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It might be important I clarify that I'm not talking about the right, I'm talking about the far right (re-branded as the "alt-right"). This does not include most people who vote Republican or consider themselves traditional conservatives.

The traditional conservative movement is dying out. Quite literally, it has a demographic problem that it is not sure how to resolve. In it's place, you have the alt-right, which does tend to be more youthful, but which acts as an umbrella for a wide variety of extremist viewpoints, everything from extreme libertarianism to conspiracy theorists to white nationalism to single-issue anti-islamic advocates and a whole host of others. And within that milieu, a large proportion of people are not singularly committed to those hard-right ideologies as much as they define themselves solely in their rejection of liberalism, the left, or social justice. The result is a whole host of confusion. The alt-right is constantly infighting about cultural issues such as traditional masculinity or gay rights, to the difference between opposition to illegal immigration (a viewpoint which can claim to be more centrist) or opposing immigration altogether, including legal (which is held by the nationalist wing of the movement).

As the voting base disappears, these groups will have to figure out how to grow their movement, make political demands, maintain a presence without burning out, etc. Just like all movements do. But that's exactly where those intense internal divisions come in and wreak havoc.
Should HN not be consistent and censor this side of the debate too? I don't understand this site sometimes.
Interesting hypothesis, but apparently not what happened:

"The trial found assigning a male name to a candidate made them 3.2 per cent less likely to get a job interview.

Adding a woman's name to a CV made the candidate 2.9 per cent more likely to get a foot in the door."

http://abc.net.au/news/2017-06-30/bilnd-recruitment-trial-to...
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Ok, thanks! I have modified this title.
Yes, but she uses counterarguments based on relevant past studies rather than empty "everyone knows it's just sexism" style of arguing that we've seen so far in the media.
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Google CEO Sundar Pichai (note to employees):

> Our co-workers shouldn’t have to worry that each time they open their mouths to speak in a meeting, they have to prove that they are not like the memo states, being “agreeable” rather than “assertive,” showing a “lower stress tolerance,” or being “neurotic.”

Evolutionary biologist Suzanne Sadedin (quora answer linked here):

> It’s true that women and men, on average, have been found in some studies to differ in empathizing/agreeableness, systematizing, gregariousness versus assertiveness; and neuroticism.
I work in web and I have no idea what they do either. Maybe it's something I would very much be interested in, but from their site I can't tell at all.

You see this a lot in this industry. I don't know why companies like this don't clearly state what their product does rather than make some meaningless high level statements about "data" and "empowerment".
It's so amazing how design trends evolve. What drew people to think about car shapes this way, why did they thing it would be "better".

A little bit later, this time by Peugeot http://www.carstyling.ru/en/car/1988_peugeot_oxia/images/634...
I tried switching to FF a while back but it didn't take.

Right now I'm using Vivaldi.
For email, regular expression, there's http://emailregex.com
So the quora article was civil was it? "hints of racism" what racism? Misrepresenting his arguments. Not civil.
"Crypto" isn't binary. There's a gold nugget in there somewhere buried under a literal mountain of (occasionally willful) disinformation, flimsy whitepapers and opportunistic ICOs that can best be described as Ponzi schemes. Spend any amount of time on bitcointalk or any of the altcoin subreddits to see what I'm talking about.

That - IMO - is what "crypto skeptics" are actually skeptical of.
> The passing mention of IQ is interesting, since it has nothing to do with gender, which is the focus everywhere else. He’s presumably talking about race, but he doesn’t want to be branded a racist, so he keeps the reference subtle. So why risk doing it at all? It’s a dog-whistle to the alt-right.

He could be talking about a difference in variance of IQ between genders, which has been observed in some studies.
Egypt didn't give them the rights to adapt Pyramids on Citroen local market ?
Using a throwaway account as my username is very close to my real name :-(

If you're close to the Silicon Valley tech community you know the Salesforce datacenter organization and recently security organization has been taken over by many ex-Microsoft executives who are fairly clueless

This. A thousand times this. The Microsoft rot started in the Datacenter and Security org but is fast spreading to all of infrastructure resulting in a culture that is dramatically different from the rest of Salesforce.

If you're from Microsoft (or better yet, a crony of a high up Microsoftie in Salesforce) you are guaranteed to receive a plum job with a bump up of at least two or more seniority levels and preferential treatment in every aspect.

It's not hard to find examples of mid level ICs (level 61 - 62) being brought in as Senior Directors, level 63's being brought in as principal architects etc. What about non microsoft people ? Well, in that case we need to 'carefully consider the feedback', 'be conservative in our approach', 'avoid being too generous' etc.

Every process, from hiring, to promotions, to appraisals has been systematically corrupted and taken over almost exclusively by Microsoft people with the inevitable results.

It's like watching an aggressive strain of flesh eating bacteria at work. It would be comical the amount of damage this is causing Salesforce if it weren't for the enormous human impact.
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Operating system, browser, CPU, local IP, connection speed. That's all I was shown, probably thanks to uMatrix blocking 3rd party scripts.
Any comparatively large corporation very likely has a release process for these sorts of things where a bunch of groups (like PR, maybe Legal etc) would take a look. Releasing company IP as open source outside of such a process would be a gross violation of any number of non-disclosure agreements between employer and employee.
The central steering wheel is ... different. It's the worst of both worlds. I saw another 80s concept car which had a steering wheel that could be moved from left to right hand side, presumably for people who very frequently cross the Channel.
I'd guess that this might be an attempt (perhaps misguided) to prevent people from using characters that they won't be able to type on some devices.

For example, on Mac I can easily enter Unicode from the keyboard by enabling hex unicode input (at least for Unicode up to U+FFFF...have to use surrogates to get past the BMP).

On my Windows desktop there is a similar option, with one annoying limitation: it requires using the numeric keypad. That's fine on my desktop system. It has a keyboard with a numeric keypad. It sucks on my Surface Pro 4. Both the real and the virtual keyboards there lack a numeric keypad. There are other options for Unicode on the SP4, but they are quite annoying.

If the site is an audio or video streaming site or a social media site or a photo sharing site then they might also be worried about people who will want to use them from their TV, A/V receiver, cable box, DVR, or Blu-ray player, all of which nowadays often provide network access and apps for various media services and social media sites. I don't think any of mine have a way to enter arbitrary Unicode from their clunky on-screen keyboards.

Speaking of TVs, cable boxes, etc., I wish sites would think more about those when setting password requirements. It is often cumbersome and slow to switch between lower case and upper case, or between letters and punctuation, or between alpha and numeric when using an onscreen keyboard via a remote control when all you've got is up/down/right/left for navigation.

I'd rather use a 21 character password using [a-z] or a 29 character password using [0-9] than use a 16 character password using, say, [a-zA-Z0-9!@#$%^&+:;].

Best, though, is to make it so you don't need to enter passwords on these devices to pair them with your services. I don't remember which service it was but I've seen one that handled it something like this.

1. You go to the website for their service and log in. On the website you can tell it you want to enable your account for their app on your device, and you give the device model and serial number. The website gives you a temporary PIN.

2. You go to the device and tell their app you want to enable your account. The app asks for the PIN then talks to the web service. The app and the web service can then set up everything for you.
I still think Chrome has some advantages. For example you can disable a lot of things like location services in the settings. In Firefox you can decline access to location once a site asks for it but I would rather disable it once and for all if I am setting up a machine for a less tech-savvy person.

Also, firefox comes with tons of built in features you cannot disable. In past they have caused security issues (e.g. the pdf.js exploit).
If you think this stuff is creepy well...okay?

I mean, it's not like every desktop application you've ever used in your life couldn't do the same or more?
You’re assuming one thing, that the creator should be allowed to set terms for software they have created. A clothing designer, for instance, has no such rights. Why should software users be restricted in their use of the software by a law giving enormous power to the creator?

That is the essential question you must answer. Arguments against are legion: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opposition_to_copyright

The GPL license is not an end in itself. It is simply a holding action – a means to carve out a bit of freedom for end users using the current rules of copyright.
> He's very clearly siding with the face-punchers.

That is wholly unsupported by any reading of his sentence.

He literally says he would avoid creating a situation where even the possibility of someone punching him in the face might happen. If he was siding with the face-punchers, why would he avoid that situation?
Am I the only one that sees an inconsistency between the touchy feely world of inclusiveness and diversity within these US tech companies, and the Darwinian harshness of life outside them in the US? I'm thinking of what seems to an outsider like a generally held callousness towards those that fall through the cracks, and a focus on individual agency as being the sole determinant of success, ignoring very real factors like background etc.
> But rather in building a CMS for static websites

They're working on that https://www.netlifycms.org
The situation in Germany isn't perfect though. If you live in a more rural area it is not unlikely that there is no DSL available at all.
In that case I'm missing your point. If everyone has equal opportunity to negotiate salary regardless of sex, then how does it matter whether or not salary negotiation skills should be awarded, from a gender equality perspective? Isn't that a separate issue then, not related to sexism?

Unless your point is that the sexism is at a larger cultural level that fosters the average woman to be less effective at salary negotiations. In that case I completely agree.
Let’s imagine an LN network with 1,000 payers all connecting to one, single LN hub, which routes all payments to a single payee (merchant).

How will the on-blockchain settlement transaction look like? It needs to redeem all 1,000 outputs provided by the payers, because each payer creates a new output when it funds a channel, which creates a huge settlement transaction (1,000 inputs) with a correspondingly huge fee.

How does LN get around this issue?
Ahem. Hacker Nuked.
I would be surprised if this wasn't inspiration for the car Homer Simpson built in the episode Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?
But most of her counter arguments are against arguments the original author never made or at best against misrepresentations.
I'm not a fatalist, I'm just pointing out a fact. FOSS is far from winning.

FOSS has barely "won" the lower levels of the stack and the highly technical niches. But the more you move towards user-facing applications, the more proprietary things become.
There was an argument made about it some time ago, that in 19th century playing music was an excellent education for a lady, so thousands if not hundreds of thousands of women had to take piano/violin/flute lessons and become skilled at playing music. Yet that time period has yielded close to zero great women musicians/composers, even though the society has pushed them at a disproportional rate to pursue music playing. Obviously there are other factors here, like the expectation that a woman is a housewife first even if she can play music really well. It's an interesting debate I think.
they are the extreme case in that they're the result of walking this line right to the end. Here's hoping that the tide can be turned long before it gets to that - there's already mass brawling between the left and right in places like Berkeley and that's too far as it is.
Whereas it is absolutely consistent with my personal experience.
YouTube is proprietary and not a free software.
When people talk about electric cars.. this is what I picture..
..Where's my hover-board dude?
"20mt NK strike"

I seriously doubt if anyone, least of all NK, would be throwing 20Mt bombs at cities - the trickiest bit with |H-bombs isn't so much building big bombs but building small enough weapons that are easy to deliver by a missile.

The Soviets did have very large missiles (SS-18s) with an option for single very large weapons (20-25Mt) but those were for deep bunkers rather than cities.
Equally it doesn't make it true either.
>to which I again say "not when GVFS is ready")

So they should base their decisions on the eventuality of some project being ready?
I mean, GD has been around for over 20 years. It's not obscure. It's extremely popular. Most coders have used it at some point.

I could whip upa similar graph without breaking a sweat that says whatever I'd like, and it would have all the same hallmarks of this one. I could even do it in PHP using ImageMagick (if I felt masochistic) and fake the file header to say it was created using GD. Or build it in photoshop, and pull it into a binary editor.

So I think unless there's someone who can point to greater evidence that this is an internal graph, there's just no reason to believe it is.
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A good faith effort to see if you managed to refrain from reacting as though I had actually stated that as a fact rather than merely mentioning it as a thought. I was curious to see if you actually had such a strange understanding of the phrase that you didn't think he was advancing it as a position, or if you were simply arguing that it was a plausible interpretation of the phrase.
In the short term at least, but it's probably safe to assume your risks at that distance are from your neighbours fighting over supplies.
It would be far more interesting to see him on a Progressive YouTube show, however, as he says, few people who criticized him contacted him personally. I don't think he'd avoid such a confrontation if he was given a chance, but my feeling is that in current PC climate some people would be offended just by hearing what he says, so it's unlikely he'd even get invited.
It's hard to avoid hate and insults these days. It seems to have been normalised by the recent political shift to the far right.

However, the main criticism I've seen directed towards the author of the manifesto, is that he contributes to creating a toxic work environment where women feel less welcome, which makes it hard to keep him employed in a company that wants women to feel welcome in engineering. Also that he doesn't understand the need for diversity in modern companies, that he doesn't understand the need for empathy and interpersonal skills in engineering, and that he's wrong about many of his assertions about gender differences (many gender differences are the result of cultural bias, for example).

> I didn't say anything about literally preventing someone from expressing their views.

You said:

> many people's first instinct, when faced with views they strongly disagree with, is to try and suppress those views and the person speaking them

The views weren't suppressed, they were spread, and then criticised. No doubt there are people who want to silence people they disagree with; that is nothing new unfortunately.

Whether his firing was justified or not depends primarily on whether this manifesto indeed contributed to a toxic work environment where women feel less welcome. Many people think it did. And if it did, then it's kinda hard to Google to keep him employed.

That's really the core issue here: is his manifesto intolerant of women in engineering, and does it contribute to intolerance of women in engineering? There's a vital difference between merely expressing an unpopular opinion, and expressing intolerance towards your coworkers. He's not merely supporting an unpopular sports club or liking unpopular music, he is talking about his coworkers. And that changes everything.
I guess you need to contact devs to clarify.
I regularly build from sources for Linux and cross-compile for Windows both x32 and x64 using just single "make ..." command.
I'm pretty sure the answer is "it's complicated". They'd probably cost as much as a supercar, wouldn't be homologated to be used on roads, etc. Maybe there's a business plan here, see all the "pimp my car" TV shows where specialists "enhance" existing vehicules. Actually, some of those cars get built, but only in Hollywood ;-)
A picture is worth a thousand words. How about a visual regex tester - http://emailregex.com/regex-visual-tester/#a%5Cbc%5Cd*
I wasn't familiar with "Chatham House rules". But it is allows members to present controversial arguments but prevents anyone from associating their arguments to them after the fact. For example, I can cite the argument later but not say who made the argument in order to prevent them from political repercussions. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chatham_House_Rule

Certainly very weird that the environment was that charged politically that these rules were needed.
One thing I've been finding lately with firefox is that the Netflix website is abysmally slow. It lags on loading, goes unresponsive a lot etc etc.

I've always watched twitch in Chrome (second browser, other screen, works fine) because firefox used to be bad. It's likely that I will start doing the same with Netflix.
>This is gate keeping at its finest.

That's as intended.
He uses eval in safe ways, according to the developer. So I think your argument is mout unless you can point the unsafe uses.

Now, the real question is: "why isn't Firefox developing a default Tree Style Tab?"

I think at this point enough people are using it, and it has proven to be a better way to browse.
If we at GitLab can help please let us know.
There is https://blind.guru/qta11y.html as a problem with QT, I think it made to HN like three days ago.
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People can express any opinion they want in public. Inside a company isn't public. Also while you do have a right to an opinion you don't have a right to it going unchallenged and questioned.

Also how can you be so sure he wasn't alt-right already. "Classic liberal" is essentially the closest you are allowed to get in public.
Amongst many other reasons, because stuff like that 'manifesto' actively harms Google by harming a significant minority of their employees who might, if nothing was done about it, leave the industry because it was the last straw after a lifetime of harassment and devaluation.
Then the goal is making him understand that he got fired for how he expressed those opinions. He didn't just talk to HR or his manager, he published a rant for all the world to see making it the CEO's problem.

Anyone who publishes an incoherent 10 page manifesto insulting their coworkers and trashing their company's policies can reasonably expect to get fired. It doesn't matter if any of the bosses agree or disagree with the opinions expressed; it's just an unprofessional thing to do.

To be honest, he was the bully in this situation. I have more concern for the women at Google who could fear losing their jobs and the means to support their families. If a coworker of mine started publicly saying that I'm not genetically qualified for the work I do, I would be worried for my job. However, I don't think those women would become radicalized over this. Why? Because intelligent professional people don't become radicalized when other people disagree with their opinions.

A note about Trump: I grew up in a red state and lived and worked in two others. I never spent more than a few months in a blue state so I don't know how it is there, but in Trump country people openly and aggressively express all sorts of opinions without fear of recrimination. There may be a few voices of dissent, but there are no "witch-hunting mobs" forcing them to keep their views a secret.

I think this scenario Giulio describes fits better to Brendan Eich who was essentially forced out of Mozilla over his views. But Brendan didn't become radicalized. He picked himself up and founded a new company, because that's what professionals do.
I am currently enjoying* the irony that Airdrop works better between my phone (currently on the work guest wifi network) and the work laptop (wifi turned off, ethernet on work corporate network) than in my flat (where everything is on the same wifi + network).
Love the new reader mode options and setting for stopping loading of animated gifs.
> I don't see how this is an unreasonable argument to make. There is a dearth of male kindergarten teachers, for instance. This doesn't mean the school is being "sexist". It might just mean that certain genders tend to be attracted to certain types of professions.

If that's all the manifesto said, this wouldn't be a story. I am a minority in tech and I certainly didn't see a lot of people like me in my Computer Science program so naturally there is under-representation in the work force, it happens.

But when you start wading into the, 'Women are biologically less well-suited for this work...' is where you get into problems. No different than arguments that used to be made against black people before de-segregation.
>So they're gating developers by their appreciation of the chosen toolset? Wouldn't you rather see them challenged on their programming abilities?

No, the former is enough. It shows that whatever their programming abilities they are prone to bike-shedding, so they are better avoided.
Well, it might happen that Google will fork Linux into their own thing, and it will be harder better faster stronger, and for some reason hard to merge back into Linux. And the ecosystem will move.

It's hard to imagine now, but it can happen.

Or it will be GNU Hurd.
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Linus has a video explaining their income sources:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t73wXF8IF-8