skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, yes. I didn't see anyone try to suppress those views. Quite the contrary, they were widely shared. And then criticised.

He wasn't silenced in any way. His message reached way more people than he probably ever imagined.
I expected better from CBC.
The Common Core math curriculum is actually quite good and based on solid academic research on how to best teach those concepts to the majority of kids. Most of the parents complaining about it just haven't taken the time to read through their children's textbooks and understand the alternative techniques.
Callback hell does not exist in modern javascript because you have async/await.
The very first line: "Introducing the first comprehensive fertility test you can take at home."

Garbage. Flagged.
duplicate, please check before submitting!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14948392
All it takes is one website to poorly secure your credentials, and your password is exposed everywhere in this case. Use a password manager, and use the max length you can for that website.
> perhaps we should be more sympathetic to the viewpoints of Nazis? How about white supremacists?

Practically no one is saying that. We should cast out the tiny minority of Nazis.

What people are saying is that the views in the memo are not of a tiny minority. They are accepted by a significant part of society, by reasonable people. They are considered factual or at least debatable by many scientists. And many of the core principles are accepted by conservatives, i.e., a large wing of US politics.

What will happen to society if we aren't willing to listen across the political aisle? And if we aren't willing to listen to reasonable scientific debate?

> This memo does not call for more diversity.

It literally does call for more, including of gender and racial minorities:

> I strongly believe in gender and racial diversity, and I think we should strive for more

You can disagree with its practical suggestions - I do, I think many of them are harmful - but it's unfair to say it's not calling for more diversity.
It's easy to get trapped in those courses. I took the placement test and tested way lowered in math because I basically wasn't very good. The class was extremely difficult for me. I remember being required to solve square roots by hand without a calculator ("show your work!"). Probably fun for some people but I was going to be there forever, and programming was a breeze.

Instead I simply studied the placement exam, retook it and passed into college level math and dropped my other classes. Higher level math classes are much easier in my opinion because there isn't the same emphasis on process but instead on competency. This is also the biggest difference between high school and college classes in my opinion.

Later on life i do enjoy solving square roots by hand for fun.
Ask HN: Does anyone have any workstation hacks for increasing work speed
One that has been great for me is just speeding up the mouse. It takes like 20 minutes to get used to and saves so much time in the long run.

I thought about a Dvorak keyboard like Matt Mullenweg, but I think it would be a much longer learning curve.
The study is interesting but I find the term ‘action game’ too imprecise to actually be useful. Having just skimmed through the paper it seems like what they actually experimented with were highly linear games which require little to no perceptual mapping of the world into memory because you do not have to backtrack much or at all. But that is an artifact of that particular games linear level design, it has nothing to do with ‘action’.
I built Elyxel [https://www.elyxel.com] to learn Elixir and Phoenix while building open source community software. I wrote about it in greater detail here - [http://www.achariam.com/elyxel]

It hasn't really caught on but I hedged my bets a little by trying to optimize for learning. On that front it was highly rewarding.
The problem is just that we as a society have never had to plan for such a large proportion of our society being older and thus outside the (regular?) labor force. We created social security nets but they look increasingly like a ponzi scheme, making lots of young pay for the care of the old (in addition to contributions made by the old when they were a part of the labor force). Is this sustainable? I don't know.
The Google Gulag
Experiments with in-memory spatial radius queries in Python
No, you can't. Elections as completely unlike any other scenario that you might be trying to secure. Two-factor auth is of no use for elections.
Did they write it on work time? I don't know, myself.
And how do you prove that all of those citizens exist?

We have a secure, provable, relatively cheap method right now: Paper ballots and public observers at elections. Compared to the stakes the cost is peanuts.
I'm sure you actually meant Avocado Toast.
> The claims are very well-supported by decades of research. Some journalistic outlets removed the links to Damore's sources from the copies of the memo they redistributed, to make the claims look unsupported. Don't fall into that trap.

I have previously refuted the idea that the claims are supported by research. See the first part of this comment, which is based on reading the version of the document that does have the sources:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14956998

It's true that there's decades of research cited. It's true that he makes claims. It's not true that the research supports the claims he's making.
In which case, sooner or later they'll probably end up using the password on a site that stores passwords in plaintext, and after that no amount of entropy will help.
Happy to see my home base in Austin doing respectably at #13.

But London at 43? Seattle all the way down at 21? I find those results surprising. Is South Korean truly better in terms of gender equality than the USA? Many asian cultures are very male oriented.
Active discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14967258
Actually, clearly the driver DOES benefit, if Uber is losing $9,000 per car. That's money that the lessee should have paid in an economically fair transaction.

In all fairness, a bunch of people are paying a little too much, while a small minority are getting most of the benefit, e.g. people who default on their loan, or who drive the car into the ground in three months and then return it. But, that in a nutshell is why sub-prime leases are really expensive on the open, non-VC-subsidized market to begin with.

The fact is, the vehicle portion of a hack business is a non-negligible portion of the cost. Most professional drivers replace their car every 2-3 years, after driving the old one to near-zero value by putting 150k+ miles on it. UberX's pricing is pretty much predicated on the fact that people aren't sophisticated enough to amortize their vehicle cost into their profit calculation. Works fine, until you kill your first car and it's time to buy a new one to keep driving ...
> massive leap to go from biological gender differences to differences in aptitude for engineering

For the n million-th time : the memo said nothing about aptitude for engineering, just preference.
> Some feel it's not something inherent and can be changed.

That's a fair position. But it's not an indisputable position, clearly. The biggest issue here isn't about whether there are fair points against the google manifesto. It's about whether thoughts, hypotheses, and opinions like this are harmful and punishable.

> ...many people feel very bad...

And many people feel bad that someone expressed himself earnestly in good faith and has been treated this way. Do we decide where to go from here from how people feel? How do we decide which feelings are important to us?
“Indigenous peoples are the best guardians of world's biodiversity”
The problem is the cost of those techniques. Will it be low enough so that it has an impact on the average (or even better, the median) life expectancy?
I don't feel these questions are dishonest. They are trying to understand how a person behaves.

I might be naive, but I think it's better to be plain honest in an interview. Sure, the exercise is how to sell yourself. But if you try to avoid questions during an interview, what will you do when you'll work for them?
> Coincidentally, this is what Damore is suing Google for.

Is there a lawsuit already? I can't find any news about it.

> I agree, is a fruitless debate in semantics

That's my point about this discussion, it became about interpretation of laws. We can continue to argue forever here, but ultimately it will be up to the courts, if he pursues legal action, to decide the correct interpretation.

> The legal case in Canada was set as precedent for the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, an international law document, by the UN, which the U.S is a part of and an adopter of said document.

"International law" is a vague term that carries little weight. It has no "law" power unless any country actually formally agrees and implements internal laws with the same effect.

So, again, it carries no weight here.

> There are certain actions a company can take, no matter its size or circumstance, that illegal due to precedent.

That could illegal due to precedent.

> Here is an NLBR ruling against codes of conduct, which Google has violated

Again, you make the claim that Google has violated, with nothing but your opinion to back it.

And from your own source:

A policy that is written in the context of unprotected comments toward coworkers (e.g., unlawfully harassing comments), rather than protected criticism of the employer, will be deemed lawful.

That's what Google claims that the author violated, and apparently was fired for.

Remember, California is an at-will employment state. You can fire someone for ANY reason except a few clearly defined reasons. The burden of proof is on you to show that Google has fired for one of those reasons, not on Google (or me) to show that the firing WASN'T for those reasons.

Google doesn't have to justify a firing at all.
Data entry has always been a strongly female occupation. Even sixty years later, data entry workers were 92% female: http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1987-08-02/news/870226065...

It seems concerning that the de-emphasis of data entry in programming in the 1970s and 1980s may have caused the loss of entry-level opportunities for women and help lead to our field's gender imbalance.
Cyber criminals demand #HBO millions to stop leaking its material
What does this prove? At some point in time, unscientific, racist practice was called science? It even says "pseudoscientific" in the article. If you are claiming that the citations in the memo are an example of pseudoscience, the burden is on you to demonstrate.
But the bottom 90% do the labor that earns that top 1% all the money.
> Exactly zero of these countries are predominantly English speaking. So in other words, in English 10.000% means ten percent (with a precision of three digits after the decimal point), not ten thousand percent.

I posed a question about this a week or so ago,and got some interesting responses.[1] This one might be illuminating:

In mainland Europe we only use the metric system, even when speaking or writing English.

Also it is common to stick to the comma as decimal separator and dot as thousands separator when writing English. This convention is independent of the language used.

Same goes for date notation, dd-mm-yyyy is used (almost) always.

In Windows or Linux for example you can select the English language with Dutch localisation. It's used by almost all software developers I know.

So the answer is that countries that use a period as a thousands separator may by convention happen to continue doing so when using English. Whether you think this is appropriate is likely tied to whether you think localization applies irrespective to language or not.

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14861871
I don't think that's accurate. Nobody was trying to refute the science that was cited by the manifesto writer. There were many comments arguing that environmental factors are more important, or pointing out that the science of testosterone's effect hasn't been directly connected to job performance, which I think are great subjects to debate.
The lack of type safety
’Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.
Are there any metrics on how well these sovereign wealth funds are actually doing?

I often see them making big bets, with some definitely paying off (e.g. Kingdom Holding and Twitter), but I wonder how well they do across the board.
There is in fact a plants vs zombies fps for the xbox (plants vs zombies garden warfare). I've only played the second one in that sub-series, but it seems to have non-linear maps.
the parent is implying that this is the way it is, the way it was and the way it always will be (and backs it up with a personal anecdote). That's not the case though - it is possible to remove a dictator, it is possible to stop wars, it is possible to change employment laws, it is possible to send children to school and it is possible to change the world for the better. And it's not a theory.
He should be the new D&I person. At least he has something more substantial to offer than doublespeak.
Out of curiosity, how much do you have to spend to get those bonus miles? Right now Chase Sapphire Reserve will give you 50k miles for $4k in spending within 3 months (in addition to the $450 annual fee).

It just seems like a lot of these credit card based mileage schemes are really limited to people who can naturally spend tens of thousands a year on credit cards and can additionally afford the potentially thousands more in annual fees (if you have multiple cards). For those who aren't in the top 20th percentile of income, or who just prefer a frugal lifestyle, I don't see how its viable.

Or are there tricks to manufacture spending and recoup your costs?
The Importance of Ideas
Playing counter strike professionally requires spatial memory. Even regular competitive play does this. So does Titanfall.
The whole matchmaking concept made that much worse. In the server model one can find a well moderated server that kicked those idiots out.
The fired Google engineer wrote his memo after he went to a 'shaming' programme
It's hard not to be reminded of Mao's Hundred Flowers Campaign (百花运动) [1] and Anti-Rightist Movement (反右运动) [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hundred_Flowers_Campaign

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Rightist_Movement
The death rate varies widely from region to region. The article you linked cites Ontario, with its 3 deaths/1 billion miles. Denmark has 1 death/1 billion miles. South Carolina is a graveyard, with 12 deaths/1 billion miles.

Also, ~40% of driving deaths (Again, with significant regional variation) are due to alcohol use.

I'd consider 1 death per billion miles pretty good. That's one fatal mistake in 25 million hours of driving. That's a lot of hours.

> Regardless, if an autonomous driving system can do better, that's all that really matters. We're not there yet, but it's not inconceivable that we could be before too long.

Agreed.
it is if you sort by 'startup ecosystem', but i think is deranked due to COL
Any "data" company must have full chain-of-custody for each one of their data points (where did we get it, how did we clean it, how would we update it, what was it previously, what has changed since X time, etc).

Otherwise they're just making accusations without any defense from repudiation.
Great resource.

The methodology seems pretty good, except maybe in the quality of life group.

If you're black, I can guarantee you that while your colleagues will treat you with respect, you will endure frequent incidents of racism outside of work in Helsinki.

While Singapore is safe, it's not without its problems. The Government there limits freedom of expression and assembly quite heavily.

It would be cool, if would be able to weigh the different categories according to your value system and what you see as a priority for yourself, and see how that affects the rankings. It seems as if the categories are currently equally weighted.
He mentioned Neuroticism as a characteristic which has been observered higher on average with women and cited it with a link to wikipedia which also makes the exact same statement, which again cites other scientific resources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroticism

Does that make Wikipedia sexist?

Which one is sexist to you, or do you find both sexist:

"Women have less stress tolerance"

"Scientific studies show that Neuroticism, a personality trait which is related to less stress tolerance, is on average more common among women than men"

There is a huge difference and if you don't see it, then I think all educational material, books, research, science, really anything is lost on you
He fell into the conservative trap of "If there is no active rules or laws discriminating, then discrimination doesn't exist! And trying to offset this discrimination IS the discrimination!"

Slavery and Jim Crows laws no longer on the books? Therefore there is no systemic racism!

Are there laws discriminating against women? No? Therefore they have all the same opportunities as men!

Why are Black Entertainment Television and Gay Pride okay, but White Entertainment Television and White Pride not!

Black Lives Matter is Racist!

Not all Men are Rapists!

This essay started from precisely this set of emotions and found data to justify it after the fact.
Doesn't that pretty much become Sky Movies?
Sundar Pichai is the CEO. He decides how to run the company. If you are a 28 year old software engineer, you should focus on software engineering. By all means, grow to be a C level executive and change the culture. But google is a private company and those who own it and run it are perfectly entitled to want to not have junior software engineers stir up culture wars inside the company
If investors who own google don't like the culture Sundar is supporting inside their company - they can fire him and if they do, it's their business.
Easily disproved by the entire school of evolutionary psychology and many other modern schools of thought. The question is if there is more to consider in social constructs than simply evolutionary biology.
Restaurants Are the New Factories
YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki about Google Memo
It was a memo about a matter that's internal to Google, so I don't think publicly publishing it would have been appropriate. And doing so would have surely created an even larger furore.
This is what smartphone apps are doing to our memory – World Economic Forum
I'm glad to see this. With many systems trying to move to proof-of-stake[0] algos to secure their chains, I've been lamenting the lack of game theory experts in a lot of these projects.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proof-of-stake
To protect voting, use this or something similar:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scantegrity
Even in Las Vegas Connor McGregor Is Still Crossing Dublin's Cromlin Road
What do students think of the Code Fellows bootcamp?
> it's inaccurate to suggest that the gender disparity in tech is entirely attributable to companies turning away female applicants on account of their gender.

And that's why no one makes that argument I hope!
Padmasree Warrior on Designing Autonomous Vehicles [video]
> Successful remote workers are disciplined and self-motivated. No boss is eyeing them from across the office to see whether they’re working. They alone are responsible for structuring their workdays.

This sounds like precisely the kind of person I want to work with, regardless of whether they are remote or co-located.
You don't even really need flower.
Agreed. I routinely fold laundry during my morning standup call. It's a zero-mental-effort task that gets me on my feet while I chat with my coworkers in a meaningful way. Since I'm at home, my wall-sized dry-erase board is right there. Anything I need to note gets written down, then I resume folding.

One of the things people often forget about in this discussion is the lost company time from being at the office. Yes, valuable conversations can happen in the hallway, but more often than not a lot of non-work chatter does too. I'm fine with that -- I don't want to work in a POW camp -- but to me it highlights how ill-considered the "laundry folders = bad workers" mentality is in many cases. I worked in a cube farm for 5 years, then from home for the past 4 years. I'm vastly more productive at home.
> more equal representation in tech, India and Malaysia for example

Places where women also have less choice / self-determination. When women get to choose their career path, they do not choose tech. That is the relevant correlation suggested as a cause.
Those who will look for opportunity; those who don't seek excuses.
For the n-million+1th time:

1. The memo uses the word "preference" without ever establishing whether it's talking about free choice or choice after discouragement, and so is flagrantly begging the question.

2. It's simply false that the memo makes no connection between supposed preference and aptitude, as it builds to a section about the "harms of diversity" that includes a direct claim that women in Google's workforce are less capable than men.
I think that a lot of the noise this whole thing drummed up as been a bit more about both.

The major concerns being how some perceive their prowess -- and who's preference is really deciding the solutions.

Aside: I've been around enough people in the general field to have heard enough thoughts about women in tech... and they're too often ill-reasoned and ill-positioned (relating to prowess and potential)... but that's more circumstantial, I admit.
> Can't see any reason not to accept MC/Visa now though.

Still 10 times higher fees than with the German card systems. If your profit margin is 1.4%, you can't afford 2.2% credit card fees. And if you increase the price, all customers go to the cheaper competitor.

German stores are in a reaaaaal close competition with these things.