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The sad part is that that's what is happening in the world today. The rich, when they fund their money correctly, stay rich due to tax policy, gray areas, and loopholes. (Insurance polices as one example for the ultra rich.)

If we don't tax people when they pass away, the money goes straight to their kids, and then a permanent upper class forms and we know what happened to France...

The US has been about meritocracy, and not an aristocracy. But people want to change that, to the detriment of the country, IMO.
It's so funny (and sad) to me that you had to create a throwaway to outline these obvious strawmen misrepresentations of what Damore wrote.

Whatever happened to reading comprehension..?
Why can't I just write a server, bundle up the exe and assets, and run it somewhere?

You can do exactly this easily on Azure and probably others too eventually

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/announcing-azure-cont...
In the footnotes, iirc
What about the protections from XSS which Content Security Policies[0] can provide? It would be unfortunate when a bug in your blog engine can cause a hack of your store.

[0] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/CSP
Likewise:

> I’m also disappointed that the men I know, including most of my male colleagues, remained silent on the topic. And the ones that did participate, either seemed to support Damore or demonstrated a fundamental lack of understanding for the issues women engineers are faced with and care about.

...means she's frustrated that more men weren't saying what she was thinking. So "speak up" also means agreement.

And, as an aside, I've seen lots of men criticizing Damore. I don't know what more needed to happen. Maybe she has particular people in mind.
I was there. Literally. Why are you trying to say you understand my colleagues, who you do not know, better than I do?
He was a "coder" for Google, not a writer.And even for his status the memo was written pretty-well, people are just still questioning it for mostly other reasons.
Same here. I didn't even know it was an option (obviously didn't go to an Ivy League university)...
Sensitivity training would not have helped and is not required here.

He went out of his way to praise women engineers and to emphasize he supports diversity.

There are just certain that intolerant people cannot discuss rationally, like biological gender differences.

The fault lies with the intolerant minds, not Damore's approach.
Exactly. The man doesn't have an off switch. It's like Alec Baldwin talking to the sales guys: "Always be closing!"
create a separate wallet on myEtherWallet and fund it with a little bit of eth to run the calls that you're making. you'd have to be stupid to send the private key of a wallet with a non-trivial amount of eth to an endpoint of a closed source, un-attributable API. which again limits the usefulness, imo.
Sure, totally. This was my sort of sarcastic attempt at recruiting. People seem enamored by the things taught by individuals with these credentials, and I always like to plug the military as a school for these leadership concepts, because that's really what the military does. I suggest to anybody in their 20s or early 30s that is keenly interested in learning this kind of thing (and applying it) to look at a short enlistment in the military. No need to drop everything you're doing, either: The reserves let you live your "normal" everyday life while serving. I successfully ran a handful of businesses over the course of my enlistment, and definitely have the Army to thank for filling in the blanks where it was needed.
Do you have a Casino nearby? They usually have weekly poker tournaments.

Go to one and tell me how many women are competing.

Here's a typical picture: http://i.imgur.com/h6cDkDB.jpg

There are zero hiring biases at a poker tournament.

So why isn't the gender distribution close to 50/50, instead of 99/1?
> In that context, it is entirely possible for a poorly formulated memo to cause this type of damage

It's also possible, and more likely, for an overreaction to a memo to cause this kind of damage.
It's really amusing to watch the sudden edits of that article by IP addresses very shortly after posting my comment.

Here is the version of the article I was citing, for the record: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Stefan_Molyneux&o... I would recommend reading that version, rather than the rapidly "sanitized" version that omits various unfavorable media citations.
> However, the trends are not complicated by the outliers.

Well, but, they are. A gender binary is a simplification. A full analysis would really need to take a look at things like trans and nonbinary people and how they interact with the trends. But such an analysis would be more complicated than the binary trends in the original document. That is, such trends are an imperfect model of reality, and to better match reality, one needs a more complex model.

>I'm not sure who this elaborate "analogy"

Nor am I, you're the one that felt the need to bring up Gorillas. I felt that was a bad analogy, and that by continuing it, it would reveal why it was bad.

It appears that it worked.
Where does just plain respect for people come in? Attractive or not there's just some basic decency that needs to be applied in every situation. I understand that we all have feelings but being part of society means that we have to have respect for everyone. I understand the attitude if you're a young man learning how to deal with people but at some point you learn how to respect people female or male.

There's a time and place for everything. "going for it" every time you meet a woman is just immature and needs to be corrected.
It was a question (note the question mark)... I don't see the need for snark.

Anyway, for my purposes, this wouldn't work, since the executable is embedded in libraries that are meant to run anywhere without any configuration. But yeah I could see that being fine under other circumstances I guess.
> You should also note there are serious questions about its validity - this is not just a matter of tone or style.

Then why don't you summarize the article's points so people are free to give a rebuttal
> I'd add music synth to your list of real world uses, in some sense that was a killer app for microprocessors.

You're right. The Altair 8080 famously didn't do anything useful at all upon its release. It wasn't until someone in the Homebrew Computer Club discovered that the radio interference its CPU generated could play tones on an AM radio by buzzing the CPU in loops that a use was found for it.
The concept and term "cultural marxism" has been grabbed by such a huge swath of people, most of whom have absolutely no idea it is or could be anti-Semitic (because you have to be pretty out there to associate Marxism with Jews to begin with), that claiming all or most uses of it are anti-Semitic is wrong.

There's just no way to paint that huge of a group with that brush unless you think it's so double-secret subconscious that the majority of the people using it don't even know they're anti-Semites.
I think Buffett and Gates proved that despite what the media or anti-capitalists say, the top 1% are able to have the biggest impact. Somebody who donates a million (while a great contribution), will never have the impact that a billionaire can.

Buffett took tremendous flack and there was very public outcry before he started donating. His rationale was that I'll just stack it up, and his late ex-wife Susie would distribute it after he died. However, when Susie passed away unexpectedly, Warren decided to make the move.
I wonder why he only attempted to address biological sex, and not also other factors like race.
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Tesla’s new self-driving car can only make you money on the ride-sharing ‘Tesla Network’, not Uber or Lyft (2016)

https://electrek.co/2016/10/19/teslas-new-self-driving-car-c...

that is the bigest challenge for Uber if tesla decides to completely integrate vertically and as a big fleet.
Nope.

Someone taking offense is not demonstration of anything, other than someone taking offense.
I sympathise with the woman saying she'd much rather just focus on code rather than social justice debates. But, as flippant as it is for a guy to say it, it's their cross to bear isnt it? Women in tech. Because, if they don't speak up, then what? Where does that leave us? Should the "other side" also not speak up? Just focus on code? Should they suppress real emotions that they're feeling?

I'm not flaming, just wondering what the best-case way forward would be that mollifies both sides.
We've so far since 1999, and we have so much further to go.
> then you've failed as a writer of scientific content

Had he been fired from a research position, I would see your point.
Ahh telnet, good times, I miss that web...
Yeah, I have about 75% of a computer from upgrading mine overtime. Waiting until I have more parts to buy a case to put it in and then donate it to a library or school or something. All of my parts are in good condition and from the last 10 years, I would hate to see them stripped for metals.
That tricky thing when dealing with humans: are they learning because of our efforts to teach them or in spite of them?
>This burden has fallen on women since they were teenagers. To expect them to do it yet again, to have to defend themselves at work this time, is ridiculous.

You know what's ridiculous? Expecting people to magically agree with you because you're tired of arguing your position.

Wouldn't it be nice if we lived in that world, but we don't[1]. In a society where all people are equal (which is what we are aiming for, even if the debate rages on whether that's what we have), all opinions are also equal. The tipping force on the scale of debate is tangible evidence, and it's the lifelong struggle of anyone with political opinions to continually remind others of the evidence behind their standpoint.

Feel free to not bother and stuff if you're a bit tired or bored or whatever, but be aware that from a third party perspective, there's no visible difference between someone who won't provide evidence and someone who can't.

[1] edit: I thought about this for a few seconds and have decided this would be a horrible world
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I've tried asking evenhanded questions in the past (on other topics). They usually get corporate-speak responses that don't really say anything.

Pointed questions provide more information at the expense of goodwill.

What I'm saying is that I think people ask these kinds of questions and don't get honest answers. At least the firing of Damore was a concrete answer, though it was a partial one.
I don't do Docker but from what I've heard it's not designed for security? Which means it wouldn't work for this scenario? Or am I misinformed?
I disagree, if the response body is a valid application/vnd.github.full+json document, then they sent you what you asked for, they just labeled it differently (but still correctly).

Nothing in the spec says the Accept and Content-Type must match.
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> Or even more likely, you don't understand women very well

Personal attacks will get your account banned on Hacker News, so please don't post like this again.

It also looks like you've been using HN primarily for political and ideological battle. That's an abuse of the site, and we ban accounts that do it, so please stop doing that. More on this if anyone wants it: https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&prefix&page=0&dateRange=...

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15022218 and marked it off-topic.
>I don't think what this guy did was even slightly morally wrong

Well she blocked him before it got further.
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There are plenty of articles that touch on this. https://heterodoxacademy.org/2017/08/10/the-google-memo-what...
"by creating a toxic and hostile work environment" can only be defined as such by those within it. I could say anything was toxic and hostile for any subjective reasoning. And it becomes "true" by your definition if enough people agree with me?

I'm arguing that line of reasoning is not constructive, and the collective's agreed upon opinions should not act as a barrier for scientific discourse. (which is what the memo was asking for)
I find it frustrating that this is being downvoted - this is about the most universal piece of advice to be given to anybody in any job that uses computers to communicate with each other. I literally just read this exact line in "The Hard Thing About Hard Things," a book recommended to me on this forum.

Those that are downvoting, why do you disagree that this statement is not relevant to the current discussion?
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It's completely unclear how any of that generalizes to a biologically driven human female preference for "people" vs "things."
Note: Susskind has a follow up - Quantum Mechanics: The Theoretical Minimum.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18210750-quantum-mechani...
And yet, this is my opinion, the software quality could be a lot better at google. For example google docs was broken in Firefox for over a day for me. Google Maps crashes on certain routes preventing me getting a route. Whatever they are doing isn't enough. Also the UX at google is a mess.
I know this is sort of side-stepping the issue but isn't this what the Wayback Machine is for?
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Published AND edited. They will delete the part of the sentence that makes it explicit you are joking about something.
He was wearing my Harvard tie. Can you believe it? My Harvard tie. Like oh, sure he went to Harvard.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086465/quotes
Relevant to your John Snow callout:

https://www.economist.com/news/international/21726276-last-w...
I find it interesting how much the memo is misinterpreted even by folks who have read it multiple times and have been pretty engaged in discussions about it. Example:

"He claimed that Google’s diversity efforts represent a lowering of the bar. Google has stated many times that its efforts involve focusing more resources on searching for candidates in minority groups rather than lowering the bar for these groups."

This is what he actually wrote:

"Hiring practices which can effectively lower the bar for “diversity” candidates by
decreasing the false negative rate"

I'll admit this is a surprisingly dense sentence. And the phrase "lowering the bar" is controversial for an obvious reason, so it was a really bad decision by Damore to combine such a phrase with such a dense line of reasoning. It's just a recipe for disaster.

Some things to note:

* The use of "effectively" here is critical and means that the bar is not directly lowered in interview or technical standards. Rather, it's lowered as a (potentially complex) side effect of other more indirect policies.

* That indirect policy is to decrease the false negative rate. This doesn't mean standards are actually lowered for minority candidates; rather, it means extra time and money are invested to make sure that a negative result is actually a negative result. This can cause the standards to be effectively lowered, because it means that extra time and money are not invested in non-minority candidates, who therefore must overcome a higher false negative rate -- and the easiest way to do that is to be so good that none of your interviewers might feel ambiguous about your abilities.

To state that second bullet point differently and in a way that totally avoids politics, if you imagine that the interview is producing a noisy estimate of your technical ability, and the noise is predominantly negative/subtractive, then the expected score of an accepted candidate is higher with the noise than without. But if you offer a second interview to candidates and let a candidate's final estimate be the greater of the two samples, then the negative noise is reduced (though not eliminated), which will lower the expectation (but NOT below the expected value you'd get by eliminating the noise entirely).

With this analysis in place, I think it's more helpful to rephrase it as effectively raising the bar for non-minority candidates rather than lowering it for minority candidates, though ideally I'd prefer to avoid any phrases about bars being lowered or raised in general.
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Was Damore referencing race when he brought up IQ in the memo?

"the Left tends to deny science concerning biological differences between people (e.g., IQ[8] and sex differences)"

IQ has no relevance to a discussion on gender gaps [1], so, why mention it?

Damore mentions politics here. In that context, IQ has recently been used in discussions over racial differences [2].

[1] https://www.quora.com/What-do-scientists-think-about-the-bio...

[2] https://www.vox.com/the-big-idea/2017/6/15/15797120/race-bla...
Are any of these engineers East Asian immigrants or Asian Americans? From my own circles both near and extended, it seems like there is a much more even split within especially East Asian H1Bs and to a less degree Asian Americans? This may be from my own experience of hearing Asian parents push children regardless of gender towards STEM.

It keeps leading me back to the idea that increased volition allows gender differences to propagate.

I've been trying very hard to find data for say H1Bs by race and by gender at Oracle. Any thoughts?
Or you can just move most of your operations to Asia or Eastern Europe where they don't have these western liberal ideological impediments to business. And Ironically provide a higher percentage of highly qualified Women in STEM professions.
> Well, but, they are. A gender binary is a simplification. A full analysis would really need to take a look at things like trans and nonbinary people and how they interact with the trends.

How about this: the memo was about men and women. The 98%.
perma.cc is another option as well.
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Scott Alexander is used as an example of 'better venue' and 'less objectionable phrasing', which is different from 'good writing'.
Well, by the same token, being fired is a completely different beast than having to suffer the tragedy of being afraid a coworker might think a negative stereotype about you.

I know who I think the victim is.
Shouldn't it be dwarves?
> ...something already in service like libraries.

Something that can be used by new generations to learn about and continue on with space flight, diseases...

I mean honestly, does anyone here really believe humans will be interplanetary? If so it's definitely not going to be in our life times.

I'd rather Bezos put his money into the things that help humans now rather than these nerdy-gasm fantasies formed in childhood watching Star Trek. I say that as a huge Star Trek nerd.

Libraries and access to knowledge will go further to making a society look like Star Trek than rocket ships. At least in the sense Roddenberry hoped to capture; equal outcomes for all races/genders.
The post I was responding to said that it did not create a hostile working environment. I explained how it did do that. Are you trying to claim that causing offense to a large group is not creating a hostile working environment?
>This is a strawman. She said "complicate" not "invalidate".

To what extent do specialized species (like ring species) complicate the concept of species in general? It lets us know that there are outliers that are complicated, but it doesn't complicate dog vs cat at all.
No, there is not an equivalent act that "both sides" are engaged in, here.
The memo didn't cause self doubt, the memo was intended to inspire others to look for doubt (hence the "lowering the bar").

The memo specifically targeted diversity hires as a lower bar. Imagine if a memo started circulating that asked everyone to question whether or not you were hired for your skill. That's a terrible environment to create.
> A 3D point cloud is great, but with the raw computing power we have these days, image processing should be pretty reliable

In theory? Yes.

In practice? That's how the first autopilot fatality happened. The image processing confused the white side of a semi truck with the sky.
>the kids in MS taking the SAT in addition to the ACT are the ones aiming for elite schools

Which is an extreme selection bias. The ACT should have been mentioned to provide more context, but the actual argument works without it.
For pure math, by far, essentially the only, "force" in education is being able to work the exercises. That's ugrad school. For more, be able to do new, correct, and significant original research in math. And that's all Folks!

Nothing but nothing, nichts, nil, nada, zip, zilch, zero, not social skills, not presentation of self, not frequency of bathing, not haircut or hair style, not clothes, not politics, not race, not gender, not country of origin matters at all.

Example: For positive integer n and the set of real number R, show that, on any finite intersection of closed half spaces C in R^n, any linear function that is bounded above on C achieves its least upper bound on C.

Example: In a separable metric space, each closed set is the union of a perfect and a set that is at most countable.

Example: Prove that there are no countably infinite sigma algebras.

Example: For positive integer n and the set R of real numbers, for any closed set C in R^n, there exists a function f: R^n --> R so that f(x) = 0 for all x in C, f(x) > 0 otherwise, and f is infinitely differentiable.

Examle: For positive integer n and the set of real numbers R, show that convex f: R^n --> R is continuous.

Example: For triangle ABC, by Euclidean construction, find D on AB and E on BC so that the lengths AD = DE = EC.
That's... exactly what he said.
By that logic, any criticism of hiring methods means you view the current crop of employees as inferior.

Is saying "we need more diversity" code for "white men are inferior"? You might be on to something.
Regardless. My morning coffee may not make my life longer but it makes it more enjoyable.
Right. Anytime I read or hear someone stress the left or right (lib/con, etc) in an argument, it is often a warning sign that the person watches too much corporate television and that a low-quality argument is on its way.
That's a huge one. I can easily see anyone who operates an internal "blacklist" of other employees as creating a hostile work environment. And from my understanding, those who did posted as such under their real names, so there's no investigation needed to track down who is doing it.

If there's an employee conduct we should all be able to agree is hostile, blacklisting coworkers would be it.
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I think the real problem described is that people are judging schools based on the performance of their students.
There are other objective factors that won't be as affected by selection bias such as: breadth of extra-curricular options in sports and in the arts. Number of AP classes offered. Teacher to student ratio. Budget per student. Does the school have newer computers, working instruments, modern facilities?