skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well the manifesto is a clear claim of the positive discrimination in Google during the hiring process but if this is not true (which I am not sure), he should apologize.

The top comment says the diversity programs only focus in increasing the amount of people in the hiring process but the selection is the same for all. The author of the manifesto says there is positive discrimination (artificial bias) to hire minorities, the lower the bar for them. So if Google doesn't lower the bar for anyone there is no way to say anything against them, everybody is treated equal.

Can I quote a specific sentence for this? No, I would have to quote the whole manifesto.
There are lots of verifiable dark matter predictions, just none of them have been verified yet. The article mentions some of the predictions around WIMPs. It's not like string theory where there's no way to disprove it.
I am surprised how big this 'manifesto' got. Is it really that big of a deal that it a) got all the press that it got and b) that it required a personal condemnation from "Head of Diversity" and the CEO - who will now hold a town-hall to, I guess, denounce it even more?

The entire thing seems like a big nothing-burger from every side.
I'm iterating on a problem we had a work and for other side-projects.

We needed to forward webhooks to one, or multiple hosts; sometimes mutate them (split, …). Sometimes forward, sometimes no. So I created Hook+ [https://hook.plus]. Still not finished at all, needs some docs, etc…. But I plan to properly finish it by the end of the year. :)

The idea in itself already exists, it's not a revolutionnary tool at all.
> "Companies don’t have viewpoints."

They do. Not reacting would have been an endorsement. Many would want to think that these issues are apolitical, or scientific, or anything "neutral". They are not.

Make no mistake. This is a fight. A struggle between two visions of the world, maybe more. Such conflicts are not won over peaceful arguments. Sooner or later, one must take a stand, which is exactly what Google executives just did.
This only concerns passenger cars, not trucks, possibly not even vans. And the discussion is still ongoing.
You can find out what qualities you like in women by being friends with them. No need to date. And you can find out what qualities you like in a partner by collaborating with anyone, man or woman. You can find out what qualities you like in a housemate by living with people. You'll need a date to figure out what you like sexually, and in a few other area, but you can (and should) get a pretty good base understanding of what you're looking for without dating.
This seems like something that if they are going to address performance
comprehensively they are going to need to benchmark and watch for improvements and regressions on their builds.

https://pavelfatin.com/typing-with-pleasure/

Without some concrete benchmarks I'm not inclined to go to the trouble of trying it again.
It removed the clickbaity part of the title. Withough that I have to skim the whole article just to find that information
Can it be summarised as React for static sites?
its quite a cool mammal :)
Dogs funny reaction to mom leaving
https://insomnia.rest/eula/

> You agree that Floating Keyboard Software may collect and use information gathered in any manner as part of the product support services provided to you, if any, related to Insomnia REST Client. Floating Keyboard Software may also use this information to provide notices to you which may be of use or interest to you.

Wait what? I guess I won't be going anywhere near this thing.
I agree with you, but _cite some pseudo science here_ might actually be a solid citation (eg. Wikipedia or any other reputable study). What then?

On another note, I watched the 100m men's final this Saturday and noticed white men are worse at running than black men. Would that be racist towards whites if the stats were confirming my opinion?
‘Driverless’ Van Turns Out to Be Va. Tech Researcher Costumed as Car Seat
What's the harm? You're ripping off other people's content to advertise your "Founder Playbook" app. Do you really not see the issue here?
>Now, if you're a woman who has to work with or for him, what do you feel? You likely feel that your capability is more in question, that you have to prove yourself more than the men on the team, and that this person you work next to (or for) starts out with an assumption that you're less capable.

I might be biased since my experience with data analysis gives me an above average internalization of the concept of "in aggregate", but I disagree with this assesment. The fact is, as a matter of aggregates, by my demographics [0], I am "in aggregate", more likely to be a drug addict, rapist, misogynist, and terrorist. There are some people who do hold these aggregate statistics against me personally, but they are very rare (or at least, avoid the circles where they will see me); and I would not suggest that any who observes or discusses these aggregate traits holds them against me personally.

The beginning of the memo spends a paragraph (and illustrative diagram, which was removed from in the original article) making this exact distinction.

>excepting the fact that Google's lawyers are probably the better lawyers in a legal tussle.

Google's lawyer's are probably also willing to settle out of court. I doubt there will be a trial unless he want "unreasonable" compensation, or to make a political point.

[0] Based on my current understanding; I have not verified any of these beliefs.
> Did you know that anything that is super obviously a security can be completely exempt if it matures or expires in less than 270 days?

The United States is a common law country [1]. Implicitly stapled to the law are rulings and SEC rules. TL; DR There are more requirements to the commercial paper exemption than just the 270-day tenor.

That said, you are generally correct–there are lots of exemptions to registration. For example, Regulation D provides a safe harbor within which almost all private-company stock is issued [2]. The trouble with ICOs, currently, is promoters seem to be overusing this "we're marketing a product, not a security" line. As a result, they're not taking advantage of these exemptions. Failing to qualify for an exemption is a difficult mistake to undo ex post facto. (The Filecoin ICO mentioned in the article does take advantage of one such exemption.)

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

[2] https://www.federalreserve.gov/bankinforeg/regdcg.htm

Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer. This is not legal nor securities advice.
Swift 5 plans published
1. No
2. Not an attack, but there will be less jobs for those candidates with ability since companies would have to give up spots to hit their diversity quota
3. Yes
"We’re told by senior leadership that what we’re doing is both the morally and economically correct thing to do, but without evidence this is just veiled left ideology that can irreparably harm Google."

Seems to me that publishing a "manifesto" in a company saying the senior leadership are bozos is a reasonable grounds for firing.
There is nothing more horrifying in the known world than accidentally opening a 200meg log in VSCode or Atom... (both have other great advantages, though).
There've been attempts to do this [1], but I think it's probably not as easy, than simply playing it back.

[1]
https://mediapreservation.wordpress.com/2012/06/20/extractin...
Android planned anytime soon?
> You can scan torrent files for duplicated files and download common files from multiple swarms.

This is one of the biggest things I feel is missing from the current protocol and I'm very glad it's in v2 draft. Now when a group of related torrents are repacked into a single torrent all the swarms are complementary instead of competitive. You don't have to choose between seeding the big pack instead of the individual files, just do what you want and the whole swarm still benefits.
If they're selling pure gold at less than or equal to $800/oz then it's well worth it at this very moment with gold trading around $1200/oz right now. 50% profit ain't shabby.
What's more likely: the author was fired for suggesting alternate methods of improving diversity at Google or the author was fired for repeating unsupported gender stereotypes, offering alternate methods that themselves played on gender stereotypes, and creating an environment in which he would not be able to effectively carry out his responsibilities as a result of promoting gender stereotypes?
The problem is we might already be too late to stop it, especially since it would require global cooperation to stop. Amassed capital right now can already bribe and control governments due to its scale, and isolated attempts to curb the power of the lauded elite will only either make them use their money to depose the current regime or have them leave the country. Unless we can get international agreement to stop this runaway concentration of wealth scenario from happening - which is extremely unlikely, since the country hosting the rich benefits from their presence in the short term despite the long term detriment - humanity seems destined for that dystopian eventuality.
Beyond the Smartphone
battery only buses make sense because the bug needs to run over rush hour and then can sit all do to charge. Battery operated tractors do not make sense without vastly better batteries because a tractor needs to run for 16 hours at max power (500hp). Sustaining 400000 kw for 16 hours is not easy. For semis and airplanes you need to consider your use: for short in town loads/short flights batteries can work, for longer distances we don't have the battery technology today to make it work.

Someone once told me battery technology has 2-3 more doubling left and then we hit chemical limits and cannot get more out of them. If this is correct batteries can never do the longer distances, but I don't know if it is correct.
"My problem is not tripping over them when I get out of bed in the morning." - Beethoven

Consequently, my current side project is a task and information management app, so I'll never not be able to capture any ideas I trip over it in the morning :) It has a wiki and systems for note taking, spaced repetition, a DSL and plugin system.

At this point, it's turned into the dwarf fortress of todo apps, pretty much :)
The Impossible Burger Runs into the FDA
It's a great idea, and human beings are proof that conjoined colonies of intelligent agents are going to be smarter than individuals. But it also runs up against tradeoffs, as evidenced by the fact that many humans exist, and we didn't evolve into just one giant ur-human, even after we all got our internet implant. Sometimes a few agents with different strategies working independently is better than a single agent choosing amongst the strategies of several others.
I wonder if Illumos / SmartOS and OpenIndiana continued with the principle of least surprise via their ancestry chain, or whether they also moved to a "system" load view like Linux.

It's great that design decisions and thinking from decades past can be dug out and examined by complete strangers.
How does VSCode manage to take up less disk space than Atom, with similar feature set? Currently on Windows box:
VSCode 1.14.0 - 156MB
Atom 1.19.0 - 516MB
> because they have the complexity of an ICE car + an EV car,

The irony being that most don't. For example, hybrid synergy drive is basically an alternate transmission design that replaces the complex clutch packs used to control Ravigneaux planetary gears with electric motors. The result is a more simple overall design.

Other systems are literally just beefed up starters.
Heads up there are a couple of broken images on the home page on mobile.
This is Olbers' paradox, and I don't think you need black holes to explain it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olbers%27_paradox
I signed up for this, but didn't realize that they pull access to course material if you don't complete on their timeline. I asked for a refund because of this and they refused.
It's not about not knowing what to do, it's about not recognizing things that threaten safe travel.
Understanding averages
VSC streamlines the data it needs to load, doing the least amount possible in hot paths as far as I know. They also multi-thread on startup so it is perceived as being quicker to boot up.
This doesn't strike me as an especially powerful critique, in spite of your provocative language.

We have well understood mathematical models which correctly and accurately predict all physical behavior relevant to our everyday lives, and, further, correctly and accurately predict the majority of our observations of the universe around us, period. As tools for understanding our world, they are incredible achievements.

In spite of us knowing these models to be fundamentally incomplete, we have yet (to my understanding) to perform an experiment on Earth which contradicts them. More to the point, the theory which supersedes them will, by virtue of needing to replicate all experimental results so far, will likely be even more esoteric, complicated, wild, baffling, and impenetrable (and--with any luck--elegant, inspiring, and beautiful).
Any income from that? Beer money or car money a year?:)
In the real, non-tinfoil hat, world those affiliate links are automatically added by the CMS and the writer has nothing to do with it, sees no revenue from it, and has no idea it's happening. This is Quartz, not some dude's blog.

Sorry, not everything is a conspiracy to get you.
> From September onwards, Netflix will become the exclusive US pay TV home of the latest films from Disney, Marvel, Lucasfilm and Pixar. - https://media.netflix.com/en/company-blog/get-ready-for-summ...

That didn't last long.
Has he set Google up for this blowup or do Americans just usually have complaints to federal regulators written and ready to send?

Before being fired, Mr. Damore said, he had submitted a complaint to the National Labor Relations Board claiming that Google’s upper management was “misrepresenting and shaming me in order to silence my complaints.” He added that it was “illegal to retaliate” against an N.L.R.B. charge.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/07/business/google-women-eng...
I'm a very happy investor in Ensibuuko, mentioned in the article above. My hypothesis is that Africa over the next two decades will look like India and China the previous two decades. There will be a large Alibaba-like company that emerges from Africa.
You're kidding right? It's full of mischaracterizations.

>suggesting women are less suited to certain roles in tech and leadership

Not true. Saying women are less suited is saying all women are less suited.

What he said is that when comparing the distribution curve of women to men, the average woman may be less suited than the average man.

That's different. It means that the top 10% of women may be far better suited to leadership in tech than the bottom 85% of men.

>caused outrage when he circulated a manifesto at the weekend complaining about Google’s “ideological echo chamber”

He wrote a memo. It was posted on an internal forum. He wasn't complaining, he was suggesting alternatives to discrimination. Why are they making it sound like he was distributing fliers all over campus?
What this whole episode really seems to show is how authoritarianism has crept into our lives and how incredibly difficult it is to resist it even amongst highly educated people.

I would wager that none of the people calling for this person to be personally ruined, expelled from society, terminated from their job and forever vilified as an outcast would view themselves as authoritarian.

Not the Tweeters shaking with anger and demanding for him to get fired.

Not the Ex-Google guy with his medium rant about how people would punch him in the face and he would understand.

Not the diversity officer reaffirming the commitment to diversity in a dystopian way.

It is scary, it really is. We have all grown up learning about regimes like this, we are all aware, yet seemingly nobody can help themselves.
Yes I read this after I posted. It's tough, the whole thing.
A technology site is exactly the place for cynicism about technology.

I disagree, because I think we need to be the idealists and drivers instead of those pushing back, but I also don't think yours is necessarily an unreasonable position to have.

The idea of seeing an ad for a suicide hotilne on a social media site is even more distopian than the op's crack about mandatory happiness

I'm not sure I follow why. Ideally an offline social network (like your friends and family) would correctly infer your mental state from interactions and be able to intervene appropriately. A digital social network, where your friends and family, as well as the digital homunculus are all observing your activity should be able to infer your mental state as well, if not better than the offline system and intervene where necessary as well.
>You could argue, as the "manifesto" writer did, that there's some kind of innate biological explanation. To me, that's a pretty extraordinary claim and requires extraordinary proof.

I don't understand why people think this is such an extraordinary claim. It would be extraordinary if the sexes were exactly equal. There are very obvious and enormous differences between men and women in numerous areas. Why would we expect them to come out exactly equal?

But if you want stronger evidence, try this: http://sci-hub.cc/10.1111/j.1751-9004.2010.00320.x

>Results show that gender differences in Big Five personality traits are ‘small’ to ‘moderate,’ with the largest differences occurring for agreeableness and neuroticism (respective ds = 0.40 and 0.34; women higher than men). In contrast, gender differences on the people–things dimension of interests are ‘very large’ (d= 1.18), with women more people-oriented and less thing-oriented than men. Gender differences in personality tend to be larger in gender-egalitarian societies than in gender-inegalitarian societies, a finding that contradicts social role theory but is consistent with evolutionary, attributional, and social comparison theories. In contrast, gender differences in interests appear to be consistent across cultures and over time, a finding that suggests possible biologic influences.

The point about differences in personality was brought up in the Google memo and perhaps explains your "please" thing. But look at the "interest in people vs interest in things" statistic. A d value of 1.18 is enormous. That means 93% of men are more "thing oriented" than the average women. And that's assuming there is no noise in the measurement, likely the true value is even higher!

There's also this later on in the document:

>When Del Giudice computed the Mahalanobis D for gender differences in Big Five traits, based on a published data set, he found that although the mean d for gender differences in individual Big Five traits was 0.27 (conventionally considered to be ‘small’), the Mahalanobis D was in contrast 0.84, suggesting a relatively large mean separation of men and women in the multivariate ‘space’ of personality
Not necessarily. If you have a smart client it should be able to combine them at the file-level since individual files are hashed as a whole now, regardless of the block size within it.
Fantastic that they are taking over the Open Source library that was already out there. Have used it and the maintainer had obviously put in a ton of work on it.
Never Too Old to Code: Meet the 82-Year-Old App-Maker
No. Just one weird tip.
Human drivers are pretty terrible. I'd imagine if it breaks down, then the same breakdown cover everyone has at the moment will kick in.
This might be an intersting article to read on the side; https://josephg.com/blog/electron-is-flash-for-the-desktop/
When Beethoven Met Goethe
Consider that Google is currently facing a wage discrimination case from the US Department of Labor, so they're likely in the mood to go above and beyond to distance themselves from the author's attitudes.
What happens with all the correct things that are now inappropriate to say in this brave new world?
> Such conflicts are not won over peaceful arguments.

They are. At least that's how civilised societies would handle it. It could be a textbook example of a decision a civil discourse could approach.
What else could Google have done? He made himself a visibly toxic employee to have on most teams. This might be weird to some people, but at work you have to work with other people, and while it may be OK to hold <X> belief in general, advocating for it at work can make it harder for you to work with others.

Abstract free speech crashes and burns in any situation where you can't select your peers.
> unsupported

Did you only read the Gizmodo version that removed all the references?

Here's a copy with the references:

https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/3914586/Googles-I...
Speed is the reason I almost stop using Atom like a few times every year, this is awesome news.
"proportional representation of the population" metric?

Is there some reason the social disrupters only get all frothy mouthed about this in certain areas? Like shouldn't we spend much more time going after the NBA, Fishing, Logging, Elementary teachers, Nurses, etc. because these industries are far more out of "diversity balance."

Are people clamoring for a "proportional representation of the population" metric prepared to fire a whole lot of Asians and Jews at places like Facebook and Google in order to bring these populations more in line with their broader United States society proportions?
That's for sure a factor, and I should probably care less about judgement (thanks) although I've mainly attributed my stuttering in those situations to the fact I have to say something unexpected. Other examples are when I need to correct myself (I get stuck in something like a loop of "actually no"), or when I say I need to hang up and call back later.
I also often find it difficult to say "goodbye" to people without first acquiring eye contact, or in general to say something to people while they are doing something else and haven't noticed me approaching.
Let's have a little fun and pick apart the first topic you listed. Books. What exactly is there still to be done in the realm of books?

Publishing? There are big companies or now you can self-publish. There are many video tutorials, courses, and blogs all dedicated to self-publishing, so even the online education realm of things seems to be taken.

Writing books? Ok sure you can write a book just like you can produce a single piece of any kind of content, so that can't count. Software to assist in writing books? From my quick search, there's Scrivener, and a bunch of other platforms and apps.

Want to write a book without typing? Hmm, there's already a bunch of speech-to-text apps like Dragon.

Buying books? Amazon.
Audio books? Audible.

Collecting books? Hmm ok, may be something in there. Site that lists the top 100 books from prior years? Or a top 10 per genre, per year (historical).

The reality is coming up with an idea is already hard. Coming up with a business is much harder.
Would love an idea in this space.
In capitalist societies money is power. What share of the total wealth pie you have matters because it dictates your influence and authority in your society. When individuals wield wealth equal to tens of millions of people, their influence - political and economical - is represented as such.

This is why in both theaters you see trends towards oligarchy - the will of the people has no demonstrable influence on the behavior of congress, whereas wealthy interests have correlation. The demands of the many (cheaper housing, accessible healthcare, strong transit infrastructure) are ignored for the wants of the few (real estate investment bubbles and stock buybacks) because the few have so much more influence than they did before in the form of their wealth.
It depends. Is Google 50-50 male female ratio, or 95-5?

Likelihood usually change on the environment, just look at Uber.