skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The argument basically proceeds as follows:

1) Gender differences exist

2) ???

3) Differences in representation are explainable by gender differences

Really? I read it as

1) Gender differences exist

2) Differences in representation may be at least partly due to gender differences.

3) Differences in representation should not be taken as automatic proof of bias.
This is the most plausible explanation, in my view. I've seen companies where the software was considered "done" and they literally had no software engineers around anymore who could even modify it, let alone the original people who built it. Just a bunch of managers and salespeople milking it. If anything were to go wrong they'd have to bring in an expensive contractor or just shut down that part of the business (if the numbers made sense to do so).
I disagree with the use of the word "deprecating", and everyone has been parroting around the news as though Red Hat announced that btrfs causes machines to catch on fire.

Red Hat never provided enterprise support for btrfs, it was a technical preview that didn't pan out to become fully supported as part of their distribution. It's barely a story (there are plenty of other filesystems Red Hat doesn't support), but it's a good opportunity to spread misinformation.
what makes you say something like this?
I used browserify to bundle in Three.js and all the other dependencies. Yes, it's an embarrassingly large JS package. There are probably better ways of doing this, but being a weekend project I decided that it wasn't worth my time to investigate ;-)

If you look at the commits, I just tried to push a few lines of code every day (nights, weekends) over the course of a couple of months. It adds up.
One possibility plucked straight from a thriller: a nuke or dirty bomb is somewhere in the area and they are scanning for it.
> However, it is very light on actual research

No, the research exists in some cases, but the content of an internal informal document obviously doesn't require a rigorous (redundant) academic format. If you can't Google, it probably wasn't intended for you anyway. The comment about women ranking higher (in general) for agreeableness is statistically true. However, the reasoning for why is up for debate and has been well considered...

A neuroscience/evolutionary theory in plain english:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewvqEqIXdhU
I think iPhone X or whatever will be a dud. Okay it'll rocket off the shelves and people will think "why did I buy this?" And android phones after the latest Samsung release will be largely stagnant. Mobile already does what we want. I have an LG G3 and still love it. First(ish) 500+ ppi phone, I'm more than happy, no need to upgrade.

There's going to be a thing that happens when everyone realizes, no need to upgrade. Less money goes into tech. Tech sector has a big barf. Much of modern economy is based on tech, so it has a big barf too. I see a modern-day medium-term middle ages coming, just because, meh, everything is good enough.

The one light I see is autonomous cars. They could change the whole landscape. The random thing I'm thinking now is restaurants as we know them will be replaced. By those who specialize in exactly one dish. You order it for your family on Tuesdays and it comes in compostable packing, you eat and enjoy. The whole idea of going to a restaurant seems outdated. They'll die. Of course autonomous kitchen-cars (open sourced so you know exactly what you're getting?!) is even a step further.
So cool to see this revived. I remember stumbling upon it awhile back.
"You guys are going to go up there and circle until you can replicate that failure."

(Much of what test pilots really do is stuff like that.)
Interesting! I would say that I am living both normally and abnormally since "I", in this case, is referring to two entities which are indistinguishable in terms of their behaviour.
Of course I have. I need to keep $3000+ in my checking account. Either way I'm paying for the account either by lending them the $3000 or by a $15 a month fee. Either way I lose out especially since I don't think I'm getting any value from my bank. I'm planning on switching banks.

I have some money in other investments but I just think banks are a rip off.
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rayiner definitely meant per capita GDP. Yes people calling the place a poor backwater have American bias for sure.
what about the pedestrians? i know we're far less likely do die, but it kinda sucks being constantly nearly run over by bikers barreling down the sidewalk or talking turns at speed without even bothering to check if anyone is crossing. i've always hated drivers, but i feel a lot less safe around bicyclists..they really have no compunction about flying by right in front of your face...never had foot broken, but they've rode over my foot before multiple times just because it was that important to turn in front of me of my rather than behind.
Imagine a stock whose last trade was at $10. The price is therefore considered to be $10. Bob decides he wants to buy a share of stock, no matter the price. He puts out a market buy order. Sally is the seller with the lowest price. She's willing to sell for $11. Bob pays Sally $11 and Sally gives Bob her share. Now the price of the stock is $11.

In this scenario, the price of the stock increased from $10 to $11. But still, there was no net cash flow into the market. Bob put $11 in and simultaneously Sally took $11 out.

Even when stock prices change, net cash flows are zero. Every buyer is always matched with a seller. Every dollar that goes into a trade comes out on the other side.
Indeed, it can be anything, but fyi the government is already surveilling Seattle residents:

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/06/fbi-says-utility...
It doesn't make any sense in the context of an arbitrary type A and B free of historical baggage. The idea is that we type As have, on balance, experienced more "luck" and preferential treatment in our favor than type Bs because we are type As, so some artifically injected disfavor pushes the overall system closer to balance. It's fighting unfairness with unfairness in the opposite direction.

I was born to well-employed, college-educated parents in a stable marriage, moved to my childhood home specifically for its excellent school district, had plenty of quiet space and encouragement to do homework, funded through a top-5 university, etc. I've capitalized on those advantages and done quite well, but I didn't earn them. I don't mind when some of the competitive power I merely inherited is transferred to someone who inherited none. Probably they worked even harder, they just started lower.
Not quite. You forgot Social Geolocation RESTful API Cloud Scalable Container Sharing Economy Flash Sale.
The USSR was as bad as the Nazis, if not worse. Arguably a stalemate on the eastern front would have been better than the actual results.
A good designer, paid to do so, could create very cool and useful UIs, I am sure.

Ultimately, it will depend on your own definition of "cool" and "useful" as to how well any one UI suits those labels.
The comparison about surface areas is wrong.
A creature could drastically increase its surface area by having many tendril-like appendages (i.e. hairy surface) and limiting the core body to consist of thin shapes.
A fractal web of tendrils would dissipate energy far more effectively.
But they are believe the accusation regardless of evidence, it's just that this case is odd in that the accusation for once isn't coming from the "victim".
This is the opposite of what Google looks for in an engineer.

They look for basic social competency but technical excellence.

I think you got the wrong impression from my post. I am not criticizing Google's HR department here. I am simply pointing out that it is in opposition to the medium article's assertions.
I made this with using my iPhone as a major use-case so yep full iPhone support. Don't have an Android to test with though.
Note that the editor highlighted that this didn't mean that they had farms at the time, the editor identifies this finding more as "proto-agriculture" or before what could be considered farming.

Just to help those who might be confused
...but that obviously isn't true. by every single metric, there is more variation within genders than between genders: physical fitness, intelligence, personality, interests, etc. gender is a totally artificial, socially constructed way to organize people.
It doesn't really mean much, though, if the working program (proof) corresponds to a theorem like "Given an Int, I can turn it into some other kind of Int", or "Given some sort of String, it's possible to turn it into a Boolean", or "Given an arbitrary input, I can yield some sort of arbitrary output". Those theorems are rather pointless. That's what most programs "as proofs" are like, where the value in them is in the side effects rather than their types. Now, when dependent types become more of a thing in the industry, maybe we can argue that our programs are getting more rigorous.
Of course he meant that. My point was that `if !a && b { a = true; }` is a silly way to write `a = a || b;`
A forgotten concept is the Paternoster elevator

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paternoster

A paternoster lift is a passenger elevator which consists of a chain of open compartments (each usually designed for two persons) that move slowly in a loop up and down inside a building without stopping. Passengers can step on or off at any floor they like. The same technique is also used for filing cabinets to store large amounts of (paper) documents or for small spare parts. The much smaller belt manlift which consists of an endless belt with steps and rungs but no compartments is also sometimes called a paternoster.

Nowadays certain safety concerns from the 1970s could be solved by incorporating modern safety features like auto-stop, automatic doors, etc in newly built ones. Express elevators could be built too, if they skip certain floors.
Well that rules out Boltmann brains https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boltzmann_brain
There is a section in the manual for METAFONT that explains why a certain shaped pen is actually superior to a simple circle. I've always been curious if this was explored more for actual screen rastorization.
So the gender differences he talks about are very obviously coming from this meta-study:

http://sci-hub.cc/10.1111/j.1751-9004.2010.00320.x

He uses a lot of the same terminology as the paper, references big-5 personality traits etc, as well as the same personality dimensions like people-object axis.

The left vs. right stuff is clearly coming from Jonathan Haidt's Moral foundations theory:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_foundations_theory

The author of the "manifesto/screed" is drawing pretty clearly from good research, but isn't linking to it or discussing it in context
A lot of it is probably defensive. If they don't Microsoft will and they'll just have to pay Microsoft. It's not their fault. It's the patent systems fault. I don't think you should be able to patent an algorithm, but that's just me
Sorry, but how this example is any different from:

> If more people invest more [...] the value increases

If you have just Bob, price goes to 11$.

If you have Bob, Charlie, and Darrel willing to pay, wouldn't the price possibly go to 12$?
The larger systems can, just because the visual system says one thing doesn't mean it's trusted. Google made a short comment on it recently about cars with stickers of realistic scenes on them.

But in the context of deliberately hidden or altered pedestrians, there's no risk I can see here. The pedestrian would have to be trying to look like something else or hide in a very precise way, and they can do that to regular drivers right now.
Another possible reason is the unusual smoke in the area from the BC Fires. It's been horrid viability quality for almost the last week.
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That really doesn't invalidate the statistical argument. She was one person.

A better counter-argument would have been to focus on how historically women have been actively and passively discouraged from entering the sciences at practically every level of education. This more clearly has a causal role with Nobel rates and likely played a large role in the disparity.
It's a colloquialism at this point. Nature also abhors a vacuum, goes toe to toe with Nurture, and is a mother herself.
Is striving for an elegant solution making optimal use of resources same as striving for perfection? Question is half rhetorical, asking because I would like to hear other opinions.
The rebuttal cited no studies. It asserts that the manifesto's claims about gender "flies directly in the face of all research done in the field for decades", and as far as I can tell this is utterly false.
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While I don't agree to what shkreli did, founders / promoters lie all time .
Interesting that they used a string of code present in Shopify templates when they could have instead did a reverse DNS lookup. I wonder if custom Shopify themes still contain the string 'cdn.shopify.com'
Being social and socially pliant are not the same thing. Speaking from personal experience.

I'm almost reflexively rebellious but also crave social interaction. It kind of sucks, actually.
> What you really need to do is figure out how to be the manager that each person on your team wishes they had, and become that manager.

Manager of a software development team here. Great advice. Thanks!
Likely Adobe won't ever open source ColdFusion with a perfectly viable version already available.

http://lucee.org
I'm also a Dutchy and I'd like to clear something up. Biking in the Netherlands is not like biking almost anywhere in any other country. There are separate bike paths everywhere, cars drive slower in areas where bikes are also allowed. Bikes are first-class vehicles that cars often have to give the right of way for. People bike a lot slower at 7 to 10 mph. Drivers are accustomed to bikes being everywhere. We've also been biking our entire lives. You can see kids from the age of 4 participating in normal traffic (under parental supervision naturally). That's how safe biking in the Netherlands feels: parents let their 4 year olds bike on the same road (not a separated bike path) as cars.

This is why, for Dutch people, wearing a helmet during normal daily biking instinctively feels like nonsense. And I don't know a single person from another country that, after having lived here for a bit longer, still wears their helmets here. I don't know of a single helmet study that takes such conditions into account. It's always "this many people died", but never do they mention if they were biking to the local supermarket or going 20 mph downhill in the forest on their mountainbikes without a helmet.

I believe if you want to get people biking, you should invest in making biking feel as safe as it feels in the Netherlands. In the meantime, wear helmets.
Unfortunately for Californians, if any managing member of an LLC resides in California the state requires the LLC to register as a foreign LLC and pay an $800 per year tax.
The problem with these design critiques is that they are usually very subjective, and provide little rationale for the proposed changes rather than "it's better" in some nebulous way.

How about having a bake-off between the old design and the new design, measuring actual business metrics. Does the new design move the needle on things that actually matter to the business? The airlines no doubt have business measurements around boarding speed, airline employee efficiency, etc. A/B test the old and new design and then if the new design outperforms the old, then you have the start of a cost benefit analysis.

When I used to write mobile apps I'd always butt-heads with the UX designers who would say things like "this control is more usable" and "we should go with a warmer color here". Great, prove it! Test the 41 shades of blue[1]! Measure your hypothesis vs. what we have. If the new design's better usability will bring in more revenue than the old one, we should have no problem justifying it.

1: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/01/business/01marissa.html
The guy made some great points. A pragmatic, fresh look at diversity programs is a great idea and open discussion is what we need.

Vice, wried (and I'm sure The Verge will be on that list too) should be ashamed of themselves. The author is obviously pro-diversity, and all this does is prove the manifesto's point.
>you almost always are carrying your passport while flying.

What? Flying internationally is a rare event even for rich people (business travelers excepted). Most of us will do it a handful of times, or not at all. I'd estimate the vast majority of flights to be domestic. You just use the photo ID that's already in your wallet.

If you don't want to carry an additional object, just put it in Passbook on your phone using the airline's app.
So, Name-Letter Effect should have influence in selecting letters for password too.
"To qualify, an individual must not have been a resident of Puerto Rico within in the last 15 years."

It seems that "returners" don't qualify for that. Maybe it's just the amazing Puerto Rican food (I'd eat every meal at La Casita Blanca if I could).
You can build an Electron app that looks and feel like Native app on both Windows and MacOS. And this app doesn't look like Windows 10 to me
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I would love that, this is UI art.
Perfectionists don't produce perfect work. As described in article, they obess with details, lists, loose sight of big picture and then can't finish work (half of task being perfected other still untouched ) or finish it after very long time.

I met some people who did very little mistakes. In anything non trivial there tend to be differences of opinion about what is perfect solution.
I am quite stupid, I always thought that when people on HN talked about their weekend projects they meant something that they'd made in a single weekend. Only now upon reading your comment do I realize that it means something one is working on over any number of weekends. I've been on HN for about 7 years :/

All this time I've been wondering why it takes me weeks of weekends to complete what others do in a single weekend even though I regard myself as highly competent at both software engineering and programming. Then it turns out I had simply misunderstood the meaning of "weekend project".

Oh and also, very nice project, kudos.
Unfortunately none of these stories about "suspicious authorship" are plausible at this point, since the issue has been so heavily politicized. It is necessary for political purposes for there to have been more female composers in the past, therefore we will invent a different past as necessary.
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Can you imagine personalized ads choosing words with a prevalence of letters from your name?
Local here. Feel free to contact me (check profile) for anything. :)

We have a incubator called parallel18, and a couple of working spaces. It's not a super huge tech scene but the people are awesome.
Perhaps the contractors who built the site followed the letter of the contract, and the security requirements were insufficiently specified. Or maybe, in the case of an internal development team, they followed the spec which itself was ambiguous.

People forget that not all developers out there are Silicon Valley Rockstar Unicorn developers, who are thinking about the product's needs and the users and the edge cases. Lots of this kind of work is done at body shops where, if the customer specified the name input field should allow 8 characters, they'll make it allow at most 8 characters even though they know that people have names longer than that. If it comes back as a change request, $$$ cha-ching!
If, as you've just admitted, the SPLC is not reliable, why do you think it checks out?
I was born and raised in Puerto Rico, but left to work in tech. As with any place, there's some good points and there's some bad points. Below are some points that someone moving to Puerto Rico might want to know.

In my opinion, their greatest achievement has been in its educational system. Despite its huge list of problems, UPR enables people of any background to receive an affordable high quality college education. In the US, you're basically forced to take out huge loans that might take decades to pay off. This should mean you'll get access to lots of highly educated individuals, although I don't know if that's the case in practice.

One of my biggest complaints is its poor representation in the US government. If you're living in Puerto Rico you can't vote in any of the US's elections, even though the actions of the president and congress could potentially affect you. e.g. You could get drafted and sent off to war.

Puerto Rico has its own constitution [0], which arguably grants stronger rights to its citizens than the US constitution. For example, wire-tapping is explicitly illegal. It also includes entries allowing employees to organize into associations and collectively negotiate with their employers, as well as go on strike.

An interesting point is that everyone is required to get a voter ID in order to participate in an election. This isn't seen as a problem, and getting one is incredibly easy. I found it incredibly surprising this wasn't the case in the US.

Food is amazing, but there's very little variety. Since there's so few people from different cultural backgrounds, you mostly get the same templates repeated everywhere. In the last decade it has been slowly improving. If you're a vegan or vegetarian, or if you require a gluten-free diet (i.e. coeliac disease), you'll have a hard time eating out.

Due to cabotage laws, you can't import directly to Puerto Rico. Everything has to go through a US port, which translates to increased costs.

Shipping stuff to Puerto Rico is usually more expensive than shipping stuff to the contiguous United States. I'd guess it's comparable to Hawaii.

Even though both English and Spanish are considered official languages, you'll have a very hard time living there if you don't know Spanish.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitution_of_Puerto_Rico
Notepad. No, I'm not trolling. Plain text with some utf8 icons gets a lot done. Saves getting locked in to one platform or another
> It's just embarrassing at this point that an engineer at a well known company like Google even thinks like this. (The original author, not Yonatan.)

Is this not exactly the sort of reaction that the author is speaking against when he refers to "viewpoint diversity"?
Sure, maybe Bob buys a share from Sally for $11. Then Charlie buys a share from Sally for $12. Then Darrel buys a share from Sally for $13.

In this situation, there were 3 buys and 3 sells. $11+$12+$13 flowed into the market while at the same time $11+$12+$13 flowed out of the market. At the end of the day, even though the share price rose, there were an equal number of buys and sells, with equal inflows and outflows.

A higher stock price does not mean the company has more dollar bills in its vault and investors have less. A higher stock price means that stock traders in aggregate now think the company is worth more.

Cash flows through markets, it doesn't flow into markets.

(Technically what this means is dollars are not 'invested in the stock market.' People are not investing 'more.' Prices going up does not mean more money is being invested in the stock market.)