skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>>It's not misleading to call the memo "anti-diversity"

if I had to summarize the memo with an "anti-..." prefix then I would say it's against artificially skewing the gender makeup of the workforce via preferential treatment of female applicants/employees over the discriminated male applicants/employees.

if that's what "diversity" means then I don't know on what logical basis you would be defending the "let's make sure we have a 50/50 gender makeup of the workforce even though the proportion in the applicant's pool is nowhere near that" position.

I myself (and from what I've read in that "manifesto" I believe this is author's position as well) welcome diversity - the 'IT sausage fest' is totally a downside - but not at the expense of ppl getting gender-discriminated.
I'm fairly certain that it's still ad-free.
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> You're conflating a political movement with a company doing PR damage control. Google management didn't "call him names".

Google is heavily invested in the political movement. Lets not pretend google is an objective observer in this.

> They are actively trying to hire the best engineers in the world and this memo just put a dent in their hiring process for 50% of their potential hiring candidates.

Can you point to anything specific that was written that would scare 50% of potential hires? That is quite an assertion and I would love to here the rationale for it.

> Now that the shoe is on the other foot, both political poles are shown to be hypocrites.

That's the point. Why are you defending one foot and not the other?
Disney movies for the kids, Marvel/Star Wars for me...

That sums up a large % of the Netflix viewing in my house.
Amazing! How did you get into three.js and webgl development? Would love to hear good resources on building large three.ja apps like this!
Firefox for Android also has extension support, including uBlock Origin, HTTPS Everywhere, and the Unified Script Injector (userscript engine, similar to Greasemonkey).
Location: San Francisco Bay Area/Bay Area

Remote: No

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Java, Junit, Java8, Python, Git, SQL, Android, JSON, REST, Hadoop, React.js, HTML/CSS/JS, Heroku

Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3-_7di4enQOOUIyY0k1Y09EVms...

Email: jchio001@ucr.edu

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Looking for Android/Back-End/Full-stack roles (preferably the first 2). I'm currently contracting at Pinterest, where I'm working on Java back-end development. What matters the most to me in a job is meeting cool people, solving hard problems, and building great products. If you have a job that you think fits me, please let me know!
Current: CTO
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The women geeks I know keep separate from geek culture, and I only know them due to luck or circumstance. So they are women geeks, but not part of geek culture, if that makes sense.
Facebook hacked? Anyone getting random texts from FB?
I am getting texts like these every few minutes? Is there a vulnerability? Domain is fb.com which means its not phishing. I also had the thought that facebook is sending these out to link users phone numbers to their accounts (tin foil hat).

Click https://fb.com/l/2XXXXXXXXXXq or use the code 2XXX2 on Facebook to create your account

7XXX2 is your Facebook confirmation code #fb
People of the different races are definitely different. Otherwise, why do people evolve to so different races? The white people may be better fit for higher latitudes, while the black people may tolerate more heat and sunshine.

In mentality, there may also be differences due to tens of thousands of years of different ways of gather food, even though those differences may be converged by education.

Denying existing differences is not leading to equality. Admit the reality and see if there's anything we can do to improve the situation.
Nope. But you are good at vilifying counter opinions. I am pro-free speech for all, as our constitution and founders intended.
some BTC and ETH, but also consider adding monero (XMR) to the mix. it's a wildcard, but it's fungible. XMR is also trending in illicit use (laundering and trafficking), which will probably help its price in the short-to-mid term.
OK, but that's begging the question (to use this phrase correctly, for once).

I intend to write the next generation search engine. Should Google reward me for that?
Medical errors kill on the order of 700 people per day in the US (high error bars on that number though). And yes, insurance is a major cost in the medical field, but even large scale negligent deaths are regularly dealt with by the US legal system.

Yes, anyone putting out such a system is going to get sued, but so does every car company that exists today. It's just the cost of doing business and ultimately just get's passed on to consumers.
But you misinterpret the author's thesis by an important mark. "Women in tech are underrepresented in tech because of sexual differences" is not the author's thesis, it's a fundamentally different statement. The author's stance is really the following:

"Differences in distributions of traits between men and women may in part explain why we don't have 50% representation of women in tech and leadership."

There is a huge difference between "because of" and "may in part explain". It comes back to an earlier point others have made, that many of the author's critics grossly misinterpret the author's arguments.

>none of the works [are on] post childhood development or aptitudes

I don't think you looked at the studies. The CAH studies are performed on adults. And on aptitudes, you neglect the the author's other references which do support the claim that "On average, men and women biologically differ". For example, he referenced multiple studies cited here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_differences_in_psychology#...
You might be interested in Firefox Focus, which is purpose-built for the "I just want to quickly look something up" usecase.

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/focus/
> Provide open office space for those who thrive in that environment. Make sure there are private areas for those who don’t. Establish a culture that supports remote workers, and encourages good behaviour in shared areas.

Yep. This is what needs to be done. One thing I'll note is that in my experience, remote workers are 2nd class citizens unless the company is a remote-first company. And if the company is bought or gets new management, the remote workers are the first to go.
An ex-muslim (hafiz) atheist here, the services for Wali and other stuffs are pretty cool, but I have more suggestions:

1. The minimum age for women subscribers should be made as young as 9 years old.

2. There is already an app that offers muslim polygamy service (http://www.secondwife.com) which is also pretty cool. But unfortunately it's very difficult to find a service that offers sex slaves, this will be solid addition to your app.

3. A seamless "crowd stoning" service, where the stoning procedures can be shared over the social media.

4. Hassle free assassins hiring for honor killing.

5. Post marriage wife beating consultancy service.

6. Your app can also be used for the muslim LGBT community, you can lure them using your app to fling them off the roof.
Bitcoin has a self-adjusting difficulty rate. If blocks are being produced too fast, it increases the difficulty (i.e. average computational cost to produce a block), and if they’re not being produced fast enough it decreases it. Thus, it should never become impossible to mine.

There’s also the block reward halving process, which is separate, but in theory miners will still be incentivized to mine even after it hits 0, due to transaction fees. If not, well, the difficulty will go down until they are.
I'm confused on how an employer is not a "jobs program" - they literally employee people, and are responsible for that employees growth and career opportunities (if they value having low staff turnover and achieving better outcomes for their business).

I agree with yawaramin as well, happy employees are better performing employees, and can speak from experience with working at places that value individuality versus strict top down directing of behaviour, that the companies with that flexibility perform much better, at less cost, with much happier employees.

It's not about lowering expectations, it's about changing how you look at them - look at the outcomes and measure those, not the journey to achieve them. When you start focusing on outcomes as teams, you open the door to diversity, which leads to diversifying your ideas and solutions to problems - ultimately leading to better outcomes.
Let us know when you can detect people who start every sentence with "So" and tune them out entirely.
I've been volunteering for three years and am signed up for this fall. Happy to answer questions.

edit: Links for the lazy https://bit.ly/ScriptEdSFBAYvolunteer & https://scripted.org
I realize I'm late to the discussion, but even Netflix and Amazon know that Content is King. Networks had to battle it out over the TV medium, and now they're doing it online.

Everyone wanted a la carte Cable TV instead of forced bundles. We're now getting it.
This memo has already been discussed extensively in a number of postings:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14952787

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14939636

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14937895 [with full text of Google employee's memo]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14937778

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14934581

And the latest:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14964294
Only a matter of time until a group like shadowbrokers in some sense has ICO for managing rooted military/civilian infrastructure and occasionally "deploying"/commandeering (and supply chain, because jets and tanks wont work very long without such) around the world…
What is a “Dark Launch”
I code mostly in c++ on Linux and I don't like big IDEs. I wanted to have a plugin that would complete my code and show the errors. Oh, and it should work with CMake.

To be fair, there was a number of plugins out there that did it in various text editors, but I was too dumb to be able to use them. None worked out of the box. So I contributed a bit to one project that looked promising and then quickly branched off to create EasyClangComplete for Sublime Text. I've been working on it on weekends and nights for over a year now and it is an important tool in my workflow. Also, I feel inspired by approx. 9000 people who have installed it throughout the time it existed.
Here in Singapore they have started using automated cash machines the teller tells you the amount you feed it into the machine. The machine gives change. I use it for getting rid of all the coins once in a while and I don't have to count the coine just drop all the coins I have. If I drop in to much it I returns notes back if pposible. If the coins at a bank coin depositor they charge $0.01 per coin so if you are depositing at the bank you loose 10-20% for 5-10c coins.
Non-Newtonian Fluids: The Pouring Ketchup Quandary
Rebels of Google: ‘Constant Abuse, Sneers, Sometimes You Get Punched’
Is it just me or does reality seem to be decaying into a surreal hallucination the last few years.

While I agree with the thrust of the argument, if I'm reading it correctly, that damaging extremists are probably not worthy of tolerance, I find the chipping-away at fundamental values to be disquieting. Pushing the argument further, at what point is tolerance justified? Only when dealing with people who agree with you? In which case it's no longer "tolerance".

If we're going to chip away at values, why not question all kinds of other fundamentals? Why should people of all types get equal work opportunities, equal pay, when they may have other natural advantages/disadvantages in society at large? Why should talented/smart/beautiful/athletically-endowed people (and, of course, middle-class white males, naturally) get rewarded with much greater wealth-per-effort than others? To what extent should society try to "redress the balance" with taxes/benefits? Why should we reward mere ownership of productive assets, rather than only personal productivity? Then there's a step-back look at modern society, with the nuclear family, work-for-wages, etc, which are relatively new and untested developments in society relative to the age of humanity.

Etc, etc, etc.

I'm not advocating any position on these issues, merely that if we're going to start questioning fundamental assumptions about how society should be, we may as well be comprehensive.
No. 300 Watts / mile * 55 mile / hour leaves you with 16500 Watts / hour, which is a non-sensical unit.

On the other hand, using the correct units (300Wh/mile):

300 Watt * hour / mile * 55 mile / hour = 16500 Watts [a sensible unit] (or about 22 horsepower which is reasonable for a steady 55mph cruise).

Do that for an hour, and you get 16.5kWh of energy consumption and cover 55 miles, for an energy efficiency of 3.33 miles/kWh, which is in the ballpark (albeit low) for what my LEAF delivers (averaging a bit over 4 miles/kWh at average speeds somewhat lower than 55 mph)
I understand that part. But not the one about the cruise car almost hitting you.

So: one lane street, person in front of you turning left, you pass them to the right in the space where there might be street parking which extends into the intersection. During that time, the car trying to turn left is finally able to do so and the car immediately behind it is the cruise car. Cruise-car is now able to go straight and almost hits you as you're both competing for that one lane?
I support your theory. For whatever that's worth. I've put some of my assets into Monero instead of other alt coins. When I researched the landscape of crypto currencies IMO Monero was best of breed regarding anonymity, privacy, and cryptography theory. Now of course time will tell if the bullet points of Monero regarding untraceable privacy hold true or not but from everything I've read that's the crypto coin I'm parking my Fiat in.
I admit that I read everything surrounding it and not the original document before commenting here. That’s a rare moment for me as I usually RTFA before commenting. I’ve now read it, thank you for calling me out on that.

That said, I don’t think it’s a textbook example of civil discourse to be circulating this within your own organization. When one side suggests “distributions of differences” are root causes (without diving into them and first principals), it takes all the oxygen out of the room. It makes for a very uncivil situation for colleagues to have to defend their own gender.

Cloaking false information inside of distributions and using the word “different” doesn’t mean somehow that the expressed opinions are fair, unbiased, or rooted in some truth. It clearly implied that we shouldn’t expect an equal distribution of men and women in tech because women “on average” aren’t as well suited for the job. Bullshit.

I’ve seen myself male dominated teams that create their own monoculture that makes it hard for an outsider to enter. I’ve been part of such teams at Google! It’s not necessarily the fault of the people on the team, and for the most part people seemed to want to accept others. But I did encounter moments of racism, sexism, and homophobia that were quite shocking to me. And I’m a white male, so presumably people felt “comfortable” with me there enough to express it. Can you imagine being be a woman of color and trying to feel welcome? And this was a less bro-y team. Being gay I felt very uncomfortable with it, but at least they automatically gave me an intellectual pass due to the “distributions” I come from.

We need to look at individuals and not distributions to bring a class up. Over time societal forces change, which will affect such “averages.” It used to be that on average, women didn’t work outside the come. That’s no longer true. It used to be that on average, women made far far less than men. That’s no longer true (but still not equal.) Things are dynamic, so by trying to hide under statistics we ignore the potential (and necessity) for change. This article _implies_ that females inherently inferior for high-level Google/tech jobs (or things that deal with “ideas”... so insulting)... and that’s just plain wrong.
Passing on the shoulder (over a white line), or in a designated parking lane is indeed a violation (obviously I'm not sure of the specifics of the intersection, so I don't know if either of those apply).
You're right. I should have said there's no reason to worry about competently designed UI control performance.

Swing was, in fact, an absolute disaster.
I think this is a terrible idea, but time will tell. As a former Hulu employee, I can say that the media rights business is a mess. It took us (and Netflix) a very long time to convince media companies that the future is streaming. Now that they understand that, it's natural that they want to control all the revenue streams for their content.

What they fail to understand is that online streaming is not easy. Netflix and Hulu have invested a lot of resources into their tech stacks. Also, have you tried building an app that works on all the different streaming devices out there? It's annoyingly difficult. You have to do all that, keep up with the latest technologies (e.g. 4K), and still provide unique features and value. Storing the content is the easiest part.

Point is, media companies should stick to what they do best and let the likes of Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon do what they do best.
What's the language called?
...because MP4phy doesn't have quite the same ring to it?
The problem is, any sort of strike against the North is unfathomably risky - they've basically got some 25 million South Koreans hostage, with their obscene number of conventional artillery pieces within spitting distance of the DMZ. If Kim decides the end is near, Seoul and anything near it is basically done for.
Why don't you read it yourself and see what all the fuss was about.

https://medium.com/@Cernovich/full-james-damore-memo-uncenso...
For example, check out https://docs.scipy.org/doc/numpy-dev/user/numpy-for-matlab-u...

Also, IMO the implementation is not the core focus of the course. The key ideas are in the equations, and hopefully implementing them helps you understand the intuition behind those equations.
A recent tweet that I found funny - "Every time a conf organizer accepts a talk about #IoT using JavaScript ... somewhere in the world an IoT/embedded developer ... dies !"[1].

On a serious note though - Does anyone know a mass manufactured product (based on a uController) that actually uses anything other than C/C++?

Rust is a strong contender too, surprised to not see it mentioned here. See an older discussion about Rust on ARM Cortex M[2]

1. https://twitter.com/ppatierno/status/894575063562936321
2. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14071282
After 9/11 there were two rogue nations to be concerned about. One had already been mostly dealt with, Iraq. The other was quite a bit more scary, Korea. Anyone thinking GWB dealt with the wrong one?
I think we are in agreement, though we are speaking of two slightly different types of "authoritarian mindsets".

I think you are speaking of those who wish to become part of an authoritarian elite.

I'm speaking of the mob members who simply agree with certain absolutist and easily manipulated notions. (Like: "Hate speech is violence", or "we should never question someones claim of being emotionally hurt"). Simply believing in these notions make prone to mob aggression in support of authoritarianism.
I don't think I've ever seen so many comically/dangerously short on-ramps as in Pennsylvania.
Wtf they actually sent him to jail for refusing to give customer data to the NSA. No wonder we hardly see any resistance nowadays.
Deleting because apparently you can get brigaded and fired for any slightly dissenting opinion.
> Look, we know. Only armchair financial enthusiasts use those disclaimers

No, anyone that doesn't want to be legally liable.

If the other person could reasonably believe they have gotten legal advice, or a client-attorney relationship was establishes, then you might be liable.

Before you say that this would be ridiculous to assume on an internet forum, be advised that many lawyers nowadays have websites, blogs, allow starting a client-attorney relationship over a public question board, and such situations on Reddit have existed before.

Disclaimer: I am not an attorney, this is not legal advice.
The crux of the argument was:

1. There are biological differences between men and women.

2. Because #1 and <personal biases> and evolutionary psychology, this makes women bad engineers.

3. Because #1 and #2, diversity programs are harmful.

Saying one of those three things creates a hostile work environment. Nothing in that manifesto provided any unique, novel, or original insight. It was the same old, same-old, 'computers are for boys, talking to people is for girls' nonsense.
Duh?

16 possible personality types is all M-B can handle

And most people are borderline on various pairs depending on their mood that day
> We are all responsible for evaluating the reasonableness of claims of being hurt by someone. Otherwise dishonest or mentally unwell people hold us all hostage to their arbitrary claims.

If they are mentally unwell, it doesn't make their suffering any less real does it? I admit I am biased as someone with a mental illness, I wouldn't want someone to disregard my opinion based on knowledge of my illness.

As for dishonest people, I suppose I like to believe I can believe other Googlers, especially when there are so many of them in this case who were upset by this.
Or, put another way, the PR makes it harder for Google to defend itself in lawsuits from current or former female employees alleging discrimination. Would failure to discharge Damore itself constitute grounds for a complaint of a hostile work environment?

There is some heavy legal machinery firing underneath the covers here, forcing Google's hand.
There's not a single country on earth with full reserve, so guessing that sharia claim isn't correct.
Thanks I primarily use Linux with i3-wm

Not sure which is which ram or vram though have heard, probably not vram my computers are generally garbage.

Thanks for the link.
I'm moving to a combination of 2 things: [1] Cosmos DB for data storage, and [2] Service Fabric for the things that require real-time collaborative logic. An example of what I mean by #2 is things like real-time discussions where content pops in dynamically.

The big problem for me using a serverless architecture was constantly having to bend over backwards with the security model of firebase to accomplish things that are very simple when you have a layer of business logic under your own control on the server between the client and the database. Once the client can write whatever they want to the database, every single operation becomes an order of magnitude more difficult to develop as you imagine what ways the client could mess with you, and develop security rules to prevent that. The result-- and this was the dealbreaker for me-- is designing the backend data structure around security, instead of designing the backend data structure around the vitally important goal of supporting your business use cases.

In the end I decided it's better to just pony up and make a server. Service Fabric, and particularly the distributed actor model, gives me the realtime functions and reliability I want for my use cases without making me administer servers.

[1] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cosmos-db/introductio...

[2] https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/service-fabric/