skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can understand the criticisms of the article, but also the author's pain.

The confusion is a Real Thing that frustrates people every day. For example, WordPress-the-Software plug-ins don't work on WordPress-the-SaaS. Or maybe they do, but you need some special plan? Or maybe only certain plug-ins are approved, but you also need a paid plan? It's confusing.

So for better or worse, most conversations with new and less-savvy users has to start with a conversation about whether they're using a "normal" install, the WordPress.com sandboxed/SaaS product that prevents you from installing plug-ins, or WordPress on another managed WordPress host that may or may not limit users to certain plug-ins.

It can be frustrating.
It only works if they accept the offer.
That's one way to look at it. A more charitable view is perhaps they found something that helped and wanted to pass it along.
It seems like the disadvantage fell squarely on Damore's shoulders here, considering he was the one who was actually fired.

It's definitely horrible for people to feel like they don't belong. But I would argue that feeling like your job is at risk is a lesser threat than actually losing your job, no?
On the contrary. The less you have, the more you stand to benefit from appreciating other things than possessions.
Maybe so. You play in dirt, you get dirty.
The line about "just like you can't download Facebook" is good though. I'll probably use that in future...
Why fix your crappy software when you can just sell a workaround?

This is everything wrong with Apple in a nutshell. I tried iTunes once, granted it was a long time ago, but I couldn't believe how confining it was. As someone else mentioned here, it was designed for precisely one use-case and completely useless for anything else.

If it works for you, that's great, but I'll take Amazon's Cloud service and their buggy Android music player any day.
Remarkably few comments on the actual linked article. I found most of the comments in the article calm, reasonable, nuanced and reflective. To me, this shows the benefits of conversation and long form text, which we often seem to forget in this age of short attention spans driven by social media.

We need more discussion like this. I for one would appreciate hearing more about how this discussion was facilitated. Is it a transcript of a face to face conversation, or was it done online, and if so, how?
And then watch out if your company bases its diversity targets on numbers from the rest of the industry. All the good ones may be taken (in order to get to the mythical 50%), but now we want to follow suit (to get to 50%), but what's left? What a mess.
So are you literally defending the act of firing people who tell the truth?
> You presupposed that the bias is why the disparity exists in the first place

What in my comment tells you that? I made a conscious effort not to bring that up.

> Its plausible that we completely fix all biases in the industry and the gender ratio does not change whatsoever, or even gets worse.

This argument sounds like the global warming denier argument "What if it's not true? What if we make the world a better place to live for nothing?"

It is plausible, but right now we have no way to measure it. We do, on the other hand, know that unconscious bias is affecting prospective female candidates. Why don't we focus on fixing the existing problem first?
Hmm.... I understand that you reference the overlap, and distinction between biology and psycology.

Let's say you have a new born child. Since there is so much overlap between men and women, how can we EVER attribute gender to the child?

Whatever gender the child chooses, won't it still have a huge overlap with all the other genders?

If that's so, on what basis can the child choose?
It really depends on the class, and on how many you take at once.

If you take two classes per semester, the time commitment can be easily 20 hours a week.
In all fairness, we it did at least provoke an internal debate, e.g. this discussion.
To clarify, this is the report I am referring to, and it does not appear to mention CrowdStrike at all:

https://www.dni.gov/files/documents/ICA_2017_01.pdf
Teachers in India are nurturing?
If this is a "current tech culture" problem, how do you explain the fact that this is a trend shared across most of the engineering professions? Example: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/womens-business/11692996/Wo...

I don't think you can claim that "tech" and e.g. civil engineering have much in common in terms of culture, but they still share the lack of men/women parity.
I haven't used MongoDB but I've listened to those who are pushing for it. Yes, that's unfortunate that mistakes have been made (especially when it comes to databases). But, better to find that mistake early on rather than later. And it speaks to the founders dedication to the project that they navigated the rough waters and saw it through.
It's actually fairly easy to record web sites despite how dynamic they are; all you have to do is save the response data of each XHR (and similar requests) and the rest of the state (cookies, urls, date/time, localStorage, etc).

For even more accuracy save a Chromium binary of the version at the time so it'll look exactly as intended.
Being able to have a productive discussion should be more important than people's feelings.
Continuing to comment like this on HN will get your account banned.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I for one believe James Damore wasn't fired for his views on women, but Google fired him because he was a PR problem and that could affect their business/financial bottom line. Google probably understands the user base and decided they would rather not displease women (bigger group) compared to conservatives.

My analysis adds up to what James Damore had to say as to what happened in a WSJ article. He said his memo didn't bother many people until it was leaked, and the google HR got many complaints from the outside world.

I think the google management fired him not because of his view, nor were they worried that he questioned google's purported wasteful spending on diversity programs (which for Google is drop in the bucket if it is effective...if it is not effective I dont think they care, it makes them look good).

But google fired James because they thought he was bad for business (consumer base).
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Awesome, filtered top 10^6, removed sites with ads and e-commerce, typed in "enigma machine" and got some great gems:

http://ciphermachines.com/index.html
http://enigma.louisedade.co.uk/howitworks.html
Wow I had no idea they were a for profit corp, rather than an open source project. And my startup uses mongo. Mind blown! Good for them.
Amazon's Lumberyard (CryEngine fork) now available on GitHub
Just out of curiosity, what can an average Joe do to protect his legacy and ensure good outcome for his family? Cancer insurance, any other options?
Well diversity programs is the obvious one. The fact that Damore wrote the memo and so many agreed shows that they are controversial.
I agree, marketing and startups - so many startups made selling to startups (see https://techcrunch.com/2016/02/11/startups-selling-to-other-...)
They might have been discoverable via the "comments" link (lots of active comments still going on) well after the stories have dropped off the front page.

I have also been checking the Algolia "Last 24h" view to find flagged discussions that I missed, however.
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I thought that that was (also?) a problem with the radar, where it bounced under the truck and thought the road was clear.
Yes, but saying it doesn't have a concurrency model cause it's missing a feature that's arguably irrelevant to the concurrency model that's recommended by the language is pointless, and seemingly serves no other reason then to attack the language.
The 50% number applies to new large firm lawyers, not just "public interest" law. And your examples are unrealistic. Sexual assault victims don't get legal counsel. They might have (minimal) contact with the prosecutor, who is statistically likely to be a man. The accused rapist, meanwhile, might have (again, minimal) contact with a public defender, who is equally likely to be a man or woman. Both of those positions are primarily adversarial. Public defenders don't have time to nurture their clients--they try to get they are facts necessary to argue in court or negotiate a plea.
> because 'this' was evidence was that Google(his workplace)'s diversity initiatives and censorship were harming the company.

I am not sure I follow exactly. Is there evidence that Google's diversity efforts hurt the company? I don't find the memo offers any evidence. If evidence, even anecdotal evidence, were provided of that harm and of the ideological intolerance I might find the memo more compelling. As it stands, it seems like a book report.
Direct link: https://github.com/aws/Lumberyard

"Lumberyard is still subject to the AWS Customer Agreement [1] and Lumberyard Service Terms [2], but to make it as easy as possible to use, it’s in a public repo – you don’t need to log in to get it."

[1] https://aws.amazon.com/agreement/

[2] https://aws.amazon.com/service-terms/#57._Amazon_Lumberyard_...
Does Ubuntu / Canonical force their addons onto users of the open source project?
Ask HN: What is your side hustle? How much money does it make you?
Just curious and wanting to learn how you started and scaled.
If it's not true, refute it. If it is, then it can't be an insult.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15020532.
Get ready for another SNAP!
> Think about it for a second. He didn't really give the money away he gave it to a charity he controls.

He is in fact giving immense sums of his money away. You should indeed think about it for a second. The Gates Foundation has expended tens of billions of dollars so far.

Fact quote from their site:

"Total grant payments since inception (through Q4 2016): $41 billion"

"Total 2016 Direct Grantee Support: $4.3 billion"

That is an extraordinary sum already. That money is gone, it is not under their control. They're spending $4.x billion per year at this point, that money is non-recoverable, it gets spent. Over time, the fortune is extinguished, as they're forced to give 5% per year. Get it?
you'd be surprised how many legacy cases there are in the valley. the right internship, first job, quick promotion ....
WordPress is something that would exist in another form if not for Matt Mullenweg. There have been plenty of competing projects. Thanks to good timing WP became the one that a lot of different people contributed to, turning a small project into an 800 pound gorilla. Despite this, Matt Mullenweg and Automattic has used the copyright and trademark to assert and maintain control over it. Some agree with the leadership, some do not, but many website developers are pretty much stuck with it.

https://red-sweater.com/blog/825/getting-pretty-lonely
With 1.4% more performance than PostgreSQL, and far less guarantees w.r.t. schema.

Yeah, that's not hard. It's surprising it took them this long.

EDIT: The performance comparison that was linked, and that I was referring to: http://i.imgur.com/Thk5DlU.png
Right but that doesn't apply here. Meta almost means "higher-level" as you're using it, but emotional processing isn't a higher-level cognitive skill. It's just a different type of cognition.

Meta implies a hierarchy.
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Espionage is a human science and has developed applied human sciences above and beyond what popular American culture has the maturity and insight to comprehend.

Much of this information, if released publicly, would be dismissed out-of-hand as incorrect to anyone who is an upright and decent person.

To the poster below me, the offer of sex can be used as control regardless of acceptance. If a wealthy and attractive person offers you sex, and you are unaware of an ulterior motive, the mere act of offering does factually impact your psychology and changes your cognitive biases. If the changing in these biases is directed, you are being controlled.

I recommend brushing up on your espionage knowledge. This isn't magic, it's intellectual honesty.
Well, if google were to open all their internal memo systems, I'm pretty sure one would be found...

edit: Also, I'm pretty sure there was internal "feedback" related to this memo that was equally hyperbolic towards the author.
It's the mix of the lack of a byline, and the basic premise of putting words in someone else's mouth that kind of rubs me the wrong way.

"It is my position that it is only honorable that people should talk about James Damore under their own names." - Abraham Lincoln
No, all theories of (local) hidden variables have been experimentally ruled out.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell%27s_theorem

> Bell's theorem states that any physical theory that incorporates local realism cannot reproduce all the predictions of quantum mechanical theory. Because numerous experiments agree with the predictions of quantum mechanical theory, and show differences between correlations that could not be explained by local hidden variables, the experimental results have been taken by many as refuting the concept of local realism as an explanation of the physical phenomena under test. For a hidden variable theory, if Bell's conditions are correct, the results that agree with quantum mechanical theory appear to indicate superluminal effects, in contradiction to the principle of locality.
This is a great point, and it highlights something about these types of conversations that is so strange to me. So many parts of the gender/workplace conversation are quite sophisticated. But when it comes to explaining why certain industries ended up with gender imbalances, people are content to assume a monocausal theory of career "preference" on the part of women. As if that "preference" isn't shaped by problematic environmental pressures.

This is so wrong and so frequently asserted that I think a better approach to any gender/workplace convo would be to start here, recognizing the falsity of the monocausal career preference hypothesis and work backward from that toward the rest of the conversation.
There we go. Thanks.
Vulfpeck-esque
I don’t think it’s negative to private schools to say the statistics reflect selection bias rather than apples-to-apples comparisons. I generally take people saying ‘I wish I could force people to read X’ as ‘I’m frustrated I always have to deal with people who don’t understand important concept from X’ and not ‘I actually want to hold a gun to someone’s head until they finish reading this.’ I agree on good and bad public and private schools, but I think the key point is that they aren’t the order of the schools ranking on some standardized test or statistical measure.
You're confusing free speech and first amendment. Free speech is an Enlightenment ideal much like the golden rule, i.e. "treat others the way you want to be treated". It's a good thing to strive for in a society, whether the first amendment exists or not.
If thst were true, why didn't google negotiate a gag agreement (using a few million $$$, cheap for them) with Damore to make this just go away? The fact that they didn't take the easy way out makes me think that they didn't fire him for business reasons.
So much to learn, so little time... Probably not worth it.
If what you say is true then in workplaces without affirmative action programs we should not expect to find any workers who thinks the women that work there are less qualified than the men who work there. (Because the "cause", affirmative action, is not in place.)

Do you really think that is the case?

> The place to take action is in early schooling to get more women interested in tech or give them more opportunities to get involved not in hiring more of them from already smaller job seekers pool.

Yes, this is what many of Google's diversity programs are intended to do.
This is huge -- we haven't actually had that many open source based IPOs!
I have a similar experience with my children. From an extremely early age, my daughter has "tucked in" toys to bed, rocked them to sleep, etc. She was NOT taught to do this, but just did this as play. My sons can't seem to find a toy that cannot be used as a sword or a gun, to my wife's constant annoyance.

Even with the SAME toys, they are used very differently. For example, all of my kids play minecraft. My daughter loves to build houses with kitchens and bathrooms, bake, and invite people into her house for dinners and parties. My sons fight the monsters, build elaborate towers and castles, and play with explosives.

This image summarizes my experience: http://imgur.com/AT2Ak
Nah it's not just pure coincidence that a 4/5 vcs and founders have similar economic backgrounds.

Ev came from an unusually humble background for Silicon Valley.

Steve Jobs was from Silicon Valley but grew up poor.

Reid Hoffman's mom hooked him up with vc money and a network, cause she was a rich lawyer at a fancy firm iirc.

Very few people that grew up poor are successful in Silicon Valley but they may be the most impactful as a population.
I think it's a weird dance we play with polite society and reality. Sometime last year it was pointed out that being called a racist is worse than actually being a racist. After years of political correctness, racist people have "learned the language" but you still see conscious and unconscious racism all the time. Does that fix systemic racism? Is it a step forward or a step backward?

These are just tough problems. How do you make up for a system that is biased against you? At what point are you disadvantaging the incumbent group? They didn't exactly choose to be in the incumbent group as much as the oppressed group chose their's.

It's hard to have an honest conversation because it's easy to police words, but tough to police thoughts and motivations.
I don't see why. SNAP hasn't really figured out how to make money and their features were easy to copy (and copy better) in Facebook's properties.

MongoDB is far longer established, has a large enterprise business and likely has a sizable cloud business. These are not "features" you slap onto another product and then simply have users come flooding to you. No, databases are pretty critical pieces of infrastructure.

As long as the business is solid this IPO should work out well, IMO.
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>practices which can effectively lower the bar

He merely states that it can have that effect.

>Yes. Re-read my comment. Whether or not they apply inconsistent hiring practices is a factual claim. The idea that the only way to achieve the goal of hiring more women is to apply inconsistent hiring practices is his opinion.

It looks like a logical conclusion to me. Care to explain why you think it's not?
PR disaster?

What bullshit.

Do the morons behind the headline really think people will boycott the product now because of a mistake?

Or is the BBC now giving out free advertising for a product?

Come on sheeple.

And yes it is sheeple to believe that the BBC believe their headline was also true. They know it's no PR disaster but it gets them clicks.
I'm defending the act of firing people who are assholes. Whether they're telling the truth or not is irrelevant.
No I mean what position does Google have that is controversial?

> It's not right that employers get to have controversial opinions
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The first page or so is not about gender diversity, but about "Left biases" and "Right biases" and the statement that "the media, and Google lean left".

He then follows with "Google's left bias has created a politically correct monoculture".

So the difference is between these two statements:

a. I believe X, and

b. You are all leftists. Leftists believe Y. Y is wrong. The answer is actually X.
I don't agree on large marginal taxes on labor, you'd be targeting high earning surgeons rather than rich families inheriting wealth. If we want to tax capital, tax capital, and put a wealth tax of low single digit percentage point paid yearly. If you want to exclude people's first home, then do that.
What if I prefer a homogeneous group then? It doesn't mean that diverse individuals are any worse, does it?
The people he cited told reporters they disagree with his interpretations of their research. There's a wired article going around with direct quotes but I'm mobile and can't find it easily.
A number of private schools roughly kick out people in the bottom 10-20% of results. They aren't necessarily that more expensive to teach, the private schools just don't want them.

The really expensive kids (say 20K+ per year) are those that are seriously disabled and they almost all go into the government system. But, if the government only has to pay ~1/3 of the cost of about 1/3 of students who are in the private system there is more money available for them.
That doesn't contradict GP. I think it's quite uncontroversial that telecommunications can do both of those things. The more controversial and, not coincidentally, more interesting question is, on balance, which one of those things does it do? Or is its marginal effect negligible compared to other forces?

I think I'm somewhere in the "negligible" to "good" camp, but since I indirectly promote the Internet, I'm interested in reasons to believe it might do more harm than good. Remember The End of History? It's hard to deny that many Western liberal democratic institutions have at least superficially appeared to decline since then, and that at least superficially it appears that telecommunications played a non-negligible role.

Certainly all those points are debatable, but it's hard to deny why someone would argue for them, right?
Ask HN: Rust topics you wish someone had explained when first getting started?
So I am preparing to give a getting-started talk on Rust.

I was wondering what are some topics that people would have liked an explanation for when they first started learning Rust?
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Forget product-market fit, it's about customer-content fit
This.

Nothing is secure by design because anyone that can make it secure by design can get a job somewhere they're taken seriously.
While most of the 70+ branches are closed Sundays, there are some 8 or 9 that are open from 1-5 on Sundays. E.g. the branch on Robertson, a few blocks south of Pico.

The hours for all branches are on the following page; to find the ones open on Sunday, just search on the page for:

Sun: 1-5

https://www.lapl.org/branches

Also, the Beverly Hills Public Library -- which is, of course, not part of the LA library system -- is open 12 - 6 on the weekends:

https://roxbury.beverlyhills.org/
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Awesome video. Thanks for sharing it.
That page hijacks the page scrolling and reduces it to a glacial pace.

Not much point getting good SEO then annoying people that visit.
Aye I had to give up drinking last year. It worked wonderfully for a while.

You reminded me, I might try employing mindfulness more again. Let things be as they are for a bit. Thanks!