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A lot of what he said was on-point and I agree with it. However, it also puts forth a lot of inappropriate generalizations, and in many places presents absurdisms as valid points. I think his "manifesto" would have been a lot more compelling and less divisive if he had presented it much differently.
Why not post the original article, instead of basically stealing it verbatim? That was well beyond the amount of excerpting I'd call "fair use".

http://paulgraham.com/ds.html
Wonder if this could be used to help literacy.
1. This is never going to work.
2. Even if Google backed down, accepted him back, and he agreed to come back (all these hard to imagine), how could he work normally?
"The experiment was done on 3- to 4-month-old infants using a 2D mental rotation task. They used a preference apparatus that consists of observing during how much time the infant is looking at the stimulus. They started by familiarizing the participants with the number "1" and its rotations. Then they showed them a picture of a "1" rotated and its mirror image. The study showed that males are more interested by the mirror image. Females are equally interested by the "1" rotated and its mirror image. That means that males and females process mental rotation differently."
Definitely, because it is code for signifying a particular worldview which is dismissive of minorities, and as such is a polemic, not a reasoned argument.
This smart city uses footsteps to map the stars on its streets
Yes, you and others can just flag it as deserved so it doesn't rise.
SHA-256 has a 256-bit output. Truncated to 20 bytes/160-bit you effectively reduce the collision resistance to 80-bit and the (second) pre-image resistance to 160-bit. (This mean for example that you have to do around 2^80 operations (hash computations) to find a collision.)

80-bit of collision resistance is usually the number accepted for legacy cryptosystems or for lightweight crypto. It's not great but it's not "too bad".

By removing 96 bits from the state you also prevent length extension attacks (which SHA-256 is vulnerable to, see [1]). Or rather, provide 96-bit of security against them. Which should be enough.

This is better than using SHA-1 because SHA-1 has "efficient" chosen-prefix algorithms to find collisions while SHA-2 currently does not.

Now if it were me I would have chosen a hash function like KangarooTwelve which is faster, provides parallelization for large inputs, allows you to customize the output length and has received a substantial amount of cryptanalysis.

[1]: https://cryptologie.net/article/417/how-did-length-extension...
> Skilled URM engineers who meet the Google hiring bar will find a place to work regardless of outreach efforts.

I'm not so convinced that'd be true! If there are no concerted outreach efforts what's stopping the majority of companies from hiring their mediocre non-URM friends of friends instead?
Highly recommended reading on this subject by four scientists https://web.archive.org/web/20170808013732/http://quillette....
Removal of gendered language.

Interesting though. Does it change the meaning subtly?

"Each Googler is expected to do their utmost" to
"Googlers are expected to do their utmost"

It seems to me like it's saying "you should also be expected to be as a group" But the change is so small or subtle I could be reading into this.
Currently we believe it's impossible due to nuclear weapons - there wouldn't be anything left to fight over or with.
I see this as fundamentally different, mostly because it is far easier to repo a car and auction it off than it is to foreclose on a house and sell it to someone else.

Another thing is that no one is wildly pricing cars; the fact that lots of subprime people are buying cars does not drive up the price of cars for everyone else. Thus, if a whole bunch of subprime borrowers default, the rest of us aren't sitting there with a car that's actually worth a quarter of what we thought it would be worth.

We also don't keep an enormous share of our equity in cars the way that we do in housing.
> I expect Googles behaviour in this instance was illegal.

I very much doubt it. Companies can fire anyone for any reason as long as they're not part of a protected class.

They made mistake firing him, though.
Also Australian in Canada. I sat the mandatory English test, with a number of others that were native speakers.

It is a ~$300 test too.
The issue here is that whoever drafted the rules did not think to offer an easy way to appeal the results. If the person in the article could have just said "can I have a human do this next time" there wouldn't have been a problem. This is what happens when non-technical people that have too much faith in technology draft policies.
It's actually not left.

These gender ideologies and the application of positive discrimination are an affront to left position. Since more than a hundred years, the left strongest identification trait was the fight to end discrimination. When now discrimination is applied in the name of diversity, that can't be a left value. This is something else, and it comes from somewhere else.

I'm not saying the position does not exist, and I'm not saying the groups purporting them don't look like left groups. But talk with some communists or socialists. They can't get behind this. My point is that this gender movement is its own political/ideological thing, that has just a very small overlap with left identification markers. It uses their style, not more.

This is probably part of the usual problem, that the left-right distinction doesn't really capture the political landscape.
I made the mistake of reading the "Manifesto" before being told what to think. Unfortunately I've made a decision that goes against the hivemind.

Seems I'm not alone at least, 4 scientists have written what I would call "agnostic" pieces on the subject which I mostly agree with[0].

The response (on twitter especially) has been nothing short of disgraceful, if ever we needed proof of an echo chamber and "sacred thoughts" it would only be a cross section of tweets on the subject.

It leaves one to wonder if these echo chambers are the cause of many of the worlds greater polarisations. (Trump vs Clinton was highly polarised -- Brexit -- Current situation in Sweden (rise of the right), Poland)

[0] http://quillette.com/2017/08/07/google-memo-four-scientists-...
Well, what if that's so? Are we really so fragile that we dare not even ask that question? Could it be that we're scared of the answer? There are plenty of posts in this thread expressing stronger and more negative generalisations about men, how is it that we're not so scared of those?

The only way to reach truth is to be willing to look for it.
The Show HN guidelines say something about not submitting a project if the visitors can't directly play around with it. As that package I'm showing isn't publicly available yet, I thought I might wait until I do a Show HN. I guess I'll resubmit once it's usable for anyone.
Somewhat related, I have noticed there seems to be an abstraction that is often easier for Belgians to make.

One can at the same time make a stand for $GOOD_THING/against $BAD_THING ánd have zero country loyalty/patriotism.

It's easier and more efficient even, because unbound by country loyalty, one is less limited in how to make a stand.

Do you have difficulties imagining this? Imagine yourself in the era that shall not be named for fear of Godwin's law. Think of ways to make a difference back then.
> As a liberal, I tolerate differences in opinion

You very clearly do not.
If you add middle eastern sounding names the same result happens.

Yes we have biases all of us but they are certainly not by any metrics confined to only women. Try being +40 in Silicon Valley, try being black or latino male on WallStreet, try making it as a hip-hop artist as a black guy. Try being fat in the fashion industry, try being a nerd in high-school.

The world is rife with bias and prejudice against all sorts of "these are not like me" but the solution is not and have never been to force quotas through whether in board rooms or on the job market.

If you want to change things changes them at their root cause. Push your girls to start their own companies to build their own networks so that they are less depending on existing ones. Teach them not to excel at school as that doesn't really matter but to learn how to sell themselves. Teach them that if a job posting names 10 skills and they have all but two it's still a job for them.

These are the real barriers to entry not modern day companies light biases.
I think the hundreds of blog and social media posts by hardcore leftists co-workers calling for him to be fired and worse because they do not believe has the right to speak his opinions because the disagree with his opinions is ample proof that google is political turf. And purging political enemies and claiming turf is part of the culture at this point.
I have the second pair you listed, and find them terribly uncomfortable to wear for more than a half an hour or so. I've tried stretching them on a medium-sized cardboard box but didn't notice much improvement. They make my head feel like it is being crushed, and give me a terrible headache rather quickly. They crush my ears into my skull too. The noise canceling and battery life on them are great, but if you considering purchasing these and have a slightly larger-than-average sized head, this is something you should consider.
Agree, for the most part FWIW.
The DoE has only existed since 1980. American public schooling did just fine without it for centuries. Why is it beyond the pale to consider eliminating it?
Aren't pharmacies allowed to suggest generic replacement to the drug on the recipe (unless the prescribing doctor explicitly stated to not allow it?)

Do doctors prescribe the specific brand drug and prevent changing it to generics, because the insurer tells them to? That sounds like a solvable problem: doctors that prevent swapping for generics must have valid medical reasons, not only economical reasons. Makes sense?
Is the question asked "Fight for your country" as in defend it from foreign invaders, like my country (NL) was during World War 2, or like Ukraine is now by Russia?

Or is this "Fight for your country" as in join team America in invading Afghanistan and Iraq and <Insert next country here>?

Because the first one: probably, yes. The second? No thank you.
> because large numbers of people assume that they are inferior.

You're taking this the wrong way. It's not that they think that people who came in through reservations are inferior. It's that they don't have to work nearly as hard.

In an exam where an upper caste person might have to score 100 to get in, the reserved caste person would have to score 70.

It's about the unfairness of this system.

Which is strange because the caste system before this was wildly unfair itself.

To mitigate the damage of one unfair system, we've set up another one.
The proof is probably too obvious so nobody bothers to explain it to you. I will make an attempt.

At the current rate of $X / hour, there are a number of economically viable jobs (jobs where the employer considers it valuable to hire someone instead of doing the job themselves or doing without, because they are worth at least $Y / hour to the employer, with Y > X).

At an increased rate of $Z / hour, Z > X, some of those jobs are no longer economically viable - they only generate $Y / hour, with Z > Y > X; while they were viable at $X / hour, they are no longer viable at $Z / hour so they disappear. For an obvious example, making the minimum wage $1000 / hour would destroy the viability of most jobs.

This proof assumes, of course, that nothing else changes - the government simply mandates "the minimum wage will change from $X / hour to $Z / hour" and doesn't add other changes like "all taxes are halved" or "all employers get free Bahamas holidays". With that caveat, also known as "ceteris paribus", the proof is (as I said) obvious.
Very much depends. Some of the middle-class neighbourhoods produce a fairly neutral accent, but most dubliners speak in a very heavy accent, arguably one of the heaviest in the country.
What makes you say that? Rent is cheaper in Dallas.

https://smartasset.com/mortgage/the-true-cost-of-living-in-d...
Yes, they should be able to tell you, but they can't because they don't know. There is a secret list of prices that are over-inflated which is used to send claims to insurance companies, with the understanding that the insurance companies will reject these prices and "allow" lower ones so they look like they are saving the patient money. The insurance company pays some portion of that, and passes the rest onto the patient. That's the number most patients want to know when they ask how much something costs, but the only way to find out is to submit the claim.

If you're paying cash, you're going to get charged that over-inflated price. It's up to you to negotiate a reduced "allowed" price, like the insurance companies do, except you have no clout. You're also not allowed to know what those prices are; they're secret because if they weren't the whole scam would be a lot more obvious and would probably fall apart. (Eg: get challenged in court)
> Our mistake is prioritizing offense mitigation. So long as a person's primary intent isn't to offend then they should be able to say anything without being fired.

I strongly disagree. If I want to cement my advantages of being a white male I'll propose anything that furthers that goal. My aim wouldn't be to offend someone, but it is still very real side effect of my goal.

Discussing gender differences should obviously not be taboo, nor should other topics, but the motives behind the discussions should likewise be freely scrutinized.
I am white cis male. I am damned in this topic by definition. But still.

I am pretty sure it is all about money, not engineering. Women are not inferior on average, but they are different. This is fact. There are jobs which are much harder for male to handle compared to female, and I am not talking about child care or something, but mostly stressful jobs requiting multitasking. Males are bad at multitasking on average (not to be confused with time management and doing many things, but sequentially).

I know a guy, a chess trainer who trains girls. He always tries to schedule matches based on trainee period cycle to let his girls do their best. That is intellectual sport, chess, fair play. This is damn biology, one cannot deny it by corporate policy.

So the fact is, like it on not, there are jobs which male handle better on average, there are jobs which women handle better on average, just because brain of both sexes is equally effective, but not equal. And this is great. I am more than happy to ask my female colleague for something she is better at (and I am not talking about delegating boring staff, I have male juniors for this), because diversity is good.

Root of the problem, as I see it, is that jobs male are better on average are also much better paid on average. It is not fair, but is another fact one cannot deny. Nobody ever discussed males being underpaid. Nobody ever discussed why we have too many women at some jobs (like cashier or janitor in my country) and how we should help men get equal and have a chance to get that jobs too. Because honestly, that jobs are too hard for male to handle and not paid well enough to fight for them. I saw a few man cashier working side-by-side with women colleagues. It was pure struggle, they were so over-stressed trying to serve 3-4 customers in parallel, I really pity them. But being software engineer with 6-digit salary is quite different story. Everybody wants it because everybody wants to be cool and rich.
EU citizens can travel freely regardless of citizenship, but getting citizenship in another country is a separate process.
What is the misunderstanding in the GP comment? and what are the criticized positions?

Because, to me, it looks only like an ad hominem attack towards an ill-defined group.
"Diversity" meaning, of course government-regulated and -enforced <identity criterion of your choice> quotas even in private businesses.
I agree. I'm just stating a possible justification for dismissal.
Wouldn't that result in acid rains eventually?
How (and why) to avoid hiring that terrible Google Dudebro
The piece is stating the obvious, and the reactions in this thread -- predictably -- prove the author's point. Expatriation, even temporary, has so many benefits. I'd be curious to correlate the postures of HN commentators with their provenance and life experience.
Pretty interesting idea and I have subscribed to the mailing list :)

However I was expecting a more creative (fresh) set of templates. The current set on the site are copies of UI components used at AirBnb and while its interesting to see how components are coded for AirBnB, I don't think there would be a lot of demand for creating a copy of the Airbnb site.
I applaud them for pricing the board at around $2000 (though with the CPUs it's obviously more expensive). This sits squarely within my budget for a high-performance and trustworthy workstation like this (even accounting for taxes). However I would also have payed for faster CPUs (up to ~$1000 each for an 8- or 12-core processor).

Does anyone know if all POWER9 processors fit into that socket, and if yes, if there is anyone selling POWER9 in retail quantities (preferably in Europe).

Another question that isn't answered on their page is the payment options. Like many fellow Europeans I don't have a credit card, so if that is the only way to pay, I'd have to jump through a lot of hoops to buy this.

I wonder how much power this system will consume on idle? I read IBM significantly improved the power management with POWER9, so here's hoping 8 cores of this won't take significantly more than the 110W idle of my 8-core Piledriver system.
Not sure what you mean by "institutionally scared of non white immigrants". In 2014/15 the vast majority of immigrants were from Asia: https://www.border.gov.au/ReportsandPublications/Documents/s...
It seems they're not all that interested in marketing to end users, despite the talos ii "bare-bones" kit available for pre-order on the site - I couldn't find any reviews of the previous talos I/power8 system online - i would assume they'd at the very least get someone like anadtech, ars or one of the many Linux journals to do some hands-on testing / free marketing?

I mean, if I had too much cash, I'd be tempted to get one, but I'd probably be even.more likely if I could see some blender rendering benchmarks and Linux kernel compile timings etc...
And then you all die from an infected telephone booth because all the phone sanitizers have died out.

Joke aside, you still need people in what are now shitty low-paying jobs for a functioning society. So if you're not going to pay the janitor enough for a middle-class life, either make a robot to do his job, or die of dysentery. Do you think USA will be able to make enough robots fast enough to realise that? And will USA society be able to tolerate everyone being upper-middle-class?
What a shitty example
You've only met 3 people who didn't believe women should be in tech? Do you mean that you've only met 3 people who openly admit it? Because I've met COUNTLESS people who make comments like "We shouldn't hire her because she'll get pregnant" or "it would be too distracting to have her work here" or some crude variation of "I'll put in some extra hours on her".
I guess the logical country to go to would be one which allows access through investment, hence another reason to have a rainy day fund. Money, while unfair, essentially buys residency in many countries.

This sounds extremely selfish, just writing this.
Apple Starts to Implement Service Workers for WebKit
Amazon and Union Airlines
Multiple pickets have been conducted (and even a small strike) by the pilots of airlines contracted to perform Amazon Prime flying. I came across this informational site this morning as well - http://canamazondeliver.com/. Amazon is anti-union, but they need these companies for now. How will things play out? Will they drop the contracts and conduct their own flying as soon as possible?
None of those outcomes sound like a company-wide discussion or healthy debate though.
Link: http://canamazondeliver.com/
hopefully SHA-3 (or better, the Keccak permutation) is implemented in hardware first.
In Finland, the army exists for the purpose of defending Finland against attack. Hence the name: Finnish Defence Forces.

Finnish males serve a mandatory 6-12 months in the Finnish Defence Forces. It's a citizen's duty here; some people opt for a civil service duty.

Thus, when asked a question like this, most Finns will automatically assume defending Finland against a military attack.
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Funny fact.

I'm at #SHA2017 hacker camp and just before the event I put together a website: https://hck2fck.com

(didn't read Google story, just saying political correctness works - I talk to attractive women everywhere but workplace)
No content in the link. What is it all about?
Why do you have to make up something which wasn't said to have an argument?

Women do make different choices we know that for a fact. Women aren't tech nerds as much as men are we know that for a fact. Women start far fewer companies than men we know that for a fact.

We also know that women score way higher grades in school which we also know for a fact doesn't matter in real life.

So maybe women (in general) are just prioritizing life differently. That doesn't mean they aren't as intelligent, smart etc.

If you can't make your argument without pushing for strawmen then you don't have one yourself.
>> his neighbour was given asylum on grounds of escaping military duty in his homeland

Ha, yes, those people refusing to enlist for either a dictator gassing his own people, or a crazed islamist death cult. The nerve!

Beside the absurdity of your comment (I'll go on a limb and make the guess that you are, in fact, not German?), regarding the "millions of non-citizens/immigrants" thing, I'll just point out that the most Gung-Ho country in the West, the USA, is also the one with the largest number of immigrants.
Have any Scottish folks tried this test?

I'd imagine not a single one could pass.
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While you're stubbornly clinging to semantics, the rest of us recognize that the debate is indeed about the severity and consequences of a rapidly changing climate. On one side is the consensus opinion that manmade emissions have artificially accelerated global warming, and the other says that CO2 has no effect on natural, periodic climate cycles. Is that pedantic enough for you? Can we move on?
Haha, I'm from and in Dublin and there are a number of culchie accents that I struggle with :). Parts of Kerry, the Islands, Northern Ireland etc.
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>and lack even a shred of gratitude for the vast wealth, comfort and freedom they've been born into.

Because they consider it immorally gotten? Why do you assume that people with completely different value judgements to you ought to think as you do about history and society?
"it's more like any other job such as a policeman"

I don't know what its like now but in the 80s/90s the people I knew who were in the UK forces were either from very posh backgrounds if they were officers (particularly Guards regiments in the army) or from pretty humble backgrounds for other ranks.
He should have made a movie: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hjernevask

The outcome was: https://www.reddit.com/r/TheRedPill/comments/1vuho8/the_docu...
I won't get anywhere near it considering what happened to the first Talos http://prey.wikia.com/wiki/Talos_I
Avoid pleasure at the beginning, observe, be open and simple, talk to people and ask question about everything.