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This I think is a problem with the culture and education system of our society, by the time we reach the point of hiring someone the damage is already done.

I don't think it makes a hell of a lot of sense to chose someone on the grounds of what minority or oppressed group they happen to be a part of - hire the best person for the job (this shouldn't simply take into account the skills of the individual, but also how well they can be expected to integrate into the group that they are becoming a part of).

We need to look into the underlying causes of the gender and race imbalances in the pool from which we are hiring.

For women, this means looking at why it is that girls seem to be disuaded from interest in the fields in question.
From my perspective my interest in the engineering fields emerged from being exposed to things as simple as transformers (the toys, not the modern explosion porn), while my sisters were playing with Barbies (a line of toys that I still consider vapid and pointless) I was marvelling at the fact that a few joints and pivots can be structured in such a way as to allow transition between vehicular and humanoid forms.
Allowing girls to think in mathematical and engineering terms without attaching a social stigma of acting boyish will help in this regard.

From the perspective of racial minorities, there is a multi-generational poverty cycle coupled with a far lower standard of education.
It cuts them off at the knees before they even get started.

Fix the education system and the discouraging culture in and of our society and things will balance out - eventually.

But the current way of doing things is a feel good solution that deals with the symptoms - and ignores the underlying disease.
I take issue with at least Slate Star Codex's 08/07 post because it focuses on interest like some black box and pre-college education as perfectly non-gendered. There is a lot of research (see below) that shows that pre-college education is very gendered.

http://www.jstor.org/stable/20403143?seq=1#page_scan_tab_con...

http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.3102/0091732X01700126...

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/tl.37219924906/fu...

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/tea.3660270906/ab...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4283768/
You could argue that the hyper sexualization of our culture trains both sexes to act in ways that are indecent. For example, men are taught to always make the first move and to be strong and persistent. How many romance movies involve a women rebuffing a man only for the man to keep trying until he "wins her over"? When someone misreads signals - as we all do, this conditioning can cause someones behavior to become creepy, inappropriate, or worse.

Thus because we are conditioned to sometimes be indecent, it does in some circumstances require effort to override it.
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> he should study biology

He has a master in systems biology from Harvard.
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Scott, I'm sorry about this.

Why isn't the medical community looking for early warnings? relatively cheap tests for hs-crp, IL-6, TNF-alpha could be helpful. Inflammation is the precursor to disease.

Do yourselves a favor & ask your doctor for the hs-crp test to measure inflammation.
Shouldn't employers abstain from controversial subjects as well, then? It seems one sided to hold employees to that standard but not the corporations and bosses they work for.
there are plenty of left-leaning memos and examples that show similar tone towards right-leaning and/or conservative or libertarian thinking. That doesn't imply not being open to discussion so much as showing one's bias. There's definitely a matter of levels to one's opinion, experience and yes, some level of conflict.

When going into a situation where you've been at the back hand of such bias, specifically in a workplace, it's often hard not to show at least some condescension. Look at any number of public feminist actions and statements, for example.
> Many people have tested this and written about their results:

But I can also find articles saying that subdomains are good for SEO, and Google itself says that subdomains are treated the same as subdirectories.[1]

I'm hoping for more than anecdata.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKQULFm2BQA&feature=youtu.be...
> I often bookmark pages with interesting information to read later, and it inevitably happens once in a while that a site went down and I just can't find the information anymore.

I've recently had this problem with some online fiction that I had bookmarked. Now, I was able to recover thanks to the Wayback Machine, but I really shouldn't depend on that.

I should really put some thought into archiving pages I like or getting a Pinboard account.
To clear things up: robots.txt can retroactively hide content from the archive. If it's changed back to allowing the archive's crawler, content from before the ban can be accessed again.
You may be right, but my point was the ideas he brought up merited discussion. The social timing of it may be what caused it to blow up so much (that and the misrepresentation by Gizmodo), but at least personally, I had not heard the argument made before in a way that allowed it to be discussed as widely as it is.
Each forces the other
I saw his reply as adding "too short of yellow to red time" to the list of "not paying attention" and "being an asshole" for human reasons to run red lights. I'm not sure why you're attacking him for a claim he didn't appear to make.
Is it really that much different than a great deal of feminist propaganda, statements or actions? It doesn't mean the entire message is bs, or that there's no opportunity for discussion.
Yes, but without mentioning the ACT.
Scepticism is a methodology, not a political group. I think it just looks that way because the term has been kind of hijacked by anti-regressives.
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Can anyone explain how he only owns 1.3% of Microsoft now, and yet is worth $86 billion? Almost all of his net worth came from Microsoft shares. Based upon the MSFT market cap of $561 billion, he is only worth about $7.3 billion.

What accounts for this monstrous difference? He has cashed some out over the years, but not ~$80 billion worth.
Windows still ships both 32-bit and 64-bit versions, and there are still a lot of people with older devices, such as netbooks, that are running 32-bit versions.

Consequently, when you're shipping software for Windows, it's beneficial to have a 32-bit version to capture that part of the userbase. But since 64-bit Windows will also happily run 32-bit apps, once you have a 32-bit version, there's no particular reason to have a 64-bit one. The only time you get something from 64 bits is when you need a lot of memory, which most apps do not. On the other hand, by having a single version, you simplify the acquisition and installation story for the users, cut your testing matrix in half etc.

Hence, most Windows software is still 32-bit.
3rd wave, whose actions betray their true goals: men as second class citizens.
The important point here is that Damore triggered a massive threat response in the colleagues he characterises as being below "the bar". He explicitly talks about that bar being lowered, which by implication undermines a proportion of employees at Google (and people that are inclined to defend that group).

Furthermore he attacked 'diversity' hires as a whole, but only presented evidence on male/female differences not racial ones... so there's significant precedent for him making points that aren't backed up directly. I don't think he should get the benefit of the doubt there with regards to subtlety of meaning.
You are completely incorrect. Whether or not Google did in reality lower the bar to hire more women is a matter of fact. That Damore felt that in order to meet the goal of hiring more women Google had to lower the bar is his _opinion_, and it is a telling opinion about how he thinks about the capabilities of women.

"You had to buy inferior wood to get enough to build this house. I don't think there's enough good wood to build the house, therefore in order to get enough you had to buy inferior wood."

The fact of the quality of the wood is separate from the opinion of the availability of quality wood.
The example wasn't about height percentiles, which can change. it was about raw height. If his example had been about percentiles, then it wouldn't have been such a stark no-brainer. Because a high school that admits only taller students would be mostly girls, and by 12th grade they would be shorter than many/most boys.

I was taking issue with the example as given. If it were framed the way you suggested, it would not have had the rhetorical power that it did (at least at first glance).
My grandmother had breast cancer about a decade ago and it was grueling for the whole family. She went into remission after aggressive chemo, but I pray every day no one else in my family will be afflicted with this terrible disease and that the hard working scientists and researchers out there will soon find a cure.

This puts my own trivial problems into perspective. I hope you make it. God bless.
There is no evidence of this.
The wired article truly is fantastic. And IMO it should be on the front page of HN, not this thread.
IIRC the old webrings had a CGI backend that would collect the addresses and then you would click "next" and it would take you to the next site. But yeah you could just make a vanilla one. You could also just make one outside of the context of Neocities.

But if the next site went down or didn't link to the next site correctly, you couldn't proceed. That was always my problem with webrings. They depended on each site to embed the ring code properly, and usually they didn't, so you were stuck trying to find a working one. It was a pretty lousy UX overall.
> We have 10 humans and 10 monkeys. Now, let’s say 5 humans want to be called monkeys.

Bad analogy. Really bad analogy. The boundaries between species can be fluid, but they're nowhere near as fluid as the definitions of 'male' versus 'female' in either sex or gender.

My whole point is that even if you restrict everything to verifiable biological observation, with no reference to psychology, there are still myriad corner cases which cannot be classified in a simple dichotomy. Therefore, insisting the division is simple is obtuse.

The division is not simple, there's no way to make it simple, and bringing in this analogy with monkeys versus humans as your proxies for the sexes is misunderstanding the subject. There is no overlap between humanity and any species of "monkey" as the term is commonly understood, although I have known a biologist who would insist that "monkey" was synonymous with "ape" and therefore all humans are monkeys. That's not the common understanding of the term "monkey", certainly.

There is overlap between "male" and "female" regardless of what you define them to be, assuming you define them in any useful fashion. There is no boundary anywhere in this subject which is impermeable. That's why gender studies is an entire field of study, like astrophysics or English literature.

In short, you could write entire textbooks on one aspect of being "male" or "female" and still be incomplete even in terms of that aspect. So you'll forgive me if I'm not prepared to define either term in this forum, or bothered by how people describe themselves.

Linguistic precision is nice where you can get it, and we can't get it here. Not if we're being entirely honest.
I accept your definition of 'fluent' as valid, and your discussion as interesting.

(Benny has stated "When I learn a new language, I aim to reach a level where I speak confidently and comfortably in the language. I call this “social equivalency”. For me, that’s fluency. [..] not an academic pursuit; it’s a practical one. I aim to be able to use the language effectively in everyday conversation [..] I generally don't place much importance on my writing skills or ability to analyse and discuss printed text in a foreign language")

So it is completely fair to say he's not fluent to any near-native level - particularly after three months - but it's not entirely fair to say he has no third-party verification - from what I can tell on his rather hyped blog, he has passed CEFR C2 level Spanish, C1 level French and narrowly missed passing C2 level German exams.

It's a matter of where to draw a line, but in a comment "win the lottery and learn multiple foreign languages", I'd expect someone saying that to consider "passing advanced formal exams in French, German and Spanish" to count, rather than meaning "can read classic plays without reaching for a dictionary".

But maybe not.

It's hard enough to get people to agree on whether a good programmer can work in 'any language quickly', or whether it requires spending a good chunk of time to become familiar with idioms, warts, surrounding ecosystem and famous works and references.

TBF, as a native English speaker, you could hand me classic Shakespeare or works of poetry I actually did read in school, and there's a good chance I'd still be reaching for a dictionary on page 1.

I have learned most of the languages of Europe to a degree where I can comfortably converse with local people when traveling or in international meetups.

How do you even keep that much in your head?
Furthermore the Facebook platform (lets include Instagram, Whatsapp, etc) has become an "everything" platform for many individuals both young and old. Family, news, everything is on there. In the absence of clear intent the expected behavior should be not to make such drastic assumptions as sexual interest...
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> I don't know how you can suggest issuing in EUR if you cannot compare the USD interest expense vs what you think they issue under EUR.

Okay.

> ... liquidity

Liquidity begets liquidity. Do what you can.

> I'm pretty sure Amazon along with other issuers who issued multi-billion USD deals this year took a look at issuing in EUR and decided it wasn't in their best interests.

You shouldn't make that assumption. There are many market participants that wouldn't consider the world outside of their market. There was a long time where the US was the only liquid market, and still eclipses the single currency bloc for liquidity. When favorable inefficiencies come up it is easy to miss them.

The cost of the transaction should be a factor, but the foreseeable costs are not that big of a factor. The company can issue 10 - 40 year bonds (or whatever else the market can bear) at low, zero, or negative interest rates and not have to worry about it until 10 - 40 years later. And then what? Well they just issue more bonds, in the next low interest rate environment and use a lot of the proceeds to pay off the remaining bit.
My girlfriend and I have been working on a startup for the last year to do realtime 3D geospatial vis on the web and mobile with a focus on AR.

This is a really cool approach! I maybe have to fork to add in support for our data mixing platform.
>Then the correct way to handle it is to drop another refutational evidence bomb attacking his primary points instead of picking the low hanging fruit of claiming it's "too confrontational," "poorly written," "naive," or whatever other secondary problems exist (this is aside from wilfully misrepresenting his claims, which is definitely a bigger problem).

The brute problem is that it's too long to be addressed in a reasonable and productive debate, and because it was posted on an internal company messageboard it is his responsibility to ensure that it can be responded to in a reasonable and productive way. If he presents his complaints in a format which is likely to cause problems, he can be penalized, and a manifesto is certainly such a format because it lends itself so well to "viral" sharing, and it was precisely such "viral" reposting of the document that made it a practical problem for Google in the first place. Had he made his points in an ordinary discussion thread, it would have been harder to publish it everywhere as a unified whole, since discussion threads by their nature will contain counterarguments.

For example, if I think another employee is biased against me in code reviews, it does not do me any favors to write a multi-page manifesto indicting said employee on a variety of points for his/her alleged biased review practices. Good debates do not generally come from duelling essays, and it is unfair to participants -- practically unfair, in that it drives them from the debate and so deprives the conversation of their contributions -- it is unfair to participants who do not have the time to invest in researching every point of a ten-page document that they feel they must address the whole awful thing in order to say anything. In fact I try to limit the length of my HN comments for this very reason: long comments are hard to respond to well.

Internal company messageboards do not lend themselves to the publication of manifestos, and it is not reasonable to expect them to.
Are you saying that people should judge schools based on the inputs that go into the schools rather than on any effects the schools produce in their students?
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He has a master in systems biology.
I long for the day that browsers and search engines support RFC 7763.
Damore then started making HR policy proposals. We use a 50/50 gender ratio as an indicator that a particular field is free from bias. It's one thing to propose that 50/50 is not the natural ratio to end up with, but until Damore can propose a model that predicts another number then proposing HR policy changes put the cart before the horse.

I deeply disagree with this approach. You're essentially saying that unless you can come up with an alternative scientific theory, complete with predictions, it's not possible to criticise an existing theory about the world.

There's many plausible explanations why an absence of a 50:50 gender representation could be caused for reasons other than bias or average ability. That's enough to put a nail in that model of discovering bias. Coming up with a way of predicting what the right ratio is, isn't necessary to discard that metric.
Not so simple.. https://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/217252...
Ah but come now, sexual attractiveness is a form of power! And in fact one of the greatest; men will fight and die for sex with women they desire.

On the question of morality I stick to my guns: I think we are all tempted from time to time to ascend to our high horse and start declaiming of our righteousness, but my question to you would be: are you really so pure of morals that there are none that might find fault with you, given the chance?

I'm also struck by the stridency of some of the statements I'm reading on HN. I wonder if this is a cultural thing as to my British ears they sound almost comically absolutist. Perhaps in Europe this kind of forceful speech is less fashionable?
Talking of individual finance here. As long as you're sufficiently liquid again to PIF before your bills go past due, you're fine. If you're not, then not only do you accrue late fees - usually easy to have waived by just calling and asking for it, if you've been a highly diligent customer prior - but you also start accruing interest on the balances you're suddenly carrying, and you almost certainly lose preferred rates on those balances and find yourself paying north of 15% APR.
The most immediate concern is the rising fascist movement in the United States. You list good root causes, but there's an immediate problem here and it's not going anywhere.
> The Rolling Stones [...] actually streamed a concert on the platform in November of that year, using an online provider named MBone for some reason

"For some reason"! That's the flipping multicast backbone you're talking about there! One of the great lost dreams of the internet!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mbone
Looks good, but it is just another NLP solver in a sea of mature and tested solver implementations. It will be interesting to get the answers for the below questions:

- What is the algorithm being used?

- How does it compare with other mature optimization engines: e.g. IPOPT, Knitro SNOPT, NPSOL, etc,...

- Has the results been published somewhere? Or does there exist a compilation of results on standard benchmarks?
I know that game as "nim," and Wikipedia shows 21 as a variation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nim#The_21_game

There's a mechanical version of an AI from the 60s called Dr. Nim. It doesn't learn to play, of course, but instead it has a 3-bit binary counter.
Would you please stop posting unsubstantive and/or flamebait comments to HN? We're trying for a higher level of discussion here. (Trying and failing, but we can always fail a bit better.)
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It's a ridiculously high standard.

The only way to not have to feel discriminated like that would be if you could control minds of all relevant people in the workplace and make absolutely sure they don't have any bad thoughts towards you. Otherwise if you're a type of person who worries about what others think about you, you'll always have a reason to feel crappy, imagining whatever negative thought may be going through other people's minds.

Way out of this is to find a way not to care so much about what others think. Or if you suspect particular person of actual discrimination, talk to them, or report them specifically if you can't do that or it doesn't work.

Solution is not to suppress discussion by firing people for discussing diversity. That just creates a truly hostile environment of fear of being fired for others. And discussion is not really suppressed anyway. Quite the opposite.
> I would make the counterpoint that the only reason his honesty has come into question is because of the negative reception his memo has had

I'll be honest, that's what ticks me about Damore: after presenting the ideas in his memo a couple times and not getting any traction, he made a case of sharing them publicly inside Google. Not with a group of friends, not with the diversity team, but publicly. As you say, he's not a dummy, so he probably expected this whole controversy. His reaching out to alt-right media and having a "Goolag" shirt on the very first interview suggests that he was kind of ready for it. I'm not 100% sure he's being honest about his intentions to "help Google."

> Additionally, I have yet to see any fellow Googlers publicly calling him a liar, but we shall see

As anyone who's worked for Google (I have) will tell you, that's highly discouraged. You don't want to put Google or yourself into a weird legal position for posting publicly about this (for example, Google would have to track you down and make sure to archive all your internal emails moving forward for possible discovery, etc.)