skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>It seems “very strange” that the IT department was bypassed, and “very unusual” that payments were not based on measurable deliverables, says John Halamka, the chief information officer at Beth Israel Deaconness Medical Center in Boston. He also notes that payments seem to have been made from donations that had not yet been received.

...

But inside the University of Texas, the project was apparently seen as one that missed deadlines and didn’t deliver. The audit notes that the focus of the project was changed several times, first focusing on one type of leukemia, then another, then lung cancer. The initial plan was to test out the product out in pilots at two other hospitals. That never happened.

MD Anderson changed the software it uses for managing electronic medical records, switching to a system made by Epic Systems of Madison, Wis. It has blamed this new system for a $405 million drop in its net income. According to the audit report, the Watson product doesn’t work with the new Epic System, and must be revamped in order to be re-tested. The information in the MD-Anderson/Watson product is also now out of date.

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1. Requirements changes kill projects.

2. Key stakeholders not being on board kill projects.

3. Big system changes kill projects.

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IBM has issues for sure, but I wouldn't expect a favorable outcome for anyone given these headwinds.

Caveat, we don't know how many of these issues were exacerbated/caused by IBM.
FWIW, you can do that in Vim. Select text then:

:'<,'>!command
If you consider the establishment clause and the concept of judicial review of the actions of Congress and the President to be nonsense, you can expect to be consistently disappointed in the sensibility of the functioning of government in the United States.

Resolving either complaint will likely require a constitutional amendment; the Establishment Clause is literally a clause in the US constitution, and the judiciary's role in interpreting the law and in deciding when a statute or regulation is contrary to the Constitution has been practiced throughout the entire history of the US since the Constitution's ratification.
rpl is pretty nice as well.
Enough with the abstinence only education. Just use a condom [0].

Also inspect you condom to make sure it isn't malicious itself. Or make your own.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Syncstop-The-Original-USB-Condom/dp/B...
This was a really great and inspiring interview. Thanks! I especially liked the "JIT mindset" idea!
I'm not a lawyer but I imagine in this case the damages would be puntive. It's less about how she was harmed and more about the fact that the company has rampant sexual harassment and a history of not handling complaints properly. A good way to teach them (and others who are contemplating doing the same) a lesson is to make them pay an outrageous amount of money.

Not saying Susan should be the one to sue them, but someone certainly should. Along with the bad publicity one or more lawsuits would definitely get them to clean up their HR practices.
Q: Have you driven another roadster since then? Like the Mazda Miata for instance?
Norpro 917 Nylon Turner spatula.
I just use it for serving or frying things up in a pan.
I don't know why everyone else makes long spatulas that are either floppy or hard metal. It feels silly, but I was so happy to find a replacement after I destroyed my beloved spatula that I bought a pile of them and gave them to everyone I know who eats.
World's worst website ever
I'm not quite sure how to feel about my T43 now. I was given it by a friend a while ago as I can't get my hands on anything else right now, and... I'm starting to wonder if I'll be hugely disappointed when I can get something newer.

I must admit that it doesn't Chrome too well though. It copes but it swaps a LOT and I can literally see garbage-collection happening - typing or scrolling locks up for 300ms every ~10 seconds. And it can't do >360p video.

I can't recommend them enough to Web developers who want to build fast, responsive websites, however. :D (So many sites that cram 1080p MP4s into their page backgrounds.....)

(Slackware / 2GHz Pentium M + 2GB RAM)
I'm glad to hear this has gotten the CEOs attention. I read her account and was absolutely horrified at how she, and other women, we're (are?) treated at Uber. Livid is more like it. I'm also disappointed in the men who work there, some of whom worked with her, but who apparently didn't behave like honorable human beings and demand the behavior stop. Granted, I'm assuming other men knew of this behavior, but I don't think that is likely to be much of a stretch. We all have a responsibility to look out for each other, no matter our gender. So yeah, Uber screwed up massively, and made me and my wife rethink ever using their services again, but I'm also disappointed in their whole workforce for not rooting out this behavior organically. "But I needed a job," isn't a good excuse, when the fundamental value we should all hold is decency. If you run across this shit in your own organizations make sure you speak up. Keep records. Make sure they know that retaliation will be handled with legal representation and with outreach to the state Department of Labor. Will there sometimes be negative repercussions for you personally? Yes. Will you sleep better at night? Yes. Will things improve in the aggregate over time? Yes, if enough of us simply refuse to stay quiet when we see and hear this kind of thing.
Aviation is by far the safest mode of transportation in the world, so that is not surprising.
Reminds me of one of the top-rated comments in a Reddit thread titled: "What would you do if Reddit no longer existed?"

The comment?

"Just hang out in one of my several Discords all day."

I think Facebook and the like are just fads, to be honest. Wondering what will happen to it.
If MRIs were priced at what most people would call reasonable, then that defensive practice wouldn't be as big of a problem. We've seen prices of $100 to 300 mentioned for some other countries.
+1 on blackberry. Their keyboard is the most intuitive and comfortable keyboard I have used. BB OS10 was the best designed OS, guestures were intuitive, design was beautiful. It's unfortunate they didn't make it as a dominant platform in the smartphone era.
I personally won't have anything against Uber until these claims are proven to be true; too often is it found out that the claims are lies.
Taxi drivers have been doing this on their phones for years :) I don't really mind, but it always surprises me a bit to find out that there's been another person hanging out with us on speakerphone when one of them says something after 5 minutes of silence - if only because it's so different from my own phone habits.
I think the title is sensationalized a bit. It's not much different that hopping in a google hangout for a daily standup, except with friends instead of coworkers. When I was around that age kids would talk on the phone with their friends for hours every night. Then three way calling came and you could chat with multiple friends at one. Video hangouts are just generation Z's way of talking on the phone at night. I wouldn't go as far as saying it's replacing hanging out in real life.
> Specifically: I cannot imagine that a quality news site (say the NY Times, Atlantic, or WSJ) would not mention such uncertainty.

What about that news article that WaPo published about the guy who found some malware on his laptop and was blown out into this https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/russi...

I don't know how you could go from a virus on a laptop to "Russia is hacking into our power grid" unless you are being intentionally dishonest or have such an agenda that you jump at any scrap to make a story.
> Not only is the label of incompetence highly subjective, it is also useless at best

This just isn't the case. The label of incompetence can give you correct, meaningful answers to questions like

- This person wants me to work with them. Am I likely to get anything out of this?

- If I devote my time to trying to educate/train/help this person, will I see any results from that? Will they end up with any additional knowledge/skills/gain?

- Should I copy this person's work?

- Is there any value in listening to this person's advice or recommendations?

- Can I trust this person to complete an important task for me?
Highest answer rate of popular tags on stackoverflow
Part of the problem is that men frequently misconstrue a women's natural instinct for being social and friendly as a sexual overture, usually this is because they're so used to other men being so unfriendly.
I think you misread the title.
Wouldn't firing the manager, plus the inevitable internal memo, plus the fact that everyone there will be talking about this tomorrow, enough to cause meaningful change within the company?

At the very least, this should dissuade managers from soliticing open-relationship sexual partners, on employees' first day. I consider that a major win! :-\
I prefer Alien Blue to the new Reddit app. I hope I never end up losing it, since it's no longer on the app store.
Already a long history of similar stories out of Uber - trend isn't proof, but it puts the burden on them, not the accuser
I feel like people have all of a sudden rushed to defend the media now that Trump is attacking it. But I feel like we've lost sight of who is probably chiefly responsible for Trump to begin with: A media framework which rewards views, leading to focus on the most outrageous and entertaining "news" over important information.

The media is VERY important, I agree. But I feel we've recently decided to forget how awful the media actually generally is. The article I noticed this last week that was particularly hilarious: "Trump made me order meatloaf, Christie says". That was CBS. That's what we've sunk to, and in many cases, that feels like the high point of where a lot of our media outlets have been.

There are definitely journalists out there doing a great job. The Intercept, The Guardian, The Information (though I can't afford to read the last one). But a lot of our news has been all hype and no substance, and I don't feel we should be giving them a pass right now, just because Trump's against them.
I think we're both in agreement about the greater public good of the litigation. I don't understand punitive damages so I can't comment.

I'm uncomfortable with assigning responsibility to an individual to undertake a crusade when there is little upside and a large downside.
Oh geez [shuffles papers, looks at watch] is it time to start denigrating the next generation already?
I unfortunately dropped a T60 some time ago, on the right rear corner.

The system board and everything were all fine... but the LCD copped it :( only displayed sad rainbows (IIRC).

I'm not sure if I bent the heatsink slightly off as well;
I tried to fix it but I may have made it worse. The thermal design on the T60 is a disaster: the part of the heatpipe that extends over the GPU has nowhere to bolt it down (see http://i.imgur.com/lUOwImO.jpg - the rightmost part, see how there are no screws, it literally was not factored into the design, it's held down solely by the copper itself) and because my heatsink is fractionally misaligned, my GPU consistently idles at 75°C (!) and can reach 90°C (!!) if I actually try to do anything!
FYI: Java 9 is scheduled for release in July.

http://openjdk.java.net/projects/jdk9/
But shouldn't we be tearing down the wall instead? And building bridges to make it easier for people to travel?
I've always added a line to my .vimrc file that would source the vimrc_example file included in the vim distribution. I have maybe 5 more lines in there with some additional settings (colorscheme, ls=2, etc).
Definitely not worst in terms of page load speed
You're right, but these are the incentives created by the system. It would be really hard to change this.

What you call net income isn't. It's a fictional valuation metric for current possessions. It's like when you own a house, and the house goes up in value. Should that value increase be counted as income ? Because it would force a lot of people to sell and certainly wouldn't be a good thing for middle America.
I don't think it's related to branch prediction in particular, just spooky action-at-a-distance where a change makes seemingly unrelated code much slower or faster.
Santiago Ramón Y Cajal: Charting the Human Brain in the 1900s
It's not crazy, it's kinda hard to implement containerisation yourself in a proprietary OS kernel that you don't control...

However, as of fairly recently, IIUC Docker for Mac uses macOS's native hypervisor framework rather than relying on VirtualBox as it used to.
Statistical Thinking: My Journey from Frequentist to Bayesian Statistics
Men are twice as stronger on certain operations - for example, grip by hand.

That's a lot of biological basis, which nevertheless is much less relevant today.
Ask HN: How to start a business where there is competitors already?
Hi HN,

I always had this doubt. Let’s say someone wants to start a business (by building a product). But he finds the solution has already being provided by some other business in the market. In this case, how one needs to approach building his/her own product?

For example, I could able to see PayPal, Stripe, WePay etc are already in existence for payments. Does it really make sense to start a new business competing with the existing market? If so, what all things can make it a success?
"My prediction: the manager gets fired"

Impossible. From Susan Fowler's post:

"We all gave up on Uber HR and our managers after that. Eventually he "left" the company. I don't know what he did that finally convinced them to fire him. "
> Taylor and his co-conspirators were able to dox so many celebrities and public officials because they hacked a Russian identity theft service called ssndob[dot]ru. That service in turn relied upon compromised user accounts at data broker giant LexisNexis to pull personal and financial data on millions of Americans.

And we're supposed to think that cottage industry carders represent our main threat?
The 1996 Mazda Miata. Super simple, reliable and fun to drive.
I believe you are talking about this: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/10/21/russian-carrier-p...

It's this ship:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_aircraft_carrier_Admir...

Which is not nuclear.
Zebralight H52 headlamp with eneloops
http://www.zebralight.com/H52w-AA-Headlamp-Neutral-White_p_1...
Aeron chair.

Aeropress.

EIZO monitors - http://www.eizo.com

uTorrent, the older versions.

Dead serious about uTorrent. One of the best designed and engineered pieces of software ever. Everything you need, where you expect it to be, doing exactly what it should be doing, and nothing more.
Video games. Problem solved.
Uber Investigating Sexual Harassment Claims by Ex-Employee
Yeah that's right. I have worked with Groovy and Grails which has the similar philosophy.
Prejudice is defined as

>preconceived opinion that is not based on reason or actual experience.

Being a criminal is a choice. Treating someone differently because they you have sound reason to believe they are a criminal is not prejudice.
Why are they announcing dev kits just now? This should have been done at least a year ago.
From Michelle Obama's Biography

Marriage to Barack Obama

After law school, Michelle worked as an associate in the Chicago branch
of the firm Sidley Austin, in the area of marketing and intellectual property.
It was there, in 1989, that she met her future husband, Barack Obama,
a summer intern to whom she was assigned as an adviser.

Initially, she refused to date Barack, believing that their
work relationship would make the romance improper.
She eventually relented, however, and the couple soon fell in love.

http://www.biography.com/people/michelle-obama-307592#gifted...

How did he ever become president...
There's a Director of Product and a VP of Product where I work. PMs seem to have a fulfilling and rewarding career path in big tech companies from what I see.
Buzz famously punched a moon hoaxer in the face[1]. I like Buzz but he certainly isn't the most patient.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wcrkxOgzhU
Not to mention the (presumably) millions of dollars she was forced to walk away from.

I can't imagine that HR allowing repeated sexual harassment claims to go without any consequences, not to mention a manager feeling comfortable propositioning a direct report OVER WRITTEN CHAT, comes from anything but people certain the company allowed their actions.
I'm impressed with the new design of water coolers. It's been a while since I've been in an office with a real water cooler as opposed to a Keurig-like device connected directly to the waterline.

But at my new office, we have a good old-fashioned water cooler. Except that it's a newfangled water cooler with a redesigned interface between cooler and water jug. Now, instead of peeling a wax lid off the top of the jug and spilling a couple cups of water as you throw it on the cooler, you just pull off a sticker and sort of plug it into the water cooler. No more water spills.

It seems so simple and obvious. Yet how many Olympic-sized swimming pools full of water did we have to spill before someone designed it? I love it.

Here's the first video I could find that shows one of them in action (in 3D!):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgS5VIwE1WA
Yeah, that was stupid.

There's also a big fat note at the top of that article now, and there were probably more articles about the retraction than there were about the original article.
Bosses who harass employees and a culture that encourage such things present a much larger risk to the company than a single employee's complaints, so in a well-functioning company their incentives align with policing these issues. But it's still worth keeping in mind that their incentives are not your incentives, and if they have given up on keeping the company culture healthy, their interests will be oppossed to yours.
Just about anything Razer.

Razer Taipan & Razer BlackWidow are wonderful. Totally reliable, precise, and pleasantly tactile.

I've had a few Razer mice over the years and the earlier ones had a rubberize finish that would wear off eventually... had my Taipan for 4 years or so and it still feels like it's brand new. Trackpads will work in a pinch, but after you get used to a high-DPI mouse it's hard to use anything else. Same for mechanical keyboards... ha, maybe we should tell people not to get started... you'll hate typing on anything else after you've used one for a while.
Alto Restoration Part 13 – Tools Development Struggle
Finding "a job" may not be hard if you're not looking for top companies. Finding a place with comparable pay/equity/benefits to your current gig? Not easy, even in the Bay Area.
Interestingly enough, the bands that I go to see are not the best musicians, they are the ones that entertain me. I'm not sure that AI will be able to do that for quite some time.
> Even the US left its own portion of nuclear waste in the northern latitudes, such as the once secret reactor at Camp Century, in Greenland, although this is minuscule compared to what the Soviets left behind.

The pro-US bias in this article is strong. It appears to be more of the same wardrum-beating, anti-Russian propaganda that took hold of the mainstream media towards the end of the US election.

On one hand, Russia does appear to have adopted a more aggressive military stance, especially with regards to Crimea and The Ukraine.

On the other hand, the present military stance of the US looks not unlike the full-tilt, batshit-crazy world domination plans of Germany during World War II.

It appears obvious to me that our current US military leaders are not above conducting false-flag operations for the purpose of gaining public support for foreign aggression, and it would not surprise me if they were responsible for this release of Iodine-131.

After all, they've done it before: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Run
What a shock you called her a girl.
People lost faith in media after their support for Iraq war. I haven't seen anything from them which shows they are trying to improve.
In addition to that, the legacy offers from Aruba were so incredibly bad that they would really have to pull off some exceptional offer to convince me and use them again.

I mean they used to have shared hosting plans without any DB included...

EDIT: they still do! https://hosting.aruba.it/en/hosting/linux.aspx
Glenn Greenwald wrote an excellent piece about this and another similar "Russian fear-mongering" story from the Washington Post.

https://theintercept.com/2017/01/04/washpost-is-richly-rewar...
Again, you and I both disagree with his assertion that enforcing net neutrality is not within his authority. But it's not inconsistent for him to make that assertion and also to remove net neutrality regulations that his own agency previously issued, replacing them instead with a different set that requires less power to enforce.

When you're talking about the executive branch, "removing regulation" means issuing guidelines (and executing them). They have the authority to do this one way or the other, and he is choosing to issue rules that involve a smaller display of executive authority when enforced.

Except in a very abstract linguistic sense, it makes no sense to say that "removing regulations" is a more "active" use of authority than actually actively enforcing regulations.
This past year has been filled with a vast amount of false accusations; in my opinion, it would be wise to be sceptical of any claims that aren't backed up with any evidence.

Anyone could write an article saying that Uber was misogynistic towards them in some way, and everyone will eat it up because they already hate Uber over the JFK airport stuff.
Bill Gates and Elon Musk Just Warned Us About the One Thing Politicians
And `%!command` to replace the whole file. That's how editing hexadecimal in vim works. `%!xxd` to turn it, then `%!xxd -r` to turn it back.

Another useful one is `%!jq .` to pretty print a json file.
Iodine – HTTP / Websocket Server for Ruby MRI – A Kqueue/epoll C Extension
EVs are a status symbol, either of wanting to protect the environment or project your pocket book, often at the same time.

Oslo is basically one big outdoor showroom for Tesla. Four of them passed me while I was waiting for a bus.
Come on... "You're super smart, competent at the job, and are a good fit culturally here. BUT, you worked at Company X 5 years ago, and they did something unethical, so we're not going to hire you!" - said no hiring manager ever.
I love me a good honeypot.
What are these "subtle undertones of racism and xenophobia"? There is nothing about QI that is predicated upon race.
Slightly OT, but do you have a recommendation for bitters other than Angostura? I like it, but I'd like to diversify my home cabinet.
Oxo hand tools.

Hermin Miller Aerons.

My Olympus skyhawk. Literally the only piece of hardware that's going to outlive me.

The FN P90 and the 57 pistol.

The flight deck on the Sukhoi SU-34 and the Boeing 787.

Basically, anything where the design department went out and asked the customer what their biggest complaints were, then sat down to eliminate them in the design phase.
In vim, it would probably have to be done in two separate commands

# Search and replace using a 2-variable regex
:275,1305s/two_variable_regex/first\1second\2/g

# Replace TEST_ with test_
:275,1305g!/a_regex/s/TEST_/test_/g

But, if it's too convoluted to do something like this in vim, you can instead do something like:

:275,1305 !perl -ne '# substitution, then print'
I agree with many of your points and feel that this topic does seem a bit sensationalized here. But my conclusions had nothing to do with the grammatical peeves you're also pointing out, which feel a bit unnecessary amidst the actual facts being discussed.