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With respect, I feel like part of you having been down voted is because your second paragraph is doing exactly what you accuse this memo writer of, namely "sets forward incorrect assertions about biological differences without the self-awareness about why he takes those differences as truth".

A cursory reading of the literate suggests at least some evidence that the differences can't be explained by socialization, for example. See:

"In her preface to the first edition, Halpern wrote: “At the time, it seemed clear to me that any between-sex differences in thinking abilities were due to socialization practices, artifacts and mistakes in the research, and bias and prejudice. ... After reviewing a pile of journal articles that stood several feet high and numerous books and book chapters that dwarfed the stack of journal articles … I changed my mind.”

"Why? There was too much data pointing to the biological basis of sex-based cognitive differences to ignore, Halpern says. For one thing, the animal-research findings resonated with sex-based differences ascribed to people. These findings continue to accrue. In a study of 34 rhesus monkeys, for example, males strongly preferred toys with wheels over plush toys, whereas females found plush toys likable. It would be tough to argue that the monkeys’ parents bought them sex-typed toys or that simian society encourages its male offspring to play more with trucks. A much more recent study established that boys and girls 9 to 17 months old — an age when children show few if any signs of recognizing either their own or other children’s sex — nonetheless show marked differences in their preference for stereotypically male versus stereotypically female toys."

https://stanmed.stanford.edu/2017spring/how-mens-and-womens-...

Is this the end all be all? No. Does it mean women can't be good engineers? No. Does this episode lead to more self awareness all around? Hopefully.
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The latter. Just give me an idea of the order of magnitude of the price. Is a commercial license closer to $1000 or $100,000?
Do you know if Cruise will be looking for interns next Summer? It's a hugely interesting field to me and I'd love to get my feet wet prior to graduating.
Meanwhile I've opened a 20GB log in Sublime Text and done some actual work with it...
It only takes a few minutes to file a NLRB charge. The charge form only requires a brief summary of the allegations (a few sentences, at most) and specifically tells you not to include any evidence (you provide that later, during or after meeting with a Board agent).
Let me know how it goes :)
If I wanted to cement my advantages of being a white male then I'd adopt mainstream views on every topic since I myself don't gain anything from helping a fellow man.
And is arguably walking a very fine line in doing so.

IANAL, but it is illegal for employers to use the threat of firing to compel employees to take (or avoid) a political course of action.

Furthermore, it is illegal for employers to punish employees for speaking up about issues the employee believes affect working conditions (which was largely the premise of the employees essay).

Google side-stepped the issue by firing him for statements which may (or may not) violate anti-discrimination policies that just so happened to be in his essay.

They left largely unchallenged (and it seems to me, rather reinforced) the central complaint. Namely that Google was fostering a politically stifling atmosphere.
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Better power curves & higher RPM capability, so you can use a smaller, more underpowered engine for the same application.

But that never overcame their mediocre gas mileage (lack of compression/poor combustion chamber shape), oil burning (oil-lubricated apex seals), and need for frequent rebuilds.
I thought the same as you did when I first saw it and got a bit sad. I'm actually considering trying to implement something like Lisp Flavored Perl a la Lisp Flavoured Erlang as my senior thesis/project this year.

I'm kind of torn though, as it's my second real idea and my director already likes my first idea. While that one will probably end up being too much work, this one might be overcompensating for that (although I could just be overly optimistic about how easily I can write a new lisp).
It's his trademark sarcasm, and the subtle hilarity is one of the reasons I read his daily newsletter. That quote requires more context:

You're supposed to know where the money is! That knowledge and reliability is the central function of the bank; getting the dumb spreadsheets right is more important than moral probity. A bank that keeps very careful track of how much money it has, and who owes it money and whom it owes money, and sometimes does evil stuff with that knowledge -- that's fine, really. A bank that sometimes forgets who owes what to whom is the real menace.
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You're leaving out quasars.
Have you even read his text? Please quote the "deeply hurtful" passages
Not every Electro app should have to deal with a huge dom tree like Atom does. I just think the Electron is a bad fit for this particular type of application, but it does not mean it can be a bad fit for other type of stuff.
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First of all, he had far better references than random WordPress blog posts, and second of all, that is completely irrelevant and doesn't excuse you from providing an accurate representation of the original.
Author here. The development of this book has taken a while but I'm happy to say that it is now in print!

Chapter 1 and 8 are free so be sure to give them a look if you're new to Nim.

Previous discussion for the curious: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10987975

Happy to answer any questions.
Also running uBO, and this is what I was talking about: http://i.imgur.com/IuiAcpA.png

The thing that appeared in the normal flow also appeared for me lower down the article.
> The Department of Labor’s increasingly heated dispute with Google over a gender pay gap began, innocently enough, with a routine audit.

> During the audit, however, the agency found “systemic compensation disparities against women pretty much across the entire workforce,” according to testimony from a DoL official.

> The lawsuit was about accessing data, not the merits of the DoL’s arguments, she says, pointing out that the government has yet to present its case.

https://www.wired.com/story/google-department-of-labor-gende...
We really don't need yet another anti-Electron circlejerk here, especially when VS Code is also written with Electron.
Who wants to discuss the suppression of content on HN?

163 pts in 37 mins, but flagged off the front page as soon as it appeared.

Does the number of flags required to trip the [flagged] trigger increase with the number of points and speed of those points on a story?

If not, why not?

Yes one could say rapid point accrual on a story of this nature is telling of a hot-button issue that and thus likely to create discussion not up to our desired standards.

But what I think is really being shown here is that this is an issue many feel is in much need of attention and the fact that a small group can just flag these so quickly when the rest of the community is saying this is important seems strange.
Compared to BBEdit, Sublime and Notepad++, Code is terribly slow. It behaves nothing like the OSes I try to use it (subtle, but very important).
If it did, they would already have.
If they are smart and make it contain every disney movie, they could make an absurd amount of money. If they are dumb, and don't allow their premium library titles / or rotate those titles they are only going to make a lot of money. And if they are really dumb, they will have advertising.
Apparently Jordan Peterson will have an interview with the google memo guy on his youtube channel today. Just curious how this will go down, since youtube already took down Jordan's channel last week, before brining it back without explanation, fueling many conspiracy theories. Jordan is probably the first to layout a coherent logical, scientific argument against Identity Politics, that seems to have inspired the google memo.
> Atom is built on Electron.

So is VSCode.

> Can we put this thing to rest..?

Where's the harm in having an actual discussion about this? If you're comfortable with your choice of Atom, you can just ignore anyone comparing Atom to VSCode.
Income growth isn't the biggest "wow" factor in this economy. Check out the wealth/asset/capital growth of the wealthy.

Ever since the FED bailout, the wealth of has grown by leaps and bounds.

Usually, in economic booms, the wealthy took the lion share of the wealth and threw the crumbs to the middle/lower class in the form of income growth. But not this time.

It's also reflected by the decline of unions.
we're pretty sure our theories are right

People are always so sure.

They didn't say "Well, the geocentric model is probably wrong but we'll use it for now" either.
I wish there were more people like you. People able to have a better critical reading and don't fall quickly in easy offenses that might not even exists.
There have been several very active threads about this incident, the conversation has been mostly people talking past each other, the headline is inflammatory, and the article adds nothing new to the discussion.
For our first 100 customers we basically did all the setup work for them. Basically did a screenshare, clicked for them, told them what to do. Would sometimes leave the call, and spend 1-8 hours clicking for the customer.

Learned how customers wanted the product to work, and gained initial customers. Lost money on the setup but who cares.

Now setups are a 30 minute phone call where we teach customers how to click themselves.
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As a woman, I could not work with an outspoken misogynist. As a lesbian, I could not work with an outspoken homophobe. As a Jew, I could not work with an outspoken antisemite.

Forcing minorities and women to work with people who are bigoted against them is a recipe for a lawsuit.
I'm always interested in systems that attempt to do LaTeX one better. Some of them sit on top (like Scribble), others replace the engine (like LuaTex). Still others convert from less powerful languages to LaTeX (like Pandoc does). This one looks like it's trying to replace the whole LaTeX world. I think this project may have bitten off more than it can chew, but I appreciate the attempt.
Good luck with that. Are they seriously expecting me to pay for 4-5 streaming services? I guess no Disney for me then.
I don't see average consumer using more than a 2-3 services.
The brevity and aesthetics of async/await has made me reluctant to move back to any pyramid type async chain. I don't know if it's good practice, but I use typescript to declare an optional null type and just return a null from inside the async function if I need to cancel.
> Atom is built on Electron

So is VSCode! Hence the constant comparisons.
I know for more recent vehicles that is probably true, but as an owner of a 2006 F-150 with the 5.4L 3V Triton V8 that had the infamous spark plug issue, I had to lol with a tinge of sadness at your "last 15 years" comment.

Backstory: Ford came out the gate with a new spark plug design for the 2004 F-150 3V Triton 5.4L V8 engine (after their previous spark plug design failure in the 2V Triton where the plugs would shoot out) and told everyone that the spark plugs would last 100k miles. Turns out if you let them go that long, they would get stuck in the cylinder head and break off when you tried to remove them, leaving stuck broken pieces of spark plug behind. Conveniently, 100k miles happens to be when most people's warranty expires, leaving people with a best case a few-hundred-dollars-extra tune-up bill, if not thousands of dollars if the heads had to be removed. Ford faced a class-action lawsuit over this debacle, and there are still companies selling special broken spark plug removal kits designed solely for this engine to this day. Of course the root cause of the problem is faulty design, but it would have been mostly avoided had they not claimed a 100k mile service interval for the plugs. So yes, Ford went from an engine where the spark plugs would shoot out of the cylinder head, to one where they would get stuck so hard they would break.

I know all of this not because I am an engine geek, but because it happened to me. Two spark plugs broke off while being removed and I came this close to needing to have the heads removed and machined. Fortunately those special removal kits I mentioned earlier really do work. Given how relatively cheap spark plugs are, you can bet it will be a while before I trust that 100k mile number :-)
Did you read the document?
The very exact text you are citing has links that lead to sources. Why would you ignore them?
It's been really in three categories:

1. Projects that yield nothing financially.
2. Projects that help me establish me as a .. idk.. thoughtleader(?) in certain specific niche fields.
3. I've written 2 libraries in particular that netted me a number of consulting gigs. For about 2 years I was able to travel around the world supporting myself with this, and I worked for companies on location in 4 continents. This was a pretty great time of my life, but I got bored working on a single project.

So definitely more than beer money for that last one, but it might have been a fluke. Generally it's not my aim to do this for my side projects. I make enough money, so I do it because I enjoy it.
As Netscape discovered[1], there is no such thing as an internal list or e-mail[2]. People would be well advised not to believe in such things even if they are presented as such.

1) https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:0O3ZRp... (cache version)

2) http://lilly.tumblr.com/post/11230723028/steve-jobs
That's an unfair quote, taken completely out of context. His articles frequently cover fraud and illegality in the financial markets, and he's never in favour of it.

The quote in question was pointing out how bad the latest Wells Fargo scandal is. A bank that can't keep track of money is in serious trouble and is woefully incompetent. The banks ripping off customers but accounting for the profits are evil, but at least they are being competent.
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Negative. The scheduler is an optimisation. The alternative is to rely on VM scheduling using `process.nextTick` or `setTimeout` for every new async operation, which involves mandatory allocations and possibly other overhead. Using a custom scheduler is MUCH more efficient, which is why every decent promise implementation does it.
What you said may be factually correct but the ENTIRE money system is INSOLVENT.

Its designed to create more debt than money with which to pay the debt.

All of the 'debt' units or IOUs that bring the actual dollars into existence have interest attached to the loan.

So tell me where do the additional dollars that are used to pay the interest on the debt (loan) come from ? They are never created and therefore SOMEONE must default.

People dont get this and they pretend to boil this all down to some high minded analogy and intellectualize away the slavery system known as a DEBT BASED CURRENCY. Credit based currencies do exist and the "full reserve" arab banking you speak of exists as a concept to stop this form of usery slavery. The arab banking you speak of is a NO INTEREST system, reserves having nothing to do with it.

And lastly, what should happen to insurance corporations that cant manage their books ? They should go out of business. Its just math. No reason to even mention any kind of "substantial reason to believe" or other NON MATH related B.S. excuse for bailing out your buddies banks.

The things that get defended and justified on HN are OUTRAGEOUS.

Lookup USERY.
Lookup CRONY CAPITALISM.
It appears like you may understand fractional reserve banking along with the mainstream justification story for the bailouts.
His previous behaviour is as irrelevant as the content of his post: he was given an expectation of safety to express his opinion and that trust was abused by multiple parties.
Wow so many hit pieces on how to tolerate sexism.
The Amish made the argument that maybe we shouldn't be getting so much sugar. They were obviously wrong on the whole.

Now our sugar is being upgraded to crack-cocaine. The Amish are always going to be wrong, until they are right.

I work in Las Vegas, where we had to put VERY strict rules on the gaming industry to prevent them from absolutely destroying large chunks of the population (more than they already do). I'm sure that someday our government will have to step in and protect the vulnerable in our society from the Candy Crush of the next decade.
Colin wasn't fired.

He opted out of his contract - making himself a free agent.

http://www.49ers.com/news/article-2/Colin-Kaepernick-Opts-Ou...

This is like quitting your job and complaining you don't have a job.
CoinList/SAFT is supposed to be that but it hasn't been revealed yet.
> the "it" you refer to expands to "why women and minorities may be biologically less qualified for this job, and those that are here are illegitimate in some way."

Accepting your characterization here for the sake of argument: if his claims are so laughably ridiculous as to be easily refutable, people should just have pointed to studies refuting it (of which there are plenty) and gone about their day. When you can't bring up a topic in a respectful way without being shouted down, it's a bad situation.
My company uses .NET mainly so it's nice to see these libraries. But from recent experience with several of them I am starting to be a little wary of .NET SDKs. It seems most .NET SDKs are either buggy, incomplete or have some other issues. It feels like you are a second class citizen with .NET.

I would prefer if I could call Java SDKs from .NET. These SDKs seem to be higher quality than most .NET SDKs.

C# is a great language and .NET is good but for the availability of 3rd party libraries I would probably go the Java route if I had to start from scratch.
Maybe it boils down to npms? Atom is using `dugite` npm for git, which takes more than 40MB alone, babel-* packages are probably above 50MB and silly things like emoji-images >11MB... but to be honest VSCode must be taking more space than that, maybe they're keeping npms outside of the main app because electron framework itself takes 167MB on the current Atom so technically you can't get below that.
Just curious how you sourced your Ensibukko investment. AngelList? Or direct relationship with the company?

And I agree, Africa is hot hot hot ;)
Honestly I'm a little curious about whether compiling it to WebAssembly would have offered similar benefits. If so, that would make writing performance-critical parts of Electron apps in another language a more approachable proposition.
Not to beat a dead horse, but: is there anything Atom does that VSCode doesn't already do better? Is there a reason to prefer it?
Hawking radiation is speculation AFAIK, there's no observation to back it up.
> Blows any hybrid out of the water for total COO.

Not so sure about this. I have a 2014 3i GT and my wife has a 2014 Prius. Hers was cheaper to buy, gets way better mileage (29 v. 44) and needs less frequent oil changes (which are free), and is worth about $1200 more now.

It's a little faster, nicer inside, and much more fun to drive. But cheaper, nah.
I agree with you that given the level of coverage I don't know how Google could NOT do something. It's becoming a huge distraction and to let it continue on for a few weeks seems like it would be even worse.
Just answered this in another thread. One of these did get me a whole bunch of income allowed me to travel, but it's not why I do it today.
> If they need to write something lower level for a core part of the application to achieve performance, I think that's alright.

Which is the idea behind WebAssembly and why we're seeing it discussed more often these days
Atom also happens to be built on Electron; I think that commenter was genuinely curious as to how Atom was that much smaller than VSCode when both are built with similar technologies.
Would it be acceptable for Facebook to try to make you less depressed by changing what you see on your feed?
It's actually a valid question: Both Atom and VSCode are built on Electron, both provide similar functionality, and one is a lot faster than the other. (Or _was_ a lot faster than the other?)

So it's valid to ask what did the VSCode people do to come to the different result?

On a related note, I wonder about the speed difference now, after Atom has done a lot of optimizations.
A diversified market for every distributor another platform isn't going to work. I recon people are not willing to take more than 3/5 subscriptions for watching their movies / series. And what if you want to watch that single movie, you need to go and buy that one, or do they offer a platform where you can rent / stream that one movie?
Couldn't smaller animals just evolve better insulation instead? Surely it would be easier to survive if they didn't have to eat so much.
Electron is a bad fit for any kind of application.
He has to pass the time between instructions from Russia somehow.
Or cigarettes, booze, porn, divorce attorney, higher education, jewelry, sports cars, psychiatry, etc...

There are plenty of profitable industries built on the backs of people's mental unrest that has nothing to do with making them well.

Why do you think this technology would be deployed only aligned with the best interests of the users?

My guess is that it would optimize for the most proftiable behavior for the owner of the capital.

A free or cheap solution would not have the ROI a palliative / ongoing treatment would.

Why do you think depressed people are almost never given the option of writing gratitude letters, or are given drugs shown to increase the symptoms they proport to treat in the long term?
https://io9.gizmodo.com/the-seriously-creepy-two-kitten-expe...
In my defense, the linked research paper is about multiple genders of a species, with the thesis that they are the same creature. I admit my additional joke about Google was unnecessary.
> "You may agree with the manifesto author or not, but his thought were articulate. He provided evidence for his theories and at no point was he needlessly insulting to anyone. "

No, no, and no. Asserting that half of humanity is incapable of taking on pressure and responsibility is insulting, and suggesting that his rant was articulate or evidenced shows a serious lack of basic humanity. Strong words, but as I said, this is not a TV debate. This is a struggle. We won't convince each other here.
Looks like the author only recently submitted it to the store for review: https://github.com/joshbalfour/disable-scroll-jacking#update
I'm starting to think that bitcoin is going to grow until it puts the world economy at risk.
Well that was my quickest github star ever
Right? I'm getting whiplash from all the back and forth from different companies signing exclusive offers with Netflix/Hulu, and then turning around and reneging on those.
The harm is that every time there's an Atom post, most comments are about how much it sucks compared to VSCode, and always from the point of view of memory footprint, and size. I have both GB of memory, and GB of HD space.

I don't get the point.
The point I think the parent is trying to make is that some times debating certain ideas is validating them a little bit. It's as if someone asked me to jump off a bridge: discussing whether he should jump or not would be like saying "there is some possibility that you convince me and I jump off the bridge".

Indeed, you should enter a debate with the idea that the other might convince you, right? If you are not going to change it it's not a debate.