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ymgch, geezerjay I 110% agree with you both, like I said, all politicians in Brasil are corrupt, and I'm not making excuses for any of them, I was illustrating US meddling, which is always sold as 'getting rid of bad people', when in fact its really just 'replace their corrupt people, with our corrupt people', The US has been trying to get rid of Dilma (and Lula prior to her) for years.

geezerjay you don't have to link me articles about her being corrupt, I'm a Brasilian national so I'm well informed of the situation.
There is something I don't understand. The third quoted line should raise an entirely different question.

You are in the position where you want to constantly hire a lot of qualified candidates. If you have discovered a way to decrease false negative rate, why would you not apply that across the board? It's like you have learned how to fix hiring but then carry it out only with some arbitrary cohorts.

Sounds irrational to me.
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In fact regarding (1) CA state law adds a protected class "Political activities or affiliations", http://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/california-employment...
Nobody said it broke Docker (it was the resolution that "broke". But the resolution clearly did not work and we had people running through tutorials only to find curl would hang and timeout unless switching to 127.0.0.1 or passing the -4 flag.
> What you're referring to is the idea that climate change exists

Plenty of people, even on HN deny that climate change is happening.
And ironically, he proved exactly what was in the memo. Its is forbidden to even discuss diversity strategies at Google and it brands you bigot and racist.
I love Gnome, I'm now using Mac OS for my day to day desktop, but I would argue (subjectively, though) that Gnome is the best desktop environment, period, including Windows and Mac.

I totally agree with all the points in the post - the only problem Gnome has is the extension ecosystem. The idea of extensions is nice and few are awesome - but in practice most of them are low quality.

I really miss Gnome, and still use it for my secondary laptop, which I don't get to use that often.
So... he did get a promotion, there's no evidence of discrimination, but he was very concerned about it until he got the promotion? The horrors we young white men in tech have to face!
Re: Ukip and racism, there is a lot of political acts to provide context that can invalidate (or not [0])
their statements. As for this guy, his memo should be considered on it's own (in good faith) for lack of outside context about the author.

I do not understand how what he actually advocates could be considered discriminatory. It seems to me that it would indeed "disproportionately affect particular demographics", but in a good way by making sure that no https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkson%27s_paradox could induce any skill/gender bias in the workforce.

[0] I have no particular knowledge about ukip
MWI doesn't mean anything and everything can happen because there's infinite universes. The equations of quantum mechanics describe the ways that worlds can branch apart and the proportions of those branches.

Sorry if I'm underestimating your familiarity with MWI here; if I am, szemet has a much better response. I'm just a little concerned that some people in the thread don't realize MWI refers to something much more specific and grounded than what-if-multiple-universes, and I wanted to dispel that notion.
What rage? Google is now showing in cold blood how the opposition is silenced. There will be no rage, everyone will be politely quiet out of fear.
That's interesting. By 1946 most soldiers would have been back in the states but automobile production would still have been ramping up. New car designs didn't really hit the market until after 1948. Maybe that contributed?
How is Jacobian transpose control an ahead-of-time IK? And how would you do IK without at least approximating the Jacobian?
http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2017/08/07/google-fires-viewpo...

He was contacted by breitbart the alt right extremist nationalist paper which is comprised of very xenophobic individuals, at least as of now, and he responded to their emails and not to others as far as I can tell. He's now clearly pissed and will speak out because he's ostracized completely by the left. MIT Harvard phd, damn it got another Dieudonne
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Agreed. The root of the problem is that exploiting workers can - and usually does - give one a competitive advantage. If we can somehow fix this, the entire problem will solve itself.
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> They can put anything they want into it, even $0. Those pledges aren't even enforced. A country can pledge whatever, and change their mind later.

Sounds like unlimited vacation. If anybody is trying to sell you something that's "free," you're probably getting a bad deal.

Especially if the only reason it's free for other participants is because they don't expect it to be free for you.

I didn't even say anything about global warming, only the fallibility of such an open-ended agreement structure. I wonder why I'll get down-voted hmm...
> I don't know the reason why women are not interested in tech.

Dumb frat bros writing 10 page screeds about how they're not fit for the job because they're biologically conditioned to work with people and not machines -might- have something to do with it.

And, as a historical point, until the late 60s, software development was seen as "women's work". Which somewhat destroys any "biological component" nonsense.
>His entire argument is based in a long-debunked flawed premise.

What flawed premise? That men and women are different? For all your insistence that "bio-truths" are wrong, I've never met anyone who actually bothered to cite any studies that contradict them.

>Counter-examples about: look at CS enrollment rates in India for example

That actually supports the author's argument. Given India's notorious treatment of women, it would seem counter-intuitive that they're less sexist. An alternative explanation is that people in poorer countries are more desperate, so they'll take a lucrative job at the expense of their preferences. In wealthier countries, women can afford to pursue their passions.

> Under those circumstances a competent engineer should take some time to gather evidence and make proper citations to peer-reviewed research

The author did make citations (hyperlinks) to most, though not all, of his controversial statements. However, Gizmodo removed them for formatting purposes and possibly to discredit the memo.
The problem here is that even a discussion about this topic is dangerous. That's unbelievable!
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Well, not supporting JAWS is like claiming you are big in the transportation bussiness, and when someone comes up to you with a car, you end up
explaining "Oh, but we only do horse carriages." Not supporting JAWS is just not an option. The fact that JAWS is proprietary is irrelevant here. It is simply the most wide-spread screen reader, period.

IOW, not supporting JAWS is just not an option.
Besides, Qt doesn't work with Narrator either. It is telling if your accessibility support doesn't work together with the screen reader provided natively on a specific platform. So it is really not about JAWS. Qt's Accessibility support on Windows is just not up-to-date and bitrotten to a point where it is no longer useful to endusers.
India wasn't the first place Sanskrit was recorded – it was Syria
>systematic discrimination in hiring

That's a funny term for merit-based.
James Damore, has Bachelor of Science in Biology, Physics and Chemistry + PHD in Systems Biology from Harvard; even though his total experience in writing code is approximately 4 years.

I think google will reconsider their hiring preferences after this.
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If you want to see true evil in the world, look at people trying to do good in SF. "The road to hell is paved with good intentions" has never been so apt.
You will still need data engineers to build the whole data ingestion and processing pipeline (although that can be easy if standardised tools are available, such as spark, it's still a challenge in many cases).
"But firing him wasn't required and was grossly unethical. "

Gonna leave this one alone, but ...

"hey should have just let him sleep in the bed he shit in and he probably would have been gone within a few weeks anyway."

Again, this assumes a lot about what would have happened internally in that time period.
If, for example, 1000 good engineers quit out of frustration with lack of response, ...

Somehow, I have a distinct feeling, based on what you've written in this thread, that your response would be "fuck'em, let them go whine elsewhere"
Its simple. Google did not violate free speech in terms of law. But freedom of speech is much more than just a law, its also a social responsibility that we can choose to care about or not.

Personally I think americans should choose to defend freedom of speech, even if they aren't legally required to.
> It turned to be related to the use of "localhost" in the configuration. It resolves to ipv6 on some systems and that breaks everything because the target app is only listening to the ipv4 address.

You just found a major bug in the application and should complain to the developer. Applications that do not support IPv6 are simply broken and should be avoided at all cost by now.
I only skimmed it but wasn't he just questioning the policy of positive discrimination?

Or is there something else? Because that's a pretty mild question to get so upset about.
> They have to act in the interest of their shareholders.

Isn't it more that "they choose to act [...]" because it makes life easier rather than "they have to act [...]"?

e.g. there's no legal or ethical strictures upon them to act in their shareholders interest, only financial.
You might not realize but you might already have several similar people on your team, but you'll never know as it's now officially forbidden to even express one's opinion on these matters.
Gyro mills are very fascinating, but I wouldn't have high hopes for them as sources of low cost energy. That is unless you could also fly the gyro mill in a crosswind manner.

This article by Moritz Diehl describes very well the expected power output for a crosswind device. https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/f5da/681fe152e5a81264f8a919....

Also it's important to note that the potential power output for any of these systems are proportional to the cosine of the tether angle, meaning that most of the advantage airborne systems to traditional turbines won't be so much that they can reach higher winds, but just the smaller amount of material required.
Are male vets a "freak"?

Vets are 80% female. Is the industry closed to men that might want to be a vet? Do we need more outreach programs for men to be vets?

Or maybe is it that men are less likely to want to medically treat animals than women, and the gender discrepancy is one of preference? And yes, men who do become vets are statistical outliers, but certainly not "freaks". It's likely the same for tech and women - you are a statistical outlier, and from your perspective things are the norm, but the majority of women are not interested in the same things that you are interested in professionally. (The majority of men aren't either, but there's a larger minority of men sharing your professional interests than a minority of women).

And as for "not getting somewhere original" - the author's point about the difference between comparing averages vs the overlap of bell curves around the averages is a great point and not one I'd seen highlighted that way before. Perhaps you have, but it was novel to me.
2. Then what is the goal? the way many diversity policies are worded, it is not clear if there is any situation where success would be declared. This leads to many people feeling that they have in fact been bending over backwards to achieve diversity, but get called sexist pigs over and over again because gender balance didn't automatically happen.

4. So what? discrimination at conservative companies doesn't justify discrimination at liberal ones.
Clearly you strongly reject the writings overall. Curious if you see any merit or truth to any of the sub sections or smaller kernels of ideas found within? Is there any version of this kind of thing you would encourage and engage with or is it just too sensitive/triggering of a subject to really be tackled in this style?

Several commenters have chalked the author up to basically being a privileged incumbent waking up to the existential crisis of watching one's privilege being slowly taken from them and trying to figure out a way to stem the tide. Do you see it as something similar and therefore it doesn't really make sense to engage or lend it any legitimacy?

It seems a lot behind the opposition to this guy is based on people's assumptions about his motivations. OP or anyone else willing to weigh in would be appreciated.
This is very interesting. I could really use a good language on microcontrollers, especially if core.async gets ported. Most microcontroller code has a huge (and complex) event-driven state machine at its core. Rather than making all of it explicit, I'd much rather use core.async to make it look like sequential code. It would really help with reducing complexity.
SHA-1 & SHA-256 were both implemented at the same time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_SHA_extensions
Sorry, i violently reject your opinion. I found it to be the source of some of the utmost terror in totalitatiran regimes, where "Words" are equal to "Traitorous actions" and thus punnished.

And i found that behind this kind of thought, usually a anti-democratic yearning for a opion dictatorship lurks.

Still, violently rejecting does not include preventing you from uttering it.
Yep, just press 'u' when looking at staged/unstaged diffs
Got a link about the Cartesian product theorem?
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No, he didn't, and that's one of the most common misrepresentations of what he actually wrote.
From TFA: "For what it’s worth, I think that almost all of the Google memo’s empirical claims are scientifically accurate. Moreover, they are stated quite carefully and dispassionately. Its key claims about sex differences are especially well-supported by large volumes of research across species, cultures, and history."
The freedom of speech in the constitution protects you from government persecution.

But the idea is bigger than the constitution. I think it is best expressed in The Friends of Voltaire: "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it".

This is a deep idea. I think it is virtuous.

Silence no ideas.
Well then we should get rid of a lot of our cities because they are disasters waiting to happen. California has many millions of people living near fault lines. Talk about risking lives!
GNOME 3 was released 6 years ago. It has gone through several iterations since then.
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It's funny, i had a discussion about this unrelated to the Google stuff tonight.

It's definitely a cultural bubble (as is california in general, to generalize for a second).

Whether you believe the bubble is closed and repressive or open and progressive depends on your point of view.

IE California considers itself open and progressive, and cultural bubbles in the US as closed and repressive. Those cultural bubbles consider California closed and repressive, and themselves open and progressive.
> If you enjoyed this post you should read a few others that have been posted by Scott recently (on the linked website).

In fact, you should read all posts in that blog (only joking a little here). I am saying this as a person who disagrees with Scott on many political views. If everybody approached to controversial topics the same way as he does, Internet would be the best place ever for political discussions.
I was happy to help. Migrations are very complicated especially when in the face of massive traffic to move from one server to another and keep it live. I apologize that the dns transition wasnt seemless, but I managed a full migration in under 30 minutes. I'm glad I was able to help.
Back in my day, people met their partners in the course of normal social interaction. Weird, right? Like, you'd meet a friend of a friend, or be someplace fun and meet other people having fun. Super weird. Sure, online dating casts a much wider net, and there's something to be said for moving your thumb to make attractive strangers appear at your door, but the old way was efficient. More information up front meant fewer false starts and less time wasted. It was essentially speed-dating without the handholding. It wasn't that hard; you just had to get out and go somewhere, and you know, socialize.

Now with a whole new generation too averse to even talking on their phone over texting, it's probably becoming another lost art. We have managed to hack a process evolved over human civilization, only to replace it with a mildly less inconvenient but overall poorer and addictive substitute.
Just because they are considered a group. Our group is "the people", their group is something less. It happens with completely random groups, and when there are racist, sexist etc. excuses they are only a way to make oppressors feel right.
We have a mandated bible study program covering the ten commandments.

Oh that alienates you? So you want to murder people and steal stuff? We are going to fire/blacklist you now as a thief.
Well that’s not really my point. I’m simple saying no one should feel threatened and if someone does then that is their line. Whether that is an appropriate line isn’t for me to say, I cannot speak for other people. And it’s up to the company or whomever to decide when a comment becomes unproductive. I’m not saying there’s some simple answer, I wish people would stop looking for one. Life is kinda dynamic and blurry; there are 7 billion different people on this earth!
Yes, if the next block by an honest miner is very quick it will pick a timestamp of (wrong_timestamp + 1) instead of the actual time, but after a few blocks they will certainly able to use the correct time again.

But even if all miners decide to do as you say and always pick a date slightly in the future but inside the wiggle room, all that they achieve is a one-time very slight difficulty decrease, but by the next difficulty adjustment that's already lost because by then both the start date and end date of the period are offset by the same amount into the future.
I have a history in customer services, spent 7 years dealing with the general public on a returns desk. As a result, in a friendly setting I enter my swearing mode which I developed to cope to balance out having to be perfectly pleasant to extremely rude and unpleasant people 7 hours a day. This makes people uncomfortable sometimes and I have received complaints about it from management which made me feel uncomfortable as quite frankly, that is who I am.

Co-workers routinely ask personal questions, expect small talk about details of their lives out of work. I find this uncomfortable to, but am forced to participate so I don't become seen as 'not a team player'.

To be absolutely clear, I am not condoning the kind of behaviour you have experienced as something I consider to be ok. By the sound of it, it's certainly not.

However, my point is that almost always its a matter of perspective, its not just sexual related topics that make people uncomfortable. For many of the individuals you have spoken about, their personal understanding of the situation could legitimately be that it was ok.

Quite frankly, I just don't know what can be done to solve a problem so complex as individuals understanding matters in different ways.
clearly they certainly respect half life a lot. maybe they don't know it exists actually. i don't know who made it because im lazy and didn't check, but I will say, there is certainly a non zero possibility of someone being alive today and never having played or heard of half life, even if only due to youth alone. but either way it is an interesting coincidence. I wonder if it's more than such.
The United States has historically given very broad protections to free speech in public, which is something I support and am very glad of. There is some kind of speech that isn't appropriate in a corporate setting. There are some kinds of speech that I think should be legally protected both inside and outside a corporation. I think the manifesto should fall inside the category of protected speech, as he was only saying things that a reasonable person might think given what he saw inside of Google. Workers should be free to criticize management decisions or comment on working conditions.

There are some things that aren't okay, though. I wouldn't want to work with someone who decorates their cubicle with iconography commemorating the third Reich, or who makes unwanted remarks about which of his or her attractive coworkers they would most like to sleep with.

I don't know exactly what the criteria should be for what speech inside a corporation should be protected and what should not, but I'm not comfortable with the idea that an employee has no right whatsoever to any free speech in the course of their job, but I don't think that an employee has exactly the same free speech rights while they're on the job that they would have in any public place.
Nutter indeed.
I don't know of any countries which serve as a counter-example today, but apparently in the very early days of computers, programming was mostly done by women. At the time, programming was seen as a clerical job like typing or filing. As it moved from that to a prestigious, well-paid job, it also became male dominated.

Not quite the counter-example you're looking for, though.
"last holiday gift"

That would be even funnier if it wasn't so true, given the history of mailing list threads about the holiday gift.
In both cases, you have to transform between the goal in operational space (e.g. end effector pose) and the joint positions. One drawback of using the Jacobian inverse approach for control is that command values can get arbitrarily large in singular configurations (of course there are more advanced techniques to handle these cases).
Right, but I'd consider that falling closer to the realm of general software engineering -- similar to tasks of collecting analytics of users or building infrastructure to get data from point A to point B.

Maybe that currently is some parts of the job of an ML engineer. But if that's the only part, I don't think that role should be called one of ML engineer anymore
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>Are there any countries that could serve as an counter-example? That is, has numerical parity between men and women in tech ever been achieved without implementing targeted diversity policies?

As far as I know in poor unequal societies women go more to STEM careers[1]. I'd think that's because you don't have the luxury to choose to study something that won't pay well after your parents made the effort to put you through university.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/guardian-professional/2015/jun/2...
the page you refer to hardly makes it look so cut and dry. how would California's exemptions to at will employment factor into this situation?
>http://www.hullmcguire.com/pdf/Hull%20McGuire%20-%20Californ...
I'm sure you can talk yourself into believing it cannot be done. Heck, with my companies, I was universally told it was not possible for me to do them.
In the binary search algorithm :

mid = (left + right) // 2

It would be nice to have a discussion on why you used // instead of /. Depending on who reads your code, explaining this "obvious" choice might be interesting.

There are also other discussions topic : what happens if the array is empty ? what happens if the array is twice the size of the computer's RAM ? What happens if all the numbers in the array are equal ?