skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He did not state that women had a harder time leading than men? That seems like a mention of ability.
> I do not think that anyone's ability to write should disbar them from discussion.

And perhaps it shouldn't! It might, however, limit their ability to write at length about sensitive, culturally-deep issues at work without getting fired and having their career stained.

Similarly, perhaps one's ability to write code shouldn't disbar them from a hackathon, but if they write a bunch of hacky code for a quadcopter and it flies into the audience, well, then they're in a bit of a pickle indeed.
> I deeply disagree with this approach. You're essentially saying that unless you can come up with an alternative scientific theory, complete with predictions, it's not possible to criticise an existing theory about the world.

That's a straw man. You're suggesting I disapprove of criticism, which is not so. I disapprove of demands for policy change when you don't even have a hypothesis for what your target should be.

Unless Damore (or someone else) can reasonably estimate whether their theory around 'biological' differences result in a natural 10/90 ratio or a natural 49.9/51.1 ratio then there isn't really a case to be made to change actual real-world HR policies on that basis.

Being able to reasonably estimate that 'natural' ratio is a massive task. You'd need to account for parenting, education, popular culture, socio-economic group, dozens of biasing factors. I'd expect that model to go well beyond what's possible.

Yes, that may impose a high hurdle on criticism of HR policy via this argument, but that's also the intellectual leap that Damore has claimed to have made from the evidence presented. How exactly he's managed that leap is problematic. He certainly hasn't demonstrated full knowledge of all of the factors involved.

> There's many plausible explanations why an absence of a 50:50 gender representation could be caused for reasons other than bias or average ability. That's enough to put a nail in that model of discovering bias. Coming up with a way of predicting what the right ratio is, isn't necessary to discard that metric.

Of course, and it's certain to be a combination of factors, some historical, some current that pushes representation away from 50:50. I don't think anyone is pretending that bias alone is responsible. But there's a mountain of direct evidence that bias is a significant problem. On the other hand the chasm between this biological source evidence and an actual hypothesised effect on representation is vast.
But you can also embed a raster image in SVG.
On Complete Gibberish: Language syntax that [Tommy M. McGuire] doesn’t like
The argument is though that what Google is doing is hiring disproportionately from a smaller group of candidates. The argument would apply as well if they "looked for more fat candidates without lowering the bar" or "looked for more short people without lowering the bar". Those statements describe discrimination of people who don't belong to pointed group.

The argument in the memo is: hire on equal standards and if that results in less women than men then it's caused by X and here is what you can do about X instead of discriminating at the point of hire.
We can forget about UWP support, it isn't going to happen in the near future, who knows if it ever will.

"The F# team is currently focused on .NET Core tooling in Visual Studio and further support for .NET Core as it evolves. There is no ETA for .NET Native/UWP support at this time."

-- Phillip Carter [MSFT]

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/dotnet/2017/08/14/f-and-net...

Better focus on C# and C++ and call it a day.
Just wait till they release "Ground Control Center" (gcc) :-) For a long time there were two things called 'git' and installing the 'wrong' one invariably led to similar hijinks.
I noticed the uptick in spam calls as well, even though my phone has been on the do not call list for years.

I changed my voicemail recording to: "You've reached the law offices of X and Y, please leave a message..." It seems to have worked so far.
The memo stated that women have a harder time leading than men. How is that not saying something about ability?
How to Create a Brand- Successful Brand Building Startegies
I found the story: https://www.wired.com/2017/02/russians-engineer-brilliant-sl...

And yes, PCG is harder to exploit in this way than the Twister, but you still really should not bet money on it!
Have not seen anyone mention it, but does it make sense to do Web Game development using SVG's with JavaScript? Has anyone tried this? Is it as fun as these slides make it seem or are there downsides to that approach?
It adds $200 to the cost of a saw. You can buy sawstop saws on Amazon.

The trouble as I see it is it's patented technology, and SawStop sues infringers. It would certainly be a jackpot for SawStop to get a law requiring their patented technology on every saw - look what happens to drug prices with patent monopolies. SawStop could easily impose a ruinous patent fee on competitors, and completely monopolize the saw business. Is it any wonder other saw companies oppose this law?

The patents expire in 2021, that should change the game.
The sawstop guy did just that. Power tools are an area where brand matters more than normal.
In all developed countries, only 10-25% of engineers are female. An American society in is very different from that of Australia, Sweden, Greece or Germany.

Not sure why, but I know one possible explanation.

In developing countries, people are pressured by their basic needs. An engineering job generally pays well. People in such countries are less likely to do what they want and more likely to do what pays well, so gender ratio in engineering is close to 50/50.

In developed countries, people are guaranteed to survive even without a profession or job. Less financial pressure, more freedom of choice, less women in engineering.
Have you tested this site on iPads and iPhones?
Bezos doesn't have enough money for that...as much as he has. It will be drained in a very few years IMO.

He could support archive.org to scan all the books for free, or just buy the scans from Google (if they sell them). Of course make that free for all. Eventually almost everyone will have a $50 Android, use some sort of wifi and there's your library.
On the other hand: http://www.oreilly.com/gnn/gnnhome.html

HTML plus 11 images in just 26KB.
A blockchain, needing to be received by every user at the same time, is literally the perfect use case for satellite broadcasting. It was just a matter of time that someone was going to do it. Jeff Garzik has (had?) plans to launch micro Bitcoin satellites...

And, no, Blockstream didn't launch their satellites, they simply used an existing satellite service provider. I used to work for Smartjog who did the same. In fact I wrote the software (RBC, Reliable Bit Cast) used to send the actual satellite data packets through our provider Intelsat. The way it works is pretty simple. We had a server collocated in Intelsat's "teleport" in Riverside (http://www.intelsat.com/global-network/intelsatone/teleports...). I walked into their data center, racked our server, hooked it up (yeah I did IT too, we were a small company back then.) And they tell you to send a stream of UDP/IP packets to one of their TCP endpoints, which ingests data into their satellite infrastructure. On the receiver's end all you need is a standard dish hooked to a DVB card. Can't remember which one we used, but it had a Linux driver that presented a virtual network interface, and Linux received the IP traffic just as if it was a standard Ethernet NIC. I don't know the cost of this Intelsat service, but it can't be that high, maybe $5-20k/month for the lowest bandwidth option.

On another side note, more companies broadcasting the blockchain and covering more of the planet (the real time map shows Asia as not covered) will eventually put the "block propagation delay" argument in the tomb, for those arguing against big blocks.
>>indeed, this is easily refuted by looking at the number of women in technical jobs in the US in the 70s.

You could make your point stronger if you propose an explanation to what changed since then. It's very unlikely that men (and society in general) become more sexist, if anything we have made a lot of progress.

I can tell you what the opposing side says though. They say women had little choice back then and just did what was needed. Today women have more choice, freedom and there is less discrimination so they feel free to pursue what is interesting to them which is not tech more often than in case of men.
Please read this [1] and tell me if you still hold the same opinion. There is absolutely some social impact that lowers the number of women entering tech as a career, and we should work to fix it. However, there's more to it than just that, including studies on young children and statistics showing that other previously male-dominated careers (like doctors and lawyers) don't suffer from the same gender gap as tech. That's the point Damore was trying to make that people don't want to hear - there might be more to the gender gap than just social blockers, and if so, we should be aware of that at the same time we're working to solve the existing issues around bias, harassment, etc. Saying "nope, it's all social blockers and bad workplaces, and any other reasons are sexist falsehoods" is putting on blinders.

[1] http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/08/07/contra-grant-on-exagger...
One of the sad things that broke when number porting became a thing was there was no definitive answer of which phones were cell phones and which were land lines. This was unfortunate because if you were called on your cell phone for a long time it would cost you money, and if someone called in an unsolicited way, you had 'damages' that you could sue for on the theory that they knew it was a cell phone and they called it anyway. Now however they have reasonable doubt and so they call whenever.

I wrote the FCC once and suggested that a good use of some of those fees I pay would be to create a service that would instantly back trace and log a complaint on a number using telemetry from inside the phone system. That combined with a federal criminal statute which allowed for jail time for masking the origin of a phone call and I think you could make to fairly costly for the owners and enablers of this stuff.
BLUE EYES AFRICANS: WHERE DO THEY ORIGINATE?
They used to go Process, Architecture, Process, Architecture, which was styled as Tick, Tock. Recently they switched to Process, Architecture, More Architecture.

I like to call it Tick, Tock, Clunk.
The term "diversity" already implies that there are differences between genders, otherwise we would have to call it "more of the same". Everyone who insists on valuing diversity while also insisting that man are women are equal is contradicting herself.
You could stop all animations on a page by pressing escape (or the stop button, I think) in Netscape, but Firefox removed that feature a while back.
I wonder if they'd be happy with a kickstarter like campaign to put the patent in the public domain.
GPU computing – finally on general purpose
Versioning of APIs have existed since the dawn of time, or at least the early 90s. ONC RPCs had versioning built-in IIRC for all their XDR structs. We got away from that over the last few decades, and now people run into the same problems that were effectively solved almost 30 years ago, but long forgotten. The more things change, the more they stay the same!
>One recent scheme involves getting consumers to say “yes” and later using a recording of the response to allow unauthorized charges on the person’s credit card account, the F.C.C. warned in March.

I doubt banks are using voice recognition on the single word "yes" to verify charges. Does this make any sense?
and Google Docs chat
WordPress Dublin shared a podcast this week on this topic, https://goo.gl/e7ajAd
Ask HN: Inventory management software for a new online retailer
I am setting up a new online store and I want to also sell on marketplaces like Amazon and eBay, but I want a single piece of software that links to everything, I don't want to have to access each marketplace separately, I want to automate the process as much as possible, so I can concentrate on building the business and not doing product listing uploads.

Any ideas on what software I need?
After reading this entire thread, I am amazed at the mental gymnastics elicited to defend the silencing of a group or person with distasteful views... I fear for out country.
Shutting down an honest discussion of something because there is an investigation and it might be revealing is pretty high up there on the immoral scale.
Would you please not cross into incivility when commenting here? Plenty of people are arguing the same views as you without doing that, while you've been doing it pretty regularly.

If you'd correct this, we'd appreciate it, because these discussions are hard enough to keep substantive without people taking swipes at each other.
If you consider relative change it looks like

2011: 32nm

2012: 31% size reduction

2014: 36% size reduction

2018: 28,5% size reduction
But the idea is that you put the very same docker image to production. I guess most products come with an automated way to setup docker, including a decently secure setup (in this case).
We can use Allo on our computer now
Since Bezos specifically asked for ideas about how to spend his money philantrophically.

As you would know, had you at least skimmed the article before summarily dismissing it.
Remember that the anecdotes on here serve two purposes.

(i) to show that the aggregate does not inform the individual. As a species we are too influenced by aggregate stats. There is huge variation in individual responses.

(ii) history is written by the winners. Those people who did not survive cancer are not here to write about it and those surrounding them tend to want to forget and move on. Survivor bias is a real thing.

Not only is this story a reminder that life is short, but also that we must battle each day to keep perspective when the world and our human limitations are always trying to skew our views.

Given the tensions in the world, seeing things from the other points of view has never been more important.
Gains in instructions-per-clock start to flatten out. And that's where the gains were coming from in the last years. Some time ago a paper was posted here that showed how even if you have an infinite amount of transistors, you will still be limited in the range of 3-10 instructions-per-clock for typical programs.

Clock speeds seem to have leveled and IPC will only see another gain of 50-100%. Single threaded performance is close to the limit. What after that? Is this the end?
> social blockers

Studies show prenatal testosterone affects differences in that men tilt towards an interest in intresting things, and women in insteresting people. Damore has the scientific literature behind him (which others can then dispute if they'd like). Also look to scandinavian attempts to flatten out differences. Thousands were involved, and the diffrences were simply exasturbated. Interesting talk on just this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSIEs1ngNiU
Loads have very much taken the social aspect into account. What I think everyone in the dominant culture seems to miss, are the relevant scientific biological and psycological findings.
That would be a false positive rate, and it would be a reasonable interpretation if you deliberately ignored the rest of the sentence. There is no justification for ignoring the rest of the sentence.
sounds like the wrong tool. what you are producing was probably logs data, which is immutable. There are far more efficient (storage, cpu) write-only stores.
People who are deaf can still enjoy music...just crank the bass up. http://www.huffingtonpost.com.au/entry/deep-bass-sounds-musi...
My car stereo is a crappy Kenwood aftermarket affair from 2005, originally used with an iPod Mini. 12 years later and it still works with my iPhone 7, though it needs a 30-pin-to-Lightning adapter that itself required some Dremel work to fit.

It's amazing that the latest iPhone still works with this ancient never-updated random hardware designed in the click-wheel era. Kudos to Apple: that doesn't happen by accident.

(And now I'll only hear A'Part by Elephant Revival again if I choose to.)
I curious why you did that, but you did a nice job.
This is largely a usability issue. There have been folks in the performance community complaining in the same way for years. Then all of a sudden React comes along and lots of people started talking about performance because the framework made their primary task (building a website) easier.

Security is much harder than it needs to be currently. Every time I deal with an OpenSSL error I die a little inside. We have scam "security researchers" distracting us on Twitter with spurious reports every week.

Asking people to "think more" is a lost cause. We need better tools that make it easier to solve problems in the critical path that encourage more secure defaults than the last ones did. Most other solutions are unlikely to make an impact.
> ...you might have great cards, but you folded, and nobody owes you any of the money on the table.

No. Damore had to win. His opponents just had to not lose.

Google has invested massive resources and thought into their hiring process. The debate for change was started clumsily. Damore triggered a threat response that caused a good portion of one side to walk away from the debate, but he was pushed out too.

So the status quo persists.
I guess I'm dumb, but I have no idea what 'PGM' is supposed to mean in this context.
That's false and nasty. You've made up so many groundless insinuations against us over so many years that at some point I'm just going to give up and ban you; I don't think it's reasonable to expect patience with false accusations to be infinite.

In the meantime, here are three comments that explain how moderators had nothing to do with this.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15023538

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15023498

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15023486
I've known this one for a while now; it shows up first when you search "front-end news" in Google https://frontendfront.com/
It's the same problem with proposals for radical direct democracy (i.e. without representation). You'll probably end up with very, very low turnout.
Great Google Exodus of 2017
Isn't that basically Flash? It seemed like a popular way to do web games.
This person has clearly never lived outside of a major urban metropolis. Most crosswalks require you to press the button in order to get a walk green-light.
I'm guessing Program Manager, which is new-corporate speak for Project Manager.
Standard selection modifiers usable with Chrome Tabs
Yeah, but I'm not trying to do development of a product; I'm trying to learn the stack and/or comparatively evaluate the software for fit for a use-case. When it insists on being configured to run in "JVM-eats-all-your-RAM production mode", even though I want to operate it in "stay out of my way because I'm running you as a background service on the puny Pentium-M Macbook I develop on" mode, I get a bit miffed.

And this is the same software that behaves perfectly reasonably when installed as a package directly on a Linux box; it's just when it thinks it's being used over the network because I'm running macOS and it needs to be in a Linux sandbox, that it starts acting all aggressive.

At least give me a flag to let me explicitly tell the software to relax!
Sorry, I thought it was a vulnerability/technique impacting Google services that dropped at the convention. Now I get the connection was being made to widely reported staff behavior.
It's mostly about all necessary libraries being available for the same architecture as the binary.

This means either having separate 32bit libraries (typical for closed source applications shipping together with their libraries) or having multiarch libraries (as modern linux distros do).
Babbel teams up with Cambridge English to launch new language test
I would suggest a 'skip the comic and go to the article' link at the top of the page (in the middle), not everyone is a visual learner.
Not just suing, they have an injunction and at the moment you can't buy a saw in the USA with Bosch's REAXX technology, which actually works quite differently than SawStop.

Here are two videos where you can compare for yourself:

SawStop: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3mzhvMgrLE

Bosch REAXX: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4heF0Y2-QYc

Here's an article that talks about the lawsuit:
https://www.protoolreviews.com/news/sawstop-vs-bosch-reaxx-l...
What about hangouts?
Despite all the crud on the internet, it is distressing to me that there are an uncountable number of interesting, quality sites like the one linked here. My temptation is to bookmark it, but then it will just join hundreds of other quality bookmarks that I don't have time to follow up. Maybe it is better not knowing what I'm missing.
OneSignal is hiring back end developers to help make notifications smarter
Theoretical knowledge is absolutely extremely useful, but the way we teach it is pretty much a non-starter.

We need to humanize our education systems. The concept that we all sit around in school for 20+ years and then go out and find something to do with all of that knowledge is based more on maintaining rigid financial/power structures than it is based on effective information discovery and utilization, and there's no reason that a useful piece of information recovered partially-intact from the caverns of memory here or there should continue to justify such a lumbering, monolithic system.

There are no guarantees that the system will provide even what you've enjoyed; as you said, a peer with similar education had either not been taught or had not remembered the needed concept.

Humans need it "on-demand". We learn and master a trade experimentally, most naturally in the context of an apprenticeship. We can't compartmentalize book learning and practical employment, putting years-long gaps between them, and expect the eviction algorithm in peoples' brains to have not pruned much of the relevant information. We need it cemented with immediate, meaningful, recurring experience, and we need systems that will make it easy for us to remember and reference as necessary.

The existing educational apparatus is none of this. It is just a cash cow for the banks and universities, enslaving most of its "graduates" to decades of debt servicing. That, IMO, is the primary reason it continues to be enforced, because there is very little that is rational about it.
Thanks for putting that into better light. So it's SawStop that is asking for too high a license, they aren't getting bites at that price point, and now trying to get legislation to force other companies to pony up.

Now I get the greed aspect, should have been more obvious. I was thinking in terms of component cost and not licensing cost, how naive of me...

Though in this case, at least they did create something novel making the patent legit.
What about a variant which employs representative democracy? Shareholders vote for members to serve on a decision making board.
Good thing its a free economy then, so everybody can venture out there and make up his/her/cis own little tribe and get happy.
AdEx to Become the First DApp Based on NEO
Ya'll need to go outside.
GNU/cognitive skills
Do you really need a certificate from the Board of Regents to "appreciate things other than possessions", especially when said certificate incurs an immediate cost of tens of thousands of dollars, which most students have to finance and service for decades (thereby depriving them of at least the time, if not the financial freedom, to truly enjoy their appreciation of non-possessions)? Come off it.
Yes. Exactly. I can't remember what we actually called them at the time (in polite company).
The responses here are only addressing the symptom. You want to stop robocalling, make it stop earning the callers money.
What about malicious interference?
Usually refers to precognition in the psychic sense, in english.