skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If people were willing to apply such meticulous criticism and high standards to the Women in Tech movement in the first place, there wouldn't be an issue. While the sober opening and acknowledgement is a refreshing start in a sea of shitty takes, I have yet to see anyone bother to show the same kind of psychological concern for the men in tech and the same kind of rigor for scientific standards, when the shoe is on the other foot.

What would it do to your confidence and comfort to know you can't state certain scientific truths without being labelled a sexist and a misogynist? To know that there is a whole network of eager feminist writers ready to label you a troglodyte techbro and scoff at the notion you might have something interesting to say on an industry you've been part of for 10+ years? To know that, if speaking at a conference, every single word out of your mouth will be dissected for possibly implying the wrong thing, even as a first time speaker? To carefully weigh socializing with your coworkers against the chance of being accused of impropriety, with no practical defense accepted?

The people who complain about "an unequal burden my male coworkers don’t have to deal with every day" are showing an utterly stunning lack of empathy in the other direction. They are wilfully ignoring the disastrous effect these efforts can have on the people who do not share their views.

Similarly, if people are supposed to actively seek out dissenting views and avoid cherry picking research, why is it feminists are notorious for protesting anyone who dares to disagree? Seminars, men's centers, documentaries, ... really, their track record in silencing and misrepresenting dissent is impressively consistent, the Google Memo included.

The women cited in this interview feel "emotionally drained". "The onus is on me to prove to men in tech that I’m not an “average” woman". Strange, because all I hear from tech feminists is that men need to constantly prove themselves to be "good allies". No amount of previous piety is sufficient to avoid being lynched when you draw their ire. Their track record in eating their own is equally impressively consistent.

"Who might I talk to who could tell me about their experiences working within a system that is biased against them, so I can understand better?"

Start with James Damore, an autist who worked at a company biased against him, sharing his experiences, and getting roasted for it. They complain his memo wasn't written in an inquisitive enough tone, well guess what, that sort of difference in preferred communication style is exactly the kind of thing you should expect in a diverse environment.

On the other hand, the numerous articles in the style of "I'm a woman in tech, let me ladysplain the google memo to you" leave no question about who is actually parading around with the attitude of "let me tell you what’s up, all you wrong people."

Contemporary feminism is 90% projection, this article is more of the same.
I did clarify the emphasis was mine.

Also, I'm not sure I'd qualify it as "simply a factual statement" when there were a bunch of alt-righters participating in the violence. Ever heard of alt-right hero "Based Stickman"? People pay for his tickets to go incite violence across the US. Such a symbol of peace!

Seems more like a lie by omission to me.
You troubleshoot, investigate, and research -- what systems guys have done since the beginning of computing.

If you're a developer (not you, per se) running into these types of issues, well, now you understand why -- until recently -- there has traditionally been a separate operations group that was responsible for this type of stuff.
How many of those are active users though? According to this story from Jan, there are very few new downloads:

http://www.androidpolice.com/2017/01/31/google-allo-drops-of...

And some of those installs may be due to the spammy nagware scheme google uses to force people to install it so they can see messages:

https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!msg/allo/QaFAiTvTEr...
I love O'Neill's work on PCG, and loved the talks by her I watched online.

As a tenured professor I want to say two things about this piece:

1. I think academic publishing will be forced to change. I'm not sure what it's going to look like in the end, but traditional journals are starting to seem really quaint and outdated now.

2. As far as I can tell from what she's written on the PCG page, the submission to TOMS is a poor example, because no one I know expects to be done with one submission. That is, no one I know submits a paper to one journal, even one reputable journal, and is done. They submit and it gets rejected and revise it and resubmit it, maybe three or even four times. After the fourth or fifth time, you might give up, but not necessarily even then.

I have mixed feelings about the PCG paper as an example, because in some ways it's great: an example of how something very influential has superceded traditional academic publishing. In other ways, though, it's horrible, because it's misleading about the typical academic publishing experience. Yes, academic publishing is full of random nonsense, and corruption, but yes, you can also get past it (usually) with just a little persistence. In still other ways, it's a good example of what we might see increasingly, which is a researcher having a lower threshold for the typical bullshit out there.
You are justifying your claim with a quote that is devoid of warrants.
I'm really not sure.

WordPress was initially released by Matt Mullenweg and Mike Little. Matt owns Automattic, the company that runs WordPress.com. The OSS project is run by the WordPress foundation, which now owns the "WordPress" trademark.

Given how linked Matt and his company is to the history of the project, I don't really see the issue here.
I liked the UI of early Snapchat (2013) when there was only a recent Snaps list and a camera view and you could swipe between them. It all went downhill from there, but the biggest blow for me was the stupid thing that you have to pull down when in the camera view to get access to your contacts. I wish the "designer" that had this stupid idea would be sentenced to several years of reading all text in nothing but Comic Sans.
MongoDB has filed confidentially for IPO
A Google-style gender equality manifesto for sex workers
what do you mean by unlicensed security?
What about using machine learning? It sounds like a discovery issue, and recommender systems work very well for that (eg. the side bar of Youtube).

I just discovered Neocities BTW, it sounds very interesting!
I'm afraid I'm not following you. I see plenty of opinions on this subject in this thread, as in the other threads. The main difference in this one is that the comments are more civil and substantive across the spectrum of opinions. That's a great thing.

Perhaps it feels to you like HN moderation is ideologically driven, but that's not so. It does feel that way, unfortunately, to most ideologically committed users. There doesn't seem to be anything we can do about it; everyone jumps to the conclusion that the deck is stacked against them, and the comments about this tend to be much the same regardless of the ideology of the commenter. Indeed the evils of HN moderation seem to be the only thing they all agree on! This bothered me for a few years but eventually there's little sense in being bothered by an optical illusion.

More about this in the many comments at https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&prefix&page=0&dateRange=...
Yes, it literally is. You just needed to scroll down the page a little more.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Seth_Rich#Conspiracy...
Is there much overlap between blueberry farming and traffic modeling?
I'm not sure anyone can come up with a better way to discuss the issue. I'm open to ideas if you have any.

I've asked this around HN many times over the last week. Most of them boil down to letting people who probably disagree with you edit your thoughts before you release them. Or not releasing your thoughts in any meaningful way.

If you were Damore, what would have been a healthier way to start a broader discussion on the issue?
It's the school system, imo.

When you spend 12+ formative years telling kids to sit down, be quiet and do nothing but listen to authority or else, they aren't going to somehow come out of it as stellar, well-rounded debaters.

They will, of course, project how they were treated onto others, by holding deeply ingrained beliefs such as, "When someone is being disruptive they need to be punished."
> Damore then started making HR policy proposals. We use a 50/50 gender ratio as an indicator that a particular field is free from bias. It's one thing to propose that 50/50 is not the natural ratio to end up with, but until Damore can propose a model that predicts another number then proposing HR policy changes put the cart before the horse.

This seems to assume that the only way to measure or achieve equitable hiring is to measure the representation of identity groups across a given position and make sure it tracks their makeup in the general population. It's not clear to me that there aren't other acceptable methods of trying to make things equitable.

For example, you could check that applicants from different identity groups succeed in being hired at about the same rate. That's a practice that should direct an organization towards equitable results whether the reality is that women are underrepresented because of sexism in hiring or the reality is that women are represented in different proportion because of the endeavors they tend to prefer. And also for a reality that's a mix of both (which I suspect is the way of things).

Also: if the primary accepted standard becomes to match representation in a position with an identity's representation in the population, it seems pretty likely that over time it would become more difficult over time to predict a "natural" ratio.
Must be great having access to such photogenic territory. I like this kind of understated scenery!

https://www.instagram.com/p/BWqzeMqBziz/?taken-by=dronechuk

I bought my drone while in the US and first flew it in Utah, but not enough. Misunderstood the settings on one of the early flights and it drifted into a tree - that scared me off further flights until I got home!
I agree with your conclusion, but really you should not be doing adventure tourism (edit: Maybe I'm assuming too much) on Mt Everest unless you realise that you are dramatically elevating your chances of sudden death.
I was just thinking about height. Of course biology affects career choice, and a lot of other things. Doesn't mean men are engineers and women are nurses, but to pretend biology doesn't affect anything is more than hilarious. Which makes people who think that laughable, and they probably don't like it. But hey, you can't prove obedience by agreeing that the sky is blue or a circle is round, it's gotta be something more, like "biology doesn't affect career choice". So whatevs, if it's not that it's something else ^_^
Not yet. As other commenters have pointed out there's a trust issue some might have for submitting transactions via it so we plan on open sourcing soon to deal with that.
I think "Security" in this context would roughly mean "able to run code from >1 user as securely (or more) than if they were running on separate VMs". Which AFAICT docker & linux cannot provide, but something like triton can.
Maybe it's kind of like the "Wikipedia is not Wiki" issue.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Don%27t_abbreviate_%...
>people who don't have the urge to hit on people they find attractive are going to be less...

No, I'm listening to women. I'm watching the cat call videos. There are lots of guys out there that have these thoughts. What percentage they are? I don't know and don't really care because it doesn't matter. They exist. Period. Saying as much doesn't harm anyone. Not saying so does.

My original message stands; if you feel like being an asshole to a woman, resist it - be decent.
It's still the same bias he argues, the three percent are the most motivated and prepared. Why the other 97% skip it isn't relevant in this argument, but the number is independently shocking without the context. I fell for it until the ND mention, and I took the ACT.
Electric cars will only be the future if the battery technology gets much, much better. Pound for pound, the energy density of the best available lithium battery chemistry comes no where close to that of gasoline.

Given how we've seen how lithium-based batteries like to die in catastrophic ways, I am not sure I would like to have a battery with the same energy density as gasoline. So it's a question not just of density, but safety.

On top of all that, the batteries need to be able to be charged quickly; 10 minutes to a full charge is probably the upper limit, 5 minutes would be ideal. But that would take a massive upgrade of electrical infrastructure, and I am also not sure you could make such a charger friendly for use by a consumer (not the safety aspect - more the handling aspect, as the conductors for carrying the current will likely have to be somewhat hefty).

There's also the fact that chargers would also need to be standardized (that's an industry thing, though - and if things work out for electric motors and batteries, I am sure a standard would come about).

But first and foremost is the battery tech, unless we want to say that, to go long distances (4-500 miles per charge), you need to use an IC engine in some manner (even as a hybrid), but shorter "in town" distances (which I agree, most people only do) can be handled by electrics.

That said, until a low-cost, real off-road vehicle becomes available as an electric (and I mean it has to be affordable for a regular person, not some $60-100k fantasy vehicle, which is mainly what is on the drawing board right now), I'm not very interested. But I'm not everyone, of course. I'm just not a "car guy" - I like my vehicles to be trucks or jeeps...
TL;DR: Intel is going down and AMD is going up.
Ok, I misunderstood everything. You are very right.
It's a REST API in a server that accesses Ethereum. It's not a smart contract running directly on Ethereum. Rather it accesses smart contracts which themselves are 'on' Ethereum.
Currently reading "Simulacra and Simulation" by Jean Baudrillard. This is a really fascinating book, probably one of the biggest in Post-Modernism.

It is the primary inspiration for the movie "The Matrix". When Neo takes the disk from the hacker at the beginning he actually puts it in a hollowed out version of this book.

Anyway Post-Modernism has lots of fascinating points and sub-topics and skilled writers, however if you read too much into it you can quickly become a very annoying person.

Great stuff, but read in caution and in moderation.
Etleap is hiring Java engineers to build next-gen ETL
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Now we are looking to add engineers to our core engineering team to help build the infrastructure that modern data teams depend on to create and operate their data warehouse! It shouldn't take a CS degree to use big data effectively, and abstracting away the difficult parts is our mission.

Are you ready for the challenge?

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- You love data engineering
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- Coding in Java is second nature to you
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Big plus if you have the following:

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> It could potentially be considered fair use, since I'm not making a profit and I provide commentary.

Although people through that term around willy nilly, in our current framework that means being sued for a minimum of $100,000 per supposed violation, and making your fair use defense in front of a judge.

Youtubers have reported spending $50,000 just to begin talking with lawyers and preparing briefs.

Maybe our ISPs can start offering us insurance.
Your brother is amazing. I would definitely read his autobiography if he were to write one.
That's...a surprisingly good simile.

Yes, it would be wrong of you to do that. You remember how in the Big Lebowski, Walter asks The Dude "Well, am I wrong?" and The Dude replies "You're not wrong, Walter. You're an asshole."

You don't want to be Walter.
> Now imagine a company used the name of a non-commercial project you contributed to for commercial purposes—the very name you had put your love, sweat, and tears into....

Well that's not quite how it happened. Matt of WordPress.org fame and Matt of WordPress.com fame are the same person, and WordPress.com happened comparatively early in WordPress' history.
Not to be callous, but dying climbing Mt. Everest isn't random. Climbing Mt. Everest has a lower survival rate than stage 1 cancer. Chance of death is about 10%.
I wouldn't overlook or absolve the thousands of chemicals that have been recklessly deployed into the biosphere and rather haphazardly regulated. But if the corporate class gets its way (and it usually does), that is also not acceptable to talk about.
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> Just today Trump retweeted an image of a train running down a CNN reporter.

It was a CNN logo with arms and legs being run over by (well, hit squarely by the front of) “the Trump train”; that's different than a train hitting a reporter, though in horrible taste from a President at any time and especially inappropriate given its actual timing.
This is the funny thing about the memo. How it's read is completely determined by people's own biases.

That sentence makes it very clear that Damore considers women to be biologically differently abled from men when it comes to programming. In fact he goes on to claim that this essential biological nature is so different that the practices of programming needs to be altered to better suit women (eg more pair programming).

This is an extraordinary claim. It requires extraordinary evidence. There is no well-understood scientific mechanism that can get us from different genotypes to a different kind of thinking. There is no evidence that men and women's brains are so different that women need their own engineering practices.

Of course it's not a new claim. Since the dawn of time it's been claimed that women can't do X. Just 50 years ago it was widely believed that women can't do law, math or science. Fifty years before that it was disputed that women were rational enough to vote. All of this claims have proved to be nonsense. But supposedly programming is different because of a study on rhesus monkeys?

Logically, the entire memo -- including its wild rantings about Marxist intellectuals -- can be dismissed on the basis of extraordinary claims. Note that if somebody did provide a genetic ability decoder -- a machine that can analyze normal-form genes and then reliably predict mental ability -- that person would win the Nobel Prize and likely become very, very rich.

But what's so interesting is that even when confronted with direct quotes about this nonsense plenty of people insist there is a more charitable interpretation of the memo. This suggests that people are actually starting at very different places.
> I see plenty of opinions on this subject in this thread, as in the other threads

Funny, I see a dominant opinion in the other (flagged) threads and an another dominant opinion in this one.

1695 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14952787

754 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15009759

590 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14968626

448 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14959601
No one outside of science should be able to talk about scientific subjects or reference science? Really? Do you apply these arguments equally to people you agree with as those you don't?

As far as I can tell, nothing in the memo was wrong or "cherry picked". He presented some evidence that women have statistically different personality traits than men. That's absolutely correct! That's not very controversial. Then he suggests that different personality traits might lead to different choice of professions and interests. That shouldn't be a terribly controversial idea either.
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Right, and I get that your counterpoint is against the person above you. However, that doesn't change the context of Damore's argument, which is saying that interests may differ due to differences in cognitive ability and that the difference may help to explain the gender gap.

Those differences are well documented: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_differences_in_cognition

And a lot people are ignoring the context, instead pulling straw men out of the text to fight, rather than arguing the substance of the memo itself, context included.
"Were parked on different marketing channels" is the only differentiation you need.

If your competitors join you, there are infinite incremental improvements you can make tailoring your offering to submarkets within those channels. It's a neverending arms race for specificity and anyone can play.

Google for birds

Google for tropical birds

Google for sick tropical birds

Google for birds in social media

Google for flying mammals

Google for virtual flying animals

...ad nauseum...

You just have to keep noticing things about your audience your competitors.havent noticed yet.
There are a lot of techniques to avoid it. I remember listening to an interview with Greg Charvat who said that coding a polarised pulse train with some random phase distribution is a possibility for avoiding interference.
> That bias, by the way, exists today. Trying to justify it on the base of biological differences does nothing to fix

You presupposed that the bias is why the disparity exists in the first place. Its plausible that we completely fix all biases in the industry and the gender ratio does not change whatsoever, or even gets worse.
you are having bias with the word malformation. It is not something bad per se, it only means it is not what you find in most people and that is have bad consequences (or what we want to classify as bad).

> we see that women excel up to college with no barriers in their mental capabilities

This doesn't mean anything. Performance is not only about mental capabilities but also in effort. There are mentally disabled people who can pass college, but it is so hard for them and they have to strive a lot to succeed, and this is why you don't see so many of them in college. So this argument doesn't probe anything.
Hah, I wouldn't put it past him to add published author to the list.

Another oddity to his life that I forgot to mention is that he worked in hospice for 6 years prior to getting sick. So he's experienced both the employee and customer side of hospice. Something very few people can claim.