skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don’t think there is much social interaction difference or technological investment difference between the jobs...but lets assume there is.

Wouldn’t it seem reasonable to you that a young single woman getting out of years of heavy training would want a shot at the 300k job instead of the 200k one ?

Even assuming she is not that interested in radiology, the gap is wide enough she could go the 300k way for a decade or so to amass FU money and just retire or move to a more fun but less paying job afterward (I personally know medical staff going this route and semi-retiring at 35)

I mean, people have preferences, but more than half of the woman in the medical course giving up on 100k of revenure just to have a “nurturing” job seems highly artificial to me. I would highly expect a dozens of other factors pushing them that way, instead of it just being pure personal preference.
Yep it's called Drafting
> the argument that he's "all for equality" falls flat on it's ass

Because it's not your definition of equality? Why not impress us with your own brand of philosophy by writing a cited, 10-page memo on the topic, then maybe you'll get buy-in.

> It's unbelievable that in 2017

Why? Is 2017 the year that its ok to repress individuals in favour of their respective political/identity group statistics? "introducing more diversity" is a sinister sugar-coating of what's happening here.

> we don't really want more males in the profession because they are clearly not biologically ready to deal with people

You mean imagine an entirely different thing? If someone explained why so few men chose to go into nursing using the same reasoning, they would not "[flip] their shit" - only because you manufactured an aspect not in the memo. He doubly-so didn't suggest setting a quota on women in IT, which is the cherry on the strawman.
How about for the things in his memo that were not truth? Sure, there's a bit of truth in it. There's much more that's debatable at best, and some that's pretty clearly false. How about for the totally off-topic nastiness toward the left, and diversity advocates, and others? Even in a memo about the driest of technical minutiae, comments like "honest discussion is being silenced" and "X tends to deny science" (with not even an attempt at proof on either point) would be worthy of censure. The memo was clearly written in a style more likely to escalate conflict than to create any positive outcome, so the reaction when Damore or one of his cronies leaked it beyond its supposed original distribution was entirely predictable. If you do something that simple diligence and common sense say would lead to a massive productivity-destroying flame war, you have something to apologize for.
Obviously the data depends. But in places with a well-working train system, no matter what you do, the car is heavily inferior.

For example, Kiel-Berlin is 4 hours by car, assuming no traffic. Or around 1 hour 30 by train, which runs every 30 minutes. Getting to and from the station to any place in each city is another 30 minutes, in the worst case.

So the worst case scenario door-to-door train travel time is the same as the best case scenario door-to-door car travel time. And the comfort in a train is much nicer (so much leg space, and you can walk around, and eat stuff, and use a laptop nicely, just look at this: [1])

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[1] https://www.fotosvonunterwegs.de/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/...
Amazon need to have a "This is a scam" checkbox for resolution. Something where instead of the automated process, an actual human with a brain looks at the evidence.

A one-minute read would show that this is fraud and the customer should be refunded immediately.
Where do these things that are stolen end up? I wonder what is left nether.
I'm a little more skeptical of the claim that crossing the post office is a big mistake after nothing came of this case:
http://www.postal-reporter.com/blog/usps-oig-investigating-a...

The comment sections at the time were full of people talking about how it was a federal crime and the cops would be in deep trouble but the postal inspector seems to have been a paper tiger.
The Horrible Histories series I read as a child portray him as being a general loon, and being a low rent Newton.
Thanks, this makes a lot more sense, my impression from the post was that this was a normal CS course.
That's pro! You should make a chrome plugin out of it.
it can! :)
>>> wordninja.split('salesexchange')
['sales', 'exchange']
If Peter Singer thinks it was wrong, you've got a tough road ahead of you justifying what you've done.

(Full disclosure: Singer is one of my personal heroes.)
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Depending on how experimental you like your science fiction, Moorcock-era (1964+) New Worlds magazine.

* one I found that I'll read: https://archive.org/details/New_Worlds_171v50_1967-03

There's something about this era that I've always liked. Maybe because these old pulps were my first lesson that scifi =/= space opera.
Honest question, is anywhere not?
> they ignore the context and his application of alleged facts.

You're projecting what isn't there. Again, part of the problem.
Why? Everything it needed for that 1v1 was available. There was nothing in the FoW that needed to be known, it can keep timers about enemy cooldowns, gold and xp (approximations at least since it's somewhat random).
So basically, Pied Piper plus a coin?
I was going to suggest exactly the same
Enter binding arbitration.
You can sit on 376, especially through the bathtub, for a good 30' at rush hour in Pittsburgh. I'm not sure I believe that map.
The coercion part.
Don't say anything if you're a guy.. with all the pro-feminism talk these days, especially post Damore-gate at Google, the tables could possibly be turned on you. Document everything and keep it strictly professional, you don't have much of a choice at this point.
can someone list the games she's made? would love to try them out!
Yes.

Of course we can't reasonably assess how large these groups are, when we are all - liberals and conservatives alike - being told not to express our opinions by leaders in universities, media, and tech companies.

It's like Sundar declaring that most employees supported him - after he fired someone for questioning management.

Did he really expect honest answers?
Not necessarily. All that person has to do is tap into a controversial topic that divides people and involves the company.

E.g. "Big pharma researcher says our system is killing people." If it wasn't already done and old news, if it happened to get traction we'd have the same situation. And let's not kid ourselves, he's probably not the first there to state this or even the first to share his views. He is the first that had it turn into big news because it went viral, but content isn't the only factor in something going viral.
I like it even more now.
From what the devs indicated on stream it sounded like processing hours (with a ratio of around 300 in-game hours to 1 processing hour).
This is exactly what I do. I am floored to hear that people are considering moving away from favicons. It's a tremendous space saver.

The all-out war on bookmarks and the original ways we organized information back in the 90s on the web is getting to be absurd.
Then I'd ask: why do women not enjoy tech? Why did your college have zero women? Do you think it's biological? Cultural?
PEP 550: Execution Contexts in Python
Yeah, this is clearly at the same level as racial segregation! The poor Silicon Valley male has barely survived two hundred years of slavery, lack of voting rights and being treated like second-class citizens! Such a history of bravery!

You people really like to milk the victimization narrative, huh? You have no shame, comparing yourself to what black people went through. No fucking shame.
It is interesting that the meaning of"jerk" has moved very recently from meaning something like "bumpkin" to something closer to "arsehole". As the author points out, this is similar to the change in the meaning of "villain", along with several other words where a class-based insult eventually became moralised.

But most of the words he mentions are old words that changed their meaning back in the days when litteral aristocrats, kings, dukes and princes ruled the English speaking lands and their neighbours. "Jerk" changed recently and I wonder if the change hints at a new class system.
For B2B, I use sites like http://www.findthecompany.com/. For consumer products, you need to find people who are in your target market and approach them. Questions can include something like what products (that are within my field of use) do you currently use, what do you like about them. what do you dislike, if you could wave a magic wand, what would you want to fix immediately, etc.

This is not a sales call, just ask for 20 minutes of their time saying you want to interview people in the field of use, and most people will give it to you. You can always have more interviews later so don't worry that 20 minutes is too short. Interestingly enough, people will be more motivated to keep doing interviews because it's like "someone is listening to their problems for once!" Then you can slowly start to sell the product, as you build it along. It is the common loop of build -> test -> repeat. The testing portion is not just unit tests and other technical tests, it is also the human tests on the other side, because what's the point of building if no one is using it? There is more info in the above cited book, it really changed how i think about customer discovery and sales.
This article winds up like it's going to over turn and destroy all sense of gender norms to ensure children don't grow up with "cognitive biases" ... And ends with "we should all think more carefully and not jump to conclusions."

Click. Bait. Tripe.
I'm not suggesting they had information that a human player wouldn't (i.e. cheating), I just suspect that they may have access to a richer api.
Taibbi's gonzo style is amusing shtick, but frequently exaggerates. If you'd rather read a boring but reliable Economist take on the same story: https://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/2172581...

The facts are more or less the same in both stories.
James Damore: Why I Was Fired by Google (WSJ op-ed)
Well then I'd say your impression was mistaken. That's been a rationale often offered for why diversity was a win for everyone, but the original intent of affirmative action and other efforts to increase diversity was actually to correct for historic injustices that saw minorities unfairly shut out of jobs and industries and still leaves them disproportionately lacking representation in those industries.
"A Tennessee judge has rescinded his controversial program that sought to encourage drug-dependent female and male inmates to cut their jail time by voluntarily agreeing to undergo birth control procedures.

White County General Sessions Court Judge Sam Benningfield of Sparta filed the order on Wednesday, a day before two state lawmakers asked Tennessee Attorney General Herbert Slatery to render a legal opinion on the controversial program's constitutionality."

http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/breakingnews/story/2017/j...
Just by your terminology, I trust that you know (at least somewhat) what you're talking about, so... is there an ELI5 for this stuff? I'm completely lost in these types of discussions. They seem absurdly complicated for (good|bad) reasons? Are we looking at another complexity bubble that's going to burst in 5-10 years... to the detriment of everyone but the "top execs" who'll be bailed out?

My impression after reading "Too Big To Fail" -- which, BTW is an amazingly well-written book[1] -- is that "they" will probably get away with all this confusion and obfuscation... right?

I really do want to learn at least a little bit, but it seems like such an impenetrable world of concepts, and I really do want to avoid the "news-based" or even "journalist-based" approach to learning about this subculture. (When a Dartboard fares better that your average journalist/investor-proxy, you know you have a gambling problem.)

[1] Not sure how accurate it is, but it's really well-written and exciting. Unfortunately, it doesn't delve that much into the technical concepts in Finance :(, though it does mention LIBOR at least once.
> The fact that the majority

Where are these "facts"? I was talking about the credulity of your comments, not the memo. But in fact I'll admit I made an error here - I misread, you aren't OP.

> trying to build an argument around it is as useless

He tried to begin a discussion. His memo was based mostly on feedback he'd received in doing so. Please quote Damore (or me) otherwise; I can't find reference to "settled matter" you put in quotation marks.
Australia and New Zealand?
> nothing you can do temper someone's fear of the situation (short of sedatives)

Also known as the B. A. Baracus approach.

I fly a nice stable Piper Cherokee Six, so my calibration is probably out of whack for what a hang glider considers to be a bumpy day. The thought of being suspended by a few strands of nylon in turbulence looking at nothing but ground hundreds or thousands of feet below is unsettling.
There Are No Signs That US Forces Are About to Go to War with North Korea
One of the few features I like in Edge is the tab preview feature.
oh hey, I work on a team that should prevent this kind of thing. This should be fun to fix.

[I'm not allowed to say more on the topic, nor do I speak for Amazon, as per the current Amazon guidelines on what we're allowed to talk about on social media. We're hiring though, and it's a fun adversarial engineering job]
The kids change, too. Not too many kids go to primary school for 40 years while living at the same place.
This sounds a lot like an accusation of guilt, based purely by association.

Which part of the parent's comment do you believe he "confirmed" by allowing himself to be interviewed by SM?
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/hinadan/id1199778491?mt=8
I'm sorry. I was too carried away to notice! :)

(Which reminds me: There should probably be some sort of mandatory-quoting mechanism on HN. It seems weird that you can snipe comments by editing at just the right time. That's not what happened in this case, I'm just saying that it would probably be a good thing to have measures against it. Sorry, that's my META-rant done.)
I guess this system is not without its failure modes. Sure you can get up and leave at any time and find a tribe that will accept you, but where is the incentive to seek consensus? Then comes the election time and half of the country ends up thinking the other half has gone insane.
I'm not sure what Damore is referring to in that specific quote, but there is evidence of relevant differences, especially if you're talking about recruitment numbers for a company like Google:

"A 2005 study by Ian Deary, Paul Irwing, Geoff Der, and Timothy Bates, focusing on the ASVAB showed a significantly higher variance in male scores, resulting in more than twice as many men as women scoring in the top 2%"

..."the study indicated that, while boys and girls performed similarly on average, boys were over-represented among the very best performers as well as among the very worst."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_differences_in_intelligenc...
love it!

This hit me really close because a local Afghan place near me started serving 'Mantoo' which turns out to be kind of a meat dumpling which got me thinking about it recently. This post today just fed into it even more.
> Have you been in a similar situation?

Not in a work setup, but otherwise each time I have to deal with a customer service.
Specificity of change, scale of impact, and passive-vs-active management.

Genesplicing can be highly targeted, whereas this isn't necessarily even targeting the source of the traits. For example, the (theoretical) inability of gay men to breed doesn't decrease the gene prevalence if also passed through their sisters. We could (hypothetically) see something similar here, where propensity for criminality is passed on by relatives and no amount of sterilizing criminals removes it because there's eg, a benefit to mothers having highly aggressive sons/brothers.

Genesplicing only impacts the children, while sterilization has a large impact on the sterilized individual's hormones.

Finally, genesplicing in/out traits and competing for fitness is bottom-up selection, rather than top-down (as trying to supress traits via mass sterilization would be), and thus more stable/likely to work, better respects personal freedoms, etc.
> Yeah, this is clearly at the same level as racial segregation!

No it isn't, it's just the same argument. Did you really misunderstand that? because the sarcastic tone you chose to take makes me wonder otherwise.

> You people really..

What do you mean "you people"?

> No fucking shame

Really? Because if anything, I see leftist arguments purposefully conflate race and sex, and compare racism with sexism. Even the Bloomberg presenter that interviewed Damore did it. It's only shameful when dismantling poor logic of the left?
I tried out Safari for a week but I just couldn't stay there because extension support was terrible. Technically, the two critical extensions I use (LastPass and uBlock Origin) support Safari in some form, however they were strictly worse than the Chrome version. I can tolerate to some degree worse extensions. However, the UX was just _too_ bad to stand.

To be perfectly honest, I didn't even realize Safari lacked favicons until I read this article. I generally close tabs are soon as I finish using them. Consequently, I never have more than ~5 tabs open at any given moment.
Man, I just found a comment where you compare Damore to Rosa Parks. Literally, go fuck yourself. You are so far gone up your own ass, I don't think there's enough horses in the world to pull you out of it.
Although that's kind of a clever response, most bells have a chime to alert you to the hour change so it would just be the chime without the counted bell strikes. Better yet, since 0 would always be the start of a new day, make the strikes do some kind of awesome song.
In the interest of a "fairer" comparison, I wonder how much of a difference it would make to force the AI to simulate mouse/keyboard input and interpret the raw screen buffer output, rather than using direct APIs into the game's guts, to more faithfully emulate its human opponent. I'm guessing the peripheral inputs wouldn't be much of a hurdle, but the image processing step could be very interesting.
This is quite fascinating to me as it's the first time I've seen this kind of struggle between investors.

Are there similar high profile stories of investor infighting? What goes differently when this happens in a public company rather than a private one?
I'm actually one of those people who (occasionally) flies aerobatics for fun. It's a lot more fun if you can see out the front, which you typically can't in a commercial airliner.
well interest rates are still low. I'm still in shock the federal reserve hasnt been raising them more.
"examine the author's intent"

That's tricky.

Do we take the author at face value when they make claims about their intent?

Many critics seem to think they can see the author's "true intent", and when they can't substantiate their claim, blame others for failing to see what they see.
I would love to hear more
One interesting quip I've heard from a psychologist recently, is that communication only really works well going down the dominance hierarchy. (I think it can work across.) I see a lot of the outrage driven viral media of today as being "punching down" by aspirant upper-echelon socioeconomic people onto lower-echelon people.

Also, if communication only really works well going down the dominance hierarchy, doesn't this suggest that power is contextual, so that it can change directions and allow communications to flow in different directions?

EDIT: Relevant to the article - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVTogKE25aQ
You can if its defamation.
Raw screen is not as big of a deal as it would seem, in DotA and Starcraft you can glimpse most of the information you can see on a screen through the minimap.
Fuck hours. There's only 1440 minutes a day. No time for hour conversions.
Some women have a severe adverse reaction to "hormonal" birth control. These products actually use hormone analogues that disrupt the steroid pathways.

This diagram shows how cholesterol is turned into the steroids: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steroid#/media/File:Steroidoge...

As best I can figure, my friend had her first psychotic break after 9 months of chemical castration with time released medroxyprogesterone acetate (Depo Provera). This drug is a very good mimic of Progesterone USP (what the body makes for itself), but the body cannot transform it into the steroids downstream from Progesterone USP.

Most of the other endocrine disruptors used as birth control aren't nearly as bad as Provera, but all have potential for adverse reactions.

edit: wording
Wow, I hope I'm still productive at that age.
I hear it works better if you soil yourself. It helps smooth out the boundary layer.
Looks like a Tu-95 bear or variant.
Portland's is also misleading. Getting off the freeway still involves massive long lines to get anywhere.

This is a city that just replaced the Sellwood Bridge, an aging bridge that was a huge bottle-neck because it was only a single lane both directions. They spent $324M to build a brand new Sellwood bridge that is still only a single lane both directions.
Depends on the nature of the genomic editing and the circumstances under which it occurs, doesn't it?

For example: "We'll give you time off your sentence if you let us edit out genes in your gametes linked to aggressive and addictive traits." That trade is similarly coercive, and doesn't provide a clear benefit to the future children.
Rails to trails has occasionally happened on an ad hoc basis in the U.K. too. When Beeching's axe fell [1] at least some were converted. I used to cycle from Fareham to Gosport largely along one, the main challenge being that the other path users included a significant population of enthusiastic bottle smashers, so changing tubes became a fine art.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beeching_cuts
Sounds interesting, who is the psychologist?
Yes, you did, and I responded to that.

I didn't "compare Damore to Rosa Parks", someone argued that Damore shouldn't have voiced his opinion for fear of not being hireable, and I compared this to Rosa Parks being told she'd have difficulty catching a bus. Given the comments you've posted already across HN, I believe it is you that has a problem.