skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yet another example of what I was referring to.

I happen to be quite grateful for the sacrifices my ancestors (and the human race more broadly) made in building civilization, so that I don't have to live in a Hobbesian world where death by age 30 is the norm.
> The kicker? Wealth killed opportunities for women.

Yeah because lower class women do much better compared to lower class men. The study is flawed. It used male hobbies for both males and females. Rich females don't generally sail. I think their stereotypical activity would be humanitarian efforts.

And if it wasn't flawed, what conclusions do you draw from the study? Lower class women did 5 times better than lower class men. The lower class is many times larger than the upper class, so only a tiny percent of men enjoy the the upper class privilege while most men are doing terribly.

Looking at the big picture by aggregating the lower and upper class, women do better than men.

> http://gender.stanford.edu/news/2014/why-does-john-get-stem-....

I'll give this some legitimacy but it's one study and not completely convincing. It can't be generalized outside of science research positions.

One bias that I'm concerned about is that most gendered social experiments are hoping to find bias against females. It's a big echo chamber as the manifesto guy would say.
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Anecdatum:

My grandfather always shares his stories about leading the development team at Lewis (an old English insurance corporation) and British Gas.

In his view, they were slothenly, unkempt, often unwashed and unsuited nerds. They were allowed to be because they did a job nobody else at the time could do- and while the rest of the office was suite/tie/polished shoes- they showed a flagrant and blatant disregard for that. Because they knew that they could get away with it because they were "needed".

This is why he has a respect for me being clean/polite/respectful while "having the same skills" in his mind.

So I don't fully buy that tech was previously more professional; it might be a different culture in SV, but generally tech is as professional as anything outside of finance in the cities I've worked (in europe)
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Right, these percentages show essentially the marginalized likelihood of the question's interpretation and its response. That is to say, it is the weighted sum of the probability of wanting to fight an aggressive/defensive war, weighted by the probability of that interpretation.

What I found interesting is that Sweden, which has had peace for over 200 years, has a really high percentage.
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She's an equine vet.
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ugh, sorry to hear that.

Out of curiosity, did you ace the test? I at least was hoping to do that.
I think you mean the EFF

For anyone interested, here's a link to their donation page:

https://supporters.eff.org/donate
This sounds like a great idea. The best part is it gets the government out of managing, so that the market can best operate based on properly-aligned incentives.

There is one thing I didn't understand:

"American companies exporting to countries without comparable carbon pricing would receive rebates on the carbon taxes they’ve paid on those products"

Wouldn't that subsidise and hence encourage exports to these counties? That would benefit the economy of those countries. I don't think that is desired.
The bigger discussion is happening at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14952787
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This might be a little out of scope, but C#/.NET has a few similar constructs. If you do:

using(TransactionScope scope = new TransactionScope()){
//do stuff
}

Any connection created while that block is active will 'enlist' in the transaction associated with that scope. This works (I think...can't find it now) by using something called 'CallContext', which is more or less a static key-value store that's persisted up and down the call stack (including through async continuations, not sure how that works).

If the 'CallContext' is static, doesn't that mean it's global and shared between threads? Well...in C# that's not necessarily true since the thread is accessible via a static property and it's possible to store data against the thread (which is exactly what 'CallContext' does, plus some magic that moves the data during async continuations in case the execution thread changes)
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It's nice and simple, but why no https? right now anybody on the same network could modify the code in transit to make it send the private keys somewhere.

And i would make the online page a demo, with a mandatory "download and run this offline", maybe with an advice to check signatures.

Online web wallet like this are too dangerous to use for non trivial amounts of cryptocurrency. Especially with the influx of newbies for the recent spike in btc price.
I have read it. And you can't slap some paragraphs about not being sexist in there, then say a bunch of sexist things, and have it be OK. Just to take one example:

"Women on average look for more work-life balance while men have a higher drive for status on average"

A non-sexist comparison between men on women would be "women on average are not as tall as men". Do you see the difference? There are so many baked-in sexist assumptions to this statement I barely know where to begin, but to name one, I'll point out that women weren't allowed (by law and by culture) to even hold high-status jobs until very recently.
A big reason is the dynamic computation graphs. Tensorflow fold is supposed to be the response to that, but overall people are finding pytorch to be more flexible.

(Warning: I'm biased. I compete VERY heavily with anything google including cloud and their deep learning framework.)
Just wondering, which scientists would you like to see to respond, and why?
Does not really matter a lot what the doctor exactly writes on your prescription, because "aut idem" will not be ticked on the prescription in most cases.

The pharmacy then does most of the work and checks with your insurance which drug manufacturer has a contract with the insurer and hands you the cheapest one. This usually is a generic and you would get that even if the doctor wrote the brand-name one on your prescription.

The doctor can decide to tick "aut idem" and you would get exactly the medication by that exact manufacturer prescribed, but you might have to pay extra at the pharmacy for this so this is really uncommon.
So according to you it's ok that men takes the most dangerous jobs, the most demanding jobs because of their physicality and risk tolerance, but it's not ok that men also takes the most high paying jobs because more of them were interested in technology early on and are better at selling themselves?

Or how exactly what are you arguing?
Touche!

That raises the costs a bit though, if you actually had full service via 3 lines. Public transpo is already insanely expensive per rider over the 10-20 year term.
My company is all about diversity hires; please send a CV they'd love to have you aboard if you're willing to relocate.

https://massive.se/jobs

edit: not sure why downvotes, I'm being sincere. :S
You've clearly not been to Cork [edit..] or Kerry!
This article left me confused about why this practice exists. It seems like it could only be because the insurance companies are getting some kind of kickback (maybe in the form of lower prices on drugs) in exchange for having these anti-generic rules, but I would think that would be illegal. Can someone who understands explain more clearly the situation?
It is a subjetive measure but still a measure. For example, the position requires knowing Python, a person with 5 years of experience in Python will probably know more than a person with 1. Yes, you can be wrong but hiring the 5 year person is the common sense, you will do less mistakes this way. Hiring the women because it is a women it is a positive discrimination. Not hiring the women with experience is discrimination, but does this really happen? Can you prove it?

(Ok yes, people see a woman to hire and say +1 point because you a woman and will us pay less taxes because of the diversity balance. This shit happens too)

You talk like you have written those books, enlighten me.
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It means there's a level of fraud in most elections, but these lie on a continuum.

Here's a rough measure. If a system almost always gives the same election results as a fair election then the system is relatively fair, compared to a system which often gives different election results than what a fair system would give.

For example, if someone votes twice (eg, owns property in New York and Florida, registers to vote in both states, etc.) then that's an unfair election.

However, very few people, perhaps a handful each presidential election, do that. This is a relatively fair system because it's extremely unlikely that these fraudulent votes will change the results.

By comparison, some states had a literacy test for voting which was deliberately confusing, and where the (white) registrar was the ultimate judge of who passed. By design, a lot of black people failed. See http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_vault/2013/06/28/voting_right... for an example test from Louisiana.

By comparison, this was a relatively unfair system.
I did remember it partially wrong. As stated in the article [1] it was reduced by about half, and not to zero.

[1] http://www.vg.no/nyheter/meninger/arbeidsliv/fortsatt-behov-...
And yet banks are experimenting with blockchains, no?
Does "early bias" theory include the leaky pipe line model? Ie: University students that fail a exam will switch program at a higher rate if their gender is a minority. In polls, they are also more likely to question their decision in career choice and have more self doubt about their ability to finish the program. The data that I have seen on this is that it is gender neutral, ie that the doubt caused by being a local minority is similar for both men and women.

To make up numbers, if a student has 3 times a high risk of switching a program after a failed exam, the chance that they will graduates will be significant lower. Having a gender segregated education fixes this, but as soon the graduate enters the work market the same phenomenon happen after a failed interview unless they only seek work which is also gender segregated.
I totally agree with everything up to the last sentence. State can be a horrible manager too, trust me I am from Europe. Is the problem not about lack of competition and all kinds of barriers?
Congratulations, it's both very impressive and promising :) Thank you for that fine example of literate programming :)

I'd suggest you add a way for people to financially support you so you could keep working on this project.
The thing that always got me as a kid was that as a boy, if you showed any signs of a technical aptitude in STEM and your parents found out, they'd practically have your life planned out right then and there, you'd get lots of "Oh, you can be an engineer then", or "you could become a scientist", but girls showing aptitude in STEM would basically get "Oh that's nice, tell me if you need anything". Girls seemed to have the same if not better grades on average, but girls in the advanced classes never seemed to have been pushed in the same way.

That's my memory of it anyway, boys got pushed to go into STEM the second they showed any aptitude, girls were just sort of expected to keep it up.
Poor choice of colours in that map…

Red generally == bad, and in this map lower percentage == red, there for a lower percentage willing to fight is bad?
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Fair point. I'm here to defend the factual basis for his conclusions, not the logic that got him there.

At the end of the day, he told a just-so story; in this, he's no different than the "blame discrimination" camp. At least this story is an empirical one backed by self-reported work place surveys, cross-cultural analyses, etc. The fundamentalists opposing him just have some anecdotes, some unreproducible stereotype threat studies, and a healthy dose of religious conviction.
Is there any record of relatively recent a court case against Google/Alphabet that Google/Alphabet lost?
> 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.

this seems really crazy to me. the person playing chess is an individual. whether it's the best time for them to play or not should be up to them. Whether it's before their period or before lunch: a million things affect us, and we all have agency in deciding what we want to do, and when.

for the trainer to do this on another person's "behalf" is really distasteful and fails to be empathetic.
Accurate Look at Hacker News Numbers
This site is funny, because it is so full of itself. Starting up new businesses isn't hard, it just takes an investment and a business plan.

Examples: The Hacker News Effect hitting websites. These are sites that can't handle 50 or so connections at once. That's not many, so of course it crashes.

Another example: I see this: 11. Google Fires Employee Behind Controversial Diversity Memo (bloomberg.com) 1346 points by QUFB 10 hours ago | hide | 1703 comments

Getting over a thousand clicks! That's a lot here, but there are millions out there. Plus, 1700 comments is considered so out of control you have to lock it down so new commenters can't contribute?

I can see taking action with tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands but we're really not talking about many people here.

Maybe try to scale the experience in the event this website grows? Numerically I mean.
> You imply bias in the the hiring process is what is causing the gender imbalance in tech. Indicators such university enrollment in CS programs show that this is unlikely to be the case.

You are assuming that women are choosing their college degrees in a vacuum. They don't. They ask: can I see myself doing this job? Is this a worthwhile investment? And when they cannot see themselves working in tech, because they see no-one like themselves in IT, they choose other fields.

> Unfortunately, our supply of women is governed by a mostly government run school system that doesn't exist in a world of supply and demand and likes to shift the blame for their ineptitude.

What specific mistakes can you point to? What particular solutions are within reach of the government? Because right now this just looks like shifting responsibility onto the state.
Au contraire. The commissioner deputised Batman all the way back in Batman #7, Nov. 1941.[0]

[0] http://www.batman-online.com/features/2012/10/10/comic-influ...
I personally think this would lead to stagnation in the space.
Because of competition, tensorflow is adding better ETL tools, dynamic computation graphs,..

I would be careful about having only 1 company's use cases served.
Competition forces parties to innovate.

For example mxnet and cntk or even more recently caffe2 serve different use cases and companies.

Giving you a recent one with our deep learning framework (I compete with all the above frameworks): We compete in the big data niche and recently found a few bottlenecks we missed because people run comparisons.
This is what I disagreed with. Afaik, everything else is marked by computers but voice was always handled by humans.

Unless this is something very recent in which case I am not sure how computers can handle accents or ambiguous words. Even google's voice to text has so many errors on untrained voice models
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The piece is also full of guilt for American foreign policy that's mainly decided by special interests, but then gets blamed on ordinary Americans.

Aren't they lucky - first they get their democracy subverted by multinational corporations, then they get to feel guilty about what those same corporations do.

Source: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/perspectives-on-poli...
Avoid generic drugs if you can. I've got lots of first-hand experience in this matter. It's not a matter of efficacy. It's a matter of quality. That's all I will say.
Woman and men are, on average, different. Is this wrong?

These differences can be in factors that impact ones desire or ability to perform certain roles. Is this wrong?

This individual person, because they are a man/woman, is unfit for the role. This IS wrong.

Is it wrong to say there are differences that make women, on average, worse football players? Is that inherently bad, perhaps even blasphemous, thing to say? I don't think so.

So why can't one discuss this about other jobs? Perhaps they are wrong, Perhaps which ever group isn't worse on average. But even if they are wrong, then the way to respond is to say that their information is wrong, not that they are wrong for saying it.

We are treating the conversation itself like it is a blasphemy that shall not be uttered aloud. Instead, we should be asking 'is this information factual or not'. And we should be taking safe guards that averages aren't assigned to individuals.
Yeah, both are pretty bad (I was born and raised in Ireland), but the north Dublin accent holds a special place in my heart for sheer badness.
Exceptionalism always carries with it the danger of supremacism and once that gets you as individual, group or country there is a constant desire to find the 'logic and evidence' to support the position post-facto.

Identity becomes deeply entwined with protecting the purity of the 'exceptional group' with an unhealthy reductive interest in judging others and clearly demarcating the 'unexceptional'. This is a very negative space.

The problem with sweeping articles like this is it requires intense engagement with history, reason and reflection to escape the generalization and find a truth you can be comfortable with.

No one can define you, you can always choose what you want to be. On a wider level people have always been led and as long as exceptionalism remains a low key 'motivator' it works but its a dangerous game as the lines can blur pretty quickly.
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Indeed, as one might reasonably expect given it's geographical location.

Nevertheless, within the institutions of politics and media and to a lesser extent the civil service there remains a vocal and sizeable minority who fear white people and "anglo-white" culture will become the minority and become oppressed.

Fortunately, most Australians don't feel that way.
We took the test in high school (NL). From what I remember it's all about the preparation. They must be completely standardised and have no room for debate, due to the nature of the test. This means you invariably get extremely idiosyncratic question styles and formulations, a sort of secret code you have to see through to get to the meat of the question. It's standardisation on steroids. I remember thinking I wouldn't have passed a Dutch version of this test without prep.

We got very thorough, specialised prep from our teachers. Everyone passed , first try.
> 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.

Are there less people in the "lower" caste? I would assume there would be more and severe competition.
Would you care to share what kind of questions if you still have them?
Different days, new audience. I think that the fact that this same writing is going 40 years strong says something about the past 40 years, don't you? In contrast, if said writing had evaporated, that would be an interesting data point as well -- or do you not agree?
To clarify - sabotage implies real risks to everyone around you, because it's hard to find the saboteur and it normally entices collective punishment.

I find it difficult to understand why one wouldn't want to join a fighting force to "fight wars", but would be happy in operating clandestinely.
They are drawn to different types of industries less volatile and demanding. They also start fewer companies.

So choices in life means much more than we want to admit.

Of course women are being affected early on just as men but then the discussion should be about that rather than putting the guilt on companies who are just trying to make a business.
At the risk of somewhat generalizing, a disability puts a person at disadvantage. Just being a women isn't a disadvantage.

Regarding your employer being able to potentially firing you, the point isn't that they can fire you but that hiring you based on a diversity program for women could have excluded a more qualified man (not saying that you could not be the most qualified candidate). Firing you later doesn't fix the missed opportunity for that man or the employer.
very predatory article done by cnn
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Unless he can convince a judge that "creating a hostile workplace" is a euphemism for "having a political view management disagrees with".

Which might be easy. After all, he just alleged the Google workplace is clearly hostile to conservatives ... and they fired him for it. The argument that he was creating a hostile workplace is very weak. The argument that Pichai is, is very strong.
Phrases like "alt-right bigotry" and "misogynistic" are becoming the red flags of an intolerant leftist ideology.

By using them here it seems like you are attempting to marginalize and stigmatize those who consider the manifesto to make some decent points.

Do you have any actual arguments against the manifesto, or do you think that formulating a reasoned response would help legitimize a point of view that you find abhorrent?
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I agree for the most part alkonaut, but it always becomes a dangerous game, what does being a 'democracy' entail? Does it mean that all countries need to accept some globally sanctioned form of morality with little regard for their own cultural heritage? It just feels like something that would so easily be subject to mission creep.
My job is not to balance an arbitrary math equation that x% of engineers are supposed to be women.

It's also true that your job is not to balance an arbitrary math equation that x% of engineers are supposed to be men either. Consequently, unless you can demonstrate that you're unbiased with regard to gender, it's entirely reasonable to introduce an external pressure to make sure any bias (conscious or otherwise) is mitigated. Ideally that would be blind interviews but that's very difficult to achieve, so diversity programmes are used instead.
Not strictly robotics, but I learned most of math required for inverse kinematics from this "David Vernon. Machine Vision" book.

http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/rbf/BOOKS/VERNON/toc.htm

Take a look at this chapter:
http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/rbf/BOOKS/VERNON/Chap008.pdf
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_says_no.
I'm surprised at how easily another "original sin" doctrine has taken root. I suppose if it works, it works. Still, I'd have expected people to build up some kind of immunity.
well, if the women google are hiring are not underqualified, then there is no issue and there's nothing wrong with google's diversity programs.
Exactly. What most people forget that while men are in the top of society they are also in the bottom.
https://www.udemy.com/unrealcourse/

Not a book, but this course has been the best resource I've found. Just wait for one of Udemy's constant discounts so you don't have to pay more than $10-15 for it.
I'm glad to read this, I've seen context prop up in more and more code for a while now and it feels like a bit of a wart on what was a good, simple programming language.

There's a few more warts that have been added since Go 1.0, presumably to preserve backwards compatibility.
Magic comments, the forking of the syscalls package, the vendoring experiment, the alias functionality, etc.
But wait, doesn't that mean you're already in their "friend zone"? :)