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I’m quite familiar with Paul’s work. He’s not really saying anything new in those talks either. It’s good technical info but again - a pointless micro-optimization in most cases.

There are so many other, bigger, better, wins to focus on first.

Considering anything Google does as useful for the average developer - even at a reasonably large company - is like thinking pizza delivery guys should emulate UPS: it’s a misunderstanding of context.
The UK equivalent of this is Hello Fresh [1]. I've never tried them, but they were clearly spending a lot on marketing and sending people door to door. The thing is, for the price I could just buy the necessary ingredients at my local supermarket.

I was tempted just so I didn't have to think about what to cook, but I find Yummly [2] to be a great inspiration and helps me to try new dishes.

1. https://www.hellofresh.co.uk/
2. https://www.yummly.co.uk/
>Imagine a world where women weren't told they are naturally good/bad at things, now project that forward 50 years and redo the study.

I doubt you have read James Damore's memo ( https://diversitymemo.com/ ) because he addresses your very question explicitly by citing a scientific paper:

http://www.bradley.edu/dotAsset/165918.pdf

And guess what? Less constraints on gender roles lead to more sexual dimorphism.

Here's another study, resulting in the same conclusion:

http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal....

>This is my chief problem with the memo, and the fact that he launches into IQ, the talking point of the prejudiced everywhere.

Damore doesn't "launch into IQ" at all. The memo mentions "IQ" only 2 times and touches the subject very fleetingly. It appears to refer to an opinion piece that is more elaborate on it: https://www.city-journal.org/html/real-war-science-14782.htm... . As it turns out, research on IQ has been defunded in the past for being "racist". You can call Damore "prejudiced", but then you will have a lot of work disproving the body of scientific research cited here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_and_intelligence

Damore's memo is on solid ground regarding the scientific consensus on gender differences in the statistical distribution of psychological traits.
It's an honest and fair attempt at describing biological reality. When reality doesn't turn out to be as you want it to be doesn't mean that the author is "prejudiced".
Step 1 - Make outrageous claim

Step 2 - Receive lots of inbound links from people upset with your outrageous claim

Step 3 - Cash in on your increased audience (or become elected President)
If this were an internal company forum where I were making serious policy proposals that I expected the company to take seriously -- that is, if this were something I were doing as part of my job, and I were paying as much attention to detail as I should for every part of my job -- and if I had a senior title, then yes, definitely, I would offer my resignation or at least request a demotion. I would be letting my coworkers down if I continued to insist on a senior title and senior levels of respect. But I am being much less rigorous here than I would be for work. I don't try to be deliberately wrong on HN, but my standards for accuracy and professionalism (and copyediting, there are incomplete sentences in too many of my comments) are less exacting than they are for my employed work.

(And if I have done such a thing, which I don't believe I have. I'm really not sure why you say I've reached conclusions not justified by the paper?)
That's the Mosquito Anti Loitering Device

http://www.movingsoundtech.com/

It a high frequency that only young ears can hear that sounds like the whine of a mosquito. Old ears lose frequency range so aren't bothered. It's not harmful, just annoying.
"US investigators have concluded that the country's diplomats were being hit with an advanced device that can send out sound that is inaudible but can cause huge damage to the ears of a person around them, which appears to have been left either inside or near the diplomats' houses"

So is this an actual device they found or is it something they theorized existed? Does this technology exist now? If so, that is unsettling!
NPM 5.x in Node v8.1 consistently only installs 481 out of 493 packages in our node_modules folder. No errors, everything looks absolutely fine, except 12 packages are straight up missing. That was fun to debug! Both NPM 3 and yarn produce the expected result.

That was the last straw for me and NPM is now banned in favor of yarn.
Yes, that part about his cooking experiment was rather ridiculous. It marries very well with vanilla and chocolate. By itself it has a bit of a sweet nutty flavor that is rather complex.

To be slighlty flippant, it's kind of the shitake (or msg) of desert, it enhances the rest of the flavors.
Agreed, as long as managers, business, or generally people who talk a lot weren't stationed there. And other people coming for discussion or just to chat weren't allowed either unless it involved the entire team.
Sorry Snapchat, it’s time to say goodbye
i was one of the customers who dropped in q2 after using the service for about 6 months.

I really enjoyed the product, and never had an issue with quality.

for me cost was primary reason for cancelling. Buying ingredients saves me about $100 a month. Even with Blue Apron I had to go to the grocery store weekly for lunch and breakfast food, so it was a "nice to have luxury", not something that saved time or money.

I worry that Blue Apron is going to have a hard time making the economics of custom acquisition vs. life time value work if high churn is a permanent thing.
Of course not. Watson is just a marketing trick to charge for consultants. I worked there.
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Disney is still crazy important. They own pretty much everyone's childhoods now between Disney, Pixar, Marvel, and Star Wars. You can't say with a straight face that these properties aren't important anymore. If anything, Marvel and Star Wars have become even bigger since Disney's taken ownership.
I'll revise my criticism, then: There are some examples, but not enough. And the links to an interactive regexp system is very smart and nice.
IBM is a dying giant, I've seen it languishing for years. Their massive screw up was a decade ago when they decided shareholder value was more important than having good engineers. They've since gutted their R&D departments and all that's left are duds and underpaid undereducated consultants rented from places like Accenture.

The only good thing to come out of IBM in years is their Hyperscan regex library and unsurprisingly they don't market it at all or build practical applications with it
Epyc as lower clock speeds and slightly lower TDP.

The fastest 16-core Epyc has 2.4/2.9 GHz (base/boost) while TR has 3.4/4.0 (4.2 GHz with XFR, also 16 cores).
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I'm currently in a small office with a small team. They hate talking. They want to do everything by chat or code review.

My point? So many factors are at play for a healthy office.
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At a guess, that's what airline decision-makers are probably thinking, too.

It doesn't have to be that way, but probably will. This is an entirely different category, but my local hardware store started publishing a number to text with any questions about home repair and whatnot, and they're actually great, responding quickly with good answers and sometimes a bit of humor. Really awesome customer service.
> Yes video conferencing doesn't use 4K as commonly as other video equipment of the same luxury class.

That's a severe understatement.
You need 40 to 50 inch display to really see the difference (which will probably still be irrelevant for videoconf purposes), otherwise you just waste money to buy a fashionable buzzword label.

> It's an example of technology being held back by low internet speeds.

Or an example of 4K resolution not being needed to see a couple of talking heads?

> The quote is from politician who is talking about this because it shows a mismatch between what's happening and how advanced telecommunications capability is defined in the statute.

There is no definition in the statute - it just says "high-quality voice, data, graphics, and video telecommunications" - what is high-quality is not defined. You can consider it 4k, 16K, 128G, whatever you like.

> Don't read too much into it. This is about faster internet, not an effort to specifically deliver 4K video conferencing to humanity.

Maybe then journalists and politicians should not use irrelevant examples? If it's about faster internet, talk about internet, not 4k video conferencing.
One thing that helps with Chrome's address bar is typing in a slash when searching for a site in your history. Suppose I visited this URL:

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

Chrome might or might not suggest it when I start typing "logn...". But if I type "/logn" it's there immediately. They're tokenizing URLs in a stupid way, apparently.
That's why programmers should work remotely. It's the best thing I've ever done for my career. Moved back from Management to IC because it was remote and it's been amazing.
It's in the sign up form; https://getkozmos.com/signup
I really miss desktop notification for Youtube or Facebook they're not available for Nightly or Firefox and all the add-ons don't work
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Indeed, the same Broadcom chip used in a bunch of Android phones and to my original point, yes Apple was not only the quickest to patch, but there's a good chance a large number of Android phones will never get a patch.
I don't disagree with what you're saying. I want to point out you are employing a classic motte-and-bailey tactic. In your initial post, you said:

> In this memo's case, perhaps you're mad at someone for saying you're genetically predisposed to be less capable of individual action

Getting mad at the memo seems like an unreasonable reaction to me, especially for the stated reason. Now you've moved to:

> There is a big difference between agreeing that some differences might exist and arguing that any token gestures for the women who DO qualify under the identical standard are unfair.

This seems wholly agreeable. I don't know what Google's policies are and I don't think Damore really managed to explain them well, to describe the negative effects of them, and to adequately argument why his propositions were better. I don't see why this is a fireable offense, but I can also support the argument that once the outrage broke out, Google's decision was logical and reasonable. But notice we've moved away from being outraged at his assertions, to just finding his conclusions questionable. Is this worth getting mad over? We are in the motte, in agreement that you should not just take what he said as gospel, throw your hands up and say "well let's dismantle all of Google's efforts", that's the essence of discussion! You can present a reasonable counter-argument to what he said, and I can certainly find many points to agree on it!

What I'm worried about though, is that once we stop talking, you will charge down to the bailey, and decry Damore as a sexist who should never have opened his mouth, because he caused people to get mad. That the science he quoted is "broscience observations" and thus he is stupid(and dangerous!) to even believe it. That somehow him making an argument precluded others from challenging him, from finding his argument unpersuasive, or presenting a counter-argument that may sway him, or others who feel like him. The discussion is already poisoned by this tactic. I believe that's what the author in this thread was trying to get at.
Yea, if the company has a terrible support process outside of tweeting, it becomes the nuclear option to get someone to actually deal with you, which is just terrible for everyone.
I agree that the current DRM laws are bad and that you should be allowed to inspect medical software in certain circumstances.

That has nothing to do with the GPL or the three freedoms though.
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I suggest guake terminal. You may spawn it in every i3 tab you're currently in. Combine with tmux or screen for maximum worlflow
Switched to DuckDuckGo completely around 3 years ago. So far so good.
The company may also decide to hire a less able man in favor of a more able woman.

Given that the vast majority of incompetent people I've worked with have been men (if not all of them), I'm surprised to see less attention to this phrasing of the problem. Maybe it is too politically incorrect to bring up?
This is quite humorous. Can I use this?
I wish that modern browsers made it possible to trust a CA certificate only for specific sites, or to pin the one used in a specific site so other CAs can't be used silently.

I also wish that more browsers supported OpenPGP certificates instead, as it is a simpler while at the same time more powerful format (allows for multiple signatures for example).
I agree. But I notice that most discussions on sexism in technology companies focus on the outcomes; gender ratios and pay gaps. It would be interesting to try to measure the bias directly. Hide a bunch of microphones in offices and see if the number of sexist comments is larger at Google than it is at a law firm or a hospital.

Perhaps somebody has already done this. What would be the correct search terms?
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Ask HN: What App Intelligence s/w do you use?
Does anyone have any recommendations on the best s/w analyze downloads etc. from the AppStore and Google Play?

I want to examine market share and size etc. for my startup so am looking at competitive apps.

I have been playing with AppAnnie, PrioriData, Apptopia, SensorTower but there seems to be an incredible amount of disparity between the stats provided so I was interested to see if anyone has used any of these (or any other) over a long period of time and can vouch for their accuracy etc.

Thanks in advance
My wife and I are currently back to using _none_ of these services for much the same reasons as everyone else (prep time, dirty dishes, small portion sizes) but I will say Blue Apron is by far the best of the lot. Their instructions made the most sense, didn't require us to scale them ourselves, the food tasted wonderful, and I learned new techniques. The rest of the services have a lot of catching up to do, so if even Blue Apron is in trouble, maybe this model isn't so sustainable at all.
Do we want the Google execs to sit there and make line-by-line technical decisions? Would you want the head of HR to tell this guy what kind of sort algorithm he should be using, or get into arguments about Go's lack of generics? Or do we expect them to defer to the smart engineers they hire?

This guy is probably a very smart software writing dude, but why would that make us want to listen to what he has to say on any other subject, whether it's biology, evolutionary psychology, running a business, or hiring practices?
iTerm2: http://www.iterm2.com/features.html
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Dr Soh was one of the Quillette authors.

> Damore has 5 who point out that he isn't making the science up

Only 4 - one of them is duplicated.
I had a great experience with SMS as customer service. I bought some pens from OfficeDepot and they didn't ship. Texted their support SMS number with my problem and upon request of my order number, I just took a picture of the order email receipt on my computer monitor. I half-expected MMS not to work with their service, but it was fine. They found the problem in a few minutes and I got a shipping confirmation.

This was a huge time saver from my perspective. No reading of order numbers, no waiting on hold, no confirmation of
order details. The real value in my situation was the delivery of my full context to the appropriate service that could help me. I think WeChat is riding this exact wave.
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You're correct, I updated my post accordingly.
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That's such horrible incentive-setting on their part--and now I really want to try it...
I was invited to an employee feedback session at Microsoft. We were asked to discuss teamwork and collaboration and float any ideas we had for changes that could be made to improve them. There were plenty of ideas, none of them involved open offices. Strangely, the consultants running the session used "different workspaces" as an example several times. After it showed up on the slides for the fourth time, I brought up the rumours about moving to open offices and said I thought it would harm productivity and wouldn't have a noticable effect on collaboration. Private offices with whiteboards and enough space for 3-4 people to stand and talk are fantastic for collaboration as-is. Several other attendees voiced their agreement. I don't recall anyone advocating for open offices. When the session ended I suggested to the senior Microsoft representative there that a survey be conducted to gauge engineer's preferences on work spaces. He said those decisions weren't in his hands (almost certainly true). I never did get such a survey.

The open offices that I did see at Microsoft were actually pretty nice - they were discrete spaces with room for ~25 desks and 2-3 meeting rooms attached. Certainly better than the spaces I've seen at startups, but still not close to individual offices in terms of pleasantness.

As for a reason, I suspect it's the same reason they unified dev and test into a single discipline. "Because that's what Facebook does."
> Ironically, the same people arguing for freedom of enterprise might be the ones needing worker protection laws for freedom of conscience.

Can you spell that out for me? I think you mean that the 'keep business free from government' leaning types might need protection from government from those businesses to avoid being punished for their very work-related ideas. I suspect if this was your argument that most of such people would continue to believe that the workplace was where to fight it out, likely by efforts to get themselves into better positions of power or otherwise simply winning.
It certainly is taking a stance (but keep in mind that this is an individual writer whose submission was accepted by McSweeneys rather than a piece by the editors). It's mocking the memo and it's also pointing out the importance of human issues. It's pointing out that corporations are tools created by and for people, and ignoring human concerns is foolish.
On a related note, I've often thought fines should be proportional to a person's means.
Is that what the PC police told you to put at the bottom of all your online posts? ;)
I'll give you my experience. Manager asked me if we could use the Watson Speech-to-text API a couple of years ago, because he was impressed with the ads he'd seen. I worked for a week. Turns out the "dialect" of spanish that is spoken in Argentina (and this was tested against porteños, not even the accents from the provinces!) is utterly unsupported. Even when speaking slowly, it'd throw a random set of words with even more random looking probabilities.

Manager was expecting that after a week we'd have something akin to Googles "hello google!" at hand, through Watson. It took a couple of coworkers to come up with even more impressive broken examples to finally convince him that the technology was bad.
From the title I thought they were going for a metaphor to describe what a cold or other virus might do. (And you're the computer.)
Sounds that you can't hear can hurt your ears. There is nothing new there and creating such a device would be pretty easy.
I have been using Alacritty for a couple of weeks now, it seems to match your wishes: https://github.com/jwilm/alacritty
You can probably set your notification preferences somewhere on your carrier's website. Unless you do that, they probably have no idea if you even have an email address.

> Text message should be used only for time-sensitive communication

That's how I use it as well, but I'm not sure we're in the majority. To the phone company, a text message is the less time sensitive way to communicate. Time sensitive communications are handled with an actual phone call.
"Coil whine": Look for chargers which don't have this problem. I've heard that Anker has chargers without this problem though I have not used them and can not, therefore, personally vouch for them.
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I can mentally ignore links, but I don't mentally ignore bold. I assume that if an author is using bold, then they're trying to tell me something really important.

But, if bolding hyperlinks becomes the "new style" of online writing, then I guess I'll have to slowly learn to desensitize myself to bolded text as well.
Great! Why should rent-seeking be reserved for the rich?
I worked there in 2007 and had my own office.
Did they really need to stick an insult at Trump in there?
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If you fly "weekly", then as long as it's a round trip of at least one segment each direction, you're going to hit 100+ segments/year. And as long as you spend enough on tickets to hit threshold, that's in at least the platinum tier of all three major US airlines, and knocking on the door of their top tier. You shouldn't be surprised that you're getting upgraded.
A lot of other similar state agencies have different names, DOT is popular, I've also seen MVD. DMV procedures are a great illustrator of bubbles; a lot of things vary wildly (for example, what happens to sequential plates when a vehicle is sold), but most people don't realize there could even be a different procedure, or if they do, they think most states do it the same way they do.
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There's something to be said for maintaining at least a semblance of decorum whilst going about his self-assigned mission to patrol the global marketplace of ideas. Sadly he just rants and raves like a ’jackass’ (as somebody else on this thread quite aptly noted).

And really, what gives him the right to act as the ultimate arbiter of what is, and what is not, ’bullshit’? What of his ongoing stream of pro-Flynn, pro-Scaramucci invective? What of the manner in which he flamed that historian?
thanks for confirming the "independent voters are the dumbest of the bunch" stereotype
It's tempting to start whispering winter is coming, but I think one may reasonably hope that the current fashions at large have enough nuance to differentiate between this particular marketing gimmick and the broader developments in ML.

Personally I'd be happy to see the paragraphs/minutes at the beginning of far too many interviews about "intelligent" machines exchanged, from straightening out the misconception that Watson is an example of this new hot "Deep Learning" thing and one of the pinnacles of achievement in the field, for some type of more valuable type of commentary from leading researchers.
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> So we shouldn't say much publicly about the group differences. Keep it quiet among intelligent people for the public safety.

That's not the point. The point is he is chalking up gender employment ratios to biology. Meanwhile, there are many socialization factors he is completely ignoring.

This is an ancient debate, nature vs. nurture, the oldest in psychology. It's been going on for centuries, and perhaps millenia, not just decades.

And, the irony is, that by arguing the cause is biology, he may be adding an additional socialization factor. Women may see this guy speaking out and decide not to work at Google because of it. That's socialization, not biological.