skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This means that he's heavily implying Google has employed undeperforming engineers with these practices.

No he hasn't. Rather, he's implying that 'non-diverse' hires have a higher bar to to pass, and that by enforcing diversity quotas you tend to end up hiring exceptionally qualified people from the 'non-diverse' group, which can have the opposite of your desired effect, and perpetuate stereotypes about the performances of people from different groups.

For example, let's say you have 100 people interviewing for 10 positions. Of that, due to current representation of women in tech let's say the candidates comprise 20 women and 80 men.

Let's also assume that 25% of those interviewing meet the technical standards a.k.a 'the bar' required by Google (that makes for 5 women and 20 men).

Google however is only hiring 10 positions, and in order to meet diversity requirements will hire 5 women and 5 men (50/50 split).

Each one of the people hired is qualified to work at Google and meets the bar (none of them are underperforming).

Without any diversity requirements a candidate would need to be in the top 10% of other candidates to get a position however now, for the women, they only need to be in the top 25% of other woman candidates to get the position, whereas the men need to be in the top 6.25% of male candidates.

The bar has been effectively lowered for the women candidates and raised for the male candidates, despite all of them being worthy and capable of working at Google.

If you are always hiring equal numbers of people from both groups, but from one group you are always hiring the top 6.25% of candidates, and the other group you are hiring from the top 25% of candidates, then over time you'll start to find that on average, one group has a larger percentage of high performers than the other.
What do you think about the recent layoffs in the IT sectors?
Answer to a recent question from an online forum

http://www.beyondlayoff.com/2017/08/what-do-you-think-about-recent-layoffs.html
DataNet – a new CRDT database that lets you do bad things to your data
In fact, this might be legally protected speech. I don't know how applicable they are but there are a few old pro-union laws on the books that prevent people from being fired because they were talking about improving the workplace or because they discussed discrimination they reasonably felt was happening (it doesn't matter if it actually happened).
> "... that diversity hiring yields both better individual and group performance."

This is a well-known, well-researched fact of organizational psychology. Are you guys really this stupid? Think about it from a problem-solving perspective, in terms of the solutions individuals and groups will come up with.

Sexism, racism, and discrimination in general doesn't benefit anyone but the wealthiest few, and only if they're really, really stupid.
If you're considering embedded OS options, please look at these two (completely free) projects from the Linux Foundation:

Yocto project creates a custom embedded distro based on your needs
https://www.yoctoproject.org/

Zephyr supports hardware that can't easily run Linux
https://www.zephyrproject.org/
I think that's over simplifying it, that's certainly one dimension, but the need of the article explores a different angle entirely. I think it's getting at the more complex problem of how public policy coupled with longer life expectancy has housing markets in something of a strangle hold. It's a really difficult problem.
Some relevant info: In the USA average consumers are protected by the FDIC for the balances of their deposits up to $250,000. A large number of banks have consumer liability limits in place for protection from fraudulent charges on their credit cards.

https://www.fdic.gov/consumers/banking/facts/
Personally I didn't mind the content of the gifs, it was the fact that they made it difficult to keep track of where you were in the text around them as I tried to read it.

Perhaps some people are less susceptible to this than others.
Someone asked you to link to resources that specifically prove parts of the manifesto as wrong.

And you replied with a blog that literally says that they will not engage in any discussion on the issues that are under contention.
Nice piece of fiction by SHOAIB DANIYAL! SHOAIB - common muslim name, DANIYAL - common christian name. No wonder why the article is full of crap.
How these people got scammed while working with freelancers
> What can Google or any other company do to hire more from one group (example, women)

1. Making the workplace less hostile to that group. The code of conduct and this firing both seem to addressing this point.

2. Making sure salaries are equal for equal work. Google might have some problems in this area.

3. Investing in the hiring pipeline (education) to make sure bias isn't occurring earlier in the pipeline.

Those are just a few ideas. Someone really committed to that goal could surely find more ideas.
Not any. I used to live near nuclear and coal power plants (two different plants about 15 miles away from each other). Both were located right on the Mississippi river to take advantage of the river water for cooling. Most neighbors when asked where the nuclear plant was would point to the smoke stacks on the coal plant even though the nuclear plant was only a mile away and the coal plant was 15 miles away.
I suspect that people who move far from their family of origin are, on average, less compatible with their family. If you are generally compatible with your family and like being around them you're more likely to prioritize living near them when making life decisions.
I really hope you didn't leave HN - or, if you did, that you came back - over this; I wholeheartedly do not want that to be the outcome of something I wrote here. The worst I can be accused of is misunderstanding without malice. However,

> It really isn't, its just another timely gimmick and a walled garden.

is at least ambiguous if you read it carefully. I didn't see why that would be highlighted if everything else in that category shared that exact attribute.
Does the world need another open source operating system for the internet of things? I wonder if creating a new one was really necessary or if they could have built on top of one that already exists.

While I can't say I know intimately all the problems that need to be solved for IoT to responsibly reach mass consumption, but I'm pretty sure having an operating system wasn't the problem. Maybe this is just an enterprise cash grab?
We just tap our credit cards against the terminal in Canada. No PIN, no signature, way faster than cash.
Who are you to say that they would be better suited with something smaller? How incredibly presumptuous of you. This is their private property that they bought and paid for fair and square. You can't force them to sell it just because you or others want it.
This precisely. It's a pity they'll never be specific in addressing exactly how these points could have been raised without sanction. As admitted, the (former) employee clearly felt the discussion was worth starting - why won't they provide concrete examples of how they would be preferred the issues be raised in this case? (It's a rhetorical question; of course, we know why they won't and can't do that.)
This is quite surprising. I assume you mean it's offtopic for this particular discussion and not offtopic for HN in general right? Even so it seems strange to shut off a discussion like that just because it started from a tangent of a topic. What's the benefit?

Edit: there are also 2 other sibling comments that are about the same topic and left behind.
Amazon has been pretty direct about some of these brands being theirs, like Happy Belly was on their box tape a few months ago.
On the other side, invoices are paid with wire transfers or even direct deposit entries. I haven't seen many checks since the Eurocheck lost its guaranteed value of DEM 400.

Personally I think cash is convenient. I also use debit card and credit card but somehow cash is the most convenient was of payment in a store.
It's my personal opinion, but if I had 6 properties, I'd sell them. Why would I need more than one place to live?
> The study is biased from the outset because it's designed to 'prove' that women aren't interested in IT.

No, the study was designed to investigate a potential link between prenatal androgen exposure and a preference for Things vs People work, which it did find.

> let's classify [IT/CS] as 'people-oriented'. Whoops! Suddenly women are very interested.

But precisely, observation shows they're not, as a group ! That's the very thing we're here discussing, trying to find out why.

And yeah, let's just arbitrarily switch jobs classifications like that without any grounding in reality, just because that's the only way your hypothesis will not fall apart.

Can you see the extraordinary amount of unlikely premises it takes for your logic to stand, compared to the alternative, simpler explanation ? That is exactly the kind of situation Occam's razor is here for : "among competing hypotheses, the one with the fewest assumptions should be selected."

This is starting to feel like a flat-earth debate, honestly. I'm pretty sure many people here would engage with the available evidence much more candidly, if this were a less politically charged topic (and I'm a liberal. But science before ideology, always.)
This is the same argument currently used against affirmative action programs across the US: "doesn't this discriminate against white people who could be qualified to get accepted into the same position /scholarship?"

It's a disingenuous argument which doesn't take into consideration the whole history of why the program exists in the first place. Not only that, by trying to justify it on biological terms, the author introduces the supposed existence of an inherent bias that Google is supposedly trying to ignore.

How about we try to achieve 1-1 parity with society's distribution and if after 30 years of encouraging people of all genders to participate in all professions there's solid evidence that some people don't care for X or Y reason, then we let the problem take care of itself? I mean if we truly are aiming for non-discrimination, that should be the metric, right?
Unless you're female.
Would be helpful to know WHICH Code of Conduct he is supposed to have violated.

From glancing over the memo I perceive that: women/man are different and men prefer working in engineering. No need to artificially increase percentage of women engineers with incentives. I did not notice any inferior/superior claims.

Being fired for this polite memo? And being characterized as a kind of toxic outcast? - I'm sorry, what have our society and companies become?

Googlers seem to be allowed to do his/her utmost only within a narrow cage of accepted/mainstream borders.
They've got to inject politics when they can.

I mean, sure it can't be other factors (such as social conditioning, how much does he pose a threat, that the party people were actually pretty open). /s

The whole bringing up race is silly. If it is about race and they mention it, they should also be aware that one of the places this took him was in Iowa. His skin color would pose issues in particular neighborhoods in Chicago. They would be less willing to inviting him in or treat him with hospitality.
Are those polar opposites?
Show HN: C++ runtime/compile-time detection in constexpr functions
America was also once closed-minded about:

1. The rights of African Americans

2. The belief that women should be allowed the vote

3. The belief that homosexuality isn't a mental illness

4. Any expression of support for democratic socialism

And we could go on and on. Does anyone doubt, for example, that people weren't once fired for supporting socialist ideologies? Or for being gay?

Your response could have been posted without modification of intent in response to the firing of a gay person in 1952.

The existence of other off-limits topics tells us precisely nothing about this particular topic. Neither does the mere fact that a topic is currently off limits tell us anything about its Goodness or Rightness.

This post is manifestly obfuscatory.
Don't you guys have paywave for under 25e purchases? Its literally 5 seconds to pay for anything. Literally no one uses cash in Helsinki. I can even use my phone's NFC as a payment option.
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In a German supermarket there are two notable differences:

People pay with rounded bills most of the time, cashiers are fast at returning change (amounts are usually a single cent below the full euro for each item, so change isn't a big problem).

The credit card workflow requires you to sign as well (or alternatively sometimes your pin if it's a debit card). Also, no swiping, only chip readers.

So in essence, taking out the bills is comparable to taking out your card, and the question is whether signing/entering pin is faster than the cashier giving you your change.

Of course occasionally you will pay in exact change, but that's balanced out by all the times you have to insert your card a second time, followed by trying another card.
> "Always carry enough cash to get home" - my dad.

In London you can't pay for a bus with cash any more.
Speaking from experience, using MicroPython is trivial and often "good enough", as are implementing modules for MicroPython in C should they be needed (C isn't my first language by a long shot, but I managed to write a module for MicroPython with little problem).

Also, MicroPython has pretty much all the features of core Python whereas mJS appears to have pretty much all the useful features of JS removed. Why not just use C instead of mJS?

Finally, couching Mongoose in a way that criticises the efforts of others is a bit of a turn off for me. Give me positive reasons for using your product rather than bashing the people you believe are your competitors. The culture and community of a project is important - negativity such as this is a worrying signal.
Man. They are all corrupted or just too ignorant. J.R.Nyquist can tell you even more : )

Have you ever heard of thista?

For any engineering problem one can make a "brute-force" algorithm, which theoretically finds its solution, describe that algorithm as a logical scheme (a directed graph with logic gates as nodes) and then one can use an AI agent to make that logical scheme easier to compute, by simplifying (through transformation rules like the De Morgan rule) unnecessary computation steps, input variables, etc. The solution to the problem can be found by calculation of that simplified version of the logical scheme.

The AI agent may be built from Neural Nets, or from the algorithm, which I call Evolution of Neural Graphs [0].

Some of interesting engineering problems are:

- to find a machine code for a controller of a bipedal robot [1], which makes it able to work in warehouses and factories;

- to find a machine code for a multiprocessor system [2], which behaves as an AI agent purposed for a given work to be done;

- to find a CAD file [3], which describes the design of a spheromak working with MHD generators;

- to find a file [4], which describes the manufacturing steps to produce the first molecular nanofactory in the world;

- etc…

Officials of what country would take it seriously, can you guess?

[0] https://github.com/Eug145/TetrAI/blob/master/Source-v0.92bet...

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKtHCFToYPY

[2] https://www.princeton.edu/news/2016/08/23/new-microchip-demo...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynomak

[4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqyZ9bFl_qg

I have a reddit account, you may discuss it there too.
Again: 0.2% of the general population? Or 0.2% of people born in 2000?
As a german, this techno-phobic attitude was really getting to me for the longest time. It's just so incredible convenient not having to scramble for coins when taking the tram and many other examples. Living in London, I rarely take my wallet with me anymore. Apple Pay and my Mondo card is all I need.

Come to think of it, some time in the not so distant future, Germany will probably have the last laugh once the entire electronic payment system collapsed under the Next Big Cyberattack (tm)... insert coin here.
Are there any CRDTs that are resilient in the face of byzantine failures?

Let's say in a multiplayer game, some client claims to have made a move or 1000 moves before having seen a state of the game. Do you believe them?

The answer typically is "No! Don't trust client input."

But then how to turn the network into a distributed server doing the job of a game server that publishes the authoritative ordering of events?

For one writer and many readers, this is easy. For example, Scuttlebutt protocol!

But for multiple writers, what do we do? So far I think the state of the art is:

Blockchains based on POW and POS

Ripple Consensus

Anything else I'm missing?
> James Damore didn’t bother to do any research on the topic - I guess he just assumed his feelings were correct?

Go and actually read the original memo at https://medium.com/@Cernovich/full-james-damore-memo-uncenso.... Which, for this particular point, links to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_differences_in_psychology#..., https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empathizing%E2%80%93systemizin... and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroticism (see in particular https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroticism#Sex_differences). From which you can access about a metric fuck ton of actual research.

We can't expect to have any reasonable discussion on the topic if the standard of criticism is not reading the piece one is criticizing, and then stating obvious falsehoods (like "didn’t bother to do any research") as facts - probably hoping other readers also won't bother checking.

EDIT:

Also:

> Go ahead and claim women are more neurotic and have a lower stress tolerance. Don’t expect everyone to pat you on the back and claim you’re just expressing a minority viewpoint...

Those are actual falsifiable statements. They can be either true or false. The whole idea of considering them as "viewpoints" is ridiculous and it's precisely what's the problem with the whole environment surrounding the discussion.
Let's not get crazy. Sharks?
Of course, it's Dolphins.
Not true. You can lower the rate of false negatives without raising the rate of false positives using multiple measurements instead of just one, which as I understand it is what Google does for candidates from underrepresented groups.
That was a lengthy essay, but it had a lot of ground to cover.

The basic premise is that the U.S., three hundred million people, is on average less empirical and rational than the remaining 600 million citizens of The West.
Why are people living with their parents a 'problem'?
I live in northern Europe and once at a shop I had a shop-money credit applied automatically and was left to pay 1 cent. I didn't have absolutely any cash and paid it with debit card. I didn't hear any complaint :)
I think that the insurance plans I've had have had a flat price for generic and name-brand drugs or at least a cap for each category. So yeah, this is a win for insurers and manufacturers, at the patient's expense.
Really? oh damn i didn't know.
marketing wise:
A lot of luck i guess. i got lucky when this guy from green car reports wanted to sell his tesla ( i didn't know) then he's like im gonna write about this and will mention you. I listed his used tesla on my site and sold it, and he saved money. Link to his article here:

http://www.greencarreports.com/news/1111433_life-with-tesla-...

I hired a copy guy for the content ( he's good and gave me title tags)

I hounded users on FB and this tesla motors forum until they banned / changed my profile setting so i can't message private owners to list with me. Then i set up new ID and changed tactics on getting for sale listings from private owners( they have a forum page for it)
Radio navigation set to make global return as GPS backup, because cyber
You are the one that brought up the US constitution, the OP was talking about freedom of speech as a principle. It is hardly surprising that the US constitution would only apply FoS to the government, since that is what it is trying to define, but the principle of FoS can apply to society as much as anything else.
The price of the mainboard is almost divided by 2 compared to Talos 1, but the workstation bundles are as expensive or even more.

I bet it will fail as Talos 1 did, for the same reason: way too expensive for what it is, for the concerned/hobbyist audience, leaving it for a tiny part of the professional audience... which is not ready either to put their trust in an unreliable project and prefers safe bets.
I live in Sweden and I use cash more often in Germany than I do when I am at home, despite being there only for a week each year. But yes, I've noticed this effect as well - accepting cards is becoming mainstream and eventually I hope to be ably to visit without having to leave with lots of scrap metal in my pockets.
As someone who lived two years in Germany

a) That's a good joke. From faster to slower: NFC > PIN > signature > cash.

b) You should look into the real cost of dealing with cash. EC is stupidly cheap since it's basically the cost of a SEPA direct payment (we're talking 1-2 cents per transaction). Debit card payments can also be pretty cheap in Europe. All those annoying restaurants and small shops that take only cash do it to dodge taxes, not for any other reason.
Here in the Netherlands, paying by contactless card is bar far the fastest. Even with PIN, I'm pretty sure cash will be as fast (if not slower) given the change and handling of coins.
I'm trying to highlight two things: one this isn't "a bad path" that we're "starting on". We've been here for a long time. The second thing is, if you think this is "just starting", either you haven't been paying attention or you don't think those other things are a "dangerous path". Basically he's saying that a company refusing to do business with a white supremacist is crossing a line that was not crossed when gays, blacks, hispanics, or women had the exact same treatment.

This amounts to one thing: if you're drawing your line in the sand at the persecution of neo-nazis knowing full well that gays, minorities, and women are on the "no protection" side of that line, you might be a neo-nazi yourself.

There is no question on what type of outrage ptero is expressing. The only way to read that comment is that he's disappointed that people he agrees with are finally being persecuted.
So you still haven't read it, then? And you still think it prudent to label it dismissively?

This is the kind of behavior that woke me up (in my early teens) to the dangers of adopting my values from my religious background/peers. I never thought I'd have to deal with witch hunts for wrongthink in tech.
I know a guy with for-real celiac disease. Although the active ingredient may be the same, not all generics are certified as safe for celiacs thanks to the additional padding in the pill.

Generics and brand name are NOT always equivalent depending on the drug and condition, and spreading this lie is incredibly dangerous to many people.

This is what happens when CEOs, politicians, and pundits are deciding health policies rather than the properly informed health officials.

Now if the insurance policy would be that a doctor must write medical necessity for avoiding the generic, go for it. But mandating that people can only take generics will cause harm.
Men Have Always Used 'Science' to Explain Why They're Better Than Women