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> Wasn't this memo a reply to survey about diversity within Google?

I don't know. Does anyone have a reliable source on this?

> "On average we don't get much productivity return from pursuing black candidates specifically and here's why" is probably more acceptable,

Just as bad. This has nothing to do with scientific truth or even how to better word scientific truth, although it's not surprising many HN readers like us tend favor answers that come from science.

The problem domain here is mostly human relationships. There is just some shit you can't say in a workplace without making some employees feel intimidated or harassed. Right or wrong, most humans are emotional creatures more than they are rational creatures. Even the most scientific of us have far more built in cognitive biases than are useful for a purely rational view of reality.

As an aside, choosing skin color as a grouping factor is almost always going to be wrong scientifically. If you want to talk about melanin, it might be a good grouping.
But if you are trying to correlate skin color with a genetic or innate characteristic, you're firmly outside of biology and heading towards racism. If you can't find the the less obvious groupings that point towards actual causation, it's still not an excuse for resorting to correlation. If you can't group without resorting to correlation, don't group yet.

> or would you not talk about this at all as well?

If you find yourself leaning heavily on the scientific facts of other experts in order to support a controversial opinion in your workplace, you might do a favor to your future career to run your ideas past the touchy-feely people and get their reaction. Human resources, the sales people, marketing, etc. They'll give you excellent guidance that has nothing to do with scientific fact. And chances are it won't be "that's quite a bad title, here's how to re-phrase". In a case like this, the advice will often be "I would never say this at work, some people will be very offended." People and their feelings are pretty important.

The shame here is that even the CEO of Google said that large parts of the memo were great talking points. If the guy had really cared about his ideas, he might have bothered to run them by some touchy-feely experts to delete the 5% offensive parts and he would still be around to move his agenda forward.
It's not a clon.
Micro 8
When I grew up in India, we didn't have "supermarkets" to process food, we would go to a market which had butchers, fishmongers etc. The butchers usually had live chickens that they would slaughter right in front of you. I believe they use the halal method where they slit the throat of the chicken and then put it in a box. The chicken knows whats happening when its fetched from the overcrowded cage, so it cries a very loud, pitiful scream.... that caused me much alarm as a little kid to hear it scream in pain :( :( :(.
a block is just a header, a ref to the previous block, a set of tx's and a nonce to satisfy the work function.

It being digital is just its encoding. An analog cryptocurrency could be carved into trees or anything.
How is that terrible for the person tweeting? Usually, it works out pretty well for them.
Drones with video cameras are pretty cheap (~$50 for a small one) and fun, I guess?
<spoiler>A similar thing happened to a Mini on a Top Gear episode filmed in India.</spoiler>
Epic in Madison, WI, gives all employees their own offices. (I can't find a source but I've been on a tour.)
What was the business impact of the high load? When reducing the load improves the company's bottom line, it should absolutely be pursued.
tatanka like buffalo from dancing with wolves?
we use that reference for the thundering footsteps of our hairy family members wrestling, playing tag, playing...
Are they self-selecting a vasodilatory (THC) and anti-inflammatory treatment (due, in part to an Omega 3 deficiency)?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasodilation#Other_mechanisms_...
Have to +1 that. The current AMD GPU simply cannot be ordered, and that's not a unique occurrence specific to this release.
Well yes, that's my opinion :). I found the memo coherent, in the sense that it was well-structured and followed consistent reasoning, and well-argued, in the sense that it linked to supporting research and reasoned mostly correctly from it. It doesn't mean everything there was 100% correct, but almost no one is; it still was a quality entry to the intellectual debate.

At the risk of perpetuating the disagreement, IMO if anything is similar to the creationinst debaters, it's the voices against the memo.

Going through the few recent HN discussions on the topic, I found that on the one side, you had people (including an actual scientist in the domain) telling that the memo basically got the science (even if not ultimate conclusions) right, as supported by _even more_ research people linked to, vs. the other side saying he presents "outdated" views of "biological determinism", etc., with no counter to the research cited by the memo itself (not to mention others) - just unsubstantiated accusations and dismissals.
Good, the folks on the faster ship can arrive ahead of us 'poor guys' on the first ship and get stuck with all of the hard work of establishing the colony and performing any necessary terraforming before we arrive.
Just because it's on the site doesn't mean that it's approved... it's marked experimental by the developer to not require a full review with the caveat that any experimental extension is inherently more risky than a reviewed one. The developer lists a few reasons why they don't do the full review and one of those is that they use eval() and that the review takes longer than they deem acceptable. I just said it should give a little bit of pause not that you should wholesale reject using their extension. I just looked over his code and it's quite a lot of code for something that should be fairly straightforward.
I'm trying to get equality for genders, and find proof and examples as to why some genders don't do as well in computer science as others.

My intent was to help educate and start a discussion on it. Apparently, there is strong political kung-fu here or something.
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Pointless – A CircleCI Chrome Extension That Enhances GitHub
Often diplomats are spies that operate in a country under diplomatic cover; perhaps Cuba wanted to frustrate suspected spying?
Hm.

Sounds better than russians, who defecated in living room.

> Breaking in to diplomats’ residences and leaving “calling cards” such as rearranging the furniture or leaving lights on. Nothing is taken, leaving no doubt that it was not a robbery. In one case, the US defense attache’s pet dog was killed; in another, an intruder defecated on a diplomat’s living room carpet

https://qz.com/914634/the-tactics-russian-intelligence-uses-...
Coincidentally, I just tried this out earlier today. `pageRank` yielded a stack overflow, and `pageRank.stream` yielded an OOM error. The graph it was run on was large, but not unreasonably so. Haven't dug into the cause of the errors yet.
China has about 5x the population.

So in America where you have the same McMansion replicated 10-20 times in CHcina you have the same condo tower since it has to house more densely.
How much does it cost and what are marginal results? Most people view their health as priceless.

If people are willing to pay for it and the price decreases by 100 fold in a decade, will we all see some benefit? Will this lead to a better understanding of human biology?
Public shaming is the only way to get any customer service at all for many shitty companies.
>The value of it fluctuates so much that actually buying/accepting it seems incredibly risky. The price can go down just as fast as it goes up.

Why? If someone sends me 1BTC I'll just instantly sell 1BTC, it is tremendously unlikely that I'm gonna get screwed even if there's a 1-2 second delay.

>if the value of a BTC is going up, why would I use it to buy anything?

Because you want things and not numbers on the internet.

>As someone looking to accept BTC for purchases, how do I do so with confidence that when I accepted $3400 today that by the time I cash out it's not worth $2700?

By being smart and not waiting to cash out. Your maximum loss will be the value of whatever buffer coins you hold, and I guess you could hedge around that too.
You disagree with the conclusions, what a surprise. News flash: your passionate disagreement doesn't make you right or lend you any moral superiority.

You want to attempt superiority? How about choose a conclusion from the doc or the video and make your case. Are you purely agenda-fueled? Do you have the best interests of the future of Google and Google culture at heart? How the hell should I know, all you've done is throw shade.

Or is being reasonable not required in your case?
>It only contains a statement of fact: "some news organizations shy away from writing about a powerful or well-resourced person out of fear of a lawsuit".

Is that really a statement of fact, or is what they're shying away from is repeating rumors about and/or invading the privacy of powerful and well-resourced people? I know journalists love to trot out the "chilling effect" canard, but I don't see it much in action for legitimate stories.
Sadly this never worked for me.
The complete connectome of a learning and memory centre in an insect brain
It's kind of rude to advertise while giving the false impression you're a disinterested punter. It's also tiring to read the same comment plugging the same product after half a dozen posts on this page.
Did you read the linked article?

> Our platform uses Docker images to run the code, so you can use code snippets in virtually any technology. A lot of contributors have already made the most of our technology and have crafted playgrounds of impressive quality.

Emphasis added by me.
Different words, different contexts. I don't see the problem.
> Site won't load with cookies blocked.

(Right-click + "Open Link in Incognito Window", or your browser's equivalent.)
Hence the attempt at humor through deliberate misinterpretation of an ambiguously-worded statement where the intent was clear.
Maybe removing triangles which have one very narrow angle could help. After normalization those trinagles do not hold a lot information anyway ;-)
Sensible, but why do you assert the variations in metabolic pathways are tiny between, say, an arbitrarily chosen african and a north western european?
Bitcoin purists will say that, eventually, there is no "cash out" phase. 1 BTC = 1 BTC and who cares about what the dollar equivalent happens to be. Once everything is in BTC you will never exchange it for dollars.

Do you spend dollars today wondering if tomorrow the Euro will be worth more or less? No, so why would you care what the dollar equivalent to a BTC is when everything you buy is priced in BTC?

This is long term obviously. The reason the price is "high" now is because there is a finite amount. ~21 million BTC is the max that can ever exist at once. So, theoretically if you replaced the world's currencies with BTC, having a single BTC would make you incredibly wealthy.
Why would gravity be the problem? There are people that weigh twice the weight of other people same height. I guess very low gravity could affect calcium in the bones and there could be other various effects. But people are life and life is adaptable. Day/night cycle? It varies greatly on earth too. Also one person's nightmare is just life for some other.
After recent news, I kind of miss Guam in the preset list.
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Hey, I'd like to challenge your view about advice to "learn people skills" which seems to push responsibility to one group, those who aren't already people skilled enough.

There are more extroverts than introverts in the world. The first group is happy with social contact, talking with people and generally score better in empathy. Introverts are the other way around: they prefer to use text, do not like to give in to emotions and score worse in people skills. That's according to the book "Quiet: The Power of Introverts" but I guess it's not a controversial point to make anyway, and while you can find many outliers as in any discipline, I think it's a fairly good generalization.

Now, it may depend on the company or group, so two scenarios:

1) Introverts are a majority, extroverts a minority - maybe that's a tech company: shouldn't extroverts use their people skills and be able to figure out that introverts mean no harm and just prefer to communicate by sending long pieces of text with many scientific sources cited instead of talking with even one person? They might have even been doing this for many years, in the introvertive bubble of their fellow colleagues who shy away from emotions. Of course, extroverts could still feel emotionally touched and maybe even attacked as the minority - but then, been empathetic and knowing the style of introverts, shouldn't they try to teach them people skills? Are we sure firing this person is going to be an actual lesson to him? Or maybe there is no way to teach introverts people skills, as Google with a load of money and staff cannot even challenge beliefs of one employee? How come then we can ask single introverts to learn it on their own? Does it mean we're all doomed as more and more tech companies change from big groups of introverted engineers to cross-disciplinary team with a mix of characters?

2) Extroverts are a majority, introverts are a minority - again, using their people skills extroverts would surely recognize that introverts are not comfortable with people skills... so if introverts are a minority, is firing them for miss-following the code of conduct, written most likely by the majority i.e. extroverts, a form of discrimination? For the sake of diversity, shouldn't they all learn about more scientific, less emotional approach? Or should you be schooled only if you're in the minority without those skills?

IMO author of the memo made a decent attempt at using his people skills on this paper - what the post from Sabine acutally acknowledged, although you could generalize based on her background she's an introvert as well. It just looks like that other people have higher expectations of people skills but the question is have they done enough to learn the science skills themselves or just assume that everyone should have people skills at the exact level they want because they dictate so as a majority.

(Cheers, sorry for all the mistakes, English is not my native language.)
Ask HN: How are you doing Continuous Delivery now, in 2017?
For those of you doing Continuous Delivery, what approach and tool set have you settled on?
I'm not sure that is obvious because as a lay-Biologist the input data is just strings of ... um 2-bit ? symbols with no known encoding format (we haven't discovered the "JPEG" of DNA yet). Is quite surprising to me that anyone could screw up parsing that kind of data such that the process could be taken over.

Now if DNA contained an encoded turing-complete language that the lab ends up executing...

But I think we're some way off from achieving that.
Maybe now they can spare a human to respond to my 4 attempts to get my account unlocked?
Not exactly, but that's a(n internal) feature of my Strukt[1]. It's how the optimizer is able to take any of {exact string, glob, ICU regex} as user input, and convert them into efficient queries for various data sources.

For example, if you do ListFiles[folder=~/Downloads] -> FilterString[field=filename, regex=\.pdf$], it will parse the regex, verify that it only uses features which are available in Spotlight's query syntax (roughly, a glob with slightly funny syntax), and rewrite that adjacent pair of operations into a single API call behind the scenes:

kMDItemFSName LIKE[c] "*.pdf"

I can report, having written parsers for a few common regex dialects, that there are a ton of obscure regex features, with different semantics everywhere. 100% conversion is almost never possible.

A lot of the work in deciding if a translation is possible is in identifying if something is good enough, e.g., SQLite can't do case-insensitive search (in general), but if your regex happens to be /([0-9]+)/ then case-sensitive search will work just fine. Fortunately, for Strukt, if a conversion is impossible, I can just run the operations as written: it's much slower, but still correct.

I've thought about breaking this part of Strukt off into a tool just for regex editing, but that always seemed rather esoteric. Would there be any use or demand for that, do you think?

[1]: https://freerobotcollective.com
Substantiveness and civility aren't unrelated: a lack of the latter undermines the former. A doctoral thesis would be expressed quite differently, for example.
Either later this year or early next year depending on which rumor site you choose to believe.
Go library for reading and writing Microsoft Excel files
It's been great to read this thread. I never understood the value. As someone who can cook and grocery shop decently, it's not cheaper and only marginally better than what I normally whip up. And there's no question about convenience when it's compared to delivery (although, I live in SF, so my delivery options are more than most).
Five Useful Org-Mode Features
This is really cool! I was impressed with the results. Just curious what you use for your checkout process, and the subscriptions to your website plan?
I find it weird that you consider it a workaround to put a Password Entry field inside a cell rather than using a "PasswordEntryCell", that's just simply nesting a control, in what platform don't we have have to do that? Might this platform or that one _have_ "passwordEntryCell" sure, but I fail to understand why such would be a first class citizen in your mind.

I also can't imagine jumping ship to React Native. If you're going to jump off Xamarin Forms and already like f# / .net then native Xamarin.IOS and Xamarin.Android are more easy, powerful and expressive than React Native.
Wallabag: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14686882

Bookmarking: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14064096

Tools: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14688496
Im sorry this happened, but you might want to get on to their security team, rather than the regular customer support queue.

Imagine if your bank suddenly had millions of new clients join in a 2 month period. I think they would stop answering the phone too.
Coinbase makes a killing with their fees. The spread between the buy and sell prices on coinbase are 1-1.2%. On top, their bank transfer charges are proportional to amount transferred instead of standard flat fee. I wonder why they need another $100M !

For people who want to buy, I would recommend Kraken - they have much higher volume and sane pricing. There are others too like Bitfinex, Poloneix, etc.
Some say that's disturbance, I call it collaborating.

Sure, just keep your collaboration out of my concentration. That is, "Alice and Bob collaborating" may just be keeping Joe from getting any work done. It's easy to lose track of the effect of your collaboration in any open environment. Doing it in an office with a closed door eliminates that problem.

I'm not a code monkey. I don't sit alone in an office all day hammering out code.

Having an office does not in any way imply that you're supposed to "sit alone in an office all day hammering out code".
Those places are different cultures and sifferent social groups.

I can also give the example of Japan and Korea in which Facebook is not very popular.
you should tell their boss.
I'm of the opposite mindset: why do so many people trust them, with so much money, when they've been so flaky about outages? One 30 minute outage per year would be bad, but they had 3-4 in a two week span, all coinciding with high volume.

Plus, numerous complaints about missing bitcoins. And the potential headache about not honoring BCH balances (which they may be legally sound on).
I had luck booking a place with Airbnb, in Idaho.
I really have a hard time believing there are people so incompetent employed as software engineers? How are they not caught out? How do they get hired?
In a good way or a bad way?
He may well be using it "safely" but it still is a string that is being evaluated so it has many inherent drawbacks.

> Now, the real question is: "why isn't Firefox developing a default Tree Style Tab?"
>
> I think at this point enough people are using it, and it has proven to be a better way to browse.

Not sure there are enough users to justify taking actual mozilla engineers off core problems that are everyone's problems. There is a maintenance burden and associated cost for every feature that mozilla adds to their core product. I think they would rather make the browser extension backend robust enough to allow for those types of extensions without sacrificing stability, performance, and security.
Try http://www.regexplanet.com/ for testing. It supports a bunch of different regex engines & switching between them.
Greed. It's just pure greed. And many people do work for banks despite them doing incredibly shady shit (worse than just not answering the phone).
I was changing rooms via the app, and just sitting and letting the songs play while in a room, and the only way to hear them would be to manually change it on my Spotify app.