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I actually tend to mostly agree with you on this. I think the safest and most rational policy is just to avoid discussing sensitive topics at work so as not to risk creating a hostile atmosphere, and I don't consider this an unreasonable restriction on freedom of expression. Talk politics and immigration with your friends and family, not your teammates at the office.

My problem is that Google as a company, at least as far as the Mountain View campus goes, apparently disagrees. My understanding -- and it's possible I'm wrong -- is that Google supports and encourages openly discussing a variety of topics at work, and the internal tool he used to publish his memo was designed and used exactly for this purpose. (What Googlers apparently describe as "an internal-only Reddit.") If this is true then he was fired not for discussing inappropriate topics, but for holding opinions the hive-mind finds disagreeable.

Either you as a company support discussing sensitive topics in the office, or you don't. If you don't that should be made clear and enforced equally for everyone. If you do then you can't pick and choose which opinions you approve of based on what's popular, and expressing a dissenting opinion should not, at the very least, be a fireable offense!
I'm not sure this is a bad thing. You should have a different password for each site anyway, so the fact that it disrupts your ability to reuse passwords is an accidental pseudo-feature.
Really great post, and I had what I thought were some great observations about the article I wanted to share. But then in the article's comments I read this by Outer M.:

"By the way, in science and technology, conservatism is a minority ideology (he says so himself in his letter). How would he feel if we start saying that conservative people aren't apt for science and technology? That if he doesn't feel welcome he should find a different profession? It's ironic he complains about it even though, in a way, he understands the struggle."

After I read that, I went back and re-read the memo, but I swapped all gender references for politics, and vice-versa, and it was awesome.

At Google, we talk so much about unconscious bias as it applies to race and political orientation, but we rarely discuss our moral biases. Gender is actually a result of deep moral preferences and thus biases. Considering that the overwhelming majority of the social sciences, media, and Google lean male, we should critically examine these prejudices.

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Possible non-bias causes of the political gap in tech

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In highly progressive environments, women are a minority that feel like they need to stay in the closet to avoid open hostility. We should empower those with different genders to be able to express themselves.

Alienating women is both non-inclusive and generally bad business because women tend to be higher in conscientiousness, which is required for much of the drudgery and maintenance work characteristic of a mature company.
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But it was not classified and they had done the talk at a different conference. According to the article they got a message an hour earlier about not open sourcing it, which they did not do it looks like.
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Agreed. The thrill of playing real opponents who quickly learn from patterns in your behaviour forces you to constantly adjust while also observing their unique behaviours which can be used to your own advantage. Far more challenging and requires on-the-fly tactics and strategies. I'd be quite surprised if multiplayer games didn't lead to more brain matter.
> Such a person is a mishire. The fact that certain people are rejected in the interview process (including false negatives!) does not violate the blameless culture. Once you conclude that someone was a false positive hire, you should promptly let them go with a generous severance.

You might just have a terrible organization or managers with no or poor experience. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
What reasons are there for these restrictions in the first place?
If you include 1 uppercase, 1 lowercase, 1 number and have at least 8 characters, you should meet the password complexity requirements of most servers.
> If something is that urgent you don't text, you call

SMS is UDP, and voice is TCP?
Or any woman, apparently, since the author never met one who has a pile of electronic components stored away for some day.
I've only played around with Phoenix/Elixir so can't claim to have any special knowledge. But I've heard it argued that functional languages/frameworks aren't as common in startups as expected because functional programming isn't as popular among current developers, nor as commonly taught in school. And Erlang seems to be particularly specialized:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7277797

Elixir is relatively new (2011), Phoenix even newer. Maybe it's too early to say whether or not it will take off in the same way Rails did? And maybe it won't ever take off because Node/Express brings sufficient performance while allowing developers to use JavaScript, arguably the most popular language in production today.
> Rotation is pretty bad

Rotation is great if it's implemented correctly. The problem is that it's too much of a burden on users, therefore they implement it poorly, and then it's less useful or a weakness.
ISPs have for decades been subsidized and not delivered.

http://newnetworks.com/bookofbrokenpromises.htm
Unless the smart contract doesn't split the funds, but directs them all to the husband, notwithstanding what the Wife believed the smart contract would do.

But yes, young families should convert all their assets to ETH and tie it up in their prenuptial smart contract until they divorce because lawyers suck.

But assuming the smart contract will actually split the amounts equally...how does the smart contract know when the parties marriage is dissolved? And money isn't the only thing involved in marriage, sometimes there are children, does the smart contract automatically split the children in half too or do we have to turn to the lawyers still?
http://www.greenarraychips.com

They make real world chips that are much like the architectural concept in TIS-100.
The only problem with that is that websites that have obscure password rules don't tend to be ones adopting modern HTML5 tags.
> health care expenditure

To be fair not all of that is per-unit health costs increases; much of that is due to longer life expectancy.
No. 8 characters is too short - no matter if you add in special symbols and upper/lower case. It's too easy to brute-force crack. You need something longer. And once you make it longer, the extra alphabet size from upper/lower case and symbols matters less.
I don't prevent any debating flagging another post saying exactly the same than the last 3 posts (actually I agree with most of the post). You can still comment in the post (I did indeed).

I do think people flagged post because they didn't aline with their opinions, but they are in their right. If this is a community site and people decide to flag something, you should accept it (or leave the community if you don't like it). I also consider those flags under the community guidelines because we already have a couple of post about the topic.

The debate is happening anyway. Don't get frustrated. I am learning a lot.
The article says that they were forbidden to announce open-sourcing of the tool. They were required not to cancel the speech, but to not announce open-sourcing. Having such second thoughts about open source is so typical of old-school managers, it doesn't even surprise me.
The value comes from a hybrid of blockchain contracts and legal contracts. The contracts that actually manage an asset would run on the blockchain, and the legal contracts would enforce the rights to that asset in the physical world. Managing the asset in the blockchain would avoid unnecessary fees, opacity, and cheating, and the legal contract binds the results to the real world.
This is about broadband, broadband is supposed to be fast.

From the law: "(1) Advanced telecommunications capability: The term 'advanced telecommunications capability' is defined, without regard to any transmission media or technology, as high-speed, switched, broadband telecommunications capability that enables users to originate and receive high-quality voice, data, graphics, and video telecommunications using any technology."

Originating high-quality video for the near future should reasonably mean 4k video worth of upstream bandwidth.

Also, 25 MBps is still really wimpy. In any reasonable moore's law resembling curve we should have 1-10 Gbit broadband by now.
3-5 are programming. Others are architects, marketers, etc.

In a previous iteration of the same space, there would've been anything up to 75% programmers but the bulk of them bought and moved to another open-plan office.
I suppose it's a philosophy. Are there enough who share Stallman's view to advance computing technology at a pace that can match what we see with commercial sector? For sure, I am amazed at the power and scope of open source software and it's a highly influential movement. But at some point in the food chain, software developers need to put food on the table and send their kids to school. How does that happen if all software is free?
Yea. EAR and ITA explicitly cover this, in fact.
We're talking "institutionalized discrimination" in the sense of the past few millennia.
Infinitely
I had to check the article because I thought you were joking.
> Have his rules even been proven to be right?

The rules, if used properly, work perfectly. But using them properly is burdensome, which means most people get lazy and the result is insecure passwords.

There are about 95 letters, numbers, and punctuation marks and symbols. If you choose a 12 character random password, it's uncrackable by brute force. The problem is, few people want to choose and remember a 12 character random password, and fewer will do that for each of the dozens of passwords they must use, so they choose insecure, non-random passwords.
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> For me, the typical flow is to go to blog and click on the logo at the top.

This was literally the first thing I did after reading the article - and it took me back to the blog.

So then I click on 'About' and I read:

"Parse.ly empowers companies to understand, own and improve digital audience engagement through data, so they can ensure the work they do makes the impact it deserves.

Our clients, who include some of the largest media companies in the world, harness their content's potential through our real-time and historical analytics dashboard, API, and data pipeline. "

And I still don't really know what they do and what they can do for me.
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With 13s, it would have been much more dramatic :)
Here in Lithuania, most phone networks offer LTE for home internet, for rural areas where you can't get fibre. LTE covers 95% of the country by area (admittedly the geography is favourable as the country is rather flat). I can't find any real details on speeds, as it is sold 'as good as you can get', but one provider says with LTE where the theoretical maximum is 100 Mbps, you can get an average of 35 Mbps down and 10 Mbps up - however they are now rolling out LTE Advanced with a theoretical maximum of 300 Mbps.

Another comment expresses concerns about not being able to get the coverage advertised, but these are all just political issues. When you take a contract here they'll check the expected coverage and warn you if it could be bad, and even then you can cancel the contract within the first 30 days with no extra charges. And don't forget that LTE hardware designed for home use usually has more and better antennas than mobile devices, and you can install an external antenna.

N.b. The Akamai ratings for Lithuania don't look that great, but I'd assume it's mostly because people here often have older generation mobile devices (so not the fastest LTE) and computers (so no 5GHz wifi). There is also a bit of a resistance to upgrade, so a lot of people are on slower connections that they deem 'good enough' even though they could switch provider and get 10x the speed for the same price (a couple of years ago fibre was installed in my building so I could upgrade from 10 Mbps cable to 1000 Mbps fibre, but they didn't even put an advert on the noticeboard so I didn't realise for a few months).
He's a master chess player. My mentor Program Manager once told me, to work as if I am playing chess--understand the objective and plan a few moves ahead. It helped me tremendously. I am sure he has plans for "Google starts internal discussion" and "Google fires him" scenario.
I stand corrected. And intrigued that a state saw fit to make a law about that.
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I was not talking about brute-force protection... I'm talking about meeting the password complexity requirements of the servers (same as the article)
Even if not at the history directly, commit messages are associated with the lines they edit. This provides great granular documentation: https://vincenttunru.com/assets/img/Commits-are-documentatio...

(From my blog post about why history matters: https://vincenttunru.com/Spend-effort-on-your-Git-commits/ )
I think the problem arises because employment at a company is often a zero sum game, so an artificial bias to increase female employment for instance necessarily means some equally-qualified males will not get employed to free up the limited employment space.
True, that is an important clarification. I hope nobody's reading what I said as "there are certain people you are not allowed to not hire", but given the last few days on HN, of course someone's reading it that way. Oh well.

My point was that the recruiter could not make it any more obvious that they are discriminating.

One of the first things I learned about interviewing is that you just don't ask questions related to protected classes, because you could not possibly benefit from getting the answer. How could someone whose entire job is about hiring not know this?
Why ? Parliament and lawyers aren't capable of running safety reviews, nor do they have the will or (it seems) the ability or budget to provide an organisation that can do it.

So who then writes safety reviews ? Well, the same as for medicine : the company gets them written. Ideally by a somewhat neutral third party, but since they're paid by the guys who want things approved there's going to be problems here. Since the taxpayer won't pay for them, they are by necessity paid by the company wanting something reviewed. Those guys want these things approved and are paying the bills.

This is very much working as intended. Want a better system ? It will be much more expensive, as you'll effectively have to hire medicine experts away from companies like Monsanto + provide them with infrastructure.
Care to share? Curious minds want to know :-)
> You cannot program a smart contract to know who has the most reliable sports scores or political information.

You can't do that as a human, either. All you can really do is look at someone's record to see how their predictions have panned out historically. Given the right data sources, a program could do this no problem, and assign metrics to individual sports commentators as well as subsets of their consensus on any particular topic.

Given the nerdy propensity of the fantasy sports guys, there's no reason to assume this kind of data won't be available eventually.

As for politics, I'll agree with you there - neither human nor AI is going to be able to produce particularly reliable commentary any time soon!

> If I bet that Hillary Clinton won the election, and she lost to Trump, what's stopping a hoard of Clinton supporters from voting (or tweeting or however the DAO collects their "data") that Clinton actually won the election and stealing my winnings?

This is called a 'coup' when it happens IRL, and happen it does. The chief difference here is that in reality, pitchforks and torches are needed for these efforts; online it's a little bit physically safer.
I think the 5% doesn't even include the financial transaction which is another 3% that goes to stripe. People give Kickstarter the 5% for the marketing and trust the platform tries to build.
Couldn't agree more. Little-mentioned relative to the others because it wasn't connected with the narrative of the financial crisis, but most of the others seems like repetition of ideas from FbR.
In my handwriting, all quotation marks are pretty heavily slanted. That doesn't mean I would consider them distinct from hypothetical vertical marks. Fancy quotes are a display choice, not a distinct glyph.
Here's one for the most basic ones, except staging: https://agripongit.vincenttunru.com/

(Disclaimer: I made that :)
Looks like you got lucky. I usually get fake virus warnings that vibrate the phone nonstop or redirects to my carrier's store, one misclick away from buying a shitty mobile game.
You think like Airbus.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sikGj2flLB8
Tracking Protection isn't Do Not Track. Tracking Protection in Firefox blocks web trackers

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/tracking-protection-pbm
> Smart contracts are being suggested as the building block of "autonomous corporations"

By who? I'm not aware of any major developers suggesting this. As far as I can tell this is just a strawman promoted on HN. The Dao was a single instantiation of this sort of idea promoted by a small number of non-core developers - it doesn't define the idea of smart contracts.
>This could have been any of us.

Not me! I know I'm not biologically ill-suited to geek out.
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It's even more fun when different forms (e.g. set password and enter password) have different validation rules.
Usability will always beat security. This is why usability is one of the 2 most important concerns in security.
> what you are effectively suggesting is that 1 in 15 Bangladeshis has left India in the last decade

I am not suggesting anything. I am only answering to your questioning of the source of the numbers.

As for the your other points, you can hold counter or conspiracy theories. I was only answering to your source claim. You may want to repudiate this in public domain if you feel GoI is mis-estimating or ToI is misreporting.
5 second boot time though. Better than a normal VM, but maybe not great for user facing serverless.
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Just tried it. I LOVE IT! Great work!
Yeah, I've been dealing with this after setting up an email server on DigitalOcean. AOL blocked my IP for no reason and contacting them has done no good so far.

I'm sticking with it though. It's still way better than using a 3rd party option.
> 3. Saving time for pull requests. I tend to commit early and often, and when I'm in "the zone" on a fairly chunky bit of work that can mean quite a few commits! When it comes to peer review, some people like to do it by commit, rather than the finished output, so to help these guys out I squash commits where possible, since we use our pull requests to illustrate the problem we're solving anyway. I think an untarnished history is important, but sometimes a PR audit trail is more useful than what you'd get from pure commits.

I think this is the most important one. Your commits are documentation for people reading your code, so whatever helps them is good.
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What? If people who are currently housing-insecure started making more money, rents would rise accordingly.

There are always going to be people who can't afford to live somewhere (particularly major world cities attractive to tourists) and just above them, there are always going to be people barely afford to live somewhere.

We can and should lift the currently housing-insecure to comfortable homeownership, but just as many housing-insecure people will rise from the previously totally-priced-out to take their place.
No,i am not an artist. Just for fun, to have an idea, how does; in this situation (music, be it unsigned artist or artist) youtube views coincide with the local mainstream (radio) plays.
I think 1985 is the golden age of the 8 bit home computer from Atari and Commodore to dump the main computer on the market for under $300 or $200 and make up for it by selling disk drives, etc at a higher cost. The Apple //c and IBM PCjr came out around the same time. Marketed to boys and not girls. Something to do with video games in the mid1970s that fueled the race to make an 8 bit home computer, or rather a cheaper home computer than the rest.

I talked to some women who grew up in that era, most of them claim teachers, leaders, etc told them they could not do math science as well as boys to get into liberal arts instead of computer science, etc. Somehow the education system pushed the females away from computer science and pushed boys towards computer science as well.

Computer Science used to be dominated by women in the 1950s and 1960s. Let me cite the website your image comes from so we can get a background on it:

http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2014/10/21/357629765/when-...

There are other sources to consider:
https://www.goodcall.com/news/women-in-computer-science-0982...

https://www.theatlantic.com/video/index/519426/how-did-tech-...

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/what-happened-all-w...

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/computer-programmin...

https://readwrite.com/2014/09/02/women-in-computer-science-w...

When you look at it in black and white as males and females, you are considered to be a bigot or sexist by SJWs. There is this gender studies thing that says gender is a social construct, etc which just clobbered Google and James Damore. In a way this is politics, culture, and society trying to push back against white males that dominate STEM and Computer Science etc. Of course the same people who want all of the other genders having these good paying jobs don't understand that males study computers, programming, technology in the same way females and others study fashion, social skills, makeup tips, clothing, etc.

Most males just wear a jeans and t-shirt and then tennis shoes. Albert Einstien used to say picking each clothes every day is a waste of time, so he had many copies of the same suits and clothes so he didn't have to choose each day. Males shower, go to the bathroom, and shave and brush teeth in 15 minutes in the morning, and females and other genders have to pick clothes, apply makeup, comb hair, use toilet, shower, brush teeth, and other stuff that may take over an hour. This is due to what society claims males and females (and others) have to do to get their looks, culture, social roles, etc. So it is a male dominated society run by females?

Well anyway, we have to find a way to encourage females and other non-male, non-binary, etc genders to study computer science the way males study it. It is a lot of work, and heavily in politics, culture, society, etc.

(WTH? I'm voted down for citing links on the subject and giving facts?)
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looking at the men:women (8:2) ratio in software science at my university in NL, I can perfectly understand where the inbalance in ratio in the workforce comes from. Maybe we should focus on that first? Trying to get a different ratio at the workforce in all companies will effectively mean you will have less qualified women. Assuming a CS university degree is an important qualification.
This remind me of the Streisand effect. I feel like more people are being exposed to the fired engineer's opinion as a result of Google (and even the media) trying to discourage his views.