skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He didn't say he believed that. He said he believed it's possible it's one of several factors, and only at a macro level ("generally, women prefer not to do X", not "women are worse at X.").

He also suggested that if the goal is for Google to become more inclusive toward women, that perhaps the roles should be adjusted to appeal more to women than to stick our heads in the sand and pretend the problem is Google's patriarchy.

If you run a burger place and want more women to eat there, you start serving salads. That doesn't mean you're a sexist for thinking women can't eat burgers. Some do. But generally speaking, women eat salads at higher rates than men. You will not be as successful by trying to market the same burgers to women.
Read the paper, including citations.
You don't need cell coverage to look at maps on your phone. The GPS in your phone will work without coverage. Use Gaia GPS and/or Avenza Maps, they're far, far superior to paper maps. GGP is right, we live in the future.

Obviously, it doesn't hurt to bring a paper map, but you'll find that you're not going to use them at all. We live in the future.
You probably won't like the tone of this article, but I think you'll find it difficult to argue with it's citation list: https://www.theverge.com/2017/8/16/16153740/tech-diversity-p...
Why would a "white male conservative" sue a corporation when the conservative platform believes that in a free market corporations should be allowed to discriminate as they please ? I have heard Ron Paul (ok, a libertarian) state numerous times how he doesn't support civil rights, because the public will stop visiting those businesses who engage in discriminatory behavior. Shouldn't James Damore just let the free market take care of Google for its allegedly discriminatory position and wait till we all migrate to Duck Duck Go and iOS to teach Google a lesson ?
and/or change in atmospheric pressure?
Why not? It's happened at GitHub. http://i.imgur.com/7YaVYUx.jpg
Damore is an individual. He is not a hundred billion dollar company.

A PR nightmare for him costs him very little. There are no products that customers can boycott to get back at him. No offices where he could be protested.

The 'worst' that could happen is that some tech companies refusing to hire him. But given his recent fame, I doubt he has to worry about money anymore.
Glad they've finally started to recognize app duplication as a problem for consumers.

How many messaging apps does Google have again? I can't keep track.
Overall productivity will drop by 50% or more. Everyone will start wearing headphones. Recruiting will suffer. The better programmers will leave. Short answer: death spiral.
That was really what did it for me. I read the document and I'll be honest, I didn't really hear the dog whistles and I didn't get particularly worked up about it. I thought it kinda read like pseudo-science and that was about it.

But then the dude appeared on Mike Cernovich's show and was all over r/the_donald and I was like, "oh this is who this guy is." I hate to judge someone by the company they keep but this guy's company was particularly bad (imo).
The world of medicine and scientific research has undeniably improved. Transplants, medical imaging (MRI or CT), almost any drug you will probably take, genomic science, disease diagnosis, cancer immunotherapies, electron-microscopy, and a lot more were either non-existent or crude in 1966. You are much better off getting sick today (assuming you can afford it).
Google sued for allegedly discriminating against conservative white men
I notice none of those options include "admit he was wrong and apologize". I'm sure he doesn't have to work for a top-tier tech company either.
I believe it's partly evidence-based stock ramping [1].

[1] Not sure that's the appropriate term.
Thoughts about Meltdown and Spectre fallout and dealing with it
> The dude literally let himself be paraded around by the alt-right and neo-nazi groups as a hero.

Explain how this is James' fault.

> When alt-right Twitter agrees with your world-views, you're doing something WRONG.

Alt-right Twitter agrees that murder is wrong, the national debt is concerning, and that sexual assault is supremely immoral. What does that make you, if you define yourself by disagreement with them? It is not James Damore's job to disavow all the people you disagree with on other matters, no matter how legitimate your disagreement.
> high-speed FireWire connection, and a great integration story on Macs.

These two, at least, aren't it. The iPod only became truly successful once it had a USB connection and a Windows client. Before that point it was a total niche product.
Legitimate question here, how is it ok for all the screenshots of internal tools which the authors must have assumed would remain internal to Google to be put into this publicly visible suit? Their names are visible and not redacted?

Is this just a reminder to be careful what you post at work?
Apologies for the odd title.

This 30 min video from 34C3 in dec 2017 is about a variety of art projects by Mediengruppe Bitnik. One of the projects was a bot who'd try to buy random products on the darknet (Tor in this case), one of which was the drug ecstasy as described in the title. All the bought products were put in an art gallery. After the exhibition was over, the drugs were seized (a fake password and credit card were among the other bought material, and were not seized). The video covers the legal implications and repercussions ie. was it the bot who bought this or its developers? Video also covers a few other interesting art projects such as a book with a JavaScript title, and a building with [for lack of better words from a non native English speaker] something akin to an optical illusion.

See also previously on HN: Swiss Public Prosecutor Seizes and Seals Work by Mediengruppe Bitnik [1]

Mediengruppe Bitnik have written a book "Delivery For Mr. Assange" where they attempted to send a package to Mr. Assange in the Ecuadorian embassy, documented here [2]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8902273

[2] https://wwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww.bitnik.org/assange/
I've almost lost a camera kayaking a couple or three times, when the glue on the mounting base comes loose. I usually use one of those orange floaty things on it. I suppose you could also tie a tether between the camera and your board.
I would imagine he could pretty easily get contracting work at a place that doesn't care.

Or create "Not James Damore Consulting, Inc." and hire himself out through that.
This is what we'd like to imagine the upper class thinking, but meeting them can be disillusioning.
This. I mean, it takes lot of effort to keep up with Google's "throw it all on the wall and see what sticks" approach as a user.

People chide Apple for not moving fast enough, but in many cases, being stable is more important than refactoring every 2 years.
A Chinese Empire Reborn
No. It's just loading a new bitmap font. The console is still in legacy text mode on standard PCs. That's why you see the clean transition because the text in memory and video mode remains unchanged (unless you've altered the init) so all the character cells line up.
James's legal team will try to argue why the arbitration agreement is unconscionable.
Only if you write shitty code it's 10 times easier to write it than to read.
When I write my code I use much, much more effort to try to express clearly my intent and what it is doing, and in that case it's much easier to read it than to write.

I think that we can easily say that good code is very difficult to write and very easy to read, bad code is very easy to write and very difficult to read.
The code is written once and read n times by m different people, so there is a huge gain in spending more time in making it simpler to understand rather than spending the minimum time in writing code and leave all the effort to the readers.
Readers that, very often, after they become too frustrated, want to rewrite it (and for very good reasons I'd say).
> I hope they will settle for an amount sufficient for retirement and the dude's life won't get ruined due to a stupid political game he didn't even realize he was playing.

"Ruined?" Because he might have to take a non-tech job? Please.

He went to a diversity training event which should've given him a clear idea of Google's stance on the issue. Then he published an internal memo arguing against that stance. He knew the game he was playing. He just played it poorly.

Regardless, he'll be fine.
ripgrep's introductory blog post[1] includes a perf comparison, which incorporates sift. But sift is too slow to include in several benchmarks. sift's achievement is its fast parallel directory traverser, coupled with Go's vectorized IndexByte[2] function for simple literals. In that case, it is quite fast, but as soon as you enter Go's regex engine, it's game over.

[1] - http://blog.burntsushi.net/ripgrep/

[2] - https://golang.org/pkg/bytes/#IndexByte
This actually seems like a very realistic outcome.
Really? You think I’m gonna fall for this b.s.?

You just tried to cloak the claim that there’s more highly intelligent men in a bunch of nonsense. You’re only proving my point.
I got the iPod the day it came out in the UK (2001-11-22, London MacExpo, Islington), plugged it into my Mac, and in short order had all my iTunes music on it, including playlists (remember: iTunes was there before the iPod; Apple even had a "Rip, Mix, Burn" commercial [1]).

Sure, at that time, few people had a Mac, but certain demographics had it. And I distinctly recall that people in the office were curious about the iPod, and were impressed with the intuitive UI (with the physical scroll wheel, which was really quite nice - it had inertia and would spin a while when you spun fast).

FireWire, integration, and storage size ("all your music in your pocket") definitely played a role. Basically, if you had an iTunes library, the iPod was a total no-brainer.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ECN4ZE9-Mo
There is no line. The state shouldnt intervene in business as much as possible. But search is at the core of the internet and an increasingly connected society. Its too important to be allowed in the hands of a single company.

Wikipedia doesnt own 90% of the 'knowledge base' market - maybe not even 9%. If it did, then there might be a case for it too.
I'm a former Googler (left before the memo) and I was upset by the memo because, in implying that the hiring bar was lower for women, it contained the thinly veiled corolloary that my female colleagues were less capable than my male colleagues. That did not match my experience at all.
Also, they have had Hangouts, Messenger, Talk, Voice, Allo, and Duo... most with the same functionality. What is up with Google's product management? Is there a strategy?
Not at all, but the overall sentiment in the comments were biased towards Chinese govt's mass surveillance program, which is a different beast than the article was about.

What I was mentioning is this particular instance is a good practical non-surveillance use of face recognition..
Google Play and Google Pay.

The Google Pay logo says Gee-play. It should not be shortened to G.
I didn’t, man. Work on your reading comprehension skills. They are spelling out the bigotry he’s trying to be coy with.
Yes, that's the spirit. Let's burn the witch.

Unless i missed something, the guy never advocated violence or gender discrimination, or making anyone's life miserable. He expressed opinion on scientific explanation. You may find it very stupid, but what in your mind makes you think it's OK to destroy a man's life for his opinion, and then i suppose pretend to be someone with high moral grounds.
It doesn't even suggest that. Other interpretations include that women are better at non-programming skills than men, pulling them away from tech. (That would be a plausible explanation for there being less women in tech than men, given the two groups have equal tech abilities)
He also lied about having a PhD (he was in a program, but did not finish). This makes it difficult for me to take him seriously as someone motivated by an insistent search for truth.
> I still have a large backlog of repos and writeups that I'd like to study, all found from submissions on HN.

:)

I have one too. The relevant question is, are those things relevant for your work and projects? If not (that's my case), there isn't much difference.
Making someone question whether they are qualified is better than not hiring them at all. Quotas are useful if you have reason to believe that your hiring process is biased and you are missing out on qualified candidates. That way you're not passing up too many candidates from specific groups that you're having a hard time characterizing.
Just for once, I'd like a story like this to turn out positively. Not in that James wins or loses this lawsuit, but that something could be positively gained in his life from this experience.

Being fired from Google has been traumatizing. He's gone farther and farther into the "unrecoverable from a PR standpoint" zone, and that's really horrible. 10 years from now, he's going to have a hard time finding employment or basic living possible. He's still a human though. If he committed himself to being humble and actually trying to work on himself, it would be really positive. Even the PR thing can go away -- everyone loves a redemption story.

The problem is that moves like this just deepen the hole. A lot of people are cheering for his demise, and seeing that hole get bigger is eye candy. But again, he's still a human. He still has hopes, dreams, fears, etc., just like the rest of us. Maybe positive encouragement to change is a better route to go than just watching him keep digging. In no way do I support his ideas -- quite the opposite -- but is it fair to characterize someone as fully a lost cause this early?
Simple React Transitions
Actually, no.

Current estimates rate the cost of a 51% attack at approximatly 4.656.671.184$ for hardware only which is not a sum which even large countries will have easy (and certainly not unnoticed) access to.

This estimate is based on the current hash rate at 14.975.580.960 GHash/s and the fastest mining hardware available which is the AntMiner S5+ at ~2300$ with a hashrate of 7.722 GHash/s. That means you'll need about ~1.939.340 AntMiners which will consume 3436W each. At an electricty cost of 0.05ct/kwh (this is china, US is at about ~0.20ct/kwh) this gives you an additional cost of ~7.996.185$ per day not factoring in any labor/location costs and most notably no cooling costs which will be high with this kind of high performance asic.

This estimate only holds true though if you buy every bit of hardware yourself, in reality its probably more practical to simple coerce big mining pool owners to work for you, but thats another problem :)

edit: relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/538/
and now there are n+1 payment options
women are better at empathy, due to biological reasons. women ,on average not all women of course, go into fields that need more empathy on average. they endup having less skills in this field on average because more of them went and studied another field due to biological reasons.

source:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19476221

from the abstract:
"This study contributes information on women's greater empathic disposition in comparison with men by means of a longitudinal design in an adolescent population"
It sounds like you're suggesting he both lies, and acts with disingenuity. I don't think it's reasonable to ask him to do that.
Most people have enough sense to not post something so inflammatory in an office system where it can be accessed by random coworkers. He could have been more nuanced about it but the controversy seems intentional and deliberate and he absolutely deserves the whole shitstorm he's facing.
Edit: Sorry, I misread your comment, lukev. It's not a strawman though. This is exactly how many of the harshest critics of the memo have described his stance. Too many to count.

Stating "members from group X are better than members from group y" (which is how Damore's opponents describe his claim) is a not the same as stating that “more people from group X than from group Y might be suitable for this job”. The first is qualitative, the latter quantitative. The latter also implies that members of group y can be as good.

I am sure everyone has experienced how sentences and context radically can change through the addition or omission of just one or two words. Here we have such a case, and it should be acknowledged.
Scroll up. I gave a lengthy (for HN) exposition on why the U.S. is not to blame for Latin American violence of the past. The answer I got was a change of topic: what do I think of what Chomsky has to say? Asking me that is just a way to ignore the points I made.
Getting your device to work was just a matter of plugging them in and copying the files to the mass storage drive that appeared afterwards. From the most popular options, it was only the iPod that needed some special handling with special software to write to its proprietary database in order to listen to new files on your device.
The game Nex Machina's backend server load increased 4-5x from CPU issue patches
(1) Your anecdotal evidence is literally worthless. You need to provide some statistics that 50% of developers support him. I can easily self select 100% of developers who disagree with Damore.

(2) If you agree/disagree with Damore that's great. It's your right as a person to have opinions and no company can criticise you for that. What you can't do however is publicise these issues on any forum. It's simply not a topic that has any merit being discussed in a professional environment.
Damore wouldn't describe himself as conservative I think.
The cost of complexity in a programming language is paid not only by the developers of the language but also by the programmers that use it.
You seem unfamiliar with the power of litigation. The case won't be about "him being fired", but about showing there is any pattern for bias in Google with respects to the three stated criteria. And if they can show that bias exists, then still without making this about him, specifically, the court can be asked to apply punitive measures against google (which their client "happens to benefit from, being part of the group that Google has demonstrated bias against").

Initial filing for a court case is crucial for establishing what we're actually sueing over, and this will be an interesting one, because the chances of his legal team winning this one are definitely non-zero.
"long" interview with aubrey de grey from last december:

https://medium.com/@arielf/wake-up-people-its-time-to-aim-hi...
Isn't this driven by the fact that crypto clients use a default transaction fee rather than dynamically negotiating a good fee on the market?

E.g. if your client's default fee is .001 bitcoins or whatever, back in the day that was super cheap but now it's $15. But the intrinsic cost of carrying out that transaction has in real-world terms probably gone down rather than up. So you'd expect the market to arrive at roughly the same USD-valued equilibrium regardless of the BTC-USD conversion rate, but this clearly hasn't happened.

So in practice there is no market for crypto transactions because everybody just uses some default transaction fee. Yeah?
>Yeah, there is. "Women are worse" implies that there's a gendered difference after applying the "is an engineer" filter.

...No it doesn't. That's just something you're adding to preserve the distinction.

>Like, male and female high jumpers that make it over a certain height of bar are approximately as good at jumping. There's more men in that category. This all might be playing semantics, but I think there's a real thing here to disentangle, and it'd be nice to say one without implying the other.

Yes yes but the problem comes with Damore's reasoning for why there are more men in that category - biological determination of better programming ability.
Looks like a really interesting company, definitely sad to see that you're only looking for Javascript developers.
Durov is basically a huckster who jumps on trends.
I've always found LED Christmas lights to be the worst offender here. Most of the time this issue can be solved by buying quality LED bulbs and using the correct dimmer, if you have one.

Walmart had 100-bulb LED Christmas lights on sale for $6 a string. This is just around the price of non-LED strings, however these are 120v rated LEDs that run right off the mains with only a fuse to protect them. Needless to say these things are tied to the 60hz phase. Since these were being put on my tree this year, I decided to do something about it. A simple full bridge rectifier fixed most of the issue. I think now the phase on the string is more around 120hz which is much easier on the eyes.

I can still see the flicker, however it's not nearly as bad. I believe the thing that would fully rectify the issue (see what I did there) would be to throw a capacitor in the circuit to further smooth out the DC supply. Really it comes down to the idea of a diode; current flows in one direction. In an AC circuit, it flows both directions. Convert it to DC and smooth the supply out and you're using just as much energy without flicker. Of course this ends up costing more if the manufacturer were to implement, so there's that.

I really just want DC throughout the house.
My classic ipod is 10+ years old, contains my entire music library (> 15000 songs/recordings) and continues to work on a daily basis. The battery seems to be operating fine and I've never encountered any disk errors. There is less than 10G available on the disk but I'm not acquiring content any more so that's acceptable. It's an example of a product that just worked. Maybe the UI could be a little tempermental at times but, ultimately, it did what it needed to do and what I asked of it. It will continue to accompany me until it goes cold and dead.
In my experience the left was not capable of having reasoned debate even before the election. They prefer to shut it down.
My diet is almost small these days but I'm very curious about IF... Hoping I'll have willpower to do one
> I hate to judge someone by the company they keep

This is literally the way we (as humans) are built to test veracity. Only in a few cases does this litmus test fail.

It's a good test, just like "follow the money". It can be abused (joe jobs, false flags), but works a vast majority of the time.
> But then the dude appeared on Mike Cernovich's show and was all over r/the_donald and I was like, "oh this is who this guy is." I hate to judge someone by the company they keep but this guy's company was particularly bad (imo).

I got the impression that he accepted those interviews because they were the only ones that would be conducted fairly. Especially considering he was subjected to at least one hostile and unfair interview.

We can't have a world where you can destroy somebody by endorsing them. This turns every undesirable into a perfect hitman.
> Will watch this with interest AFAIK discriminating against conservative white men isn’t illegal.

He is alleging three separate basic things (it's really a triple-class action; there are three separate classes that the case seeks to represent)

(1) Violation of California's law against employer control/coercion of employee political activity.

(2) race discrimination,

(3) sex discrimination.

(There's other charges, but they are basically derivative of those.)
> Meanwhile Apple had the monstrosity that was/is QuickTime.

Nope, Apple had had iTunes since 2001, and by the time the iPod came out, I for one had ripped most of my CDs to iTunes and basically used the Mac as the primary music machine.
Actually, someone else released his memo externally.
I think Damore's future is irrelevant, and that Google wants him to disappear off the face of the earth - not court a massive virtue signaling performance.