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You're correct. However, the author of that tweet went around the wrong way with the manner of her expression.

The tweets she put out today come off as combative and hammy.

>It actually gives me motivation to leave Google for the first time in years; the only reason why I enjoy Google is our unified networking.

>Fact: White men are not marginalized like me in tech.
White man: You are racist, my grandpa was a great man. You are this relevant.

>Dear white men who thinks they are marginalized, my single eye lash is more marginalized in tech than all of you.

There are proper ways to voice one's concern, but violence against others is not one of them.
I've been on teams that have agile it right. Some have failed and some succeeded. I've been on teams that practiced chaos driven development. Some of those succeeded and some of those failed.

Did you drink any kool-aid on the way in?
They actually support many languages out of the box (Ghost doesn't). I'll be exploring it this evening, looks nice and tidy.
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> For every competent FreeBSD or Illumos sysadmin there are 10x equally experienced with Linux.

Was parent wrong about that point?
I had a chance recently to ask the famous architect David Adjaye what new upcoming technology he thought would change architecture in the coming years, like how steel beams and reinforced concrete allowed the skyscraper innovation from the last century, and his answer was immediate: 3D elevator systems.

Apparently traditional linear elevator systems are really limiting as far as what can be accomplished with skyscrapers, to the point that a famous architect sees fully flexible 3D people mover systems inside a building as being the next big innovation to radically change what cities look like.
What stops me from implicating them in this way? The OP made an unqualified assertion - "for every point" - which means it would apply even to the most extreme example.

Edit: And I didn't ask the OP if they are skeptical of climate change. I merely asked if they would be in favour of letting those that are skeptical express their opinion.
Graduation rates in CS have declined in US, from 37% in the 80's to 18% in recent years. http://www.randalolson.com/2014/06/14/percentage-of-bachelor....

18% percentage of graduates correlates quite well with the percentage of women in tech roles at large American-based corporations. Especially if we take in account the explosive growth of the field, which makes the numbers dominated by recent grads.

Google, 20%, https://www.google.com/diversity

Microsoft, 17.5%, https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/diversity/inside-microsoft/d...

Apple, 23%, https://www.apple.com/diversity

Amazon, ???, https://www.amazon.com/b/ref=tb_surl_diversity/?node=1008009..., no "tech-role" category.

Facebook, 19%, https://fbnewsroomus.files.wordpress.com/2017/08/fb_diversit...

A whole different discussion could be had around ratios within the foreign-born slice of the workforce, which further skew the numbers one way or another. Alas, I could not find the data.
Which is why some search engines simply ended up following only the directives given to googlebot, and ignoring the rest.
Who has lost their job for wrongthink?
Thanks for taking the time to respond.

Maybe it's due to lack of experience, but I guess I didn't consider adoption from a business perspective when designing the initial experience.

Do you think a separate landing page or series of blog posts on Medium could lead to a better first impression? That way I could direct new users to specific tags and bypass the default channel altogether.
So there needs to be legislative and/or executive action for that approach, sure. But the underlying point is that the argument for evidence exclusion is a procedural one, which means that innovation on the incentives side of things (carrots or sticks) is entirely possible.

What concerns me is that there seems to be a resignation to a false dichotomy between partially informed jurors and abusive trials. I'm not convinced that there isn't a better option out there. Especially since the U.S. is somewhat unique in its application of the idea.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/19/us/19exclude.html
Some people just hire actual humans to do this, for cheap.
Plus hopefully battery banks (which you'll likely want on the elevators anyway to be able to store energy from regenerative braking) to power the car long enough to come to a rest where the passengers can get out in the event of a power outage.

There's going to be several layers of safeguards, like there are with current elevators.
>This is what the anti-cycling agenda wants you to think.

LOL well it worked. I've never driven a car and bike everywhere. Also cracked my helmet (not my skull) in a slow speed fall when I landed on my butt and fell backwards banging my helmeted head on the pavement.
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He portrays a man who, without a shred of formal outdoor training, survived through ingenuity and remarkable self-discipline

The man burglarized people's houses for supplies.
Another video worth watching on this subject is the debate between Steven Pinker and Elizabeth Spelke on The Science of Gender & Science[1] which was held in the wake of the Larry Summers controversy at Harvard in 2005. They both make many good points, and it is clear that while discrimination exists, it is probably not adequate to explain outcomes which are aligned with innate preferences and distribution of specific skills.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bTKRkmwtGY
Diversity always seems like a silly objective.

Of all things, why focus on race and gender? How about hairstyle? Why not height? Maybe I feel like my weight is not represented fairly!

I'm just poking fun. Those aren't real questions.

The author promotes the only diversity that matters: diversity of thought.

Anything else should at worst a proxy to get some.
Google now already can infer those information from emails.

Just pass a UID of the ticket information, and any decent software company and given you phone app that automate everything...
I agree that giving someone an unfair advantage because of their gender or race is a form of discrimination. Gender and race are just two of many factors that individuals might struggle with when it comes to their career and life.

If you're an introvert, short, fat, nerdy-looking or you have a weak posture; there's no support group to offset your shortcomings and all the insidious ways in which they will sabotage your career! It's no coincidence that CEOs look like and talk like CEOs - We live in a superficial world and we are animals; there is no need to moralise things; it might just come across as hypocrisy.
> Except the gender ratio in science/engineering is anything but universal across cultures. 70% of science/engineering students in Iran are women: https://www.forbes.com/sites/amyguttman/2015/12/09/set-to-ta.... Indeed, in many parts of the world that are not known for being "liberal" with regard to gender equality, women make up a significantly higher percentage of the scientific workforce than in the U.S.: http://www.catalyst.org/knowledge/women-science-technology-e.... (44% in Latin America, 40% in Eastern Europe, 37% in the Arab states).

Later in the document he goes on to point out that gender disparities are greater in more liberal countries (e.g. great disparity in US than Iran, greater disparity in Finland than in the US). Interpreting this as our culture being somehow more oppressive (and then Finland's even more so) requires an "impressive level of intellectual contortion" - if anything it seems to be evidence that there are differences in preferences, and therefore greater freedom -> greater divergence.
I think it is clear that he complains the company promote women over men to increase the diversity and that the company should look to the individual skills. That the reason of the difference in the diversity could be biological and not gender bias and that the company should study this as a possibility too. Not ignore it and try to equally the number of females and males in the company
I believe that most arguing over the internet doesnt qualify as debate, and consider it somewhat of a lost skill. Critical thinking/analysis is not undertaken by most people, particularly on the internet.

Debate is a cornerstone of democracy - to take the climate change example, anyone should be able to question it, and the evidence for it should be what persuades the majority of people, leading to a decision. In these cases, debate is a very effective mechanism. Unfortunately, people don't tend to engage and debate properly.

A good, reasonably relevant read (5 min) is Isaac Asimov's A Cult Of Ignorance, which I think goes some way to explaining the lack of engagement with debating.
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I've done similar detections. Basically just use keyboard dynamics: by measuring the precise timing of keystrokes (key down, key up) you can tell if it is likely typed by a user manually.

I haven't done it but I think mouse movements could be used too. Add onMouseMove event listeners all over the page and see how they are triggered.
It's a toxic set of opinions that's unfortunately very representative of large numbers of white male tech employees. It's getting attention because it's useful to see laid out so clearly the biases, blatantly wrong assertions, and invalid logic such folks use to perpetuate the idea that "everything's fine in tech hiring".
Except he didn't say that the differences we observe are 100% due to biology. I'm actually pretty shocked at how much of this thread seems to deliberately mischaracterize what he wrote.
Having personally experience the effects of different levels of testosterone I find it hard to believe any claim of the differences between men and woman at the population level not at least in part being biological.
There are actually a few studies showing gender differences in infants and monkeys. (males preferentially looking at/interacting with mechanical things, females faces/dolls) From that, you can assume that there are at least some biological differences in behavior between the sexes - and thus differing workplace representation is not necessarily 100% derived from social pressures. And if that's the case, achieving a 50/50 Female/Male split in every profession might not be desirable.

So I must agree with the author on his assertion that men and women are mentally different. I'm not sure that those differences would cause women to be less interested in CS, but it isn't quite as unsupported a position as you'd think.

EDIT: There's also the possibility that IQ variances differ between genders - with males having higher variability - and thus more males at the upper (and lower!) ends of the range. If CS attracts primarily high IQ individuals, that would also result in a gender gap. (this is what I'd assume he meant with the reference to IQ in "Why we're blind") https://sci-hub.cc/10.1016/j.intell.2006.09.003
This is something I hadn't considered. Thinking back on it, the teams I've been on that did agile had 3 or 4 times the number of managers that non-agile teams did. You needed more people to enforce the process, wrangle the engineers, plan the meetings and make sure that wall of post-it notes was updated. Something I frequently heard was that programmers were paid too much to waste their time playing arts and crafts.
Well do you know anything about what is going on in Iran? Then please share.
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"Grounded in reality?"

Could we get some sources for these claims?

In particular, I'd like to see values and standard deviations for "On average, men and women biologically differ in many ways."
You sound like a real high performer.
If you are serious that a helmet costs you nothing in inconvenience and creates no trouble, do you wear one when you walk down the street?

You have it with you, you could fall while walking, and it could protect you.
this looks amazing, do they have sample templates for blogs
the GPL requires that you make the code available WHEN you distribute it. they have distributed it, thus yes, we are entitled to it as of the time of distribution, not whenever they feel like it in the future.
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This sentiment is well covered in the article.
The ZFS comment in the document [1] is time inspecific. It's got version 1.0 in 1st half of 2018 and the "rough ZFS feature parity" comment is not until version 3.0, which has no listed time frame.

This is going to take lot of work, and not just for the stratis developers but for projects that need to manipulate it. It's asking for a lot of work for bootloader projects to support it, and

[1] https://stratis-storage.github.io/StratisSoftwareDesign.pdf
Simple response to his thesis: there used to be more women in programming... back when it was harder.
He started out well, but about halfway through meandered into bullshit. Bad data, cherry picked data, incorrect incorrect understanding of the science, incorrect conclusions -- he even referenced the Cultural Marxism Conspiracy theory: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankfurt_School#Cultural_Marx...

By the time we hit "why we're blind" he's gone fully off the rails.

I sympathize with him -- and even agree with several points, but he did himself a huge disservice here.
I've also found I prefer odds over evens; I'm not entirely sure why, but at least in terms of when there are an odd number of objects or visual markers in a row, I find it inherently satisfying that one of them is exactly halfway between the endpoints, and it slightly bothers me that with even numbers there isn't one.
Nobel Prize winner James Watson

Nobel Prize winner Tim Hunt

Harvard President Lawrence Summers

are the three that immediately come to mind.
Sorry, but there's a whole host of psychological research that has long established behavioral differences between male and female. I find this new rejection on the Left of what are simply basic observations of biologically formed behaviors to be extremely bizarre. I'm really struggling to understand it because to me it seems like the same kind of science rejection we'd see on the Right if we were talking about climate change.
> I doubt the author has faced ostracism

Here's one of his colleagues threatening to quit "if HR does nothing in this case" : https://twitter.com/rakyll/status/893287112732291072

> here are some things that the author believes which are not true

You've left out "on average" (which is stated no less than 7 times in the document). It does seem to be all supported by research : https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/rabble-rouser/201707/wh...
- you mean political and sociological forces that unnaturally perturb so called "natural trends"? If you claim Iran could potentially have such factors that encourage women to enter the field in "above-average" numbers, what allows you to wholesale eliminate similar factors when examining the situation within the borders of the United States that could cause women to enter the field in "below-average" numbers? What allows you to directly assume that one viewpoint is inherently more palatable
besides your biased worldview?

Furthermore, your comment essentially only exists for you to cast doubt on the opposing viewpoint while bringing up common reactionary points of view that also have no evidence. You have no evidence that women in the United States "study literature or gender studies for fun" [1] or that "women just study something to meet men to marry". Not only are these ideas incredibly flawed, but you appear to have brought them up for no other reason that to further cast suspicion on the parent poster without actually addressing any of their claims. You just threw out ideas that people are likely to get up in a huff about.

[1] While I majored in CS in college, I also pursued a minor in critical theory. The people in that classroom were not taking those courses "for fun" any more than programmers took to their classes. They felt it was incredibly important to be able to dissect the immense amount of media we have in the world today and what it means. What are video games trying to say? Or modern films? What ideas do these share with bedrock pieces of literature that we've studied in critical theory again and again? Is it really so bad to enjoy that? Furthermore, gender studies is filled with people itching to try and discuss (and come to good conclusions about) THE VERY THINGS WE ARE ARGUING ABOUT RIGHT NOW. Isn't the fact that we spend so much time discussing such things nowadays evidence that it is a very real and important thing to study and discuss?
> Of course, Google announces itself as GoogleBot. It wouldn't surprise me if they did a second stealthy crawl to detect cloaking. (But I think they are honest when they say they don't, and just throw cheap human labor at it instead by having people browse suspect sites.)

They actually run secondary tests that aren’t GoogleBot. They’re quite easy to detect on very low traffic sites. If you only have a few hundred users, all of which you know personally, and suddenly over the range of a few hours a few users using Chrome visit the page, while it’s not linked or findable in any search engine, just shortly after users using the googlebot UA visited it, and with certain usage patterns – it’s quite obvious.

Detecting the Android Bouncer’s VM is equally easy, although that only happened by accident because, due to an automated action, my app crashed in that and submitted a crash report that was unusual, and I managed to extract parameters that’d allow detecting it (similar with other android virus scanners), but I only cared about that to be able to split those "devices" into a separate category in the crash tracker (all my apps are GPL licensed, and don’t do anything evil anyway)
But what does the Wikipedia article cite? It isn't a source itself...
A friend of mine got cut off by a minivan and his head went helmet-first into the side window. It's rare enough, but perhaps worth a little discomfort.

On a group ride, the cyclist in front of me hopped over a pothole and his fork snapped on landing. In addition to getting punctured by one of the pieces, he went helmet-first into the ground. At the hospital, he couldn't remember the accident. I was glad he'd been wearing a helmet.

Side note: if you're riding an aluminum bicycle, you should change the fork if it's ever had a strong impact. Hairline fractures are serious. Or just go with a steel frame, since they won't snap.
> a "living being" cannot exist outside of a pretty rich (and sufficiently dense) material environment

What makes you say that, though? I don't see any reason for it. Some ethereal galaxy-scale lifeform might be thinking as well that "life cannot exist in the extremely hot, hyperdense environment of a planet" for example. This is pure speculation from your part.
Original: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-4740590/Blowing-bi...
A starfish might be a better example.
The printers are usually thermal printers, so no ink. However it would impact the lifetime of the thermal head, so basically the same thing.
You make many assumptions here, on many different levels. Regarding parent's comment:

1. Iran was but one example of the uneven rates of participation in science. Of course there may be many interesting reasons for this. There are many reasons for most things.

2. Parent didn't actually jump to many conclusions as far as I can tell. You may be projecting. What conclusion did they make based on the 70%?

Finally, your list of factors that might influence the % of women studying science in Iran is weirdly general. Are those factors more prevalent in Iran than other places? Literature and gender studies are not alternatives to "useful" fields of study, they are useful. Culture matters. It's not just fun, it's hard and filled with contradictions and challenges. But you are right that it's not lucrative, and becoming less so. Maybe studying the arts is not so big in Iran as other countries and the sciences are more of a default choice?

Now maybe I'm the one projecting, but it feels like you want parent commenter to discount the 70% on the basis of some weak hypothetical guesswork about possible reasons to do so. This is how cognitive bias works. Answering the 70% question is interesting, and we should see what we can learn about it, and how that compares to our instincts.
"Viewpoint diversity is arguably the most important type of diversity and political orientation is one of the most fundamental and significant ways in which people view things differently."

As an experiment, I'd like to see if HN upvotes or downvotes this statement from the memo.

I'm willing to put my karma score on the line to find out what HNers believe (this will help me decide if HN is a community worth investing further time in).
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That question appears to be addressed in the post to which you are responding. I won't be as bold as some to lay causation purely on biological differences, maybe there could be some factor we're not accounting for on why socially flattened societies tend to have larger exaggerations in traditional gender roles. However, if your policy platform wants to push equality of outcome for career paths on the sexes then this deviation from expectation should be disconcerting.
Post your LinkedIn or GTFO! /s
Because they are easily faked.

Google’s current captcha system does track a few of these, but it mostly takes your browsing history, and, if that seems normal, will accept you.

I’ve run a few IRC bots that allowed people to submit Google searches, and would return the first resulting link. They also fetch any link mentioned in IRC channels, execute the JS, and after a timeout of 400ms respond with the current page title.

Both combined – a normal search history, reading a few hundred pages and videos a day per user – apparently are enough that they seem "human", and can pass NoCaptcha.
Thanks for proving his point.
I think we split based on gender and race because those are clear discriminators. Height or hairstyle are more fuzzy, and probably biologically less relevants to adapt to the environment.

Probably height is more relevant for leadership than gender: http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1368430212437211
They employed one of the original Btrfs developers for the first half of its development, but not since 2012. I can't speak of their recruitment efforts, but it does seem all the Btrfs developers are happy at their respective companies; and the Red Hat file systems folks are happy working on what they're working on which is not Btrfs.
This is incredibly disingenuous. Much of the left considers simple disagreement to be micro-aggression, while at the same time finding it perfectly acceptable to launch hate-filled screeds of animosity and hatred at anyone who doesn't toe the line, e.g. "You're a fucking animal that deserves to be put down!!"

Your comment implicitly supports this sort of misbehavior, implying that any complaint by an "alt-righter" is just whining and carries no legitimacy.

Both the far left and alt-right have adopted extremist positions and in general have nothing good to say about each other. Please don't legitimize hateful, unacceptable behavior from the left just because the alt-right has learned to play some of the same games.
Mozilla, on the other hand, knows your SHA-256 and your IP. So if you're uploading some known offensive file, the logs could be subpoenaed, etc. etc. Normally it's just preferable to have the service provider know as little as possible.
Here you go : https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/rabble-rouser/201707/wh...
> The intellectual contortion required to get from the premise to the conclusion is actually quite impressive.

I read the whole thing differently than you did. What is the conclusion you are objecting to?