skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> And as for its impact on you: Do you understand that at this point, I could not in good conscience assign anyone to work with you? I certainly couldn’t assign any women to deal with this, a good number of the people you might have to work with may simply punch you in the face, and even if there were a group of like-minded individuals I could put you with, nobody would be able to collaborate with them. You have just created a textbook hostile workplace environment.

https://medium.com/@yonatanzunger/so-about-this-googlers-man...
Hi HN, engineer at Cruise here. I just wanted to point out that most people are surprised when I tell them we're hiring a ton of backend/full stack/android engineering positions (mostly go/node/react), and you don't need prior robotics or machine learning experience to apply (although we like those too).

So, if you're interested in working on AVs or the systems that support them, please take a look at our careers page: https://getcruise.com/careers (or feel free to reach out to me via HN profile).
It doesn't take long to write a complaint, and if he was sharing these views in a smaller circle for some time, he may well already have dealt with "upper management" in some fashion that he deemed worthy of a complaint
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Green usernames are new accounts.
Indeed, but people will go as far as dismissing valid proofs and statistics just to boost their own ego and not feel inferior in any way.

That's like me not acknowledging that a black athlete has a genetic advantage over me that would make a difference if we were competing at the 0.1% top level.

I think Google's action is not a right or wrong approach, it's a measure of maintaining order and keeping everybody 'happy'.
I'm sure a competent lawyer who deals with employment law could put one of those together in half an hour -- we don't know for sure that he did it himself.
Here, here. I’m a software engineer who happens to be a woman. Mr. Damore's piece didn’t offend me at all. There were parts I agreed with and parts I didn’t agree with. I’m more bothered by Google’s response(s) which seemed to reveal an incredible lack of critical reading ability, and far more disturbed by the levels of harshly enforced group-think that seem to increasingly dominate supposedly intelligent circles.
On the contrary, growing up white and middle class stacks the odds in your favour in the same way. Many well-off Asian families possibly even more so for the reasons you point out (I spend a lot of time in Asia and know it well). If you are a white middle class male you have better options in education and you are brought up for success, less likely to get arrested and so on - so yes of course you will be more likely to get into a good college and be able to cover costs, and you will be with more people who look and talk like you and that network will be important in getting jobs down the line (or partners and investors for your business). And no, it's still not easy.

But merit is just a table stake and never goes far on its own. Nobody is supposing that companies are occupied by a bunch of white cabbages (although the fact that googleboy got any support really does make me wonder as he was so intellectually vacuous). And it's ingrained into our culture that white men take the top jobs right through business, culture and arts, science, and politics - so the danger is we see it as 'how things are' and assume it's evolved for the best.

But it's completely optional and man-made, and ultimately a political choice, 1. not to have a level playing field when it comes to equality of opportunity and 2. to stack it in that direction. The reality is that tech companies led by women do better and the biggest indicator of ending up poor is having the misfortune to be born poor, so society at large isn't going to fall in by redressing the balance.

And no, fixing a racist and sexist system isn't racism or sexism. The issue many people have here is that they don't recognise it as institutionally racist and sexist in the first place. That's because they are the beneficiaries of the system and cannot see it (I know how hard it is to see past that as I'm one too, and this is why I mention the Blub paradox). You are absolutely right to look at the the figures and point out the number of Asians. We need to check the figures because we can't be objective by just going off our feels (we are a great bunch of guys and love and respect women and don't have a racist bone in our bodies etc). It's a systemic issue, very rarely a personal one (although of course it's personal to all those who are disadvantaged by it).
The question is, if you have a load of high-value inventory to shift, but your audience isn't susceptible to it, why not treat this as an optimization problem and make them?

Susceptibility to action is binary. If the audience isn't susceptible then they won't ever convert, or take action.

I'll never buy a Yoni Egg [1], and no amount of targeting or putting advertisements in front of me will cause me to make a purchase of one.

However there might be a world in which I would buy a box of feminine products, even though I am a man. For example if my daughter is sick or incapable of getting them for herself. In which case, a social or other network knowing that

1. I have a daughter

2. That she is sick

3. What her time based need of these products is

4. That there is a preference for a certain product in this category

5. I can get the product cheaply or easily

Makes my life easier, by saying: "Hey [user] we see that you may be in a scenario that this particular product/service would be helpful right now"

Even though at that point I might not even know that I need to help get that when I go to the store because of social anxiety or embarrassment preventing from asking.

So yes, I believe in an all seeing all knowing AI god that will guide and optimize our behaviors. That is not a sarcastic comment.

[1]https://yoniegg.com/what-are-yoni-eggs/
How is this a PR win? I don't think any company would love victory like this, not ever.
Hey at least our colonialism isn't gendered anymore!

One step at a time.
This Bloomberg blog post doesn't add anything more to the discussion of what happened than would any >100 word comment, drawn at random from the biggest HN thread on this fiasco. All it's doing here is giving us a license to pointlessly recapitulate the same debate we had yesterday and the day before.

Stuff like this is what the flag button on the site is for.
> PS. Why is your username green?

An account created just a few days ago. After some time it will become grey.
This makes me wonder whether it would be theoretically possible to use some of the engine's power output to extract nitrogen from the incoming air. You'd effectively be trading more CO2 pollution (because of the reduced efficiency) for less NOx pollution.

My back-of-the-envelope calculations suggest that off-the-shelf oxygen concentrators aren't efficient enough to make this practical, but I don't know whether there are fundamental thermodynamic limits that would prevent the efficiency from being improved.
This is far from a universally-realized/appreciated fact; it's good to list both for those that weren't aware.
Wish they'd included VS Code in that comparison.
https://mobile.twitter.com/dril/status/473265809079693312
Using Selenium locators for CSS test automation purposes
Gah how fractured is the streaming market going to get? Netflix is really declining in good content.
I am surprised how big this 'manifesto' got.

Imagine how surreal this must be for Damore.

In regards to the explosive nature of this episode, I think it is indicative of the people who seem to be going progressively more insane's realization that their little social engineering experiments curry no favor in the halls of reality and their misguided efforts are rapidly being washed out to the sea of history while the scattered sand from their tantrums is being transformed by the tide into a nice, orderly and peaceful beach for those of us in the reality-based community to enjoy.
A right to free speech doesn't mean you are also free from any consequences for that speech.. ? The Constitution allows you to say whatever you want but your employer's also free to fire you for saying it. As an example, if you say racist things to a customer, your employer should be able to fire you.

I have heard people say he should get fired, but I haven't heard anyone saying he should be "expelled from society" or "forever vilified as an outcast."
"repeating unsupported gender stereotypes"

This is the part of this whole thing that bothers me the most. You can't just close this debate down with proof by repeated assertion. Whatever you think about the memo, its author, or the views he's presented, it's simply not settled science and certainly not settled on the side you seem to think it is.†

The following should get you started:

* Steven Pinker & Elizabeth Spelke | The Science of Gender & Science | Mind Brain Behavior Discussion https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Hb3oe7-PJ8

* http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/08/07/contra-grant-on-exagger...

Answering questions as complicated as "Why aren't there more women in tech?" is extremely difficult. There are likely lots of factors, all intertwined, difficult to untangle.

The idea that you could just say, "Nope. It's settled. It's 100% sexism and no other cause" is just patently absurd. Anybody telling you otherwise is full of shit.

† Note that the science on this question is independent of questions like "Should he have posted this at work?" or "Did Google handle this the right way?"
I wonder if there would be the same controversy if the memo had gone viral but being about any other issue, say, about what the guy thinks Google is doing wrong with Google+. I assume that the guy would be fired also, but I'm not sure.

In other words, I'm not sure whether the firing is to supress opinions or to punish putting the company in a bad spot.
House of the Rising Sun. As interpreted by Josh White, advisor and confidant to F.D.R. Priceless ;)

https://archive.org/details/78_house-of-the-rising-sun_josh-...

I find myself on Internet Archive a lot during these dog days of summer. Delving into classic texts like Edgar Rice Burroughs A Princess of Mars or Aldous Huxley's The Perennial Philosophy. Discovering a forgotten H. P. Lovecraft story in the Weird Tales archive. Mining old time radio shows like Suspense for story inspiration. And using the Internet Arcade for screen grabs that can be used in retro-style game texture art. It makes me think I should do a better job of preserving my own output. You never know what future generations may find useful!
>Microsoft doesn't have a good developer userspace

What does this even mean ? They do have the best IDE on the market ( Visual Studio). What they are really lacking is a proper console emulator app, but there is still the excellent ConEmu for this (3rd party , doesn't belong to MS).
This is authoritarian logic.

A threat is never just an opinion in authoritarian thinking. It's outside of what constitutes an opinion, it's outside the system.

Hence, for the greater good, it must be not just be rejected, it must be destroyed as a moral necessity.

If you go down this road, there is only one destination.

I can sympathise with your view point. Of course I can. That is my whole point. It takes incredibly mental expenditure to not follow that style of thinking.
I feel like a better reference would be one or two of the journal articles the guy published...not having a physics background to judge the science on its own merit, I'd rather not read some guy's blog post.
If you ever did econ 101, you might be shocked to read this:

R.A. WERNER,
A lost century in economics: Three theories of banking and the conclusive evidence

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1057521915...
> Tax the shit out of the ultra-rich and spread it around.

That would be great but think of the difficulties. Firstly, which politicians would support it? Most politicians spend their time fundraising ( begging the wealthy for money ).

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/06/the-hum...

Can you imagine the future of such politicians?

Especially now that corporations can donate as much as they want?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_United_v._FEC

Secondly, the ultra-rich will simply move money/assets offshores in hidden accounts. A lot of them already do that to avoid paying taxes. If it were to increase, a lot more money will go underground.

Thirdly, citizenship is something that can be bought and sold in modern society. The ultra-rich will buy citizenship in countries with lower taxes and simply move their companies/assets there. Look at what the pharmaceutical industry has been doing the past 10 years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_inversion

The problem is that the international world order is corrupt and the wealthy write the rules/laws. Even if there was a raise in taxes, they would add a loophole for the wealthy to bypass it.
If it was bothering anyone else: yes, the parenthesis in the patch in the email are unbalanced, and the code was checked in as:

if (*p && ((*p)->state == TASK_RUNNING ||
(*p)->state == TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE ||
(*p)->state == TASK_SWAPPING))
> "for this person to be personally ruined, expelled from society, terminated from their job and forever vilified as an outcast"

Lol. He is fine. He got fired from one job, will find another one. What you describe however does sound like the price people usually pay for not being white males. So common we don't even think about it any more.
Off-topic, sorry: Levine gets a lot of praise around here, and he does have a great talent for breaking down complex finance topics so that they're easy to understand and often entertaining to read about. That being said, sometimes he is awfully sanguine about bank misconduct and crimes. Edit: from the article:

"A bank that keeps very careful track of how much money it has, and who owes it money and whom it owes money, and sometimes does evil stuff with that knowledge -- that's fine, really."
>I'd guess that you feel that way because you're not affected by the issues discussed in the essay.

I don't work at Google, so I'm not.

The manifesto itself is controversial in that if you poll the plurality of the population or employees of Google on whether they agree with some or all of it, you won't have consensus, I'm sure of it.

>I've been there myself, it takes a lot of time and effort to understand the real impact of something that doesn't impact yourself.

Yeah, thanks for the condescension - just because I haven't reached the same conclusion must mean I haven't taken "time and effort to understand the real impact of something that doesn't impact yourself".

>Also, please don't think that I'm judging you or saying that you're a bad person because of it.

Uh huh.

>If I had a superpower, it would be making people see the world through other people's eyes.

Why don't you try making an effort sometime.
Look for organizations in the industries in the middle of this chart?

https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2017/03/06/chart-the-perce...
This means you can use sshfs again
An Introduction to Concurrency in Unix-Based [GNU] C Through Annotated Examples
Who are you to say that? People have preferences, get over it.
Thanks for the suggestion. I wasn't aware of Fluture. Will look deeper into it.

On cursory inspection, looks like Fluture has multiple features that I rejected
when designing Posterus: laziness/templating, separation of map/flatmap, and possibly others. They come at the cost of cognitive load and API surface.

In contrast, Posterus aims to be the simplest Promise replacement you could possibly come up with, filling the main missing features: cancelation and scheduling control.

Additional features come at a cost. Laziness & templating trips up unfamiliar developers. Separating map and flatmap doesn't make sense in a dynamic language; since you can't statically enforce it, it's just a tripmine with no benefit. Also, a large amount of utilities bloats the code size, which I care about very much. Posterus is designed to be as small as a typical promise polyfill, fitting into a size-constrained browser application.

Needless to say, Fluture has features you might want that don't exist in Posterus. I'm not familiar with it, so it's difficult to recomment any.
I thought that actually was the more common term - Google shows more results for "miss moneybags" than "mr moneybags" and "mister moneybags" combined. Am I wrong?

edit: I am wrong. I didn't use quotes.
Curious if you feel Colin Kaepernick should have been fired and blacklisted for supporting Black Lives Matter? After all, it was only a consequence of free speech from his employers.
Those aren't in any way mutually exclusive. There's always enough of a bitcoin supply (and it's divisible enough) to have sufficient liquidity for use as a medium of exchange. With the in-progress work on bidirectional micropayment channels, it's only going to become an even more useful medium of exchange.
Mazda is a small company. They don't have the kind of R&D budget to make EVs.
Google is in a no-win situation here. Fire the guy - get these kind of reactions about not listening to opposing voices. Not fire the guy - incendiary reactions from the general public.

If Google had not fired the guy, a large majority of women (and men) in Google wouldn't want this guy (as brilliant as he may be) in their teams - that would create an unnecessarily hostile and uncomfortable workplace.
I think the product's design is pretty different though. If you want only text as well as photo-centric options, that's hard to design. Also, if you want people to spend 2 minutes reading a profile before deciding if it's someone they want to "like" or message, that use case needs to be designed very differently than a use case where a user wants to decide in 3 seconds if the other person is cute enough to "like".

You might be right though, it might consolidate in the future if people figure out really good interfaces that make it work well for many use cases.
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I think it's more likely that there's a history here that we're not aware of. His complaint suggests he's been arguing with Google's management for some time, and that this memo was the last straw.
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I read 80-20 in another article yesterday.

But, it's all speculation, they denied that data to DoL.
Hello,

A few comments on this. I failed out of a PhD program a few years ago, FWIW.

1) I think that many of the experiences the author had would generalize to non-academic fields -- pretty much anywhere in which there are power imbalances and vested interests. I used to be a teacher's aide in a kindergarten classroom in a rough part of a U.S. city. One day, I watched a teacher hit a kindergartner with a closed fist. It was part of a pattern of violence. This upset me, and I asked my supervisor (not a teacher) whether it was worth reporting to Child Protective Services. The supervisor said that it was ultimately up to me, but that when one of their previous charges had reported a similar situation, it had gone nowhere, hadn't protected any kids, and had seriously damaged relationships between the organization I was a part of and the school district. Sometimes you see something wrong and you can't do anything about it because you're too low on the totem pole. I'd love to be a part of the world where that didn't happen, but I think that's equivalent to hoping that I not work on anything important.

2) This whole thing could have been avoided if she or her discipline had a strong norm of posting preprints online (so her committee member couldn't have scooped her so easily). A commitment to such things is one reason why economics is more influential than other fields [1].

3) Failing out of grad school was the most difficult experience of my life to date. At the time I found it terribly unfair and undeserved. Now I'm glad to be elsewhere. I hope the author feels similarly in time.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-09-01/economist...
My first thought would be that they're old, and comfortable with their current living arrangements, so money is mostly worthless to them.

The only thing they'd want to do with it is give it to their children, but they'll inherit the property when they die regardless, so selling is just a hassle.
If companies/people REALLY want to solve the diversity issue, we have to have open discussion and let even "stupid" opinions be openly shared/discussed.

If you are right about something you don't need to silence/censor others. If you are not, then you do. The witch-hunt has to end.
I would wager that none of the people calling for this person to be personally ruined, expelled from society, terminated from their job and forever vilified as an outcast ...

Maybe some people are calling for stuff like that.

But that's not what Google's doing to him. Google's just saying: "You can't do that here."
This is the best piece I've read on this issue, and the most important sentence is this: "If the company silences dissent within its own ranks, why should we trust it to manage our access to information?" I've noted today doing a Google search that I've already subconsciously demoted Google to "getting to be a SJW-daycare; consider search results suspiciously".

But honestly, the internet SJW-battles are the gift that keeps on giving. Munches popcorn
And firing him won't make it easier for them to speak in the future either
No, it's "treat others the way you want to be treated" logic. A.k.a basic human fucking decency

You're misinterpreting freedom here. It's not authoritarian to have rules. The existence of rules and enforcement != authoritarian. If trump makes all the rules absent of the peoples' will, that's authoritarian. If society agrees that you're a net negative and makes a choice to ostracize you, that's the level of freedom we have under democracy.

The golden rule isn't a high bar.
I would argue it is the opposite of authoritarian, it is mob rule. No one person or centralized authority deemed this person's actions as unacceptable. It was the majority of the community as a whole that deemed his actions as unacceptable. That is certainly a scary thing to see in action, but I think it is a different thing entirely than an authoritarian regime.
From what I have been told, he posted this to an internal list specifically created to provide a place for frank, open discussion of contentious, diversity related topics.
I dont see any C++

https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode
A) the question asks specifically how to find a "side project" idea, not necessarily a full fledged business all though it could turn into one.

B) The whole point of being involved in a specific community (e.g. fantasy books written by Terry Brooks) is that issues will crop up naturally that you, as a dev, may be in a position to solve. Theorizing on problems in this thread is the exact opposite of my suggestion.

C) The topics were half in jest (see 'armadillos'), and were just meant to kickstart the OP's thinking process.

The process of coming up with an idea shouldn't have to happen in a vacuum. The point it to solve problems you encounter and help solve them.
Is this the end of typing? Next billion Internet users want video and voice
I've been wanting to write a blog post on this for a long time, but have failed to come up with a concise way to describe the benefits. I usually say something like "Insomnia is better at being an HTTP client because that's all it does". If you use the less-HTTP-client-like feature of Postman like automated testing or mocking, and enjoy it, then Postman is the tool for you. However, if you don't need those features, Insomnia offers a better experience (my opinion) by means of a simpler, nicer, and easier interface. Oh, and Insomnia is also open source :)
Downvotes just prove my point, by the way.

Make a valid counter-argument or bug off. Downvoting opinions you don't agree with is reddit-level hive mind. Make a stance and don't hide behind your ability to downvote.