skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For context, one should note that the word "neuroticism" is not used as a regular English word, but is one of the "Big Five" traits in psychology, which comes from factor analysis of personality surveys. Its "definition" would be something like "An underlying quality that correlates with answering 'Agree/Strongly Agree' on these questions and 'Disagree/Strongly Disagree' on those questions". Damore did not note this in his memo, which made the statement more offensive than it should have been.

With that established, if we go to Wikipedia...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroticism#Age,_sex_and_geogr...

"A 2013 review found that groups associated with higher levels of neuroticism are young adults who are at high risk for mood disorders and women.[22]

For sex, the same review found that "research in large samples has shown that levels of N (neuroticism) are higher in women than men. This is a robust finding that is consistent across cultures. This is especially the case during the reproductive years, but is also visible in children and elderly." It furthermore said that EEG responses showed clear differences between the sexes in individuals with high N levels, but no functional MRI studies have yet been performed to investigate the differences in sex regarding N. However, there is a reason to suspect physiological differences to play a role because of previous studies that showed for example, a correlation between the size of the subgenual anterior cingulate cortex and N in female teenagers, so "the issue of sex differences in N and the implications for understanding N’s neurobiological basis deserve more detailed and systematic investigation."[22] A 2010 review found personality differences between genders to be between "small and moderate," the largest of those differences being in the traits of agreeableness and neuroticism.[37] Many personality traits were found to have had larger personality differences between men and women in developed countries compared to less developed countries, and differences in three traits—extraversion, neuroticism, and people-versus-thing orientation—showed differences that remained consistent across different levels of economic development, which is also consistent with the "possible influence of biologic factors."[37] Three cross-cultural studies have revealed higher levels of female neuroticism across almost all nations.[37]"

The abstracts of both of the cited studies are visible, though the full articles seem to be behind paywalls.
Just because initially, women worked on computers doesn't indicate to me whether they were more or less suited to the job. People just thought of it as women's work. They were the typists and human "computers"
What do you think is missing at the moment? Ubuntu has a simple setup page, so you don't need extra software https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MultiseatTeam/Instructions

There's also a number of companies selling desktop terminals you can connect to anything running NX. (Or some other server)
It's a bit disingenuous to draw parallels between 24x7 electronic trading operations and javascript web cowboys.
That's exactly how I feel about software ever since I got acquainted with windows 10. Do you best to remove all the junk. Then they keep reinstalling their "malware" until they finally remove the option of disabling or removing their malware.

It feels like we are losing more control and access over tech - both software and hardware. Some companies are trying their best to turn tech into a black box which we aren't allowed to peer into.
Intramuscular. I'm not willing to set a cath on myself :)
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I think this is definitely the case. Have a browse over Stack Overflow. Most of the questions are asking very specific things and getting very specific answers. Rarely is the context explained properly by either party. People use these questions for future reference, which results in them just trying random stuff until it works. If it doesn't work, they just revert the code and go on to the next question instead of learning why.
>purely-intuitive proofs would be just fine if one could share one's mental state with another.

No, I have had purely intuitive proofs myself that turned out to be wrong.
Are we sure that stenographers and typists were not counted as programmers in the 80?
I dream of the day I'm happy and productive enough with one set of tools that I refuse to switch to another. I still largely feel like I'm wandering the desert when it comes to tooling, where a new toolset looks good from a distance but when I start using it I discovered the ugly underside and start looking for greener pastures.
Not just that but nurturing that differences be settled by violence with one war after another, mass media showing how mass shooters get attention and they keep a high score list, and both parents or guardians too busy to raise their kids so the kids run in the streets and learn from gangs and criminals shown on the news as getting as famous as heroes. We are showing the worst of humanity and rewarding it with attention and fame.
> If they are completely qualified, they should and would be hired by a system that completely ignores gender and race.

I can't believe you were downvoted for expressing that merit rather than race and gender should be use for hiring decisions.
Why bother with multi-seat when you can get a decent SoC computer like a Raspberry Pi Zero W for $5? If multi-seat is an option for you, you probably aren't doing anything highly CPU or GPU intensive anyway.
> You would lose the legal right to use any patents which Facebook might (or might not!) have on React.

So a poker bluff that would be Russian roulette without an expensive comprehensive patent search (and researching their patents itself increases your liability; reading about all the ones that you later determine didn't cover React subjects you to triple damages if they covered any of your other tech).

Facebook could also have acquired existing patents at a later date from other companies and individuals and use them go after you if you triggered the revoke terms, so you had to search all patents ever, not just ones that Facebook filed or owned during your initial decision to use the library. You could argue you have to do that anyway, but keeping with the poker bluff analogy, Facebook could know of the patent already, have undisclosed terms that prevented React licensees from being sued by the holder, and have a pre-negotiated option to buy the rights during a licensee revoke event.
I disagree. We currently have 5 SaaS companies. We are finding that we are writing lesser and lesser code. Most of our services have 300-500 lines of code and a product is composed of 5-6 such services. We've not found any difficulty in selling it but yea some niches are crowded with tons of competition. I do both backend and frontend for SaaS at my company.
is there a link that is ad-blocker friendly? Would appreciate content that was available.
I think that was later.
> more or less suited

I would say "more or less preferred" is a more relevant and less acerbic metric to consider.

I think James Damore's main thesis (or one of his main theses) was that men had more of a natural and biologically driven preference to work with things/machines. So if women were placed in these positions, it detracts from the narrative that "something mysterious happened in the 80s that caused women to flee the computer industry".
That amounts to ~50% of the ~2000 population :(
Perhaps, yet having to type it every time (I ALWAYS know the correct spelling, for my whole life I have been wondering how do people actually manage to misspell English words, even though English is not my first language ans I have actually had to study it from scratch at the school) is extremely annoying and discouraging, kicking me out of the flow state quickly. I just wonder how much less efficient recognition is compared to recall.
I'm not surprised, React Native doesn't work nearly as well as you'd think. This is basically a piece of software you'd have to give away (IMHO).
If you Google 'NLRB advice memo', one of the top hits is a page NLRB maintains of a feed of new memos, sorted by date. A google one is at the top.
What you propose breaks completely as soon as you want to define and use abstract types.
The video of him burning it on youtube is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jxRnodaKzE

Also, umatrix seems to make the page load fine.
I don't agree. It took me multiple years to really wrap my head around building web pages (to say nothing of apps) in PHP. There's just too much h*ckin' stuff in the web that you have to be aware of and being able to build stores of relevant information is definitely in some ways easier--Stack Overflow exists--but in others, thanks to the volume of crap you just have to chew through, it is much more difficult.
Perhaps you are on a wrong platform?

pacaur -S rust
pacaur -S visual-studio-code-bin

Then I start coding.
> the Employer determined that certain portions of the Charging Party’s memorandum violated existing policies on harassment and discrimination

> The Employer has a legitimate, lawful policy prohibiting race and sex discrimination and harassment in its workplace.

> An employer’s good-faith efforts to enforce its lawful anti-discrimination or anti-harassment policies must be afforded particular deference in light of the employer’s duty to comply with state and federal
EEO laws

> Where an employee’s conduct significantly disrupts work processes, creates a hostile work environment, or constitutes racial or sexual discrimination or
harassment, the Board has found it unprotected even if it involves concerted activities regarding working conditions
except with BASIC you turned on the computer and literally the first thing you saw was a prompt where you could type your program. The whole point of this article is that downloading and installing python to the point where you can contemplate typing your program is a big barrier.
Neat, but why don't you use lynx?
I hope you weren't too smug about knowing to turn on the monitor. I can't remember the last time I've had to do so. Remember, there are no intuitive interfaces, only familiar ones.
Not to mention 'chivalry', 'chivalrous', from Old French word chevalerie, "knighthood, chivalry, nobility, cavalry" (11th century), the -erie abstract of chevaler "knight, horseman", from Medieval Latin caballarius (“horseman, knight”), a derivation from caballus (“horse”).
> If facebook bleeds enough users, maybe they'll become motivated to change

By that point, they'll he on their last leg, and we'll be worrying about the next social network.
His ultimate conclusion is that biological differences explain, at least by enough to reconsider diversity efforts, the difference in self selection into programming. Given that conclusion, your reading is even less charitable than mine. Under that reading, he’s literally just throwing out an unrelated difference between men and women, then asserting that’s why men disproportionately choose programming. Classic: premise -> ??? -> conclusion.

Reading his memo charitably, I think he’s assuming that cooperativeness contraindicates for programming preference, so at least he has a complete chain of reasoning, even if that assumption is wrong:

Women -> cooperative; cooperative -/-> programming; women -/-> programming.
There's a sense of loss in that for many of us who were born into a world where, once you bought something, you owned it.

Now, you often buy only a license to use something until the company that made it decides not to let you use it anymore.

In some sense, we live at the mercy of people we've never met.
More importantly, you have more protection with the BSD+Patent Grant than with BSD alone.

With BSD alone, if you infringe on a Facebook patent then you are vulnerable to legal action from Facebook if they deem that you’ve infringed your patent. And regardless of wether you’d infringed or not, such action would still cost a lot of money to fight in court and would cripple most businesses.

People who claim it risks giving up their IP are ignoring the brutal truth that software patents are shit, and if you’re in the software business you’re pretty much guaranteed to be infringing someone elses bullshit patent.

The BSD+Patent Grant was designed to combat the patent trolls, but people lost their minds and now it’s gone.

The BSD licence is objectively worse than the BSD+Patent Grant. If you opposed it, then the only people you’ve helped are the patent trolls.
For Python, just try Anaconda/miniconda https://conda.io/docs/user-guide/index.html
If healthcare was cheap then no one would need insurance?
@cshenton 's answer is not perfect. The "var u = 1.0<<s" in go spec is illegal is because s is a variable, so 1.0 will be deduced as a flaot64. However, in "x[1.0 << s]", s is a constant, so 1.0 will be deduced as int.
Yup, I had no problem.

Spoiler: he does light the sphere on fire. Surprisingly relatively slow burn.
I disagree. These skills might be applicable to a Software Engineering degree, but not Computer Science.
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The irony being that the Apache license has an identical clause.
Look, it's an issues page, and it's one-man free software. He's a few days late with the update for a free piece of software, so what? The dude's earning $11 a month on Patreon. Give him a damn break.

Not to be grumpy to you, but I'd like to defend him. He's got an extremely noble goal. Those that "get it" really get it, and those that don't don't. I'm fed up with using several different shitty closed source apps that take up gigs of ram at a time, and I've tried to write my own version of what he's done, and I've failed at it. It's incredibly hard. Particularly because the companies are locked in a neverending cat and mouse trying to stop apps like this.

Also, based on everything I've seen off of RAM/CPU usage while running there's absolutely no way he's using an embedded webpage. I'd be happy to be corrected here though.
> Google is now a firm part of establishment

They have been for a while now. They have a deal with the washingtonpost and nytimes to "feature" those two newspapers on google news and search. Check the waybackmachine and see how frequently washingtonpost and nytimes articles were on google news five years ago to now. It's incredible how prominently those two newspapers, but especially washingtonpost, are promoted on google now.

It also extends to their other properties like youtube. Look how heavily they are promoting kimmel, john oliver and other late night shows now.

But it applies to almost all of tech. The pressure put on tech by the establishment and their propaganda organs was too much.

Even HN is openly supporting the washingtonpost, nytimes and the establishment. I believe the mods called it "the standard". A "hacker" news site supporting establishment mouth pieces. Years ago, washingtonpost and the nytimes were scorned by HN. It's amazing how things change.
This is a sensible move, I think.

Of all the cryptocurrencies, ETH at least has a story about why it might have intrinsic value in the medium-term, beyond pure speculative passion: i.e. its use as a platform for smart contracts. But that potential only gets realised if more people use it for more significant purposes, rather than just for functionless ICOs or trivial games.

On the other hand, if this injection can help ETH grow this year, the backers of this fund should more than make their money back.

It's going to be an interesting year, I think. It's easy to shout bubble bubble bubble, and easy to shout buy buy buy. My hunch is that the reality will be more interesting than either.
I know when not, when the decompression needs to be done in an interrupt routine. I just did a "run or delta" system for GCODE. Being decoded in a micro-controller interrupt routine I could not quite the dictionary based routines to run quite fast enough or in small enough ram.
Can you please be specific.

Point to exact quotes, not your own interpretation of what he writes.

That makes it easier to discuss.
I think this is on the roadmap but I'm not sure the priority. Check out this proposal https://gist.github.com/sdboyer/def9b138af448f39300cb078b0e9...

EDIT: Found the proposal on the dep roadmap: https://github.com/golang/dep/wiki/Roadmap
Negative experiences with windows are shared, because windows is proprietary, and therefore consistent. This entire thread is about one of them.

I haven't had any negative experience with CUPS, and if I had, that wouldn't define my experience with GNU/Linux.

I don't have an issue with you sharing experiences. I do get frustrated when those experiences are used to define GNU/Linux to those who haven't experienced it at all.

There are too many people who hear that GNU/Linux is not for them, when it is really a fantastic alternative to windows. There's an attitude that free software will always fail people (which is not true), and I find that attitude not simply unfortunate, but malicious.

The way that things improve is for manufacturers to see demand; and that won't happen if people don't see free software as the viable alternative that it is.
Neither law nor accounting are better than the tech industry when you put everything together. Medicine might be as good and is already having record level of females.
Given that Breitbart, Stephen Molynieux, etc, all basically support the least charitable interpretation of the memo (that women are genetically less predisposed to engineering), his active association with them makes the claim that the memo was a good-faith attempt to improve diversity rather hard to swallow.

Examples:

http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2017/08/14/haidt-google-memo-c...

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/06/15/heres-why...
Isn't their crypto implementation still private?
There’s definitely zero hype left in Blockchain.
They're coming for you next. Soon behaving ethically will be insufficient, you'll be required to make public statements in support of the party or be presumed to be with the enemy.
The problem is figuring out what to do when the little green play arrow doesn't do anything or is grayed out for whatever reason. Fixing that probably requires a bit of knowledge of both the language toolchain and the particular IDE. Typing "python" at a command line and getting a prompt can certainly seem easier.
The reactions that were most amplified likely included some namecalling, but I saw a lot of well-reasoned and detailed takedowns of the pseudoscience in the memo.

[citation needed]

Among the "pseudoscience" in the memo is one of the most important results in psychology of recent years.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKmyO3hbOz8

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Five_personality_traits#Ge...

The study cited as "The Scandinavian Paradox" was across 55 countries and is one of the statistically strongest results in the social sciences, flat-out.
This seems like an interesting discussion to continue, weighing the deference the memo mentioned to the employer's policy against the fact that they ultimately make their own determination (which they must, of course, make to avoid abusive or spurious claims of harassment). Sadly, I'm too tired to continue right now. Perhaps another time.
Gender stereotypes are sometimes supported by fact (even if they may primarily came into being by anecdote or plain ____ism). When they are, it is not fair to dismiss someone as "advancing gender stereotypes" whenever they make an "on average"-type claim (based on evidence) that happens to align with a gender stereotype; the problem comes when you forget the "on average" part of it (which he did not seem to).
Twitterrific is on sale right now in the Mac App Store for eight bucks. Both it and Tweetbot are great native Mac Twitter apps and are so much better than the web interface.
To get started with Javascript, the only compiler you need to download is a web browser.
You might have this core assumption, I and many others don't and since it is only an assumption I don't see any problem in questioning it. I find women and men very different in their cognitive ability, in terms of creativity and in terms of temperament. I am just not stupid enough like this Google guy to admit it in public because I don't want the backlash but I got no problem saying it anonymously. That's how you wake up one day with Trump as your president.
I'm curious - if I have a clean browser history(no Facebook login ever), and Facebook still tracks me, how does that information benefit Facebook?

Alternatively, how does it affect me?
> The 'biological differences' argument falls flat because it implies that somehow women changed on a biological level between 1984 and today.

This article has an alternative explanation as for why:

http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/08/07/contra-grant-on-exagger...

Without implying there was any biological change at all - rather that other fields that were shut off to women (medicine, law etc) become more open.

It's a long read, but provides some interesting food for thought.
>>> I think this is a side effect of teaching programming as a career skill. You have people that want to be programmers but don't include "computing" as one of their hobbies.

It may be the result of the competitiveness of the education system. Everything is more competitive. As I understand things, CS is the hottest undergraduate major right now. You can't just sign up because you learned to program in high school and think it's cool. You have to be a top student just to get admitted. So it may be that the kids who want to be computer scientists just aren't able to have hobbies at all, or their hobbies are chosen to look good on their college applications.

One of the things I've noticed between then and now, is that when I was in high school, I learned programming because I had a lot of spare time to kill. My kids have no spare time.

>>> Teaching these skills in CS curriculum would probably be a good idea.

Granted, I didn't study CS, but instead math & physics, decades ago. But I think that some things don't belong in a college curriculum, especially given the price tag. I didn't take college courses to learn soldering, or even programming.

But also, not all CS majors are destined to become hackers, and there has to be room for a student who might be all thumbs but really has a deep interest in the subject matter of the field. In physics, we called them "theoreticians."

A deeper question is why someone is studying theoretical computer science for 4 years in order to become a coder. Programming is getting harder, but that much harder? When my mom taught programming in the early 80s, her students were getting jobs after one year of coursework.
Just eat your nutella. Just Indonesia is 260M people, approaching the population of the US. Palm oil is the cheapest and most widely used oil in all of South East Asia. From what I'm told, Palm is very efficient and produces a lot of oil and isn't necessarily bad. The issue is corrupt governments failing to preserve their people's natural heritage as plantations encroach on nature. I doubt a few Europeans cutting down on nutella will make much of a difference when the people in SEA consume huge quantities of it themselves.

I checked out the orangutans in Sumatra and you can see the palm plantations encroaching into the jungle. Locals told me they consume a lot of the river water and makes the entire area warmer. Although the area had the fortune of being a natural reserve, I still saw trucks grabbing aggregate from parts of the river that were not included. Oh and if you were in SEA around 2 years ago, the ridiculous haze was from people burning wetlands to plant more palm. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southeast_Asian_haze
I found these confusing myself, but I would be interested to know if anyone else who didn't understand these algorithms before was able to learn them based on these diagrams?