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I used to work at Google. I still know many people who work there and am still a shareholder.

If 1000 good engineers quit the users wouldn't even notice. Google is grossly overstaffed and pointless rewrites that achieve nothing at all are rampant. Promotion-oriented development is the order of the day.

Google reached a fork in the road with this event. The Google I remember being a part of many years ago had strong, firm commitments to freedom of speech. It left China rather than continue to accept the PRCs bullshit, despite the business consensus being that leaving the world's largest market was commercial suicide. That sort of action defined who the company was. It led to a globally trusted brand.

Pichai is clearly nothing like the men Brin and Page were. He just set fire to the trust of the Google brand to avoid pissing off a bunch of staff who are very likely mostly recent grads churning crap from C++ to Go somewhere deep inside the bowels of an undifferentiated product, and thus the least experienced and most trivially expendable. Losing a bunch of engineers who throw a hissy fit because someone wrote a blog post with lots of references to scientific research would, if anything, do Google a world of good.

The consequences of this will be felt for a long time. Who can really trust Google's results for political queries now? There will always be a nagging suspicion that certain results ("lies") liberals would rather people not see might have quietly gone missing.
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Humans give too much importance to 'fairness'. It seems to be a bias in our biology.[1]

Nearly, this entire thread can be summed up as: "It isn't fair that ..." Does anybody else find these discussions centred fairness and social rules to be tedious?

We should strive to get beyond fair, and beyond the conventional level of moral reasoning.

A diversity programme is not fair in the moment, but is designed to right historical wrongs. By definition it is probably sub optimal in serving this purpose. But hey, most human decisions are made based on subconscious impressions anyway, regardless of which corporate programme might be in place.

For those who don't like diversity programmes, let this fact comfort you. For those that do like them, see them as a statement of intent to be inclusive of others[2] but take them with a grain of salt.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wason_selection_task Where a difficult puzzle becomes easier to solve when framed in the context of policing a social rule.

2. In addition to being obsessed with petty social rules and who broke them, humans are also inherently tribal, and almost unconsciously split into in-groups and out-groups. I find it impossible to believe that this kind of outgurouping might not be happening during hiring decisions.
I actually think his writing the document itself was not as disruptive as the resulting outrage and debate.

I'm not a witch hunter but I'm flattered you want to assume I'm one simply because I'd rather hunker down and do my job than be forced into a debate about the perception of hiring policies.
Unreal games look alike because maybe most people think the default lighting model is really good? I have seen screenshots of some Unreal powered games that look like grease has been smeared everywhere, but others look pretty good.

But then there's the Borderlands games. Those are based on Unreal, but they don't look like any other game out there.
Despite the high cost (when compared to 'comparable' x86_64 hardware) I am very excited by this.

However I'm concerned by desktop Linux support and graphics driver support. It would be really miserable to get this kind of machine and then have a lacklustre desktop experience (though I'd be using it as a high-horsepower workstation, it would need to be able to dump computations onto the GPU and use ordinary free productivity software on the side).
Babel is an iOS app focused on playlist transfer and discovery for Apple Music. In light of the uncertainty surrounding SoundCloud, I added a feature that allows users to transfer their SoundCloud playlists. Any feedback is very welcome.
After the KDE4/GNOME3 mess, I switched to Xfce and pretty much never looked back.

I honestly miss KDE 3.5
Unity has put a lot more effort into optimizing for lower-end iOS and Android devices. You can build a big shiny awesome game in Unreal, but it's unlikely to run on older devices due to memory requirements.
Spare me "the Donald" reddit thread.
You dont think in light of certain facts thats conservatives and fascists masquerading as conservatives getting heat is justified?
Bill Gates happend, solidifying the nerd image.
Who else would enforce standards in geographic education?

/s
Professional military (by definition) force politicians to spend money on them.

So, every conflict becomes measurable in terms of money. Thus, citizens become aware of the true cost of it. When you have conscription, you cannot measure how much each of the soldiers loses in terms of money - they don't ask them such a question deliberately.

Also, when all citizens (women and "disabled") are forced to pay for the military equally, they will tend less to be provoked into a war - it may cost too much for them. Get it?

By the way, I would support new British Empire, if its authorities would be decent people (as it usually happened). I'm from Ukraine : )
I wouldn't be surprised if qbittorrent predates uTorrent; Wikipedia says it dates to 2006. But it wasn't popular on windows until uTorrent started doing dodgy things.
Unity at least had an exciting purpose behind it. I have no idea what the Gnome team were thinking when they designed 3.

I actually quite like some of the ideas in Deepin though
Yes, corporations should be unfettered in their pursuit of profit at the expense of their employees and the public good. Corporations engaging in moral behavior is clearly unethical and sets a dangerous precedent!
Good point about women not choosing college degrees in a vacuum.
Would the same logic explain why many more women than men attend college?
Except then your main determination is to read more books, not to "succeed" whatever your definition of that is.

The problem is that people read books and get a short spurt of inspiration and desire, but said inspiration / desire is for the end goal - to get there you need to do a journey first. Ferris didn't write his book overnight or even in a few weeks (maybe the summary), nor did he just have the ability to write books - that stuff takes time. It's just that looking at people who got to the end result make it look easy.
This explains some things. I was sort of surprised he had managed to defend a thesis after trying to follow his argument in the piece in question. I don't expect thesis level work from a forum post, but for something with so much work put into citations and footnoting, it's so bad at linking its evidence to its arguments and its arguments to its conclusions (or even deciding, what, in fact, it's central thesis is). For what he deems to be such a hostile audience, it's very poor piece of persuasive writing.
I knew it would be avocado related but was expecting the "overcado" piece

https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2015/oct/05/the-avocado-...
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> need to accept that a baker can refuse to bake a cake for a gay wedding.

White nationalists are not a Federal protected class, homosexuals are.

This whole thread is full of people who are tying relativize every kind of behavior. Not everything is subjective, our civilization has guidelines on what's accepted as moral and what is immoral.
I use App Engine's static file serving to serve my site. It has a 1 GB/day bandwidth limit. It turns out Hacker News still moves a lot of traffic, so this is the first time I've crossed it! Oops. Billing is now enabled on this project.
Jordan Peterson got his YouTube account revoked? What possible justification could have they given for that?
Pacifism is not always a tenable strategy for piece.

Finland has a population of 5M. Russia has 144M. Russia has been a wanton overbearing opportunist when it comes to foreign policy. Now, in this particular instance, which policy from Finlands part do you think leads more likelier to a future of non-invasion: a) cordial relationships and a standing army b) cordial relationships.
Peter Thiel on diversity: people who look different, but think alike (1996)
I think Japan does something similar.

http://jpninfo.com/54373
Probably to make use of their whole IoT platform, such as https://aws.amazon.com/greengrass/. I still wouldn't use it over a properly architected local solution (being a software architect with focus on security), but if you _really_ don't want to write the non-feature-specific code then I suppose their stuff isn't that bad.
It seems like this process will take too long. I have a busy week how can I get hacked today? Is there a more insecure coin out there?
It is very difficult to correctly ascertain motive, especially when looking through an ideological lens.

Pandering to offense takers encourages them to seek motives they deem aggressive.
Let me clarify, as it was late when I wrote this.

By "hit on by a gay man", I mean "cornered in his office, he being a man twice my size, being told he could make life either really easy or really hard".

By "joking inappropriate touching" I mean "groping at my genital area, specifically because it made me uncomfortable, and only doing it more often when I asked it to stop".

By "listening to stories of sexual conquest", I mean "belittled and threatened after questioning whether or not Pick-Up Artist style techniques were moral, ethical, or respectful of their existing marriages".

Sorry I wasn't more clear.

If someone asks you to stop anything and you stop, that's a misunderstanding. If someone asks you to stop and you keep doing it, do it more, and threaten the person about it, that's harassment. It's not really a grey area. The perception that it is a grey area is the system routing around damage and mobilizing spin to make you think so, so they can continue to be rude, domineering, narcissistic assholes.
> You sure as hell shouldn't hire me because I'm female. You should hire me because the set of techniques I employ to do my job are effective, even though they might be less familiar to you

I couldn't agree more with it. And I think it is one of the points of the infamous memorandum. We should change how the companies works internally so we can use other skills in our benefit. I am not sure the diversity programs work like this, because if they worked like this the focus should be more inside the internal culture than in the hiring process. They would say something like we need to teach people in the company to increase the tolerance and assess diversity skill instead of increasing the diversity. Increasing diversity should be an emerge feature not a goal.
The Brave browser has a bittorrent add-on pre-installed. I've been toying with it as my daily driver for a couple weeks and have been really enjoying it. The project still needs work but I love what they're doing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brave_(web_browser)
https://brave.com/
I've never tried to work less tbf; I'm 31 years old and if I was given more free time, I wouldn't know what to do with it. I'm not the hipster adventurous type, traveling somewhere exotic doesn't appeal to me (I'd be more afraid of getting robbed and scammed), I'm not very social, etc. I prefer my 9-5 life so far. Just bought a house too.
Experiences vs. Reality, Why do experiences suck?
The Concept
Let me remind the common sense first. Grown ups have more wisdom, knowledge and intelligence than adolescents, as a result of their significant experiences. Most people have constantly heard from their parents that they must be obeying their elderlies’ advices or so called experiences.
Why experiences suck?
Our brain or our subconscious mind has a priority since the humans are born. Subconscious mind is a primitive mind that leads our attitude instinctively, not intellectually. It is shaped to KEEP US ALIVE. Yes, it allegedly tries to protect us from any kind of hazardous material. It does not give a ship if you are unhappy or depressed, it does not care if we are fearful and insecure.
Elderlies or adults shares their painful experiences with their children which are actually disgraced shadows of reality. As a result, people avoids talking to strangers, they fear from failure and taking risks which eventually takes them to an unsuccessful mindset and a monotonous life style.
Reality
This article does not state people to avoid learning from the past or neglect the people around them. It states them to criticize what is presented to them. Skepticism might look awkward in a social context, however, it ensures an excessive level of improvement and self-determination.
> Cancer death rates in the UK are 255 per 100,000

No they're not. Cancer mortality rates (per 100,000) are:

UK: 109.97, USA: 105.78, Spain: 98.06, Australia: 96.36

> It’s not so black and white that “single payer is better.”

In the vast majority of measures, it clearly is.

( Stats from: http://www.cancerresearchuk.org/health-professional/cancer-s... )
To know when someone ring your doorbell but you are not in home so that you can connect through voip to speakerphone near doorbell and speak with someone who stands before your door.

It's probably one of first examples, like "Hello World!". Who in their right mind would write hello world, they are written for all languages already.
So we should have asked these questions, instead of the irrelevant one that was actually asked :/
I'm not sure that's the case. Certainly not in Europe anyway, although it is seeing wider adoption now (particularly 464XLAT based solutions).
Just because everything you do generates a social signal, doesn't mean everything you do is strongly influenced by the desire to generate that social signal.

As a analogy, everything I do might generate some amount of sound. When I'm singing karaoke, the primary goal is to generate that sound. When I move my bookshelf by dragging it across the floor, the sound is incidental.

Likewise, I think it's perfectly possible for someone to actually to want to buy the Model X outside of signals it generates for the world, even though it generates a signal.
ALL the people interviewed are qualified, they can ALL do the job

I've interviewed ~100 people at a top tech company, and I really don't think this is the case: the best candidates are much better than the worst ones, even in on-site interviews. The signal isn't perfect, but it's pretty strong.
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"hitler did it with the Jews, whites did it to the blacks , Japanese did it to the Chinese"

Well, that escalated quickly[0].

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin%27s_law
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Yea, how on earth is that just a 'side note'...
I have to admit, BitTorrent is one of the things I took for granted.

I never really thought about the details of how it works, or the really really impressive feats that were accomplished to get it to work. I knew it was a really good technology, but reading this and the comments here puts it on a whole other level.

Why isn't this technology talked about more? Why are blockchains the big "thing" right now with people trying to use them everywhere to see where they fit best, but torrent networks are kind of just... ignored?

The decentralized nature of it seems to open so many possibilities at first glance, is there a reason they aren't being taken advantage of? Is there some kind of "great filter" kind of thing that is preventing widespread usage of something like a torrent network?
And how were payments handled? Taxes? I find that to be the most daunting part, I mean there's distributors like leanpub and co but I'm afraid they take a huge cut.
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Wondering what software you use on your news.ycombinator.com website. Looking to develop a better website and like the way you do yours.
Source? I'm pretty sure sexual orientation is not (currently) a federally protected class. The statute is regarding "sex" as in gender.

EDIT: GC comment verifies my understanding. It's not a uniform application of the statute and depends on the Federal agency involved (ex EEO vs Education).
Hiring politically aligned people is illegal in CA. It butts up against old school worker rights still on the books in some places.
> Whether it's the best time for them to play or not should be up to them.

It is not that simple is sports. Sport is about pushing one to the limit and a bit beyond, by unquestionable trainer authority.
My biz partner and I lived it for about 2.5 years. We finally sold the network we had built up for 7 figures and ended up buying a company with 25 people, so the opposite of 4 hours :)
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What's your job there
What is this "great filter"?
You truly believe White nationalists "accept people regardless of their race"?
Prof. of employment law: 'it may be illegal for Google to punish that engineer'
In other words, pigeonholing them into careers? Girls get to "be whatever you want to, darling". Boys have to make sure they bring home a paycheck and support their family. Why?
The length of a line is infinite too. If you think of a vector as a line + magnitude, it's a bit more natural to think of a bivector as a plane + magnitude.
He wrote an internal document. I'm going to guess that the people who leaked it to the press did not agree with it.

It could have been a forwarded email instead of a Google Doc. Who cares? Same difference.
These are essentially all legacy features. I see the Switch as something of a retreat from the highly proprietary hardware features that attracted spotty-at-best 3rd party support and even Nintendo sometimes struggled to shoehorn in (see the gimmicky motion controls in Zelda/Metroid games on Wii). It's simply a great classic console experience you can play anywhere.
I'm not talking about journalists being jailed etc, I should have given a more concrete example, I am referring to more liberal countries trying to enforce their ideologies onto more conservative countries.

I think all this stuff encroaches too much on the sovereignty of a peoples / country, which some people in this ever more globalised world don't see as a bad thing for some reason.
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There is a tendency to think that each new hire is always the far-and-away best match of all candidates and so any influence that diversity policies might have is at the detriment of a superior candidate. In my experience with hiring, the final round of interviews usually comes down to a handful of equally qualified applicants. Barring any sudden red flags at this point, whoever gets the job is just luckier than the others.
Bit of a confusing name, when there is already an extremely popular mongodb node.js framework called Mongoose
Sure anyone should be able to decide who stays in a private residence. AirBnb is not stopping them from choosing another vehicle for advertising.

If Airbnb has a non discrimination clause stating that you can't advertise on their platform if you discriminate, is it really such a leap to think someone advertising for a place to stay for a White Nationalist convention may discriminate?
> At the risk of somewhat generalizing, a disability puts a person at disadvantage.

It depends on the disability, but still disable people can do things that normal people cannot do. Everybody has skills companies can use, regardless their disability or race or gender.

A blind person wont seem like a good fit for a programming position, but if they prove they can program (as experience in their CV or having passed a test like the rest of candidates) they should be consider as the rest of candidates without any prejudice. And I am sure that blind person has put more effort to achieve the same goals as a non disable candidate and it might be a positive point to hire him as that blind person is showing one more skill than others.

But we shouldn't hire him because he/she is blind but because of his/her skills.
Practically will the effect be all that strong? It doesn't seem like a winning argument to say "voters: let's charge Airbnb taxes and also make sure we're welcoming to neo-nazis!"
> to argue "women, as an aggregate, are poor coders because they care about people and not things like dudes do" isn't a discussion.

Did you actually read the paper or just one of the many summaries? Because he didn't say that, and your use of quotes is inappropriate here. Also, he didn't question anyone's humanity.
While I don't agree with some of the points he made and I'm for Diversity programs in general, I find these misrepresentations and personal attacks on him quite disturbing. What we need is more civilized discussion, not name-calling.
That guy seems smart. I bet he did know. He probably decided that he could either quit quietly or get himself fired. The latter opens up the possibility of lawsuits (and unemployment benefits, which he is unlikely to need, but if he finds it hard to get hired again quickly it may be helpful).
Yes term is mostly used as an insult. But there just isnt any other term that would replace it and include all those counterproductive radical left groups that relay on character assassination when faced with logical points they cant refute.

PC culture? regressive left? feminsts? LGBTQIAPK? lefties?
Sex is interpreted to include discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity.

https://www.eeoc.gov/federal/otherprotections.cfm

EDIT for you edit: "De jure" vs "De facto". Even if you interpreted it to not include sexual orientation, it would not hold in practice or court.
> in fact the Republican primaries featured serious questions on whether to kill baby Hitler, taking it as granted that killing adult Hitler was a moral imperative.

It's not worth to take part in such worthless philosophical debates in my opinion. They do not add anything to the society or solve any important modern day problems.

> their entire business model is literally illegal in most of the places they operate.

If that's true their website should be shut down in countries where it's banned.
The article points out that's exactly what Airbnb has done:

“In 2016 we established the Airbnb Community Commitment reflecting our belief that to make good on our mission of belonging, those who are members of the Airbnb community accept people regardless of their race, religion, national origin, ethnicity, disability, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, or age,” Airbnb shared in a statement. “We asked all members of the Airbnb to affirmatively sign on to this commitment.”
Well, any number of historical reasons: slavery; violence against indigenous people; colonial sources, such as exporting of natural resources; the actions of a state, which might not be recognised as an authority; or simply inherited property from a time of aristocracy.

Equally, people might reject systems of ownership out of hand, and consider the gulf of wealth causes by those systems to be the product of immoral behaviour.