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Not insulting to me. I'd love to be a diversity hire. Instead I just don't get hired, and the Government tell me I'm a lying cunt and threaten to take away my benefits for not being able to find a job.
Exactly. You either think women can be in tech or you don't. If you don't, there isn't really room for compromise, so the notion of an "open" discussion is a red herring in addition to being incredibly insulting.
I'd prefer the person operating on me to be more highly paid than the person operating on my dog -- regardless of their gender.
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As a white man, show me as well.
My sister was extremely put off going into CS after the career adviser at her school literally told her "you should go into CS since companies will have to hire you because you are a woman and they have quotas to fill". She was so upset by this she didn't even want to consider trying a CS degree.
What's your point about law of averages.
It's likely a placebo effect.

I'm not saying they are exactly equivalent -- things like particle sizes, buffers, release speed, etc (which are often different in different formulations) are known to make a difference.

It is, however, extremely unlikely (to the point of impossibility) that every single brand name is better than every single equivalent generic. I have anecdotal evidence about a specific generic working significantly better than a related name brand for a specific person.

There are specific studies showing a specific brand name is better than a specific [set of] generics. In the few cases I looked into it, that study was financed by the brand. They wouldn't publish a result saying the generic is better if that was the conclusion (and it's usually possible to p-hack a favorable result). I am not aware of generic manufacturers commissioning a study either way.

I can accept a "75% of brands are better than generic" if it came from a well defined study. It's statistically impossible that "100% of brands are equal or better to generics".
I hear a lot that MWI implies that everything that can happen does happen. What I find frustrating is that the obvious next interesting question then is 'well what can happen?', and people don't seem to talk too much about that.
Thanks to the Gnome 3 / Unity / Ubuntu fiasco years back, I started using tiling window managers and never looked back. I might have kept on using Gnome 2 happily but the intrusive changes made me look for alternatives.

The desktop metaphor and floating windows might make sense for casual computer users (mostly because they're used to it) but for programmers and power users it's just not a very good setup.

fwiw. I have used awesome, dwm and now bspwm.
More data: https://ourworldindata.org/war-and-peace/

I would not want to draw a firm conclusion from this, though. It says that "in Europe the second half of the 20th century was extraordinarily peaceful", but that particular graph only counts wars between nations, not civil wars, guerilla wars and terrorism.

There's a lot of data in that page, though, so I can't really compress it into a HN comment.
Can you imagine the outrage there'd be if a company with a more conservative-learning workforce fired someone for circulating a liberal-leaning memo?

Two caveats: I'm not saying this is a perfect analogy, though I think it's good enough to make the point. And keep in mind you'd have lots of people in that situation making the same sorts of claims that the reasoning in the memo was flawed etc etc.

BTW, before anyone jumps to conclusions, I am not a conservative.
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So euhm last time i told HN "You should stop reading retarded nytimes articles", i got downvoted. Can u guys downvote me again? because my opinion hasn't changed.
And the pool of Asians that American companies can choose from isn't anywhere near the entirety of that 40% due to visa and language restrictions. A very large number of them are within the population already living in America. Despite universities putting higher standards on entry for Asians, they still enter tech and high-skill fields at disproportionate rates.
> "wimmins is soo emotional"

Is that what he said? What are his bad assumptions?
He's super rich though, so nothing bothers him.
> Even though I would never join the army to fight wars, should an occupation come I would do everything in my power to resist and sabotage

When under foreign attack, you don't join the army - the army "joins" (conscripts) you. It's not voluntary.
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And how would you right the wrongs that the caste system has done to countless people? Even today people get ostracized because of their supposed caste, even though the system has been illegal for many years. There was even an interview on NPR about this last week: http://www.npr.org/2017/08/05/541844695/ants-among-elephants... - even today people in the US get asked what caste they are.

Your "hordes and hordes" who have been denied their "rightful chance of doing good in life" seems more than a little overblown when you compare that to millions of people who were denied the same chance for centuries due to where their families fell in the social chain at one point.

Affirmative action policies often seem unfair to the majority, but it's often extremely difficult for that majority to consider just what the minority went through, and how much longer it will take - if it can ever happen - for them to reach parity without policies that recognize that they've been forcefully held back for their entire life, their parents' lives, and so on.
That's not correct. To get a generic approved you don't have to show a therapeutic effect. You only have to show bioequivalence: a similar blood concentration time curve for the active ingredient.
Have you tried New Scientist? Maybe less tech news than you'd like, but quite good otherwise.
I think this is the paper, which is very briefly mentioned: http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/2/2/e1501466.full
Are you sure this 6-week contract is valid at all? Because in the US (since
you never provided any information about where you are, I assume typical US
arrogance) I hear that a contract is only valid if both sides get something
out of it.
> To "have an honest discussion" about a diversity program that we're not already having means that at least one party has a strong belief that they should be ended or seriously cut down.

Stated differently: Someone has an opinion that the system currently in place doesn't fully work and wants to discuss change.

If we're not allowed to invite to a discussion, how else do you suggest we facilitate change, or investigate the need for such change?

You don't seriously imply that there's never a need to review the basis for existing programs? Or are you just ignoring the general principle of things "because diversity"?
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Mate to the rescue! I've been using it for some years now and it just works.
I've switched to transmission client and never looked back (4 yrs ago)
Kenya Decides: Whom would you vote for?
Must I really vote when I don't have good choices?

Africa is different. Unlike Brexit (Stay or Exit) and American elections (Trump or Hillary), in today's election in Kenya, I have Rotten Apples vs Rotten Pumpkins. Should I beat myself up for not wanting to go to vote?

Presidential Options:
Uhuru Kenyatta (incumbent) who was accused for crimes against humanity [0] and his government has been in one corruption scandal after another.
Raila Odinga: Seen to condone violence and has been part of government in the past and has had corruption accusations leveled against him. The two hail from some of the most populous tribes in Kenya (Kikuyu & Luo) and so the tribal tensions are insane.

Governor Options:
Evans Kidero: (incumbent) seen as very corrupt. Drove Mumias (Sugar Company) to its knees through embezzlement. Many tender irregularities when he's been governor and very little has improved for the common person in the past 5 years he's been in office.

Mike Sonko: Illiterate yet flamboyant. Couldn't answer questions during a live debate [2]. Accused of being in the drugs business. Known for outrageous stuff like punching stone walls with his bare knuckles when angry

Peter Kenneth: Safest bet but seen as a foreigner given his German roots. I would vote for him but I doubt he would get even 3K votes. Voting for him is seen as "throwing away" your vote. He however has a track record of actual development when he was a member of parliament.

Miguna Miguna:
Lawyer who had a law firm in Canada. Most academically qualified but most arrogant. None of the above can beat him for facts. He's so arrogant that his running mate -a lady- ditched him last week. He's called women all types of names [3]

[0] http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-30347019
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raila_Amolo_Odinga
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_iCGy5NYkqo
[3] http://allafrica.com/stories/201611231042.html
Unfortunately, many Russians don't seem to feel that way. They are not alone with that however: all former empires occasionally inspire the idea that their demise is an ongoing historical injustice that needs to be rectified. And in the echo chamber of a former-empire nation this train of thought rarely gets questioned.
Free-speech is pretty well defined in the US - Who is defining "tolerance"?
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>No I'm talking about my experience in line units in the British Army.

Ah, that makes sense. Let me tell you a thing about the US Army vs. our European counterparts. The Army is essentially a "last ditch" choice for impoverished kids with no other option in terms of jobs or education. The smart ones join the Air Force or Navy, and the dummies get filtered into the Army infantry. I know because I was one of them. I went through basic training with a convicted drug dealer and an attempted murderer. It's technically a "volunteer force", but once you sign up you are bound as a slave by law for the length of your entire enlistment. (Obviously this does not apply to officers)

Contrast this with European militaries which are 10x smaller, and thus only accept an elite core of people who are able to make the cut. The result is a completely different culture and force. I have no doubt that the British Army is full of complete professionals, as anyone who wasn't into it would quit or be kicked out or not even make it through selection in the first place. It simply doesn't work that way here.
Then on what basis is it free? Can I also fire pro-diversity employees?
In system preferences, keyboard settings there is a button to configure the strip. I didn't know about the finder thing
I don't really do non-computer activities at my desk but I still have way too much stuff: drives/flash drives, a cpu fan, cables, adapters, notes (I like to sometimes use pen and paper when programming), a broken microphone...
I feel as though you may be implying the carbon tax is applied to industry and in policy that's correct, but in practice the carbon tax is passed onto the consumer. Sometimes unashamedly so. I'm not saying it's a bad thing mind you, less consumption is what we need.

Australia trialled this. I say trialled, because our government has been such a flip flop of agendas (and indeed leaders) for nearly a decade and it was only around for 3 years before being repealed. No doubt we'll see it again soon, and I look forward to rehashing the same tired debates, albeit in slightly warmer weather, when that occurs.
People keep saying "the workplace isn't a place for politics" as if the reason minorities have been kept out of tech in the first place hasn't been because of politics. Not being allowed to vote is politics. Not being allowed education is politics. You cannot separate the two.
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>Im pretty sure most plumbers don't get into plumbing because they are passionate about it.

I'm pretty sure most office desk jockey computer nerds don't get into being stuck sitting at a desk all day because they're passionate about it.

I'm pretty sure most professional head-trauma punching bags don't get into being an NFL defensive tackle because they're passionate about it.

I'm pretty sure most accountants don't get into hunching over spreadsheets and calculators because they're passionate about it.

See? I can concoct blatantly-false statements from lots of my-opinions-are-universal bubbles!
I agree that work and politics should be separate, but Google has already built itself a reputation for its strong political leanings. Every few weeks they have some sponsored video on YouTube promoting their political leanings and their involvement in the US gov isn't exactly a secret. Google is pretty much a Political Think Tank++ at this point.
I just can't get excited about the keyboard on the newer ThinkPads. I want the one from my T420. :(
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I’m living 4 hour work week and it’s one of the best books that ever helped me. Just use the advices in the book, pretty simple. I spend most of these days working on side projects, feels great! This also allowed me to earn a lot of money, so definitely not downshifting.

Actually kinda amazed that there aren’t many similar people in the thread...I can email you from a public address, it would prove I have a real reputation and not just Tim’s paid commenter.
Yeah I also didnt get feeling from reading the memo that is was misogynistic.

James just tried to point out that reasons for gender gab in tech might not be only sexism as current left leaning agenda dictates.

I understood memo more like complaining that employees with opinions that differ from "current left leaning agenda" are afraid to express them. And google proved him right by firing him.

This political correctness has brought us very close to Orwellian double think. Google CEO Sundar Pichai wrote:

> “We strongly support the right of Googlers to express themselves, and much of what was in that memo is fair to debate, regardless of whether a vast majority of Googlers disagree with it.”

And used this as basis to fire guy who expressed his concerns.

His appeal to replace diversity of gender and race with diversity of thought is completely valid and reasonable.
Ask HN: Website Rejected from Amazon Affiliates – Bad Customer Service
Hi Guys

I am hoping that someone else can help as the Amazon Customer Service for this has been absolutely bloody shocking.

They emailed me shortly after my application and told me that my website could not be viewed.

> Unfortunately, I couldn't view your website

I checked the DNS settings and the website to see if something was the matter but all was working. I asked them to elaborate.
Then they replied:

> Your website doesn't appear to meet the conditions of our Operating Agreement, that's why our system blocks it and we are unable to review your site, I invite you to read the operating agreement of the problem in order to fix your site, following strictly the policy: https://affiliate-program.amazon.co.uk/help/operating/agreement .

I emailed them back and said I needed more info, I told them what I did to check and from my point of view the site was working..

They emailed me back and said that the site was sending people to Google and then sending people to their site.

> the browser transfers us to Google results. The links for these results lead to our Amazon Central system. We tried with two different browsers.

I replied and stated that I could not see any links to google from my website. The links to their website were being generated by their own PHP SDK.

They replied with my website was not listed in google.

> when we try to search the site on Google, the site doesn't appear.

I replied and told them that I had no control over what was going on with:

> We are not responsible that we cannot find your website in the Google search. In order to become an Associate, you must have at least one of the following Internet pages: your own website, YouTube channel, verified Twitter account, Instagram profile blah blah

I feel like this is going around in circles and I am at my wits end.

Any ideas anyone?
> Free speech seems to only work when you're the majority.

You have no right of free speech within a company like Google.
No, my point is solely in response to that post - to say "we need to have an honest discussion" is quite specifically to say "we need to end/severely cut down on it". If you wanted to suggest another path to hiring women - say, apprenticeships - you could do that without needing to prefix that with "we need an honest discussion". Whether we actually do or not is irrelevant, but suggesting that it's somehow not saying that is at the very least confused and misguided.
It's outside of the US. I'm sorry, but I don't want to disclose the location.
I'm glad you've made me aware that the acronym "SJW" or the phrase "free speech" immediately marks the person using it as biased and therefore holding an illegitimate opinion. Thanks!
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Sure, I'll accept the basic logic that the lack of women in tech does not necessarily lead to the conclusion that tech discriminates against women.

But you're also ignoring evidence that suggests tech actually does discriminate against women. Just to scratch the surface, we've just seen some high profile cases like the scandal at Uber and Google's court case on its wage gap.
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You should see how long radiologists train to push a button.

I got that joke from a radiologist.
Author here. I am actually curious about this myself. I originally released it under GPL but then on another HN thread someone said anything compiled with it also ends up being GPL, so I switched to BSD 2 Clause. I have not copy pasted code from Clojure compiler BUT in order to keep the Ferret semantics the same as Clojure semantics algorithms are identical. [1] shows + function in Ferret and Clojure. As for data structures situation is similar, same semantics implemented in C++ instead of Java with some differences/tweaks geared towards embedded systems.

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> Was there a thought even slightly in your mind that this was even mildly in tension?

Not in any practical sense, but that's a pretty low bar, isn't it? The point is that even your own comments are loaded with views about how

> Churches often operate businesses flagrantly in view of the community but nobody cares (education)

Look at the world-view implicit there. This is what I am pointing at. You seem to propose that a church doing things outside "be a place for crazy-people to gather" is something like fundamentally overstepping boundaries.

They have a parable for that. "You do not light a lamp, only to place it under a bushel basket."

> I cannot believe it when Christians talk about persecution in California inside their churches.

Imagine that you are working in California and hold what is an altogether-common Christian view: that "the legal vehicle of marriage should be offered only to man-woman couples with the general idea of founding a family."

Now imagine you donate, in secret, to a cause which supports that view (e.g. Proposition 8) — whilst being sensitive of the fact that many people would find this to imply that they are invalid as people, and so you make a point of not breathing a word of it, instead making it a special point in your daily life to treat any person who would be affected by this with respect. Suppose all of your colleagues and all those who interact with you will rush to your defence if you are accused of any impropriety in this regard.

There is a credible case that you should live in fear of being found out, being decried a hateful bigot in public forums, and losing your job. It has been amply demonstrated.

> Black churches in other areas work differently; worse... Will there be a Proposition 8 for Muslims?

The problems faced by black churches or Muslims may be more acutely serious in a variety of cases, and more serious overall as well, but of course this fails to justify any mistreatment of anyone.
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Honestly, I have a hard time understanding much of these "biases having affected women their entire lives", maybe you could expand on what you mean by the points you bring up. I attempt to clarify why I have a hard time understanding it:

"from what hobbies they were steered towards"

Ok, but the thing I don't quite understand here is that it's not like men are "steered" towards tech that strongly either. At least when I was young it was not "cool" to be some geek who sat infront of the computer all day, in fact quite the opposite.

"to their experiences during education"

I'm in Europe and I have no clue how a woman can have a worse experience in the educational system over here. Women tend to perform better in school and I'd to so far as to say that things are probably the other way around. Based on anecdata more "traditional" boys/men are probably very poorly served by the current educational system and there could be much done here.

"to their interviewing process, to their working environments after having jobs"

Again, I'm rather confused here. Is this some reference to startups? This whole debacle seems to show that women, at least at the larger corporations, has some clear benefits. As anecdata I can add that I've had women tell me "getting an internship at Corp XYZ was very easy, they kept telling me they were looking to hire more women". I've heard a professor comment on hiring new faculty by saying "If we don't hire a woman we have failed", etc.
I guess we have to agree to disagree. GA is not an alternative to LA, as LA is the foundation of GA.

The main point of LA is not matrices, but linear operators, dimensionality, linear independence, bases, etc. Matrices flow naturally from that. If all you have been taught in LA is to manipulate matrices, then I can see why you feel about the relationship between LA and GA the way you do.
I am starting to think that this type of debate will only work constructively once we have Elon Musk's brain computer and are able to express our complete world of thoughts to each other. Using words is so unbelievably flawed, as it is impossible for anyone to communicate in full what they actually want to say, without being perceived as saying something else as well.

Is it possible that humans have reached their limits of current collective intellectual capacity?
> An interface on linux has only one ip address.

Just to point out, while the behaviour of any one OS is a useful data point for the discussion, it's not super useful to say "because OS 'foo' does things in a certain way, a well used programming language should limit it's design to that OS's way of doing things." :)

Hmmm, I guess I'm trying to say that (at least) Go should be fairly OS agnostic about this.
> This type of collective mob mentality lashing out at "wrongthink" is why Trump won the election.

No, he won with the help of the gutted Voting Rights Act, ridiculously gerrymandered districts, and an electoral college that gives far too much weight to rural racists.