skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Certainly much better than a lot of the outrage that's been going on. A couple of nits:

> I know most of Google’s work is people-centric.

Hmmm...is that really so? Last I checked a lot of Google's code output and value-generation is backend-y, with very little interaction with humans. Google is also notoriously bad-mediocre at UX, though this has improved lately.

> Assuming that job skills and performance can be deduced from

> differences among demographic groups.

Hmm...he didn't do this, and in fact explicitly states that doing so is not correct.

> Damore naturally assumes the differences between

> typically female and male traits mean that men are more skilled.

I also didn't see that in the memo. At all. First, what he talks about is mostly preferences, not skills. Second, there is the whole "you can't draw conclusions about individuals from slight variations in populations"-thing. So you can't turn "women have slightly stronger preferences, statistically, for these things" into "men are more skilled". Third, and maybe least intuitively, this is almost entirely about the people who don't (yet) work at Google.

Finally, she brings up Northern Europe. I can relate, because I am also from Germany, and yes, the country finds, for example, having a female Chancellor simply not remarkable. So when people vote for or against her, it is largely (can't speak for everyone) because of what they think about her, her party and their policies (or in her specific case, lack thereof g), not because she is a woman or is not a man.

And I also believe this applies to other jobs as well.

However, what Sabine misses is that this has not had the effect of gender representation in the job market equalizing. Surprisingly, it has had the opposite effect, as has been documented many places. And yes, I want to stress again how utterly unexpected this is.

And so:

> I believe for example if it wasn’t for biases and unequal

> opportunities, then the higher ranks in science and politics

> would be dominated by women. Hence, aiming at a 50-50 representation

> gives men an unfair advantage. I challenge you to provide any

> evidence to the contrary.

Challenge accepted (although not for politics, that's a different subject)!

If it were obstacles, countries that (as we both agree) have fewer of those obstacles such as Northern Europeans ones would see more women in technical fields. The opposite is the case.

And of course there is the point that the question is not "why aren't there more women in these jobs", but "why are there any men that do them", because they generally suck if you want to have a life. See Jordan Peterson's excellent take on "Women in High Paying Jobs": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NV2yvI4Id9Q
GitHub for Unity 0.16-alpha released
Being a talented and experienced developer means interacting with people, though. Knowing how to program is half the battle; knowing why is the other half, and that's hard to do if you don't understand the perspectives of your users/customers/coworkers/etc.
I have to say that I flagged one of the other post because I was tired of the topic and there weren't adding anything new. But this one is outstanding.
Congratulations for a great round with a great team and an awesome future!
It's true that the underlying payment systems could (should?) be built this way, but imo that's a very small portion of what most websites do.
Yep, the technological downsides of blockchains are so bad that the only market where it actually makes sense to use them is the illegal market because governments have a much harder time of controlling it.
Have friends that went back to their homes for summer. They're logging to their universities via the school VPN to watch game of thrones and other things...
I mean, you linked to a white supremacist's blog to prove your point. Is that a good case for your argument?
Well, those are extreme cases. Things don't usually end in mass murder. The less extreme version is still pretty terrible though.
great TICK introduction
Do people game open encryption?
ah yes, those famous evolutionary biological factors diminishing womens' interest in computers that only started showing up right around 1985 and didn't proportionately affect any other field for some reason since computer science is completely unique in its demands on the female brain.

[1] https://i.imgur.com/pkZPrOI.png
Migrations, asset pipeline, debugger, package management.

I haven't seen anything that has all of these built in.
Toyota will do what the market demands. It's hard to recall, but before the Cult of Musk lit up American patriotism for homegrown all-electric cars, Americans mocked electric cars mercilessly. Meanwhile, Japan perfected kei format ICE cars, but American protectionism and poor infrastructure and cultural bias toward huge, heavy cars made those a non-starter in the US market. (My kei car gets 80mpg and cost $13K brand new.) And let's not forget the all-powerful oil lobby, which has the US congress by the nuts.

So, can you blame Toyota for putting its chips on HFC--something that still has plenty of non-consumer applications and has otherwise positive implications for a nation without access to native oil reserves?

It's folly to think that Toyota can't compete now that the consumer winds have shifted to all-electric. Even today, Nissan has a tremendous charging network across Japan.

Hell, my Suzuki kei car is nicer, more convenient, and cheaper to buy and operate than a Model 3.
> When a source repeatedly tells you not to believe your own eyes, but offers no valid counter-argument--you should be suspicious

Who put Google in charge of determining what is true and what is fakenews? And how are you entirely comfortable with that?
"staging environment to experiment with, that is an exact copy of your production database?"

This seems to be problematic in several compliance schemes. Most will make sure developers,QA etc. do not get access to production data.
You are downplaying the role of energy as just a mere commodity.

Every single economic activity requires energy. Motorized vehicles in their majority use fossil fuels.

By restricting oil trade to a specific currency, the US has a share of every productive activity involving motorized vehicles.
Maybe they were fired because Adria Richards said the suggestive name ״meat pistol" was keeping women out of tech.
If it based on the genes because of the chromosome X and Y then I think there is no reason why it wouldn't apply to any specie with chromosomes X Y.
Sure. Sure. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224
This article also has a few problems

> I believe for example if it wasn’t for biases and unequal opportunities, then the higher ranks in science and politics would be dominated by women. Hence, aiming at a 50-50 representation gives men an unfair advantage. I challenge you to provide any evidence to the contrary.

Claim bearers are burdened with proof. Otherwise I can say 'I claim it is not so and if you believe otherwise you provide evidence to the contrary' and we would be a bunch of children shouting nonsense

> I’m not remotely surprised, however, that Damore naturally assumes the differences between typically female and male traits mean that men are more skilled.

He didn't say that

> The biggest problem with Damore’s memo however is that he doesn’t understand what makes a company successful. If a significant fraction of employees think that diversity is important, then it is important. No further justification is needed for this.

No, what makes a company successful is the positive impact it has on employees, customers, the communities it operates in and shareholders

> Biases and unequal opportunities are real. (If you doubt that, you are a problem and should do some reading.)

Why assume your readers can only reach conclusions if they are dumb ? Why not point out the specific readings that you have done ?

> And let us be clear that, yes, such policies mean every once in a while you will not hire the most skilled person for a job. Therefore, a value judgement must be made here, not a logical deduction from data

Value judgements should also be subject to logical deductions
No fluff. Down to business.

Sounds like a perfect provider. Prices are clearly stated on the site. You get what you pay for. They have some guides for people that might need more help setting it up.

...¿? I don't really need fun. Just want something that's boring, quick and works.
>I believe for example if it wasn’t for biases and unequal opportunities, then the higher ranks in science and politics would be dominated by women. Hence, aiming at a 50-50 representation gives men an unfair advantage.

This makes zero sense considering the reality that women are underrepresented. "Aiming at 50-50 representation" could at best lift the disadvantaged group closer to 50% representation. It could in no way cause an underrepresented group to dominate a field.
why you care about that, just buy some ethers, Vitalik will do his magic and soon we will all be driving lambos

(sarcasm)
Hey simple question: mobile now... does this support sending auth headers per request?
I'm glad I don't work at a company where the thought police will come down on you if you don't take yourself too seriously.
Sounds like you don't like cities.
For me, Slack's success was not just about the design, but also the performance. Slack showed up right about the time HipChat started having major outages. I was running an ops team and we were often unable to communicate because of broken HipChat. Slack showed up and it was lightning-quick and much more reliable. I pushed hard for my employer to adopt it company-wide and they did.

Things have changed a bit and Slack has definitely had some growing pains but I still love it. I took a new job at a company that uses HC for compliance reasons and I sorely miss Slack and dread the HC outages which still happen.
Craig from Citus here. In situations where compliance is an issue you would absolutely want to obfuscate the data. You could do this after the fact in a few ways, but have a data set that imitates the distribution and size of your production database even in those cases is still useful. Given only the engineers with production access would be the ones forking before they handed it off they could put the right tooling in place to obfuscate.

All that said it's helpful feedback and something we could definitely look at building more into the product.
they said 1 gig symmetrical
Feel free to work towards changing "bias" towards the distribution you think is more proper and see if it indeed proves the point of "the higher ranks in science and politics would be dominated by women". You'll need a concrete way to measure and quantify "bias". No, workforce representation is not a measure of "bias". That is the unproven hypothesis and using it is merely circular reasoning.

Meanwhile, consider that "diversity" programs are institutionalized discrimination.
>What are their other options besides Starcraft2?

Uh, real strategy games? Something like this:

https://www.gog.com/game/m_a_x_m_a_x_2

Very simple ruleset, huge strategic depth.
I'm actually curious because I would think that even at higher levels, assuming the majority of women are stable performers and a minority of men are top producers there should only be a slight bump in the male representation in areas where "female" skills are paramount like CEO boardrooms, with the few men being he outlier performances. It would be the reverse problem of why it's unreasonable to say "we should go for 50/50 when the population representation is 20/80".
How Facebook Squashes Competition from Startups
without the 5%, kickstarter would not be a successful marketing platform. financial transactions are just part of what they do.
The entire business of smart contracts is predicated on ignoring the oracle problem. You can't do anything interesting or useful in the real world without solving that problem, and it's more-or-less unsolvable through technology...

But hey, check out my ICO - we have a "whitepaper"!
The timing of going to NLRB made it look like emergency maneuvers to me. If I were him, I would also have copied e-mails and forum posts like crazy, but I am wondering what the level of security at Google is.
Have you checked the pricing recently? I think it's likely to have changed quite dramatically since after you switched to Firebase.
Before DEF CON there are about 20 cell towers in the area, during DEF CON there were almost 130 (rumour I heard, while gooning in the contest area)...

Pretty sure some of those are FBI and other agencies ;-)
> These findings make clear

Where are these findings? It would be rather easy to show Search Console data with a decline, but that isn't the case. Do they have that sort of evidence?

Also, was the "Fake News" thing about regular SERPs, or specifically news SERPs? I have no idea - it isn't an area I've looked at - but I'm pretty sure it was news based, no?
Was tested with bitcoin: https://github.com/vinumeris/lighthouse

I'm sceptical about the use-case. Collecting money for the projects is so much about other things as well, not just the money collection phase - you need a services around it, it is not just the payment collection. That said, I think it would be quite useful for kickstarter to accept btc/eth.
You're completely misconstruing what Larry Summers and the memo's author said.

The memo's author outlined some gender differences, and offered suggestions based on these differences to make working at Google more appealing to women.

Here's the excerpt from Larry Summer's speech that the ignorant masses and agenda-driven feminists have misconstrued to confirm their biases and advance their agenda:

> "So my best guess, to provoke you, of what's behind all of this is that the largest phenomenon, by far, is the general clash between people's legitimate family desires and employers' current desire for high power and high intensity, that in the special case of science and engineering, there are issues of intrinsic aptitude, and particularly of the variability of aptitude, and that those considerations are reinforced by what are in fact lesser factors involving socialization and continuing discrimination. I would like nothing better than to be proved wrong, because I would like nothing better than for these problems to be addressable simply by everybody understanding what they are, and working very hard to address them."

He is not saying that women are biologically less capable of pursuing math and science than men.

[1] http://www.harvard.edu/president/speeches/summers_2005/nber....
OK, OK. I noticed that the parent link has the same image, so fixed.
If you're really hellbent on it, you can probably tell the IT department they are full of shit and ask for the citation to the state code number - I am no state code scholar, but I have never heard of anything like this. In the NW States I am familiar with I could not find a single code section that even remotely touched on passwords at state schools. It would be an odd thing to legislate. Some states are goofy though.
I'm never sure I buy the 3D chess argument.
While I feel bad for the guy, he was working at google. Provided he didn't hire hookers every night, I think he'll have a decent amount of money till he finds a new job.
Anyone else annoyed by GitHub itself? One digit and one lower-case letter required.
> My feeling as well. In my heart I am really happy that Lazarus (and Harbour, the Clipper-compatible compiler) exist, but being rational the days of desktop applications are over.

Oh boy, I hadn't heard about Harbour until now; earlier today I was looking at the Wikipedia page for id Tech 5, and it says it uses Clipper so I was really scratching my head wondering how they pulled that off and why. Now I know, thanks for mentioning it. :- )
>While his plan may be to sue, what grounds do you think he can sue for?

See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14967987
California has very strong employee protection. Yes, even though it is "at will" there are still some very strong protections.

For example, in California it is illegal to fire someone for "political activity", which this memo, debateably, may have been.

It is also illegal in California to fire someone for bringing up workplace concerns (this falls under union/worker organizing laws).

Finally, and most ironically, it is illegal to fire someone for bringing up discrimination concerns, EVEN IF those concerns turn out to be false/not illegal/not discrimination.

This guy, debateably, was bringing up discrimination concerns.
I was in the same situation. Switched over again a few months back. I almost always only need to use !g for rare results (and even there it doesn't always help). On the other hand bangs like !mdn (mozilla developer network) and !w (wikipedia) make things much easier.
The amusing thing is that we never care about this distinction in handwriting. "Oh, your two tiny vertical-ish lines denoting 'inch' are not ever-so-slightly slanted..."
Institutional discrimination programs aimed at countering the effects of institutionalized discrimination.
Honestly TIS-100 feels like it would be an extremely comfortable 16 bit machine to program for IRL. I've wasted 40 hours of my life on it so far and I'm ashamed to say it's been funner than most 'real' games I've been playing.

I wish there was an environment that could simulate 100s of TIS-100 "cores" but I guess I'd need to write it myself.
Would you have the US regulation to apply only to results served for US users, or everybody?
> " means inch or seconds and is only used because most keyboard layouts make it hard to type the correct quotation marks.

I thought it was used because 7-bit ASCII had only 128 code points in which to fit all teletype controls, letters, numbers, and punctuation marks and symbols. They had to use each code point efficiently, and the ASCII double quote can be used as open quotes, close quotes, seconds, inches ... they also needed to support some European alphabets and therefore some punctuation marks, such as the single quote, double as accents when overtyped (using teletype control code points) on a letter.
I'm not offended and don't take issues with the use of retard in a non-slang context, but for the naming of a project I think it's inappropriate to use a word that could bring back hurtful memories of harassment that people have potentially endured.
Google needs to fire the leaker, too.
As far as keeping track of micronutrients, Cronometer.com is a fantastic site.
My problem is not the looks, whenever I use !g I'm annoyed how bad it looks. It IS the results. Often when something doesn't have a ton of relevant results, DDG gives the wrong results while !g has what I'm looking for.
Based on previous decisions made by customers that were processed within the lifetime of the same request, there was some probability that the cache could be out of date.

Typically, there was enough context within the request to make assumptions about the state of the authoritative store if data hadn't propagated to the cache in time. We eventually moved to using that initially.

edit: I should add, though, the order of the datasources wasn't critical to the strategy: have a primary data source, backup data source, use any data available in the request context, and finally err in the customer's favor. That's 4 chances to get things right, none of which include retrying.
She means that aiming to 50-50 doesn't represent the skills set. As women are more skilled for that job they should have more representation (based on the biological theory). If it is a 50-50 you are promoting men in the positions when you shouldn't. (the disadvantaged group here are the men)
I actually stopped watching The Walking Dead around the 3rd season, which is about the same time I started reading the comics and eventually got bored of the zombie genre. I've heard the show's gotten even more tedious but I still can't imagine it being as vacuous as HoC's later years (Exhibit A: Tom Yates).

Also, I had meant "Walking Dead" as a favorite of the serials currently available on Netflix and that I personally watched via Netflix. So that leaves out BSG, Star Trek (which I watched years ago), all of HBO's shows, and non-serials like Archer and Futurama. So, most TV :)
Now someone just needs to clone C++ Builder and we'll be all set. Power of C++ with the simplicity of Delphi.
Doesn't necessarily mean that's what their family are connected with (to the backup server).
I felt the same. But I think some of it can be forgiven. I don't think the author is a professional developer and doesn't seem to know just how much a development job could be "head down writing code".
Location: Boston, MA

Remote: Yes

Willing to Relocate: Yes

Technologies: Java, Python, Flink, Spark, SQL, Kafka, Docker, Keras, D3.js

Resume/CV: isaacmg.github.io

Email: igodfrie@brandeis.edu

I'm a new grad with machine learning and data engineering experience. I'm primarily looking for data science, data engineering, or backend roles.
As someone who is 'in touch' with Fashion Weeks around the world, I'm more than simply impressed by this experiment.

More like massively impressed! But, that's just by the experiment. The author(s) has/have made no effort to convert this into a workable proposition, barring a feeble mention at the end of how it could work.

Indeed, your work shows that it works rather well. In that case, why not get in touch with a dev, and you'll have an app running on these principles in next to no time!

Whether as proof of concept, or monetised, that goes way farther than a mere article that doesn't seem very much appreciated either. At least here on Hacker News, going by the number of likes.

Your article certainly deserves kudos, but there's so much more you're leaving on the table :(
I was at a talk at a Math Conference where the speaker wasn't allowed to give the talk due to it being Classified. This speaker was able to register at the Math Conference with the talk and canceled it at the last minute during the presentation. I don't believe that that person had any issues after the talk and was not fired from their position as a researcher.

From what I can read about this the case is similar but in both actions it was a miscommunication. The speakers should have been informed that it was unacceptable. They should have been talked to about their instability to give the talk and the talk should have been cancelled. I would like to hear the other side of the story from Salesforce to give a full judgement but, I would expect a reprimand at best and not a firing.
Once there was this women sitting at table. I wanted to go talk to her.

I wanted to say "Hi, the rain really is beautiful, isn't it". But I didn't know if she associated the rain with painful trigger emotions, so I didn't.

I wanted to say "Hi". But I didn't know if she spoke English, and I didn't want to discriminate against people who don't, so I didn't.

I wanted to say "Hi" in all the possible languages of the world. But I didn't want to discriminate against deaf people, so I didn't. If she was deaf, would she not have been offended?

So in the end, in this fictional story, I didn't say anything at all.

There is no certain knowledge, there are only distributions. I know nothing, and I am learning more all the time. But I do the best I can based on my past experiences.

A bayesian approach to the world, will not neglect what you know; but it will update your model rapidly based on new information, perhaps information specific to the person that you are interacting with.

Communication is impossible without good faith.

So, the next time someone asks you if you speak Spanish, tell them you do not, and use the opportunity to show them the world that is uniquely you. Let your identity have an integrity that YOU own. The next time they see a person who looks Spanish, they might approach it differently. And they'll also remember that Spanish looking people are nice people to interact with.
I pointed out an example earlier in this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14974543
Right. His 13s are basically super males. Engineered for combat. But too much blowback. Not all black, however.