skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Gender is not biological so there is no biological explanation.

There is considerable evidence of gender identity different from biological sex lining up with biological features in several areas more typical of the other sex, so it seems that gender identity is tied to biology.

Which, if you think about it, it has to be: humans are biological machines, everything about them is biology, on one level or another. All of psychology is, ultimately, biology.
Linear congruential generators (x = k1*x + k2, unsigned with truncation on overflow) have some strange properties, some of which the paper explores. If you repeatedly take three sequential values from one and treat them as 3D coordinates, the points line up in parallel planes. (There's an explanation of why in Knuth.) Something has to be done to destroy that order. The solution here is to XOR the upper and lower halves of the 128-bit state to get 64 bits, then circular shift that by the high 6 bits of the 128-bit input. This passes most of the classic tests for random number generators.

That's the paper, basically.
I think it's a great question.

I don't know the answer but your thread has reminded me of a book called "How to Read" that may be helpful to you. It sits next to me on my bookshelf and ironically I have yet to read it.
http://youvegotmail.warnerbros.com
Tesla will do self driving without a LIDAR, just cameras (ok, 8 of those), a RADAR and some ultrasonic distance sensors: https://electrek.co/2016/10/20/tesla-new-autopilot-hardware-...

Some people believe this to be impossible for the time being - LIDAR gives you a 3d point cloud (every obstacle, with its distance from you measured), which is amazing (but currently expensive, bulky, fragile, etc) while with cameras it's way harder, and RADAR can't see some materials at all.

Tesla argues that their suite is enough (humans manage with just 2 "cameras", some even 1), but the algorithms to let you safely entrust your life to such a sensor suite are harder (i.e. more far off in the future).

Kalanick + Levandowsky disagree with Musk, and were planning on calling him out on it.
> he wasn’t sure whether he was correct and simply wanted to start a discussion (as he subsequently stated in a YouTube interview)

Anyone got a link?
Blockchain 101 – Elliptical Curve Cryptography
No, not currently, but maybe in the future.
It would be awesome if elyxel.com wasn't so esoteric.
Who Drive Company-Owned OSS Projects: Employees or Volunteers? [pdf]
Ridiculous:

Mines’s definition of a civil war is large-scale violence
that includes a rejection of traditional political authority
and requires the National Guard to deal with it.

By that definition the U.S. has experienced civil war, episodically, for a significant part of it's existence.
> Here's the thing: for men being decent requires effort

> I think men will always have to fight the urge to not "go for it" with women they find attractive.

For you, maybe. Not for me, and not for a lot of men. Please don't typical-mind-fallacy the rest of us who don't need to expend effort to not be a douchebag.
I don;t mean to sound rude but to my mind and I did mention, it was obvious from my comment that I wasn't saying he was weev or hitler or polpot in fact that was exactly the whole point - 'anybody can say anybody is anybody in post in a place such as this and it doesn't make it true' - do you still not get that? How? And if by 'we' you mean ycombinator and are speaking on behalf of the ycombinator then I would point out that the only truly unsubstantive (sic) comments are the ones you have given succour to which are the libelous allegations against Marcus Hutchins. I would expect ycombinator to be asking members to desist from defaming him.
> Saying "in part" is still making a judgement in arguing biology is a factor.

No it is not saying "is" a factor when it actually says could be a factor (in the outcomes).

This is elementary school english.

That biology "is" a factor in the differences between men and women is not really debatable at this point. If you believe different, read The Blank Slate by Stephen Pinker.
I similarly look for the first page I ever created. I was maybe 14 years old and created a pretty thorough Goldeneye 007 fan site, with walkthroughs etc, on angelfire.

I distinctly remember a misspelling in my url--- /liscensetokill --but I can't be sure of my parent category anymore. I think /mi5/

Haven't seen it in over 15 years, though.
> He's done plenty of press - maybe some you don't like

I didn't say "don't like", I said "hate groups and extremists". Yes, he's also talking to anyone else who will give him a microphone, but those aren't the ones that matter. And what he professes and what he does in practice are two different things.

> If he's really wrong, take apart his piece line-by-line and show how.

Leaving aside how many people have already done so, that is precisely the kind of time-wasting that people who keep dredging up old arguments enjoy. Not a single one of the "arguments" in the memo is new; they're the tired old ones that have been hashed out a thousand times over.
> Not sure what point you're trying to make — I live in Boston and the map seems generally accurate. Sometimes it takes longer, sometimes shorter — that's why we use averages.

Yes the map is correct! I'm saying what most people probably missed is that New England is highly compressed and has many factors such as complicated roads and seasons.

However because its compressed you do not need to travel 5 hours! Five hours gets you past NYC even with traffic.

> There's also a reason traffic to the cape is high during the summer months — the cape sucks in the winter. Not sure how you're using that to your advantage.

No its exactly as the article points out that timing is big deal and I was saying its even more of a big deal seasonal. I said I left at 4 pm. to the Cape Not 5 pm. That is a big deal for Boston as the article clearly shows. In other cities it is not. In other cities such as Atlanta for example you still have to drive 4 hours to get Savannah.

However cursory look of the article makes it appear cities like Atlanta are great commuting cities because of how far you can drive regardless of the time.
Yeah, there's lots of places where it makes sense, even in your personal finances

When I sold my company, the financial agency with whom I worked gave me free services with a financial advisor - not the same as a financial manager. It took me a few minutes to get it, but you probably still want to finance a house - even if you can pay cash.

Your cash, when invested, can earn more than you're spending to service the loan, in some situations,
It doesn't seem to me that a single email should be sufficient to remove their liability for selling these things. They have sold thousands of glasses with the description of being ISO certified and safe to use. They've been selling them for months. Then a week before the event they sent out an email telling you it wasn't safe to use them. What percent of their customers will never see that email and potentially ruin their vision?
The Hijra have existed for millenia and now have legal status: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/apr/16/india-third-...

There are several cultures that have arisen independently and have had more than two genders. Many of them are still extant today, despite the best effort of colonialists.

So that's gender down.

Intersex individuals exist. Intersex conditions range from physiological to karyotypes with variant sex chromosomes.

Transgender individuals are very varied but there are indications that it is partially heritable with genetics and the prenatal environment hypothesized to explain some of that.

And that's biology.

I could write a 100 page essay about how loaded your question was, the implicit assumptions in the way it was written, the way that "BIOLOGICAL" is implied to be a way to ignore social conditions, and the contempt for ""Gender Studies"". But I won't, it's very tiring and there will be 10 other people like you tomorrow.
> diversity equals morality

Good point. The "Larry" memo does nothing to promote healthy discussion. It's just a longer form rebuttal that more or less says, "You're wrong enough to be despicable, so we fired you."
> Milky way is pretty hard to see with our large human eyes.

It's not, at all. It's just become hard to see in the last 100 years or so of massive light pollution.
How Much Can Autonomous Cars Learn from Virtual Worlds?
I think this is one area where GraphQL really excels. It essentially can handle all of this versioning for you (as clients specify EXACTLY what they want) - you just need to make sure that as you evolve your schema that existing fields are left as-is and you only add new fields (not an easy task, but no harder than what you have to do in Stripe's protocol).
I believe that the method of looking at a bright light is not fully reliable: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15006250. I would love to be told I am wrong, since I have four pairs that pass this test without a problem, and I wish I could trust them.
Right, stress was just one of a few points, but the same argument can be used against each of the differences he references. Nothing he talked about was specific to software engineers. I think surgery is a perfect example because all of his arguments should apply even more to surgeons than they do to software engineers, but the numbers don't agree.
Goldman relaxed it's dress code for tech employees: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-goldman-sachs-technology-i...

I think banks are realizing that changes need to be made, so they're happening, albeit slowly.
Futurese: The American Language in 3000 AD
To be clear: If that quora post had been a dispassionate refutation, or even just a nest of links to directly pertinent scientific studies - I'd have believed the author. Or at least declared myself neutral in the debate, as it is outside my area of expertise.

But an article that sleazy and loaded with weasel words and underhanded rhetorical tactics, that dances that much around the points being discussed - no one who has the facts on their side argues like that. Reading that post from beginning to end actually did more to convince me Damore was right than any other piece of writing I've seen thus far on the subject.

As to your links:

Read what you're trying to cite before blinding citing it.

Here is some of the titles of the papers you just linked to:

No relationship between prenatal androgen exposure and autistic traits

The origins of agriculture: Population growth during a period of declining health

Human Health and the Neolithic Revolution: an
Overview of Impacts of the Agricultural Transition
on Oral Health, Epidemiology, and the Human
Body

Power Increases Infidelity Among Men and Women

Cuckolded Fathers Rare in Human Populations

As I said, basically pure none sense. The quora post is trying to blindside people with number of sources, to hide the fact they have absolutely no quality in sources.

Indeed, even the most directly pertinent link didn't really talk about the core issues raised in the memo. It instead discussed github pull requests vs. gender, which while far more related to the subject at hand than autistic dentistry (it is about sexism and the tech community), does not actually address the specific points raised by Damore's letter or support the arguments she was trying to make.

Incidentally, that study is nicely debunked here:

http://slatestarcodex.com/2016/02/12/before-you-get-too-exci...
I work with Amazon sellers (including on getting suspended sellers reinstated). I am not sure that his story is the actual story.

If the glasses were counterfeit, obviously his suspension was justified and he might have committed a felony. If they were authentic but just unsafe, he was foolish to have listed them when buying in such quantity and it's not surprising that Amazon would suspend him for trying to sell them.

However, Amazon is very inconsistent and capricious in how it enforces snake oil rules on supplements and similar kinds of products. In many cases legitimate sellers with authentic FDA-approved GMP-compliant stuff get into trouble while snake oil vendors manage to skirt the rules and get away with selling ineffective stuff.

Amazon does have all kinds of escalation features and different levels of seller support to deal with a suspension. The real issue he had was just buying a lot of highly speculative products that could pose a danger to customers with no sales history at all.

There are so many other cases in which Amazon acts unjustly or inconsistently enforces its (often arbitrarily applied) rules. This is not really one of them.

It is false that anyone can sell anything on Amazon. Most frequently counterfeited (like Jewelry) or otherwise problematic/hazardous categories are 'category gated' and require you to submit a bunch of documentation to sell in it. While there are a lot of problems with the way Amazon does these reviews, it does make it challenging for bottom tier scammer types to pass review and to maintain their right to sell in that category.
Google, like all corporate structures is hierarchical.

Corporations recognize "success" for employees through promotion. Promotion usually includes higher pay.

Men are taught from a young age that they need to "compete" for "success"

There is no way to win the game for all players inside corporate hierarchy.

If you can't win the game, but wish to remain (or are trapped by your economic situation) you will have pressure to feel validated.

Throughout history, dominant majorities (men, whites, etc) succumb to this same problem of "not enough winners." This format breeds a type of resentment instead of introspection.

Instead of facing the truth: the game is stacked against you, you may just not be that good etc., it is far easier to devise some sort of massive conspiracy or pseudo-science to justify your prejudice.

White men feel that they "deserve" things moreso now than ever because women, POC etc represent another competitor in their weird corporate power fantasy game.

It feels increasingly "Unfair" and contrasts to the cultural narrative we continue to endorse (especially here in SV) - that success is economic based, and based on merit.

Women and POC will continue to be the scapegoats until culturally we decide that "success" isn't about being an individual that becomes rich or powerful.
There are people with XX, XY, XXX, XYY, XXYY, etc chromosomes.

Also there are various hormonal insensitivities, so a person won't display the typical sexual characteristics associated with their chromosomes.
I mean, isn't the whole "you gon' get audited for decades" bit about how this usually goes? The audit is the actual teeth here, if the auditor finds issues any time in the next decade, they start assigning fines like in the 10k per infraction per day-not-yet-fixed range or something.
How Do We Trust Our Science Code?
Try https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/aug/13/james-dam... for a start, which is quite well cited and referenced.
Serious post: It's possible you have low testosterone levels. Annual testosterone checks are an important medical precaution for men, as decreased levels can be caused by serious medical conditions.
The US Presidential office has archived the many iterations of it's 'White House' webpage.

https://www.archives.gov/presidential-libraries/archived-web...
Even specifies "Uber" Eats. That's a CEO right there.
Quote from the original memo http://gizmodo.com/exclusive-heres-the-full-10-page-anti-div...

> I’m simply stating that the distribution of preferences and abilities of men and women differ in part due to biological causes and that these differences may explain why we don’t see equal representation of women in tech and leadership.
To put things in perspective, I think by "Mines"'s definition, the post Rodney King riots would still be 'medium scale'.
He stated on Tucker Carlson that he has based his argument on what he referred to as scientific consensus.

I'm not making any endorsement of the comment or of the science, since it isn't my field, but just relaying what he said.
Please link to the extremists you're referencing.

Also - please link to a line-by-line breakdown by someone refuting each point (and importantly: refuting to his actual words, not insinuations of what he might be thinking).

Citations are important and helpful to a productive debate.
Gender is usually considered indicative or coupled with cultural behavior and performative behavior, i.e. in the U.S. barbie dolls are 'toys for girls'. Sex begins and ends at the biological level and is strictly related to the organs and biological makeup you have and what you can do with those. I know less about how sex isn't binary, but in the case of gender it's fairly evident these days.

At least that's how I've understood it in layman's terms and with my very basic knowledge--it's very complex, as with anything worth studying. The seminal text on the issue in the eyes of many is Judith Butler's Gender Trouble--If you truly are serious about wanting to learn about this stuff I suggest you check it out.
I second this. Get some practical experience before trying for the "sexy" job.
Querying Users as Oracles in Tag Engines for Personalized Image Tagging
Also not useful to talk about such risks as a "percentage" chance. What does that mean -- given a significant sample of normally distributed parallel universes, the current situation would result in civil war? And, if it does, the impact is huge so perhaps even a 1% chance is something to worry about. Overall, not a useful way to think about political futures.
U.S. court rules LinkedIn cannot block startup from public profile data
The harm would have been done even if the memo was not leaked, due to the otherwise discussed effects on google employees.
BYTE Magazine's Smalltalk issue (1981)
good point, I failed to mention that. thanks.
In my opinion, an omission would only constitute a lie if, and only if, the information omitted cannot be safely ignored as irrelevant. Because otherwise the answerer would be omitting information which he personally considers important.

Whenever a person is asked a question, they have at least some idea of both what's relevant to the inquirer (i.e. what's being asked, implicitly or not) as well as what they personally consider relevant (i.e. all that information which might relate to the question). And some thoughts can be safely omitted if they're uninformative.

For instance, it might occur to me when asked about the watch that it looks shitty and tacky. But that thought might occur to me less like an actual opinion and more like an intrusive thought. So it can be safely ignored as completely uninformative to the inquirer, because whatever value it could have to the inquirer later on would be only due to a "broken clock" effect. Because I'd be talking out of my ass.

Now, if there's a loophole, it's only as big as people make it out to be. Because the real difference between honest and dishonest people would remain. And that is, that the former are willing to express their own opinions when asked to do so, whereas the latter would attempt to manipulate their answers, either by omitting information they personally consider relevant or, as you suggest, by attempting to misdirect the inquirer by adding information which they know is irrelevant, but which doesn't appear as such the inquirer.
> I'm not sure you can cede certain rights and, even if so, I'm still not okay with it.

Sure, you can't sell yourself into slavery, you can't contract away your right to vote, and there are some others. Your interest in transferable property like a domain name, you absolutely can cede, in whole or in part, by contract. That's what makes markets work.

> Just because something isn't against the law does not mean I'm okay with it.

What, specifically, are you not okay with? What are the bounds of the limits of the right to contract that out want to impose to correct it?
Seems a tad reductionist; by that same token, all of psychology is also physics.
Are the numbers of intersex individuals large enough to actually matter? And how many of them are fertile?
It's an interesting thought. Civil war was obvious because it was total war. It became the focus of the entire nation. But the U.S. has become increasingly effective at going to war without it being total war. I wonder if it can do the same with itself?
Or, you go earn billions, and then you can decide what to do with them.
Nope, still Apple. There's no good reason that the iPod couldn't use a standard protocol. For that matter, there's not much reason not to just read it as a USB drive and let the car's internal music player do all the work, even if just as a fallback.

I can kind of understand why Apple would want the entire world to only work with their proprietary connector, but for the life of me I still can't figure out why anyone else, especially auto manufacturers, went along with it. It's a horribly short-sighted decision for products like cars which regularly have a useful lifetime measured in decades.
PSA: Never write an email this long to be sent to "all-employees@company.com", "Larry" should know better!
Sorry, that sucks. There were painful lessons from crowdfunded Lockitron which is why we stopped shipping it at the end of 2014.

We had a similar debacle in early 2014 with automated updates. The crowdfunded Lockitron used a gear train that required it to back turn in order to unload the mechanism such that a user could turn the lock manually.

A hastily deployed update with insufficient QA would overturn the gear train past the limit of the underlying lock mechanism. At this point the stress would be released in one of three ways; (1) the main worm gear would pop off from the motor shaft, (2) a secondary gear would lose some teeth or, in a few rare cases, (3) the underlying lock would be damaged. We luckily had enough units to quickly ship replacements and rolled up an update that reversed the changes.

As a result, we made an explicit decision not to implement remote OTA firmware update capability for Lockitron Bolt. Instead we require users to be within Bluetooth range of the door so they can immediately verify the device is working as expected after an update. Given we don't want to nag users on a regular basis to update their lock, we opt for very conservative release cycles.

Additionally Lockitron Bolt uses a vastly simplified clutch mechanism that doesn't require any back turn behavior. This means you can always turn the lock manually (by hand or key), even if the device is dead.
Toward a DNA-Based Archival Storage System
I never had music on my iPhone (only Spotify) until 2014, when Apple had its U2 album debacle. I used the removal tool, but it failed for one song: "Raised By Wolves". To this day it echoes horribly in my head, as when I went to start my car in the morning, it automatically played the aforementioned song, the only one in my library.

I was eventually able to remove it, but for a few weeks, auto-play music (and Bono) were the bane of my existence.
Many of the more reasonable criticisms of the memo say that it wasn't written well enough; it could've been more considerate, it should have used better language, or better presentation. In this particular link, Scott Alexander is used as an example of better writing, and he certainly is one of the best and most persuasive modern writers I've found. However, I can not imagine ever matching his talent and output, even if I practiced for years to try and catch up.

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.
A good example is Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia (CAH), which Slate Star Codex has made so much of in this debate. Excess androgens from CAH can lead to ambiguous genitalia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congenital_adrenal_hyperplasia...
You can have XXY/XYY/XXX chromosomes, and appear normal though.
I don't miss flash intos though. Or frames.

Good thing they were usually optional.