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> I am surprised how big this 'manifesto' got. Is it really that big of a deal that it

I'd guess that you feel that way because you're not affected by the issues discussed in the essay. I've been there myself, it takes a lot of time and effort to understand the real impact of something that doesn't impact yourself.

Also, please don't think that I'm judging you or saying that you're a bad person because of it. We all share the same difficulties, and that doesn't make us better or worse, just humans.

If I had a superpower, it would be making people see the world through other people's eyes.
Just tested the new release, made sure it's indeed 1.19, and can definitely feel a big difference in performance. Nice job.
Neither ought to be acceptable, IMHO.
No disagreement on any particular point, but that doesn't explain/address why the cameras are on the self-checkout lanes only (as far as I know, anyway).
From my experience I would say yes: Go with Unity.

I'm a big fan of making everything by "scratch" (using libraries like SDL2 or SFML for 2D), but when it comes to 3D games I wouldn't think twice and dive straight into Unity; even if I'm not a huge fan of the environment I know it's the easiest/best tool available.

You can maybe use something like Irrlicht (http://irrlicht.sourceforge.net/) but I don't think that's still going to be easier in any way than Unity.
There is one, a [hwrng] process, but I don't think that's it. It's also in D state on other virtual machines on the same host without this symptom.

(The process is probably from virtio-rng.)
Author is more like wannabe pus ... Give me that money if you dont want
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Yea, I thought about that when I was writing my comment, but I wanted a pithy statement, so I omitted the trivial case. How about this: if prioritizing diversity actually changes any hiring decisions made, then it's suboptimal on quality. And if prioritizing diversity doesn't change any hiring decisions, then there's no point to it.

With regards to your second point, this kind of analysis does not require that the employees selected are in fact optimal. It only requires that they're the company's best guess given the inferences from the limited evidence available. Any move away from picking the best guesses will yield choices that are not the best guesses.
The developers of VS Code wanted it to take up less space? I'm sure someone could reduce Atom to the same footprint
Typical network jitter is in the range of +/- 10ms over the Internet, optimistically. So the hash computation needs to be well over 10ms to be noticeable, or you need so many observations on each username that something emerges statistically.

Both seem unlikely. Am I missing something?
Commercial code can be GPL.
> Media outlets like TechCrunch, Gizmodo and Motherboard jumped on board to declare the memo an “Anti-Diversity Manifesto.” It appears that the ideological echo chamber extends beyond Google’s campus.

As I look up and see this article flagged on HN (since unflagged).

The points and ideas from his memo may be wrong or they may be right (or anywhere in between) but more important than this incident has been the reaction to it. I don't understand the attempts at shutting down conversation about it. If you think he's wrong, you share your opinion and persuade others. You don't shut down the conversation and pretend the issues don't exist.
Yeah... nothing to debate, no points of contention, nothing to see here... it's how I see it, and if you don't agree, I'll shut you down. Sounds open to new ideas and diverse opinions to me.
Ask some women developers about their experiences (as many as possible). Even if this particular person/memo/fracas is overblown, it has obviously become an avatar for the issue at large: discrimination and sexism.

I've been seeing the stories from my software dev friends who happen to be women, and it's shocking that the same dumb shit is happening in 2017. "Wow, YOU'RE a developer?" "Hey, will she sit next to me?" etc etc etc etc.

So the memo strikes a nerve. That doesn't make it right or wrong, I'm not saying his being fired is this or that. What I'm saying is that it's not nothing: a lot of human beings who happen to be women and who happen to be software developers have been trying to fight these insane gender stereotypes that somehow are still being perpetuated.
Yes. In fact, this is how we detect DM, by measuring the speeds of the galaxies, rotating around the galactic core. Our calculations point to a slower speed than observed, thus implying some mass of "matter" which we cannot see.
one would think right...
There's another possibility. This guy could have been rather obnoxious about his views in the past and had been repeatedly warned. Then he wrote a memo that appeared to be professional but espoused the same views and was finally fired for it.
It very much depends on where in the U. S. one is at. East of the Mississippi River (eastern U. S.): I'm a good boy who doesn't do more than 10mph over the limit. The exception is Ohio: if I can't avoid the state completely, I do THE SPEED LIMIT.

Western U. S.: whatever I think I can get away with. IOW, if I can see for multiple miles with few cross roads and driveways, then it's whatever I feel comfortable with. Though with western speed limits of 70mph and up, one can comfortably get away with 85mph, which is fast enough for me. Much beyond that, on the bike or in the car, and it gets tiring and the difference in fuel efficiency is huge (28mpg or less at "spirited" speeds on a bike that normally gets 42-45mpg). And the last thing one needs in a vehicle with a 5 gallon tank, and an area with few gas stations, is poor fuel efficiency. With increased fuel stops, I'm not convinced that one saves a minute of time after a point.

In this instance, think of the U. S. more like the EU. We have Montana and Nevada, they have Germany. We have Ohio, they have (for lack of a better example) the U. K. with speed cameras everywhere (yeah, yeah, Brexit; bear with me for this example).
Yup, mentioned in the article I referenced and linked below. Sounds like he got a lot of offers but ML finally made him one that made sense.
A false dichotomy. A third: Google is currently in hot water with the Department of Labor for their extreme gender pay gap and wants a PR win.
They're both Electron-based. One is just less optimized than the other.

(edit: the parent comment has been edited. Mine no longer makes sense in context.)
I don't have strong feelings about the original memo, but the media coverage has been an absolute circus.

Google's hand was forced because of the negative PR storm that happened, not because it systematically suppresses the voices of its employees.

> This algorithm is tuned by an internal team of evaluators. If the company silences dissent within its own ranks, why should we trust it to manage our access to information?

I'm almost convinced that this is satire.
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> Not the Ex-Google guy with his medium rant about how people would punch him in the face and he would understand.

Could you give a link to that rant?
But it’s not civil when you suggest there’s inherently biological reasons for your coworkers to be inferior to you.
It gets the clicks, shares, and comments. The incentives are stacked for both the social and traditional media to ride the outrage straight to the bank.

And Google has no choice but to clean up the mess with the right signals.

I don't think concern over diversity or sexism (which deserves its own calm debate) is what's driving this "nothing burger" story.
How much does mobile app development cost?
I think vscode was built with performance in mind from the ground up. Atom on the other hand was focussed on hackability. Down to actual reason, I haven't scanned the source code but have noticed vscode delegates lots of processing to separate child processes that could prevent potential freezing/lockups in the main process/window.
Don't know if it's a "great" side project but I wanted a way to avoid hardcoding passwords in scripts, but in a way that I could revoke them if my RPi had been compromised (my RPi is used for backups/sync).

So I made https://www.remotepassword.com where you can store a GPG encrypted version of the password and then call-decrypt-passthrough the password to the command line. If the device is compromised, you can deactivate the online password and no-one can get access to your data.
Companies can and should have view points. However, firing anyone who disagrees with those viewpoints is a knee-jerk reaction to avoid any negative press.

They could have reacted with a "Google does not support or endorse the views expressed", and let the rest happen naturally.

This is censorship. Yes, it's within a privately owned company, but it is very clearly a suppression of intellectual debate. Why not encourage this debate to happen?

This black-and-white, all-or-nothing trend in public speech in general is very concerning. Debate and discourse no longer exist, it's simply one side flaming the other.
The Magnitzky Act sanctions target specific Russian elites, as opposed the the general economy or market segments. And, per testimony before the Senate and reporting, those elites, or oligarchs, hold not only their own wealth but also Putin's; allegedly, the deal they made with him in return for their continued existence and prosperity was/is that he gets 50% of what they make.

So, yes, they are very interested in getting around the sanctions.

P.S. One source of the above; testimony before the Senate. This occurred right around the time Trump issued his tweets against trans-gendered individuals' participation in the armed services, leading some to ponder whether the latter was a distraction tactic.

https://www.c-span.org/video/?431852-1/william-browder-overt...
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It feels like the underlying sentiment here is that wage should be a function of the value of labor. The issue I take with that is that capitalism is necessarily exploitative and culturally we have deep seated beliefs about the value of different classes of labor. Currently, those classes of labor that require the least "expertise" tend to be those that are the least compensated. I fail so see how technology can be leveraged to increase the quality of life of unskilled labor. That is, how can technology help put food on the table and clean water in the pipes of those that can't currently afford those things? Why does labor need to be enhanced? Is the current output of human and machine labor not more than enough to give everyone 2500 calories and healthcare and a home? Perhaps if technology could be of use it would be in the distribution of those goods that we already have but arnt finding their way to those that need them.

Why can't we snap our fingers and decide the output of workers is worth more than it is? We have many many dillusions of value. Value works by people collectively agreeing something is valuable, that's the history of value.
The "banking cartel" doesn't create new money and doesn't get new money for free. They can only borrow it at market rates. The central bank can create money but it is not allowed to spend it. It can only lend it or swap it for collateral.

If what you have in mind is fractional reserve lending as indirect money "creation", this also creates liabilities for the banks. The banks owe to depositors all the money they "create" this way. It's not free money.
D'oh, thanks
> Not reacting would have been an endorsement.

Some have said, "Reacting to it would dignify it". Is that an endorsement?

> They are not.

Are you saying we can't use science to determine whether differences between the sexes exist?

> Such conflicts are not won over peaceful arguments.

I think that's a bit of an exaggeration.

PS. Why is your username green?
Thanks for your interest! It's here: https://www.thenewrole.com/

I'm happy to hear any kind of feedback and criticism.
It went viral within google. I think it surfaced a lot of repressed things that people were thinking but afraid to say -- maybe some faction of googlers believed that there were silent sexists within the company, and this validated that belief. Maybe another faction of googlers believed that they were reverse-discriminated against, and this validated THEIR belief as well.

It is unfortunate that it took this memo to expose what a lot of people were previously afraid to say (from BOTH sides)
I like Quantised Inertia[1] as an alternative to Dark Matter or MOND. The theory makes some testable predictions, matches existing data (for instance the flyby anomalies, EM drive)[2] and requires no tweaking or "fudging factors".

It's still fairly immature, so still needs work - it violates the equivalence principle and relies on Unruh radiation which hasn't conclusively been observed.

[1] http://physicsfromtheedge.blogspot.co.uk/2014/01/mihsc-101.h...
[2] http://physicsfromtheedge.blogspot.co.uk/2016/09/mihscqi-vs-...
Also, changing the tide will required the combined desire of a sitting president and congress to make it happen. The democratic congress of 08-10 was, at best, a neoliberal shitshow. They had no desire to correct this course.
Oh plenty of things. Maybe they can start with the outstanding Department of Labour lawsuit and request for information ?
Are you in the industry and successful? Do you consider yourself as such; egoist, cold and full of testosterone.

I have seen a lot of successful people, very few fits the description.
I'm glad that there's still at least some truly liberal voices out there.

Regressive neo-liberalism is a cancer on society.

Edit - also sad that this keeps getting flagged. Dissenting opinions and debate is good for society.
You don't need a superpower, just a super computer to design the ultimate weapon for you.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technology_in_The_Hitchhiker%2...
Would you mind sending me a screenshot at justin [at] buttondown [dot] email? All the icons are emoji, so I'm guessing there's some weird unicode issue.
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To install, run:
pip install moneywagon

and to perform the action:

moneywagon network-replay btc bch latest --verbose

That replays all transactions from the latest BTC block to the BCH network. You can also replay in the other direction:

moneywagon network-replay bch btc latest --verbose

It seems that the BCH devs did a good job of implementing replay protection, because every block I've tried to replay has failed. Maybe this tool can be useful when another currency tries to hard fork and they may not get replay protection quite right.

The code is here: https://github.com/priestc/moneywagon/blob/master/moneywagon....

Output of running the script looks like this:
https://gist.github.com/priestc/09c945cad4ebeaa3f8a35deed1f5...
But it is. Just because he holds one opinion does not mean that he will act on it, expect google to act on it, or cause harm because of it.

Ideas don't hurt people. People with no way to voice their ideas and opinions become angry, and then hurt other people.
Perhaps, but I wonder if we won't see more countries go the way of Norway/France/Britain and ban gasoline cars altogether once electric vehicles become more competitive and mainstream....
That guy may or may not be a misogynist, but you certainly are.
A related problem is the political pressure to keep the single trip price artificially low, under the excuse that it's on behalf of the working poor.

And yet the working poor buying single trip tickets, because they can't afford monthly passes, end up paying more per trip than someone who can afford the monthly pass. So the policy doesn't even meet the goal that the policy purports to shoot for.

And still another problem is that the system capacity is insufficient for demand. The design has reached it's scalability limit. We need transporters in NYC, or something, at this point. A continuous running conveyor-belt "people mover" like in airports might be more efficient.
No it isn't. If Jobs wasn't a dick and alienated 90% of people with his behaviour, he would have had more sway.
Ha, that's how most busses in the world work, at least outside large cities.
I'm not quite sure why this worries you but I can tell you what it means. Information collected is generic app usage data like number of launches, most used features, etc. The notices include help tips, feature suggestions, and prompts to upgrade to a Plus plan.

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I've listened to all of the above, enough to spot glaring inconsistencies lurking behind their rational facade. What more do you want from me? Automatic agreement with disingenuous trolls and madmen just because they can write fully formed paragraphs and link to cherry picked science?
Whoever in Gizmodo redacted or allowed the reduction of the 25+ citations should be fired.

That was such irresponsible journalism that it honestly looks actively malicious, and it wasn't matter what side you're on. You can't remove all the support someone provides for their position and hide it behind a short and vague disclaimer while presenting it as though it's materially equivalent to the original. If their evidence is bad then you include it and let people be the judges. Or just don't report on the story. What you don't do is edit it in accordance with your own opinion and misrepresent it as the original.

People need to call this crap out and shame Gizmodo, and Gizmodo needs to come clean about the honest reasons for the redaction and respond harshly enough that it doesn't happen again. The last thing we need is biased journalism, or an impression of such.
Nothing about a self-driving car requires it to be electric.
> Make no mistake. This is a fight. A struggle between two visions of the world, maybe more. Such conflicts are not won over peaceful arguments. Sooner or later, one must take a stand

Is this view not pretty clearly authoritarian? It literally comes across like a comic book villain speech.

Is it not possible that there simply are intelligent people who disagree with you validly, and that shaming them into silence isn't the best solution?
Some REWEs have, but not all. There's still some where I live that don't. (REWE eG is a cooperative, so it's all a bit more complicated)
I'm glad you brought up the privacy thing. I don't know much about Germany specifically, but people not wanting to create an electronic trail of financial transactions seems like a reasonable explanation for at least some people to be avoiding credit cards.
Try WinSSHD, https://www.bitvise.com/winsshd , i've been using it for years and been happy with it.
Self-checkout things get hit with lots of credit card fraud, the cameras help when the fraud gets so big that it's worth investigating.
IME Maestro cards generally don't work, but there are MasterCard debit cards that do.
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Google is ~70/30 which is not unusual in IT. Women are less than 25% of the tech workforce though the exact numbers depend on what you count as Tech.
Africa's population is projected to ~quadruple to approx 4 billion by 2100 (will have almost as many people as Asia at this point), and will account for most of the world's population growth to 2050 (1.3 bil+). [1] It's a huge opportunity, and good luck to anyone who can provide value for the burgeoning population.

[1] https://esa.un.org/unpd/wpp/Publications/Files/Key_Findings_...
You're very welcome :)
Would be great to have this as a service where you could analyze your own instagram feed for signs of trouble.
In the textbooks, you'll see firehoses turned on protesters, bus boycotts, marches on Selma and Washington, not to mention all the bloody resistance required in South Africa, India, Algeria...
That's really not what was said. Surely you are familiar with statistics and distributions over population.

I agree it wasn't a smart thing to say, but I don't think it furthers the discussion to misrepresent it.
Those who keep misusing the word "inferior" instead of "different" expose themselves for either having not read, or not understood, what was written.
I imagine that there are lawyers who are ready and willing to send something at short notice. Not so much ambulance chasers as SV drama chasers, perhaps!
No, what the whole episode really seems to show is how prejudice that hurts people is viewed as "just words" rather than a tangible / real hurtful thing. You can't curse off your boss. You can't demean people of other genders and races at work. You can't create a hostile workplace environment and expect nothing to happen to you.

You can try to cloak it in a longform "civil" or "facts-based" document but ultimately what this man wrote was sexist lies a.k.a a steaming pile of shit.

FWIW I don't give flat earthers the time of day or try to humor them as being scientific either. You have to go back to arguing the basic laws of kinematics with them. Sexists are one of the same.
As a vegetarian, I hope this is a roadblock that the team can overcome. Umami Burger outlets in the Bay Area (likely everywhere) now feature the Impossible Burger patty as an option, and I found the new option delicious. Tastes differ, of course, but i am thinking of the overall economics here: if more burger restaurants (and chains like Red Robin) offer this option, economies of scale can lead to a drop in the retail price, making these affordable for a larger swath of the population.
Torque is directly proportional to power, related by angular velocity. So τ Nm of torque at angular velocity ω rad/s will give you power P = τ·ω in watts. In fact this works for three-dimensional τ and ω if · is the scalar product.

Oh and an RPM of N is equivalent to angular velocity ω = N·π/30.
Honestly I use both often and just the startup makes it seem faster. Just the startup alone makes such a large difference to perception.
renewed interest

Maybe in the Hacker News bubble. Outside of that, things have been cruising along quite nicely for at least a decade.
Right.

Please, remind me of a time in the past in which people could actually say whatever they wanted without repercussions.

Oh right, there's no actual time in the history of humanity, with the exception of a select few people whose odious opinions everyone had to tolerate or else.
As a woman I appreciate your use of "miss moneybags" instead of the classic "mr". Little changes like this are really what we need to reverse the patriarchal dominance women have been subjected to since forever. Just wanted to let you know that your signalling has not gone unnoticed!
Ah! That makes sense, and I hadn't thought of it. Thanks!
It is not how the US handled the Civil Rights Movement: MLK was called a terrorist. Neither is it how the apartheid was taken on in South Africa. Or any major social improvement: strikes, demonstrations and struggles were necessary. Playing the passivity card is, at least, dragging down the struggle.
Your point is pertinent and well-made in the latter part of your post, but the ad-hominem language in the former makes it difficult to believe you want to discuss the issue.
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The author was fired because some issues are considered thought crimes and you have to go with the mainstream opinion.