skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Definitely grateful for the sacrifices that have been made in the past, but I'm looking at things based on how the world is set up today. It has become a much smaller place -- people and capital can move around more easily.

I've personally never had a very strong national identity (others do seem to have that), and I think in part it's because it has become so easy to move around.

And if you travel a bit, you realise people are actually not all that different. A lot of them have similar priorities: build out a good life, raise children, care for their friends and loved ones, have fun, etc.
Fog Creek, 37 Signals, GitHub, Mailchimp, WooThemes, AppSumo, Grasshopper...

There's a very well worn path from consultancy -> productized consulting -> success in software or day gig -> side project -> success in software. Patio11 bangs on about it incessantly, because he's completely right - the majority of HN readers are more than capable of launching a successful SaaS business without quitting their day job or taking a huge lump of VC.
"It’s true that women are socialized to be better at paying attention to people’s emotional needs and so on — this is something that makes them better engineers, not worse ones."

Doesn't sound like a claim that women naturally possess these skills to me.
When the consumer has a choice in products, the costs of each integrates the carbon costs to the environment. When all options have heavy carbon taxes it encourages new product development.

Sounds about right.
Not sure whether a management decision to remove the author is helping or hurting the goal to create an environment that isn't intimidating. ..because - compared to what was written in the memo - this is a very intimidating thing to do.
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> say they are inferior in some respect

I do not believe that the author of the memo ever wrote anything like that. I'm not sure that you should equate all research scientists who published on gender/sex differences with nazis.
I've already covered the "So what?". I explained what I think the consequences are likely to be, and why I think that.
> "The only tests are for lay of the land/law/society, not language proficiency."

Not sure what your sources are, but as part of UK Citizen application, you absolutely have to do English language proficiency tests in some circumstances. The Pearson test is one of the recognised tests.
My favorite explanation of this effect goes like this: You have students in a classroom, sitting in 5 rows of 5 students. The teacher gives each student a crumpled ball of paper. Each ball is identical. The teacher then places a bin at the very front of the class and says "Okay, you each get one throw from your seat. If you hit the bin, you get an A"

Equal opportunity. Everyone is throwing the same ball into the same bin, and everyone gets a chance to throw their ball of paper, hit the bin, and get an A.

But some students are 5ft away and others are 30ft away. Suddenly not so fair.

This comic also explains it well: http://imgur.com/gallery/h82vC
You guys have the most bonkers health system anyone could imagine. 1/6 of your economy goes on "health care", but most of that doesn't actually contribute to your health, it gets skimmed off by insurers, drug companies, individual practitioners, hospitals and lawyers.

Sooner or later you are going to wake up and realise that a government-run single payer scheme is the only way to go.
You could be right here. I read the memo and it read like something written to gain enough outrage for him to be fired, but tight enough that he could win any lawsuit that follows.

I will be interested to see if anyone follows his example.
American healthcare is weird.

I pay £9.50 for all of my meds. The NHS decides which is the cheapest version of the drug I need. And that's what I get.

It costs £9.50 regardless of the quantity, brand or anything else.
Did you really compare this to racial _genocides_?

Maybe men are slightly better at something and maybe women are slightly better at other things - why is this an issue? Clearly the difference is not remotelly big enough to be impactful since we see men and women work in every profession.
Average worker skill is pretty low so this "genetic advantage" would only really matter at top 0.1% of professionals.

e.g. women are worse at some sports like Tennis, but to most people it will never matter since only few people play at that level where genetics can give you an edge.
The "we're so awful" business is usually of the "why do we british do/think X" variety where X is something popular with a largely separate subset of people to Guardian writers and readers. Then we can pat ourselves on the back.

It's increasingly cack but still the best of a bad bunch
Listen to yourself, substitute the words you just used with the words any reasonable woman hears:

What if women are just not as intelligent? What if they could be as intelligent, but are lazy?

I appreciate you think you're being rational and reasonable. You're not.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/aug/07/silico...
Using optaplanner to plan water supplies for burning man
" loved ones to a more safer place."

The trouble arises when there are no more safe places, or when you along with millions of other people are desperately trying to get to said safer place (note the refugees currently in limbo in Turkey and elsewhere)

Where would you go when Western Europe is invaded? New Zealand? North Africa? The former is hard to get to, and any trouble befalling Europe could spread to the latter.

With Pax Americana coming to an end I think a lot of people who've had the luxury of forgetting that power and force are a thing will be cruelly reminded of it. It's hard to maintain a liberal democratic utopia when your neighbor's tanks are rolling through.
This memo doesnt claim at any point that women should not be in tech. It just presents some reasons why there are less women in tech than men. Reasons that are not only sexism and patriarchy.

But it does claim that Google created environment, where people who dont perfectly align with left leaning echo chamber talking points, cant safely express their opinions anymore.

And Googles decision to pander to left leaning echo chamber and fire the guy proved his point.

If you actually read the memo, and not only misinterpretation of it on pro feminist blogs, you would see that he was very careful with words and there isnt single sentence showing his misogyny. All his controversial claims are sourced and he pointed out that this are not his personal opinions.

He even used graphs to show that he doesnt approve generalizations based on average. https://video-images.vice.com/_uncategorized/1502146696203-S...

What you are looking at is a clever guy (former chess champion), who pushed left PC SJW Google to shoot themselves in the foot. He knew what result will be. Google echo chamber activists bullied HR so they needed to fire him. Accusing him of things like misogyny, that cant be proved on court, is enough for character assassination in SJW echo chambers. But in court room where biased interpretation of his memo and words like "anti-women manifesto" or "anti-diversity screed" wont be allowed, he has the upper hand. He has all he needs to prove he was fired unfairly.

> Damore plans to sue Google; he had previously complained to NLRB and wants to argue that his dismissal was a revenge which would be illegal. See a Damore's defiant answer to Reuters.
Not sure if sarcastic or friendly, but that is the plan.
That price does not include RAM or a GPU.

Even a bare bones motherboard costs more than $2,000.

I have no doubt this an awesome machine, but that price puts it outside my budget range. :(
sure, i'm also in Dublin, it's sometimes (well, often. I mean, always) difficult to understand them if they talk fast ... but it's the same case if I visit UK, or I guess any english dialect.

I'm sure she could talk more slowly and clearly and computer would say yes.
Does there even need to be a reason why there is a gender/race disparity in tech? This is not a blip in the radar. It is commonplace for careers to have gender/race disparities. There are more careers with significant gender/race disparitities than careers without them.
"I live in Dublin and I can barely understand native Irish people either."

People in Dublin itself are widely regarded to have a neutral-sounding, easily understandable English. Indeed, Dubliners are conspicuously prominent in ESL teaching around the world for that reason. It is when one gets out of Dublin that accents begin to be more challenging for people accustomed only to mainstream US or UK pronunciations.
Only inside the tech bubble that includes HN do we still consider this hateful alt-right bigotry to be a valid "opinion" we should continue to tolerate.

Nobody is silencing the bigot that wrote that manifesto. Google is simply pointing him to the door. Lucky for him, SV still has hundreds of misogynistic tech bro companies he can join.
Do you not consider the freedom aspects (e.g. sources to the secure boot implementation, no x86, etc) as advantages in favour of Talos?
I have been keeping an eye on Raptor and Talos for a while now, and it's super exciting to see another cpu-platform with security and openess in mind. As a GNU+Linux guy, has anyone had any experience with GNU+Linux on the Power platform? What kind of differences could I expect. I've been itching to build a new AMD Naples 64 core (2x cpu) server, but I have to admit I'm tempted to just do AMD Ryzen for my upcoming desktop build and do a Talos II for the server.
In what tortured version of modern-day politics can you possibly see the UK or the US invading Germany, even in a pipe dream?
I've noticed that problem in my life as well. As a result, I decided to consume media a bit more randomly.
My harddrive has a folder called "todo". This folder contains subfolders labeled "watch", "listen" (which includes "music" and "podcasts"), "read" and (a fun one) "pilates".
The folder "watch" includes mostly movies and documentaries, sourced from my public service broadcaster's VOD service (which I scan weekly for interesting stuff) or youtube. The "music" subfolder of "listen" contains first and foremost dj mixes I've collected from eclectic rss feeds.
"read" has all kinds of PDFs and HTML pages (mostly scientific papers, long-winded articles and e-books). The "pilates"-folder contains videos of individual exercises (I find it more exciting to not always do the exact same routine)

On top of that I've written a script which prompts me to choose a category (i.e. one of the folders delineated above). It then randomly opens a file from the respective directory. When I am done using a file the script asks me whether I'd like to archive it, keep it (in case I am not done with it yet) or delete it.
Only 4 core CPUs, a tad disappointing.
I said that they accept a very wide range of certifications and you can pretty much select the one that suits you, this is my source: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/guidance-on-apply...

In addition to my self having gone through the Citizenship process recently.
Additionally several native nationalities have an exception:
https://www.gov.uk/english-language/exemptions
Note that I say "alleged". It's worth verifying imo. And for the classes and training programs it should be easy.
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He's also talking about a field being "conquered" by quoting stats on graduating students. I would guess the split in law is less for Judges, in business for CEOs etc. so if this process is happening, then it's still in progress in all of those fields, and I'd guess you could look into each one in turn and find that some started earlier and progressed faster than others. Be interesting to see what the common points for the laggards are. I don't see any great case being made for computing to be an outlier that's different in kind rather than simply degree.

I googled some stats on judges, I was correct that it lags student numbers (I say "lags" on the optimistic assumption that those students will eventually go on to be judges in similar quantities. Possibly a judge will release a 10 page manifesto about how the marxist left is forcing women to be judges when they're rather be baking cakes though, so maybe we shouldn't count our chickens until they've hatched):

http://gavelgap.org/

in particular this infographic which points out that women have been 50% of the students for 2 decades now, but still only 36% of the profession, and only 30% of state judges.

http://gavelgap.org/assets/infographic-3-c78b5c8147005783a23...

So it seems my use of "lags" was over optimistic and student numbers aren't a great predictor, even after two decades.
I wonder about the internal workings of Google here; did he (Sundar Pichai) actually ok'ed the firing of the memo author?

Is this text actually written by him or is it by some HR/communications person? It seems very coded and indirect.
Banning free speech is unconstitutional. Any "Code of Conduct" or other self proclaiming binding clauses on your contract that try to go against your constitutional rights should be void.
> An incoherent companywide memo is not the best way to start a debate on a sensitive topic.

What is the best way?
You're the one making assumptions.
1) That one can't find plenty of professional females that oppose mainstream gender politics is an unfounded assumption
2) That the author is a misogynist or his view are based in his hatred of women. Many people who oppose mainstream gender politics due so because they believe it is hurting women. How is it you're able to tell they're all lying about not having bad intentions?

Do you think women are so weak and inferior that any male who writes words you perceive to be against them should be fired, silenced, or not debated? I think grown-up men and women can handle the truth and don't need some "safe space" to insulate them from information.
Ferriss admitted to "hacking" the title because of Google search rankings: http://boingboing.net/2010/10/25/howto-use-google-adw.html
could anyone tell me why All Unreal Rendered Games Graphics look alike

They don't. It can feel like they do because the same libraries, models and shaders are reused a lot between games, but there's a lot of variety if you look hard enough. Comparing the look of RiME to Crackdown 3 to EVE Valkyrie shows there can be a lot of difference.

Have a browser through Unreal Engine's trailer showcase - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZlv_N0_O1gYaMTM__mGE...
South Africa? South America? Australia? Hell, even Greenland could work. They might not all be optimal choices, but anything is better than war. Guess it would depend on the situation, and where the conflict is.

Part of it is making sure you have resources to pay for stuff if something goes wrong, e.g. don't hold all of your money in a local bank account. In such a situation, if all your funds are held in local bank accounts, since they'll likely get frozen to some extent, you're essentially fucked.

All in all, given the bank bailout rules introduced by the EU a few years ago (look at what happened in Cyprus), it's probably not a bad idea to keep some funds in separate accounts... healthy paranoia?
I did some experimenting with Watson and Google using podcasts, and Watson came out pretty well in the mix - https://dague.net/2017/06/12/comparing-speech-recognition-fo... and https://dague.net/2017/06/13/visualizing-watson-speech-trans.... I haven't done systematic analysis with a lot of data points yet.

You can get per word confidence levels back from the Watson API if you ask for it, which is useful to know what parts it is sure about and what parts it is not.

Disclaimer: I work at IBM. But feel free to reach out at sean.dague@ibm.com if you want some help debugging on the Watson STT side.
Is this true, what citations do you have?

You've just cited an anecdote to try and counter mountains of scientific research.

There could be all sorts of nefarious stuff going on.
Could he have been refused a promotion and now blames women? What's the back story? Has he gone on record? Is there a real problem or is a misogynistic manager using it as an excuse to him to cover his own incompetence?
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Know this, I'm cancelling my holiday just to show you and more importantly my manager exactly how serious this is. Just to reiterate, you've all made me cancel my holiday, you bad, me good.
Hi everyone, I wrote this post primarily because

- Optaplanner's docs assume quite a bit of sophistication, and it was quite difficult to get up and running with the tool

- It's a really nice example of where even simple, day to day problems can be solved with computers. This was a real, genuine problem that I personally had. Most of the time I deal with work problems that are a little more abstract, but this is really direct and personal.

Also I know some people have strong opinions about the burn :). But I'm pretty sure no one has strong opinions about water planning and desert safety, and hopefully they balance out. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Do you have a reference for the case mentioned?
- student in Norway
The first thought that came to mind for me, "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."
I can't speak about Go specifically, but something I'd love to see in a language is a general "context" mechanism for passing data from a very high scope to a very low scope, without changing the functions inbetween, and without resorting to global variables.

A (not very good) example in pseudocode would be:

complicated_operation(param) with context (log_out=myfile);
// complicated_operation calls a function,
// that calls another function...

void log(string str) context (File log_out=stdout) {...};

This would be a bit like TLS, but has the advantage that the context reverts after the original call.

Usually, when I have this problem, I just stuff all the functions into a class, and make the "context" private fields. But then you end up with classes that really "don't want to" be classes, the lifetime of the context state is longer than necessary and unclear, and it feels like a hack. Also, in many languages going from free functions (and plain data and closures) to classes takes a bit of rewriting due to different syntax.

The only language I'm aware of that has these "dynamic scopes" is (apparently) Emacs Lisp, but it should be possible to fake them in C++ quite well.

It would also make the situation in the article a lot cleaner, IMO.
That sort of information about your house is already public.
If they (google) settle with him, what stops hundred(s) of other people to follow suit; I'd suppose there are at least 15-20% of employees who would agree with his views.
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>But it's a lie to say Google's culture supports free speech when the cost of that speech is compliance with the tyranny of a Code of Conduct.

I think people often expect 'free speech' in situations where I wouldn't. Like a collaborative working environment where you are all professionals trying to get work done. There is a subset of speech (so no longer 'free') that is appropriate for working professionally with a group, especially a group from widely diverse backgrounds. The exact boundaries change over time and between environments, but the idea of employers setting a baseline set of elections expectations inherently limits speech. Google supports speech within limits, and a person who gets that could probably have navigated the politics of talking about the legitimate issues in the memo without crossing that line. Working together in companies is weird. Codes of Conduct attempt to standardize expectations so that work can get done. Work is a special place.
While I agree with the sentiment, we seem to often jump to extremes in these discussions. I highly doubt Google would hire you based on your minority status over your technical qualifications alone. There are many factors in any hire whether you are a minority or not - candidates are evaluated on their technical qualifications, manner of speaking, "culture fit", who they know, where they're from, etc. Just because all of these come into play does not mean any one of these is going to outweigh the ones most directly related to the ability to do one's job.
How about you worry about yourself and stop diagnosing people that choose to be with another person?
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Any kind of article that uses term "SJW" (which is almost universally meant to be insulting) is suspect.
> There is a market force pushing software companies into leftist positions (since influential demographics in the industry are strongly pro-left; also this creates positive feedback loop).

That's bullshit. Write a "manifesto" about how senior executive compensations are to high, the company should be taken over by the employees and that private ownership of properties is a crime. That's the REAL leftist position. Then send that manifesto out to thousands of employees on the company's internal mailing list and see how long you last.

People fail to see the point... Yes, there are many "leftist" positions. The above is one of them. The point is that expressing that position on an internal mailing list most certainly puts your employment in jeopardy. It doesn't matter what the position is (abortion, drug legalization, gay weddings, military attacks on civilians, foreign relations, ...), what matter is where you express it.
Hah, I read the Guardian a lot, but let's be honest here -- they're just as capable of liberal hand-wringing and self-blame too.

The opinion pieces really make me wince sometimes.
Banning free speech is absolutely not unconstitutional. I think the Wikipedia article[0] sums it up best (emphasis mine): In the United States, freedom of speech and expression is strongly protected from government restrictions by the First Amendment to the United States Constitution, many state constitutions, and state and federal laws.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_speech_in_the_Unite...
Not necessarily. Self reported data is not renowned for its reliability. People often act self destructively or suboptimally. Incidence of burn out in tech is, AFAIK, much higher than any equivalent in other white collar careers. Tribal identification may blind some to endemic structural issues. "Lock in" to decisions causes the mind to value said decision more highly (skub/Robber's Cave study).
This is some ridiculous shit right here.

When a murderer is sentenced for murder... there are 2 levels of understanding the sentencing. One is that he broke the "code of conduct"/law, the deeper is why we consider that to be unlawful (societal harm).

Saying he clearly broke the code of conduct just shifts the question to how useful the code of conduct is.. its not some fucking holy unbreakable scripture from the sky, its man made, just as the firing is.
So you weren't able to backup your assertion about his misogyny, but you leave your politics at home - even though you mentioned you just worked for Google? The thing is, there are a lot of people who react the way you do these days - so do you think this guy's views on gender politics are so bad that he should be prevented from engineering software? That's pretty far out, isn't it?
Interesting you say that, as this seems to be one of his weaker entries, precisely because he's taking a mocking tone without sufficiently backing up his case.
Nope, it's very easy to characterize him as misinformed and unscientific, since he published the evidence in writing.

Plenty of bigots have degrees. There are nazis and muslim fundamentalists with degrees. Extremist ideology tends to override unwelcome facts.

The memo speaks for itself.
Absolutely. Whether or not I'd risk my life would depend on a lot of things.
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