skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think what's important here is that we each have to know what our lifestyle aspirations are.

For some folks, a lifestyle business is better suited for them as they are looking to get more time out of their lives to do other things.

For others, a startup might be better because they have more control over whatever product/service they are providing.
But he wasn't insinuating that diversity was hurting google.. he was suggesting reasons for why he thought there wasn't enough diversity and how it could be beneficial.
The irony here is incredible, given what the entire nation (much less tech) is discussing this right now. Inside Google, outside Google. The discussion is happening. To suggest otherwise is disingenuous.

It appears what you are in fact arguing is that there should be no consequences for speech. That has never, in the entirety of human history, been true (certainly not in a corporate context). From Athens sentencing Aristotle to death for expressing an unpopular idea, through Todd Aiken losing an election, to getting fired from Google today for writing a manifesto--Speech has consequences. The speaker bears the burden of accepting those consequences (good or bad), and making the determination that the audience to whom she is speaking will inflict consequences.

I, for example, do not discuss political/religious things with one of my supervisors, because I know it will not end well. She tries, and so I smile and nod and leave quickly. That does not mean I do not have the right to speak. I simply weigh the consequences given the circumstances and act accordingly. Outside of work--even to other coworkers--the calculus is different, and I act differently.

This is how it has always been. If you can provide examples otherwise, I'll be happy to address them.
Justin, that's a very weird reply and to be honest you sound deranged.

Here's an interview with James:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=TN1vEfqHGro
I agree that the document blurs the line between preference/aptitude and is not totally clear which is one of the reasons overall it is a mess.

Nonetheless, many of the statements in "Personality differences", "Men's higher drive for status", and "Non-discriminatory ways to reduce the gender gap", especially the stuff about women being more prone to anxiety, liking part-time work, caring more about people than things, etc. speak strongly to aptitude for engineering, given the context of the document.

EDIT: Also, I reject the implication that the claim "women have less of a preference for engineering" is not in and of itself a harmful stereotype.
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I'll do ! but the point is that I have nothing to write except some excerpts _ I owned a blog and don't have time for this anymore
I thought we all agreed the wage gap comes down to degree choice?
Interfaces help to solve the problem with methods of objects, but not with data members.

I wonder if the author knows about structure embedding in Go at all.
A top-end graphics card has other uses and other value, and is something a large number of people (myself included) already own; and most importantly: they can always be used to mine a different coin, which entirely removes them from contention as "specialized" as used in this article (as the entire argument was based around how the hardware would not be useful for a different coin).

As for "all things can be accelerated", the question here is more "how unique is the thing being accelerated?" (and so I would agree the wording in my comment was slightly off), as this argument about the grim trigger holds up if and only if the specialized hardware being used is not valuable for other uses (including other coins).

As an example of what you can conclude with this thought process: if you are a small "startup coin" you should seriously considering a proof-of-work scheme that is weirdly unique in that it forces people to not be able to reuse hardware they have from another (particularly if more valuable) coin.
It's what is known outside the VC / startup scene as "a business".

It's a business a person starts to provide a reasonable level of income to themselves and their family, to maintain a certain lifestyle.
Heh, I asked that question.

I implemented the solution in a Firebase wrapper and it works great.

Anyway, Google is solving this in JS by implementing persistence.

https://github.com/firebase/firebase-js-sdk/issues/17
> I'm simply supposing that he tried out the same argument in an informal context first, and that's what he's complaining about here.

Right, so you made that up. You're objecting strongly to something you THINK he MAY have done. Maybe.

> [1] Yes, it was. Don't pretend that it wasn't.

His thesis speaks for itself. Your objection to it is really your objection to what you THINK he means, instead of what he said. I think you may have just proved a few of his points.
This is also anecdotal. I'm a female working as a technical lead. When trying to describe what I do to non-tech-worker female friends that ask, I often find that they get a look of slight confusion and state things such as "wait, that actually sounds like an interesting job!". It's as if their entire experience of computers, maths and tech is boring, so they think working with them must be as well.

I think how girls get introduced into STEM subjects has to change. I also think it would be worthwhile continuing to encourage adult females to give things like programming a go as well, even if they've tried in the past and didn't like it. Most of the barriers to interest seem to be how the subjects are talked about, as opposed to the subjects themselves.
Author here. Sorry for that. We didn't expect this to go #1 on HN. We're working on scaling up this small machine hosting our blog and also providing an alternative source as a backup.
You're using the word album, you're referring to "owning" music, and appears you're unfamiliar with any new music from the last 20 years. Time to switch to spotify.
going to? Hard to say, doesn't sound like it at all though. They want a non-breaking release, to prevent the Python 2-3 debacle. However, what will happen only time can tell.
Do you really find that interesting though? Isn't that incredibly obvious?

My biggest problem with all this is how the author gave absolutely no thought to how his female coworkers would be affected by this. These are REAL women who have to interact with him every day. They are not just statistics who are on average less likely to be good engineers than he is. They are supposed to be on the same team. I can't see how any of his women coworkers wouldn't think of him differently after this.

This was not a paper released on the internet with no ties to his coworkers. By sharing it at work and tying it in with google he made it personal. The women reading it have no choice but to make it about them, because it is about them! They are the ones who interacted with programs that he is against. Everything he talks about is stuff they actually experience. And throughout the entire thing he shows that he does not care at all about these women.
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So apparently it's the passengers who benefited in the end? That is, if the drivers who put lots of miles on the cars didn't make much off it, this was an indirect way of subsidizing lower rates.
The author advocates for ending programs designed to get more females into technology and leadership positions because he views them as discrimination. His basis is precisely what you mentioned, that on average women are X. In his mind, the fact that men are more status oriented than women means that men will be disproportionately in leadership roles. That's "just the way it is" and we should accept it and create "separate but equal" opportunities (part time work in this case). It's not outright discrimination, but it's ignoring several other factors that cause women not to seek leadership positions. He's trying to use some very basic differences and ignoring a much broader picture.
Surprising (or maybe not so surprising) what kind of Youtuber he went to:

> Damore made the comments in his first major interview since being fired, to alt-right YouTube personality Stefan Molyneux.
He has already filed a complain with the NLRB and is intending to sue.

http://fortune.com/2017/08/08/google-memo-legal/
> our four-year old son suddenly lost interest in 'Frozen'

As a counterpoint, if society was as clear that "My little pony" was also not for boys, Bronies might not exist..
GMOs are awesome. The fact that they are used to justify patenting a seed is horrifying.
Amazing how sanitation caused polio to drop rapidly for years without having an effect on measles, then suddenly measles starting dropping. Or we can just notice how the drop occurs right after the introduction of the vaccine.
I suppose it depends on how you do it. I worked from a beach town in Costa Rica for a month last year. I worked very well, being unusually productive (I think due to lack of stress and a change of scenery). I worked ~6-8 hours a day/5 days a week, and got more done than I had over many more hours back home. That left me plenty of time to meet and hang out with locals, so scuba diving, swim in the ocean twice a day, cook with local fish and ingredients, make new friends, etc... It was fantastic!
Just FYI, Jonathan Haidt is not very conservative (if at all) either. Nor is Steven Pinker, who holds quite similar views.

BTW, I am left liberal (although not American) and I agree with Pinker, Haidt and Jussim (in fact I very much enjoyed his articles on the topic that are quoted in the OP).

I think many liberals in the U.S. should accept the fact that yes, men and women have different job preferences (regardless whether this is due to culture or nature, I think it's a mix of both), and there is nothing wrong with that. What is really important is that people, who really want to work in some field, can.

And personally, I am not sure how many people who opposed The Google Memo I can actually consider to be leftists. To be on the left means to care first and foremost about underprivileged people, and almost no Google employee simply fits that category (maybe a cleaning lady or a security guard, but I am pretty sure they are outsourced).
I 100% agree with your second statement - condescension happens all the time. I've seen it a bunch.

But first, men do this to each other all the time. Most of my conversations with my male friends involve us constantly disagreeing with each other, in a way I've rarely observed in groups of women. It's far more likely that if someone is willing to be condescending, they're going to do it to everyone.

Of course there are instances where a man may only do it to women, but we've quickly moved on from that general observation to "any time a man disagrees with a women he's mansplaining". 99% of the time I've seen this term used, it's to lazily drop out of a discussion once it becomes difficult.
Beyond New York? I could see doing something like this, but live in Washington, DC.
I think the problem is that 'sexist' and 'stereotyping' are loaded terms which imply bad behaviour.

Imagine I'm creating a basketball team and I reason that height is an advantage for players and men tend to be taller than women, so I will not aim to have 50% women on the team. By your definition I'm being sexist, but my attitude doesn't deserve the opprobrium that that label implies.
> Why does it matter what education a person has, besides as an ad-hominem attack, if the facts they use are correct?

Because most of the reactions were emotional, not rational. If we were rational beings it wouldn't matter, but we're not and never have been.
Democrats have produced several viable options based on existing models across the world. The ACA was the most conservative option and Republicans still fought to stop it.
21st century fascism. Scary.
Must be fresh if google hasn't even crawled it.
I love that your comment can be interpreted as sarcastic, and make total sense to some people, and serious, and make perfect sense to others.
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I can confirm that it's blocked in Pune, India.
[1] this article confirms that it has been blocked in Delhi (and more). That's more than one state.

1- https://www.medianama.com/2017/08/223-india-blocks-access-in...
I also disagree on the code formatting front – once you get used to it, gofmt really is the best thing ever.

However, all the rest of the points are pretty valid. Go has the potential to be an awesome language and environment, and minimalism as a language attribute is attractive. But it's so frigging annoying to use in practice.
A comment. Quite sad I have to specify! But fair enough
Naive and privileged person starts flamewar based on their calmly reasoned explanation of why their privileged group are inherently better suited to do their job than other less privileged group; after attempts to show them that they are indeed privileged and that others may also be as competent.

Due to intense backlash said naive and privileged person joins angry privileged people on a road to genuine hatred. All the while claiming that they are the underprivileged group.

sigh
Yes.

Remember, this isn't an AI judge, it's an AI advisor. The actual judge who decides to execute someone is still human.

The AI advisor has no wants of its own. It doesn't have personal opinions about politics, and we don't have to worry about whether the advice it gives is really to further some internal agenda so that it can take over the world.
http://archive.is/p5ZLR
First, you have to understand the problem:

1. You don't need to commit widespread election fraud to throw an election if you can predict where a small fraud will matter.

2. Not all election fraud is a miscount of ballots. Throwing out minorities' registrations is also election fraud, and you can't fight that with more-reliable ballots.

3. The best solution might not be a technology solution. Paper ballots make it hard to scale fraud. But that's not enough, since fraud doesn't always need to scale.

4. Early voting and absentee voting need to be taken into considerations and are a growing part of voting in the US.

5. If software systems are used in voting, tallying, or anything connected to election results, the systems should be open to inspection and to pen testing.
Did you see hate, insults, name calling, claims that people shouldn't be allowed to discuss such topics, or should be punished for doing so? What about comments about how wrong it was to do something to incite a culture war (as if that was the memo author's intention. And presumably such commenters don't consider opinions they agree with to be 'inciting a culture war')?

I didn't say anything about literally preventing someone from expressing their views. There were lots of views expressed that equated to saying it was wrong to even try to discuss certain matters.

And let's not forget that he was fired, and many people were approving of that. That's creating, and celebrating, an environment where you should be afraid to express unpopular opinions
OP here. I agree.
> Silicon Valley is like USSR in 70s-80s:

Totally, except for the economic stagnation, widespread malnutrition, common alcoholism, kleptocratic gerontocracy, almost every way, and the actual arrests of dissidents.

Oh, and losing a war in Afghanistan also doesn't seem to be in Twitter's immediate future.
Or the website hashes the password, and then stores a plaintext (or weakly encrypted) copy in the database as well so they can make sure you don't use a "similar" password on the next change. And in fact keep like 30 passwords in the database so hackers can get a good sense of how you construct your passwords. All for better security of course.
One thing I like about the more quirky languages like JavaScript and PHP, or even the far less quirky but still dangerous C language, is that they force you to write good tests. You don't get the false sense of confidence some other languages give you. I'm still not positive if static types are a poor man's test suite, or if a test suite is a poor man's static types, but I find tests are far more flexible and great at describing intent.
> But by American standards, her platform was well left of the average politician.

Again, only if you entirely discount her economic positions, which are the core positions of any "left" figure.

You're free to paint with however wide a brush you wish, and your other comments in this thread leave little doubt that you'll retain your opinion regardless of how this exchange turns out. But simply because the Democratic party is the "more PC" corporate capitalist party, and the Republican party is the "less PC", does not mean that either of them represents anything remotely resembling economic left interests.
Well, OK, that makes sense. Though I get the sense that the overlap might be limited.
I didn't read a specific causality claim like that.

I think there was a purposeful gap in the logic since the causality is too convoluted to be definitive about.

1. "Scientific studies have confirmed sex differences in the brain that lead to differences in our _interests_ and _behaviour_... our _interests_ are influenced strongly by biology, as opposed to being learned or socially constructed."

2. It might be reasonable to wonder if a biological mechanism is at play here.

3. ??? some combination of things, including innate gender characteristics, but not limited to sexism ???

4. Women are significantly less likely to work in technology.

_ Accenting mine, not in the article.
Probably you missunderstood what neurosexuality mean. It is a mix of philosophy, psychology, social sciences, physics and biology. That is why I think it is very relevant for the topic. I didn't mean to attack you, but I would like to people to consider her opinions too. Some people trend to discard what doesn't fit with their opinions too quickly and this leads to problems
I see Sencha strategy used elsewhere in the industry. For example, Netlify recently changed their pricing model and introduced a minimum of 5 users in paid plans. From this standpoint, I understand why that is happening. If you divide an amount equal to several developer monthly salaries with the expected number of licenses sold per month, you get a pretty high number. A large framework is a big battlefront as each widget needs to be tested, documented, and accompanied with examples.
It's more that it's very valuable to know the history of how people have tried to claim "science" justified their prejudices. And by "you people" I mean Googlebro and his adoring fans. None of whom apparently thought very hard about the math of the stuff they were claiming, and so missed that the sciencefacts they keep appealing to would predict a far smaller effect size than what we actually observe. But they're going to keep appealing to the sciencefacts anyway and feel that this provides a complete and unchallengable explanation for gender ratio in tech, because confirmation bias is strong.
? Understanding the psychology and thought process of your target is what empathy means.
Now, as a thought exercise: who do you think subsidizes VCs? (I.e. who are the biggest LPs)

For people who don't want to look it up... Some of the biggest are pension funds! It's not just high net worth individuals or companies, it's also mom & pop retirement funds.

https://www.quora.com/Who-are-the-biggest-investors-limited-...
And now we reach the point where opportunistic douchebags who used Trump/alt-right crowds for their own benefit and those who felt that it gave them license to say and post things that they previously would have kept to themselves or to 4chan start to see the writing on the wall and begin looking for the exits. Unfortunately for them, the internet never forgets and the stink of this will cling to them for the rest of their days. I never had a high opinion of Peter Thiel, but for the past year or so my policy has been to avoid any company or organization that took money from him starting in 2016. This policy is not going to change. Ever.
So how would such an engineer get the social experience needed to navigate this environment? Is the only alternative to just step in and figure it out while you go?
Remember that GraphQL is only the query language and the realtime server implementation is left to each user.

That said, the idea is similar. You subscribe and unsubscribe to data. Some callback is called when data is updated.
> 'No you can’t say that, that's sexist' and 'You can't do this.'

Well, that's certainly an accurate description of a corporate diversity seminar.

I just completed a corporate training about bribery, just lots of "No you can't accept that gift", "No, you can't give the contract to someone who's family works for the government in return". If I'd been accepting bribes I'd probably feel shamed.
The principles are the same, the details change.
This is the best comment I've read all day, and I've been reading some good ones about The Google Memo™.

EDIT: Do yourself a favour and read DonHopkins's history. You'll have a good laugh.

EDIT2: That edit wasn't meant for you, Don.
Why does the author think one has to be happy the way he does? Lifestyle business beats a startup for some and the opposite is true for others.
I don't know, but I would expect 7,500 to 10,000 miles per year on a normal car, hence that would have in a 130 weeks/2.5 years some 25 thousands miles top.

If (as it is reported here and there) an Uber driver needs to make 3,000 miles per month, the car after 30 months would be more likely to be in the 90,000 - 100,000 range, i.e. the same as a 10-12 years car, i.e. an "end of life" car.

Even if only 2.5 years old, upholstery, seats, plasric accessories, etc will likley show the wear from use.

Such a car can only be sold to "particular" customers.

But if the value is bigger, then it is another reason why the 9,000 US$ lost per car are simply too much.
One group of people it can work a bit better for, in terms of living somewhere you have a real connection rather than living an expat lifestyle, are people who are themselves from somewhere with a lower cost of living, but can't find good jobs there, so moved elsewhere. It lets you sort of halfway move back to your home country while retaining some of the income advantages of the wealthier country. I have a Greek friend who does something like that, running a small business that is mainly economically based in northern Europe, but because he has a flexible working environment, he's able to spend a significant portion of the year in Greece, which he left in the first place only because there were no jobs, not because he wanted to leave.

In some formal sense the mechanics are very similar to an American running a lifestyle business from a beach in Crete, but culturally it's different from the "digital nomad" lifestyle.
I think there's a 20% chance that the Democrats abandon their center-right neoliberal platform next presidential election and actually push for single payer healthcare. I'm not holding my breath though.
Ask HN: Where can I find diversity data in tech companies?
Hello, fellow HN readers.

Is there any publicly available dataset with diversity amongst tech companies? I'm doing a little research on the topic, and I wasn't able to find one with good and up-to-date data for more than board level employees.
If there isn't any, we can try to make one.

I will update this public spreadsheet [1] with your answers. All pull requests to this spreadsheet are kindly welcome. I will try to update it as fast as possible.

If I forgot something in the worksheet or anyone is offended by it, then I'm very sorry. It wasn't the purpose of this. My goal is to just gather data around the topic.

Please, help me with the research with data from companies you work for.

[1] https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1OAe2-aGLUw78ABZGs3ZvyMlHZkH5oPekgF1fQ_EQojI/edit?usp=sharing
This.

Blanket/irrational bans are not new. In Dec '14 we saw a ban[1] on GitHub and some other sites.

1 - https://techcrunch.com/2014/12/31/indian-government-censorsh...
I recently used https://teleport.org/cities/ when comparing different options on where to move (it also has a startup scene section).