skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is only a disingenuous argument if you are convinced that the gender imbalance is the result of a discrimination in the first place, which you seem to be quite certain it is.

Unlike the guy from Google, I won't speculate on the reasons but there are many gender imbalances that are clearly not the result of a discrimination. For instance a large majority of med and law students (80% in the case of law) in France are women. These are not low skill/low pay/low prestige professions, and I am not aware that there is any discrimination against men in these schools (nor that anyone complained there would). In the school of engineering I went to, the proportion was the reverse (20% women). Selection is purely based on a math and physics exam, very little room for discrimination either. Naturally this male/female imbalance makes its way from university to the profession.

I can't say exactly why we have these imbalances, there might be many reasons, some may be cultural, some may be biological, I don't know, and I very much doubt anyone on HN can pretend to have an authoritative answer, but I also very much doubt it has to do with discrimination.
He did say 7th grade.
This keeps repeating "Go is a general purpose language", but is it?

https://golang.org/doc/faq#What_is_the_purpose_of_the_projec...:
"By its design, Go proposes an approach for the construction of system software on multicore machines."

That page points to https://talks.golang.org/2012/splash.article for "A much more expansive answer to this question". That article states:

"Go is a programming language designed by Google to help solve Google's problems [...] More than most general-purpose programming languages, Go was designed to address a set of software engineering issues that we had been exposed to in the construction of large server software."
It's a valid example. There are people alive today who remember that exact scenario happening, in Western Europe itself no less.
Joel Spolsky's "You Suck at Excel", https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nbkaYsR94c
Ken is a great writer in his own right though; The Paper Menagerie might be my favorite book.
Wait, didnt you write this above: "Let's fund solar power and electric cars and ways to use energy more efficiently, great."

What do you think that is? That's a compliance cost.

You seem to be saying on one hand, "I object to paris accord, lets spend money on climate change ourselves" and then saying "I object to all spending on climate change"

Paris does not force anyone to spend anything or do anything. The goals are all decided by the country itself. The methods used to obtain those goals are also decided by the country itself.

And I'll say again, the Green Climate Fund is completely voluntary. If you dont like it, dont donate to it. And if you don't donate to it, then what is the objection? That other countries might donate to it?

If you're objecting to all spending on climate change, and to a voluntary fund... why not just be straight and say you don't believe in climate change? That would save everyone a lot of time.
Why is there a glaring typo in the first sentence of the abstract?

"In this paper, it is argued that probability theory, when
used correctly, is suffrcient for the task of reasoning under uncertainty."
I never understood how these side-channel attacks can possibly succeed. So many other factors can dominate checking a single character in RAM. Seriously? How would that even work!
Google Fires Author of Divisive Memo on Gender Differences
Presumably, whether it's truly unfortunate or not will be discovered by A/B testing equivalent products under both the AmazonBasics and the more pseudonymous brands. (And even if it does turn out that AmazonBasics has more cachet right now, the brand might be destroyed at some point by negative press—at which point the pseudonymous brands will act sort of as a hedge.)
It's a more detailed article. I've only done a couple of stories for SciFutures. The topics are interesting. Unfortunately we usually don't get to see what other writers wrote.
I agree. IMO, the problem is not that companies aren't made of equals. Hierarchies serve a valuable function. The problem is that the lower bound of how much the bottom of the hierarchy can be abused is far too low. I don't think we need to abolish hierarchies - just raise the floor.
My case isn't very different from yours, except we're in a well off country and individually pretty well off also. Goes to show vicious greed isn't necessarily a class thing.

In my case, a certain person did things so despicable that in my view until they atone for their crimes (actual crimes, not just wrongdoings) in prison, I will never be able to even start forgiving them. Instead, they're living the high life. It's very sad.

I hope you and your family are ok, if nothing else the ones you still care for. These episodes in my life have certainly made me appreciate my immediate family in a different and stronger way.
Further to this, I've actually found in Canada I use Android Pay more and more often now that it's available. The whole country is shifting to contactless and it's incredibly useful to just be able to pull out my phone and make a purchase.

It's faster, and the app gives a list of the purchases you've made with a card, so I can track what I'm spending relatively easily. Unfortunately, there are still lots of stores that haven't upgraded to contactless yet, which means I can't rely on Android pay for the time being. I can see this being much worse in Europe where contactless payments aren't implemented in many more places than here in Canada.
And the X-Ray axion evidence from a few years ago looks OK too.

But honestly: my money would have to go on this one. Black holes are by far the most boring and conventional of the existing theories, and the easiest to refute. aLIGO will tell us if it's right or not within years.
Brazilian here. We had a three-to-four-digit annual inflation rates that last 14 years, from 1980 to 1994 (and it topped 5000% on the last year).
Almost everyone uses debit or credit card nowadays. Even transport cards machines, taxis, small vendors, food trucks accepts credit cards.
Usually I only carry cash for some emergency to the point I don't even remember how much I left on my wallet.
Yes, it's true even for android. From: https://www.android.com/pay/

Your card info stays safe
When you use your phone to pay in stores, Android Pay doesn’t send your actual credit or debit card number with your payment. Instead we use a virtual account number to represent your account info – so your card details stay safe and secure.
The main place this survey gets cited is in discussing NATO obligations.

So I'd like to see someone ask about that explicitly: not defense of German borders, but defense of (for example) Estonia against a Russian invasion. Thoughts there?
I don't really care about their politics, this particular case seems accurate. It's pretty clear that gender incongruence is a medical issue, but trans people are perfectly capable of leading happy and productive lives as long as they receive the proper treatment and aren't subject to abuse for being who they are. I've literally seen that with my own two eyes.
I would still check prices on your pharmacy benefits site between mail order for 90 days and a local pharmacy. The mail order pharmacies are frustrating, but typically you pay less for a 90 day supply.
Too late. I finally added media.giphy.com to my UBlock filter. This one put me over the edge, since I couldn't focus on the content.

However, otherwise an excellent introductory article. Got me reading about Shannon, Kolmogorov, and information theory now.
> In the now-viral document entitled “Google’s Ideological Echo Chamber,” Damore asserts that women are biologically ill-equipped to handle the rigors of the tech industry.

Did they even read it? He does not assert anything like that.
Btw: ECL is also a descendant of KCL. Like AKCL, MKCL, Delphi CL, Ibuki CL, GCL.

Other Lisp-to-C compilers like CLICC, mocl, Thinlisp, and a few others are not descendants of KCL.
He made the exact opposite kind of argument actually.

His argument is let's treat people as individuals and we should stop using inappropriate grouping to push a discriminatory agenda.

An accurate analogy using race might be:

White people are more shy on average than Black people. Companies are using this statistic to justify white only social skills classes.

I think that discriminates against all the black people who are also shy. Let's just make it so any shy person can go to these classes.
The closest Supercharger is about 40 miles away, but that other map shows a 120V charger about 12km away at a golf course. I wonder if it's specifically for car charging, though. Even this far south in Minnesota, some places do have plug-ins for engine heaters in winter.
I don't know, if they don't have any units the can give out to do tests on at this point, what are the odds that the whole thing isn't another round of vapourware? I hope I'm wrong.

[ed: That is to say, if they couldn't get the one tested because it didn't exist, they should be twice as hard at work getting the mk II tested - and I can't see any evidence of that either.]
A look back in IPO: Microsoft, the software success
What a bummer. This could have been "Kubernetes for organizations", how to manage diverse sets of containers-of-emotions/talents in a scalable fashion. There is so little nuance and quality thinking around this topic inside most organizations and Google could have done the community a great service by elevating and firmly grounding the discussion. And I think there are great discussions to be had that would lead to tech workers understanding and desiring diversity for actual reasons and not for PC/BS reasons.

But now no one will raise the topic.
He also did link to his old article on same topic - https://scroll.in/article/732899/video-an-animated-map-which...

- in which the last paragraphs clearly highlights his intentions.
While I've been a developer for many years, I've only started with UE4 about a month ago, and I've got to say that the experience has really been great.

Not only are there really, really good official video tutorials to get you up-and-running, but also while UE4 is definitely a complex piece of software, you can get started pretty easily just by knowing a few things. I think that having Blueprints is a huge win, since they allow you to very easily program without having to learn new language syntax, are easy to read, and the visual debugging/real-time flow chart capabilities are very cool.

After only a month or so (of inconsistent, hour-or-two-in-evenings hobby time), I feel pretty comfortable with the engine and need a lot less handholding than I expected to need at this point.
Meizu M6 Note leaks, take a look at its specs and launch date
I like this pricing model compared to udacity's new nanodegrees. This works better for people who want to rush through the course as quickly as possible. It essentially encourages faster completion.

You pay $49 per month and finish at your own pace. On Udacity you pay a fixed price of approximately $800 per semester with a trial period of 7 days. Since you are paying for the entire course upfront, you might realize after a few weeks that you don't like it. On Coursera, you can stop anytime and you've only paid $49 x number of months you tried.
Well that is just the law. You can get in a lot of trouble for discriminating.
> Berlin...have rounded prices for everything

That's rarely the case. I can only think of dm (a drugstore) which rounds all prices in 5 cent increments. Otherwise you see a lot of prices ending in 8 or 9.
Another big aspect is, German people like having control over their spending. Checking my Credit Card is unnecessary frustrating. While you have a pretty good overview of how much you are spending if you always get about the same amount from the ATM.
I discuss the approach more in depth here:

http://saadahmad.ca/detecting-evaluation-context-inside-cons...
Hello: author here! I honestly have no idea what that tracking tag is, but 07/20 was the date I started writing this story! Guessing it's just Amazon tracking to see where traffic is coming from. But if you have any other questions about the story or my journalistic integrity, I'm here to answer them!
It's more than just stubborness.

1) As others have mentioned, many people look forward to paying off their mortgage and gaining an instant monthly cash benefit from that.

2) Those who sell into an up market will probably have to buy into an up market. This causes problems with more than just money -- imagine a situation where a seller is a week from closing their house without a contract on a new house. They've become a landlord's wet dream.

3) Property tax relief for older people isn't just an expression of political might / parasitism -- it's a reasonable accommodation to the reality of fixed incomes.

But we might have some opportunities here. Maybe more building designed for older people might break the housing logjam.

1) Older people, retirees more accurately, don't NEED to live close to jobs. Close to hospitals, maybe, or family, but not jobs.

2) Older people probably don't drive as much, so the need to upgrade road capacity isn't as pressing.

3) Older people frequently have needs that require extensive rework of their current homes.
Kinda funny to think that maybe, just maybe, the social network was sponsored by Google or Twitter as an attempt to make the competing platform less desirable.
sampling this out now! clean!
I agree, but it should start at the top:

"Eric Schmidt [and a sizeable team of Googlers]* played a crucial role in Team Hillary’s election tech".

https://qz.com/823922/eric-schmidt-played-a-crucial-role-in-...

*from other sources
Wolfenstein 3D source is here - https://github.com/id-Software/wolf3d
Roger McNamee: I invested early in Google and Facebook and regret it
More precisely: two brains.
I used ads as an example.

The article can be described as an article embedded with Amazon afflicted links.

Put that in the disclaimer.
Based on the comments, feathers already got ruffled here.
Maybe product development and distribution to a host of brands is an example of doing something that doesn't scale.
Gizmodo doubling down on misrepresentation, I see.
I tried to use android pay for a few months. In theory its great (and it's great when it works!) but like 30% of the time it doesn't really work the first time, you have to play around with it on the card reader. Then the phone vibrates like it worked but nothing happens. You look at the phone and it says "please hold the card to the reader again." and despite Subway accepting android pay (and the cashiers insisting that it works for everyone else) whenever I try to use it there I get a message "please insert card." I was never able to figure out the workflow to get it to work on a vending machine. Also the first time I used it I froze the register.

So 70% of the time it saves time and 30% of the time it wastes time. Then I broke my phone and bought a replacement without NFC so I don't have the option anymore anyways.

It's a great system, however, I think the kinks need to be worked out a little.

(I had a Nexus 5x FYI)
You got it.

Spoilsport :P
> Intuitively, that's not "obviously" false to me.

That's fair -- intuitions are pretty personal things. It is "obviously" false to me, and Bertrand Russell fairly well articulated the reason why by calling AC the "multiplicative axiom".

If you have sets A, B with 3 and 5 elements, respectively, the Cartesian product has 15 elements.

So, if we have an infinite series of sets, each with at least one element, I'd expect there to be something in the infinite Cartesian project just by multiplication -- the number of elements should (and I say "should" here to clearly denote my intuition) be in some sense the product of each of the individual numbers of elements. (I avoided the word "cardinality" here explicitly because I'm talking intuitively).

The idea that there's a collection of non-empty sets whose Cartesian product is empty is therefore akin to saying that you can multiply numbers bigger than zero and end up with a zero result.
You comment makes me wonder: At what point has the pursuit of diversity been "enough?" What's the actual end game, so that we know we've achieved it? Is it to have an perfectly statistically balanced ethnic representation in a company's workforce based on global population densities?

Will Google know that they've "succeeded" at diversity when 50-odd percent of programmers are women, and the bulk of their workforce are Asian and Indian, since they make up the majority of people on the earth? Is Google's goal to have the best programmers they can find, but which fit within the global demographics, because they conclude that there is absolutely no correlation between gender, race, culture, or creed in the aptitude for, or desire to pursue, any given human endeavor?

Or, perhaps, to use your example, is the goal to actually increase the preference for non-white, non-males in order to "catch up" other genders and ethnicities until their population groups exhibit the same level of wealth?

There are a lot of tangents to all of this, but I'm trying to stick to the main point here: at what point will we know that American corporations have achieved "enough" diversity, and that outreach programs and hiring preferences are no longer necessary? What's the idealized situation look like? (Honest question.) What's the measure of success?

Also, are companies in other parts of the world trying to achieve the same thing? Are companies, say, in India and China, hiring white and black people like crazy because they also recognize the extreme and urgent need to diversify their workforces? The answer to that question might help clarify the first.
Key points:

I invested in Google and Facebook years before their first revenue and profited enormously. I was an early adviser to Facebook’s team, but I am terrified by the damage being done by these Internet monopolies.

Facebook and Google get their revenue from advertising, the effectiveness of which depends on gaining and maintaining consumer attention. Borrowing techniques from the gambling industry, Facebook, Google and others exploit human nature, creating addictive behaviors that compel consumers to check for new messages, respond to notifications, and seek validation from technologies whose only goal is to generate profits for their owners.

The people at Facebook and Google believe that giving consumers more of what they want and like is worthy of praise, not criticism. What they fail to recognize is that their products are not making consumers happier or more successful. Like gambling, nicotine, alcohol or heroin, Facebook and Google — most importantly through its YouTube subsidiary — produce short-term happiness with serious negative consequences in the long term. Users fail to recognize the warning signs of addiction until it is too late.
I found this by just looking for the word "biological" in the original: "I’m simply stating that the distribution of preferences and abilities of men and women differ in part due to biological causes and that these differences may explain why we don’t see equal representation of women in tech and leadership."
If you want, I can also send you a draft of my book. However, my book is very interested in history and culture so it doesn't have a practical orientation or organization and may present topics in the wrong order, and go into details that most command line beginners didn't want.
Inkster is giving property away, but rent in the desirable neighborhoods of Detroit is well over a grand a month. In the modern high rises with a nicely updated kitchen, you're looking at two grand. House prices in Indian Village are honestly pretty unaffordable for local salaries (I say as a fairly well-paid Big 3 engineer). If I were going to recommend a place to move to -- Lansing, Grand Rapids, Ames, Columbus.
HN is probably not the best place/format to have an in-depth "ideological" discussion but I'll just throw this out there - the aggressive invading side doesn't care about your feelings or affiliations.

There are situations where you'll either have to flee or fight or surrender (which basically means giving up your way of life, becoming a 2nd class citizen at best etc).
The bank pays the full amount immediately, unless they have a special agreement with the seller. You get different treatment according to your CC provider. Here is an example: http://www.gold.com.tr/BankaKampanya.aspx (Turkish). "Peşin fiyatına 3 Ay taksit" means "3 months payments without interest". They usually inflate the price beforehand to account for such payments, so you are disincentivized to use a debit card or to pay in cash. Such tactics are fought against by the national banking organization but they always find another way (like having ridiculously low, "symbolic" interests for specific sellers/goods). The whole situation used to be grim when I left Turkey many years ago, but I don't imagine it being better now.
Pencil & paper role playing games. If you view them as collaborative, improvised, slightly-structured, in-person storytelling, there's nothing like them for developing skills related to imagination, narration, language arts, cooperation, politics (seriously!), empathy, problem solving, and communication. They don't require exotic or expensive technology, can be played almost anywhere, help build meaningful social relationships, can be played by almost anyone, can be a lifelong hobby, and encourage learning about an enormous range of real world histories, ideas, technologies, literatures, skills, etc.
I did indeed, thanks for the catch - fix incoming
In README: "[...] we can choose to implement a runtime specific algorithm while having a different algorithm for doing something at runtime." Typo?
Wouldn't that be the Magarshak ratio?
Summary of results from prostitution decriminalization experiment:

* Female gonorrhea rates decreased 40%
* Reported rape offenses decreased 30%
* No evidence that decriminalization increases human trafficking

> She has a theory, though, in that while she knows for some men rape is about power, "I think the argument that we're making is that that might not be true for all men, and for some, these activities could be substitutes."

> In other words, for some men, rape may be just about sex. And if there's a legal and accessible market for it, the number of rapes in a community may go down. This has not been a popular theory or study. And for many, it challenges the notion that rape is about violence and power, and not sex. "So I consider myself a feminist, but I think this finding angers a lot of feminists," Shah said. "It is a very controversial idea."

What the hell is this "rape has nothing to do with sex" nonsense and why does challenging this absurd assertion anger feminists? How removed from reality do you have to be to believe that forcing sexual intercourse on someone has nothing to do with sexual attraction?

But back to the topic of criminalization, it's downright disingenuous to conflate prostitution with human trafficking. And I don't believe the government should be in the business of imposing its moral whims on the decisions of consenting adults.
I go back and forth on the looks PUBG, sometimes its gorgeous, sometimes the buildings don't load.

There will be moments where the landscapes and vistas are almost as impressive as Witcher 3 and then I get shot.
That's called academic skepticism. Maybe you're unfamiliar with it.
Here's another fun read on why sizes matter as it relates to monster movies

http://fathom.lib.uchicago.edu/2/21701757/
If the shoe was on the other foot would we be so quick to write it off? If Google was run by right-wingers and fired LGBT activists would we say "they can do whatever they want since it is their company"? Why do we not allow discrimination on the basis of religion (a belief) but allow it based on political opinion (a belief)?
Certainly, and I deliberately didn't get into bytes and encoding until after this - I was trying to get across the softer idea that in terms of space-on-a-page-using-a-pen, you've saved.