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It depends on whether the incompetent male engineers are just as incompetent as the incompetent female engineers. For instance, she mentioned a female developer who couldn't write SQL queries. Are the incompetent male developers at that same level of incompetence?

Of course taking this into account cannot completely eliminate selection bias, and the sample size either way is probably too small to be all that meaningful. It sounds like the attitude of her manager towards the incompetent developer is actually the most significant point here: this incompetent developer is being retained and in fact praised by her manager for diversity despite the obvious issues. Does the manager treat incompetent male developers the same way? The implication of the post is clearly "no", but again selection bias is possible.
You may notice the US is full of guns despite a lower crime rate. That's clearly the model they want, as they keep lobbying to maintain it. Very high crime rates are likely a problem from their point of view, as it tends to lead to weapons restrictions.
> it felt like James was pretty disingenuous and lacked a general understanding of how to behave in a workplace

To be fair, it can be difficult for some people on the autism spectrum to work in environments where you have to run objective reality through various "politically correct" adjustment filters before reacting to it.
Right... but that's not practical.

> In practicality
I don't have enough attention span to read the whole article
Anybody who has done keto and lost weight certainly does not say they had evergy on it. Those first couple weeks are terrible and you never quite have the energy you want. Thankfully it is a short term diet with specific targets in mind. Any positive effects after stopping keto are from the weight loss in general. Even keto diets recommend against a high saturated fat content but with keto your body is in a specific state that blunts the effects of a high saturated fat intake.

When you go off keto you cannot maintain the high saturated fat intake without measurable negative impacts.
I think they can be an over-simplistic solution when more effective solutions exist and can work with a little more effort, particularly for a company as large as Google where you have the volume to have meaningful data about hiring patterns.

- Outreach to under-represented groups is a no-brainer (I assume Google is already doing this)

- Look at ways to make your interview / recruiting process as blind as possible - coding exercises, resume review and even behavioural questions can be done in a way that doesn't reveal someone's gender or race.

- Where blindness isn't possible, use data to figure out where there may be bias. Do certain individuals / teams / departments show bias in who they advance through the hiring process? If at least part of your process is blind this is even easier - look for evidence of candidates who did well until the process could no longer be gender / race blind and see if there's any bias introduced at that point.

OKRs mandating a fixed gender ratio are the worst way to go about things. It's supposedly common knowledge that any metric is going to be gamed, and doubly so if your career performance is based heavily on it, so it shouldn't be surprising that basing it heavily on a 50/50 ratio can often result in "hiring to quota". Long term, this ends up casting doubt on eminently qualified women and racialized folks.
There are a lot of commonly held misconceptions about the job of a professor in your comment, so I will break it down line by line. Note that this is simply for laying down the reality of today's professor job market rather than advocating that it should be one way or another.

> Teaching is the reason why professors are there.

This is a commonly held belief by non-academics. It is not one held by academics at R1 schools.

Note that there are many lower level universities (not R1) at which the teaching is sometimes quite good. There are also very real things called "teaching colleges". If someone wants to go to a place with great teachers, they largely should not go to an R1 school.

> If you can't/don't want to teach you should be a professional researcher and admit that.

Being a professor at an R1 school is basically making the claim that you are a researcher -- one who happens to teach from time to time.

> That is what the tax payers support when supporting universities. (Via tutiion, etc.. [grants are not considered in this])

Are you sure about that?

This is a potentially huge discussion, but "teaching" is not high on the list of added value if you attend an R1 school. In fact, the instruction is often terrible. The idea is that you will be given access to resources, and smart, motivated people know how to avail themselves of useful resources.

Taxpayers get research labs that spawn new industries, develop mature industries, and contribute to high value-add labor markets (great for local economy).

Students get access to bleeding edge research, researchers, and tools.

Much tuition these days goes towards facilities that the people who can pay want (e.g., nicer dorms, gyms, etc.). Note that many of the top student scholars at R1 schools pay little or no tuition.

One could also argue that people pay tuition for access to certain social circles -- social capital is a real thing with real value at a wide range of R1 schools.

I could go on, but the value derived from how tuition and taxpayer money is used is a deep and complex topic.

> The current setup where a professor can delegate teaching to TAs, and overwork/underpay assistents/juniors is ethically wrong, often illegal in work practices (payment below min wage), and fraudulent to the students paying tuition.

The delegation part is fine -- the content of the classes that have TAs is not terribly challenging or interesting to a professional in the field, so delegating it (especially for large classes) is an intelligent allocation of human resources.

That said, the illegal parts you mentioned are terrible and should not happen. To be fair, the only cases I've directly seen of overly worked TA/RA labor was when the grad student was doing something wrong (e.g., grading with heuristics that were overly granular). That said, I have read stories, and I believe that they are true at least in part if not in whole.
I don't disagree with any of your points. But I think the technology will solve them.

Its like candlemakers got to see the worlds first lightbulb for the first time, and are going "well, the glass is really fragile. And the electricity still has to come from somewhere". That's not wrong, those are all true points. But it seems crystal clear that despite the early shortcomings this technology will lead the future.

Electric Cars seem the same way. There are edge cases they don't handle today, this is true. But electrics can already handle 80%+ of all driving needs today, and those remaining edge cases are being solved at a fairly rapid pace.

In just the last few years, we've already seen the range rise substantially and the prices drop slightly. (Compare the 2011 Leaf with ~84 mile battery had a base MSRP of $34k (inflation adjusted to $38k in 2017 dollars), to the current 2017 Bolt with ~238 mile battery at a base MSRP of $36k). And of course, used vehicles are bringing the TCO down, so much so that even middle class people can easily afford electric cars. Older used Nissan Leaf cars often sell for as low as $9k.

It seems obvious to me that this technology will continue to improve so that for those people who can't switch to electric today, they will certainly be able to in the near future.
You give too much power to these toxic groups, I recommend just ignoring them completely. The alternative is basically giving them the ability to censor what you read, litmus or not, seems unwise. I know nothing of Cernovich sorry. It certainly served you poorly here. His infamous memo is the best, most scientifically literate proposal towards more diversity in IT, its portrayal is truly discouraging.
I have been down a similar path. I have an old HP laptop that used to run Windows XP. Its about 2005 model and has 1G of RAM. LXDE is only desktop that will give reasonable performance. Despite claims at being light I found Xfce based desktops slowed computer to a crawl.

The second thing I found was that all modern browsers literally consumed all resources on the computer making laptop unusable. I tried Netsurf which was fine on sites on which it worked. In the end I have found is best to use text based browsers. I use links2.
Honestly, it takes less willpower to do IF than to not do it :p

1. Wake up

2. Make Breakfast

3. Go on with day

vs

1. Wake up

2. Go on with day.
I miss my iPod Mini. I had it running RockBox (a uclinux distribution aimed at MP3 players), and replaced the 1.8” HDD with a compact flash card (32GB, I think?). Got a decade of use out of it.

I kind of want to go see if it’s in my cupboard still.
I've found Cryptocompare to be unreliable and to often have outdated information. For example, it showed IOTA at 1 cent for a solid week after its first big rise.
As a Canadian with a NFC credit card, I was blown away at how rare they are in the US. It's funny because the devices used by most stores support them, but the clerks are always blown away when I use it.

That being said, now that I live here with a non-NFC credit card, I use Android Pay for most my payments. Tapping is far easier than swipe + sign.
As I said before, my response is not data, I know that. But what you just wrote is exactly how confirmation bias works: If he fit your narrative, he would confirm your narrative. That is why these discussions need to be about data, and not "what everyone sees and no one talks about."
Overhead of tagged architecture is to some extent an myth caused by abysmal performance of certain implementations (eg. iAPX whose performance problems are AFAIK caused mainly by funky instruction encoding) and by performance issues with "straightforward" way of running C code on such architectures.
Feel the same. One example is Angular Typescript and then there is AngularDart, both are used by teams in Google.
2nd edit: Alt plus the side arrows scrolls between them.
Welp, you asked for my opinion. My opinion is that if you literally can't think of a valid use for the entire internet in a classroom setting, then you aren't trying very hard. It's tantamount to having a library at your fingertips.

* How about using an app to record the lecture, so a student can verify their notes later?

* How about taking a picture of the notes on the board, when they can't copy things down quickly enough?

* How about checking up on a sick relative using SMS, so they aren't feeling anxious about it all class?

I'm not even trying really -- there are dozens of valid use-cases that respect the preset curriculum. Let alone all of the uses that fall outside of respecting it, if and when the curriculum is too facile for the student.

Couldn't I have been learning programming during the time my high school English class was tackling "A Catcher in the Rye" one chapter per week, after I read the entire book within the first few hours we had it? Apparently not, because cell phones aren't allowed, and they can only used for Candy Crush.

>My question is how many kids are actually going to do that?

Not very many, and that's why most people will justify smartphones being taken away from all students. Which will primarily hurt the ones who were using them for more interesting purposes. Typical crab bucket mentality.

>And what justifies them to be the judge of whether what the teacher is discussing is relevant to them or not, given they are 10 years old.

I never said anything about whether the lessons were relevant, nor were ages brought up.
As I mentioned, I don't disparage "right wing". I actually enjoy Joe Rogans podcast, and also Dave Rubin and Jordan Peterson. All three of them are solidly classical liberal, which is probably right of center today (individualism vs. collectivism, equality of opportunity vs equality of outcome, etc). But AFAIK, damore never came to the young Turks, Chapo trap house, which are leftist podcasts. I could be wrong.
Because fighting fire with fire seems to be the only tactic successful in these contexts. Its about proving the hypocrisy of practicing discrimination against those you self deem (without any due process) to be discriminatory. Discrimination, like hate only begets more discrimination.

As far as the second point, the free markets no longer operate that way, marketing has emerged as a white washing effect for any ill a company can get themselves into, as long as they spend enough on marketing they can work their way out of it on top.
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>> That said, i think i have seen a few "distraction free" writing devices pop up on kickstarter. Not sure if any of them reached mass market though.

Aren't those basically rehashed Tandy TRS-80 Model 100's? Those were damned cool devices back in the day.
You would also need to define the metrics you are going to be using to measure success at the time you pass the legislation. You would also need some sort of control to measure against, and some way to discourage gaming the metric.
That's not an apology, that's being a passive-aggressive nerd.
When you read something you don't agree with it is your choice to decide how it affects you. So please don't start this nonsense that words make a unsafe environment.

That being said nobody had a negative reaction until vox leaked it. It had been available for months.

I will also note it seemed to be those who have more tweets than minutes they have been alive that got the most upset about this memo.

I was really disappointed in the response by Google engineers. To this day I have yet to see a proper rebuttal that did not go out of it's way to misrepresent the original memo.

That is what makes me sad. That to this day people still quote things that were not in or even eluded to in the paper.
And iPad Mini??

It seems dead as well. No new iPad Mini since 2015, with an outdated hardware equivalent to a iPhone 6 (2014). iOS11 artificially slows down iPad Mini 4 and no new iPad Mini in sight.

I bought the iPad Mini 4 at Apple HQ shop, they gazed at me when I asked for an iPad Mini earlier this year. They only sell a 128GB model, no other model. Next time I will avoid impulsive shopping of Apple products.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPad_Mini_4

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_A8 ... iPhone 6 and Ipad Mini 4 have the same CPU
> due to a stupid political game he didn't even realize he was playing

If he didn't know exactly what he was doing he deserves whatever happens to him for being so oblivious to the world around him.
The Way the World Is Going, by HG Wells
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Yes, C++ was a pain to write portability before 2000, but so was C, in spite of having been standardized in 1990, most compilers were a mix of K&R C and ANSI C.

Nevertheless, all major desktop OSes were going C++ for their application frameworks, before the widespread adoption of GNU software.

> A number of the things you mention above were spectacularly unsuccessful.

Mostly due to politics between corporations and very little to do with C++ itself.
I was kind of hoping more of hacker news though =/ This does not bode well...
This is quite literally a consolidation in name only. "Google Pay" is a brand name for all of those products, not a unified API. Hopefully a unified product strategy will follow…
Good luck representing Japanese (kanji especially) in 8x16 pixel dimensions.

Edit: Apparently I'm wrong - 8x8 is acceptable as long as context is given https://chinese.stackexchange.com/questions/16669/lowest-pix...
> If you have women in hire/fire positions, in theory the bias should work itself out. It probably wouldn't in reality.

I think this is a common, and pretty unfounded claim that people make. In my experience, men and women are both perfectly capable of having harmful opinions on gender roles.
Cliven Bundy standoff case thrown out in another stunning blow to government
Can you share the landing page with us? :-)
>Rent control removes the incentive to build new apartments.

Not even 1% as much as untaxing land and property does.
I read in the Seattle Times recently, sorry I don't remember the particular article. The figure did include indirect investments, such as via pension plans.
G Pay is not a bank, it's payment processor like Stripe. They don't hold any money. Though you are right that this gives them information about what you're purchasing.
Regardless of our personal feelings about the matter, the sad fact is, it might be as simple as the lawyers finding female Googlers who have public statements remotely anti-male who were not fired.

I am not a lawyer but that, while trivial, might be enough for a court to rule against Google.
Is it appropriate to link this? Also from today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16093281

The first comment regarding the class divide of those who can be disciplined about distractions vs those who can't seems relevant to your comment.
The angry mob is irrelevant. There are more individuals watching quietly than people making their positions public. The mob will chill when their friends ask them to post-apology. I have been on all sides of this phenomenon: the chiller, the chillee, the apology. It works.
America is far behind the curve compared to the rest of the world. About the only place I use Apple Pay in the US is at Starbucks. But in the UK, I literally use it for everything. Restaurants, the London tube, taxis, pubs (to pay for a round of drinks!). It's incredibly useful, and it amazes me that America is taking so long to adopt it.

Even more amazing is that the US even changed payment systems to a chip-based system just a couple of years ago, but apparently didn't mandate that everyone adopts contactless payment when updating their hardware. Foolish.
As a white male, good for him
Yes. Gallup does this ever year. It's been over 60% for the last two years[1].

[1] http://news.gallup.com/poll/221018/record-high-support-legal...
Would publishing and distributing a manifesto amongst your colleagues fall beyond 'restraint'?
I might start caring about Google/Apple pay if they add support for Bitcoin and lightning network payments. Until then, there's really nothing new or innovative to be seen here.
I think frontend designers should design with a 13" laptop and NO ADITIONAL MONITORS... only the laptop screen.

Then you wouldn't see more designs like this one.
Depends what you're eating.

Sugar / carbs => Insulin spike > insulin drop > hangry within 2-3 hours

Protein / fat => Smooth sailing for 4-5 hours or more, hunger is much less intense

Just my experience.
I program in Standard ML everyday, and I don't get an “elevated heart rate” when I see something that can't be proved with a type checker. I just prove it by hand. But maybe the typical Haskell programmer is not a good enough mathematician, who knows.
My iPhone SE is literally the best phone I’ve ever owned. Perfect size, used sparingly, and often as a tether for my iPad instead when I want to do any type of content management or creation. And it fits in my pocket properly!
There isn't necessarily no question.

I went through a phase in high school where I was convinced I was very stupid. My parents certainly didn't talk to me that way, though.
Socrates felt the same way about books actually a lot of big thinkers in that era felt that writing and reading would lead to the degradation of the human memory. However the argument that kids shouldn't have books in school seems laughable. I would say they aren't wrong. Humans really can't remember entire books any more, but then they also don't need to.
Is everything Johann Hari knows about depression wrong?
My mother-in-law is a land lord in Los Angeles

I'm a tenant in Los Angeles, and a staunch supporter of rent control. Knowing that my rent (which is already high) can only go up so much year-over-year provides some bit of stability as the tech industry devours eastward from Santa Monica.
It's like if any concept can't be fully realized in the size of a tweet people are going to just misconstrue it.

Read the memo before telling people what it said...

Twitter has eroded out society.
Your card doesn't have contactless payment?
Forgive me, but isn't this what Google Wallet was, at one point? Then at some point Google Wallet was split out into Android Pay. And now it's Google Pay? It's made all the worse by the fact that these names/logos/etc are reflected on actual physical hardware distributed to stores around the world. Those old names aren't going anywhere soon.

Google has done this so many times now (Hangouts/Allo/Messenger, anyone?) that I wonder if there is anyone behind the wheel any more.
Good point, I agree with everything you wrote. I didn't intend to compare code language style to literature, maybe I failed to make that clear.

I tried to make the more subtle comparison that some programmers react reflexively to code that doesn't look familiar to them and call it unreadable, the same way that a person unfamiliar with Shakespeare and unprepared (or unwilling) to make the effort to read it will dismiss Macbeth as hard to read.

A person new to Shakespeare picking up Macbeth will find the book challenging because of the antique language, the poetic form and dramatic devices, maybe the historical setting and allusions. A person new to a body of programming code may react the same way, for similar reasons. A reader new to Shakespeare probably knows that the problem lies in their own abilities and patience, not in the book. A programmer new to a body of code will tend to blame the code, in my experience.
It looks like they put all their research on clickbait to profitable use.

You used to be able to receive and reply to Facebook messages via email. They took out the reply feature and recently they've taken out the content as well. Now their notifications are just "you have 23 unread messages." Their only goal now seems to be to force you onto their app.
Times have changed. If Russia were to invade Finland today, they wouldn't do it in the midst of winter, with large armies along roads that can easily be cut off. I think the Fins are right in preparing for the worst, or as the department of Defense puts it "messaging about where the limits are". I am very curious about what kind of warfare they are expecting from the east though.
Diversity based on outward appearance is one of the most convoluted and ridiculous movements ever. We cannot spend decades trying to show that appearance is absolutely meaningless to talent, skills, and motivation, and then regress right back to it to show off "diversity".

Also nobody ever seems to ask: diversity of what exactly? What's the target? Life experience? There is no qualitative score for that, nor is any single person's life more or less interesting and influential than anyone else.

The only thing we can objectively and accurately measure is merit, motivation, and results, and we should use those metrics alone for hiring and advancement, in addition to fighting subjective bias (like removing names and photos from resumes) and making sure there's equivalent opportunity for anyone to try. After that, it would be best if just let people do what they want to do and move on.
Surprising that they went for the "Uber partnership" move. Launching their own cryptocurrency or a new machine learning initiative would be fashionable moves much more naturally aligned with their products.