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Because of plugins. Browsers have more plugins than most other software and the bitness needs to match between all of them.

And saying the flash has been dead for the greater part of a decade is just completely wrong. You have to be just really, completely out of the loop if you think that applies to any kind of reality for general users.
The article rebuts this point by name.
These comments are largely directed at a straw-man, and in many cases actually agree with the memo, when they think they disagree.

"I disagree with...his arguments pointing to biological factors as a primary reason that there aren’t more female software engineers"

- straw-man - he argues that biology may in part explain the lack of 50/50 representation.
from the TLDR: "Differences in distributions of traits between men and women (and not “socially constructed oppression”) may in part explain why we don’t have 50% representation of women in tech and leadership"

"I disagree completely and utterly that the (yes, real) average differences between men and women map to being better or worse at certain jobs. Interest in certain jobs, certainly."

- you actually agree with the memo. From the memo: "Women generally also have a stronger interest in people rather than things, relative to men...These...differences in part explain why women relatively prefer jobs in social or artistic areas"

"It seemed like he cherry-picked research that agreed with his views and didn’t seek dissenting research or opinions before sending the document to internal Google groups."

- The purpose of posting this memo was to seek dissenting research and other opinions.

"differences are so significant as to suggest that men or women are better or worse on average at any job that relies on mental work."

- straw man. men or women being "better" is not the concern of the memo.

"his skepticism of his own views deserves a much more prominent placement in the text than a footnote – had he led with this and made it clear he wasn’t sure whether he was correct and simply wanted to start a discussion (as he subsequently stated in a YouTube interview), he likely would not have been blasted the same way."

- the first "background" paragraph literally is this.

"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. Such misrepresentation is harmful to those of us at Google who have to overcome the bias that we were hired based other factors beside our skills."

- the author is also concerned with harm to female employees in the form of increased tension resulting from hiring practices that are perceived as lowering the bar. Google obviously would not do this intentionally, but the author felt the practices "effectively" lowered the bar.
Multiple libraries in small town Iowa do not have Sunday hours. Just to hazard a guess at the nearest place to have a library with Sunday hours probably requires a minimum 60 mile drive.
right... and i was just hired to pour this Zyklon B down this chimney... why should i question any other aspect of my employment or my employer's actions.
I'm going to disagree with you there. 'PC' ideas and speech are those that are popular enough to be said in the company of a diverse crowd. This doesn't mean that they have to be bland or inoffensive to absolutely everyone; just popular enough that any dissenters will be a small minority and pressured against speaking up in fear of social punishment.
But is the pain suppose to be there? Is it valid pain? For example, I see myself being jealous or anxious or angry. Even if I can rationalize to a level where I can convince that the feelings may not be warranted, there's just a few seconds of relief; but that flood of negativity always comes back. Does that pain have a place, even if we deem it stupid or pointless?
> 2% (outliers) of the population does not invalidate the trends of the other 98%

A universal claim is invalidated if there is even 1 exception.
Apply for jobs that it doesn't seem you qualify for. True entry level jobs in development know that the people that are coming straight out of school are going to require training/mentoring (hence the lower pay).

There are jobs out there that are looking for mid to senior level developers, but don't want to pay their prices, so they post entry/junior level jobs with mid/senior requirements. Screw those jobs.

Further, still, you have some jobs that are trying to do the aforementioned with the intent that no one applies, and they can use the evidence to justify an H1-B visa.

Even further, still, you have those jobs that are posted by recruiters that are at least two levels removed from any person with expertise in the field, so they don't know what the hell they're doing.
End justifies the means
Ask HN: What to put in 'declaration of prior inventions'
I am about to start a new job in California and employer wants me to sign this form. I dont have any patents but my side-projects are in the same domain as in the job. So I am concerned about what to put in there. I also have planned to build something in the coming months on the side. Should I also list that in the 'prior inventions' form? The advice I find on the internet is conflicting. What happens if I list something and the employer tells me to stop working on it even though it is not conflicting?
Business relationships take place within a business context, email, meetings etc where both parties are pretty clear on intent.

She messaged him on Facebook, that's not a professional environment, it's social. He took it as such, his messages weren't inappropriate. Labelling it as 'sexism' is a little much, it's normal human interaction.
Ah, yes, the "feminist indoctrination program". No doubt he was sent to a re-education camp where Überstürmfeminists of Femgruppe A forcibly shoved their hateful and virulent ideas down his throat.

I'm sure that's very close to what actually happened, and that this phrase is not hyperbolic or trying to portray "maybe we should treat people equally and not pre-assume things about what roles they should have based on their race/gender" as an extreme radical idea when it should be the default stance.
> he was foolish to have listed them when buying in such quantity and it's not surprising that Amazon would suspend him for trying to sell them.

The fuck are you talking about? They operate a business which specifically allows people to sell stuff. Why would he expect to have his account suspended.

Have you been paying attention to these problems? They fucked up by binning counterfeits with real glasses, and now people like this guy got caught up.

It's pretty indefensible when you consider how long they have had a counterfeiting problem they haven't dealt with.

This should end up with them getting sued, honestly. It's ridiculous.
The math and physics communities aren't dominating business in the US. Four of the top five companies by market cap (Apple, Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon) are exclusively software or employ an oversized number of software developers compared to similarly sized non-technology companies. If there are reasons that groups of people are being systematically excluded from employment in those companies and others like them, it's worth at least trying to understand why (race? gender? other factors?) and wherever possible, worth trying to correct it.

"Why now" is a lot more complicated than just that, but that's the reason I keep in mind why it's worth fighting for.
That seems an odd approach tbh. Many 'Skeptics' groups (Skeptic / Rationalist YouTube) online at least would agree with his reasoning. It strikes me as odd that he was seeking to take down an ideological echo chamber but published it initially in the echo chamber most likely to agree with him.
In an interview, Damore said part of the "lowered bar" is extra interview rounds for minority candidates. You could call that "more energy", but it also reduces the chances that a given candidate suffers from bad luck.
I live in Canada in a mid-sized city and my library is closed on Sundays. Just as a poster above, it appears to be the case that the librarians negotiated a great deal for themselves. (Closed on Sundays during the summer, open on Sundays during the winter.)

However, it is a great library. No arguments there. It's a pain that its closed on Sundays just when kids want to use it most.
It is about balancing possible risks as well. In this example you are able to get 4% in as close or near to risk free as possible.
Then the correct way to handle it is to drop another refutational evidence bomb attacking his primary points instead of picking the low hanging fruit of claiming it's "too confrontational," "poorly written," "naive," or whatever other secondary problems exist (this is aside from wilfully misrepresenting his claims, which is definitely a bigger problem). Plenty of far more aggressive articles and essays have been written from the opposite side that have not been criticized in the same way.

And for the record, I did not get any aggressive tone from his paper. I thought he was as polite as he needed to be and made the necessary caveats. I think many people were just so unprepared to hear any argument from an opposing viewpoint that they read into it what they wanted to.
The leaker did harm to Google not Damore

I am 100% certain that the trackiest company in the world is perfectly capable of knowing exactly who leaked it. They have chosen to protect that person, for reasons unknown at this time.
I apologize in advance as there's no non-morbid way to ask this but... what happens to the images on your server if you die tomorrow? It would be exactly the same situation, right? They would exist until your bill is due in a couple years then your account will be deactivated and your images will linkrot.
Gates doesn't simply give his money to charity.

I would argue that in terms of doing good, investing money in concrete and well founded technology causes a larger impact. We can already eradicate diseases, we can already end world hunger. We can make so many miracles come true, what good is it to create further miracles if only the very few ever get to have them?
This is something I like. Correcting broken laws would be one of the more permanent contributions Bezos could make. We already know from the last ~30 years we cannot amass political capital to fix laws that create the broken journalistic and legal frameworks.
iFrames, React and postMessage. You'll never believe what happens next
really, it is any US company that earns substantial assets abroad that avoids (at present) repatriating the money. GE, Pfizer, Exxon Mobil, Citigroup, Google, Goldman Sachs, Walmart, McDonald's... they all have billions in offshore profits that they stash. But I imagine the Apple was the implied company.
Sending a troubled kid to a great private school probably will cause the kid to do better: because all the other students are doing well the bad students peers are working hard so the bad student sees that example and is likely to succumb to peer pressure and do better.

For this to work the troubled kid needs to be kept out of the gangs and whatever else outside of school will lead to bad examples. However selection bias already does this: parents who care enough to send their kid to a private school are involved enough with their kid that they would probably do this anyway. In short these are kids that might have been troubled, but they still would have been at the top of the troubled group.
Do you have any pointers to data showing this close? Most of what I've seen shows the gap being shockingly persistent in the face of intervention across a wide variety of systems, but I'm always looking for more.
> Are you equating Damore with skinheads?

Of course not. But honestly, until Charlottesville I didn't think Nazis were a serious influence in the US. I no longer think that.

I also assumed the President of the United States would have no issue immediately condemning Nazis, but here we are.

David Brooks asked for Pichai to resign (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14990494). Brooks has written many op-eds, so I searched for other times he's asked for CEOs to resign. Weird, nothing came back aside from Sundar Pichai. Not Travis Kalanick, even when Uber had much worse news? Not Marissa Mayer, when Yahoo had huge data breaches?

Sorry if asking white guys to support their CEO is too much. After seeing the skinheads it'd be nice to reminded the good guys haven't lost their voice and are a serious influence as well.
The thoughts of one twenty-something engineer posted to an internal message board (for these kinds of discussions I might add) does not create a hostile workplace or harm Google in any way.

Basically, in any other context we expect people who have vastly differing views to be able to put them aside and work together. The only exception to this rule seems to be around leftist issues, where if you disagree you are out of luck.

You would expect, for example, the Jewish people and the Islamic people at a company to work together.

The idea that toleration for one memo form a nobody employee marks an entire company as unwelcome is insane. This zero tolerance attitude is a recipe for disaster.
The Space Jam (film) website is a golden example and I find it amazing that it is still functional:

https://www.warnerbros.com/archive/spacejam/movie/jam.htm

(1996)
That dung beetle helmet is hilarious.
Crap. That was funnier than anything we said in the video.
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Absolutely. This and the suggestion that he phrase his ideas as questions and more openly invite discussion helped me put into words my own discomfort with the memo. Of course the conclusion he draws that because of biological differences women are less suited to software engineering work remains the biggest problem.
Also, from the stories I've seen, the big issue with old systems that still have COBOL parts etc isn't so much the COBOL itself as all the domain-specific, proprietary, custom developed integration solutions that have to be reverse-engineered for someone to replace them.
"Applied science incorrectly to confirm a bias or advance an opinion incorrectly" and "applied science to form an opinion" are different things. Damore did the former.
> Simply put, unless you are mindful of someone's "subjective feelings" you will never be able to have a "factual discourse" with them.

Isn't that a catch 22? How do we know their subjective feelings if we can't discuss contested issues?
Yes, there's no way to say either of those statements to a member of a given group and not offend that person.
I have a 2010 Honda Fit, and for me it's even worse than that: the stereo will not let you not play music when an iPhone is connected. If you pause it, the car immediately resumes.

So you can't charge your phone in peace or use the car stereo for turn-by-turn navigation or anything else without also playing some music in the background.

It's absurdly frustrating, and I've joked with my wife about sticking a long silent track on her iPhone more than once. (I have an Android that the car just refuses to connect to at all.) I'm going to send her this article.
For anyone interesting the cost breakdown seems to be:

- €100 for eResidency card and card reader, requires one visit to local Estonian embassy, card will expire (no details on what's the validity period), [1]

- €660 + €190 = €750 for incorporating the company via Profia, [2]

- €35/month for business account on Holvi, includes Finnish IBAN, Mastercard business card and 500 wire transfers (after that €.50 per transfer). [3]

[1]: https://e-resident.gov.ee/faq/

[2]: https://holvi.com/shop/profia/

[3]: https://about.holvi.com/e-residents/
I generally agree with you but...

> The dynamic nature of javascript is what caused the explosion of websites around 2007, due to the advent of jQuery.

I'm not convinced that was a good thing. Pretty much all of that content is terrible. Quality > Quantity
There is no way I'm ever staring directly at the (full, non-eclipsed) sun for 15 minutes, no matter how good the glasses claim to be.
Rent is expensive in my city, do you think it is reasonable to tell someone who can't afford rent to just buy their own building?

That's what you are suggesting.
No, but if you bias your selection of science to support your opinions and never return to scrutinize your conclusions, that's not right.
What troubles me is the resolution. Man who spoke out is fired everything is now fine at google. Google will remove anyone who dare speaks out. Managers will create blacklists now and singled out. Anyone with oppposing views will be pushed down and/or pushed out.
Totally. It's just confusing when people were already using 'gender' to distinguish XX/XY from copulation (since 'sex' means both).
Are you saying that even if it is true the message is unacceptable and you cannot say it? I think you just made the point that we cannot talk about some things.
> Probably gonna run to Lowes

If you can find them still.
San Francisco, some of America's most expensive real estate, doesn't tie school assignments to geography. The system hasn't been voted out yet.
I don't play games on my computer but if I did I think that is an OK divergence especially for older titles. This is a web browser we are talking about.
Sorry for the click-baity title, I just did it as joke, and because my original title was too long for HN. Let me know if it's a problem and I'll change it.

The post is about iFrame communication with window.postMessage and React. Original title is : "Communication between iframes with React and postMessage for an html template editor"
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Comparing these completely not road legal cars to technology from the 19th century is a stretch. I can legally ride my ~600MPGe bike on the streets TODAY. If PAC-CAR II equivalent cars are available to the mass market within our lifetimes, it will be impressive.
I've done InfoSec for a bunch of startups, none seem to grasp the importance of security by design and how it can play an integral role in the business. It's exhausting to have to battle a neon-haired developer that wants to just write code (rightfully so,) not following a process or standards often engaging in arguments just to be right. Imagine one person going asking an entire engineering org to create security priorities until business gets a hold of those and comes back to yell at you for delaying sprints, yep, that's InfoSec for you. Also, any business that says "We take security seriously" isn't. That's a boilerplate they plucked out of the legalese to CYA.
The racial achievement gap closed? That would be a huge story and I would be surprised if I missed it...unless you mean the gap closed within the school (i.e. not relative to society at large) because the remaining whites achievements were lower than the average before they fled, i.e. selection bias :)
If I had an infinite amount of time, I would write a much higher level equivalent of LLVM. Specifically, I would spend time investigating ways to easily generate code generators from specifications. I'm also very interested to see how things like theorem provers can be used inside compilers.

If I could be bothered, I would write a really detailed political simulator a la Democracy but with much more detail and elections.
Even more harm is done by Affirmative Action for women now being implemented in all companies. Feminism has given up on the aspect of competing and turned to shaming all men. There are several professions where women dominate with > 80%. Where's all this fucking outrage in those?
Aren't you basically describing the desegregation bussing that the US has had since the 50s?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desegregation_busing
The thought experiment isn't doing the bussing (effectively impossible as others have noted). The thought experiment is how would you present the resulting data.
I think it's a fatal mistake to underestimate the amount of discretion an employer has over its employees' behavior. In general, employment is at-will and relationships can end over personal differences.

One reason it might be shocking to be let go over a 'free-speech' issue is this individual was working at Google. If someone worked for their city government and mailed around a ten-page manifesto of either their genius findings or deluded beliefs (either way), it's not unreasonable that they might be let go without anyone reading it. (The action of sending around an opinionated piece of information without authority could be grounds for dismissal.)

In the past, there have been incidents like Steve Y's note where a smart person weathered a major faux pas for better or worse, which might make one think that all forms of speech are encouraged at this company. But I think Damore made some unique foibles when publishing this note and assumed that his outlook and motivation would be either respected or endorsed. Again, it is not a necessity for any corporation or organization to do so.

I also doubt that internal employee message boards or collective Word documents are the correct forum for this sort of debate. Given that the adversaries that Damore faces in this debate have most liked studied diversity and human resources at the graduate level, peppering survey references into a narrative argument will not be sufficiently persuasive of anything. The correct forum for this discussion is an anthropology thesis or something similar, or a very finely combed, deeply vetted, considerate action to a relevant party or audience.
This is only true if the process he criticized is actually real.
Usually, but not always.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-stroke_diesel_engine
It's not a DSL, but take a look at VersionCake.

https://github.com/bwillis/versioncake

"Version Cake is an unobtrusive way to version APIs in your Rails or Rack apps."
So if, for example, you were hiring for a developer in Java and I sent an email essentially saying: "I did this language in school. I haven't done much of it in my current internship, but here is one of my last projects. I liked the language due to X, Y, Z reasons and am interested in the job for ABC. I apply myself when learning, and quickly pick things up. I can put you in touch with the professor who taught me the language to confirm that."

I may have a chance at an interview even if my credentials are well/mostly short of the posted job? I interview rather well when I do get a chance. I just don't want to spend time banging my head against the wrong wall.
The thing is, libraries are more than just a place to put books. As still other commenters have put it, they are community centers, shelters-in-place, and work spaces.

The more personal overhead (like having to rent out a personal office if you work remotely, or having to pay for a computer and internet access) that people can offload o places like libraries, the more money they have to spend on Amazon.
You may want to look at a previous recent discussion here on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13382263
Gene regulatory networks function much like neuronal networks, but with adaptability on the order of thousands of years instead of days.
The author of that quote clearly wasn't describing her fears that she had been hired only because of affirmative action, but the claims about her innate inabilities, however slight.
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Yes, and Pan-European means there are 30 countries which can be isolated for inefficiencies. Outside of the European Union with its one central bank distorting things very publicly, there is the Swiss National Bank distorting similarly and steeper with much less publicity, there is an even steeper negative yield in Sweden, Denmark and more.

The "average" is a sideshow when there is so much opportunity if you know where to look.