didn't notice them controlling for the overwhelming gender skew in HR and recruiting. The callback and phone screens imply that upper middle class women in law firm HR depts are filtering out peers in favor of upper middle class men.
First, almost nobody actually plays polo anymore, and they wouldn't lead with it if they did. The researchers may have spent more time reading f. scott fitzgerald than thinking this though, and the HR staff would take a flyer on it because mr. darcy.
I have been asked to put personal interests on my CV by recruiters so that their clients would have something to remember my profile by. What that means is "show your natural interest in team sports."
Track and field isn't something you talk to people about or want to hear a story about. Those CVs were likely filtered because they actually seemed too boring for a business that is based on dynamic teamwork and building relationships.
Based on the article, what is clear is that the researchers have no experience with either sports or class.
I have, scored poorly. There is only a slight advantage to comp.sci ability, but with a significant downside risk.
There is a tendency in STEM to solve the class of problem (e.g. abstract it then derive the answer) to get the answer, when what is required in the LSAT is to be able to execute the logical sequence laid out by the question in less than 90 seconds.
Doing the exam training course will make you better at a lot of things. It is a lot of fun, and you will develop a broader appreciation for non-STEM professionals.
wait, so reading this over, there has not been a previous warning, and the implication is that this person is pretending to be a moderator, which would be totally nuts.
Your forum, your rules, but setting it up as principled seems a bit much. A slur requires a specific target, where I made an oblique statement about culture being a cause of less success.
Punk is a culture that glorifies failure, more than one religion exalts poverty, and some value quality of life over material success, still others reject social acceptance by criteria set by their perceived former oppressors, and even others rejected basic education and english literacy in America because it was perceived as destructive to their family hierarchy and cultural identity.
Just because this line of reasoning does not explicitly exclude some bugbears on your team, does not mean that it is advocating a minority interest on mine.
HN keeps within the boundaries of certain values because it is used as the source of record by political players who really, really want our money and political control of the technologies we create. Quite reasonably, HN's owners don't want to provide them ammunition. Imagining YC principals called in front of congress and being asked to defend the most extreme statements published on HN or submit to regulation sounds almost plausible.
However, by tolerating heterodox views, does this forum perpetuate them? Or, does suppressing heterodox views reduce their spread? In both cases, probably not. In fact, I would argue that a decade of suppressing them resulted in the extreme over correction that was your election result.
I would take sound reasoning over cherry picked data any day of the week. You are welcome to call me a racist, apostate, a whateverphobe, or out of bounds of the overton window, as that is the convention these days, but given the quality of these epithets, I am not convinced anyone at HN is qualified to make determinations of my civility.
People should hire the people they are most comfortable with, and when they succeed (or fail), they can be examples to their communities.
I inherited a culture with the expectation that I would be a steward of it. That culture has produced pretty much every technology of note in the last 100 years. Those technologies were so pervasive that they transcended culture and did not even require someone speak my language for them to use it to start a company, get a job, or feed their families. To continue that culture, I will share opportunities with people I trust because they have demonstrated their commitment to shared values and interests. I will not share those opportunities with people who self-identify as an out group, or openly identify me as an enemy to be conquered, or my inheritance as a treasure to be confiscated and "redistributed" amongst themselves.
It is a radical view, but I think the legitimacy of the "lack" of diversity needs to be challenged more openly. The framing of public debate with the assumption that negatively defined concepts like "inequality" or "lack of diversity" are a) problems at all, and b) that everyone is somehow accountable to solve them, limits the scope discussion and potential "solutions" only to redistributive methods, instead of evaluating real problems like crappy education, and cultural backwardness.
These diversity police are largely not makers and builders. Why innovate, invent, create, or take risk when you can wait for someone else to do it and use political maneuvering to take control of it once it is profitable?
I get that HN isn't a platform for political battling, but when virtue signalling by mainstream institutions gets posted here, it seems reasonable to provide an an equal and opposite response.
Where is the line between assertiveness in an environment where people are so-called "equals," and harassment? People (men, women, etc) use leverage to achieve their goals, and most managers in tech aren't equipped to resolve power dynamics.
Most of what guys do to each other to get leverage when they are "equals" would be considered harassment by a gentler temperament.
There is a counter narrative to the progressive political one that has some valid questions.
Maybe they just take it more personally when they have chosen to victimize their identity?
A lot of white guys in startups recognize racial nepotism and can't call it out, so instead they go and start their own companies, or get politically isolated, quit, and go somewhere else. Maybe some of them vent frustrations on extreme subreddits and vote trump, but they aren't going to HR or the news over it.
How is women dealing with harassment different than men dealing with other men who are just assholes?
I've been in a number of companies where I've had to call out the behavior of a colleague with a manager because the alternative would have been knocking the guys teeth out. Nothing changes, except maybe a "talking to" by a manager or HR, and said asshole just presses against a different boundary.
I have also found that men organize into a natural hierarchy pretty quickly, where women can miss those social cues, (or disregard them completely) and that can be extremely disruptive to team cohesion.
Many women think nothing of finding the most powerful man in the organization they can and using him as a "friend" to undermine their direct manager. Male executives typically tell male versions of these climbers to get back in line, as it undermines the cohesion of their organizations. It's not like women are connecting with the most senior woman in the organization as a "friend," because those women got to where they were by not getting used as stepping stones.
Firing a woman for insubordination risks sexism liability, but we fire men for that all the time.
This is a more complex issue than just harassment and patriarchy and other bugbears. The workplace can change to accommodate women, but this complaint culture is anathema to doing business.
There could be a diversity effect in their data, given demographic changes as a consequence of immigration patterns, relationship to authority, and cultural attitudes toward alcohol.
Gladwell has written a predictable hatchet job of a perceived libertarian hero. Surprised that it was him, not surprised it was done in the NY-anything.
More interesting question is: if one were going to orchestrate a pseudo-intellectual takedown of the forces of popular discontent, who would one go after next?
Fascinating. Just reading about probabilistic data structures in general, and would like to know if there is an efficient general method for generating statistics about the FN rates. Are they related to ROC curves?
Can we train up a sentiment analyzer on the delta between the stories and comments this week vs. all others, and then apply it to discovering "political discussion?"
What is hilarious about "general problem solving skills," is that when you actually master something with instruction, the person who teaches it to you tends to tell you the reason something works in a specific way is because of the general principle at work. Actually doing things gives you general problem solving skills.
A lot of people believe, "everything happens for a reason," but people with practical experience don't need to believe that because they know everything happens for a reason: it's called "the cause."
Apprenticeships are the most valuable education anyone can get, but the practical aspects fly in the face of pseudo-intellectualism that passes for modern non-STEM scholarship.
What kind of mobile filesystem wipers and SIM wipers are available?
I use Signal for txts, and while I believe it does not store plaintext txts on the SIM card (haven't analyzed it), SSDs strew cleartext data all over the place. Border guards using a disk imager like EnCase or something similar would get significant fragments of browser and communications history.
Key thing is if you have an iPhone, don't use TouchID, or as I call it, "Apple Bad Touch," because they can just hold you down and run your finger over it.
It's best to travel with a burner. Maybe we need a cyanogenmod image that includes a "duress key" like TC had, and old RSA tokens, but if there is anything on your phone that could be used against people you know, don't take it across borders.
It's important to discuss. There is a lot of stuff out there that screams snakeoil about MCT and coconut oil products, and it can have the effect of both discouraging legit research and duping the dupable.
If there were only a way to test medical hypothesis like hacking on code. Maybe a platform to crowdsource data for experiments then control for factors and double blind it.
not to reply to own thread on theme, but want to also add ketogenic diet was also used for treating "epilepsy," now known as a general class of seizure disorders, which are related to many issues, among them brain lesions. I have zero medical background, and if you are searching on this stuff, my point is that beyond the political stuff, there is something up with sugar.
First, almost nobody actually plays polo anymore, and they wouldn't lead with it if they did. The researchers may have spent more time reading f. scott fitzgerald than thinking this though, and the HR staff would take a flyer on it because mr. darcy.
I have been asked to put personal interests on my CV by recruiters so that their clients would have something to remember my profile by. What that means is "show your natural interest in team sports."
Track and field isn't something you talk to people about or want to hear a story about. Those CVs were likely filtered because they actually seemed too boring for a business that is based on dynamic teamwork and building relationships.
Based on the article, what is clear is that the researchers have no experience with either sports or class.