am terrified to do so!
Zfs on linux and huge single servers, what could go wrong?

It's like a blog written by a 22 year old straight out of college that's never dealt with a real production deployment/failure

Zfs on Linux has data loss bugs. There's at least one unpatched and there are bound to be more.

Single huge servers eventually fail. Maybe it'll be a drive controller. Maybe it'll be CPU or ram with bit flips as a side effect. Downtime would be the least painful part of the eventual failure.
Not really in the way you are implying. You can either distribute it with the binary, or you can distribute it to someone who received a binary once they request it. The GPL doesn't require you post the source on GitHub or the internet at all.
A zoo is still a zoo if there aren't any animals in it, but it wouldn't stay in business very long. No matter how important the animals are to the long-term viability of the zoo, they are not the zoo.

My gut bacteria may be vital to my survival, but they are not me. I don't find placing that line to be difficult at all.
Open Source in 2017...
For differences in representation to be explainable by something other than sexism --- which has been rampant in other fields, in particular medicine and law, in the past and then enduringly corrected --- you'd need to establish either that CS is somehow fundamentally different from every other hard science, virtually all of which see better (usually: much better) gender parity than CS does.

In other words: you'll need to demonstrate either that it's somehow harder to write the 900th instance of the same SQL query than it is to understand supersingular curve isogenies, or that somehow we've acculturated people to believe it's OK for women to nerd out about supersingular curve isogenies but not about SQL queries.

Neither argument makes any sense. Virtually all of what software developers do, even the hyperqualified developers working at Google, is less intellectually challenging than real hard science work, and if anything it's become far more socially acceptable to work in computer fields than to be a hard scientist.

We're in Occam's Razor country here, so the charge that concern over sexism is itself "special pleading" isn't going to stick.
>tech bros who have never taken a soft science course in their lives

Can someone here comment on the veracity of this statement? I was never smart or disciplined enough to attend college but I do have the good fortune of working with a large number of engineers. Many of them attended extremely highly ranked universities and it seems, from my talking with them on the subject of college education, that all of them took at least some introductory courses in the humanities/social sciences. Some of them are extremely well read and passionate about a number of non-science related topics. Even my coworker that attended Caltech, about as STEM focused a school as you'll find based on what I've heard, double majored in ME and History. I admit I could just be working in a unique place, but I find it hard to believe most people working in tech have no exposure to collegiate level soft science courses, or that they are singularly focused on tech related issues.

Slightly off topic but regarding the whole tech bro term, this has never really sat well with me. For one, it seems to be used to disparage a particular demographic , which I generally find uncivil, but it also doesn't seem very accurate to me, particularly in this instance. For better or worse, when I think tech bro, I usually imagine the more frat-like college educated guys flocking to tech for the pay, but probably not working in the actual tech side of things. I usually imagine more finance and biz dev types. Maybe this is equally unkind on my part. Ironically, I image those people come from a more humanities/soft sciences background.
Quake 2 Realtime GPU Pathtracing [video]
"...The mental test applied was the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB),..."

Well, ok, then.

"Males have only a marginal advantage in mean levels of
g (less than 7% of a standard deviation) from the ASVAB and AFQT, but substantially greater variance. Among the top 2% AFQT scores, there were almost twice as many males as females. These differences could provide a partial basis for sex differences in
intellectual eminence."

Now if we only knew the AFQT scores for, say, computer programmers. Oh, wait, we kinda do (http://www.military.com/join-armed-forces/asvab/asvab-and-ai...).

Air Force-wise, Electronic signals intelligence requires a G72, Cyber Systems Operations and Cyber Security requires G64. The ASVAB score is a percentile,

"Thus, an AFQT score of 90 indicates that the examinee scored as well as or better than 90% of the nationally-representative sample of 18 to 23 year old youth. An AFQT score of 50 indicates that the examinee scored as well as or better than 50% of the nationally-representative sample." (http://official-asvab.com/understand_coun.htm)

So being smarter than 65-70% allows you into those jobs.

(I am, by the way, loving Fig. 1. If I'm reading this right, "Auto and shop information" is a better predictor of g than "General science" knowledge.

"Participants were administered the Armed Services
Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB) which has 10
subtests: science, arithmetic, word knowledge, para-
graph comprehension, numerical operations, coding
speed, auto and shop information, mathematics knowl-
edge, mechanical comprehension, and electronics infor-
mation."

Yeah, that's the ASVAB I remember.

"Four of the subtests comprise the Armed Forces
Qualification Test (AFQT) which includes only the
more general, less vocationally-specific tests: arithme-
tic, word knowledge, paragraph comprehension, and mathematics knowledge."

Well, at least intelligence, as defined, is less vocationally specific.

Aha! Table 1!

Someone please correct my understanding here if I've missed anything.

The male mean AFQT89 score was 38.7, the female mean was 38.2. The standard deviations were 30.1 and 27.7, respectively. (Wait, what?) The male-female standard deviation ratio was 1.09.

So those are the kinds of numbers we're talking about.
Lots of wannabe sites with heavy scraping, but no sales.

There are several airlines where 50+% of all sales are on their own website. Lowest distribution cost.
You just said a for loop returns no results. I responded saying that it can via an accumulator or mutating the original list...

Are you indicating in your latest response that I am correct and your original statement is incorrect? You seem to be going in on a tangent... Where is this going?
Senolytics against Aging
> Commenting on someone's bathing suit is not inherently sexual, because we do it in non-sexual contexts; for example, I complemented my nephiew's new swim trunks earlier this summer.

The person wasn't commenting on the bathing suit but on how a coworker's body looked in a bathing suit.

I suppose without additional context we will not know whether it was indeed sexual or not, but if it didn't make anyone uncomfortable I don't see why anyone would bother reporting it.
that's because data isn't 100% appropriate for social sciences. you can't measure everything. shocking as it may be for STEM majors (full disclosure: i have a physics degree), people's feelings and subjective experiences matter, and forms of reason that are not-numerical (ie, philosophy, politics, law, etc) are rigorous and have value. it's weird that this is a radical perspective in this culture.
When you actually read the blog post, you'll see that it does quote research finding sex differences 1) as early as within 2 days after birth and 2) similar in baby monkeys' toy preferences as in human children.

I'll let you decide (Occam's razor is helpful) whether that is more likely the product of biology or "social expectations in early childhood" (within 2 days? in monkeys?).
FYI, LASER's are not needed to make a Hologram.
Dennis Gabor's original discovery of holography occurred years before Lasers, and was based on monochromatic sodium or mercury light passed through a pinhole...
From: http://amasci.com/amateur/holo3.html
do you have a way that I can contact you for more information? I am working on something similar that might interest you.
New track my little brother 2017
Related blog post: http://amietia.com/q2pt.html
How did you know this was a straight man talking about a woman?

> "pure aesthetics"

You do not think people can appreciate the beauty of human body without wanting to immediately have sex with it? Ever been to a museum? Especially classical section? A lot of skin there. Apparently, those people were real maniacs and sexual predators...
Trump didn't get that much support. He lost the popular vote by 2.9M.
Try entering -9999999999999999999999999 as the min value and 10 as the max value :).
Oh, to be clear, I'm talking about Coombe's title not yours. It's best if you keep the article's title in tact, and this is a really interesting story, you should feel good about it popping to the top.
If that were true and significant, it would mean the company would bleed talent and become such an uncomfortable place to work that a competitor would gain advantage. That's why the market works. For the record, I've heard the exact opposite about the google work environment.
I agree that "???" is unrigorous handwaving. And I don't think it purports to be rigorous; from the document: "Differences in distributions of traits between men and women may in part explain why we don’t have 50% representation of women in tech and leadership." (emphasis mine). "May" and "in part." I don't think this purports to be a proof.

Is this argument any more rigorous?

1. There is a non-50% representation between men and women in tech.

2. Unjust discrimination and societal pressures are the only possible explanation for this imbalance. Therefore we must intervene until it is 50%.

There is no doubt that unjust discrimination and societal pressures exist, and that we should fight these so that anyone with talent and interest can succeed in this field.

However, if 100% of these pressures were removed, would we have exactly 50% representation of men and women in tech? Many people appear to believe very strongly that this is true. What is the basis for this belief? Are we willing to entertain the possibility that, even without these pressures, we would have less than 50% representation of women in tech?
Intent is vital in the deliverance and sentencing of criminals (as well as severity).

You'll find that the U.S.A's EEOC does not label one-off remarks as sexual harassment.[0]

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_harassment#EEOC_Definit...
I don't buy that. What makes you think so?
Now what's too many axioms? :D
Virgin America's are similar[1] and I really liked the way they did it.

1: https://www.subtraction.com/2014/10/13/virgin-america-boardi...
Certainly curious about getting 40GbE bandwidth, but the IP addresses doesn't seem like much of a hurdle. I was looking at business broadband a couple of weeks ago, and getting 13 static IPs was only £5 extra a month. Going all the way up to a leased line included unlimited "subject to internet regulations".
> The idea of introverts and extraverts being distinct groups of people with completely different neurological responses to social situations is a largely false one

Why would you say that? Even perusing the wikipedia article shows that there is at least some evidence for a biological basis, and that it is being researched.

Maybe it's not up to your standards, but it's far from being settled as a bunch of 'woo'

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extraversion_and_introversion#...