skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's room for accessible and for abstruse literature. Usually what happens with novel work is that initial publications are abstruse but met with excitement by the scholarly community and gradually more accessible works (as the number of collaborators/coauthors grows too) are published.

That said, even if multi-culti math means that top-line researchers are going to be spending time with song-and-dance introductions, she should still have put a grad student onto the task of making the short paper that experts will actually read.

If the whole thing is a matter of style and not of obfuscation, this would have given a grad student an easy, cool first publication.
Welcome to the Docker revolution.

Historically it was hard to distribute software. You can't just copy over .elf files since these need dynamic libraries. Dependency hell is real, people invented .deb to solve many problems, but debs were always intended to be installed in global scope, making it hard to package user software.

Roll forward and nowadays with namespaces you can "containerize" also disk, which means shared libs. Docker images are a better delivery mechanism than raw elf files, or even debs. Hosting docker images is inherently cheaper than virtual machines. I think Heroku were first large service to realize that.
The memo makes a whole case against "the Left" (capitalization from the memo) and how "leftists" are violent. That doesn't sound like "conciliatory manner" to me, especially considering he makes a blanket statement about Google "leaning left."
Any "leak" is intended to weaken/shame some party. The unknown is whether it's an attack on Levandowski/Otto, Uber, Kalanick, or all of the above.
>Twitter is the worst way to have this debate but that’s where it mostly was taking place (with a sprinkling of medium posts and malformed news pieces to complement it).

This is why I really appreciate HN. The discussion here was fairly reasoned and people could be pretty open. I appreciate the perspectives provided in this blog post too. Thanks to you all for making such a high quality community.
Meta means self-referential. How are emotional skills "self-referential cognitive skills?"
Thanks for clearing that up, I couldn't figure out what was going on in the comments either at first. "Why would plugging into aux have the phone do anything?"
Sure, but what are the rates for things like that? And in the case of different chromosomes, what are the variations that still result in a fertile and "normal" human being?

My concern is that people are attempting to use the existence of intersex folks (at widely varying claimed incidence rates) to make faulty arguments about what is and is not normal physiology.
Courts have seized and transferred them as assets. I would like to think there is some rights there, much like the rights of renters. It doesn't appear as though there are many. I consider this to be a bad thing.
A related post from SSC on the subject: http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/08/07/contra-grant-on-exagger...

TLDR: Personal interests can plausibly explain the entire gender imbalance.
I think they were allowed to expose themselves quite effectively the other day. Neo-nazis also found ways to expose themselves well before the invention of the internet. They still have their free speech, but they are not entitled to aid in expressing it from private entities.

You can't "defeat" neo-nazis on a message board any more than you can "defeat" a racist grandparent at the dinner table. The goal is to prevent evil ideas from infiltrating mainstream society, they will always be around in some form or other. Judging by the reaction to the recent events in Charlottesville, including the revocation of the daily stormer's registration, it looks like mainstream society is soundly rejecting evil.
All your questions are answered in the article:

- They apply transformations to convert responses from the current version to the previous version, step by step.

- This means the overhead for old versions only applies to consumers of the old version.

- They support all versions going back 6 years.
yes, we did the same comparison before launching, according to our source, our data is up to date, we are updating our data monthly. As you said it could be because we are using different algorithm therefore we get different result.
Well, there are also the multiple news stories in a bunch of different newspapers and (I assume) TV channels.
It was apparently a live-document (like etherpad) and the intention was get feedback directly in-line if I understood correctly. Not an unusual way of doing things for an engineer.
Frankly, a huge number of people would be utterly outraged by that. For many putting in doubt certain commonly held values and saying "we don't know if it's true" is like a slap in the face. At least the media in general are Left-leaning, so it's much safer for Google to pay Damore a limited sum rather than open to another wave of accusations, no matter how grounded they might be.
Ya, more and more large tech companies are oblivious to the practice of not mixing politics with business. It will always alienate and anger a large fraction of your customers. Off the top of my head: Github, Mozilla, and Google all seem to be doing this unfortunately.

This is especially ironic to me when measures are taken to ensure some tiny quantity of people don't feel uncomfortable in exchange for angering a huge swath of their customers.

The Crockford/Nodevember thing is a perfect example of this:

http://atom-morgan.github.io/in-defense-of-douglas-crockford
That depends on what you classify as failure. It failed in the sense that the white and wealthy mostly fled to the suburbs and reversed any progress integration had made. It succeeded in the sense that in the places and times where schools were well integrated the racial achievement gap closed.
Google's stance, as stated in the article, is that they divert more energy in to finding minority candidates. That's not the same as a lower bar. Abilities are expected to be distributed equally still.
Because in the discussion of a highly disadvantaged group (gender or a minority) what matters is how to provide this group with rightfully equal opportunities, not how to widen the gap by looking how to give more advantages to already extremely privileged one.
Wow! That's nice. I started to imagine how it could be used in a geeky clock.
One thing I see is a kind of bigotry.

For instance, there are some people who only use Microsoft tools since they have an MSDN subscription.

There are other people who run Linux and use only open source tools.

Frequently people in those community think the other one "sucks", even though they both get their jobs done.
This is such a great response. Thinking of blockchains as a decentralized document management system for managing the evolution of data makes a lot of sense and really articulates the value proposition of Blockchain.

Thank you for this response.
Right, this is completely about keeping it within the continuing jurisdiction of the court
As for the memo itself, I think it's a bit of a Rorschach blot: people are seeing what they want to see in it, largely because the writing is so poor that the author fails completely to get his own points across in a coherent manner.

The conversation about "women in tech" is severely hamstrung by folks conflating issues of sexual harassment with the hiring pipeline. These are two very different problems requiring two very different conversations.

Lastly, I found Dr. Charles Isbell's comments via Ian Bogost in The Atlantic to be very interesting. This is majorly paraphrasing, but he's essentially pointing out that conversations about diversity have a tendency to end up focusing on women to the exclusion (accidental or otherwise) of black men, hispanic men, etc.
Again, like many others you are confusing "less people from this group are qualified" with "people from this group are less qualified". The first doesn't say anything about single individuals, and doesn't suggest any discriminatory practice against the group. The second does.
> I disagree completely and utterly that the (yes, real) average differences between men and women map to being better or worse at certain jobs. Interest in certain jobs, certainly. And we know – and many of us have experienced – that interest levels are also heavily influenced by social and cultural factors.

This is the key point. 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.

It's absolutely necessary that we start to break down ideological echo chambers, but I'd argue that Damore's memo and his subsequent actions ('Goolag' etc) haven't done much other than entrench people in the positions they already have.
Would you mind explaining more what that would buy us? Because I can't see it from here. Snackis uses email as a dumb transport; it doesn't even bother with headers that much since most content is encrypted; it's quite possible that other protocols will be added down the line.
I was in geocities/South Beach/lounge but I can't remember the number and it annoys me. I know for a fact archive.org indexed it but they didn't at all after geocities moved to ~ urls. (That was after the Yahoo buyout IIRC)
Ask HN: Best company structure for a CA resident running a lifestyle business?
My side project has been growing pretty quickly, and I'm making it my full-time focus. I'm the only owner (I do plan on having employees), I have no plans to ever raise money, and I'm a CA resident.

What's the best way to setup the company so as to minimize my tax burden?
Impact in terms of what? Alleviating suffering or helping to fix the institutions whose brokenness has let the problems fester?
I disagree. He mentioned in an interview[1] that he was looking to be proven wrong which is what led him to share it with the Skeptics group at Google, which is when the document propagated. He had actually wrote the document weeks prior but was unsatisfied with the lack of discussion on his document.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEDuVF7kiPU
> that these arguments about innate biological traits are complicated by trans, non-binary, and intersex folks.

2% (outliers) of the population does not invalidate the trends of the other 98% This is just wrong.

> 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.”

Gorillas typically have black fur. So no gorilla can have white fur? Wat?

> there have been some really fabulous responses, including many laying out a lot of research that counters what was in the memo

I'm interested in this research. I have not seen it, nor has it been made available. The following book, with 2 female authors who seem genuinely interested and informed in related topics:
https://www.amazon.com/Why-Arent-More-Women-Science/dp/15914...

who reached a similar conclusion to James Damore:
http://www.cnn.com/2015/04/13/opinions/williams-ceci-women-i...

Let's at least present the field studies/research, which can throw existing clinical views into doubt. eg Delusions of Gender: The Real Science Behind Sex Differences by Cordelia Fine is at least a rigorous critique of possible flaws.

It's a little saddening, to have this dialog represent the views of an average engineer.
> "After the eclipse these glasses are worthless," says Wright, who invested about $4,000 in cardboard eyewear that resembles 3-D movie glasses. "I’ll just throw them in the trash."

Yeah, and you knew that when you bought them.

This guy got screwed, but this was a risk he should have realized (not being able to clear inventory)

If he flew out here did he bring any with him? I'll give 10 dollars a pair today.
I wrote about my experiences a few weeks ago: https://schneems.com/2017/07/26/omscs-omg-is-an-online-maste...

I'm through my second OMSCS semester, and it you want to know if I think it's worth it...you'll have to read the post ;)
Appreciate the advice, truly... but if it were any other business I would instantly be skeptical of a company saying "why you need two of exactly what I sell" (Teaching Startups)
Subsidized public roads also raise the value of land around which they are built, by giving you access to build something there.

It isn't a specific group of landowners. These sources of profit created by public infrastructure simply and generally make people rich, so you need to tax the rich.

I'm definitely not convinced disincentivizing people from living in walkable distance from libraries and public transit terminals is good. Sounds more like we need the opposite - incentivize walkability, build more libraries and public transit, and more generally incentivize higher density residential to cut down on the total amount of infrastructure needed, because our current scale is unsustainable with current tax models.
Get out away from the city. It's incredibly bright once dawn/dusk has subsided.
It's entirely possible for an argument to be correct, but too narrowly focused.

If you're saying "group X is inferior and and I can prove it mathematically", that's still wrong because those people don't have a choice about being a member of that group and still exist in society. Discriminating against them drags society down. It's a prisoners dilemma. If everybody hires fairly then the relative drag is spread across the entire economy and everyone comes out better in the end. If they try to cheat then they'll have a local advantage but in the end it only encourages everyone else to cheat and you end up in the worst case scenario with the massive drag on society as a whole.

So the only rational solution for these corporations is to pretend to be as inclusive as possible while secretly trying to cheat as much as possible, which is exactly what we see. When some dumbass publishes a paper to the entire world saying "Hey, we should openly cheat.", of course he's going to get fired.
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Hmm, anectodally, both math and physics communities have significantly larger percentage of actual women graduating and working. At least here in EU - it's somewhere between 40-60% split depending on generation.

I guess because of that there's actually more men used to actually working with women in those fields and they don't waste this much time trying to prove how women aren't worthy .
or....

You could consider living somewhere like Berkeley, which is a short (and direct) 20 minute BART ride into S.F. (if you don't have a remote or local job).

I'd push hard to get your salary up to ~$165k/year as a senior-level (totally doable).

After taxes and whatever you throw down for partial Health Care payments through your job, you can target around $9k/month in your pocket.

1) About 1/3 of your income can go to housing. You can rent a small home in Berkeley (very nice areas) for $3k to $3.5k/month [1][2] The market is just now starting to open back up, so it'll only get better.

2) About 1/3 of your income can go to bill's, groceries, car payments, BART tickets, etc... (~2.5k to 3k)

3) Last 1/3 of your income (~3k) can go directly into your savings account.

It's doable, in very nice areas, with a high quality of life.

That said...

...it all depends on what your personal definition of "high quality of life" is.

Top rated public schools (9/10 & 10/10 rated), great weather year around, hiking, biking, sailing, surfing, beaches, skiing, fishing, local farmers markets (supplied by actual local farms from the central valley), amazing & unique local Grocery markets [3], stellar independent eateries [4], etc... all out your back door, most of it walkable [5], most of it bike friendly [6], and/or very close by.

Big, spacious, modern house with lot's of acreage. Nope.

[1] https://sfbay.craigslist.org/search/eby/hhh?nh=49&min_price=...

[2] https://sfbay.craigslist.org/eby/sub/d/beautiful-and-serene-...

[3] https://www.yelp.com/biz/monterey-market-berkeley

[4] https://www.yelp.com/biz/gourmet-ghetto-berkeley

[5] https://www.cityofberkeley.info/bicyclingandwalkingguides/

[6] http://www.berkeleyside.com/2017/07/11/berkeley-gets-first-b...
Contentless marketing piece.

BTW, you do realize that nobody trendy uses Nagios anymore, so you're late to
the party by half a decade?
Oh... Hmm... It was much more awesome in my imagination. I'd even drink, just to make it more amusing. I've consumed alcohol in a library, but not openly.

This should be a thing. It might be a horrible thing, but it should exist.
my mom doesn't know how to use a computer, turn it on, navigate a GUI, but she knows what the google logo looks like and if presented with something else she'd chime in to have me or a coworker switch it for sure. So i disagree.
You can access the underlying datablocks. The blender python api basically give you access to everything, so it's up to you if you want a script that's lower level or simply fires off GUI events.
> I'd start with the ability to take away their property without any oversight, independent authority, and appeal process.

There is oversight, independent authority, and appeal process as long as the courts are open. And the property isn't “taken away”, though there is a temporary impairment of its use.

> You shouldn't even be able to cede that right by contract.

That makes no sense if you can cede the property itself by contract. Even if the degree of arbitrary control you suggest was done it would be identical to ceding the underlying property and recieving back limited and terminable use from the party to whom it had been ceded. Clearly, in a world where you can transfer the property, you should be able to do this, as well.

> A private company took their property

No, they absolutely did not.
I consider this a misuse of the Accept header. They're defining a bunch of custom media types, which in of itself is pretty weird, but then they're not actually using those media types as the Content-Type of the response. So I can send a request where I say 'Accept: application/vnd.github.full+json', but the response I get back is 'Content-Type: application/json; charset=utf-8', which means the server intentionally handed me a media type that I explicitly said I didn't accept.

I don't understand why they didn't just use the X-GitHub-Media-Type header as a request header.
I'm always amazed at how touchy discussions on that topic are, even more so than the Male/Female ones. I personally wouldn't bring up any studies/factual-statistics regarding it in polite conversation with a member of the relevant race being present.

There is a whole wikipedia article devoted to it with a range of information on the topic:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_and_intelligence
In practice both statements have the same outcome. Hiring managers aren't omniscient.
Evolving the Facebook News Feed to Serve You Better
I do sysadmin work almost exclusively. The scenario you're describing is, basically, the norm in my life.

I'd take at look at OS and application service logs, then break out the various flavors of diagnostic tools-- strace, ProcMon, etc. It's not ideal, but it's the sorry state of affairs in the industry.

Insecure-by-default isn't the answer to bad error messages.
> ...it’s an unequal burden my male coworkers don’t have to deal with every day.

Maybe. There's a lot of diversity within the male gender.

I know I'm an outlier at work due to my politics, my religious beliefs, and other details of my background. I sometimes wonder which of my coworkers have something against me. I know all of them don't (or at least they are professional regardless), but people from my background are absolutely in a minority and are publicly ridiculed on a regular basis, including in HN comments.

I don't care to compare my experience to being a woman engineer, but the feeling described isn't foreign to me.
My larger point is that we have an intolerance for ideas and evidence that don’t fit a certain ideology.

Except apparently there are a grand total of zero ideas that can be attributed to him, or attributed to being held by him. Which ideas does he think need to be given more tolerance?

Here's a hint: from the "evidence" he cites, it's pretty clear what ideas he thinks are in need of toleration.
The OP asked what evidence exists that gender and sex are non-binary. It's in reference to the words someone said in the article, not hypothetical policymaking.
Copyright law is crazy broken. IP in general at least needs dramatically reevaluated in the context of global information networks. Building more libraries to circumvent and subsidize an archaic model of corporate profit doesn't sound like a great use of societies resources.
Open ZFS vs. Btrfs – and other file systems
> I disagree with his use of science and data to convert opinions into facts.

Funny. So if you backed your opinions with science that is not right? It was hard to keep reading after that statement.
Here's a (perhaps controversial) view: people have no rational basis to equate the freedom to speak with freedom from marginalization.

If a person presents beliefs that are incongruent with facts, or that attempt to use facts in a way that isn't compatible with advancing an opinion, I think that person's views should be marginalized. I put climate change deniers, anti-evolutionists, and people who use questionable application of psychological studies to generalize about gender-based proclivities in roughly the same boat.

I also think there is no small amount of fear of a loss of status and privelege being expressed by conservatives when they claim to be marginalized: not having their views taken as gospel by virtue of their privileged position is different from being marginalized.
On the other hand, https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Cunningham%27s_Law

Emphatically defending the wrong ideas in a debate forum, and seeing what points do and do not withstand scrutiny, is a very traditional and pure form of discourse. I claim that this process is even at the heart of scientific progress.
That's a really inflammatory and totally inappropriate analogy.

Downvoters, please cite which part of Damore's essay you think is comparable to overt racism. He explicitly said that he thinks women are capable, and should be hired.
I have no factual information, but I know that when I write papers where I want to invite discussion, I don't make blatant statements based on a subset of the evidence I have and then expect people to dispassionately pick them apart for me.

Rather, I present my honest assessment of the strengths of the various pieces of evidence, pro and con. If I "want to be proven wrong", I certainly wouldn't present a falsely certain argument. That is not arguing in good faith.

And that's how I would argue a scientific question, not an argument about my coworkers ability.
Exploiting a power imbalance to get sex is in fact morally wrong.
Archive.is doesn't have this issue: (http://archive.is/k7vgK)
Thanks for linking! I just saw this thread and posted too.
The craziest part to me:

"As a result of the failures described in Paragraph 18, on or about May 12, 2014, an intruder
was able to access consumers’ personal information in plain text in Respondent’s Amazon S3
Datastore using an access key that one of Respondent’s engineers had publicly posted to
GitHub, a code-sharing website used by software developers. The publicly posted key
granted full administrative privileges to all data and documents stored within Respondent’s
Amazon S3 Datastore."

https://www.ftc.gov/system/files/documents/cases/1523054_ube... Page 5
>Fiat money isn't a pyramid scheme. You don't buy in on the assumption of future market growth that will drive up the value of what you have. You expect your fiat to become worth less, not more, over time.

Wow, so if bitcoin is or isn't pyramid scheme depends on your assumption when you buy it? That's a new one. Than i guess I'm safe because i bought it to buy goods with it, never expected that price will soar so much.