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>The first bullet point is "women are more people oriented".

No, the first bullet point is:

>Women on average show a higher interest in people and men in things

Which is true, and does not ascribe a particular set of traits to all women. It makes a statistical observation that refutes the notion that sexism is the cause of gender disparity in the STEM fields.

> If you want to take his words at face value, go ahead, but the belief that there are some roles than women cannot do due to their differences is consistent with the rest of his essay.

That is your own very ungenerous, cynical and totally unsupported conjecture, that you're attributing to the author's intent and message.

Promoting the lie that men and women do not differ on the average in their biological tendencies toward various interests and competencies leads to the lie that it is systemic sexism that has resulted in the gender differences seen in various occupations, which leads to destructive discriminatory (affirmative action) policies to correct discrimination that doesn't exist.
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Sure, that makes sense, but this will undoubtedly result in less savvy folks (i.e. the elderly) being scammed. I suppose I was really looking for a way to escalate the complaint.
I think it's appropriate to restrict usage of the word "encryption" to methods that come with some justification for their security.

I don't think that doing this stifles innovation (In fact, I think requiring crypto innovations to have security justifications is probably better overall for innovation in the field)
You reminded me of that great scene in Life of Brian where Stan wants to be known as Loretta and wants the right to have babies.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PObBA2wH5l0
>I find this discussion funny in the context of say Israel having countless women serve in the army for decades now. Someone must have forgotten to tell them about their biological limitations.

I find this comment funny in the context of the fact that only 3% of IDF soldiers in combat roles are women. Would this be an acceptable percentage in software?
For a great example of this, G+, millions wasted in a copy of Facebook that never worked.
Like for instance GIT, it still is considered hard by a lot of developers. Try to explain it to some common people. But also nowadays most developers use Git daily anyway.
That's the part I don't get, he argues for a lifestyle business being better than a startup and advertises travel and hobbies.

So the premise seems very clear, you can earn enough money with a lifestyle business to enjoy life without having to aim for unicorn-hopeful-hockey-stick-growth.

I only read about the money, the hours, and the hobbies, but what happened to you know, building a business to address an issue and solve a problem? Help people?

Even so, the term lifestyle business sounds to me like a smaller workload sustainable living of entrepreneurial minded individuals regardless of what their employees think so you can travel to white sand beaches while the cashflow continues, but some people have fulfillment in building a business, creating a workplace, a culture where others will thrive and and enjoy life themselves.
Have you evaluated TypeScript native?

I prefer TS over JS, and I wonder how well it is supported, or if that is even an issue.
The kernel seems better suited to something like Phabricator instead of Github. Keep Github simple and clean for our "normal" projects.
I understand that when building a business around the "open core" model it can be hard to draw the right line between no-cost and commercial features. Still, making backups a commercial feature surprises me. I can't imagine running a database without backing up the data. Is the intent to let people run CockroachDB in preproduction environments at no cost, but require anyone running it in production to purchase an enterprise license?
I have to agree - I was reading Ha-Joon Chang who was saying this is why salaries have been flat since the 70s - basically household incomes have grown as one income became two. And of course the washing machine and other household goods have enabled so much time saving that women could go out to work

But it does not quite balance out - households rarely have two good incomes, and the time costs still hurt.

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Your browser has a 'Page style/No Style' option to take care of stuff like that.
Norway has female special forces members ("Jegertroppen").

Gaddafi famously had female bodyguards, but perhaps for very different reasons.

Many muslim countries have female special forces (again prehaps fro very different reasons)
I love the story of the Seven Roach Rush. To quote the linked article, "The most interesting part of this build, however, is how counter-intuitive it is. It violates several well-known (and well-adhered-to) heuristics used by Starcraft players when creating builds."

I'm fairly certain that this application of machine learning will present some surprising strategies.

http://lbrandy.com/blog/2010/11/using-genetic-algorithms-to-...
And of course it's flagged because HN can't handle that.
The comment was also made over 5 years ago. GitHub PRs have improved since then, though he may still find them deficient.
You notably skipped over the majority of my comment, and only added more unfounded sweeping generalizations comparable to your similar ranting about feminists elsewhere.

>The question is if there is more to consider in social constructs than simply evolutionary biology.
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There was way, way more to his "manifesto" than what's in your summary, actually.
Could you link/explain how you get those hardware prices, specifically the servers and desktops? Are the available for the average consumer (ie not making a bulk purchase)? I have very little experience buying hardware, but those prices sound 4-8x lower than what I'd expect (and I'd be super happy to find that I'm wrong).
>A lot of studies have probe the opposite (recent studies, not old ones).

You should familiarise yourself with the philosophical basis of the is/ought distinction.

There is no good reason to assume that scientific inquiry, which tells us a fact about the world in any way tells us what we should want or should do.

Scientific evidence is a tool to evaluate whether we are effectively pursuing our normative values. Science itself will never be able to set those values for us.
Let me quote someone who has said it much better than I can:

"But it is crucial to distinguish the moral proposition that people should not be discriminated against on account of their sex — which I take to be the core of feminism — and the empirical claim that males and females are biologically indistinguishable. They are not the same thing. Indeed, distinguishing them is essential to protecting the core of feminism. Anyone who takes an honest interest in science has to be prepared for the facts on a given issue to come out either way. And that makes it essential that we not hold the ideals of feminism hostage to the latest findings from the lab or field. Otherwise, if the findings come out as showing a sex difference, one would either have to say, "I guess sex discrimination wasn't so bad after all," or else furiously suppress or distort the findings so as to preserve the ideal. The truth cannot be sexist. Whatever the facts turn out to be, they should not be taken to compromise the core of feminism.

[..]

The nature and source of sex differences are also of practical importance. Most of us agree that there are aspects of the world, including gender disparities, that we want to change. But if we want to change the world we must first understand it, and that includes understanding the sources of sex differences.
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-- Steven Pinker, The Pinker/Spelke Debate https://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/debate05/debate05_index.htm...

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No idea how good that book is but that newest stack won't be the newest in maybe a month or so. Assuming that is well written most of it will be applicable or will need only minor updating. That's probably why no iOS dev (from the original comment) can find anything "up to date" because we're right on the edge of a new release.
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Every time I try to get into Seaside, I can't get past the mangling of URLs that takes place. Have they come up with some way around that?
Nietzsche's aphoristic style was actually pretty effective. Taleb has this tendency to throw aphorisms out there and wait for his followers to get confused by them, at which point he revises them (or just explains them). It's hard to imagine most authors operating that way.
For ios : look at the number of various apis you can use to do widget positionning and animations : calayer, uiview spring n struts, constraints, physic based, and yet none compose well with each other.
IOS also doesn't have any good tech for offline storage ( core data should be burried once and for all) and swift relies on compile-time codegen hack to provide easy struct serialization, because techs like nscoding relied on obj-c runtime facilities and the language itself doesn't provide enough metaprogramming facilities to compensate.

Also, patterns like KVO are still found from time to time as a last resort in frameworks, while being famously unsafe and still rely on the obj-c runtime.

For android basically everything should be rewritten from scratch. Last time i managed a team of android developpers, we basically came to the conclusion that doing regular mvc while supporting a good market share meant recoding our own controller base classes and screen transitionning apis.
I think it is best to write the "core" of your application using a language that can run on all of your target platforms -- which typically means you'll have to use C/C++/Rust or something similar that can be compiled to native code and supports somewhat sane FFI. The UI for each platform should be done using the Native UI toolkit for the platform. That way, you can avoid most of the code duplication.

If you plan to target Android, you might want to check out Google's Java to Objective-C transpiler[1]. That will let you write the core of the app in Java and transpire it to Objective-C for iOS and macOS. The UI will still have to be written using the native toolkit for the platform, though. Fair warning: I have no idea how good or bad it is -- never used it myself.

[1] https://github.com/google/j2objc
Winning this debate by gender-jerry-mandering is not possible.
AI minds shouldn't be any different from our own consciousness. An AI mind will be able to work out that killing humans results in humans killing that AI. So the AI would choose against it for the same reasons that humans choose not to kill other humans. I believe AI minds would have the same empathy and emotions that our minds have, because neural states ultimately comprise emotions.

Perhaps that makes every AI mind just as likely to kill humans as a human being is, and perhaps "mental sickness" is evidence of the vast flexibility and variability in the concept of consciousness. But as an AI will be able to control its own code and neural state, then an AI would be perfectly capable of identifying its own shortcomings and maladies, and correct them; it would be the AI equivalent of "taking a pill/having a drink/smoking".

P.S. Does anyone know if brain-chemistry-like effects on neural networks has been tried?
California Assembly Bill 1665 attempted to something similar:

"Both Frontier and AT&T maintain antiquated DSL systems that serve millions of Californians who live in communities that don’t have sufficient revenue potential. Low income and low density communities in other words."

http://www.tellusventure.com/blog/california-bill-magically-...

AB 1665 seems on hold until legislators return on August 21:

http://www.tellusventure.com/blog/hostile-takeover-of-califo...
Great so we can let ISPs off the hook for all the money we've already given them for faster service they haven't provided. This is how our government works folks.
The sentiment, that Americans don't NEED fast home internet is probably more accurate than not.
It's not relevant though. Need has never been the driving force in the market. It's want, and if people want it, there's no reason they shouldn't have it.
Why would the head of the FCC care if people need high speed?
Only if he were in the pocket of the ISP's. Then he'd need a way to NOT create rules that mandates high speed internet. And if it's not a requirement, then it's up to the business to charge whatever they want without regulation. It's insidious, and quite clever albeit evil.
I think both conservative and HN take issue with that statement.
They can always finetune using RL later. Superversied training was the first step at making AlphaGo work.
> Developing countries are egalitarian

Except they are not, by pretty much all measures. It's just that people are less free to choose what they want to do.
I love the idea, yet I need to say that $700-$800 for a week is pretty steep. The 4-week offering is a bit better, but still a lot of money, considering flights and food are not included.
Interesting. In the implementation as function you trivially can give different states differently typed arguments.

How do you do that in the version you sketch?
"Developing countries are egalitarian"

I have to wonder what you think is meant by the words egalitarian and developing.
There's the problem. You're too suspicious of his unstated intent, and dismissing his stated intent. That seems to put him in an impossible position.
"I built a fiber-channel network in my basement". I want to know more about this. Can the OP write more about this?
Maybe, but solving truly big problems relies on people working together. Linus (and the unfortunate proliferation of jackasses who emulate him) do more to hinder progress than help it.
Maybe i'm offended because, as a white man, it leaves me open to all kinds of statistics about how white men are overwhelmingly likely to be serial killers, compared to other groups. And it would follow that we could do a better of catching serial killers by assuming white men are unable to control their murderous impulses, and adjusting how our laws work so white men are diverted from jobs involving human contact. That way we don't lower the bar for the safety of our lawful citizens.
Regardless of what you think about Trump, he distinguished himself enough from the rest of the field that he became the only viable choice for enough people at the right stages to push him through. Apparently your lofty rationality isn't developed enough to see that. What does rationality even mean in this context? I'd love to know where you draw the line between a rational choice and an irrational one when it comes to voting.
I live in Mountain View, and I've lived here for 20 years and followed local politics all this time. I'm also, unlike most of my fellow residents, pro development and think that increasing density is the only way out of this housing debacle, but maybe I'm biased by having lived in NYC and seen that high density can work.

Where we are today is that your basic crappy 2/1 or 3/1 starter home is over a million dollars here. They're $2 million in a better neighborhood. The majority of higher density housing is rentals, not owner condos. We're losing everyone except families with dual high income workers due to housing costs here.

One big part of the problems is that residents who already own property resist change and want Mountain View to remain as it was when they moved in. It's a selfish mindset, commonly likened to pulling up the ladder behind you when you get on a ship to keep others out. Whenever there's a development proposal, a vocal group of generally older and retired folks show up to try shouting it down. The anti-development people constantly say that the character of the city will be ruined by more housing, but are blind to the character of the city being homogenized on high income tech workers.

Another big part of the problem is ridiculous zoning. It's basically illegal to build anything anymore given the land that's left and the density limits. Every development requires variances from the city council, so even though zoning code isn't meant to give the council the power to meddle in individual developments, it's become so overbearing that the city council effectively dictates what can be built and where, down to the type of food a restaurant will serve. This is no different than communist central planning. These code variances are attained by renovating parks, or contributing to schools, or whatever else the council wants to extort. Permit fees are well into six figures for new housing developments, per unit. Most of these are impact fees for infrastructure and parks. With the high cost of housing here, permit costs, and extortion costs, it's simply impossible to build affordable housing. This is fine, since expensive housing takes the load off the older, affordable stock, but the pace of housing growth isn't keeping up with population growth.

The local cities here belong to a larger organization called the Association Of Bay Area Governments (ABAG). ABAG sets minimum building quotas on towns, and they have to approve that many units, but where they approve the units is up to them. Here in Mountain View, the downtown area is mostly owner occupied single family homes, and these people are against increasing density at all, and probably the most vocal anti-development neighborhood. The downtown area is also the one closest to transit, which is where high density makes sense. Due to this NIMBY attitude, the new developments happen mostly along the El Camino and 101 corridors, which don't have good public transit.

It's a giant mess, basically. The same people who resist density will also resist and kind of better local transit if it means building more tracks near their house, or digging tunnels under their house.
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Please stop violating the guidelines by posting uncivil, gratuitous provocation. You've been doing this a lot and it leads to us having to ban the account.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I'm not sure I'd call it balanced, Ross Douthat is a conservative and it shows:

>But the internet industry is also part of a wider elite culture that is trending in the opposite direction, becoming more feminized and feminist, and inclined to view male-dominated enclaves with great suspicion.

>But Damore also made reasonable points about different ways to pursue diversity and the costs and benefits thereof, in an earnest and dialogic style that a healthy corporate culture would have found a way to answer without swiftly giving him the ax.

That first quote is pure perception from someone looking through conservative glasses. And the second is just a farce. There's no "healthy corporate culture" that would tolerate a memo like this. It's a corporation, it's work, the idea that someone should be able to send a manifesto which not only criticizes their employer but does it while they're facing a lawsuit and is explicitly political is crazy. Leave that stuff for the other 8 hours of your day.
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> Further you can link 3.2 and 4.0 binaries together.

Do you have a source for this? This would imply ABI stability, which isn't being promised until Swift 5.
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I'm glad I refreshed before commenting, because you just expressed my sentiment far more articulately than I was about to.
The most often cited paper w.r.t. gender diversity (the kind most at issue here) seems to be this one:

https://papers.tinbergen.nl/11074.pdf

A more readable summary is here:

http://gap.hks.harvard.edu/impact-gender-diversity-performan...

The authors did indeed find a balance point, at about 50:50 (a far cry from the 81:19 among engineers at Google). OTOH, this was for a very different kind of task than programming. Another starting point is here:

http://www.chabris.com/Woolley2010a.pdf

It's particularly interesting that many summaries of this work will use vague terms like "composition of the group" to avoid mentioning anything in the findings about number of women in the group.
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That's awesome about the au pairs! Good one.
100 is not a font weight that makes sense for a large body of text no matter what the font. We call 300/400 "normal" for a reason.

100 is a "sometimes food" for that giant header or over-sized pull quote.

Designers that insist that entire documents/web-pages must be "light and airy and always 100 font-weight" have A) never struggled with contrast or accessibility issues, B) maybe don't understand typography. "light and airy" also means "easily blows off the page and is unreadable".
That's fine. Many of us don't spend weekends building tech setups in basements - in fact I strive not to. My coworkers don't as well.

You don't have to mainly identify as a profession in order to practice it, and I suspect as we improve work life balance, we wont in general.
They are likely to not get cited as much, which would lower a journals impact factor, reducing the incentive to the journal. This makes it worse for the scientist as there's work without a high "impact" paper, and since they get largely to choose the work they do if it's less "fun" it might be done less. The funder also has to choose between funding new work or replicating previous work.

Something I'd be very interested in is paying independent labs to replicate studies. This removes the incentive issues surrounding the journals and researchers, leaving the funding issue.
I am not a native English speaker, maybe that :-)
> At one point he was planning to publish a book of his own aphorisms, as quoted by himself, while he is still alive.

He did, it's called "The Bed of Procrustes". I quite enjoyed it, there's quite a few brilliant thoughts there, even though they're sprinkled between countless cheap shots against his enemies.
My theory is that Fiat currencies and their central banks are beneficial only to the state, and not to individuals. And that for any system to be viable in the long-term, it needs to benefit individuals else they won't use it.

1.) To a first approximation, central bank policy consists of creating lots more money, all the time.

That is a bad thing for anybody holding the currency (everyone). Therefore these people (everyone) are incentivised not to hold the currency, and instead to hold a currency that can not be inflated away from them. For example, bitcoin.

2.) We're heading towards a cashless society. If the manifestation of a cashless society is one based on fiat currency, that means every single transaction and all money are subject to surveillance, censorship, and even seizure. By the state and by private companies.

Anybody who doesn't want those things to happen to them (everyone) is therefore incentivised to use a currency which is not subject to those things. For example, bitcoin.
I can think of plenty of rooms I could walk into right now (or throughout history) and not have anyone agree with me on something I care about. I don't consider this a problem, in most of those scenarios.

I'd recommend you take your own advice. You didn't even try to read anything I posted, and you sure as hell aren't applying the same critical thinking to shoot down the insane ramblings in the original memo.

Enjoy your privilege, enjoy your current power. Make sure anyone who questions the order of things that grant you all this do so only in a manner you find agreeable, not that it would change your mind or anything. I'm not going to pretend you're doing this in good faith any longer.

Fuck, why do I bother on this site?
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>The author appears to be stating that the solution to sexism is to have women marry the sexists and have their babies.

I didn't get that interpretation at all. The way I understood it, he was saying that there are differences between men and women -- some biological in origin, some social -- and the solution requires we acknowledge these differences instead of pretending they don't exist.
It's mostly how our Republican governments work.