skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for the clarification. I've used Stripe for side projects for over a year now and honestly didn't know about this until now (I haven't made almost any changes since I originally added Stripe integration). When viewing the Stripe API docs there is no sign in option, and only until I signed into my account did the docs provide a banner at the top indicating that I am on an older version.

I opened the docs in another browser to compare the differences and I am indeed seeing my older version when signed in. It's all very behind the scenes...I would have gotten tripped up by this had I tried to make changes to my code, and I wouldn't be surprised if many others have run into this issue.

My preferences would be for there to be multiple versions of the docs and have your version be very clearly laid out to you rather than automagically updating docs based on your pinned version.
I agree the increased economic opportunity could very well be the primary factor, but why is this not enough of a factor for white American women? Or are there other factors in raising a child in an economically stable society lead to more "do what you want, my child, regardless of your gender"?
I reckon most people could tell what you meant from context.
I stopped when I got to

Here’s why, in the words of Jon Snow in “Game of Thrones”

Can't we make an argument without having to resort to popular culture? Does the author think we're that stupid than we're not going to understand his point? Or is he projecting?
You're making Damore's point. Stop selectively lowering the bar and this goes away.
> I do not think that anyone's ability to write should disbar them from discussion. We can not expect perfection from others. Instead we should try to understand them as human beings, and interpret them with generosity and kindness.

I'm a huge proponent of the principle of charity, but I found it impossible to apply to the Google Memo. Not because I'm deeply mired in political correctness (I have a range of views people in my circle consider right-wing) but because it's so badly reasoned it makes it hard to presume good faith on the part of the writer.

Damore points to studies showing that, e.g. women are more agreeable and more people-oriented. From that, he concludes women on average are less likely to prefer programming. We can diagram this reasoning as follows (the arrow with the line through denotes a contraindicator):

Women -> (agreeable + people-oriented) -> [???] -\-> programming

As you can see, there is an unstated premise:

(agreeable + people-oriented) -\-> programming

Damore's argument thus reduces to a bit of begging the question. We assume that programming is a "masculine" profession. Thus, being agreeable and people-oriented, which are feminine traits, must be contraindicators for preferring a career as a programmer. We have no studies that show this--we just assume it.

Edith, by the way, demolishes that assumption: "For example, students and professors I met in college that grew up in the USSR thought engineering was stereotypically women’s work." That demonstrates how the "gender" of various professions is a social construct. In India, where men are over-represented in teaching, it's not considered a job for "agreeable" "people-oriented" women. It's men's work. Law was historically considered men's work (it's analytical and adversarial, and could be called "people oriented" only if you hate people). But that view has been redefined as more women enter the profession. Likewise for medicine, accounting, etc. Accounting is an archetypally "masculine" profession (locked away in a back closet crunching numbers), but today more than half of accountants are women.

The moral of the story is that if you're going to make a controversial point, it had better be a good point. Damore's memo wasn't just badly written, it was badly reasoned, and deserved the scorn heaped on it.
When did I say that I want to be able to use differences between men and women to discriminate?

I said that hiring on diversity over merit was wrong. That's it... I never said anything about sex in terms of merit. The only place any discussion of sex or diversity belongs is in terms of messaging and in terms of possibly promoting jobs that are disproportionate to natural propensity towards a given role.

If you can't discuss, review, document, test or otherwise examine bias in terms of nature, environment, upbringing, educational exposure and other factors, then you can't force equilibrium at the end of a long process.

You can't hire 50% women in an industry, where only 20% of those educated for that field are women. Also, so long as choosing a field of study or work is voluntary, the best you can do is maybe have a more fair representation of a given gender in a given field that doesn't show only above average looking women wearing glasses with a few geeky quirks, then relegate them to more personality quirks, or make them less capable over time.

And MAYBE it's okay to have a field where most of the people in that field are of a given sex. I don't see the SJWs trying to get women into garbage collection, or throwing a fit over the gender bias in nursing.
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.”
A lot of people have used that argument in defense of what he wrote, as evidence
that the memo was not harmful or hostile to the women he worked with.

I strongly agree with this criticism and thought it was ridiculous that people even attempted to use this defense in the first place, so I'm glad it's being called out. When you are discussing statistical differences between populations as an explanation for certain behaviors, of course it is acknowledged by both sides that there are individuals that are outliers and that averages do not apply to every individual.
Alternatively: https://traefik.io/
While Postgres is indeed fantastic, Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server are both ahead of Postgres in many areas. For example, the feature that this article is talking about — table partitioning — has been in Oracle for at least 20 years.

Oracle's replication support is also extensive, and supports many scenarios such as multimaster, not to mention sophisticated solutions such as RAC and Dataguard. Then there's materialized views, flashback queries, clustered tables (this is manual in Postgres), parallel queries, etc.

So Postgres is still mostly catching up to other databases. It still has features others don't, of course, such as transactional DDL statements. And it's open source.
> You (along with many others) seem to be conflating the major point of the memo between interests and abilities

Sorry, this is wrong.

Direct quote (emphasis added): "I’m simply stating that the distribution of preferences and abilities of men and women differ in part due to biological causes"

See Damore's own mirror: https://firedfortruth.com/
Is a docker container simply a process or is it more heavy weight than that? It certainly can be, so isn't this characterization that it's merely a "process" a bit disingenuous?

https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/216618/what-do-the-...
Straight from the memo:

> While Google hasn’t harbored the violent leftists protests that we’re seeing at universities, the frequent shaming in TGIF and in our culture has created the same silence, psychologically unsafe environment.

Emphasis mine.
'hostile work environment' is a technical term, isn't it?
It should be acknowledged that public libraries are now defacto places of social work. This actually makes eminent sense, in a way. It should be acknowledged, so that the proper resources and funding can be delivered where it is needed and will do much good.
> The Crockford/Nodevember thing

That's the sort of thought process I expect from a totalitarian regime, not being humorous. What's next? Slashdot looks too similar to a Heil Hitler salute?

Peter Thiel made a bunch of observations on this kind of thinking. It's in 1996 if the C-SPAN camera's date is correct, but very relevant I think.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6cxRYgqfHY
Interesting, did not know that. He implies (but doesn't say flat-out and it could indeed be a retcon) in the foreword to The Hobbit that it's deliberate:

In English the only correct plural of dwarf is dwarfs, and the adjective
is dwarfish. In this story dwarves and dwarvish are used, but only when
speaking of the ancient people to whom Thorin Oakenshield and his
companions belonged.

I've not heard of any usage of it pre-Tolkien though, and can't find anything obvious after a bit of searching (mostly "dwarvish" turns up Tolkien related things). Anything you can point me to there?
The bar for all candidates at a non-Google company: Pass your first interview.

The bar for white male candidates at Google: Pass your first interview.

The bar for minority candidates at Google: Pass your first or second interview.

Of course it lowers the bar for hiring. Maybe it's justified, but it's certainly not raising it. It's not keeping it the same. Maybe it's still tougher to get hired as a minority candidate than as a white one, but that doesn't change what the policy does.
It works pretty well with nginx too: https://fly.io/articles/delivering-multiple-applications-on-...

It's trickier than it seems, though, because you need to get the right combination of Host/X-Forwarded-Host right for a given hosting service. And you frequently need to rewrite HTML to fix links. Not rocket surgery, but usually I'd rather put my hours into dev and not tweaking a proxy.
You assume the spouse is not wealthy. Wealthy spouse turns 1:2 into 2:2 which is stable. Interest can also slow for the occasional al 2:3+ growth. Europe has family's that have maintained wealth over the past 500+ years.

"That’s according to a recent study by two Italian economists, Guglielmo Barone and Sauro Mocetti, who compared Florentine taxpayers way back in 1427 to those in 2011. Comparing the family wealth to those with the same surname today, they suggest the richest families in Florence 600 years ago remain the same now."

England has also had wealth maintained for 28 generations and other old money examples are not hard to find.
As someone who has used Western Union and ended up in money-trail hell, I can tell you with complete confidence that Western Union and their ilk are huge pains in the butt and charge too much for their overly complex "service".

Sure, you need to get money into bitcoin and then out in order to take advantage of that property, but the ability to do that is getting easier and cheaper all the time.
Even if they didn't have the technology, what stops them from hiring a company from another country that has such technology?
Normal humans also run red lights when the yellow-to-red light time is too short. Transit guidelines generally state that yellow lights should stay lit 1 second for every 10mph of the speed limit. When the yellow light is shorter than this, it's easy to get caught in the middle of a red.
I just want to reflect on the irony of your having no trouble replying to a comment in Portuguese about how it's important to use the right term. This whole thing has brightened my day.
Adversarial debate is worse than discussion for reasons that these interviewees said:

>The discussion around this has followed the trajectory of most of the polarizing mass discussion in the last few years; everyone comes out the other side with their opinions more calcified than ever, and more convinced than before of the intractability of the other side.

Damore wasn't walking into this ready to discuss and/or learn, he wanted to blast his opinion internally with no intention of attempting to change it.
I don't get any of that from the memo. Neither did the woman developer who made me aware of it's existence. She marveled at the media response, saying she found nothing provocative or adversarial about the memo.
The bar wasn't lowered. That's the point.
0. Unconscious bias.
Poker is a niche hobby, not some metaphor of competition in life. That picture says more about poker as a way to spend time than about competing. You might as well show pictures from a fly-fishing competition. I don't play poker, yet I am pretty competitive in many aspect of life. All I know is that pretty much every woman I have talked to wants to be more popular, more famous, more successful. And I have seen girls compete for influence, and grades, and victory in sorts from a very young age.
That's it in a nutshell, yes. And I agree that it's sad, but it's something I only tend to feel compelled to do on very divisive political topics, so it's not too bad, really.
> I think your hostility towards the military is getting in the way of discussing these ideas

No, your unwillingness to address something like this does:

> Except the second they're unfit, they have nothing to say anymore. Because it arises naturally. Compare to the military where disobeying orders doesn't result in "Oh well, I should have made you want to do this, it's my fault you don't want to do it. Don't worry, we're cool."

My hostility doesn't keep me from speaking my mind, it's your excuse to not respond to it, and you're welcome to it. I'm hostile to water so I can look fire in the eye.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjxcWKa4sow&t=22m40s

You can pry my connection to the innocent from my cold, dead hands, and I will not sabotage it by being too friendly to those who lick boots.
And that's in incredibly poor taste to disclose... I'm not a fan of jobs going for reasons beyond merit, but it's not fair to the hire to put that on them... and I never meant to state that it is. I'm only saying diversity over merit is wrong.
I optimize for productivity first, that doesn't always equate to someone who likes their job.

Regardless, I'm not sure how that's related to my comment - the memo was discussing relative interests in software engineering (and other disciplines), not capabilities of people being able to do code better than others.
It certainly gets one thing right : what a fantastic name! Props
So for balance when can I expect to see some articles on the motivations of the likes of Eric Clanton and other Antifa thugs? Or the percentage of Muslims that sympathise with Islamic terrorists?

To point out the bleeding obvious the supposedly civilisation-threatening power that is the far right has been responsible for less than a rounding error's worth of global terrorism thus far. So why the sudden focus on the extreme right with articles like this?

Perhaps if there hadn't been such a concerted effort from media, academia etc. to demonize white men over recent years we wouldn't be seeing these groups now growing in popularity.
Stimulants from African plants
This is terrific, I wanna add this as a ddg bang...
Show HN: Profile usage of the GIL in CPython
Yes, I agree.

And everyone maintaining age blacklists or ideological blacklists should be fired.
I agree that this was an example of a transactional communication, where one party was looking for business connections and the other party was looking for sex.

I don't consider it a problem– she very quickly discovered this guy had zero interest in helping her without using her. So she blocked him, which was the obvious next step.

Posting the conversation publicly? Her prerogative.

Like he said: he didn't break any laws and he doesn't think communicating with people this way and having that become public will cause damage to him.

Does that mean there's an institutional bias against girls becoming entrepreneurs? Or lesbians becoming entrepreneurs? Or 18-year-olds becoming entrepreneurs?

If there is, this situation isn't an example of it. It's just an example of a guy who took a message from a young nobody on the off chance he could score.
No, cookies can be restricted to paths, it's just less commonly utilized.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Document/co...
We're talking about Google specifically and they have not lowered standards to increase diversity.
After having this sort of discussion with people, there seems to be a huge number of people, some very intelligent, that don't understand the relationship between sex hormones and behavior
Yeah, what? The standard bearers of leftist feminism, soccer moms?
> Then the correct way to handle it is to drop another refutational evidence bomb attacking ...

Well from a strategic perspective, that's a losing attitude though. You start in a defensive position in a debate you didn't call. You are stuck in the specific frame the author has decided to limit his own argument. He also restrict the time you have to prepare such a refutal piece as every minute he spend with his argument unchallenged, the weaker the counterarguments look.

Sure the average Google employee is more fact minded than emotionally driven, but it is a loaded subject in general but even more in IT.

What's the best possible outcome of crafting such a reply anyway ? Shutting down one single guy because nobody will engage in a friendly debate after live shots have been fired.
Welcome! It's Roger from '10 (of GTACM and Yahoo HackU and Inventure Prize fun times)
Great to hear from more women.

Here's another from an evolutionary scientist who gives a point-by-point response to Damore, using quotes from his text as a launching point for discussion [1]

She mentions that Damore brings up IQ,

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

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

The quote's context is politics. In that context, IQ has recently been used in discussions over racial differences [2].

It begs the question, is Damore being honest about his views on race? If we replace "IQ" with "race", would that change the meaning he meant to convey?

[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...
> particularly his arguments pointing to biological factors as a primary reason that there aren’t more female software engineers

I believe it was just a reason. Not necessarily the primary one.

I should probably go back and reread it, but I also remember the biological points were primarily about interest rather than the suitability of those that are already interested.

It seems most of the disagreement on the memo are things he never said.
Be honest here -- do you _really_ think there's a way to present the argument that --gasp-- men and women might be different in their abilities that _wouldn't_ trigger a meltdown? I think this memo really highlights the fact that there are Some Things You Just Can't Talk About.
/me can't resist

Eventually.
From my observations (without access to the code one can only speculate), not in this case - depth is not the cause (nor is recent downvotes, or excessive volume). I've never before hit a limit of being able to participate in a back and forth debate at far higher volumes and depth than today, but now I would be completely unable to have a conversation. Something major has changed, I'd bet money it's a flag assigned to a user by a moderator.

That said, it's not super hard core militant censorship, there's plenty of other people saying politically incorrect things in today's discussion as well, so my censorship may have been due to "not adding to the discussion in a meaningful way", rather than my particular point of view. Hopefully there's an appeal mechanism for when I decide to straighten up my act, I'm working on it.

But as they say, freedom of speech does not require someone to provide you a stage to speak on, and private companies are free to censor whatever speech they see fit.
FFS. Libraries?!

How about they pay their damn taxes.

I don't want "charity". No, I want these deadbeats to start pulling their own weight. Then we'll buy our own damned libraries.

https://www.l2inc.com/daily-insights/winners-and-losers/tech...

"For economies to thrive, companies need to hand over a quarter of their profits.

But the Four Horsemen – Apple, Amazon, Google, and Facebook — pay far less than the average US corporate tax rate.

Loser: future generations, who will have to pay off the debt racked up by politicians unwilling to tax the most profitable companies in the world."
As a korean woman, I can tell you its the opposite.
We don't have the luxury of pursuing passion jobs.

I would have preferred to be an artist or a philosopher, bu t my family was poor and had bills to pay.
This is exactly what I use to run a bunch of different personal services in subfolders on the same hostname. Sadly, though some things don't support running in subfolders.
Security without context is ambiguous and vague. To the parent comment - which asks about shipping and paying for "M" processes, docker is a reasonable (if not great) solution as container/namespace/process isolation are all, one way or another, sharing the same kernel and have mostly the same benefits/drawbacks.
Google seems to track which candidates, even if you're white and male, have done well enough in the interview process where they think it's a false negative, and give you another interview after 12 months.

It's not just minority hires that interview more than once at Google, so there's no bar lowering. There's just trying again, and everyone can try again.

So really it's what you'd expect:

The bar for all candidates at Google: Pass your interview.
Neo-Nazi Daily Stormer site, forced offline by Google, heads to the dark web
Any effort to hire more people with trait X where X is unrelated to performance on the job will lead to lowering the bar for people with X trait. Once you start hiring disproportionately from the smaller pool then that pool becomes less qualified on average. The more you "look for qualified candidates while not lowering the bar" the more you need to overlook qualified candidates from the other, bigger and more more qualified on average pool.

To see it clearly substitute women with race (for example white) and see how immediately racist the policy becomes.
I'm not saying we should have a more dynamic one. But JS fundamentally changed how we interact with websites, and it's here to stay. The majority of big players in the last decaded wouldn't have existed without the dynamic interaction. Saying we should go back to static only, is nonsense.
I've read the memo and I don't see the part where it says that women make worse engineers in general. It says that a lower proportion of women meet Google's expectations for engineering positions.

This is not the same thing at all. First, he explicitly rejects the idea of a gender binary, using an overlapping Gaussian distribution instead.
Second, he says that many positions at Google have expectations that favor men (competition, work-over-home, ...) even though these traits don't necessarily make better engineers.
Fair points, and as I said, even I tend to fall in the camp of "work is for work" a lot of the times. On the other hand, to play devil's advocate, I think you're being uncharitable by comparing them to "stick pokers" as if they've nothing better to do. I tend to believe that the topic is important enough that, "just let me do my work" isn't an adequate answer, and trivialises the concerns of a sizeable swathe of even Google employees.
There is a privacy engineering team at uber.
I wouldn't extrapolate the boorishness of Trump into a serious Nazi presence in the U.S.
Nothing that makes sense in what he says I haven't heard put better by better people, who don't apply it in such a limited way.

Oh, and then there's people dismissing something just because Einstein said it, too. That's dismissing something because of someone being too good.
I still remember seeing my SNES come down that conveyor belt.
The Basics
Basically do we start with Common Crawl ?
How do someone go from beginner to advanced and higher with something like math with books ? I know some books say
Mastering as in "Mastering Java" or whatever,
and let's say beginning as in "Beginning Math" or whatever. I looked on google and found the
Dewey Decimal System for libraries. How do I do this with everything?