skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here is where the author argues for sexism (from his TL;DR)

> 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. Discrimination to reach equal representation is unfair, divisive, and bad for business.

The implication here is that equal representation of women at Google is bad for business. That women aren't in tech and leadership positions because of biological traits.

This is sexism.

Right here. This point and its thorough embedding in every aspect of the article.
It's going to be embarrassing when machine learning starts outperforming humans at this. Since that would be valuable to advertisers, a few billion dollars will be spent solving that problem. Remember, when you're watching your phone, it's watching you.
Not than himself. Than men.

You understand how Gaussian distributions work, yes?
Another one who cares only about himself and developers, not users.

As a developer, I can understand he wants as many users as possible, so creating an addiction-like shitload of motivation and triggers seems reasonable.

As a user, I'm perfectly happy with apps like Dropbox, which do their job when I need them, but don't bug me when I'm not. I'd rather have an app I rarely use over an app which bugs me all the time or tries to steal my leisure..
I meant "enough" as to ask "do I need to do more than writing a check?".

You do bring up a good point with testing (which I don't always do, but I try to at least do runtime checks).

I follow you on the data model part. I think that's where a test framework is super handy.
Sort of.

While I studied engineering, it was common to get in spats with lefty liberal-arts types, who always brought everything around to talk of class, rich vs. poor, and so on. I mainly read The Economist, the New York Times, the New Yorker, and so on, so I thought this perspective was reductionist and overly simplistic, when reality was much more complex, a mostly net-beneficial process where foul-play was a relatively minor factor.

After graduation, when I started working, I had time to read more history and philosophy, learned more about my own domain of expertise, learned how the professional world worked, and also caught up with much more current events. Turns out I now feel like those critics were more-or-less right all along.

I still have issues with the way some issues were introduced to me originally, but ultimately I was just very reluctant to accept that there was basically a full-on class war I was blissfully ignorant of.
Well..its a fact. Woops, facts can be hurt. :-/
In what way is Chrome "kinda borderline"?

If you mean borderline in terms of success, there are only four or five meaningfully used web browsers. Of those, Chrome has the largest desktop and mobile marketshare, respectively.[1]

If you mean borderline in terms of Google's ability to release a product that appeals to a sense of usability and design aesthetic instead of just raw technical excellence, I would say that Chrome handily accomplishes that. In my opinion, the Chrome user interface very clearly resonates well with people, and one of the biggest reasons for its continued success is Google's understanding of what users want and how they like the use web browsers, not just Chrome's capabilities and performance.

Web browsers have a lot of surface area for "user interaction", and I think Chrome's interface really streamlines a lot of what people organically do when they're browsing. It's not just excellence under the hood, it's a studiousness that carries over into empowering users. As a specific example: I don't think that Chrome is a technically superlative application platform, but the ability to use it as a platform for running other apps has made life much easier on Linux when there are no native apps for certain things.

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1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers#...
You’re not alone. Took two years (until now) for me.
It is entirely possible to claim to be for something while actively doing things that are negative for it. The author didn't get to decide if his manifesto is anti-diversity any more than the KKK get to decide if they are racist.

I haven't read the manifesto, so I'm not saying it is anti-diversity, but your post appears to assume they can't be lying or wrong about that.
> The implication here is that equal representation of women at Google is bad for business. That women aren't in tech and leadership positions because of biological traits.

This is an incomplete picture of what that statement says. It does not say that 50% representation would necessarily be bad for business, but that discriminating against men to achieve this goal would be bad for business.
I'd seriously like to know if the author meant this literally:

> a good number of the people you might have to work with may simply punch you in the face

If that's indeed the case, isn't that on itself a huge problem we should deal with? If someone is risking being a victim of physical violence on the workplace over disagreements on political positions we should be seriously concerned.
Hilary Duff Takes Back the Beach with an Instagram Shutting Down Body Shamers
> If you truly believe people are equal and deserving of equal treatment then you must

The two don't follow, at all. Lets replace this statement, and make it about the NBA.

"If you truly believe people are equal and deserving of equal treatment then you must see a game where black men hold the vast majority of positions as a failure of the game".

If the NBA example should be laughed at, why shouldn't the opposite? Neanderthals don't exist anymore, but homo sapiens do, despite very little relative advantage to us. Small differences in averages between groups will lead to dramatically different results. For the best example of all, see casinos (advantage: 2-4%) versus gamblers.
There is a sevice for solving captchas. Death by captcha is one
i wonder if piezoelectrics work with rapid eye movement...
> You can build an Electron app that looks and feel like Native app on both Windows and MacOS

Show me one. Just one..

Most "cross-platform-apps" I used seemed to think moving the window frame buttons to the left and making the interface the same grey is integration enough.</slight_exaggeration>

> this app doesn't look like Windows 10 to me

Maybe my picture of windows is skewed, I haven't used it for many years now, I apologize. But isn't it even worse then? If it feels at home neither on Windows nor on OSX, but foreign to both?
Yes I do know how a counterweights work. In principle if the elevator can be shift sideways then the counterweights can be too. Of course when the elevator goes up and down it will need to be linked to a counterweight, but as long as this linkage can be made transient then should work.
I find it a bit hard to believe marketing of computers alone explains such spectacular drop in one specific area - was physics or chemistry marketed to girls in 80s? Also, how exactly marketing for boys made half of the girls drop the field - as opposed to no marketing? That sounds like too big an effect. Also, one of the ads (other one is unreachable) shows both boys and girls behind the computer and a woman leading the computer class (BTW, famous Apple 1984 ad also featured a woman in a role clearly meant to be associated with the product). How that alone should cause half of the girls to go away?
True, nerd usually meant boy. But wasn't it true for physics or chemistry or biology or many other things too? I mean, to identify the key factor you need to do two things a) find that the factor is present when the effect is present (parents buy computers more for boys) and b) find that the effect is not present when the factor is not present (parents do not buy more chemistry sets, physics books, math books, etc. for boys than for girls). I don't see the second part was done. Without it, I think the link can not be established.
If you watch Cinemasins, he often makes fun of how useless 3D holographic displays really are for displaying and understanding data.
Sheep farming looks like really hard work to me, raising animals on marginal land with tough weather thrown in is only for those who really want to do it.
That person is not a perfectionist :)
I got visian ICL surgery 2 years back and this was my question as well.

You can't really change anything without opening up the eye, which damages the cornea a little and takes months to heal with permanent side effects in low light situations.
I liked the mobile orienteering detection. Looks great on Firefox/Android.
The Apple homepage ten years ago (iPhone launch)
So you have a study which refutes this? He's made a claim, you are just making an appeal to emotion! Show that there are no differences between men and women on these scales, or that the whole science behind the idea is sketchy (which I've seen arguments of) but please, pretty please, some evidence.
"unhelpfully pathologise the feeling that EVERYONE has"

You may just have stumbled upon a new definition of extrovert, i.e. a person who finds this distinction meaningless. I'm half joking, but most people I know have a pretty consistent level of extra-intraversion.
I'm not a HW guy but those drives seems to be far too close together. A few more millimeters space will keep the temperature down much better I assume.
I think it has dual meanings, I've always taken it that way. Don't feel stupid.
Is Handwriting History?
Mostly just articles as I said, not a lot of concrete numbers. Here's one side of the story:

http://content.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1893946,0...

Compared to the European Union and the U.S., Portugal's drug use numbers are impressive. Following decriminalization, Portugal had the lowest rate of lifetime marijuana use in people over 15 in the E.U.: 10%. The most comparable figure in America is in people over 12: 39.8%. Proportionally, more Americans have used cocaine than Portuguese have used marijuana.

And http://norml.org/aboutmarijuana/item/marijuana-decriminaliza... has a whole (obviously cherry-picked) list of studies supporting the claim, though most links are dead.

"It has been demonstrated that the more or less free sale of [marijuana] for personal use in the Netherlands has not given rise to levels of use significantly higher than in countries which pursue a highly repressive policy."

etc.
It's a thoughtful article, and I love the reference to Burroughs' Soft Machine. But it doesn't distinguish clearly enough between self-conscious organisms and the rest. It's true that consciousness and evolution thereof likely crap out when latency goes over a few hundred milliseconds.

However, I see no limit to the size of zero-gravity organisms like the honey fungus. Fungi are filamentous, so there's no unsurmountable problem with heat dissipation.

And even for self-conscious organisms, I can imagine hierarchical organization, such as Rajaniemi's "metaself" or Watts' Bicameral Order.
There is no such thing as EQ (2016)
What's great is the next sentence: "But I am neither a biologist, a psychologist, nor a sociologist, so I’ll leave that to someone else." So, you know it is false, completely, and that we should ignore it because it is false, but you are unqualified to provide any examples? Sigh.
I am not convinced by your understanding.

The elevator conserves energy by having a counterweight, and the work needed for moving the elevator (disregarding the loss of the system) is 0 if the elevator is empty and the counterweight is the same weight of the elevator.

This is true for the length of the rope.

Now if you have a 99 storey building, with side moving elevators, you cannot have counterweights, as the ropes would be in each others' way when moving sideways. Either having a rope in way for 99 storeys in worst case, or with shorter ropes you increase complexity even further and negate the energy saving. if travelling further than the length of the rope.

The only advantage of this design is the lack of ropes. The downside is increased energy use.

Regarding transient linkings: even more complexity, and possibly the cabins need to wait for the counterweight to arrive, and hand over the counterweights? Even scheduling complexity is increased. Totally useless, as to have it a bit feasable you need to sill keed the functionality of counterweightless motion.

You can understand this by drawing if still not clear.
Are you serious? Of course it doesn't make sense if you change my words to be about the NBA.

Look at the government. The majority of the US government leadership is older white males.

Either you think: wow, white males are really good at getting into top government positions. Old white males must be superior to other humans.

Or you think: society really gives an advantage to older white males and it's much easier for them to get into government. Maybe power structures are balanced in their favour?

(Hint: the latter is true. The author of the article thinks along the lines of the former, that's why it's sexist and discriminatory and people are upset by it.)
Ask HN: Does Dropbox Paper encrypt docs “at rest” on servers?
Does Dropbox Paper encrypt docs "at rest" on servers?
That’s true but if there’s very little penalty (continuing the example, TalkTalk made an after-tax profit of £72M [1] so the fine was 0.6% of that) for not fixing it, there isn’t much reason for an already-negligent business to care what the ICO say.

https://www.talktalkgroup.com/dam/jcr:04037e42-6a6d-4fcf-9be...
As someone with a suffix in their name, I'd like if the name portion could just stop corrupting my name. IIRC, the last airline took:

First Name: John
Middle Initial: Q
Last Name: Smith
Suffix: III

as input (in separate fields!, and in the above order) and printed that as:

JOHNIII SMITH Q

Note the lack of space separating the given name and the suffix, the odd positioning and ordering of all of the elements of the name…. This is nowhere close to how its represented on my legal ID, and I've never in my life written my name that way.

Then you take this boarding pass to security, where a TSA agent squints at it thinking to himself "this is definitely fake", until the barcode scans and it comes back as good.
There's zero evidence that people are equal. Physically, everyone knows and admits this. Women are given separate physical contests as they are smaller, slower, and weaker than men. Certain races do better in some sports - no one can make a fuss, as it's obvious, plus whites aren't the ones usually dominating.

Yet all of a sudden when it comes to mental pursuits (which are physically based in the brain and supporting chemicals), somehow then we're all equally capable and the huge biases that exist when using other organs don't exist. And not only don't exist, but so obviously don't exist that anyone suggesting so is met with "I'm literally shaking".

There seems to be nothing more to the diversity drive than "I want it to be so". I'm not saying it's all fine how it is, but pretending the population should be reflected perfectly is baseless.

Further, he points out diversity only goes one way. If there's too much white male, then it needs fixing. But if white males are underrepresented, then that's fine. It's like that review of the 90% black cast of Black Panther: "Hella diverse!"

Same for pointing out if you're hiring for diversity and lowering standards for "diverse" hires, you're making it worse for everyone.

And as he mentions, this diversity usually isn't. Hiring a bunch of people with the same views but making sure their skin tones or gender identity fill up a big list... Doesn't give you any useful diversity of thought at all.

Being intellectually dishonest and acting existentially offended when someone points out the obvious is why the left is losing out, slowly. And it sucks because the backlash is likely to hurt civil rights and progress.
Food and shelter can be had relatively cheaply in the Western world, sure you might not be able to live in the centre of London or some hip place in SV but people on low wages mostly find a home.

I sometimes wonder if it would have been better to just accept an undemanding career and spend my spare time reading interesting papers or writing code. However, I did meet this girl ...
I cringe when I read such Trumpian tweets from a founder. The journalist reached out a few times and the response was unclear. So he writes his piece with a pretty clear warning to future customers. Get your PR and compliance straight if you want to avoid such pieces, don't complain afterwards while calling names.

Caveat emptor. Just those responses are a red flag, if the subject is legal risk surrounding smuggling to PRC. They don't want you to know.
That depends heavily on what tools are being used for the surveillance.
Do you mean between every pairing of items?

Apparently this 'odd numbers look better' stands regardless of proximity between each item. Keep an eye out for occurrences - it's a pretty subjective interpretation, I'm sure.
As an introvert myself, I do lack the necessary skills to "handle" other people, although I've been slowly working on them. As time goes by, I find it easier to handle other people, although I still prefer to be by myself most of the time.

It just crossed my mind that, as an hypothesis, may it be that introverts prefer to be alone because socializing is hard since we lack the necessary skills?!
Hmm, but what if the living creature had a density of neural circuitry similar to ours, and mainly interacted with things inside itself, and had slow propagation of knowledge? Not sure I understand this except under the hidden assumption of having a similar number of neural circuit elements
I understand what the clinical definition of a perfectionist is - I was more interested to know if anyone had met an actual perfectionist.

The people I have met who have produced the best solutions are the least like the clinical definition of a perfectionist - they are efficient, see the big picture, and pump out the best (or near best) answer first time.
It's still rude and unprofessional to phrase it that way.
Oh because he linked to so many studies in his manifesto? He didn't.

Read his footnotes. They basically say "this is true because I know it to be true," and "this is universally accepted" (it isn't). But he gets a pass on that, sure.
Choosing employees based on their gender to meet quotas is sexism. Choosing them on their skin colours to be diverse is racism.

Implying there are differences between genders (or races) -- something unquestionably accepted in physical contests -- is simply a basic truth, something that should be investigated so we have a real answer to know how much incorrect bias there is.
Reminds me more of Monument Valley. Though Antichamber is a better game :-). http://www.monumentvalleygame.com/
Blocking has improved my Twitter presence, but I limit blocking to annoying people. I wish I could do that in real life too.
If you can't answer a yes no question without wishy-washy flim-flam pr doublespeak then you don't get to complain that an article doesn't have facts.

and while i'm ranting. what is with founders presenting them selves as "bro's at the bar"?
If the founders had bios that looked like they were from upper management at ibm i might be more likely to use their service.
> I do not hold libertarians in any high regard.

That's your problem but hardly an argument to anything.

> I generally find that ism to be a flag of convenience and that would definitely be the case with the OP.

You are definitely wrong on the first part, to the point of being insulting and disrespectful to literally millions of people holding genuine libertarian beliefs (what is especially ironic here that I assume with high probability that you think it somehow serves the case for inclusiveness and tolerance). As for the second part, I see no way you could have any useful information about it, unless you personally know the author and he told you so. Do you?

> Because what? Would you prefer Edmund Burke?

I am sorry, I do not understand this comment. Could you make your point a bit clearer, if there's any? What exactly you are trying to say here?

> completely oblivious to his alienating half of the population.

The goal of the author was certainly not alienating all women, and I think the result is also not so. I find it sad that I need to even mention it, but not all women think the same, and not all women agree on all questions, including this one. Of course, it may be that by "half of the population" you didn't mean women, then who?

I must also note that you yourself don't feel particularly bad about alienating literally tens of millions of people. Which is completely your right of course, just adds a bit of strange flavor when you say how bad it is when others do it.
Helping others succeed and building a diverse environment is not discriminating against men.
I read an interesting book about this recently, I think it was called Quiet. It seems that a lot of successful introverts get by in an extrovert dominated world by learning to fake it. The book quotes a number of well-known people you wouldn't think are naturally introverted.
TBH, there's a significant part of people cycling longer commutes as well (30k seems to be a natural limit). You work out two hours and hardly miss any work since you skip traffic jams. Most offices of larger firms have locker rooms and showers for those commuters making it easy to plan a bike day. With ebikes, hilly terrain should be conquered. It's all about mindset and making safety a priority. People will adapt if the benefits are clear.
Sounds interesting, but it's paywalled.
Is this the generally accepted explanation now? (I thought so, but the article itself doesn't mention it - then again, the article seems full of pseudo-science)
A spiral scan circuit would just be something like:

x = r cos (theta)
y = r sin (theta)

when you vary r so it gives you a spiral instead of a circle. So it shouldn't be too hard to generate the signals required.

Or there could be a different arrangement of the beam deflectors that didn't give you independent control of X and y.
Well to be honest, I'm thinking more of how pixels as data are stored in images rather than implemented in hardware. But still, if you follow the link, its something I posted on Quora 5 years ago, and shows an image I pulled from somewhere of a LED or OLED or whatever device where the hex arrangement is already there. It makes a lot of sense. In hardware, though, it makes the most sense for R, G and B components to not share a "center point" for each pixel, instead having their own center point that is spacially offset.
This should be the top ranked comment!
You and I are not reading the same manifesto. This guy clearly thinks less of the women he works with. There is no way he sees his female co-workers as equal while publishing rubbish like this. And I doubt women engineers at Google would read that and feel very pleased about it.

Yeah I understand Gaussian distributions. I also understand the emotional tone of the original manifesto and the discriminatory thinking behind it disguised in its academic, reasonable, and rational voice.
It's significant that the business is about shipments from the US to China. That seems to be hard. Getting stuff shipped from China to the US seems to be ridiculously easy and fast. You can order stuff off Alibaba and get fast delivery via China Packet, which is a postal service with really good rates for China to the US. Delivery in the US is via the USPS.
The other direction is much more expensive and slower.

The US needs to renegotiate postal rates with China. China is still getting the "developing country" discount from the USPS.
I can just see it at the airport. "Did you pack your bags yourself?".
I guess at 40 I'm not the target audience for this, but I'd be worried a younger person trying to save money might end up paying a high price.
The name 'airmule' doesn't do it any favours either.
An 18-Year-Old Software Engineer Who Worked at Square and Braintree
In general, I see people self-identifying as "classic liberal" when they want to underscore that they're not ancap, and value strong (but limited in scope) governments to protect property rights.