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> The problem with smart non-liberal-science people is that they think they are just that -- smart -- when, in fact, the emotional intelligence of STEM majors is barely average[2][3].
Now this doesn't mean that this disqualifies math-y people from having opinions on social policy, but it certainly means I value their opinions much less. In the market of ideas, theirs are simply not worth a whole lot.

Do you realize you just used a population statistics to argue that the population as a whole is worse at certain task than another population, and discount the opinion of individuals in that population?

Also, based on the studies you cited, STEM majors have barely average emotional intelligence, of which one component is empathy (your [2][3]). Is there a reason why STEM major tend to attract people of average empathy? Could the same reason be driving away people with higher than average empathy? Does women have higher empathy on average as a population compare to men?

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It's not a solution for everything. It would be used in cases where escrow and legal are not the major issue or cost.
This makes me wonder if Google will at some point start introducing algorithms that will block search results that dare perpetuate that men and women are not totally equal biologically.

The same justification they used to fire their employee for having a different opinion can be also used to censor search results.
""We" should not allow that"... Yeah that sounds like freedom to me.

You are free to deal with these companies or not. Whether you agree with these companies and their ways is irrelevant. This is same as not agreeing with another persons' religion, you are free do choose a way to lead your life, don't try to force your way upon others. Others happily share their data with Google and reap the benefits of a very helpful Google Home assistant.

Direct your efforts towards educating these people about the potential downsides, yes, but don't try to use law or other forms of powers to change their ways. That is not freedom.
well RMS has nothing to do with Open Source. Open Source is different from FSF. But I generally agree with your comments. I have seen in a number of videos that RMS tends to always fall back on the "Proprietary software is evil".
> I believe for example if it wasn’t for biases and unequal opportunities, then the higher ranks in science and politics would be dominated by women. Hence, aiming at a 50-50 representation gives men an unfair advantage. I challenge you to provide any evidence to the contrary.

The burden of proof is on him. You can't make a claim and then ask the other party to provide evidence against it.
>There are some barriers, implicit and explicit, that are perfectly appropriate. Some of them serve a higher purpose, like reinforcing gender archetypes and standards of behavior that are productive in the long run in their own ways.

This argument is interesting -- you're not saying discrimination doesn't exist, just that it's... good?
This is the kind of argument you hear from free marketeers explaining that discrimination can never happen, because it's irrational for firms to not hire certain groups who are talented. And yet it does happen, so there is something that the argument is missing, namely that firms aren't perfect optimizers and there's a lot of politics within a firm that is often unhealthy. Far from doing everything optimally, real life firms (and people) really struggle even to get the second or third best option right. They have blind spots, customs, narrow minded people in key positions, etc. There is some level of age discrimination in the valley, but I think most larger firms try to professionalize their HR to avoid that. However, there are biases within the population of fellow engineers and managers that may be at play.

Having said that, I am not going to assume that they are guilty just because of the lawsuit -- let the lawsuit play out.
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Or disallows UTF8 characters.
Kudos to Brad. He did some machine learning work for us as well! Hope we keep seeing advances in this field.
Some of the points he made were a bit biased hidden behind the curtains of “its science”.

I grew up really believing that white people were superior because of their genetics. I’m sure with some studies you can scientifically prove that too.

There are some women who were unable to sleep thinking what their peers would think about them after reading the manifesto.

You may think it was totally okay but may be you didn’t grow up with the biases enforced into you from a young age.

I am not a woman, but I know it’s hard to be taken seriously when someone can just label your behavior as “it’s biological”.

We need to fight this just as hard as we fought to end slavery around the world.

No matter your color, gender, sexual orientation, age, you will be treated equally.
That might explain the situation if board/C-suite presence was due to performance, merit, or other individual characteristic rather than a couple of centuries worth of old boys' clubs.

How do you get on a board? By being known to people on the board. They know who you are, what your history is, how you think.
For anything tech-related or everyday information DDG provides more reliable results than google because it's less infected by sales and SEO-spammers.

For local businesses and really rare topics Google is better.
IIRC, stylish for chrome converts userstyles into javascript, and runs the scripts to add inline styles to elements on the page. stylish for firefox changes the page's stylesheet.
> Email is a clunky tool to do development with compared with what is available.

The linked article explains at length why it works well for kernel maintainers. And since it does, why should kernel maintainers change it just to make things easier on newbies? It's much more reasonable to expect new participants to adapt to a workflow that works, than vice versa.

This is not "gatekeeping," it's just the reality that not everyone works the same way.
Ever considered working in France at a startup? We're always looking to international talent and since you're young, why not try something new in another country?
We're a startup that's created a battery-less connected indoor location system and always looking to recruit IT talent.

Let me know, email: career@uwinloc.com
Being a talented and experienced programmer may be the foundation, but the ability to communicate complex ideas in accessible ways, to read the room and respond to non-verbal cues, to put aside ego, to collaborate and coordinate, to sense frustration or unhappiness in your team, without those, you don't get past the first few stories of a skyscraper.

The longer I'm in the field, the more I work with different teams, the more I realize that writing code is a much easier skill for people who don't know to learn than reading people is for those who can't seem to.
I think the largest difference for me is in QoS, not in bandwidth. I generally use 802.11ac so I'm capped at 450mbps of the ~1000 available.

The service is always on, it's always stable, there's no weird routing or congestion latency at peak hours, it's just... functional.

That's what's miraculous about it to me - basically never needing to reset the router or reconfigure things. Internet as reliable as electricity. I literally don't even think about it.

Also the total cost difference is $45 a month for a far more satisfying experience.
I wish this Larry Summers martyr mythology would be revisited with scrutiny. Summers was already unpopular with the faculty for his changes to the core curriculum (it was argued that they reduced rigor in some tracks), endowment strategy, and a very strange scandal involving financial wrongdoing in Russia and a massive Harvard payout. He made his comments to a group including top female faculty during a time when they had made specific complaints concerning - among other things - severely family-unfriendly campus policies that disparately impact women. The faculty, many of whom were completely on board with the concept of sex differences in personality, saw his inartful "mama truck, daddy truck" comments as an attempted rebuttal. His comments - in this context - were pure toxoplasma, so of course they are what the media seized upon.
>Look at how upper management is already responding to this? "If he reported to me, I'd fire him myself"... Literally anyone who shares even partial agreement with his email is being blackballed.

But his reasoning for that is pretty legit though. If someone is willing to call a third of your colleagues incompetent to their face, I'm not sure how they'll be able to work together in that team and hope to actually make things happen. It's hard to expect the women on his team to continue working with him after he calls their competence into question after they've proved themselves by climbing to the same position he holds.

I feel like the reasons for the firing were not that he had different views, it was that he did not have the tact to approach this problem properly, and handled it really badly. There are much better ways to have a discussion around this than this manifesto, and those are discussions worth having. But not this one, this is just inciting a flame war.
Because that huge California block of Trump supporters really changed the landscape huh?
The block chain is best known for bitcoin, but it's actually a really awesome tool for keeping public records safe.

Things like land ownership is vulnerable to manipulation. We don't think about it much in the west because our governments don't change the name of the owner of your house for money, but it's a real problem in corrupt countries.

It's also a major problem in shipping. Where ownership of containers is done with paper forms, that because of corruption have a higher cost of shipping than the actual container itself, and containers still get claimed with faked forms.

Know what Mærsk did to secure the container contracts? They used the block chain.

Much like container forms or land contracts, paper votes are only safe if your system isn't corrupt. With the block chain you could remove the need of relying on the system to be honest because everyone would be able to read the record.

Right now you rely on independent observers, and I hate to tell you this, but we've been unable to influence elections in corrupt countries so far.

When Putin wins with 900% of the votes in regions that hate him you can say that it seems unlikely, if they'd used block chain you would be able to see that it was a lie.
> It's definitely empirically true. I've watched it happen for decades. There are certainly new cars on the road, but they would have been there anyway, for the most part.

Your unsupported speculation of what you expect would have been true in a counterfactual situation is not support for a claim of empirical truth.

> If you have a growing economy people immigrate in search of jobs whether the infrastructure is ready or not.

People are not the same thing as the car trips; whether the same number of people would have been present with less road capacity is a different question than whether the number of car trips would have been.
> Discussing an alternate universe in which America is a theocracy seems a bit off-topic for this particular thread.

> Are you suggesting that the submitted article, to which this discussion thread is attached, is a figment of our imagination? That Google actually is not facing a class-action lawsuit made possible through age-discrimination laws?

I will try to clear up your confusion -- you are taking everything very literally. There have been many private discrimination lawsuits, and in my opinion, all of the legitimate ones were tied in with something other than discrimination (especially harrassment). There is almost never any hard proof of discrimination of the nature that is the focus of the lawsuit, even the ones that win, and I think it's too arbitrary a thing to try to control. Feel free to list examples to the contrary, where the defendant stated "I did not hire Mr/Mrs. Smith because he/she is X." It also raises questions of freedom of association in the private space.
> And let us be clear that, yes, such policies mean every once in a while you will not hire the most skilled person for a job. Therefore, a value judgement must be made here, not a logical deduction from data. Is diversity important enough for you to temporarily tolerate an increased risk of not hiring the most qualified person? That’s the trade-off nobody seems willing to spell out.

Perhaps because it's not a necessary trade off of diversity policies per se, only a trade-off of the one specific type of diversity policy with which the author happens to be familiar.

For an historical example that does not feature such a trade-off:

1. I put up a curtain between the judges and the musician auditioning for the orchestra.

2. I hire whoever the judges say sounded the best.

3. The number of women in orchestras grows.

In no case where this diversity policy is used does the policy cause a less skilled player get chosen because that player was female.
> Is this really even a big issue?

Security rule of thumb: when you ask this question, you've lost.

Look around the comment section for examples.

To put it crudely: you may lack creativity, but your attackers don't. It's impossible to enumerate all possible applications of an attack vector. Be strict.
>>But I strongly suspect that if interviewers didn't glorify the obsessive 24/7 coder

Software industry isn't the first or the last place you will see this.

The world as a whole is giant stack ranking system. Every thing from college admissions to interviews is basically a comparative process, sort of a close-to-merit ecosystem where those who put above average effort, get above average returns.

And hubris isn't new to tech. Doctors, Politicians, in fact hubris is a dominant psychological trait among top people in any field.
The problem I have with TIS-100 is that everytime I play it, I begin to think how cool it would be to have actual physical TIS-100 machine and end up distracted by thinking about the HW design
meet worked well for me the other day on Firefox Nightly (57)
I referenced this article today at work involving a discussion about password security, 2FA and actual customer experience.

Tonight I was dealing with Wells Fargo for a password reset. They have a max of 14 characters and a generally awful interface. I took screenshots of the process to use as a guide of things to avoid.
For those who don't notice the speed, multiprocess may be disabled due to certain addons. Go to about:support to check if it enabled. The addon compatibility checker addon can tell you which are the offending addons. For me 1password was the big blocker, but they recently released a beta that works with the new API. Sorry for the lack of links, I'm on mobile.
Sure. They’ll just raise your rent and you’ll be back to square one.

Basic income doesn’t fix demand and supply. It just increases demand which increases prices.

Australia has a great welfare program. However you see a large brain drain to US because smart people don’t want to be taxed just so it ends up in someone else’s pocket.

There are many holes in Basic income logic.
I basically only use Google for movie listings, calculations, and restaurant hours now. The rare times I switch to Google for other searches DDG fails on, Google is no better.
I wouldn't trust bro-science or profit driven companies with my mental health.

Train your body and you will also be training your mind.
Would you kindly stop posting snarky comments on inflammatory topics? These discussions are flamewarrish enough without that. Pouring fuel on the fire amounts to vandalism no matter how correct your underlying points are.

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> then it's an economic advantage for them.

Breaking laws can be lucrative, of course. At least until you're caught.
I would like to sit in one of those hiring committee meetings too, or read a transcription. Anyway, I believe Google gets so many qualified candidate that, just like Ivy League colleges, it has lots of leeway on who to hire/reject without affecting quality of their engineers in any measurable way.
> The parent comment is correct that free software has put magnitudes less food on kids bellies.

At the same time it empowered those who could not afford to pay or could not pay (legal/geo-restrictions, DRM etc).
Market share has already been on the rise again since Firefox 48, which was the release that shipped the separation of the UI and content in two processes.

People here probably didn't notice right away, since you pretty much had to have no extensions installed for a long time for it to be enabled, but casual users seem to have noticed...
It says "US Citizen cannot be registered"
Does anyone have details regarding their CDN? Competitors tend to give information on their locations so that you can decide if it works for your audience. Cloudflare even delivers information on the edge node in the header to check where the closest one is.

Is there anything like this for netlify? Or any benchmarks on how they generally perform vs. fastly and cloudflare?
You haven't read a single text that falls under the banner of Postmodern. Please stop using the term.

As the other commenter has noted, you need to historcise.

Continental philosophers didn't just plop onto the scene buoyed by multimillion dollar marketing budgets; the epistemology issues they raised are real. Your ridiculous claims of Marxist thought, Feminist thought, etc. betray your ignorance.

So yes, I disagree with every single one of your assertions, but RTFM isn't applicable here, so I avoided stating it outright. Your valuing and clinging of random opinion over informed knowledge is at least as telling as your initial professions. You may have been able to fake it around your equally uniformed peers.

Replace the term "Feminist" with "A person believing in equal rights for women" and your deeply seated, neurologically stuck repetition of misogynist statements rings clear across all communications.
"Perhaps I've been wrong. Perhaps cryptographically-secured smart contracts have uses and are powerful. Perhaps the scalability challenge can be met with MapReducable computations committed into merkle proofs. Perhaps enforced execution of smart contracts are potentially scalable to billions of state updates per second. ....... Nahhh!"

- Medieval barber, Theodoric of York
I recommend the Nightly channel. It feels much snappier, more performant and cleaner than the stable version.
Presumably your data is (1) mirrored to another similar server ready to replace in case of failure and (2) also regularly backed up to two off-site locations...
Sometimes a monotree is the only way. If your business model revolves around an open source core with some proprietary add-ons for paying customers, it's often not possible to merge those codebases into a single repo.
How does one even make this mistake? There seems to be nothing strategic about this...
> train them to properly identify their own unconscious biases

> not once have I seen an inferior female candidate picked over a superior male one because of a diversity initiative

What if you have an unconscious bias and didn't notice that inferior female candidates are being hired?

It's unconscious, you might just view men as inferior to women and not even know about it.
"In what universe is taking 10,000 actions per minute an easier problem for a neural net than 100 such actions?"

StarCraft is precisely such universe. If you could micromanage units perfectly, you can do some amazing tricks. Here's an example of what I'm talking about:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKVFZ28ybQs
> A private company with no oversight, obviously.

Would you prefer a state/government entity? Or a political organization? Because god knows that socialist regimes are so hell-bent on promoting truth and impartial reports on inconvenient facts.
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Plasma is already the name of KDE's desktop interface. Reusing the name of an already known project is confusing.
does anyone know how this compares to Tock? https://www.tockos.org
The moral hole in James Damore’s diversity memo
On second thought, it was specifically about measuring Thiel's judgement in leaders specifically, so I guess that is actually a more fair reference class.
It looks like HAL was using the 2U version, which makes sense when you're putting compute resources on some cards in addition to just memory/storage.
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That's a historical accident. My name in RuneScape when I played as a kid had football in it and I shortened it to foota.
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Personally, I think Lyft credits would be bad, for a number of reasons.

First off, I'm pretty sure that the value of the credit would be taxable, in the same way that wages are taxable.

Specifically, see IRS Publication 15B Section 2, the sub-section on Transportation (Commuting) Benefits (https://www.irs.gov/publications/p15b/ar02.html#en_US_2017_p...). Lyft credits don't to me appear to be one of the four "Qualified Transportation Benefits" (although paid parking _is_). Nor would it be a de minimis benefit.

(To be clear, I'm talking US tax law, as a US corporation.)

So, if it's going to be taxed, then you (as the Lyft employee) now have something which you _have_ to use, or else you're going to lose money (in that you've paid taxes for a benefit you're not using). That's a pressure that I'd personally not want to be under.

Similarly, I wonder if a permanent discount (all Lyft employees get 50% off) would also be taxable. Since this is all electronic, I don't think it would be that hard to track an employee's Lyft usage, so I don't think the de minimis exception would apply here. Then, come each paycheck, I'd have to remember "Oh, right, I have less money this pay period because I did all those extra Lyfts over the weekend."

Continuing the thought experiment, if Lyft did do this, then I most definitely would _not_ want to work or live near Lyft's offices. The reason is, any time I'd want to use Lyft, I'd be competing with all of the Lyft employees who are also using the service. I could see that increasing the chances of surge pricing switching on. That could maybe be minimized by nudging drivers to congregate around Lyft's office, but that would then deprive other areas of drivers.

So too many problems, in my opinion.
Some of those DAF apps can also apply pitch shifting (which is actually AAF). Provided they work properly, they should be able to provide that choral effect. I am no expert by the way, I've only toyed with those for a few minutes.
I liked your other comment on this issue, but I have to strongly disagree here.

There are definitely such things as cultural fits and especially cultural misfits. And even in software engineering, the human interaction component is typically strong enough to have a large effect on the success of the organization.

Would you have all software engineers put our resumes into a government pool and be randomly assigned to companies?