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Let's not forget that the metrics for "ability", especially in a field like software engineering, are highly unscientific.

People barely have any idea about how to hire a software engineer, much less judge someone's true "ability".

Preferences are also very complicated. People may prefer things very differently given the environment. That quote, along with many others, demonstrates the absolute lack of genuineness on the part of Damore.

Damore throws away any pretense of being objective/scientific when he makes claims like this based on metrics that are hardly measurable. A decent scientist would recognize that making claims with very serious implications like this is greatly irresponsible.
You don't get hovercars just from too-cheap-to-meter electricity. If energy cost were the main obstacle, upper-income people would already have hovercars, because spending 4x more on fuel than people driving wheeled vehicles would be fine for them.

Some 1968 futurology predictions seem like they might have come to pass had energy remained as relatively cheap as it was in 1968. Others of them were frankly ridiculous regardless of the price of energy. According to the Amazon review, disintegrator rays and anti-gravity belts were a couple of the predicted developments from "Toward the Year 2018." There was no scientific phenomenon known in 1968 by which either of these could be implemented. It's like the predictors reasoned "science fiction was prescient in predicting artificial satellites and travel to the moon, therefore its other popular tropes will eventually come to pass too."

There's a lot still to explain about the universe: dark matter, baryon asymmetry, dark energy... But I'm not convinced that new insights into these problems, if/when they arrive, will unlock significant new technological capabilities, any more than the discovery of neutron stars led to new superhard/superdense materials for human use. I think it's quite likely that humans never tame a more energetic primary energy source than nuclear fusion[1], nor send messages or vessels faster than light, nor manipulate gravity with the facility that we manipulate the electromagnetic spectrum. The engineering permitted by classical and quantum mechanics, modulo additional limits imposed by relativity, is vast. But it can't deliver everything that science fiction imagines. Inertial compensators, gravity manipulation, tractor beams, teleporters, disintegration rays, time travel, FTL: nope, probably not.

[1] Storage and use of antimatter for compact power sources seems like it may be eventually plausible, but it would function more as a super-energetic "battery" charged by other primary energy sources.
Whatever you think of the memo, you have to be a little concerned about the precedent this would set if companies were not allowed to discriminate based on 'political' views. Should I be forced to hire a neo-nazi or a terrorist sympathiser so long as they're up to the job?
Granted, this submission appears to be softkilled due to the flame war detector (which is unsurprisingly/unfortunately what's happening)
We all worry about that future, and have seen the crazy AR video about SPAM on vimeo.

But humans will constantly optimize their lives for greater happiness.

Each piece of technology that makes life better, can also be a trap of addiction. But we will figure this out.

I have access to stimulus like sugar, drugs, alcohol, and gambling, all of which are easily overindulged, but somehow most of us figure out a good balance. Those that can't get the balance right, are supported with in different ways like laws that protect the public.

The AR integration will be the same. When it gets to the point that long term suffering outweighs temporary happiness society will set up boundaries and EVERYONE will be ok with that. Maybe some people will think you are silly for not having AR lenses in all the time, but it won't be that much different from being that guy who doesn't drink at a party.
"Then he published an internal memo arguing against that stance."
I hope the Google lawyers make an example out of him and he gets nothing.
You're joking, right? These guys elected the sexual-assaulter-in-chief.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=H2J5E8sSdsI
> You're making stuff up.

Hey, let's keep things civil. Please consider Hanlon's Razor in this case.

How about something like, "I don't think you're correct about the consensus. Citations please?"
Gab.ai would hire him in a minute.
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Can you specidy why exactly his memo was such a huge fuck up?

He didn't want to make a statement, he wanted to get to the bottom of what he was wondering about on the internal discussion forum. He also has autism, maybr he was trying to learn or check if his observations are true or
not.

Then, the media spun this story as to why he's such a sexist without even specifically saying why or trying to debunk his observations, with, you know, arguments or studies.

He isn't a writer, he doesn't know how to perfectly write something that is divisive without offending anyone. He didn't work on the memo for months to check that his language is perfect and represents everything exactly the way he views it.

His memo could have been a good start to find gender biases in tech and actually improve them instead of ostrachzing people outright who dare to talk about the issue.
No, but there are laws against employing someone who publishes (internally or otherwise) memoranda that creates a hostile working environment for a protected class. More specifically, had Google not fired him, they'd be getting sued by other employees.

PS. Being told that "You are only here because you're a diversity hire, you can't actually do the work," is creating a hostile working environment.
That's the spirit. Let's make people un-hireable not based on their skills but on their personal opinions. 0% chance that that would backfire.
I've been thinking about replacing the hard drive and battery in mine for the past few years. The wheel-based iPods really did have the best UI for music in any device I've ever owned. If you're familiar with it, you can navigate with extraordinary ease.
Maybe they evacuated a maternity unit.
Are you a self-taught web developer struggling to learn a framework?
Forth words can alter the interpretation of subsequent characters in the input stream. The word \ consumes any characters between itself and a newline- it's one way of providing inline comments. The word s" consumes characters up to a terminating ", providing one kind of string literal. Parsing Forth, by design, is connected to both compiling and interpreting Forth.

The intertwined semantics and syntax of Forth seem sufficiently different from most languages to justify different terminology.
Migrate from Apache Kafka to Apache Pulsar
DDD done properly should help in that case.
If his settlement is 7 figures, he can retire off of that.
Ask HN: Spectre/Meltdown/IME need to replace my desktop and laptop PCs? With What?
What should I be doing in regard to these vulnerabilities? What time frame?

And finally, from the depths of the paranoid part of my mind, might this all be just a way for government 3-letter agencies to motivate everyone to buy new PCs with the latest and greatest spyware already installed in the firmware? It appears that generations of hardware have been, all at once, obsolesced. The investment base is huge and chip makers appear to be set to reap a fortune from this "mistake".
As long as we don't find a battery technology providing as much energy density as gasoline, electric cars will only be a fad with no real economic advantage.

Regarding climate change and CO2 emissions, electric cars fail too : making the car AND producing the electricity to run it still produces way to much CO2. (most electricity still comes from coal)

If I had to make a bold prediction : in the future, individual cars (running on gas or electricity) will be rare !
There is a difference between women are on average less capable (or what your interpretation seems to imply - women programmers are worse than men) and what is written which are there may be less qualified female candidates due to biological differences.

The latter is an obvious statement however people seems keen to deliberately misinterpret it to fuel their rightous outrage.

I’ll use high jump as an example. Suppose I only hire high jumpers who can leap over X meters. I find that I naturally hire less women because women on average can’t jump as high as men. The women who can are obviously as qualified as men. Now I make the statement that due to biological differences this may explain the hiring disparity, rather than discrimination.
And a target for thieves...
>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.

Whether or not the representation gap is biological is an important factual matter that should be discussed on the merits. It'd do women no good to try to get their best sprint times up to men's by fixing society to be more accepting of female sprinters. There are real biological differences between the sexes, and trying to fix downstream effects of them by making up sociological causes and attacking them is very quixotic.
I dont know, but I heard about DP being able to daisy-chain.
Meaning multiple displays on one output, including less cable stress.
So guilty by association ? That's healthy...

What's truly sad about this is that he is the first I've heard of to propose actually fair measures we could take to promote gender diversity in IT, such as using more socially involved methods such as pair programming. Instead we get positive discrimination.

This depiction by tech crunch is an insult to reporting, if you read/listen to the primary source, there is no hate, no sexism, no racism, he just saw unfair stuff and spoke out about it.
Feedback:

- I flat out love the idea. I have a two year old and for me, the biggest thing that I've noticed about parenting is that it's made working out harder. I love food, so needless to say, I've watched my level of fitness steadily decline. This is very bad for me. An app like this would force me to get up and be active because frankly, the sound is worse than a pissed off toddler.

- The sound is worse than a pissed off toddler. My girlfriend said it sounds like a nuclear bomb siren. The sound is bad enough that it would motivate me to do pushups, just to get it to turn off. But, it's in a frequency range that causes lots of people problems. If you choose to keep developing, I'd suggest that having the ability to change/install a custom sound would be a great place to start.

- The pushup detection was poor. Either that, or either my form sucks or we have different definitions of what a pushup is. I did 10 pushups and it registered one and to shut down the infernal alarm, I ended up doing the 'raise the roof' motion. Oddly, the 'raise the roof' motion registered as a pushup every single time. I'm a nerdy 40 year old, so I should likely never do the 'raise the roof' motion. It's arguably even more personally limiting than air drumming along to Led Zeppelin (which is, incidentally, a wonderful workout though when you become known as 'the guy who drums at work', you'd be surprised how few people invite you out for lunch). :)

- You could be onto something amazing. Getting someone into the habit of dropping and doing pushups a few times a day would transform lives. I would pay for it if it checked my form and counted proper pushups for me. Though, it didn't seem to register my pushups, so maybe it does check my form.

Nice work and congratulations on front paging HN! I've got a lot of respect for what you've done and you should feel proud of what you have accomplished. I would be incredibly proud if I were in your shoes.
Explain to me where Google asks when you are hired whether you are white, male or conservative. I have worked for a dozen Fortune 500 sized companies now and not once has it ever come up. He wasn't fired for any of those aspects anyway. He was fired because he chose to act in an unprofessional manner.
Hey! this works: http://archive.is/ma8Iw. I didn't expect it to.
Frankly, I was more optimistic about Bitcoin before I knew the technical details.

What I heard back in 2009 was that it was a way to trade money using cryptographic hashes without a central authority. I didn't really think about it more deeply than that. I didn't bother setting up a wallet or anything like that as I didn't have any extra cash to waste on new technology. But I kept a halfhearted eye on it as an alternate way of making payments over the internet.

When I finally went and looked at the mechanisms and the algorithm I thought "wow this is a bad joke." It's inherently deflationary and will never be an accepted currency outside a narrow niche of (mostly illicit) users. It's price relative to USD will always be volatile due to its astronomically high gini coefficient, and anyone not on the high end of that inverse exponential distribution will _never_ prefer bitcoin over USD. BTC printing mining will eventually cease entirely, meaning the transactions will require transaction fees that scale up depending on the size of the network, which will further discourage adoption until ultimately the whole scheme collapses (the founders having cashed out a long time ago).

Fees are Bitcoin's problem now, and will likely be its biggest problem (along with continued volatility) until the network ceases to function entirely.

https://bitinfocharts.com/comparison/bitcoin-mining_profitab...

There are two interesting points. First, is that early mining was exponentially more lucrative than later mining. Second, is that somewhere around 2014, mining profitability seriously plummeted (this can be seen more easily in logarithmic view). Before 2014, the lowest profitability rate was somewhere around $200/day for 1 THash/s. During 2014, the profitability plummeted and since then has not gone above $4/day per 1THash/s. There was a slight bump in 2017, probably due to the speculative bubble, but profitability still did not go above $3/day.

The point is: everything you might think you know about bitcoin's viability based on how it worked from 2009-2014 doesn't apply from then on. The scarcity and hype led to a speculative bubble, but from my perspective it appears doomed. Whatever niche it might have had on Dark Web black markets will be replaced by some other mechanism. When speculation stops its value will plummet and no longer subsidize mining. Mining will stop, which will make the difficulty easier again, but the reward rate continues to dwindle, forcing miners to require higher transaction fees. If those transaction fees aren't enough to cover the costs of mining, then more miners will stop. And so the block chain network will erode.
>circulating a secret memo around your company

>then going on a self-promotional media crusade

If internally sharing a document within a company is bad, and externally talking about it once it was made public by another party who got you fired is also bad, what is in your opinion the acceptable and appropriate method to have this conversation?
On one side, I [selfishly, unfairly] like that Americans are conditioned by the media to be so scared of Mexico. I almost never see other Americans here. I meet a lot of people day to day who just haven't spoken to an American that wasn't a Mexican-American. Those experiences are some of the most interesting you can have when traveling.

But on the other side, that's not healthy for the people of either country. For example, I regularly meet Mexicans that think Americans hate them. And comments from the people who post in /r/the_donald regularly have me shaking my head muttering "poor sheltered bastard."

Even HN commenters will talk about how they want to pull the trigger on leaving their boring office job and move to Chiang Mai, but that's a pretty incredible move. It's far away and with a much different culture and language, which is a cool thing but increases the chances that you just won't do it.

Meanwhile I'd say I have a pretty exotic lifestyle living on nothing and I'm just a 2 hour flight from my family in Austin.
In today's world I think having no foil in your hat is naive. We are living in a cyberpunk novel collaboration between William Gibson, Neal Stephenson, and Tom Clancy.

Doesn't mean you should uncritically buy into conspiracy theories without evidence, just that considering the possibility of manipulation and shenanigans is entirely reasonable.
The fact that literally nobody else is famous for doing something so breathtakingly stupid tells us that basically everybody else is not as stupid as this guy.
Mexico, which is not part of NATO and not subject to Russian hegemony, is by definition part of the Third World [0].

Colloquially, judging by its per capita GDP [1] and intentional homicide rate [2] it seems to fit right in with what people think of when they use the term "Third World".

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_World

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP)...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intention...
That was a pretty weak strawman attempt. There are different types of conservatives. How do you know he identifies as an free market advocate?
What am I supposed to have empathy for? That he was paid a six figure salary, part of which required him to sit through a few hours of sensitivity training?

And if we're worried about empathy, why don't we stop and think for a while about the people affected negatively by his memo?

Or do you mean the autism excuse (which is from the Guardian journalist, btw, not Damore himself?) I know lots of people on the autism spectrum who are not sexist, or who at least have the intelligence not to send out a memo to the whole company on a nuanced, controversial social topic
None of those are hubs, they're spokes.

There's two components that make an airport into a hub:

1) Transfer operations. This means flight schedules are almost invariably determined by the hub airport, because they time arrivals and departures to happen in waves, which minimize the amount of time that passengers have to wait for connections. This means that you'll have a lot of staff to handle the peak load of a transfer wave, while that staff might be relatively idle at other times.

2) Maintenance operations: this means doing routine maintenance during layover, as well as swapping out planes for intense maintenance. This is why your hub layover doesn't have a pre-determined terminal for your second leg flight...it can and regularly will change if a plane needs to be swapped out for maintenance.

A spoke city will have neither transfer operations nor maintenance operations. A minihub might have transfer operations but not maintenance operations (I've explained these are only viable regionally in other comments). But a full hub will have both.
> Quite possible; is there any aspect of the experience with iPods or other standalone players that is lost using multifunction digital media devices like smartphones?

Battery life. Having a device with a known, dedicated use (as a psychological difference, rather than a strictly practical one). Handling the most common operations by touch, rather than actually pulling it out to use a clumsy touchscreen.
It's probably a vast problem to analyse, but I can sense tangible negative side effects. Even though I don't use it that often, it does tickle a part of my brain that distort the sense of time and creativity. You become a passive consumer of idea and social validation, both of which (at least in my case) are shallow incarnation of the real ones (creating and having meaningful social bonds)

it's surprising that something "liberating" ends up backfiring that way, not that surprising but still a bit considering how hyped up it was not long ago.
This has been how I've seen it for a while as well! It's really hard to convince me that something is decentralized when, like you said, I have to verify my identity on a third party exchange to acquire them. I mean, obviously you could store them locally on a wallet and get them from a friend or something but the fact that these gigantic exchanges came from nowhere seems to indicate that it's not as easy to decentralize money as they'd like us to believe.
I've flown on 737s for years & recently flew on a couple 10 hour flights on a 787, and mostly I like those planes well enough. My most miserable flying experience was on a couple 14 hour flights on a 747. I think short haul flights on a 737 never bother because they are short. The 787 flights were nice because the plane was new, and the person in front of me didn't recline their seat into my space. Maybe I just don't like long haul flights on old & crowded planes, which the 747 most certainly was.
What I've seen are short fences at best. Barely enough to stop a paraplegic. Gates are possible to build, not to mention a lot of the Rio Grande wouldn't need anything built near it because of the natural geography and the sheer cliffs that are practically unscalable.
This is the paper from the winners of the Tox21 Challenge: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fenvs.2015.0008.... (fun fact: one of the authors is the inventor of the LSTM)
“... a stupid political game he didn’t even realize he was playing.”

Bullshit! He’s smart enough to work at Google but didn’t realize he was playing a stupid game? I am glad that his life is ruined and that he is toxic and non-hirable. I hope this lawsuit doesn’t go anywhere (very likely since Google has all the money, resources and motivation to crush it).
Yeah but then why advocate for low skilled immigrants from low-IQ population pools? And why not immigrants from similar cultures? Why not select for only intelligent immigrants? There are plenty of struggling and war torn nations that are predominantly white. And plenty of educated and intelligent people of all races that I guarantee you most so called "white/GOP racists" won't mind importing, intermingling with or increasing the population of.

The demographic change can be stopped. You simply need to stop protecting, defending, subsidizing and encouraging the unproductive and uncontrolled breeding of low-quality individuals. They bring nothing but suffering to those that they bring into this life.
> The platform allows users to run high-end video games on Nvidia's machines, and stream the game to any computer with minimal lag. The idea is that users will be able to play games on their computers, even if they aren't wielding the latest graphics card and processor.

So, OnLive again? I think I'll pass..
Bitcoin is teaching libertarians everything they don’t know about economics
> You're joking, right?

No, I'm dead serious, the alt right is not literally reptilians, they hold the vast majority of common moral opinions. The body of things that you and they could agree on is enormous, you can't dismiss somebody simply because the alt-right doesn't disagree with them.

> These guys elected the sexual-assaulter-in-chief.

So did I, and millions of others. The alt-right is a supreme minority in the United States, they do not have the numbers to elect the President, this is hysterical.
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As a rule, the heavier your particles, the harder it is to get quantum mechanics behavior out of them. You won't see atoms forming Bose-Einstein condensates at anything you can cool with liquid nitrogen.
I wouldn't be surprised if he gets a fast 7 figure settlement.
Conservatives/Populists groups are literally salivating for discovery to nail google on other things.

EDIT:
Also reminder some googlers kept politically motivated blacklists, if those blacklists were on company computers, Google will be hammered for it.
Discovery could go wrong for Google in a million ways.

https://www.inc.com/sonya-mann/google-manifesto-blacklists.h...
Let's try changing the URL to that from https://groups.google.com/forum/m/#!topic/mechanical-sympath....

I don't like obscuring the original domain but agree that Google Groups URLs posted to HN have consistently been annoying.