skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think he has a gross misunderstanding of the science. If you look at the example cartoon distributions he draws for gender differences - there is huge overlap. From my reading, he is advocating for non-discriminatory methods of trying to fix that gap. He's basically saying we shouldn't try to fix discrimination (that we think is bad) with discrimination (that we excuse as good).
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You are missing the trees for the forest. Your argument is on individual skills in a distribution within a gender. Have you considered how gender distribution within a team may affect productivity? This is the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. Even if we hire more of group B and we end up with a lower average of a particular skill in the team, if productivity goes up as a result, then it is still a good hiring practice.

The memo, and your argument, is all about summing the parts instead of measuring the whole.
I'll have to look into these!

It seems like a great way to prepare food. I just haven't found something simple enough to start with I suppose.
The backlash is not devoid of logic and facts. Again, a shitty argument does not merit a thesis on it's shittyness from everyone who dismisses it, and there are plenty of in-depth critiques that you would've sought out if your agenda was to actually look into it and better yourself.

Also, Google firing him did not shut the argument down. He can happily draft more memos or expand on it. Google Docs is free.
This is pretty neat! I can't wait to see what people make with it.

Here is my version of a counter: https://hastebin.com/ranomaceha.pl
We are talking here about reasonable scientific claims believed by large parts of the population and by scientists. You can disagree with them, but you also need to live in a society with them. We need to find a way to work together, even as we disagree on things.

It's not like phrenology or Nazis which are tiny minorities we can just cast out and ignore.

And I'm not sure I agree with you on which side has power here. Look who got fired.
Case in point: the number of cyclists killed in Berlin traffic 2016 was higher than the number of people killed by terrorist attacks. Providing safe traffic infrastructure may have a better ROI than all the anti-terror measures. It's just that we have accepted traffic deaths as inevitable and they happen one by one and terror attacks are one big event that people think is somehow magically preventable. (In truth, the 2016 attack would have been preventable had autorities arrested the attack instead of stopping the existing surveillance, but most traffic death would be preventable as well)
Wages are determined by market forces. Most nurses may earn less than techies, but their work might be more rewarding to them. They are helping human beings get better, not optimizing ads.

Nobody is forced to choose Nursing over Tech, so if they are unhappy with the salary, why do people choose Nursing? Presumably more people choose Nursing than Tech, so the salary is lower as per supply and demand (and of course demand is dependent on other factors as well - but if fewer people went into Nursing, prices surely would go up).

Nobody is entitled to any kind of job they want. Jobs exist because people need jobs done, and they are willing to pay for them being done.

Tech has historically not been awful to women. The social networks are full of the reports on how early programmers were all women. Even today tech is not awful to women. They get a red carpet rolled out for them.
I think folks overestimate the quality of many gamers.

Especially if players don't take time to gain a degree of mastery with the game and move from title to title.
So, by the sounds of things, everything worked as designed. In many similar situations with a human behind the wheel, that would have been a collision.

Based on personal experience (as a firefighter/paramedic), I wouldn't be surprised if a not-insignificant percentage of collisions (both car/car and car/bike) in SF are caused by that very scenario.

Personally, that sounds like an anecdote very much in favor of automated cars.
As others have said, for properly hashed passwords, the answer is no.

However, for plaintext passwords using the default string comparison routines, a timing attack becomes possible since it will take slightly longer to compare a partially right password than a completely wrong password. The timing discrepancies would give the attacker clues about how close he is to succeeding.
I'll be right back, I'll go spend 4 years with two full time jobs, and dozens of training groups in order to answer this question. And then I'll have a non-definitive, very specific answer you probably didn't expect and which will raise more questions than it answers. Science is hard.
http://gizmodo.com/fired-google-memo-writer-took-part-in-con...

> Fired Google Memo Writer Took Part in Controversial, 'Sexist' Skit While at Harvard for Which Administration Issued Formal Apology
I would imagine it is the Peter Principal to blame for lack of woman management. Even tech companies cannot seem to grasp the idea that management is its own separate skill set and simply promoting your best developers isn't going to guarantee you quality management.
Note: Groove Music does the same thing. You can upload anything you want to your OneDrive account and it will be seamless in the app. No Groove payment required at all.
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> Isn't that the most condescending thing you could write to someone else?

Wait, I'm admitting my own fault at being able to see the world through other's perspectives, and that's condescending?

> Do you? Are you maybe wrong about how you see the world?

There's is no right or wrong way to see the world per se. There are just different ways. And yes, I'm usually wrong, I never claimed not to be.

> you're lecturing me but you cannot even fathom the idea that you may be completely wrong about this

Do you disagree that people see the world from different perspectives and it is often hard to understand each other's actions without trying to see the world from their perspective? That's my only point so far, nothing more.

> So you're either making a meaningless pointless statement that implies nobody knows anybody's experience, or you're saying I don't have empathy or the ability to reason. Which is it?

It was actually neither. I was saying that when we don't understand someone else's actions, it is often because we haven't put enough work into seeing the world from their eyes.

> Does a gay black woman know the experience of straight white man? Or a recent immigrant from China? Or a rural farmer? Or black executive from Wall Street?

No, they don't necessarily know, and that's my point.

> You're saying that a gay black woman cannot comprehend the experience of white, straight men so she shouldn't engage in policy debates that affect them? Are you seriously making that kind of an argument?

No, I'm not, and I'm actually quite surprised that you're even considering that I'm saying that. So far I fail to see anything in all my comments resembling that, but I might be wrong.

> So you're either making a meaningless pointless statement that implies nobody knows anybody's experience, or you're saying I don't have empathy or the ability to reason. Which is it?

It was actually neither. I was saying that when we don't understand someone else's actions, it is often because we haven't put enough work into seeing the world from their eyes.

But you actually proved that not only you can't understand other's experiences (or even acknowledge that people have different experiences and base their actions on different perspectives), you also don't seem to have empathy or the ability to reason.

The cap keeps fitting better and better. But given the downvotes on your posts, I think I'll call an end to this subthread. Have a nice day :)
Paper ballots are handled by multiple people, not just the voter. Even if you manage to filter out all the volunteers, getting access to the actual ballots might prove difficult, as they're handled quite publicly.
I mean, sure, but on the other hand $1B is 36 times lower than $36B.

Maybe we're just talking in cross purposes. Obviously if you buy a million cars, you'll be spending tens of billions of dollars. I didn't mean that Uber was hoping to be able to roll out a massive worldwide fleet of driverless vehicles for under $36B. I meant that Uber has to demonstrate a mature technology and business model involving lets say thousands or tens of thousands of vehicles that people are actually paying for and that have unique advantages over their many competitors, for much less than $36B. If they can do that, they won't have any difficulty securing the financing to scale their fleet of vehicles up significantly.

If they can't do that, and they can't do that for much, much, much less than tens of billions of dollars, then they're in a lot of trouble.

I do think that we tend to get sloppy about large numbers. It feels like people hardly see any difference between $1B and $5B.
> But no serious psychologist or sociologist would claim that those differences can account for the dramatic real world bias in the industry. It simply doesn't follow.

What's your evidence for this? Debrah Soh, the author supposedly has a PhD in sexual neuroscience so one would think she is qualified to make comments about this. And although I can't confirm this myself, the article does say that societies with greater gender equity also have greater gender gaps due to the differences in what each gender values.
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Not that they are doing badly, but to some degree they don't have to perform well to be successful. Their primary goal is to transform a currently-limitless stream of oil money into a sustainable source of wealth and income when the spigot turns off in a generation or two.

Same for China overseas investments, it's a way to turn RMB-denominated cash into hard assets in democratic countries with stable political environments. Value-for-money comes second.
My favorite HN memory on this subject: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4410350, "T-mobile password reset does not allow you to type the letter 'V'"
That may not be too viable. My first try:

> ruby -e 'puts File.read("/usr/share/dict/words").lines.sample(3).map(&:chomp).join(" ")'

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Excuse me, but did you read the damn comment that I wrote? When the United States government did what you did, the garment manufacturers responded exactly how you wanted: they fired the children.

What happened was _the children became prostitutes_ because they needed money. Some of the children that did NOT become prostitutes got jobs literally crushing up rocks, which leads to large particle inhalation that damages your lungs beyond belief.

How is that preferable to having them work in a sweatshop?

Bangladesh does not _have_ the money, anywhere, to pay for "proper public schooling, housing, and sanitation". There is no money anywhere _to_ tax. They are one of the poorest countries in the world with an income per capita of less than one thousand dollars.

I've got a fun story for you. The European Union recently introduced a set of regulations that make shipbreaking facilities in the EU face a large number of environmental and labor regulations. Bangladesh said "hey, cheap steel!" and scaled up its shipbreaking operations. The majority of Bangladesh's steel now comes from poorly paid laborers that disassemble large ships with a cutting torch and their hands, with no safety gear or regard for the environment. Net effect of the regulation: more pollution, more workers in unsafe conditions worldwide. There's a word for this: outsourcing. The EU neatly outsourced its problems to Bangladesh. Nice!

Some policy problems aren't some kind of global conspiracy by the 1%, they're actual hard problems to solve. This is a bipartisan issue in that neither side, no matter their particular slant, has an idea of how to solve the problem. If you stop the manufacturers you force children into prostitution. If you let them continue you're complicit in child slavery.

By the way, you can't just blockade or sanction a country like Bangladesh out of nowhere. First of all, a lot countries (small, densely populated countries in Asia) rely on access to Bangladesh's ports, so we'd be inadvertently sanctioning those countries as well. Second of all, you probably don't know how big it is. Bangladesh's population, 160 million, is bigger than Spain, Canada, Australia, Belgium, Greece, Sweden, Israel, Denmark, Finland, and Norway - combined. You're sanctioning all those people for something that most of them aren't involved in and can't change? And you want them to pay for "proper public schooling, housing and education" for all those people on a total GDP of under 200 billion dollars? For contrast, the Netherlands has a GDP of around 800 billion dollars.

Please reconsider your position.

[0]: Spain (46MM), Canada (36), Australia (24), Belgium (11), Greece (10), Sweden (10), Israel (8), Denmark (5), Finland (5) and Norway (5).
Because we're all people? And people are important?
Why should same responsibilities = same salary?

What if Joe and I and have the same responsibilities. Just to build working code. However, I can produce 100 working/tested lines of code a day and Joe can produce 150 lines of the same.

Joe isn't entitled to a higher salary because he's more talented?
> but far left and far right are both united in seeing the status quo as their enemy

That's just a truism. The extremes of the political spectrum are, by definition, not the mainstream that defines the status quo.
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Sorry to disagree and with all my respects I find you attacked her when you under valuate her job in the topic compared with other professionals. It is exactly her topic of research and you throw her away.
in my own experience, one of the primary ways people with an analytical bent (looking at you HN) have their heads up their asses is that they seem to think that the market is a perfect judge of value. hard to convince people of your point when they believe such a circular, lazy thing.
Learning a map and using predictive spatial strategies seem to be distinguished in the study.

It's been a long time since I touched the pro circuit of any game, but in Q3 the best players were the ones who could predict where you were in addition to where they needed to go. Pretty different skill, and it took a ton of very dedicated practice.
This isn't a "crisis". Existing entitlement benefits are too high for the coming steady-state economy, but by like 30% or so. Adjustments will have to be made (e.g. some made-up numbers: we can work 10% longer careers, take 10% lower benefits, and expect a 10% boost in general productivity over this period), but we're hardly talking destitution or social upheaval here.

Retirees in the 2040's are going to see less resources-per-GDP dedicated to them than retirees in the 1980's for sure. But then they'll also have pervasive VR headsets and a plausible cure for cancer handy, so I'm guessing it'll be a wash.
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As with many defenses of the Damore memo (and more than a few attacks against it as well), this completely misses the point. Let's say for the sake of argument that there are differences in ability and/or preference between men and women. Let's even say that the magnitude of those differences is sufficient to explain a 4:1 ratio between male and female engineers at Google (which is clearly not true). My response is still SO WHAT? That outlandish premise still doesn't even begin to justify his tone, his complaints, or his policy proposals.

* Differences in ability do not support his accusation of silencing. They're unrelated.

* Phrases like "the left tends to deny science" and "extremely sensitive PC-authoritarians" are inflammatory, prejudicial, and discriminatory in their own right, independently of whether gender differences exist.

* Diversity is provably good even in the presence of gender differences. Many studies have shown that the effect of mixed teams outperforming single-gender teams far outweighs any individual differences.

I could go on and on about other ways that Damore comes across as a radically intolerant jerk, a hypocrite, etc. but I'm trying to stay on one point. The "science" part of Damore's memo, which the OP is meant to support, is practically irrelevant. That's not the only part that's offensive, or dangerous, or in violation of his employee agreement. It's not even the only part that's unscientific, since sociology and economics are involved as well as biology and he doesn't even try to engage honestly with those. His belief that women are less fit to be engineers is abhorrent, but so separately are his other beliefs. Even the strongest refutation of that one point doesn't make a dent in the memo's total start-to-finish toxicity.
And why should a css bug in chrome affect my text editor?
He acknowledges that in practice the gender differences are real, but small.

Then uses the existence of those small differences to justify fundamentally changing their hiring policies.

The latter does not follow from the former.

Again, as with the global warming debate, it makes a lot more sense to tackle the larger influencers first, before addressing these smaller factors.
In most markets, Uber is also losing money on a per-ride basis. So, the lease subsidy is offset by the rider subsidy ... to give a larger negative number.
I see my error. There is little point in continuing since it'll be just opinion.

And a correction on my part, Damore is filing a labor complaint.
An idea, I don't know if it's original or not:

I think we can make AI that is 'intelligent' but has no personality or 'self'. An oracle machine you can ask any question of, but it's not an evil genie looking to escape and take over the universe, because it is not a person, and has no drives of its own.

Consider how we have recently made an AI that can defeat the best humans at Go.
Even 10 years ago, this was thought to be impossible for some time to come. "Go is a complicated game, too big to calculate, requiring a mix of strategy and subtlety that machines won't be able to match". Nope.

Now, AlphaGo can defeat the best humans, with a 'subtlety' and 'nuance' that can't be matched. But it is not a person.

We might be able to do the same in other areas.

Note that games like chess and go are sometimes played as 'cyborg' competitions now, where the human players are allowed to consult with computers. Imagine if the Supreme Court were still headed by the human judges we have today, but they consulted with soulless machines that have no drives of their own, that can provide arguments and insight that humans can't match. Imagine if, in addition to the human judges written opinions, there were a bevy of non-voting opinions 'written' by AIs like this. Or if every court case in the world had automatic amicus briefs provided by incredibly sophisticated legal savants with no personality or skin in the game.

Note that several moves that AlphaGo played were complete surprises. We have thousands of people observing these matches, people who have devoted their whole lives to studying the subtleties of this complex game. There are less than 361 choices for where to move next. And AlphaGo plays a move that nobody had seriously considered, but, once played, the experts realize we've lost the match. That is really remarkable.

I think this future (non-person intelligent helpers) is definitely possible. But it doesn't solve the problem of 'evil' humans building an AI that is a person who agrees with their evil beliefs. I don't have an answer for that.
Flagged discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14967693
I appreciate the effort that went into making this but the startup ecosystem ranking is nonsense.

Berlin - 2?
Beijing - 26?

I'd like to be constructive but it appears to just be randomized.
I ran across a site with the most insane password requirements awhile back:

Some of this is from memory, so it might not be exact, but the requirements were:

1. Passwords must be exactly 14 characters long

2. Passwords must contain all 4 character classes (upper case, lower case, numbers, symbols)

3. Symbols must be from the set (! , . : ; " $ % & *) -- This wasn't specified, I had to figure it out from trial and error.

4. No more than two characters from any one class in a row (so aaBB is ok, aaaB is bad)

5. Passwords must be reset every 3 months

6. Passwords can not be similar to any previous passwords (it's vague what "similar" means)

7. Passwords must not be stored externally (IE, no copy/paste, no password managers)

Luckily I don't have to use that system anymore, because it was just completely awful. To be fair, they also had smartcards that didn't require this password nonsense, so I think the requirements were partially to encourage people to use the smartcards instead.
This. I often think that it would be very useful to have a website to check password requirements of multiple sites.

That is, a site were we would search for "gmail.com" and it would say "minimum 8 characters. 1 letter, 1 digit and 1 symbol mandatory" (made up example).

Then of course there could also be Firefox/Chrome extensions that would query this site and show the rules near login prompts.

I'd make it myself were it not for the lack of time... but if anyone wants to pick up the idea, there it is. I just ask for 10% of ad revenue :)
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It may just be me, but I've never had any issue with profane public lobbies playing either Destiny or Overwatch. I don't even need to mute it, typically there's little or any chatter.

If I have a party on PS4 or am on my usual Mumble lounge its typically by the book raid planning. I've seen videos of really inappropriate and childish banter on other games so I know how bad it can get.
That's a pretty hilarious quote from the job posting... We don't care when you work, as long as it's in addition to the regimented 40 hours we prescribe.
Do you think an employee at a tech company would be fired for sending out a 10-page memo about why trans people should be allowed in the military? How about a 10-page memo about why they shouldn't?

Both are obviously incredibly unprofessional, but only one would probably face life-changing punishment in reality. Ideally you set the tone that both are unacceptable, that the only political discussion acceptable beyond interpersonal conversation is the politics of the company's self-interest. Both starting an internal political battle, as as well tweeting externally about an already-started one, should get you fired. But that's only fair if you set that tone and expectation.
> do you really expect to live less than my grandma, who's 94

Yes I do. Your grandmother had a life expectancy of 58.5 years.

Source: http://u.demog.berkeley.edu/~andrew/1918/figure2.html
Google's diversity efforts fall flat
This tweet was unsurprisingly prescient: https://twitter.com/campster/status/894749657091284992
That's Dr Soh, one of the people from the Quillete article, and the one I said had a decent claim to being able to comment.
so you knew sugar caused diabetes? ...yea

and you knew it caused obesity? ...yea

so you knew it was literally killing you? ...yea

and you kept eating it anyway? ......sigh......yea.