skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Think and feel all you want on our "limits to free speech" (which vary widely per country). But please don't water down the definition of fascism for your own rhetorical ends. Fascism does not equate to "any infringment of freedom" and it should not be. Moving the goalposts on that one leaves us less able to deal with real nazis.

You're obviously pro-free speech. But surely, if speech is so important, it is also important to make sure it can be effective. If one waters down definitions like that, the ability to speak effectively against dangers diminishes.

I'm an european, way too young to have seen WWII. But I deal with its broad consequences, that still permeate society and psyche in subtle ways, daily. To see the evil of fascism repurposed to mean something else, just makes me sad. Don't screw up our heritage please.
>> Even if you accept that there are average genetic differences, they are far outweighed by socio-cultural factors. Reducing people to their genes is lazy psuedo-science

If you are a man I dare you to use that argument to get yourself appointment at gynaecologist's :)
He wrote the article as a research article. So every time he put an statement he referenced it with a research article which supports that statement. I don't understand why this is wrong. All research papers are written this way.
What do you do with that data? Just store or do some analysis on it (how? With what kind of resources?)?
So I read that, and it's not so much "serious questions about validity" as "overall weak agreement disguised as rebuttal". The main takeaway in the form of disagreement is that social science findings are mostly untrustworthy/not usable?
>I disagree that it’s possible to write what he did about general populations, then walk it back to say “but of course it doesn’t apply at an individual level.”

I'd be curious to hear an actual defence of this line of thinking. I mean, it's simply a fact that group differences aren't particularly useful indicators of what an individual is like. Nevertheless, they're very good indicators of what populations are like. Is there any actual criticism of that argument, or is the objection more about how people feel about that argument?
I may be wrong -- and I don't mind working dough, myself.

But I seem to recall from helping my parents (well, mother) with their bread maker, that there is a pizza dough mode.

I gather this would prepare the dough, without (obviously) baking it.
> Why would this mean anyone already working in the field needs to bring any burden to the table in terms of defending themselves? The subject was centered around the probability that some recruiting assumptions may be wrong, and that there may be better approaches to recruiting or improving the situation in general.

Assuming you're asking in good faith: because of the idea that diversity hiring effectively lowered the hiring bar.

Imagine for a second you have imposter syndrome. Now imagine that you've been told (not necessarily by Damore) that you're the (not quoting you here) "diversity hire". Imagine how much worse that imposter syndrome now is.
It's too fickle a criterion for fairly firing someone. Especially if you consider he likely didn't mean to offend anyone.

If you think he did mean to offend people, the firing makes more sense.

I don't think "he should have known better" is very fair when neck deep in a discussion about diversity. Sometimes diversity looks like someone not knowing cultural rules.
I didn't grow up in a "good school district." In fact, we were frequently at, or near the bottom in local rankings. However I think I've managed to do all right in life -- the experiences a child learns from outside of school, from libraries to good parenting, to just being allowed to roam -- are way more important than what you learn in the classroom.
This would be good. I've seen 0 criticism of it that falls into this category so far. For the most part, it's essentially just been "I don't like the conclusion so I'm going to call you a sexist and make a straw man of your argument while ignoring the details."
I reccomend Malcolm Gladwell's podcast on the subject. He makes a strong argument that the failure to integrate teachers to any degree caused a large part of the failure. Some of his sources are on the page, but I haven't reviewed them well personally.

http://revisionisthistory.com/episodes/13-miss-buchanans-per...
Fantastic interview, I relate to many of the things the engineers mentioned. I was also disappointed by the heat and rage from both sides, IMO this whole gender thing is not a debate, it's more like a cat fight that everyone gets hurt and become more hardened about their views. It's anti-productive and exhausting.

I hope that the silver lining here is that more people, particularly those who subconsciously share Damore's views on women, understand better about the real challenges of girls and women in the tech field. Cos it's not enough for a small segment to drive positive change, everyone needs to be onboard too. Let's shift the debate to that level now.
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It's the "easy" money. No one is interested in spilling ink about fields with no money.
Thanks for the link! It looks like reocities didn't pick it up. (I downloaded all 250 links and grepped myself)
In that case you have an off-line discussion with a group of friends to validate your idea. If there seems to be a consensus, you raise the point at the next TGIF (the internal Alphabet-wide gathering every Thursday), tactfully and without making generalizations about gender and without inflammatory arguments against your perceived political leanings of the company.

I was there during the whole Nest reorg/culture drama for crying out loud. I've seen people lob really hairy questions at the TGIF panel and I don't recall a single one of them getting fired.
> We should be able to talk about his arguments honestly and rationally without falling back on gendered reasons at this point at least.

We are and lots of people are doing so, but another point made in this post is that the workplace isn't the venue for this.
> If you look at this data you can see there is clear distinction in the types of work chosen on average between the sexes. These choices align nicely with the findings of personality research between the sexes.

I am not disputing this at all.

> It's seems such a cliche to say "Sure, sexism exists to one degree or another." But okay, I can agree.

Okay, we've found some common ground here. Let's go a little further. "The tech industry has a problem with sexual harassment and sexist treatment towards women." Agree or disagree?

> The problem is when you pick some particular gap and say this gap is a problem because the main cause is sexism.

Except I did not say either of those things.

> Doing this is a problem not just because it ignores many other relevant factors, but because when proclaiming the cause as mostly sexism you are then accusing many people of something of which they are innocent.

> You're unjustly maligning many people when you do this.

Please stop putting words in my mouth. Thanks.

> What evidence would be sufficient to convince you that the divergence in sex ratios of fields like nursing & elementary teaching compared to engineering and more theoretical pursuits comes down to personality differences between the average man and woman, and not sexism?

You don't need to convince me of this because I am not disputing it. I am disputing the idea that sexism has no role to play, however.

> In regards to your concerns about the status quo of the tech industry or any other and sexism therein, individual cases should be dealt with appropriately. Individuals should act responsibly and respectfully.

That is a great platitude however it does not seem to be helping very much as we (as an industry) seem quite content to perpetuate the status quo.
It's not veiled at all.
I put these notes together:

Entrepreneurship:
https://wrdrd.github.io/docs/consulting/entrepreneurship

- #plan-for-failure

- #plan-for-success

Investing > Capitalization Table:
https://wrdrd.github.io/docs/consulting/investing#capitaliza...

- I'll add something about Initial Coin Offerings (which are now legal in at least Delaware).
$10k host header
How much of a time investment is it?

Most graduate CS programs in the US have a lot of programming assignments and projects, and with a full-time tech job, it might be a bit hard to do it while maintaining a work-life balance.

I'd prefer a testing-heavy approach, with written exams, one- or two-hour programming/coding exams (similar to an interview), and in general other low-time-investment ways of verifying you've learned the material.
- Fast compilation

In return, you spend more time debugging since there are no interesting static guarantees.

- Multi platform

So is Rust? Even if it weren't, you've already tied yourself to the platform support of Rust at this point.

- Great tooling

Not familiar enough to comment on this one.

- Good std lib

I can't take Go's stdlib seriously with the way they handle errors.

- Easy learning curve

Despite using it for a year I still have to google Go's syntax and semantics daily. By far the least consistent and hardest to learn general purpose language I have touched.

- Fast enough for most scenarios

Sure.

- Good concurrency model

This is literally just wrong. How can you claim to be serious about concurrency when you have no concept of immutability in your language?
Yes, the second one.

Being fired is a discrete event. It happens, you move on with life, next job.

Now try to live your whole professional life going through the second scenario, then come back in 20 years and tell me if that was a tragedy or not.
When FreeBSD moved from 16 bit PIDs to 5 digit PIDs back in about 1999, I got the impression that one reason for not using the full 32 bit space was compatibility with tabular formatting in lots of userspace tools.
The USB drive solution solves only one part of the problem. You assume all of my music in iTunes/Apple Music. I only listen to music in that app...because the car plays "Aaj Ki Raat" every time I plug in my iPhone. I usually listen to podcasts or Amazon Music. A standard protocol would be great, if one exists. Treating the external device as a USB drive closes the door on other apps/functionality.
>He does, however, clearly state that Google's hiring standards had 'lowered the bar' for women and minorities. I think it's awfully charitable not to infer that he considers the women/minorities at Google (on average) to be inferior engineers.

Yes, but that's simply how statistics work. If you require one group of people to score 90 on some test in order to be hired, and another group to score 80, then among successful applicants the second group will have lower average scores than the first. There's no getting around that.

The argument should be over whether or not Google's hiring practices lower the bar for particular groups of people. If they do, then the above conclusion about the average talent of various groups is inescapable.
The spec may not mandate that Accept and Content-Type match, but it's still pretty strange. The client is saying "I accept this particular vendor-defined format, with an underlying structure of JSON" and the server says "ok here's a blob of JSON". Nothing in the server's response indicates that the response actually belongs to the specific vendor-defined media type, it could be handing back arbitrary JSON.

I get that from a practical standpoint the server needs to send back a JSON Content-Type, otherwise a lot of clients won't understand that it's JSON and won't decode it properly. But given this, shouldn't they have picked a different header to declare the API version?

What's the benefit of using the Accept header in this fashion? AFAICT there is no benefit at all over just using a custom header.
Ah, Mozilla's docs are not great. The spec allows a URI, and there is guidance on how to interpret paths: https://www.w3.org/TR/CSP2/#source-list-path-patching
$170k/yr in what city?
I don't know, a lot of HNners seem to believe in Cunningham's Law, and it certainly seems to have held in this situation.
Integrated schools help to reduce racial achievement gaps. In fact, the racial achievement gap in K–12 education closed more rapidly during the peak years of school desegregation in the 1970s and 1980s than it has overall in the decades that followed—when many desegregation policies were dismantled.

Why I don't find that evidence convincing: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13904403
The accompanying blog post[1] might have been a better fit for submission, as it has actual content:

[1]: https://fly.io/articles/one-hostname-to-rule-them-all/
Today's left has went a far way from socialism and whatnot. It's funny how today's far right cares about "common man" and labour rights more than far left which is busy with identity politics.

For example, in Europe more and more labour is voting for right wing parties. While left is becoming more and more rich/educated urbanite.
I'm confused as to what your point was, then. It reads as though you're attempting to ascribe responsibility to organic social processes.
I moved South, somewhere in the Carolinas/Georgia area.

Where I am now there are far fewer tech jobs than NYC, and a lot of the jobs are in companies that aren't as fancy sounding as what you'd see in NYC. I moved to a job with a bit of travel, so I didn't take too much of a pay cut. Some days I wonder if I made the right choice, but I don't worry about my savings getting destroyed by rent/mortgage+taxes during a job loss.
Many people have tested this and written about their results:

https://moz.com/blog/subdomains-vs-subfolders-rel-canonical-...

http://www.bloggingflail.com/subdomains-vs-subdirectories-se...

https://medium.com/mention/how-we-increased-search-traffic-3...
I watched some youtube interviews of him, one on Bloomberg where he seemed pretty nervous and not as articulate or as relaxed as on this longer interview https://youtu.be/SEDuVF7kiPU with some Canadian professor who apparently has a bad rap of his own. Still an interesting discussion with some odd 3rd party alternate Googler in the background who speaks up every now and then but who has an obscure role in the context of the overall discussion. I was pretty curious too who this fella was that stirred up the hornet's nest.
You explained it yourself. It was initially a science, and in the 80's it became engineering and now, a get-rich scheme. Each era attracts a different set of people.
More complex code that then actually does the thing you intend it to do rather than having subtle concurrency bugs (among other sorts).
Most jobs will list a bunch of bullet points as requirements.

If you can check off more than half, consider yourself well qualified.

Even things like "never programmed in swift, but have read some code examples, and understands the basic principles" can be enough check off "swift programming experience", especially if you already have mobile development experience from school or personal projects.
Well done for proving I can't get pregnant. What else you got?

Edit: But while we're at it, there are male gynaecologists too, largely because while they're studying, they develop an affinity for gynaecology.
x% of the population are Trump voters.

They tend to be offended if you criticize Trump.

Therefore, you are not allowed to criticize Trump.
Is this really Charles Isbell or someone pretending to be him? Account created within the last hour.
Does anyone know if there is anywhere with discussions with women who aren't engineers? I'm thinking find a dozen random women who were 95th percentile or higher on the SATs 6 years ago and ask them 1) Why they chose their field and 2) Why they didn't go into computer science.

At least at the college I went to, the ratio of women graduating in CS was slightly higher than the ratio of women enrolled in my freshman CS class (proportionally, slightly more men switched majors or dropped out than women).

Places like Google hiring more female engineers is good, and even helps with the pipeline problem, since role-models are one way of encouraging disadvantaged groups to pursue particular careers. However, it would be nice to know if there are interventions we could make directly earlier in the pipeline.
You can be fined for being an asshole by ignoring a revealed preference? SHAME AND SCANDAL!
Who knows where he would have ended otherwise.
It seems like you're holding a significant double standard here, which is exactly why Damore feels his views are systemically quashed.

For example, that line of reasoning would go: Damore saw practices he feels are discriminatory based on the available evidence. His silence could be mistaken for agreement. He should not be forced into that kind of debate at work.
I don't know what the difference between "valid" and "invalid" pain is. The point is not that it's valid or invalid, the point is that it's not up to you whether or not you feel it. The only thing that's up to you is how you act on it. Understanding that can make it feel a little less painful, especially over time. In particular, if you use that insight to break the cycle of self-reinforcing behavior (like sitting at home wallowing in self-pity) then it can actually help.
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In respond to the person who deleted their message: Yes, it would be nice if Silicon Valley was weirder, my sense is that as it strives for professionalism it's ironically losing that quality even as it references diversity.

It must be like how Banks always talk of 'innovation' while they do no such thing.
Thank you for the reply. The employer sent me an FAQ that says to be on the safe side, just list the item on the form and I can work with their legal team after joining, in case I need more clarification.
Lol, I can not argue with this :D
Were the questions asked in person and scribed "live" or submitted?
How Foursquare embeds open source projects into an internal monorepo
Sometimes poor UX seem to be for a reason. Be it Facebook or Google, I feel like extorted product rather than the user. I wish someone created a search engine that I could pay for.
Now, that would solve that problem now wouldn't it.
If you stripped out all the (weird, random) cryptographic stuff from this paper, it would read pretty much the same and make pretty much the same points, which tells me: it's not a cryptographic paper.
That blew my mind too.
I wish that article could be pinned to the top of hackernews forever.
USA Small Business Administration: "10 steps to start your business."
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"Startup Incorporation Checklist: How to bootstrap a Delaware C-corp (or S-corp) with employee(s) in California"
https://github.com/leonar15/startup-checklist
> If you get the chance, go ahead and do it.

... but remember to get new gaskets. The older they are, the chances get higher that they'll break on dismantling and you don't want to rebuild the engine and have it go boom the first time you turn it on ;)
It's trading off the false positive vs. false negative rate in the hiring signal. The question is what your assumptions are about the sources of error in that signal.

If you assume that the variance consists exclusively of false negatives due to discrimination, then the extra interviewers will work as Google claims and no bars will be lowered.

If you assume that the variance consists of randomly distributed error that's the same for all interviewees, then the second interviewer is just some statistical sleight-of-hand that's, on average, equivalent to lowering the bar.

Of course it's possible that the truth is in between.
> I also wonder why Edith felt the need to mention gender not being binary in a discussion partly about whether biological sex influences choice of job, considering the fact that as far as I know biological sex is indeed binary, you either have at least one Y chromosome or you don't.

I think she refers that gender is not binary as you can be straight male, straight female, gay male, gay female, bisexual, asexual, etc.

I am not completely sure but I think there can be mutations where you have 2 chromosomes X and 1 Y. So XXY [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klinefelter_syndrome
So you're saying that any research or argument that comes to a conclusion you disagree with should be equated with the research and arguments that Neo-Nazis use? How progressive, open-minded, and forward thinking.
That this is a widely held viewpoint on these things ought to be more disturbing than the memo.
I'm deeply disappointed with the decision by the Virginia ACLU to legitimize the rally in Charlottesville in the name of free speech. The ACLU is not naive. They must know that many white supremacists are domestic terrorists. Why do they mindlessly support their "right to assemble"?
Do you really believe that there are less regulations, is smaller government, fewer government jobs, etc., today than in the 80's?
Of course. Switching to lots of it and working down from there.
The devil's in the details on this stuff, and unfortunately we don't have the details so it's hard to say exactly how much devil there is in them.

How do they lower the false negative rate? A sibling comment mentioned Google's practice of giving diversity candidates a second interview if they fail the first. This would mean if you have a false negative rate of `n` your false negative rate would become `n^2` (which is lower because n is hopefully much less than 1). However, this also increases your false positive rate from `p` to `1 - (1 - p)^2`. So in effect, this is lowering the bar as it's giving certain groups a better chance of being hired when they're not qualified than others. I would be very interested to hear about a hiring practice that lowers false negative rate without affecting false positive rate. I can't think of one right now but it seems like it should be possible.
You can almost postulate a sort of "memetic herd-immunity" where if a large enough proportion of the student population is inoculated against bad study habits, a few stragglers will be ok. But if the balance tips too far, the stragglers start joining up and reinforcing each others' bad study habits.
Some people take offence to the fact humans are related to apes and that the earth is more than 6000 years old. Doesn't mean we should tip toe around their ridiculous sensitivities.
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