skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It's as though someone should investigate this question before embarking on programs to shift the distribution to arbitrary places.

If the status quo is 90/10 or worse, I don't agree: 50/50 is the null hypothesis. The null hypothesis can certainly be disproven, but the amount of evidence needed to hold a belief that 50/50 is probably correct is much smaller than the amount of evidence needed to hold a belief that 90/10 is probably correct. I don't think the right approach is "We should let the status quo stay indefinitely until we've convinced ourself of what the right number is" - if we have evidence that the status quo is potentially right, that evidence should be plenteous and easy to gather.

(That said, I do agree that programs focused on improving "the pipeline" and getting more girls interested in STEM are misguided and it would be better to focus on removing the barriers that cause women already interested in STEM careers to leave. But that's a little bit of a different subject.)
> On a moral level, Trump is literally one of the worst human beings on the planet.

You just lose people with this hysterical hyperbole
Given a choice, more women than men will go for non-STEM careers, so in rich countries you will find way more STEM-proficient men than women. This has been known for quite some time.

But take care not to mention this at workplaces where they use diversity hiring practices to try to artificially and unfairly inflate their percentage of women compared to the field as a whole.

It will get you fired.
> Claiming that men and women just have different criteria, and thus the problem should be ignored entirely completely misses the point.

OP did not draw that conclusion.
There is a tragic ambiguity in the memo. There is a line that says women may not be suitable for all tech jobs. There is another that clearly says it's tech that isn't suitable to women, and can change to accommodate them. His opponents are sure he meant the former, and his supporters are sure he meant the latter. Still others believe that any hint of biological essentialism whatsoever must not be tolerated. So it is quite difficult to determine to anyone's satisfaction whether what he wrote was 'worse'.
Possibly has to do with wealth? When you have little, you have to prioritize finding a job that pays as much as you can possibly make. STEM jobs top that list easily. If you have a lot, pursuing a more leisurely or personally rewarding job is possible.

My family came to the US as fairly poor immigrants from Portugal. My mother worked at the time, went to college at night to earn more, which was unusual then. She didn't this out of some sense of pride or feminism, but because she simply had to. The area where I lived had other poor immigrants from Romania, Armenia, Soviet Union, etc. and many of the mothers worked very hard outside the home as well.
My point, which I didn't convey entirely well, is that you can't use downvotes as a signal because there is no agreed upon criteria for when they should be used. Don't agree with the comment? Downvote is fine. Don't think the comment is on topic? Downvote. Have an emotional response to the comment? Downvote. I'm not sure how you can pull signal out of that noise.

Very, very carefully and with a low statistical confidence level, relying quite heavily on other factors to inform your conclusions.

As stated above, I think it is problematic to ignore them entirely. I don't see how I could state that more clearly.

I'm aware that I generally think a great deal more about social stuff than most people I meet. I'm aware I do sometimes overthink it and sometimes the answer is "Someone fat fingered it and there really is no social signalling to be derived from it."
It's possible and even likely that Google did react -- it is enough for people to google "schnitzler's syndrome" and click the link to rarediseases.org -- as google does track which result people choose, and rank it higher for the future (for different searches as well).

It's also likely that "hives elevated IgM" is the right search in retrospect; Before diagnosis, the search would likely have been more along the lines of "hives weight loss elevated leukocyte elevated IgM fever rashes at night" which likely didn't point as easily to schnitzler's syndrome (or maybe it did, I don't know).

The info was distilled and purified for this article. It likely wasn't that well presented to start with - in my experience, that's the case for many rare diseases: once you know what it is, it is clear that in retrospect you should have seen it all along. But that's just 20/20 hindsight.
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I wonder if it's that fewer females prefer STEM, or is it that more men are doing things they would prefer not to?
I can’t speak for everyone, but this isn’t true at all for me. I have disagreed with large chunks of the policies of every president in my lifetime, and voted for presidents of both parties. I’ve never doubted that any of them loved this country and took their oath of office seriously.

I have zero faith that our current president cares about anything beyond himself and his image. Zero.

And I’m not alone. A shocking number of conservative writers and thinkers believe Trump represents a fundamental threat to democracy. Behind closed doors, even many of his ardent public supporters have no respect or faith in him.
So now lawsuits concern themselves with what a man really thinks?
Project Loon team gave Puerto Rico connectivity–and assembled a helicopter
How does that explain the difference between countries with more vs less gender equality?
A Django project base for mobile applications APIs
I recommend using another game-engine then- that uses lua.
Unfortunately- the illusion that you can present a clean environment will be shattered rather swift, once one of them goes out to research for documentation and ends in any dev irc-channel.

These guys can live on code, hentai and ramen alone for months- and that is not a clichee.

My suggestion is to introduce a safe version of code and documentation via a repository and offer to get them any library they via that central repo.

Yes its more preparation work, but its going to keep the project alive.
Men have massive school problems and the one field we’re focusing on is STEM. Please everyone, look at the chart of men/female ratio at university since 1980 (hint: men are a minority at uni, hitting 1/3 in the nect years) and explain me why, for $1 spent on females in STEM, we don’t spend $10 on males at university?

Men are systematically forgotten in every single « equality » program. Case in point :

> Women in STEM complain that...

Have we EVER interviewed men in STEM in this whole story ? How do they feel abour the recognition of their skills and hard work ? Oh, yeah, the last one who « talked » was James Damore.

Edit: Thanks for the downvotes. I totally feel men are going to be listened to, I totally feel we’re on an equal basis with how women’s problems are equal to men’s problems. Men can go fuck themselves in this society, that’s all I witness.

Oh is that a surprise that mens commit suicide at 4x the pace of women? Sure that can’t be because we tell them to fuck off?
The most important cities (culturally and economically) are, at least, left-leaning.

That's not a coincidence. It's a direct product of cosmopolitanism. The cities that represent it most clearly are its capitals. Like any working system, it has rules. If you want the benefits, you need to play be the rules. If you don't, you're free to leave. Goodness knows your apartment won't go unfilled for long.
> we've like already imported most lisp features into modern languages anyway

This makes it sound as if there are no modern lisps.

What's the big deal of using a lispy language? Do other languages really need to desperately try to reimplement features that come more naturally to lispy languages? Are parentheses (only the round ones) really that much of a deterrent to motivate excessive work like that?

I'm very happy with Guile and Racket.
the same social status as say the Law, Medicine are might help

Don’t forget the impact of offshoring/outsourcing. Male or female, I couldn’t in good faith recommend tech as a career choice for any young person right now. Go into something that has to be delivered in person and/or is protected by regulators. If I were young now I’d be looking at a skilled trade - a good tradesman or woman makes as much or more than most programmers, esp if they become a foreperson or other supervisory role.
Good luck explaining that to a judge who demands to know why the AI made the decisions that caused an accident, and what exactly the manufacturer is doing to prevent it from happening again.
Are you secretly promoting Elixir/Erlang, or am I misreading what you mean with 'agents' in this case?
Cancer seeps in.
That's just silliness.
Yes. If you feel differently, and you are a woman then I highly encourage you to become more involved with activism because that is the only way to make your voice and opinions heard.

It is not fair that all womens' positions have been decided by activists, and many women in tech have specifically noted this issue. However, activism is available for any individual interested in it.
As to distribution, there are some fundamental biological differences that explain the skew that have been discovered. The largest pertinent difference being aptitude for mechanical reasoning in the general population.

> 3233 young and old adolescents representative of the population

> For the young adolescents, the observed difference in Mechanical Reasoning is equivalent to 10 IQ points, and this difference increases to 13 IQ points for the old adolescents.

> Beyond the observed small average sex difference in the general factor of intelligence (g), the boys' large advantage in mechanical reasoning (MR) must be strongly underscored. This sex difference is not explained by g, and therefore the probable contributions of what is measured by relevant subtests such as abstract reasoning (AR) or spatial relations (SR) can be excluded. The MR difference is still present with almost the same magnitude when the general factor of intelligence (g) is removed. It is also noteworthy that, for the old adolescents, more than half of the variance associated with numerical reasoning (NR) cannot be attributed to g. Thus, we suggest that mental processes captured by these psychological measures are behind the documented male advantage in STEM disciplines

http://atavisionary.com/study-index/intelligence-psychometri...

This means that, at the average point in the distribution, the average everday man has a one standard deviation edge in measurements of mechanical reasoning over the average everyday woman. This explains why you would see such a large skew in the field of engineering.
Why is Google shifting towards hardware?
What if the AI drove the car into a pedestrian? The pedestrian didn't consent to letting the AI drive.
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That's not unusual, historically some software had prototypes in Lisp. Some managed to get into production. Some even proved very hard to replace.

But that was at a time when more people learned Lisp, there was less choice in tools and the eco-systems were smaller. In the 70s/80s one could buy ten years into the future with the right hardware/software and government/military was financing.

Take for example the Connection Machine CM 1, an early massive-parallel computer with 2^16 processors. It was initially developed largely for and with Lisp. You could program it in *Lisp from a Lisp Machine - one of the most expensive co-processors. Fortran and C was added then for certain commercial users. Very expensive stuff and at least ten years ahead.

Today the landscape looks different.
> Disparity in computer science education in Western countries puts women at a massive economic disadvantage

How so?

> is a major geopolitical risk

How so?

> Arguing that women naturally prefer non-STEM fields is sexist and dangerous

How so?

> Helping drive up the numbers of women and other underrepresented populations in CS should be a major priority for developed countries.

Why? People should do what they want to do, not what you think they should be doing.
I have observed a female student, super talented in math/programming (IMO/ICPC), to choose finances instead, as a teacher (male) was once saying to her that programming/math don't pay well and have low prestige and finances give easier, secure life. I can't say I had much sympathies to her choice after that, experiencing first time typical female stereotypes about mostly caring about money.
DeepMind and others are trying. "Hassabis said the company is now planning to apply an algorithm based on AlphaGo Zero to other domains with real-world applications, starting with protein folding."

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-10-18/deepmind-...
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> In countries with the highest levels of gender equality, where women are least likely to experience any of these negative forces

The data does not support correlating those two. "Gender equality" in this report refers to the factors in Table 1 at http://reports.weforum.org/global-gender-gap-report-2016/mea... , which is about things like life expectancy and number of female politicians and salary - not about disrespect, unrightful criticism, and scrutiny in technical fields on the basis of sex.
James! You are fired!
Because it's false if you consider the entire human population. You can argue that women in US & Europe prefer non-STEM fields but generalizing to all of women is logically false because of numbers in China and other developing countries with large populations.
I think you may have misread the article. It does not present the data you think it does.

> In countries with the highest levels of gender equality, where women are least likely to experience any of these negative forces

That is absolutely not what a high level of gender equality means. Countries that have "higher levels of gender equality" do not guarantee or even suggest any likelihood of not having these negative forces in a girl or woman's life. (I would privately posit that it may be the opposite, in fact - that perhaps those countries would find that in private home lives, those forces are as strong or stronger than elsewhere. But I don't know this, I'm speculating on that point.)

Often the forces in a person's life are from close friends or their family - these are not measured in this article and certainly have an impact on how people choose their careers and interests in life.

You also made up the idea that they are "self-selecting" to not be a part of the system. The article does not make that claim - you did, out of thin air.
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CoCs are useful for coordination among large, non-local, diverse communities.

Have you considered that instead of "purposefully want[ing] to stir up discord" for funding the rules are meant to reduce the incidence of actual harassment/abuse? Or to promote inclusivity?

How does an articulation of values "stir up discord?" I can point you to numerous examples of harassment and inequity in the tech community. Can you point me to an example of "discord" brought about by better rules of conduct? Or to this funding that you mention?
I'm trying to find time, among many blockers that I have to take a look at Vega Lite - as another alternative/addition to kibana or grafana, also last night found DejaVu - https://github.com/appbaseio/dejavu - and yes, JSON schema comes off often enough, since we moved a lot of our configuration there, and hated or not XML had the XSD sanity...
I agreed with the closing of the article, that it tasted like dessert - the most chocolate shake-like of protein drinks. I consider that a negative, though, as it packs in the damned calories accordingly. If I’m taking my protein in supplement form, i want max protein/calorie.

OnWhey double chocolate tastes pretty decent too, especially with some frozen banana or berries blended in, but doesn’t carry the unnecessary calories that MM does.
Your requirements are pretty generic, and are met by every cloud provider. You have some choices to make in terms of whether you want more of a PaaS (Elastic Beanstalk, App Engine, Heroku) vs CaaS/IaaS approach (EC2).

That said, DO is something I still use and like today. What's your main motivation for switching?
i remember when muscle milk first came out ~10 years ago and all the frat boys could afford it and i couldn't. i remember having one or two and being impressed with how good it tasted relative to my homespun concoctions. now 10 years later ample disposable income to sample around i realize muscle milk was just the first to make protein shakes palatable. now it's barely above revolting relative to lots of other brands.
Your rule 3 would probably create a looooot of drama.

So, attempt failed.
The OP did not draw any conclusion besides claiming that what we are doing is bad. I assumed this meant we should not do anything, because doing something is "artificial".

If they don't feel that way, they are free to correct my assumption.
Maybe women that are free to choose more often don't want to graduate in STEM.
"Unfortunately the [group engaging in negative activity] is also almost entirely comprised of [x]." where x is some immutable or deeply personal characteristic, is advancing an offensive stereotype.
One suspects that "engineers" (are we talking actual engineers? or those who write software?) are not so central to the beneficial functioning of society as this theory assumes.

If you meant those who drive locomotives, then I withdraw my suspicion. They are important.
I think that's a poor interpretation.

Yes, putting the two words "fake" and "news" together into a Google search happened prior to pizzagate. But the term "fake news" as it's understood now came about as a result of the propaganda that was spread during the election and only recently became part of our lexicon, lexicon meaning common usage.

Fake news was not part of our lexicon well before pizzagate.

Pizzagate refers to one instance of fake news, but fake news cannot be used in place of the phrase. I would say the term may have been pushed in place of "propaganda" since media outlets wanted to distance themselves from the tactics, but pizzagate cannot be used to refer to any fake news in general.

Had there been no pizzagate we would still be discussing fake news, as it is only one of a multitude of examples.
OK then, what does it mean?
Even if we do conclusively find that women on average prefer non STEM careers, I think for the good of our society, we should still make an effort to entice more women into STEM who otherwise would not. Not for dime immediate social justice reason, but because the advancement and progress of our own society needs more STEM grads, if we don't produce our own, we'll have to import them, which we should not have to, if we could develop policies of encouragement.
Not everything has to be spelled out. He wrote an article 17 years ago declaring Lisp a secret weapon. If it were, wouldn’t you expect the passage of time to prove his point? Or it would mean that everybody else is kind of dumb for not noticing this secret weapon in almost 2 decades :)
Instead of a proxy that does MITM, how about one that uses SNI instead and does TCP-passthru if the domain is not on the blacklist?
I've had a similar experience. I had symptoms for which I saw several doctors and eventually went to ER and was repeatedly just told by them and everybody else "it's just stress." Finally, I went to a specialist and they diagnosed my condition accurate and immediately. I don't even have any side-effects any more because now that I actually know what my condition is, I changed my diet accordingly. No drugs or anything, all I needed was someone to tell me what my condition is and that has improved my life immensely.
His argument proposed that women are biologically less capable than men to perform certain software-associated tasks[1]. I could find more questionable positions but have attached a copy of the memo below.

Women on average show a higher interest in people and men in things. We can make software engineering more people-oriented with pair programming and more collaboration. Unfortunately, there may be limits to how people-oriented certain roles at Google can be and we shouldn't deceive ourselves or students into thinking otherwise (some of our programs to get female students into coding might be doing this).

More men may like coding because it requires systemizing and even within SWEs, comparatively more women work on front end, which deals with both
people and aesthetics.

Another point he raised was that Google's hiring initiatives 'lower the bar' for their targeted groups.

Google has created several
discriminatory practices: [...]
Hiring practices which can effectively lower the bar
for “diversity” candidates by decreasing the false negative rate

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20170809220001/https://diversity...
If I (male) had a chance to be on a permanent comfortable welfare, I would probably spend more time playing games, doing sports, socializing, traveling etc. instead of being in a noisy office with bad light around desperate people I often dislike, whipped by my boss in a constant rat race, being refused bonuses for great performance as a new car/boat/house is of a sudden interest to my superior.
Where are you coming up with these claims? First of all, the article is talking about gender equality and not social safety nets (although the two may be correlated). But more importantly, the countries with more gender equality tend to also have more equal paternity/maternity leave. Look up Norway and Sweden policies, for example.
I don't know that yet, but we should jump on the crypto bandwagon and make an ICO for it.
What is "mechanical reasoning"? That paper gives examples of two standardized test questions about pulleys and levers - intuition about that sort of thing is important for some parts of STEM, sure, but I'm not sure it's a skill I've ever used in software engineering, except maybe when plugging in a second monitor on a crowded desk.

There are fundamental biological differences, sure. What do those fundamental biological differences mean for specific career fields and why - and given the mean and standard deviation, which presumably we have, what's the right number, if it's not 50/50?
There may be millions of diverse people and opinions but there is definitely a dominant ideology, it is definitely far-left, and it suppresses all other political viewpoints.

This is absolutely blindingly self-evident in SF and if you disagree I wonder if you have actually been there.
I am building my own terminal emulator on the side, not very seriously: https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/scurvy

I'm not particularly interested in extending ANSI any further than, say, xterm. I do have big plans for Sway and the rest of the ecosystem, though. I am working on a GUI toolkit: https://github.com/SirCmpwn/chopsui

And I'm also thinking about pulling the TUI layout out my work on aerc2 into a standalone library: https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/aerc2
Your hypothetical worry about "excluding male rape victims" is strongly outweighed by the needs of actual rape victims.