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>reverse discrimination

No such thing. Discrimination is discrimination, no matter which way it's applied. I wish people stopped saying "reverse (discrimination|racism)" whatever as if these words meant discrimination against specific groups, but not others.
This isn't responsive to anything I wrote. Please don't use my comments as a coat rack to hang ideological arguments on.
+1 to this book. Developing algorithms and their correctness proofs together is a powerful technique and ought to be more widely used.
> at a fundamental level, there are differences in how men and women think

It's undeniable there are biological differences between men and women, but this seems far fetched. Biological differences don't manifest themselves in an intuitive way; for example, there is no difference between men and women's hair. However we perceive a large difference entirely due to environmental training.
Businesses are in the business of making money. It's the founders job to ensure that they make money.

Also, quoting just "Money's sexy I guess" is taking this entirely out of context. You quoted a specific section to make it sound like this is a money grubbing founder. The whole quote refers to whether or not the freight business is "sexy".

“I don’t know if it’s sexy or boring. Wall Street’s pretty [redacted] boring to me, moving money around. Money’s sexy I guess”.
Once again, "responsible disclosure" is a term of art in the industry, and it communicates something he probably doesn't mean to communicate.
The point here is to consider what the claimed "non-reversible process" means in a quantum theory that as of current does _not_ allow for destruction of information.
But especially so in the US in comparison to Europe - in the US the urban form implicitly precludes walking through low density of housing and lack what we call pavement in the UK, whereas in Europe more people live in settlements that are focused on an identifiable centre, with walking routes to that centre. Even worse, in some places in the US walking is explicitly banned! However even in spite of that we manage in Europe to be following the US in porking out as a population, so I guess we must be walking less over here also. Personally I find myself walking less and less these days because I can feel the diesel soot making my chest tight, and that really cannot be good for my health. The sooner they get rid of diesel the better.
Harvard is 25% Jewish bud. Sorry but you're wrong. They make up like 1% of the population if that
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1. It is possible both are true. But my problem with him is that he denied discrimination also existed.

2. I suspect it is due to the US government. We really don't want communists in our country. Source: my partner and I immigrated from different "communist" countries.
Ha. I don't understand why people need a formal study to understand the human body system 101. That is, compromise that system - which is what excess weight does - and (bad) things are going to happen.

I mean if your infrastructure (e.g., bones, major organs, etc.) are designed to support a mass of X and you're more than 1.1 times that mass then there are going to be "side effects."

And people wonder why healthcare costs are so high? Maybe that's because excess weight also compromises brain function.

We've had all the science we need. What we lack is the ability to handle the truth.
Funny that you mention this, because part of the problem was that someone had made a fully functional wrapper around the component. Someone else made a second class wrapper around the functional one because the component has text so state is needed. I wrote out the functional wrapper entirely and kept maybe one of the functions in the class wrapper

Now I think a great many things can be made functional in JavaScript, but purists ruin this for everyone else.
Reminds me of the FART photo technique (feel, ask, refine, take).
> "Rather, I was frustrated because the course consisted of lone work on exercises that seemed to have little application to the real world, the expectation that coursework required coding and debugging for hours after school threatened my ability to excel in other classes or in varsity sports"

Just taking this at face value, I think she failed because she was afraid of failing. I've always learned better from having to struggle with something than having someone explain to me how to do it. Its that torturous process of trial and error that unconsciously guides someone towards a solution. Being able to do that on your own is ultimately the hallmark of a professional.

That being said, I _am_ a man, and if what she is claiming is true (men learn more through lone-wolf trial/error, women learn better through collaborative team-work) then I can't say much about why trial/error is so important. Maybe its just more important to me and my context.

I think she has a really interesting point about the importance of putting the 'person' into the equation. I really prefer to watch a tech-talk over a blog post because hearing someone talk about something in a informal language gives a lot of life to whatever they're talking about. Their body language and tone conveys a lot of information about the technology: are they holding 'religious' assumptions?; is it a hard-learned lesson to avoid some pitfall?; are they avoiding talking about negatives to try and sell something?..

Watching the Q&A portion of a talk can be especially enlightening. You really get to see whether they're full of shit or legitimate based on how they react to critical questions.
It would be odd for there it be zero observable differences considering how different many brain structures are between men and women.

If nothing else women get migraines more frequently than men do. Which seems unlikely to come down to environmental issues.
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Sometimes it winds me up to have to do it, but I can't not do it or the poor dog ends up miserable. It's the perfect way to force yourself to do at least a minimum every day.
> So what is fair?

Isn't that the toughest question? I don't know what the answer is. I don't know where I stand on affirmative action: in any given instant, it seems unfair, but in a historical context it seems necessary that affirmative action should happen until the point where the damage done in the past has been undone, and we can have equal opportunities. LBJ's words resonate with me on this:

> That beginning is freedom; and the barriers to that freedom are tumbling down. Freedom is the right to share, share fully and equally, in American society--to vote, to hold a job, to enter a public place, to go to school. It is the right to be treated in every part of our national life as a person equal in dignity and promise to all others.

> But freedom is not enough. You do not wipe away the scars of centuries by saying: Now you are free to go where you want, and do as you desire, and choose the leaders you please.

> You do not take a person who, for years, has been hobbled by chains and liberate him, bring him up to the starting line of a race and then say, "you are free to compete with all the others," and still justly believe that you have been completely fair.

> Thus it is not enough just to open the gates of opportunity. All our citizens must have the ability to walk through those gates.

Source: http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=27021
From a candidate's point of view, that might not have been a good idea. I try to keep in mind that glassdoor is easily astroturfed, and that competitors have an interest in posting negative content to someone's glassdoor. But some of the content still influences me. Especially the interview questions, since it's hard to make those up.

A candidate has to decide how to spend their time and which companies to pursue, so filtering out companies that have clearly-crazy interview procedures is a decent way to optimize.
Agreed.

During such a drunken conversation I'd simply say "so when a car hits me because I misjudged the right moment to cross over, the pain is only in my head and it doesn't exist?" and would laugh.

That's exactly how much value I see in this article. It says absolutely nothing of substance. It doesn't even have philosophical value.
The Lua code is just excessively verbose.
Are these differences in brain structure observable in the womb, or after years of growing? As an example, abuse victims can also have altered brain structures but they certainly weren't born that way.
The book “the Mac is not a typewriter” (https://www.amazon.com/Mac-Not-Typewriter-2nd/dp/0201782634) may help get them some idea about style. It is 15 years old, targets print, and is aimed at Mac users, but that doesn’t matter that much.

(For PC users, there is “the PC is not a typewriter” (https://www.amazon.com/Pc-not-typewriter-Robin-Williams/dp/0...), but that is even older, so I’m not sure it will be more useful than the original, unless your users are using WordPerfect or Ventura Publisher)
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I'm on the same track as you, I've lost about 80lbs so far and I've done zero exercise.

I've found that when I tell people this, they worry about my health even more than they did when I was 80lbs heavier. It's bizarre.

Never mind the fact that my blood pressure is now a pristine 110 over 70, all my pre-diabetic symptoms have disappeared, my sleep apnea is cured, my gastroesophageal reflux disease is completely gone, my cholesterol and triglycerides are back to normal, etc.

The fact is exercise has an almost negligible impact on weight loss.

Let's be very generous and say an hour of typical exercise burns 350 calories. If you're overweight, compare that to the 120 calories you burn per hour spent sitting in your chair. That's an extra 230 calories you burned by exercising for an hour.

That 230 calorie expenditure costs you:

* 1.5 to 2 hours of disruption to your daily life

* An hour spent being extremely bored and uncomfortable

* An ever-growing amount of generalized aches and joint pains as you put together consecutive days of doing this

And at 230 calories per hour, doing an hour of exercise every single day nets you 1610 calories per week, which is less than 1 pound of fat loss every 2 weeks. You turn your whole life upside-down, make yourself miserable and in pain every single day, take significant time away from work and studying and family, and all you get is LESS THAN 1 additional pound lost every 2 weeks.

I honestly think the net impact of promoting exercise as a weight loss option is people getting and staying fatter. People have a tendency to dramatically overestimate the calories they're burning, people want to use exercise as a way to avoid having to eat less, and people use exercise as an excuse to eat more. It also causes an amount of disruption and discomfort in people's lives that's probably the number one cause of people giving up on their weight loss goals.

As far as health impacts, I'm still not convinced on the cause-and-effect here. I want to start doing some physical activities soon, but that's not going to cause me to be less depressed, that's a result of me being less depressed because of all the weight I've been losing. All the studies I've seen on exercise and health draw the same sort of "playing basketball makes you taller"-conclusion.
Because no industry can deliver large, faultless projects quickly. What a strange question.
> Am I just in a minority

In one word, YES.

But you aren’t alone either. I feel the same way and use LaTeX for any important writing (and I didn’t start using till after uni either oddly). My resume, a bunch of guides and documents I wrote in it, as well as a book I published. My editor (with WROX) insisted I had to use a Word template for it, but I just couldn’t force myself to. Instead I wrote it in LaTeX and then made a converter to output into their specific crappy template.
Put another way...if you have a serious medial issue being overweight can be the difference between life and death.

Instead, we have Oprah selling "love your body" as if that love will save you went a health crisis comes knocking.
I think it's more organisation than motivation, at least for me. I think most people if someone knocked on the door once a day and said 'hey were off cycling/walking/whatever for an hour, wanna come?' and you had the time available would go. The key is to make it fun and convenient, and then motivation creates itself.
Four weeks ago my laptop died and my boss said I could order a new one. I was contemplating the Dell XPS 13 and Thinkpad Carbon X1. I chose the latter and so far I am very happy with it. Reading the bad experiences some of you had I am glad about my choice.
Very nice.

Noticed that the combination of background and rounded results in a .png with a non-transparent corners.

https://ui-avatars.com/api/?background=0D8ABC&rounded=true
Snippets to the rescue. I don't remember their syntax but also don't type it (same for many other verbose parts of Obj-C).
They did...

Although I’m sure Zuck would have turned them down regardless.
I'm not sure that works as well for hardware. Every fab is different. Imagine if you had to rewrite the whole Linux kernel for every CPU on the market.

Getting high performance requires tuning carefully to the exact fab, and fabs change and upgrade on like a two year cycle.

To the best of my knowledge there's no equivalent to the C language for fabs. You have to port the whole chip every time
Amusing, but I don't believe that it can disrupt their business model as claimed. What percentage of people are going to set up these bots? Unless you get the entire population involved and it becomes a huge nationwide craze, the telemarketers are going to have very low odds of actually hitting a bot. So it will only raise their costs a little.
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Some other ideas:

- take folks with less experience and commit to training them (even bootcamp grads, depending on the position!)

- offer remote work options

- offer part time work

- hire contractors and try to woo them

- craigslist

- look at other benefits (leave, pto, etc). This is dependent on the market, so what are other companies in your area doing?

- recruit from places other companies aren't looking (outside the cs department, votech schools)

- offer a recruiting bonus to get the team engaged

- I have never implemented this, but if I was in your shoes, I'd try it: http://firstround.com/review/Mine-Your-Network-for-Early-Sta...

You haven't talked much about the sector/experience/tech, and of course that will affect what flexibility you have.
HN has has a segment who are violently anti BTC, and so will downvote anything not critical to it.
If you're pretending it's footage of a film, TV show or video game, then recording from the screen will fool a lot of people. And while in a lot of cases that would make the 'metadata' aspect useless anyway, there's always the possibility of a hoaxer either saying:

1. This was recorded from a TV broadcast

2. Or a CCTV camera

Etc.
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Exercise is probably over rated is my opinion. Moderate activity like not being a couch potato, and walking around is probably good enough for most people rather than vigorous exercise. Also correlation is confused with causation. The person who is is not active is not necessarily lazy. It the the probably obesity and ill health that makes him/her inactive. Personally I'm on a ketogenic ( about 60 %to 90% calories from saturated fat) nearly all carnivorous diet for the last 4 years. Vegetables, fruit and greens aren't necessarily your best foods. I regret all the earlier years spend eating main stream definition of a 'healthy diet' ( low saturated fat, little or no meat, lots of greens, whole grains and other nonsense.)
Takeaway - you can fool most people most of the times, including the mainstream 'scientific' community.
Indeed, I thought it quite telling that Damore's subreddit, that he actively moderates, is full of posts and comments hating on women.

And also that he's embraced becoming something of a folk hero for alt-right dullards.
> girls and women prefer collaborative rather than solo work, that they are more engaged in “things” if they can see the “people” aspect to it, and that they are prone to perfectionism and a fear of failure.

This does not quite jive with enrollment at my university. I am thinking specifically of maths as compared to other STEM fields. Of all seriously theoretical courses, maths has the most women, last time I checked, it was pretty close to 50/50.

Yet, math is much less collaborative than physics, that is the understanding has to be your own. If there is a people part to either, I'd argue its physics because it is closer to an application. I suppose one might say that maths has more of a people part, because much of math in practice is communication. That feels like stretching a definition though.

When looking at the enrollment numbers, what is most striking is the difference between CS and maths. Whereas maths is about 50/50, CS seems to be below 10% female. As far as subject manner is concerned, I'd say these two studies are very close. And yet, maths is way more popular.

Based on this, I'd argue that the low enrollment in CS has nothing to do with the subject matter, and much more to do with how comfortable women feel in either group.
But we've had the science. That is, we know that extra weight compromises the human system. For example, diabetes.

This report isn't new. It's not a surprise. We already knew that if you make the body do something outside the norm of natural (e.g., smoking) the odds of bad things happening is going to increase.

Sure it's nice to have micro proof of a cancer connextion. But at the macro level this is just new chapter in a pattern we've proven plenty of times before.
> in our western lives

Which western lives?

> Unless you live without a car, there is no requirement

Requirement? Choice. That's what counts.
Also Apple has mastered execution pretty well.
I assume you're referring to "affirmative action" type policies. Calling them discrimination seems to me to be intentionally ignoring the history of discrimination affirmative action is trying to undo.

Yes, taken in isolation it is discrimination - but a lot of good things taken in isolation seem like bad things. Prision seems barbaric without taking the crime into account.
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> Asians are about 5% of US population, but can make up over 40% of incoming classes in med school

Isn't this because foreign students pay higher tuition?
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My understanding is you get a lot secondary ed math majors, which tends to skew female. In my area at least.
You're both right and wrong at the same time. The disconnect is the based on the kind of data we're talking about.

Human-generated metadata (i.e. OLTP data) grows roughly with respect to the population of internet connected humans - humans only can produce so much content in their finite time. Advances in computers far exceed this growth rate, so more of these kinds of problems fit into RAM each year.

The volume of media data, which depends more on the increasing fidelity of the media (videos going from 320K to 4K, photos going from 1MP to 30MP) have been increasing rapidly but that trend won't continue forever because there are diminishing returns. Do you care about the difference between 4K and 8K video? TV companies hope you do. At some point (likely soon) you will stop caring.

OLAP data, which includes data produced by IoT devices, sensors, etc is increasing geometrically. But this kind of data is not best stored in RAM anyway, and is served best by scale-out column-oriented and time-series databases.
Toptal has short gigs? I thought it was all full time stuff
Not that I disagree with the sentiment, but hair is a bad example. Men go bald and get beards, while women don't.
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> more likely ... due to environmental differences.

Maybe, which still affects how we think because we're still classified by gender in society. The assumption that I made earlier is probably intuited from personal experience and countless books like "Men are from Mars..".

I'm not shy if it does turn out that male and female brains are wired differently (that sounds really awful), but my point is really that ultimately, we all think differently. Because we're not just defined by our gender, there's so many other factors like upbringing, autistic or not, etc. And then there's also free will.

We should celebrate this diversity.
I don't follow. The body spends much more time digesting food than is normally spent exercising.

I've read that constant digesting gets in the way of the body doing nightly internal cleanup processes that detox your system, as energy is diverted to process food instead. That might be another source of problems.
Wow that was such a great discussion too. What an infuriating choice by the mods. I wholeheartedly agree with Aaronson's decision to leave the platform for good.
An addendum to the tale, from a historical linguist: http://sinesalvatorem.tumblr.com/post/140842586896/ilzolende...
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Which started out as this tweetstorm from the writer: https://twitter.com/meharris/status/916436843771478016
Read this initially a few days back through codrops.
This information did helped me a lot and the idea of choosing a font with 3+ variations is just awesome. Very helpful, recommended for everyone.
Well I'm a woman and I learned coding by myself in exactly the way you describe. I personally don't think it has anything to do with gender. I didn't find many study partners within my major that I could relate to so I just studied by myself. This continued to lay the groundwork for a continuing self-education after college. I don't think this is so weird, but certainly it's nice whenever you have a supportive group around yourself. I wouldn't discourage anyone from seeking that out but I can't say I needed it either. If anything, I came to prefer the independence of working on my own much more.
Well should not schools be trying to widen all their students reading ability? is this not a given if you want to goto university
Neat service. Reminds me of this add on for XenForo:

https://xenforo.com/community/resources/dynamic-letters-avat...

That said, I've personally never liked using dynamic avatars on websites I'm involved with. They've always seemed a bit generic, regardless of whether they're gravatars, these letter avatars, gender symbols, etc.

Always felt it'd work better if my services simply took a random avatar from a large gallery of thematically appropriate pictures instead. Like say, on a gaming forum it'd give them a random video game character picture, and on a TV show forum one from the show in question.

But that's just my opinion on the matter. This seems like it'll work well for people who like that stuff.
Some of the links are bad but this is a great list of things to keep in mind when seeing where your work is with regards to security.
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Yes. But they aren't good for you either. They're digestive spam. And as a result the body will continue to seek the nutrition it needs. Feed it more unnecessary calories and it will keep looking.

Eventually, "you are what you eat" catches up to you.
It's 10 min yet also a nice guide: https://practicaltypography.com/typography-in-ten-minutes.ht...

Just love the book and his fonts :)

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