skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I love how you can talk about "celebrating individuals" while pointing to statistics that only talk about the population as a whole.

Unfortunately for you, no company I can think of does their hiring by uniform random sampling. If you're seeing unevenness the success of self-selected populations you're probably not dealing with issues of biology (since, if that was true those individuals never would have gone into, and succeeded in, CS in the first place).

Also, literally everything humans do is a celebration in negating biology. We fly, we go to space, we communicate at the speed of light through fibers buried deep under the ocean, we extend our lives through medicine and our cities through technology. If biology were "king" in human development we'd still be living in the jungle eating bugs.
>“She’s good for a woman, so even though she doesn’t do as well as that guy, she still gets the same scores because she’s in the women’s league.”

But it would still be viewed as sexist if the interviewers gave her lower scores. The only way not to be sexist is if you absolutely assess it right. Not too high and not too low.

(not saying the author is calling them sexist)
I am shocked to see that font awesome isn't even mentioned as a choice for icons considering its popularity:

https://getbootstrap.com/docs/4.0/extend/icons/

Then again I am equally shocked that there are so many competing icon sets that look promising.
No he should not. That letter was a disaster. While some of the points in that letter could have sparked valuable debate, one simply can't get away with a written claim that his coworkers are biologically incompetant to do their jobs.
Computer vision is the part of DL that is most suited to produce economic value. CV will be worth trillions of dollars in a couple of decades. All those cars, drones, agricultural equipment, medical scanners, robots and security cameras will be able to understand what they see and act intelligently. It's like the most universally useful thing since the invention of the wheel.
So right now this is one of the top stories on HN. How ad-blockers are being threatened and from comments below, "how annoying website subscription requests are."

Later this week, I expect we'll see another post about the derth of quality journalism and the "unfortunate" continued growth of buzzfeed-style and listicles taking over the net, slowly killing off quality content.
What about the sinking of the Spanish armada invading Britain? As far as maritime disasters it was pretty huge. And that seems to have turned the tide of history.
Jack Weatherford, author of the controversial Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World, wrote that "...more conservative scholars place the number of dead from Genghis Khan's invasion of central Asia at 15 million within five years." But he strongly disagrees with that estimate. https://books.google.it/books?id=A8Y9B5uHQcAC&pg=PA118&lpg=P...
It's turtles all the way down man, at some point, everyone has to use DNS.
As a Southern white male from a conservative background, I don't want to be marginalized.

But when I see the rabid way people are defending the guy like he wrote the Federalist Papers, who at best is guilty of being unaware that what he was saying is controversial, I don't feel outraged if he got fired in a massive company known for its liberal views. What did he expect?

He's not helping it by making himself a darling of the right wing media. That and lowball jabs at political correctness and Marxism make it a little too obvious where his sympathies lie and if he really wanted an objective debate picking sides doesn't help.
Google does not turn up anything from the partner companies describing the partnership, are there pages at AliExpress, Etsy, etc. announcing the partnership?
Damore can claim he was protecting the company, but if the effect of what he said in his memo is causing the opposite of that, then it can be a fire-able offense, regardless of what he said he was trying to do.
Google has become anti-science and has joined fake-news/facts movement in it's messaging about this issue. This is a new low, I would not have expected. Opinion.
There are 2 sentences in the entire article about Sundar, essentially saying he should have handled this better. There is no great way to handle this. If he hadn't fired him there would be 10x more articles demanding his resignation as many outraged employees would leave and diversity efforts set back.
Sometimes, a thing is there because it's there, and nobody knows the original purpose, so by Chesterton, nobody would be able to tear it down, because nobody can see the use of it.

Chesterton's Fence neatly saves the utterly pointless fences in our lives, regardless of the damage they can cause.
I tend to take "supported by" to mean "there is support for it" not "everything supports it". I would use "confirmed" to describe the latter. (and yes, nothing is ever absolutely confirmed, bit were talking about everyday language here)
> It's interesting how the site really reminds me of the GUI design of late 80s

Brutalism in America seemed to have begun its decline in the late 80s early 90s as well.

Not sure if this was intended by the creator but its an interesting parallel!

Also, the Brutalist resurgence is interesting. Its not just with the web, I see plenty of kickstarter projects and other sellers peddling brutalist artifacts.
Dev v Ops
It's clearly intentional: the url has #no-back appended
"He could have wrestled with the tension between population-level research and individual experience. He could have stood up for the free flow of information."

Honestly I don't agree. It's his job to facilitate an enjoyable work environment not be a champion of free speech. Free speech is plentiful outside the workplace. If you want to contact HR go for it.

But the person who wrote the memo opened a can of worms implying that his perspective was super valuable to the discussion rather than the many female employees who work there. There are a myriad of debatable perpestives but this was not the appropriate channel to vent them.

Women want to be respected by their coworkers and arguments like "biologically we've hit the max amount of women who are interested in this field" don't align with our experience.
Great article that hits all the points that need to be hit as a rebuttal.
But would such lawsuits succeed?

I don't see how you can argue that a single guy who isn't in management writing a memo creates a "hostile work environment". Most of the people complaining wouldn't even be working with him at all. They can file lawsuits but would they hold water? After all, management could just tell the lawsuit filers to be more tolerant of others: it's not like Damore was attacking individuals.

So I don't see where Google's obligation to fire him comes from. Unpopularity with other employees does not make a legal obligation.

On the other hand, firing someone who is trying to raise possibly illegal conduct with management does have legal implications.
Are you dreaming? That's not how this went down at all.
http://www.dictionary.com/browse/fruitcake

Second meaning
The only hope against the DMCA is that eventually the takedowns get so ridiculous that courts are forced to strike it down as the unconstitutional garbage it is.
I continue to disagree with much of what you say, not just for the sake of disagreeing but because I think it is material to society working towards a maximally harmonious, successful/competitive, and "fair" position, but I don't think it's possible to make any progress. To me, this conversation seems like a fairly representative example of what is one of the underlying causes of our failure to communicate in society. But, life goes on.
You must have read a different memo. The one he wrote can be described by the second part of your comment.
Exactly.

In the extreme case of attempting to put ideology before reality, you end up with the appalling story of this activist kindergarten teacher : so desperate to see girls interested in LEGOs (she sees them flocking towards dolls and crayons instead) and to actively correct "bias", she decides to take the bricks away from the boys.

http://www.bainbridgereview.com/news/blakely-teacher-restric...

“I always tell the boys, ‘You’re going to have a turn’ — and I’m like, ‘Yeah, when hell freezes over’ in my head”, she says.
It's an example of how things break if you upgrade to new versions of software. If you avoid going to new versions of software, and instead just backport the essential security fixes, there will be much fewer surprises like this.

Imagine you had a daily backup script that uses git to commit and push to a remote server perhaps managed by someone else. You then upgrade to the latest and greatest version of git to try to patch this vulnerability, and surprise, your backup script fails! Hope you weren't planning on spending the rest of the day getting the guys running the git server to implement a workaround, who might have already left for the weekend, leaving you with no backups or having to manually try to fix your git to work with that server again.
So, in that blog post, they state: "We asked them 24 days ago to remove functionalclam[.]com on the original commit."

Their request is here: https://github.com/easylist/easylist/commit/1ba8d4afeec6d562...

And was made by this account: https://github.com/dmcahelper

So, they made a github account the same day they made the "request" with an account that in no way indicates where the request is coming from? The github profile bio reads "Help all parties understand and resolve DMCA issues efficiently and effectively to minimize file and repository impacts."

Perhaps they should have used a bit more transparency when asking for the offending url to be removed from the repo, instead of acting like a spammy copyright boogyman, then immediately resorting to a dubious DMCA takedown request.
The leakers of the memo caused the bad press. It was an internal affair until that happened.
The point is disputed: to what extent are the differences biological vs. environmental? Hiring practices could influence preferences.
what would block chain give that git wouldn't? Wouldn't anyone beable to remove a domain or add a domain.
There's a lot of effort going into this, actually. My father was a nurse for 30 years and in his nursing school graduation photo, and his retirement photo with his colleagues, he was still the only male. It's possible men view these fields as female dominated and resist applying. It also raises the awkward question of how men are treated in female dominated fields. Would a man be treated better in a female dominated field, than a female in a male dominated field, or the same? I've not seen research on this, unless someone knows of any?
We just moved from Braintree to Stripe (they changed their relationship with Adyen and gave us ~ 6 weeks to re-sign with their new merchant provider or move away). We do all our recurring payments on Chargebee, so it was pretty painless when we eventually got the vaulted details securely moved out of Braintree.
Think like a supermodel if you want to win from the gig economy
> When I look at a lot of Brutalist buildings (not all, but a lot), I can't help thinking the concrete is mostly a facade, which is covering up a steel structure trying to hold up badly engineered blocks that are jutting out for no reason other than being gimmicky.

Brutalism (and especially neo-Brutalism) didn't allow facades. While that concrete may have rebar, the entire Brutalism philosophy was about not hiding the materials of construction. If a thing was to be made of concrete, it was going to look like it (instead of a faux brick or tile facade or whatever else), and a thing wasn't to be made of concrete if it didn't need to be (at the time that was often the cheapest material for the work).

The concrete extensions out from Brutalist buildings were designed with a function: to create outdoor courtyards and gathering spaces, interesting shades and "cubbies" for socialization. A lot of those spaces don't get used for that much anymore, but that's as much of change in people's relationship with the outdoors as modern a/c has changed the landscape.

There were a couple neo-Brutalist buildings rather central to my University's campus, which lead to my interest in the style, and it was interesting realizing how intentional they were meant to shape the space around themselves. That was a case where you would see a lot of those strange concrete overhangs used and subconsciously appreciated by students throughout the day. I don't think a lot of students realized those spaces were intentionally designed for just that usage.
As an employee, how is walking away from your computer without locking it even remotely accessible? Granted most of my experience is healthcare and government but I've worked placed where leaving your computer open and unlocked if you were more than an arm's length away from it was a fire-able offense. I'm not saying that's an appropriate response, but come on... it's downright negligent, especially if you're dealing with anything even remotely sensitive.
Who is arguing against treating people respectfully? For the sake of argument, if a group is less inclined towards a given profession, isn't it disrespectful to push them into it?
Competence was never the criteria for success in tech. At least as long as I've been around, so maybe we'll say certainly not in the 21st century. It's all about being male, preferably white, with a piece of paper from a good school that knows the right words to beat the culture fit.

So far in my career the only people I've see wax poetic about competence are the incompetent ones desperately stroking their own egos.
Benchmark Sues Former Uber CEO Travis Kalanick
> And yet, all of the needed data is available in the font file. There’s even a dedicated CSS property for dealing with fonts’ varying metrics: `font-size-adjust`

These are web features from before CSS existed.

The whole font sizing thing comes from how `<font size=x>` used to behave. When CSS came it only complicated this. font-size-adjust is pretty new.

And once the web starts behaving a certain way it's kind of hard to "fix".

(Also, according to a comment on /r/rust, this seems to be something that is an intrinsic problem with monospace fonts, https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/6swzl5/fontsize_an_un...)

(Also, just to mention, all of this complexity would still have to exist even if the monospace thing wasn't a problem, to support user configured font sizes)

> I wonder: is it a matter of performance that retrieving the actual font metadata and metrics is left out of the equation?

I think there is a nontrivial perf impact, yes. We've had to do some locking to make font metrics (for ex and ch) work in Stylo, for example, and while we've optimized it it still makes us lose out on parallelism a bit.
We were talking about this yesterday. We should call them Cokens :)
I answered that question directly one comment prior. Is the question I just asked hard to answer? I am not building to an indictment of James Damore, if that's what you're wondering.
> Pretending 'science' supports one political view or another is the sort of thing that got us in this mess in the first place.

I agree. That's my point. The editorial mentions only Scientists who agree with Damore's Science, which paints an inaccurate picture.
Tautology Tests are bad because they're not good
> Verbatim, from the manifesto:

That's not his thesis; that's an example he's chosen to support his thesis.
The past 50 years of the Republican party counters this. Simply take a look a the core issues the party has support for.
There were more men in these roles when it was more respected and well paid. As the relative wages and notarity declined, men started targetting ‘higher jobs’

For instance these are the numbers for teachers for the last decades:
https://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d13/tables/dt13_209.10.a...
In for a penny; in for a pound.

If I can't put your domain name in my adblock blacklist because it violates your copyrights or trademarks, then my DNS provider shouldn't be able to put your domain in their resolver, either.
I would argue that if a 'small, vocal group' likely had a significant hand in electing Donald Trump, we should stop trying to minimize it by suggesting it is 'small'. Either because it's larger than you think, or because it has influence that outscales it's membership severalfold.
A lot of people on "our side" did a bad job of simply refuting the argument presented. Its straightforward to do in one sentence:

"While there may be scientific evidence of differences between men and women, using these differences to conclude that women are biologically less inclined to engineering is a gross leap in reasoning that is not at all supported by the facts."

Then you can go on and explain why for historical and societal reasons putting forth this weak theory is highly offensive and damaging to a large group of people.

Of course, many feel that you shouldn't _have_ to explain this to people, but unfortunately in todays environment, you do!
Is it really a bubble if it's producing real value?

The answer is yes. Bubbles are investment and financial entities, decoupled from the value the sector is producing, and a bubble burst can indeed destroy real value.

So AI being in a bubble says nothing about whether AI is valuable.
"No. His firing confirmed part of Demore's thesis; that Google has monoculture issues and sits in some sort of bubble."

Google had to decide which they value more: Demore's manifesto, or the contributions of a third of their workforce.
Thanks for sharing. Makes me that much happier knowing I got through 5 years of college without becoming a brainwashed liberal.
Ale: Asynchronous Lint Engine for Vim
How ironic that I get an "Error establishing a database connection" error.
The Great American Solar Eclipse of August 21–A Fulfillment of Bible Prophecy?
It's not about whether Damore was trying to protect the company, it's about whether Damore was communicating with his coworkers about ways to improve working conditions. It is illegal to fire someone for doing so. Damore presents several ideas about improving working conditions, claiming this would also increase diversity. If I was paranoid I'd say he wrote the memo with the possibility of being illegally fired in mind, because it appears to have been written carefully with that angle in mind.
Some people who are outraged by this are people who are afraid to live in a society where you can be fired and your career ruined for having a political opinion (not even controversial one).
Then you should read it again. Focus on the title and the bullet points in the TL;DR section.
a url isn't and can't be IP - otherwise, how would anyone go to any website without violating copyright?
Yes. Exactly. The editorial mentions only agreement from Scientists.
There are women working at Google who do not need to be reminded of the genetic and biologic differences they have from their cishet male counterparts.

I'm a white male. I know that the average Asian has a higher IQ than the average white man. This means positively nothing when comparing me with a given Asian, however.

That is the root of this discussion that so many so profoundly miss. The average Google male is not the average male. The average Google female is not the average female. He was not saying that women who work at Google are at a biological disadvantage, in any way, and that is a perverse misreading. He was saying that on the whole there's a biological reason when you roll the dice enough that more males are suitable for that work. In the scientific community this is utterly indisputable, in the same way that there are far more exceptional males (and autistic males), just as there are far more mentally handicapped males. That doesn't preclude handicapped or exceptional females, it's just less common.
The true test is whether it can split salesexchange into sales exchange instead of sale sex change
>That man's argument was not science. It wasn't. There was absolutely no scientific evidence behind his argument. He misrepresented studied, and he cherry picked what he wanted.

I want to follow up on this, can you give an example? From what little I know, it's essentially settled science that men and women have statistically different interests, and those interests exist across all cultures (implying a biological cause).
IIUC, the DMCA says that if there's some technological mechanism X that's used to enforce copyright, and a tool Y that is (or can be) used to circumvent X, then making or distributing Y is itself illegal (as opposed to the act of using Y to circumvent X, which is already illegal even without the DMCA). The DMCA then provides a notice-based method for 'taking down' online copies of Y.

In this case, X is the Admiral technology. Copyright owners use it to control access to content. However, an adblocker with Admiral's domain on its blocklist is a tool Y that circumvents that.
Introducing Gotham, a Flexible Web Framework[Built with Rust]
I always enable ads on a URL if it asks me to (provided they don't over advertise/have spammy advertisements), kind of already feel shitty about what is effectively stealing content for free so those notices just make me conscious of the guilt.

I wonder how others rationalize blocking ads and not subscribing either but still feeling entitled to access the content.
> But again: should we then _assume_ to be always dealing with badly produced fonts?

A major theme of the web platform is to assume the worst, because the worst is actually often not uncommon.

Another major theme is backwards compatibility. You've mentioned a fix that would break all previous sites relying on this behavior. Fixes that require a clean-slate redo of the web just won't work.
From the Quora post you've linked:

> argues that cognitive sex differences influence performance in software engineering, but presents no supporting evidence

This is completely made up
Google Docs is down?
Yeah but your idea is not a get rich quick, pump and dump scheme.
No. I only have criticized the hypocrisy of the sentence I've quoted.
The thing being that people are everything but free and equal in our societies today.
Brian Chesky on Launching Airbnb and the Challenges of Scale
Most "actual history" is closer to fiction/myth than we want to believe. Dan Carlin is usually up front about this.
The next security release by Apple may include it. It's not uncommon to see open source library/utility updates in their change logs.

eg: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT207922
Moving Forward with Path Forward
Thesis or not, this is right at the beginning:

"Google’s political bias has equated the freedom from offense with psychological safety, but shaming into silence is the antithesis of psychological safety.
This silencing has created an ideological echo chamber where some ideas are too sacred to be honestly discussed."

...firing him, at least the way they did it, confirmed that position.
By not firing him, the same thing would have happened. Except now that vocal group would be Google employees too who feel uncomfortable at their workplace.

Anti-science way? Do you realize how subjective this is and how impossible it is to prove that today there are no other influences at play than biology? And that we've maxed on the number of woman in this field and we're now at an equilibrium determined by biology?

I would have been far more convinced if he noted a dwindling amount of harassment and reported bias using studies.