skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I only said that something being factually true does not necessarily protect it from being racist or sexist when used in argument or action.

I only argue that there are (or could be) examples of scientific facts being used in racist discourse where an argument or action is racist regardless of whether it's supporting facts are true or false.

Just like libel/slander law in many (most?) places doesn't care whether a defamation is factually correct or not. (In US that's not the case though)

I'll quote an oxford writer:

> Take a simple example. Imagine there was an imaginary newspaper, let’s call it the Mail Daily, which only cited certain facts about immigration – let’s say negative facts. True facts. Facts which might have to do with crime, for example, or housing shortages, or the abuse of the welfare system. Imagine that the Mail Daily never gave any positive facts about immigration – never emphasized any of the enormous benefits that immigration brings.Would it be fair to accuse the Mail Daily of being racist in its coverage of immigration? That’s a rhetorical question.

http://blog.practicalethics.ox.ac.uk/2013/08/can-facts-be-ra...

His point (which is counter to Dawkins - who holds your position) is that this tabloid is racist while only reporting facts - simply because of how facts are filtered in res publication and which arguments are made with them.
Well, first of all, such an unbiased test does not and probably cannot exist. People have to write the test, and despite their best efforts, they will likely still be biased. And how do you determine what 'unbiased' is in the first place? Such a test would likely give us the status quo or close to it because most hiring managers are acting in good faith already (at least, I chose to believe that people don't mean to perpetuate sexism/racism etc, they just aren't necessarily trying NOT to do it.)
Those comments in no way "defend discrimination against women".

Serious question: does your mind think they actually do? This might be a good illustration of why people differ so much on the same objective facts, the human brain automatically adds additional context (that isn't necessarily physically present) into perceptions.
The article mentions 'expat' 24 times, and does not mention 'emigrant' once. The GP's question is a bit of a tangent from the article at hand.

Also, one does not necessarily give up their citizenship to become an expat somewhere else.
Does anybody know a tool for building just the graphs?
Could you point me to that?
Yes, this is the effective difference between Typescript and typecasting in most other languages. Typescript, since it compiled to js, doesn't know the runtime type so it can't use reflection to make sure casts are valid. It just takes your word for it. If the cast isn't always correct prepare for a world of pain trying to track it down instead of getting an exception on casting failure
Well said, it's a massive leap to go from biological gender differences to differences in aptitude for engineering.

The gross oversimplified claims from the document that attempt to make this leap are textbook stereotypes.
Different locations do it differently. I know of one are where all you need is someone with an ID to vouch that you are a resident of that area and you can register (under any name you want) and vote. Poll watchers have told me about cases where a bus shows up one person vouches for everybody on the bus and so they vote. They are sure it is fraud, but nothing can be done about it.

If it is true or not I don't know, but is a real concern if so.
how do you dump that many high millage cars on the market without it dragging down used car prices.
Seriously.

I don't regularly work from home, but I have solved several difficult problems while doing laundry, and I can specifically think of one time recently that was during a workday while I was folding towels. I know it's happened other times as well, I just can't specifically think if it was during the day while working from home.

I've also solved problems while showering, mowing the grass, eating dinner, and laying in bed trying to fall asleep.

Who knew -- developing software involves lots of thinking. You don't have to have your butt in a seat in front of the computer in the office to think. Sometimes doing something completely different is just what's necessary to break through -- whether this is getting up to get a drink, going for a walk, or doing sometimes completely non-computer-related like laundry.
Yes, this is exactly how it plays out. This isn't proof, in itself, but it does seem to have predictive power as a theory:

"Galpin investigated the percent of women in computer classes all around the world. Her number of 26% for the US is slightly higher than I usually hear, probably because it’s older (the percent women in computing has actually gone down over time!). The least sexist countries I can think of – Sweden, New Zealand, Canada, etc – all have somewhere around the same number (30%, 20%, and 24%, respectively). The most sexist countries do extremely well on this metric! The highest numbers on the chart are all from non-Western, non-First-World countries that do middling-to-poor on the Gender Development Index: Thailand with 55%, Guyana with 54%, Malaysia with 51%, Iran with 41%, Zimbabwe with 41%, and Mexico with 39%. Needless to say, Zimbabwe is not exactly famous for its deep commitment to gender equality."

Source: http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/08/07/contra-grant-on-exagger...
Not all Europeans. Personally I think the French left is generally more right than the British and American left.

The Swedish left is regarded by everyone else as utter madness. See how the media covered their refugee policy a few years ago.
Does anybody know a tool to just build the graphs as in the tool?
St in SF sold to couple for 90k
Right = capitalism. The right definitely controls the vast majority of capitol. You're delusional if you think otherwise.

Most educated people (who aren't massively insecure) see gender equality as a progressive goal and moral good. Most educated people are socially progressive, even if they are capitalists and have very libertarian economic leanings. Silicon Valley is the biggest example of this dynamic, that I know of.

Posting creepy memos about how one gender is biologically unsuited to write boring software is dumb and the guy was basically asking to be fired. It's good and hilarious that he is now dead.
I know only this one particular case, sorry for the exageration. However thousands of (nameless) millionaires have left france in these past years (according to http://www.lalsace.fr/actualite/2017/04/11/de-plus-en-plus-d...) it was 12000 in 2016, 10000 in 2015 and 6000 in 2014. Not a very good development.
When the PUBG lobby gets to racist for my liking, my favorite thing to do is play the NPR Politics Podcast on the All Chat channel, or VOX Weeds.

Its like kryptonite to the shit spewing gamer bros.
Exercise as a Weight-Loss Strategy
Ask HN: What's a good cheap, low-power, high-flexibility home server solution?
I want to get a server to stick under the TV, which will automate some of my life.

I'm a Linux power user and software developer, but my hardware skills suck. I can stick together computer parts with matching interfaces, but that's about it.

In my search for something cheap (being a CS student), I tried thinking out of the box. Since Linux or NetBSD runs on pretty much anything, it shouldn't be a big deal to look for things people don't normally think to?

There are some ideas I have had and then ruled out. I'd love nothing more than to be wrong about all of them. These are:

* Commercially available NAS solutions: not flexible enough in terms of software you can run on them.

* Raspberry Pi and similar one-chip computers: bad I/O performance.

* Old laptops: batteries not meant for constant load.

* Used rack server: noisy and power hungry. Might be able to take out some fans and undervolt it but I lose stability at that point.

* Most disappointing: smartphone ARM SoCs. They're amazing but tricky and expensive to turn into general purpose computers.

I'm aiming to have one SSD for most day-to-day usage, mainly for its quietness and low power consumption. In addition, I want two slow spinning drives in RAID-1 for backups; the idea is that these will be parked for the majority of the time. I'm worried about power consumption not for my electricity bill as much as for heat and efficiency concerns.

I need it to fit in a small case, and upgradeability is not an issue as long as "replace everything" is a possible upgrade path (i.e. I want to avoid vendor lock-in). External connections can be limited. If I get a gigabit ethernet port and ideally also an HDMI output I'm content.

I hope these are fairly general demands and we can get a discussion going on modern, cheap, unusual home server/HTPC solutions!
In my opinion it is part of a wider trend, of both public- and private-sector schools, moving away from the "education business" and more toward the "diploma business."
> The two biggest problems (Europe has) with the integration of Muslims in our society are our societies prejudice and the forming of parallel society by the immigrants, leaving them isolated from the greater society they are supposed to join.

Why are Muslims integrating well in US and Canada, but not Europe? Perhaps it has more to do with bigotry and lack of opportunity afforded to them rather than refusal to integrate.

> After all, this app could be seen as reinforcement of the stereotype that Muslims do not want to mix with non-Muslims.

A Muslim wanting to marry another Muslim means they don't want to mix with non-Muslims?

> Do other dating apps have ethnicity filters, too?

Are people not allowed to have preferences? Muslims are a very diverse group and this sounds like a feature many would want.
The traffic fatality rate per capita in Germany about 40% of what it is in the US.

I assume you were referring to terrorist attacks, but a stupid, inattentive, or drunk driver will kill you just as dead.
Deezer also supports MP3 uploads. Works well, but their playlist-centric interface makes impossible navigate through your MP3 library by artist or album.
Damore asserts that it is actually affected by gender.

I used to be at Google. I heard the same thing from recruiters themselves. That a woman could fail an interview but still make it through to the next rounds. Their justification for this was like so:

1. This isn't discrimination because the final hiring decision by the committee takes into account all interviews, so the bar is equal at that point.

2. Our lawyers say this is totally OK.

I heard this many years ago, when I first joined Google and was learning how to be an interviewer. It disquieted me a little but I didn't challenge it - I figured, if the lawyers say it's OK, then it's OK. And the logic that in the end, the final decision was unbiased was something I accepted.

Well, I was young and naive. If men are being dropped and women are not, then more women will make it through to the final hiring decision than would naturally occur, that's the entire point of doing it. This is, in effect, a way to lower the bar for women - literally, men and women can jump to the same height and one will cross the bar and one won't, based on gender.

That's what Damore meant when he said the bar was being lowered by reducing the false negative rate.

Is it illegal? I have no idea. But it's definitely not fair on men.
You realize that science is ideological, epistemological, and political?

Edit: I appreciate all of the vote downs. Empiricism is as guilty in choosing models according to power dynamics as any ideological endeavor. See phrenology. To suggest science isn't political and ideological is absolutely delusional.
Right. So it's not what happens. It's the DRC, it's mine cobalt or starve.

What's your point, unless you were actually agreeing with the parent?
raise taxes
There are reasonable arguments on both sides, which rational people can debate.

That's the bigger point here. Not that there is a slam dunk argument on the side of biology or society, but that we don't know where the exact truth lies, and we need to be open to discussion about it in order to find out. As scientists have been saying all along, both biological and societal factors matter.

What I hope we can all agree is unreasonable is to fire someone for just trying to discuss this.
Does Common Core use what we called "the new math" back in the 1960s? (Tom Lehrer's song is probably as good an intro as any.) Good math teachers seem to be hard to find. That was true in my school days also.
The problem isn't that women aren't getting jobs (the market is currently in too serious of a demand for hands on keyboards for that) but that they aren't getting as good a job as you would expect from their qualifications and/or that they aren't being paid as much.
Bannon is a literal white nationalist. Gorka has an actual Nazi background.

These are literal undeniable truths. Please do your research and don't try to be coy.
If all this science were the end all be all, the low level engineers would be men, and men with their evolutionary handicap for empathy would be none of the managers, leaders, designers, product managers. That's how it is right?
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The problem is that the gender differences you're referring to cannot, in aggregate, explain the 70/30 bias toward men in the industry.

There's a real similarity to the global warming debate, here. There are many factors that affect global mean temperature. For example, over the very long term, the sun will get brighter. But that can only account for an astonishingly tiny fraction of the warming observed on the planet.

Someone who wishes to debate honestly would admit that, while there are many factors that affect global mean temperature, the rise on CO2 concentration in the atmosphere is significant, and has a demonstrable effect on temperature, making it by far the strongest influencer.

Someone who wishes to debate dishonestly will use these other explanations as a method to muddy the debate and try and turn attention toward lesser factors that cannot explain the whole effect.

Now, if you look at this current "debate", yes, there are undoubtedly biological gender differences that can explain some male/female bias in engineering (among many other disciplines).

But no serious psychologist or sociologist would claim that those differences can account for the dramatic real world bias in the industry. It simply doesn't follow.

So to claim those gender differences lie at the root of bias in the industry is a distraction. At best it's a gross misunderstanding of the science. At worst, it's a deliberately dishonest attempt to muddy the waters and confuse the debate.

My bet is it's more the former than the latter... reading the text of the memo, my bet is that this guy has an antiquated and/or simplistic understanding of gender bias and population statistics, and has found himself falling victim to the dangers of confirmation bias. But let's call a spade a spade, here: he doesn't really know what he's talking about (there's a cognitive bias I'm looking for here... where someone who's an expert in one area therefore believes they're an expert in other, unrelated areas... it's not Dunning-Kruger but it's something like it).
Not too proud to admit that essay directly inspired my comment, I just wanted to be more concise than SSC (which the opposite of difficult).
I carry two contactless cards: the metro pass and an office key. They are just taped together (because I want to make sure I always have both) and still reliably work, so I doubt you are protected.
or lets assume you say f* uber drive for lyft or just say thanks for the free car a*shole.... then you need to run around and find them and collect the car and you got $250 for the hassle.

Hell, you might even find half your car's parts for sale on ebay.

Not that all people with bad credit are bad people but some of them are.
Nobody cares about your opinion on religions. HN is not the place for this.
Your description of nested call backs sounds terrifying. I don't think the issue here is with the language, but rather your approach to it. Nested callbacks can be a pain, but it seems like the solution here may be to ensure that you properly handle your errors rather than expecting everything to continue to work when everything goes down -- seems like a safer approach to me. Even so, many newer features in javascript involving Promises and async/await can help you avoid callbacks, so the nested call backs isn't really an issue.

I'm curious -- what's your issue with Java? It's very different from Javascript, and the concurrency models are vastly different?
She didn't stop there...

> racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamaphobic

> ... irredeemable
TLDR - Video Games are acting like "grapefruit" to the hippocampus.
I can tell you my reasons, but it's mainly the mandatory privacy, where every single transaction has to use RingCT and helps to protect the privacy of the whole network.

Zcash's very computing expensive shielded transactions are rarely used and no GUI (and mobile) wallets simply offer them. You can see this in their block explorer: https://explorer.zcha.in/transactions
Here is some more information on their own forum: https://forum.z.cash/t/low-percentage-of-total-shielded-zec-...
Most exchanges also don't accept shielded Zcash deposits/withdrawals.

DASH's private send is just similar to a bitcoin mixer and takes even more than 24 hours to finish, since the Masternodes have to wait for mixing partners for you. This mixing creates a shitload of transactions on chain, it were around 70 when I tested it lately and that's a huge overhead. That are probably the (main) reasons why it's rarely used and since Chainalysis, Blockseer and all the Bitcoin tracking companies have no troubles to track mixed transactions, like they did with Wanna Cry, I think it's only a matter of time to extend them for DASH with more adoption: https://cointelegraph.com/news/bitcoin-exchange-shapeshift-h...

Summarising optional privacy makes where almost no one uses it, makes you suspect just for opting in for the privacy feature. It's also much easier to track just the few percent of private transactions by design.
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Thy micturations are to me,
As plurdled gabbleblotchits,
On a lurgid bee,
That mordiously hath blurted out,
Its earted jurtles, grumbling
Into a rancid festering confectious organ squealer. [drowned out by moaning and screaming]
Now the jurpling slayjid agrocrustles,
Are slurping hagrilly up the axlegrurts,
And living glupules frart and stipulate,
Like jowling meated liverslime,
Groop, I implore thee, my foonting turlingdromes,
And hooptiously drangle me,
With crinkly bindlewurdles,mashurbitries.
Or else I shall rend thee in the gobberwarts with my blurglecruncheon,
See if I don't!
I think you may have raised a good point - was this the appropriate forum/channel/whatever to offer his observations, questions, and criticisms?

He suggests that Google has a culture of sharing pretty openly and of offering criticism and even commentary on important issues. It would be good to have additional evidence of this to evaluate whether his statement was indeed matched to the appropriate environment.

(I am not and have not been a Google employee, so IDK for sure. I know that at my company, there are indeed particular fora in which this sort of thing could be raised. I can imagine at some companies this would not be possible, so you raise a great question. Thanks!)
> That is, managers who have no tech skills as such?

There was an article on the front page earlier about how you simply shouldn't put people with no tech expertise in charge of people who have - so far as tech goes.

There is another problem here: the wage gap across industries. Some of our most important workers (teachers, nurses) are paid a pittance, whereas one industry that invents problems to solve is paid the most. The solution is to treasure the work that everyone does - irrespective of what industry they might be in. This would allow people to pursue a respected career in whatever industry they desire, regardless of what gender is typically motivated to engage in that industry.

Tech has been historically awful to women (and some places continue to do so); yet you can find industries where all genders are discriminated against (some being a social stigma) and nobody seems to give a damn about them.

One thing I can say for certain is that, as an extremely young equal society, we seem to be making a heroic effort to improve. We have a very long way to go and the extremes are probably going to be visited multiple times as the pendulum settles to the center.
> Those people that were shouted down continued to hold the same ideas except they hid them and acted silently.

This same phenomenon happened just this last election. Only one candidate was allowed to be publicly supported. Publicly supporting the other carried the risk of being shamed, labeled (bigot, fascist, etc.), or even being fired from your job.

By all metrics Hillary was winning. But the silenced portion of the population didn't change their minds after being shouted down and shamed; they, as you said, "hid [their ideas] and acted silently"
What does mechanically typing into calculators have to do with anything? Clerical work was not the precursor to modern STEM jobs.
The article says that the reason for lower fertility rates are people waiting to have kids later.

Lower individual fertility from age only happens as you trend toward 40, so there's nothing teenagers and 20 year olds should be planning outside of "maybe have kids at 30".
Have you considered monetizing your knowledge? I would pay maybe $100/hour for some advice on how to adapt my current lifestyle and credit card usage to gain more miles/benefits.
I just CTRL+F the entire memo for "better". It was only used in two sentences:

> Being emotionally unengaged helps us better reason about the facts.
> We can increase representation at an org level by either making it a better environment for certain groups (which would be seen in survey scores) or discriminating based on a protected status (which is illegal and I’ve seen it done).

So where again does it say the he is better than someone else? These type of statements is what's causing the huge divide, because people put words into other people's mouth as and when they like just to support their own argument or agenda at the expense of everyone else.

Show me a quote where he actually says what you claim he says.
Try your local library! Free rental plus a large catalog is pretty hard to beat.
>Only difference being that the author of this article has a PhD in sexual neuroscience

Original evil evil author had a PhD/MS in Biology from Harvard
But you don't need to buy a new bike for every senior every year. Bikes last. In steady state, you only need to buy one for whoever retires that year, which is maybe 3 million per year. So the cost is roughly $45 billion per year, and that's assuming all retirees participate.

As for cost, I expect mass production on a vast scale would ultimately drive the price down. Every damn vehicle manufacturer is going to want a piece of the GLR* contract. They'll knife each other in the streets for it. $10K per unit seems like a workable target.

[*] Let me just say, in my official capacity, that the initials do not stand for Granny's Last Ride. They stand for, uh, something else.