skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sigh, it wasn't gizmodo being shady, it's just there's multiple leaked versions and some of the leakers only supplied html/text.
You're assuming that the claim is true. Why?
But it's never so easy

Yeah, sure, there's problems. But mother nature cares not. The fuel load will continue to build until it burns, unless we remove it ourselves. That's the shortsightednes of "let fires burn but...", IMO. One day it will burn, whether you like it or not, unless you're willing to pay from now until kingdom come for manual fuel reduction. The only question is will it burn on our terms or hers?

In our area, there were a number of properties that were lost, because the owners did not follow the rules about fuel control around their property, allowing boughs onto their roof and not clearing back from the buildings. I pin a lot of the policy problems on those sorts of folks. They haven't realized we have to live with fire, like the pines around us. Stopping it is a losing game.
'my spouse wants to' is exactly fitting into "most people want to have children". Your spouse is part of the marriage, hence their views within the marriage are pretty paramount.
Read the original ruling https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/3914302/16-1123-O...
That's very interesting. Where did you hear that?

Or should I say... could you please add a citation? ;)
It is probably worth mentioning that I dislike anti-discrimination laws. A good compromise is to probably limit them to manual labor and the like.
Right but that's nearly tautological...I meant specific applications that can tolerate the massive performance sacrifice.
Firing expected of Google employee who penned controversial memo on women
Humans aren't computers. Words and actions are not always distinct. Indeed, they mostly aren't distinct. If words didn't have an effect on the world, we wouldn't have evolved language.
TBH I'm not really interested in the wider issue at all. For starters I'm not even in America and we have our own issues here.

But this memo has dominated a lot of the internet that I use and figured surely someone has done the work to pull it apart.

I'm not going to read two books just to figure out some google guy's 10 page memo - call me lazy but perhaps nobody is going to read two books just for that purpose.
> The argument that women aren't biologically suited for working in tech is the lazy and stupid solution

This is not what the writer says.

> I think... there are not going to be any easy solutions.

The article suggests a number of non-discriminatory solutions Google could easily implement.
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This guy takes a crack at exactly what you propose. The factors you mention do not undermine the manifesto's thesis.
https://nintil.com/2017/08/07/why-so-few-women-in-cs-the-goo...
Yes, the native populations often did the same in the Americas. But in the early 1900s, the U.S. decided its forests were an important resource—both as a source of timber for military use and to have timber sales to raise money, and declared war on wildfire with full suppression tactics universally applied. Now recognized as a mistake, tactics have changed, but we'll be suffering the consequences of 100 years of fire suppression for a long time.
I and many others are working for that not to be the case.
Ah, I see. As I understand it, AA usually comes into play when there is little separating two candidates. Most other qualities are the same or the historically advantaged candidate is only slightly better than the disadvantaged one.

To counter this historical disadvantage, the candidate possessing it is given additional 'points' which push them beyond the other. All other things being equal or close to equal, this becomes the tie-breaker.
>...and there were no such open issues with the http tracker protocol

This is because the HTTP protocol is so much overhead that most trackers don't even really run it anymore. I think UDP being promoted to the spec would've been a step in the right direction. Modern trackers have a bunch of tricks like BEP34[0] to avoid getting pounded that would be great if every client conformed to.

I hope I'm not coming off as aggressive. I really appreciate this work and I'm really glad to see a spec revision. It's just as you said, there's been many years and many good improvements that I'd like to see made while there's still a change to break things.

[0]: http://www.bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0034.html
But allowing it, in the first place, is also no legally sound: https://medium.com/@scurphey/googles-response-to-employee-s-...
I actually don't say that. I say that he should be fired because he has - not simply that he expressed - abhorrent opinions. It's an unfortunate epistemic reality that we don't know many peoples views until they explicitly put them to paper, but the epistemic issue doesn't cloud the moral one: he believes morally wrong things.
There's no reason we can't do both.
Didn't read the article. I usually don't have trouble with recursion, however lately I have started to avoid it more and more often. It is true that linear solutions usually look more complex. However in my opinion they also allow better reuse of local variables. Their complexity also depends on the datastructure. Designing a linear datastructure for nested problems is sometimes possible and can allow simple non-recursive solutions which I find more elegant.
Ask about approved licenses and also make sure you know what you've purchased when it comes to platform service levels.
How long until Doctors spend 10+ years studying only to sit in the chair and copy-paste diagnosis from software as some kind of legal blame game piece?
The problem with SHA1 being broken is unrelated to the amount of bits in the hash, so the point of switching to sha256 isn't to "increase the strength beyond the original 160 bits" but to avoid Shattered and future potential attacks.
Off topic: I really miss Jolt :( and I love that Dobb kept using their name post-bankruptcy
Excellent! I have Heath's edition and read through it 20 years ago. Prompted me to take it off the shelf and bookmarking this site.
Sure it's not automatic, but as you can imagine there's an extreme selective pressure towards wanting children.

After all, all the people who didn't want kids, and had a choice about the matter died childless and never passed on their anti-replication genes.
Agentive Technology (new concept?)
Did he actually cite any scientific literature? I would be interested in reading them.

If not, then they are just intelligently dressed up assumptions.
> Twitter is an excellent venue for discussion.

I didn't say it wasn't. Is said it was a bad venue for substantive debate. It's a fine venue for banal chitchat and voicing unsubstantiated opinions, which is what makes it so popular because that's a lot easier and more fun than actually diving into the depths of an issue.
> They've decided to move forward with SHA256 truncated to 20 bytes [...]

I wonder why not SHA512? It's actually faster to compute than SHA512 on 64-bit architectures.
"The reaction to the memo is really the most damning thing about the whole affair."

I found that aspect troubling too. This isn't a subject I know much about, so I was hoping for more balanced debate from both sides. Instead what we got was internet lynching and grandstanding.
Why is it interesting to you that one side of this debate doesn't feel free to express itself? This debate has that in common with plenty of other debates, from the legitimacy of ISIS to the criminality of child pornography --- both of which are debates that have happened in some form on HN, if you think I'm just cherry picking. Sometimes these dynamics form simply because there's a clear right answer, and we're repulsed by the implication of the wrong answer.
There's also a fair amount of Jonathan Haidt influence.
I'm a stutter too. My condition is a bit special I think. When I'm alone, I don't stutter at all if I think out loud or just read something on the screen, every scary word turns into a piece of cake. But as soon as I realize someone can hear me (even if it's remote like video chat), I start to stutter, pretty badly. I wonder if other people are in the same camp.

I didn't stutter when I was kid until I played with a neighbor kid who did, and it frightened me that I might stutter like him whenever I need to talk. As time progresses, the frightening reinforced, and I never grew out of it. I wonder if it qualifies as classical conditioning?

I also speak other languages, and the severity is different in different languages.
> Suppose it wasn't consistent.

That means the model you're investigating isn't ZF+Con(ZF). It's ZF+Con(ZF)+Not(Con(ZF)) because you've added the extra axiom as part of your proof by contradiction. Obviously you trivially get not(Con(ZF)) from this model, let alone anything else via the principle of explosion.

ZF+Con(ZF)+Not(Con(ZF)) is not consistent and it shouldn't surprise you that you can use it to trivially derive contradictory results.

Ultimately, Godel's second incompleteness theorem says that you can't prove the consistency of a formal system within that system. The Wikipedia article is dense and awful to read but has a reasonably succinct statement of the theorem. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del%27s_incompleteness_...

EDIT: "mind blowing material" - on that we can both agree. This is something I really wish I got to study more back in uni.

Further editing to clean up some minor errors.
It's up to others how much they mock my ideas. No one can guarantee equality in the mocking, but yes all people should be free to mock, disagree, or respond however they wish to my ideas.
> Is it fair to say that you disagree with the author on whether the biological differences exist (and if they do the size of their effect on representation), not with the logical merit of the argument (group aptitude and preference affect representation)?

I agree there are biological differences. But, one can't cite these as reasons why certain women don't land tech roles. That remains unstudied and is highly subjective from many angles. The process of determining "what is success" is, in part, having organizations that have different values, a free market, and separate countries ever since the Peace of Westphalia.

This subthread is about whether the manifesto "raises into question the fundamental capability of every woman he works with"

You wrote,

> Your argument only supports that the author questions the ability of every women who fails to get a job in the field / that modern role.

Are we simply disagreeing about to whom the author is referring? Like, are you saying that the author isn't talking about his current coworkers, but rather candidates for that field / role?

How would you feel if you were a woman working with this guy? If he criticized your work, would you not feel he is pre-judging you based on biological precepts? Wouldn't it be lousy to work with someone who thought you were biologically not able to do the job well?

> If it is proven that biological differences do not significantly impact modern role preference and capability,

Nobody needs to prove that biological differences don't impact modern role capability. It hasn't been proven.

I don't need to prove to you that flying spaghetti monsters don't exist. The burden of proof is on you to show that they do.

> you and the author agree that representation should be 50/50.

Not really. Men choosing to hire men over women is a factor. The author is still making a gross generalization even if his intention is to only criticize women who didn't land a tech role. And regardless of his intention, he has ostracized himself from working with many women. That is his burden, not women's.
I read a fair number of the comments. Most of the guesses/explanations on why there's a difference make sense. But over 2 hours? That's a significant dip in power consumption that doesn't seem to be explained by most of the comments. Of course, I could be wrong. I'm not an internals junkie. (Sorry?)
This isn't a simple class thing. Rural areas aren't just populated by rich evil bankers with mountaintop villas; they're predominantly settled by poor rural whites who have owned land for generation and do not have the means to easily leave.
Some insurers insist that patients forgo generics and buy brand-name drugs
It looks like it is being advanced as a proprietary technology and they don't want to publish on the mechanism until it is commercialized. However there is a patent http://www.google.com.pg/patents/WO2010012077A1?cl=en
You might feel like you're providing harsh yet practical advice, but you're not explaining your reasoning which is why you're getting downvoted. If you forced yourself to explain your ideas you might discover some aren't as concrete as you think, and you might strengthen some ideas that work. Posts like this have a "I have it all figured out" attitude that I would argue indicates a lack of interest in learning, and I don't think that's what you want.
It will be very illuminating to see what Trump and his cohorts do about this report since it reports facts which fly in the face of the fantasy that has been promulgated by the Administration. The scientific community should not have to fear government censorship.
Is 45C such a big deal? Chennai (India) routinely gets such temperatures and humidity is like 95%. Look no further for a place teeming with life ;)

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/chennai/At-42-5C-mer...
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/chennai/Chennai-swel...
The spike was in 1946. Whenever this statistic is trotted out I always wonder how they made the trains run back then but MTA can't figure out how to do it today. Their handwaving about narrow doors slowing down passengers doesn't hold water.
Are you implying that his opinions prevent him from working with women in a general sense, then? I understand where you would conclude that but I have no evidence of it so can't come to that conclusion myself. The only thing I can see is that if someone expressed those opinions, women wouldn't want to work with them.

Personally, I don't have a problem with people having bad or morally repugnant opinions. I have a problem with them acting on these opinions where it effects others.
Both of you make persuasive arguments.

FWIW, in my [limited] understanding it was a strain of Sunni Islam that became enamored with learning and preserving Greek and Roman scholarship. This backfired, though, and a strain of theology which very intentionally rejected empiricism and logical deduction emerged to dominate Sunni religious scholarship. At that point the preservation and further development of Western thought decreased significantly; the works produced--those which hadn't been burned--wait for discovery by Europeans centuries later.

Which is why today there are, supposedly, marked differences in the way a society like Iran finances human and physical sciences domestically versus, say, Saudi Arabia where financing of science education is vulnerable to the ire of religious leaders who see it as more of a threat than they otherwise might, similar to many strains of Christian theology which perceive a conflict between scientific scholarship, and acceptance and adherence to their religious creed. Individual adherents can remain oblivious to these esoteric distinctions, but they can matter hugely in terms of the development and atrophy of institutional support within a society.
> incredibly stupid

I am sick and tired of those in power wanting "fairness" that always balances in their favor.

They will in slightly inconvenienced at most. They will be pissed because they are getting screwed in way that reminds them of being on the receiving end of power. I can guarantee you that everyone of those rich people have disproportionally screwed someone. Directly or indirectly. If they want their street back, buy it back! Their power comes from their money, wield it.
Absurd. It's a fantastic venue for substantive debate, technical political and mediatic. You're speaking confidently about something you're ignorant about.
None of the other AES finalists were vulnerable to known plaintexts attacks. Neither is 3-DES or chacha20. DES and RC4 are now considered insecure, but in their day they were resistant known plaintext attacks as well.

Other than some toy examples, and cryptosystems that were used before cryptography was studied academically, I can't think of any that are vulnerable to known plaintext attacks.
I kind of saw it as being intended for someone that loves Clojure but needs to run in a constrained environment that usually requires C or C++.
> If leftists/liberals wanted everyone to be treated fairly without prejudice of their race or sex

Which they do.

> then they would not continually push for the expansion and entrenchment of race and sex based affirmative action programs

They would continually push for the recalibration of them, which may include expansion in some areas.

> which deliberately exclude people from employment opportunities, scholarships, networking opportunities and many other essential resources.

That is the opposite of what AA programs do; AA programs address pre-existing structural exclusion.

> If you abandon the goal of equality of opportunity as the left has for the more dubious goal of equality of outcomes

Equality of opportunities and equality of outcomes are not opposed goals, and the left hasn't abandoned the former for the latter. The left, OTOH, recognized that the absence of the latter causes the absence of the former (outcomes at t0 define opportunities at t1; one of the most important parts of outcomes are the opportunities that they create) and so in the absence of equality of outcomes, corrective measures are necessary to create equality of opportunity, and those measures are in many cases going to involve moving toward equality of outcomes, both in direct nature and indirect effect.
No, that is not my expectation and I doubt it is the expectation of people who don't agree with his opinion.

There is just a long history of his type of argument deployed in favor of his type of view. Frankly, rebutting such arguments can get exhausting especially for those who are the target of his post.
Define love
Evolution is just a methodology, not living entity with desires and goals. If your genes allow you at the age of 20, to look so stunning that you have 10 children before you sadly die from the effort expended to look so swimmingly handsome, then your genes will soon proliferate to every corner of the globe. We'll call that successful 'evolution', even though most people today would be horrified that you only lived 20 years.
The Alice decision already killed the "do X on a computer" patent viability.
Yup, I remember on Win98 when I was playing video I could open Paint's color picker, target it at the Windows Media Player window, move Paint over the top of WMP, do a flood-fill with my new color, and voila, Paint was playing my movie :D
They've only been "debunked" in the lazy, anti-intellectual corners of academia; that is, gender studies, cultural/social anthropology, critical race theory, etc. The factual points made by the author (re: gender differences only, no opinion on his recommendations for Google) square very nicely with scientific consensus [1]. The evidence has only piled on since the famous Pinker-Spelke debate.

[1] https://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/debate05/debate05_index.htm...
Could also see it as a misguided attempt to help, like teaching someone to swim by throwing them in the pool. Obviously I don't know your teacher, if you say she was a mean one she was a mean one, but that's the charitable interpretation.

I'm interested in what you (and other current/former stutterers) think the right strategy in the classroom would be. On the one hand you don't want to push a student into daily humiliations, it's cruel. On the other hand, life will continue to require public speaking, and allowing a student to hide from that is maybe doing them a disservice in the long run. What approaches from teachers did/didn't work for you?
Clearly, Google must neither fire nor not fire the employee.
They forgot QA lead. I know it's currently posh in some companies to do away with QA (YOLO software development methodology?). I've found successful software delivery without a strong QA lead on equal footing as the tech lead and PM/PJM is a recipe for disaster. QA is often the only source of truth that you can rely on when you want an accurate assessment of where things stand.
I like it because it essentially forces "If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter" — I've read more than enough "limitless" threads of utter rubbish, longer garbage is still garbage. There are positives and negatives of every platform.
Currently no bittorrent clients support it. This is still just a draft. I've only just started working on an implementation for libtorrent, it will be quite a while before it is production ready.
Some languages on the jvm (namely scala) do have tail call recursion, meaning that in many cases recursion can use constant stack space
It's not worse, it's exactly as bad.

> It's called privilege

You missed an important part: that only ones own group should be immune. If you believe all groups shouldn't face discrimination, then it is no such thing.
To qualify this, only if you have break ups.
The temperature. It takes far less long to boil alive than to dissolve.
"Project Manager" has negative stigma. I'm not entirely sure why, but I think the perception has to do with the way that project management might be done in larger organizations - concern for minutia and TPS reports over actual accomplishments.
Predictable is the word I'd use. Oh well, I just hope people don't assume that actual conversations on politics happen here. Right wing perspectives are silenced then ganged by strawmen when they can't reply, it's a fucking joke.
Well for one, it lists my house as having the wrong number of bedrooms and bathrooms, and then proceeds to give an inaccurate number for rents in the area if you actually go look at Airbnb.
We specifically call them 'hazard reductions' or 'prescribed burns' here now, because of the numerous times 'controlled' burns became rapidly uncontrolled... :P
California is an at-will state, so they could also just fire him for any or no reason.

Someone spreading 10-page manifestos internally is generally toxic no matter which opinion they share. It essentially screams "I know better than any manager I could have possibly discussed this with privately." To boot, this manifesto isn't even tactical.
Contra Grant On Exaggerated Differences
Pretty sure you can't buy poor streets because they haven't co-opted public spaces for their own advantage.

If they weren't rich, they wouldn't have been in this predicament in the first place. Make your bed and lie in it.
> a working dot product:

double dot(double *a, double *b, size_t n)
{
double acc = 0;
while (n-- != 0)
acc += *a++ + *b++;
return acc;
}

For a working dot product, I think you mean

acc += *a++ + *b++;

to be

acc += *a++ * *b++;

(That's how your recursive version does it, anyway.)
The minimum team size is one: A single person building a project.

I'd guess the minimum successful team size is in the 2-3 range. At the very least you must have a client or customer of some kind and a developer or implementer.
My perspective is that falling in love with someone doesn't mean having to replace your current lover.

That's only true in a society that enforces monogamy.

My birth culture is plainly polygamous. My grandfather had five wives. My uncle has 4 and a half. My brother has 2.
>It's ZF+Con(ZF)+Not(Con(ZF)) because you've added the extra axiom as part of your proof by contradiction.

No. It's ZF+Con(ZF)+not(con(ZF+con(ZF)). Which is, in fact consistent (assuming ZF is).
It's a vast overstatement to say even most of the claims are "well-known and mostly scientifically-established". Honestly, most of the claims are purely asserted. Some consist of wikipedia links or links to random single pieces of research. Those are far cries from the standard you set out.

I agree the author should not have their arguments misrepresented. But this applies in both directions.