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Yes, our institutions of science are flawed and subject to human biases. However, what alternative to we have? At the end of the day, we need to have some notion of what is "true". We could go with taking the dominate ideology as being "true", but this is literally political correctness. We could go back to using religion to tell us what is true [0]. Or we could realize that science is the best method we have invented to find truth.

The question then becomes how much we trust our current scientific institutions. I will agree that the general public tends to put too much trust in any given finding (and often misunderstands the finding itself), but, in general, our scientific institutions are still doing some of the best science in our society. They are certainly doing better science than our political institutions are. [1]

So what do we do when our scientific institutions findings do not align with our political findings? One option is to ignore the science entirely; but without the science, we will proceed along with an ideology that becomes increasingly divorced from reality.

In the case of the Google memo, we have a disagreement about facts [2]. The question here is how to resolve this disagreement. I have seen two proposals: 1) Science and 2) Ideology and mob rule.

Both sides can play in the science debate. There is a lot of science to support the "pro (gender) diversity" side, and we can have a discussion where both sides try to use science to arrive closer to the truth. In fact, if we look at the two sides of the broader diversity debate, the pro diversity side is far more represented in our scientific institutions [3].

[0] Although it is worth noting that, even if we accept religion as the correct arbiter of truth, our religious institutions also have a record of reaching a truth that supports the biases of the time.

[1] Which is not a criticism of our political institutions; their job is not to do science. It is, however, a criticism of deferring to our political institutions for factual judgements.

[2] Actually, in my opinion, most of the disagreement is about words; specifically one side not understanding what the other side is trying to say moreso than disagreeing with it. However, for the sake of arguement, I will assume that both sides understand what the other is saying and have a factual disagreement.

[3] Again, talking about populations, not individuals.
There's already too much damn parking. Stop driving to work. Live too far away? Convince your company to move to a place with sane housing costs.

Facebook has the advantage of building in the burbs where there's already a glut of parking and people expect more.
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Edit: looks like this was already mentioned below. Whoops.
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Yes! A million times, yes! Defcon is the only Vegas conference I ever bring a burner too.
Men in America, but not in the world in general, are more money conscious than status conscious. They're more likely to salve the idea of not having a respectable job with thinking about how much money they are making.
That encourages driving up the price then dropping out to increase how much you get.
> You can be fired as an Australian employee at any time

That's not true, we have unfair dismissal laws: https://www.fwc.gov.au/termination-of-employment/unfair-dism... . From the page:

Your dismissal may be considered unfair if:

* you were dismissed, and

* your dismissal was harsh, unjust or unreasonable, and

* your dismissal was not a case of genuine redundancy, and

* if you were employed by a small business, your dismissal was not consistent with the Small Business Fair Dismissal Code.

Personally I would consider this harsh, unjust and unreasonable, especially if this is the first time and the person doesn't have a lot of publicity experience.
>'It's just so much fun to use'

Given that one of the criteria the VPNs were measured on was 'fun' makes me inclined to dismiss the whole thing.

VPNs are to stop the secret police from coming and killing your family and taking you away, 'fun' is coding, not playing with your life.
It can be easier. We've used https://github.com/GUI/lua-resty-auto-ssl to provide SSL provisioning on the fly at my previous company for our customers` custom domains. This also means that there is no downtime at all when they change the DNS record from their old servers to the new one
A thousand times this.

There is absolutely an institutionalist argument to be made against how science is practiced by fallible and biased humans. However, I've never heard of any method I'd trust more.

Science seems to be the only fair process for adjudicating when factual claims are at odds. I'd hate to rely on rhetoric, as that certainly isn't less subject to human fallibility.

At the same time, we need to be thoughtful about what are scientific questions and which are normative/ value questions.

Science could help us figure out whether ground up humans make good plant fertilizer. Humans need to make a value judgement on whether or not to fertilize plants with ground up humans.

Believing in the scientific method, recognizing the institutional ways that we can systematically fall short of its lofty platonic ideal, and understanding the limitations of science to tell us the "right" social policy is what I want.
I know you didn't list Python, but Django works very well. Bit of a learning curve though. Flask is a microframework (also Python), with emphasis on the micro.

Django makes some trade-offs that might make it seem like you're less productive. Maybe it's true, but Django apps are very maintainable in my experience.
Me neither. My circle of friends are approaching their 40s, and several of them work at Google. Some of them didn't get hired until their mid 30s, after they had over 10 years experience.
Vienna (Wien) also seems good.
And then ampersands, while we are at it?
>>The work-life balance (all the night shifts) is horrible and the stress is high (lives in the balance and all that).

I think nursing trades stress for job security.

There are many places like this in tech world as well. SDET positions in most big web companies. First 1 - 3 line support groups in big outsourcing firms etc etc.

The job is stress full, but the return for that is not money, its job security.
Congestion pricing proposals for publicly-owned infrastructure always run into the same problem: taxpayers paid for the building of the infrastructure, they already own it. Charging what the market will bear effectively turns the infrastructure over to the relatively wealthy to use. Making people watch as the rich get exclusive use of the infrastructure every taxpayer paid for never goes over well.
I haven't used graph.cool yet but as far as I can tell it's just another GraphQL backend so yes, it should work just the same.
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I see this so often as well. Most likely because WordPress does this by default.

Some websites get around this by having a separate "Go to website.com" button at the top apart from the logo
That difference is just a psychological one. The end result is still people with a parking spot have $300 less than people without a parking spot. It doesn't matter which side you call the baseline.
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The reasonable thing to do is stop expecting companies to pay for results that hurt them, and support public funding for these investigations. Trying to punish a PI who is just trying not to put him or herself, plus the lab scientists and employees, out of a job is counterproductive.
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Or thank Democrats for advancing pork-laden public-private partnership regional cable monopolies that gave rise to the copper behemoths of today. Don't try to make this partisan.
I'm curious as to why you want to ditch graphiQL. I find graphiQL to be one of the best things about the GraphQL ecosystem.
Science aligns (or at least should, ideally) rather more with "honesty". "honesty" isn't "truth", so ...
> [x] Readable, somewhat python-like syntax

I have a rather different opinion on OP that it has a needlessly verbose syntax.

Pythonic it is definitely not. Even C# (which is another creation of Anders Hejlsberg, after MS poached him from Borland) has a better, readable and concise syntax.

I used to be a Delphi evangelist in it's glory days. Now I bristle when I read Pascal source code, there's so much unnecessary visual noise. Of course if your brain is habituated enough to parse Pascal code, eventually you will tend to filter out the begin..end's.

Pascal syntax belongs to C family of language.

As regards to Python-like syntax, I think you are referring to the Nim language, whose syntax happens to be similar to that of Pascal.
This seems like a good thread to ask this.

I'm about to move to China. What vpn set up is best?

I use and android phone and Mac laptop.

Thanks..
My wife's company just pays people bonuses to take the bus/ride a bike/walk/run/whathaveyou to work. Employees get a small bonus literally every day they utilize alternative transportation. It's not much for each commute, but over the course of a month, it ends up being a few hundred bucks for some people. My wife used to drive to work, but is now riding her bike. I am 99% sure she loves the bike commute so much now that she wouldn't revert back even if the small bonus got taken away.
> understanding of modern style versioned modules in C++.

Could you enlighten us about this? Is this something to do with the eternal C++ modules proposal that never seems to make it into a standard?

The thing that comes to my mind when I hear "versioned modules" and "C++" is the way you can use "versioned" namespace re-exports to avoid ABI breakage, like so:

// header for version 1 of library
namespace mylib {
namespace v1 {
struct Foo {
int num_apples;
};
}
using namespace v1;
}

// header for version 2 of library
namespace mylib {
namespace v1 {
class Foo {
int num_apples;
};
}
namespace v2 {
class Foo {
int num_apples;
int num_bananas;
};
}
using namespace v2;
}

But I don't think that's what you mean.
It's been years since I worked in Delphi regularly, but I still have it installed and have been looking around in it this evening for the first time in a long while. Right now I can't find the option to change from this to a single-window mode, but I'm not sure there is one.

I think the trick is to just not run it maximized, then undock the various parts from the main editor window. Then once you have things resized and placed where you want, you save it as a Desktop layout. I don't know how far back that feature goes.

I would have to reinstall it from scratch somewhere to see how it looks by default. I really want to do this and dare say I even intend to! I may even have D5 and D3 somewhere in a box too, but now I'm approaching self-promise overload!!

Here it is maximized and docked. Is that something like what you remember?

http://i.imgur.com/aeTYPjb.png
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Right about what, specifically? Being random is good. Being short wasn't part of the rules. Rotation is pretty bad. And words don't fix the core problem of making a good password because people love picking non-random words.

In general, every two random characters is worth as much as one random word. I personally find it as easy to remember three random characters as a word, so I get better mileage out of random characters.
I am 34 and have worked at various fortune 500s in the Midwest and there seems to be no issues here at all with regards to ageism.

My dad is a 64 year old programmer who has never put any effort outside of paid working hours to keep his skills up and he has never been without work for more than a couple months in 30 years.

I get slammed with LinkedIn recruiters every day. Most of the jobs aren't glamorous, but they are almost all 6 figure jobs and you can get a nice house in the city for 300k on up. Take your extra cash and go on a vacation or 2 in the dead of winter (maybe to sf even)
Would alt tags on the images solve that? I'm all for interesting new ways to tell the news (previously worked with the guy at news corp au who was in charge of trying that stuff out)
Linaro isn't a company; it's a "collaborative engineering organization". It does employ some number of engineers, funded by donations by their member companies, but they also accept "in-kind" donations where engineers are detailed to work at Linaro for some period of time. So it wasn't really directed at Linaro per se, but more at the member companies of Linaro.
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sigh they're taking a leaf out of the Australian government's book.
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Help me out here. What is EFF's involvement in this?

Generally I can kinda see how the EFF would be interested in the topic of their presentation, but effectively this is an employee and employer legal issue now.
No such luck for us :(
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I am not attacking the cited papers, just their relevance. He might as well have said, "we should not fight global warming because of special relativity". Special relativity may be true, but if you think it relates to global warming, then you have done no research on global warming, as you clearly don't understand the problem. That he thinks that innate differences in interest between the sexes relates to the problem of including women in tech that is trying to be addressed by various "diversity" measures, shows that he doesn't understand what the problem is.
You're right -- I really considered putting systems programming-ish in my comment because of that. I talk my way around the limitation in my own head because it really depends on the system you're programming -- a lot of even lower level systems these days come with a lot more memory and resources to manage. Maybe I'm just warping what the term means to my own ends.
Maybe a silly question, but what is the issue with the ampersand?
I don't think they're constraining APM to make the AI more human-like. It seems more like they're controlling a variable, so that if the AI wins, they know it wasn't just because the AI could out-click a human.
>By demanding that the listener be respectful to
>an idea they find abhorrent

They could have stopped reading at any point, no need to be respectful by finishing.

Please see my comment above about the way things used to be in America. Yes, there were sometimes overly-heated disagreements, the Vietnam war comes to mind, but generally speaking political disagreements didn't devolve into calling others Nazis or threatening their ability to work. That sort of extreme partisanship can only result in unpleasant consequences.
That's because diversity doesn't actually mean diversity. It's mostly newspeak, but it amounts to a dynamic set whose members are defined by the fashionable morality of PC culture.
I feel like we're not far off from a digital version of the Amish. "Technology was perfected by the FSF in 2003; everything developed since is evil."
This is almost exactly my opinion. Where I'd differ on the Google case, is that I don't think science can ultimately tell us what is the correct level of diversity to strive for.

That's a values question to be slugged out in society. Certainly science (especially if it's well-executed science with broad consensus) can help to inform how we might achieve our desired ends. There's no "right" level of diversity, and I can think of at least several incompatible standards of "fair."
I had a great time on Tokyo public transport (excluding rush hour on the busiest lines, but even that was fun in a way).
There are two major mobile operating systems, iOS and Android, both based on Unix clones, one on BSD and one on Linux. Mobile has dramatically increased Linux usage; what do you think Android is?
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"There is only one party in the United States, the Property Party … and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat." - Gore Vidal

Even more true today then when Gore said it!
Probably for the tough requirements for the free enough computer he can get today.

He is currently using Lenovo thinkpad X60, flashing free bios, then install Trisquel(Ubuntu minus non-free binary blobs).

Probably harder to install than most of us do(get non-free binary blob infected compute and install linux kernel with
a lot of non-free binary blobs)
That makes a lot more sense from an economic optimization standpoint. The only question would be what kind of auction you wanted to use.

Most likely, there would be legal issues with instituting this sort of structure, so it wouldn't make sense from a liability standpoint.
Individual income inequality has been approximately flat for the last 50 years. The variety of income inequality that has increased is household inequality, but that's mostly driven by social changes as that metric is hugely sensitive to the nature and size of households.
( http://www.aei.org/publication/sorry-krugman-piketty-and-sti... )

Your #3 has always been true but is arguably less so today than in past given the continuing fragmentation and loss of authority of large news sources.

If your #1 is supposed to represent a change from some golden earlier era...which era are you thinking of, exactly?
No one installs Windows, and frankly it isn't a ton easier than installing free operating systems. It's only easier because you rarely run into driver issues, the computer was probably built to run Windows, and you're rarely trying to install it as a second operating system.
But your last sentence basically obliterates the reasoning behind the rest of your post:

> Also, tech companies "lean young" primarily because younger employees A) earn less B) put up with more mistreatment.

That's kind of the point. Companies aren't acting based on irrational discrimination, they are trying to get more output for less money, and if they can pay employees less and work them harder (what you refer to as "mistreatment"), then it's an economic advantage for them.
Same for me. I fired up Firefox for the first time in years and it works great. The hardest part to get used to is their super-weird hamburger menu layout.
The penalty is the employee's wages, day-for-day, up to 30 days. So yes, it will probably be payable, but it's just money (rather than somehow invalidating the termination, for example), and it's unlikely either side will care much about the amount.
You can structure your auction in different ways to discourage this sort of bad behavior. For example: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vickrey–Clarke–Groves_auctio...

There's lots of auction theory describing good ways to sell things like parking spaces.
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I'm riding mostly on the shoulder of highways where there are no pedestrians and rarely other bikes. I'm happy to have bike speed limits, eg 25 around pedestrians, 50 on the highway shoulder. I already do 55-65 for long downhill stretches as it is on my unpowered road bike, it's bliss :)
Well, could argue they had to do more to get to work? Unless of course they used Lyft to get a ride ..
Those are the versions I had. It seemed to parallel the odd numbered Windows versions too, or at least that every other version was decent.
Wow, you didn't even take econ 101 did you? Do you know what substitutes are?

"Demand is a fallacy"

Probably the dumbest thing I've ever read. Do you think there is no demand for food? Is demand for food a fallacy?

Jesus.
Just like in IE/Edge, the "Do not track" setting used to be enabled by default, then it became disabled by default, and for good reason. The argument is, if it is enabled by default, sites will not bothered to support it since it was not something that the user turned on explicitly and was aware of.
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Nevermind the fact that it was defcon. Having your phone on in a place where thousands of security experts are running amok is a surefire recipe for ensuing hilarity.
It never did, in US we are self-governed, that was the whole idea.
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if he wants to have a successful lawsuit he needs to shut up right now until after the case. Anything he says can be used against him in the courts, nothing he doesnt say cant be said later.
So your. Intention is that they have this talk without the exec knowing it was going to happen?

The exec that fired them was an attendee at the conference. How can he not have known about their talk? That makes no sense.
San Diego has started to do this. I'm surprised it's taken so long for this kind of technology to get installed given that there's not really any revolutionary technology here.

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Its a mystery to me how some people don't understand that when Richard S puts a 5 inch disk platter on his head and gives a St. IGNUcius Sermon he wants you to laugh along because it a Joke.

Hes smart enough and confident enough to make himself the butt of the joke so we can all laugh along and have good time. Good grief.

Its a bit off topic sure but down votes, really? I suppose that's why I left the soul crushing corporate cathedral hell for a life in the bazaar in the first place. Can't say I miss the culture one bit.
Nothing's perfect.

> Why waste time building something that someone has already done better?

That's merely your opinion. Why did you discount your potential users/customers opinions?

I guess the "perfect" way to build something better is to build it for ourselves first (scratching our own itches, so they said) & the rest will be history. Yes, easier to be said than done.
Am I crazy or is it ridiculous that a ride-sharing company didn't give their employees free Lyft credits to alleviate the situation? You would think that would be one of the perks of working for Lyft. I am also confused as to why it was called free parking. Is employee parking not considered as part of compensation? I've worked at offices before that used public lots and the employer purchased parking passes for everyone.

Also, a bit off topic, but biking is not a panacea for everyone. I tried cycling my 18 mile commute along the PCH for 1.5 years. By the end of it, I was really turned off by biking. I like to play basketball, hike, and go open ocean swimming. I finally quit cycling to work because I had dead legs due to musclr fatigue and couldn't enjoynmy preferred recreational activities.

Also, I sweat very easily. Luckily my office at the time had a shower.
Is he really that naive to believe you have free speech at work?
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I might be wrong, but I most certainly did not make it up. Will Strafach and Dan Tentler would at least appear to disagree with you: https://twitter.com/chronic/status/884434768380776448