skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm sad to see so many comments here worrying about such a list becoming "weaponized".

TFA says that the list is anonymous, and that "usually, the people in the complaints are not named" (the cited exception being naming Eric Schmidt, the CEO, for behavior during a large company meeting). You're not going to publicly shame someone without naming them, so clearly that's not the intent or effect.

The point of the list, again from TFA, is to raise awareness about bad things that happen at Google, often outside the view of privileged white men like myself. With 20% of the company subscribed, it sounds like it's working.

This trope of jumping immediately to the problem of false accusations is sadly common in discussions e.g. of rape reporting. Yes, some reports of rape (and harassment) are untrue. The vast majority aren't. Jumping so quickly, as many comments here have, to considering effects of fake reports is wildly disrespectful of the (largely female, and thus underrepresented here and at places like Google) victims, and is part of the reason that rape and sexual assault go underreported.

I would encourage those of you who have such a reaction to step back and consider why people might submit anonymously to such a list, and what benefits a company might get from having one.

Disclaimer: I work at Google, and speak here (as always) for myself.
I think people are missing a point here. The game itself runs perfectly fine on a 7 year old CPU and 8GB of ram(it might run on 4GB but I haven't tested this personally). - I'd say the actual game client is optimized extremely well.

Is it really shocking that dev machines have a lot of ram?

If someone works in full frame photography or edits 4K video, do you tell them to try working on machines with 4GB of ram to see what they come up with, and how it's going to be "beneficial"?

Why would it be any different for games? When a level designer loads the entire map into editor, it's the same as loading a 4K video into Adobe Premiere - it's going to eat up your ram, and you need to have loads of it.

>>Who in hell does run a game server on a laptop, and outside office?

At E3, the answer is - literally everyone. We send one guy with a fully encrypted beefy laptop that runs all servers during the show, and he has to keep an eye on it 100% of the time. You're not going to fly a desktop over the Atlantic just for a games conference.
Lawsuit alleges BART secretly collected information
I like my Galaxy S6. Bike shed!
MA (near Boston), NH, CT.
The engineer is probably lying and gaslighting, as they lied about having other colleagues there. It seems like a very toxic person trying to create a situation of abuse. It's sad but not unheard of. (there's awful people in the world).
I'm an effective altruist ;)
https://www.givingwhatwecan.org/
But that's a strawman, since I didn't say that.

You talk of vague "inclusivity", and hyperbolic "say anything I want"; but the post specifically referred to "Calling someone a 'princess' for liking salads" - when are we going to be inclusive of differing opinions and forms of expression? Seems a very specific interpretational framework is being mandated here.

Using rough language versus running off to HR when offended - I know who I'd prefer working with.
Sure, it's a common problem of metric-driven and target-driven systems, but that doesn't mean it's not a problem. If we've built systems that reward outcomes that we find bad .. maybe we should do something about it? Or at least encourage people to be aware of when they're participating in the car crash production system.

Currently going around on my twitter is a reminder not to retweet screenshots of professional troll / Mail "journalist" Katie Hopkins calling for a "final solution" to Islam (in the context of the Manchester bombing). That's the kind of thing I mean: engaging with it at all is just feeding the outrage machine. Report and block instead.
Not just a man, but also The Persuader, The Saint and last but not least James Bond. Live and let die, Mr Bond, you are a legend.
I guess my interpretations was -

For every federalist with a say in what the EU needs to do about a common defense force there is a federalist without any say in that or a federalist from somewhere unnamed who may or may not have a say in that.

I mean I understand that the somewhere unnamed federalist may in fact be someone who has a say in the matter in some way, but if that is what one is trying to say why lead off with an example named federalist that doesn't have any say.

Also a non NATO member might recoil at a potential NATO rival if they feel they can exploit some weakness in NATO and fear the rival would not have the same weakness.
This is incredibly accurate and hilarious at the same time. Well done!
I just wanted to mirror this because often the entry points to various parts of the application is what defines seniority with the particular codebase. The challenges for building how the thing starts and stops as well as the build is something that everyone is currently relying on to do the good work they are doing now. A lot of hard won stability/system issues are solved in that kind of area which dramatically affects what is in the possible vs. something from a wildly different tangent then what's already there.
Meh, we could use hydrogen if we really wanted to. If you separate the lift from the people/propulsion there is little chance of a strongly rising gas leak causing a fire. Heck, you can even do electronics in an explosive hydrogen atmosphere (I've personally done it). It just takes a lot of care and as a result is expensive to design.

What you can't do is have random people inside the outer envelope that also contains the gas bags. Anything that is going to be light enough to fly is going to leak a lot of hydrogen.
Wow, how often do you break your laptop? What do you do to it?
Can't seem to reply any deeper so I'll reply here.

Let's just create 5000 accounts, have them all follow each other, then wait a month. Same outcome with basically the same amount of effort.
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I concur. Moore's epoch and completely over the top plots gave us most of what was later fuel for spy satires, and even though Connery (and now Craig's) era became more "realistic" (even as the Cold War faded), Moore's smirk and deadpan were iconic.
I have exactly the opposite view. It is the duty of all humans to create the best possible version of humanity so that we are better able to deal with threats to our survival as a species. We should send our best into the future, or what chance do we have when we meet the aliens?
None needed, California is an "at-will" employment state -- you can be fired for any legal reason or none at all.
THE GOOD AND BAD ABOUT ELASTIC BEANSTALK
I don't think I would agree with that, it actually seems somewhat more reasonable to me that one would have to pay compensations to the slaves. But that was not my point anyway.

In the past having slaves was acceptable, now it no longer is. Nobody owes me any compensation just because exploiting slaves is no longer an option available to me. In the past it was acceptable to exploit forest without many considerations, but when we now decide that this is no longer the case, then it is at least not obvious that anyone owes you any compensation.
Hit them in the fear
Guetzli is great. Here's a better comparison (same filesize) done by one of the authors [1].

I'm working on a more practical tool [2] which produces comparable results [3].

[1] https://drive.google.com/drive/u/1/folders/0B0w_eoSgaBLXQk1V....

[2] http://getoptimage.com

[3] http://i.imgur.com/qmIwJGw.jpg
> I want to use all the software that is in the Debian repos.

They have this, more or less (well, Ubuntu rather than Debian). You get real apt-get and you can install things, most of them work.

> I don't want Microsoft to spy on me.

No luck there, though it seems like everyone short of the BSDs is doing that these days :(.

> And I don't want to be exposed to their security issues.

You still are, though again I don't think their security position is worse than anyone else (again, short of the BSDs) these days.
Microsoft built an Evernote-OneNote import tool.
This is blocked by my work's security filter. Is there a mirror?
WhisperSystems Signal iOS no longer requires access to your contacts
An encrypted NFC or Bluetooth bracelet, one sold with or separately to a phone would be nice. Pings it every so often. If it can't find it, automatically self locks. If it can't find for for X number of days and a password hasn't been entered in that time then it wipes || locks the phone.
These are neat, but expensive. I just ordered a laptop this weekend.

* 17.3" 1080p

* Core i7 (quad core)

* 16GB RAM

* Discrete graphics

* Backlit keyboard (at no extra charge!)

$800 shipped to my door. Only thing I need to do yet is order an M.2 SSD and I'll be happy for the next 4 years.

So my heart leaped a little seeing a new Surface announcement, but personally, smaller screens will never work for these tired eyes. That and when I bumped up to 16GB of RAM... I hit $2200. (It's also hard to see which Core i7 they put in these, but I have a sneaking suspicion there's a 'U' in the model name, meaning it's actually dual core.

Obviously the laptop I'm getting weighs 3-4 times as much and has a fraction of the battery life. It's a completely different animal. But for me, personally, the Surface will just remain "interesting" until it's portable, powerful AND the pricing is not exorbitant. Then I could see trying to get some work done on it when I'm out and about.
It's a throw-away marketing headline not some super-technical classification. One-click away is a comparison grid of Surface products which includes ... a laptop.
Connery will always be Bond for me... Moore, unfortunately had some terrible source material.
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As others have wrote, paternity is like a vacation. It's time off work, you can't be evaluated on that time, it's like it doesn't exists for evaluation. So if you exceeded expectations a day before taking paternity you still do the day you are back.
"We were not out to win over the Lisp programmers; we were after the C++ programmers. We managed to drag a lot of them about halfway to Lisp."

- Guy Steele, Java spec co-author
:). Thank you, this is definitely helping my motivation to write more of these posts! If you haven't seen it before, I think you'll also like this post (not by me): http://patshaughnessy.net/2014/10/13/following-a-select-stat...
I think it's a matter of definition - elsewhere, Wikipedia says "Białowieża Forest, Europe's last temperate primaeval forest fragment..."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bia%C5%82owie%C5%BCa_National_...
seriously... what do people even use usb-a for besides charging things? compatibility was crap, transition to 3.0 was crap and even the highest end computers offered limited ports - opting to keep a few 2.0s given that support for 3.0 on the device side was even weaker, big, asymetric, fragile, ...

lets just let it die and move to cables that won't need a dongle and aren't thicker than almost everything in a laptop from this generation
Well, we did that too. But yes, the standard is to slim down everything to fit on a 32G hex core workstation laptop.

Because they can travel with people and desktop computers.. kinda.. can't.
I wouldn't say expected, they have made some poor performing phones in the past (for various definitions of "made").

But my point was more that on paper it doesn't look like much. It doesn't have waterproofing, it's not "best in class" in anything except the camera, it runs software which has less "on paper" features than other brands, it doesn't have an SD card or removable battery, etc...

But when you actually go to use it, it's a night and day difference between it and other devices.
Parsing the Young DAO Concept
Yes! Exactly how I feel.
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In a way, Holy Church has been doing it for ages.
Yup, 600mb is pretty tiny. I have a netbook from 2011 that I used for crunching numbers for my dissertation. It can handle 600mb csv files in memory using numpy. The slowest part is reading from disk.
The Hacker News headline is misleading. The article calls it the "last major primeval forest in Europe" which is more accurate. Białowieża forest is around 40 000 hectares, while very few of the other ones left is bigger than 2000 hectares.
Do you remember how WW2 started, and more importantly what preceded it?
;)
They do give up shortly after some eggs hatch, what is a problem if you mix eggs with different maturity.

Some hens learn to eat the uncollected eggs, what is also a problem because they don't know beforehand what eggs will hatch either, and start eating them at random.

If the eggs are left there, some animal will inevitably come and eat them. What is also a problem, because they will learn there are eggs there, and will not care to only look for abandoned ones.

Overall, it's not healthy to not collect the unfertilized eggs.
Yeah, I do agree with you, but I was taking issue with how you framed your point. I get that you probably set up the online vs. real frame to underscore your point, but I think it actually undermines it.
"reinvent some wheel 10x faster than someone else"
Ha-ha-ha, you've made my day
I know this is an unpopular opinion, but I always preferred Moore over Connery.
> Speaking as an insider, I can say with 100% certainty it was.

Can you elaborate on that?
Spark is great, but honestly who writes pure MR jobs anymore anyway? At least use hive so that your engineers can stick with sql syntax.

There's also Facebook's presto, which is so much faster than hive it will make your head spin!
I don't mind the name. However, differentiating between versions when buying a surface from a third party site e.g. EBay would become problematic and unnecessarily time consuming.
I can confidently say based on what I observed that I in all likelihood missed out on forming a number of strong friendships due to not having facebook, as I was able to compare the before and after in very similar environments. I would say it becomes much less crucial after university, but during that period it affects a whole lot.

Light acquaintances are actually a boon when travelling or trying new things. Facebook makes it quite straightforward to tap this resource, and surprisingly people are quite receptive to being called up by semi-distant people.
They have done it with a fingerprint left on the device screen later on, if i remember correctly.
We should grow hemp all over the planet, industrial scale, low THC grade of course. From space we can look at our blue and green hemp planet.
I can see this getting out of hand quickly. Humans have a tendency to amplify anxiety of local, improbable events. This is essentially a weapon that can quickly impact morale and elevate disruptive conversations that will become far removed from the situation with too many participants. I'd have optin, in-person support groups where nothing leaves the room and it is limited in size. Sometimes spreading a problem across more people does not fix it, it only makes it worse.
Delivering applications over IPFS presents a different set of assumptions compared to traditional applications.

It's frustrating when people act like I haven't thought through those assumptions and are handing out cargo-cult advice that is not applicable in this application.

The non-uniform key generation is a bug, and I'm glad somebody noticed it.
#StatusOfMind: Social media and young people's mental health and wellbeing [pdf]
Yep, that's correct. It's still helpful to differentiate between authentication guarantees, however (e.g. data origin vs peer entity auth).
Most of the time, a simple decision tree can handle "advanced AI" requirements.
Hackers demonstrated that it is too easy to bypass the #Samsung S8 iris scanner
https://web.archive.org/web/20170523150125/http://gerbilnote...
"is facing growing pressure from diversity advocates and the media"

I don't think these entities should have the power to exert pressure.
Do not paint a picture with one-sided argument. To say Java is badly designed, is to say human is an evolution failure. It's not hard to find evidences to support both, but they hardly make a dent to both being hugely successful things in their respective fields.

Java is a great and extremely well designed language. All you mentioned are nothing but natural expansion of the language's use cases.
Getting everything set up so I can efficiently Internet diet 6-6.75 days a week—not just phone diet—is one of the things on my todo list that I'm not getting done because I'm doing other stuff on the Internet all the time, haha.
My current stress reduction method: anti-stress puzzle
This is basically the same process as the logging of the rainforest; it's nominally protected, but a combination of poverty, greed and weak law enforcement means the protection is ineffective.
We played Mario Kart at our office Christmas party. My colleague was racing as Princess Peach. I made a remark saying "Princess Peach over here..."

Other than that, I cannot think of a single place that is appropriate.
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That's often how reality works though. I remember the Apple fans mocking computers shipping with floppy disk drives, but floppy disks were useful at the time. Migrations take time, not everyone can afford to just rush out and buy all-new accessories. For a device that you buy today and will use for say 3 years, USB-A and a dongle for compatibility with -C is probably better for most users than the reverse.
Google’s AlphaGo AI beats world’s best human Go player
Thats a matter of definition. Surface Pro originally was to distinguish against the Surface RT, where it made sense. Same goes for iPad Pro which is clearly not meant in the same way you are suggesting, Macbook Pro is the same. The PRO label is meant to distinguish them against their own lower tier products.
Imo the demand for 32GB RAM Laptops is pretty limited right now, which is why you usually find that in workstation laptops only.
I don't know any 13" Ultrabook with 32GB to be honest.
The most amazing thing about IQ tests are that some social (really pseudo--they cant really experimentally test theory) scientists convinced the world these things matter.

If you go and read the literature the idea is that thete is a concept called g, general intelligence, and that IQ tests dont test that, but produce a result which correlates with g. In this framework it is acceptable that Feynman's g is different from his IQ score--they were only ever meant to be correlated.
Yes, that was indeed Hajin Lee. She not only predicted it, but then also refuted it (correctly) before it ever appeared on the board.
Eyeshot 10–Bringing CAD Functionality to .NET Applications
tax collectors were public enemy #1 in the new testament.
Spark is not pure MR. Spark has Spark Dataframes and Datasets with SQL-like syntax. You can even write pure SQL and not mess with the Dataframe API at all.

Presto is nice, but you can't use it for an ETL job. It is great for analysis.
No ‘Fairy Godmother’ for the Subway: When $100B Isn’t Enough
I understand people's hatred towards whiteboard coding, but be realistic, James will find no problem doing them, and no one would bother to waste the time either.
Was not underaged when they family encouraged him to marry with another men at 28, without telling him or their husband, the truth. Very sad.
Serverless Logic with Realm: Introducing Realm Functions
The biggest problems big companies have is that they need to do everything. If I have a companies with 2000 engineers and I have projects in ML, Rest Servers, Cloud systems, etc, it makes vastly more sense to rely on one language to do everything, because it allows me to shift engineers from one place to another without them having to learn a new language.

If I'm a startup, I generally have ONE thing that I need to excel at. If that's computer vision, why would I use Java when C++ (and arguably Python/OpenCV) is decidedly better at computer vision? If I need a simple REST service for my particular project, why in the world would I use Java over Python, Ruby or Go?

The value of Java is that it does everything well, but the ecosystem is enormous. It's overkill for most projects, unless you happen to have projects that scale across multiple domains that Java does well.

I find it odd that I'm getting so much push back here. There's a massive amount of cognitive overhead in utilizing Java. There's also a huge cost (both cognitive and entry) in using of Java. (The difference between a Java programmer and a generalist? How much the latter has to learn to catch up.)
Active discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14400354
I use the SP3 on my lap every day, its my work PC. Actually the kickstand works as an anchor when I cross my legs and stays fixed. Suggest you try it in person.
Most people don't benefit from the logging and destroying the primeval forests in the country they live in. Quite to the contrary.

The rest of Europe has to work with a Polish government right now that is anti-ecology, reactionary and anti-EU. The destruction of trees both in cities and forests is just collateral damage to those in power in Poland.
Gartner and Forrester Ways to Improve Project Performance
It's unprofessional. If the person who was called princess felt uncomfortable enough to write about it, it indicates they were not friends and this is not their common relationship.

It's can be a disrespectful joke. Besides, it's a gendered joke. If it was directed to a woman, it's very impolite, given the constant pressure on woman to keep thin in society and how that is a frequent bias towards woman. If it was a man, it sounds very transphobic/homophobic, as in "you're less because you act like a woman", besides man also deals with fat shaming. And a lot of people deal with eating disorders, so making fun of people eating choices at work is not a good idea.

Of course, if they were friends, I mean actual friends. It would be fine. If one person had felt offended, they would be able to say that to the other, instead of an anonymous mailing list. Or if they didn't felt offended, they could laugh together and each to it's own. But it's clearly not the case. So it's a good idea to avoid this sort of behavior to people that you don't know well, even you get along with them in a work environment.

If people feel they need a guideline to avoid this behavior and not feel like they need to be hard pushed to figure out what they did wrong, here it is: you can make this sort of joke to someone who is your friend (friend enough to regularly see each other outside of work, take care of each other kids, trust in each other in personal matters), if not, it's not work appropriate.
Yes I can. The definition of a gene is unit of hereditary information that determines a specific characteristic of an organism. Inherent in that definition is that each gene, and the characteristic it encodes, is distinct.

So when many genes are expressed simultaneously, you can get complex interactions between these distinct characteristics. But not a straight linear additive effect. If 5 genes all encode the same characteristic, then by definition they are actually just 5 copies of the same gene.

Intelligence is not related to genetics through some simple scalar factor. It is far, far more complex than that.
> While the idea is pretty interesting to do that automatically, a better approach IMO is to have humans decide what to implement and what not because humans tend to be able to spot fake votes when there is no meaningful discussion why something should be changed.

Well, this is an experiment.

But if you think you have a better way of having a democratic piece of software, you're welcome to open a PR!

For instance, you could add a veto power - any account of a certain age can vote, but if enough accounts weighted socially react with, e.g., the "Hooray" emoticon, that counts as a veto, and the PR could be closed.