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> The overweight example was an attempt to clarify that even though statistical averages say something about a group, it does not say something about the individual, i.e the google females should not feel singled out by statistical averages.

Right. And what I've been trying to say is that the statistical averages aren't the offensive part. That's a straw man.

Google women don't feel offended when they're told they're a minority, they already know that; but they sure might reasonably be concerned when someone suggests they're a minority "in part" "possibly" because women aren't biologically as able to engineer as men.

> No, the memo is not saying that nature is the primary force, only that it might play a part [1]:

Sure, the memo didn't say it explicitly, but it did imply that. Everyone keeps defending the exact wording as if implication and misleading statements don't exist. Suggesting it's a "part" suggests it's a measurable and large part, comparable to social causes. Pointing out that women are more neurotic (which is a clinical term with very negative popular connotation, so extremely easily misunderstood) might be a part of why Google has so few women is leading the reader to conclude it's a major factor.

This argument is cherry-picking the science in favor, and completely ignoring the contrary evidence that suggests that social issues are much larger than anything we could possibly measure about innate biological ability. For example, that different countries have very different distributions of women in engineering, or that the distributions have changed wildly in the last 50 years.
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... and is this a guess? Have you met him, worked with him?
he could sell 10% of his shares on a highly public and liquid market

This is the part that's illegal. If a company's shares trade on a public market then they need to file all the paperwork of a public company with all the costs that entails.
No, it isn't. Not when many of their female employees were willing to leave the company, and when the existence of that manifesto would make their recruiting efforts much, much harder.
Parent is talking about how the media was manipulated by Benchmark for their profit. You are using a media link as an evidence.
It seems like the Amazon reps weren't paying attention to the detail, or the seller was also supplying fraudulent evidence of delivery.

This blog post will likely get it resolved for the buyer, though it shouldn't have to be this way.
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If the books are free, what about making money on the way people read them? Kindle affiliate links, maybe a service that sends the free books to your Kindle, affiliate links to reading accessories, etc.
There are several advantages you are disregarding.

Functions have names and you get to name the code in a way that shouldn't expire the way comments can.

In most languages separate functions create separate scopes. This prevent incidental use of temporaries from one section into another.

Having a smaller scope to look at means that refactoring or changes to new business requirements can have a smaller place for side effects to occur.

I agree that testing each part on its isn't required, but if it becomes part of the public API and A is setup database connection and C is teardown Database connection and B is use the database connection then as one function B is really hard to test. Breaking it into three functions lets you write unit tests for at least B by mocking A and C.
Yeah, I spent a few minutes going over the last sentence in tengbretson's comment.

I would actually recharacterize Piketty's (and the author of this chart) argument as:

"X increasing is a symptom that Y is increasing. Let's implement policy A. This may temporarily increase X, but it will stop Y from increasing, which will in turn stop X from increasing in the long run."
It's just Mos Eisley, baby. It's not racism. It's not sexism. It's because I don't like you. And my friend, he doesn't like you either.
Some things don't change, baby. Mos Eisley don't change. Some things never change.
To be fair, in a sense it's less surprising when the most notable project in Rust, from relatively early on, was a web browser.
FYI your website is down. Can't access https://nugget.one/
IB and EOModeller once too were targeted at business users. The RADsy parts of Xcode are older than VB. It's just a bit of a historical curiosity: while RAD tools went out of fashion (at least for 'serious' programming), Xcode is still ticking away, in mainstream use.
With the telecoms in charge of government regulations the regulations will be about preventing competition.
Until it was hacked and no one dare to build the 2.0 version.

Moreover. In The DAO, the "tokens" gave you voting rights so the "curators" couldn't pick up all the money and go to the small island in the Caribe on vacation^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H to write a white paper.

Also, in The DAO you can get (most/hopefully) of your Ethereum back, with a (incredible useful) one month delay.

I.E. someone realize that you can pick all the money without giving any concrete right to the "investors".
I have a 4k screen at some point this pattern stops working.
/newcomments and /active show that these articles are getting lots of discussion from some people. Some others are flagging them - probably because they are fed up with the issue. I believe it should be discussed and because there is new stuff (like the video interviews) but now even when I go over the comments, I'm not really hearing anything new being discussed.
I agree, and I think once monero gets some better wallet solutions, it will be a catalyst.
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There are some confusions in that post -- perhaps understandable, as trying to deduce things from code review alone is tricky -- but Grisha and I have been communicating and hopefully it'll be updated.

Overall like the conclusion though :)
They've got a right to be concerned. What Benchmark has done against Travis Kalanick is part of their modus operandi.

Good news for Travis is that they've been beaten before - by none other than Naval Ravikant of Angelist fame.

http://www.mercurynews.com/2013/02/06/naval-ravikant-of-ange...

If the journalists were really doing their jobs they'd be interviewing Naval, though it's possible as a part of the settlement he got from Benchmark he can't comment on his case.
Better than validating it with people you know - who are too homogenous to your own background to be able to give you an accurate picture (assuming your product is for general consumers).
It's actually both, 20Khz bandwidth and the 19.6k symbol rate.

I love amateur radio but at least on the 2m bands it's mostly dominated by people just chatting on repeaters with others they already know or dead quiet. I monitor 146.52(our calling frequence) on my ~300mi weekly trip and I've made only one contact in 2 years.

APRS is pretty dead, there's a ton of interesting stuff that could be done on the ECC and symbol rate front but no one really seems interested. Not much has changed on the spec for a long time. Compared to some other countries where they have some very robust and flourishing 2m digital modes it's a shame.
Yes, HN and Reddit are very-high-traffic forums, so it is mostly read-once--write-once--do-not-come-back. Not only the comment go by hundreds on each thread, but the threads themselves have a life expectancy of 24 hours only, 48 hours max, before they are buried and reject to the infamous page 2 where no one goes. So there's generally no point in coming back.

The fact that the 'shape' of the threads changes all the time does not help either (the way the messages are ordered, depending on the upvotes, the freshness, and whichever mysterious other criteria may be involved).

Conversations at a depth higher than 5 or 6 levels is also difficult to follow, so I think not many people read them, let alone take part in them (on Reddit, such deep threads even suffer a penalty twice, and the second one, which requires opening a new tab or window if you don't want to have to reload the whole page once you come back, is probably fatal to almost all of the readers).

(I won't tell how much I miss Usenet and newsreaders once more, I promise :-D )
but it is (even adding a prefix) means that it is backwards compatible in some way.
Shortwave, as in short with respect to "mediumwave" transmissions, like regular old broadcast AM radio, or "longwave" which can be used to communicate with submerged submarines.

It's a really old term...
The majority of the global volume is crypto-crypto, so I agree it's a valid concern, but the volume of fiat trades has gone way up over the past several months. For example, Coinbase added 1 million accounts in June - the vast majority by necessity are putting fiat in vs cashing out.

One flash crash happened on the ETH-USD pair on GDAX like a month ago, when a large dump triggered cascading margin calls. Bitcoin has had a few of those over the years too.
Recap as I understand it, since the blog post isn't

0. Buyer purchased item from third-party seller on Amazon

1. Seller picked a name and address in buyer's town, from an obituary, and sent parcel containing two baking mats thereto ( instead of camera lens )

2. Occupant of that address signed for it believing it to be for the deceased relative

3. USPS updated status to 'delivered' with signature and address recorded

4. However the proof of delivery shows the address from (1) and not the buyer's address

5. Buyer repeatedly appealed on the basis of (4) but Amazon only check that the parcel was signed-for IN THE SAME TOWN. Therefore requests for refunds or further action were denied.

Very clever seller, knows the system well. I wonder how many items he had to sell before striking it rich with a $1500 "lens".
> This fallacy that everything needs to be distributed is really getting out of hand.

Unlike many other ICOs, I think this is actually a good example of something that can and arguably should be distributed. Cheap storage is much more readily available in a system like this than from cloud providers and there's no real trustworthiness of the cloud providers. No nth time dropbox gets hacked, no EC2 going down, etc.

I've been using client-side encrypted cloud storage for a while, but you either self-host with relatively poor tooling, use fairly untrustworthy proprietary tooling or use a provider that charges an arm and a leg for storage fees.

There's no good compromise right now - and I'm not saying FileCoin will be it, but they have a good backing of developers and have decent chances. Other contenders:

- GridSync - fixes Tahoe-LAFS syncing, making the self-hosted solution much more bearable, but still size limited

- Sia - an already existing cryptocurrency based solution that seems to have done a lot right, but doesn't have the same marketing wank.

I'm really not impressed with the way Filecoin has run their token sale though - but it doesn't rule it out if they can make the best solution in the end.
So corporations find that mentally healthy employees are more productive/valuable so they promote mental fortitude. Somehow anti-capitalists spin even that into some deep evil. Ridiculous.
Children do have strong opinions and I don't think that we should try to change their preferences. These "women in tech" events are not used to change opinions, they're used to expose people to ideas they might have not been exposed to before. Imagine if your son never saw an airplane before and grew to up to be 10 years old without ever thinking about an airplane. At 10 years old you voluntarily bring him to the nearest airport and pilots show him around the airfield all day. Your son has a blast and realizes that he loves airplanes. Wouldn't that be great for your son?

> And if you ignore these and try to implant in them other preferences, you're basically going against their will.

These "women in tech events" are purely voluntary and if anyone wants to leave for any reason, they can get up and go. I have never seen someone pushed against their will or preferences at these events. I agree that if a student isn't interested in a subject, you shouldn't push it on them. I don't see how exposing a student to an area of study in a completely positive matter is pushing someone against their will.
What they're doing is really interesting and solves some of the major problems in crypto (governance and smart contract safety). Now it comes down to shipping, and we all know how hard that can be at times.
You get two covers: one on the way up, and one on the way down. Nobody complains about the first one.
Saturation dynamics model fitting my data?
I have this[1] portion of a data-set, where the y values eventually must reach an asymptotic limit. I have seen `asymptotic regression` (y = b0 + b1 * e ^ (b3 * x)) and I think it would be the best model to fit this data. Alternatively, I have the following "saturation dynamics"[2] function:

def f(x, a, b, n):
return a * x ** n / (x ** n + b)

My question is two-fold.

(1) What is this "saturation dynamics" model? What do its parameters mean? How can I use the above models to fit any of the other data similar to my dataset?

(2) Also, I read something about "fit[ting] the logarithm of the model" as initial conditions in case I wanted to use another model...what does that mean?

[1]: https://pastebin.com/A3s9dUKp
[2]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/45554107/asymptotic-regression-in-python
The point isn't that it's normal, it's that at least in that range of the market (which covers about a quarter of US households and growing rapidly) the price is competitive. If you have another data point for comparison you're welcome to post it.
Wouldn't surprise me. Superficial reading is an ongoing danger of text-based support. The other day, my wife used Amazon's chat support to ask a question about what would happen if she canceled her free Prime trial. The rep said: give me two minutes to look into this. And then came back with: I've canceled your Prime as you requested, thanks, gtfo.

She managed to unwind this after a great deal of effort, but man.
Would you agree that it is possible that given elimination of all negative discrimination the gender representation in a particular industry/field might not be 50/50? Since we don't know what the non-discriminating ratio naturally would be, I have a hard time feeling like we would be serving justice well by shooting for an arbitrarily (if somewhat informed) selected ratio. Does the end justify the means?
These amazon emails literally look like automatic mails with a small custom message on top. He stated multiple times that what they said was WRONG yet no one bothered to listen to that part. If I was the author or if this ever happens to me, I'll go directly to disputing the charge.
Perminance is not a great thing for a blacklist. Spamand ads is complicated stuff. There are false positives, and abuse.
The cat's been of the bag for so many years that somebody ought to have exploited it by now.

I'd like to send you over here: http://danluu.com/tech-discrimination/

And to the real-world examples of the market needing quite a long time to correct for sufficiently strong biases in the culture.
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liveintent or powerinbox maybe?
And the right answer is never "Disable SELinux"
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I'd suggest a similar approach as csallen, though Step 1 should probably be to do research to find similar newsletters, websites, magazines and find out who is advertising in them.

Once you know that, you will have a much better idea of who specifically is currently spending advertising dollars (display or affiliate).

Knowing who is spending money already is really important because getting companies to carve out some of their existing budget for you is easier than getting companies to create a budget out of thin air for you.
The only way I've got problems solved with Amazon is going to the police and let them sort it out. Worked every time.

Amazon was in now way responsive or helpful before I've got the police involved.
filing the chargeback is a good idea... but also, the sender made a critical mistake sending it usps.. that makes it mail fraud. Talk to the US Postal Inspection Service, it's a branch of law enforcement, and I'm sure they would be very interested with all of the evidence youve collected. They can cross state lines and arrest the sender.

https://postalinspectors.uspis.gov/
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Thanks for the heads up. Should be good to go now.
It won't get your money back, but it is worthwhile to file a fraud complaint with the USPS as well. Mail fraud for $1500 is a big deal to sweep under the rug with a charge back.
The only point related to abilities I can see in the memo is

Extraversion expressed as gregariousness rather than assertiveness. Also, higher
agreeableness.

○ This leads to women generally having a harder time negotiating salary, asking for
raises, speaking up, and leading. Note that these are just average differences
and there’s overlap between men and women, but this is seen solely as a
women’s issue. This leads to exclusory programs like Stretch and swaths of men
without support.

So Google acknowledges this difference in ability and has a program to counter it. He points out that this is unfairly generalizing when applied to individuals, thus demanding the program to be opened to men as well. I think this is a good suggestion, regardless of what I think about the rest of the memo.
When it rains, it pours, I guess.
Thanks! Googled it and I believe this is the one you're talking about: http://5by5.tv/rubyonrails/161

I'll check it out.
Maybe there are other places on the internet that you can discuss it.
But how much of that is small functions, and how much is just people blindly applying pattern after pattern while optimizing for business use-cases that are unlikely to ever emerge?

That doesn't mean the patterns are bad, it doesn't mean small functions are bad, it just means the person who implemented them lacked good judgement. Good judgement is somewhat subjective. Fortunately, we can combat this subjectivity by looking at what the long term $ of a decision (programmer time, onboarding time, resources used...), how a particular decision advances an organization's objectives, etc.

We need functionality, not code. That functionality exists to support (what should be) clearly defined interests and goals. "Right" code is code that serves the functionality, and therefore the goals, best.
Oh, I thought that's what the hide button was for.
> It’s a phenomenon that Richard Socher, the dishevelled 30-something (or 20-something?) lecturer who just sold his company for several hundred millions yet still biked to campus, mentioned in his class: “Companies keep asking my students to drop out to work for them.”

Why would anyone not continually bike for commuting purposes once they are wealthy? Biking is such a joy whether you're 7 or 70, rich, or poor.
We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14979330 and marked it off-topic.
Because of the light touch string matching that providers do before complying with a frivolous DMCA request. Most will deny the request if they dont see "the text".

And reduced discoverability that your url is on my page in the first place. Even though a url isn't something you can copyright.
I'm more sympathetic to Amazon here than most. Scams are hard to detect. They set up a shipping confirmation process that's worked fine for them for almost two decades now. It has a hole (it only checks the town and has no closed loop to verify that the shipper shipped to the right address in that town), but none of the existing employees actually know that it has a hole. They get a report about a missing shipment, check their process, and it says it was received. Case closed.

This is like trying to report a web site vulnerability to a help desk employee. It doesn't work. You have to escalate until you find someone who understands the root issue, and escalation is messy (and involves blog posts like these).
One idea could be to partner with publishers and maybe 10% of the time a user opens a new tab, the book placement is sponsored. Charge based on impressions, click-throughs, or by some other arrangement.

For users, it keeps the tool free and ideally—if the sponsored placements are good—introduces them to cool new books.
> "you don't need to lecture me on this right now"

> discussion became increasingly heated

Are you sure you don't owe her an apology? I have the feeling she felt hurt for some reason, and just wanted your understanding.
This article is from 2015...shouldn't the HN entry be preceded with a (2015) (what are the rules/guidelines on that ?)
this is hacker news ?
Hey - first I thought I'd say I love IndieHackers. I often check it out as people have some great products and I love learning about how they did it.

We send at least one regular weekly newsletter as well as other smaller ones depending on what we have going that week. Spending nearly ~3k/mo to send.

Yeah, we're already able to segment internally, based on downloads from a certain category etc. Now that you mention it, perhaps worth seeing if we can segment into 4-5 general groups and email those separately rather than a generic email to everyone, then try and find a product for each group that might be interesting. I'll think it through. Thanks!

Thanks for the link to the forum, I might post there as well.
If you want to actually create you own fictional map you can checkout what I consider my favourite geospatial project of all time: OpenGeoFiction http://opengeofiction.net/

Imagine an OpenStreetMap (it actually uses the same stack) where you can create your own fictional land - and where you can potentially interact with other people's creations too.

From their FAQ:
"
OpenGeofiction (OGF) is based on the OpenStreetMap software platform, which means that all map editors and other tools suitable for OpenStreetMap can be used to build OGF's fictional world. This world is set in modern times, so it doesn't have orcs or elves, but rather power plants, motorways and housing projects. But also picturesque old towns, beautiful national parks and lonely beaches.

Different users view OGF in different ways. For some, it's an exciting creative adventure, a challenging construction puzzle, or an epic tapestry of interwoven stories. For others, it's a relaxing meditation, an immersion in imagination, or perhaps the largest piece of artwork ever created — equal in size to the Earth itself. "

edits - It's not that immediately easy to find the good mapping - http://opengeofiction.net/#map=11/36.4055/119.2868 or http://opengeofiction.net/#map=15/1.6975/42.5115 is one example, and I find http://opengeofiction.net/history could be useful to see where people are working on.
What did that process look like for you? Do you just call up your local non-emergency number and and tell them Amazon cheated you?
You are not targeting properly, you're not solving something customers want, or your product is bad. Those are the three things you'd need to look at. With a couple million subs, it's unlikely you've got a bad product, but it's highly likely you're targeting incorrectly or your product isn't solving a problem. As someone who reads a ton of books, this is a saturated market, what problem are you solving that isn't solved yet or that you're solving better?