skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is a big difference between going on Facebook to talk shit about your employer and what happened here. The memo writer asked for feedback on his memo and was ignored. He tried again and again to get feedback on his opinion internally until turning to the Google internal 'skeptic' community. The skeptics doesn't quite like what he wrote so they strung him up and made an example of him. He was encouraged to give feedback like this so that the company could react to internal problems and self correct before they became worse. In a collective sense Google is acting like a child by refusing to address this problem and their reaction will alienate employees more than this memo ever could.

On a personal rant, I've contracted for Google doing software architecture on a few projects. They do have practices which mildly disgust me. Stuff like flagging people as 'diverse' and making sure the correct number of diverse people are in attendance.
Does AWS Console have much that needs blocking? Seems a reasonable place to simply turn off uMatrix. You could also simply use a second browser with uBlock Origin for a limited number of sites - I tend to do that for a lot of checkout /payment options where the repeated reloads of whitelisting in uMatrix could be troublesome.
Jim is known for retaliating against his employees. That's why we got rid of him at MSFT and then Google... He is happy enjoying his millions in stock units and 100% bonus target. What did you expect? SOP.
My guess is that the test referred to is the 'StrengthsFinder' which you need to buy, but can take online [1]. Probably more info available by Googling that term.

What frequently happens is companies buy this and then Gallup consults with the company to design a behavior profile which the company thinks reflects successful traits in their environment.

[1] https://www.gallupstrengthscenter.com/
Effectively this is what Utah's new non-compete laws achieve. You won't leave if you can't work at another company in your field.
Our IT department has been talking about Watson for a while but I never could get anything out of them what it's really supposed to do. From what I can tell it's a very slick marketing term with some mediocre tech behind it.
Previously:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14846506

I'm afraid not much has been improved since then.

This is not a good learning source.
I imagine he is deeply knowledgeable.

My criticism of him is a separate, but similar, issue. I believe that he misses some of the social aspects of modern life, and that's why he views certain innocuous proprietary behaviors as totally damning. Based on his occasional emails to other members of the MIT community, he also seems to have a lack of empathy for people (not just organizations) who don't share his disdain for non-free things.

Not to mention that I find it difficult to see eye to eye with any man who would use a public urinal without shoes on.
I like the downvote I got. It reinforces the point I made about humans being emotional creatures!
I live in the Bay Area and Blue Apron is on thin ice with us right now. Their quality control got really bad right around the time of their IPO. Now nearly every week we have missing ingredients and/or leaking containers. We had no problems for 2 years and now it's pretty much constant! They are always pretty responsive with a credit commensurate to what the damage to the meal is, but this is basically the worst possible time for them to be screwing up like this.
Digitized Stethoscopes, Heart and Asthma Monitors? There’s an App for That
Ask HN: Which helpdesk/ticketsystem do you use?
I'm looking for a flexible and easy to use helpdesk software with email and team support (saas or self-hosted).

Which is your favorite? What do you love? And what do you hate?
It is obvious that you guys on the left share the same manuals, since you also come up with the "history's dustbin" and "trash opinions". You learn your words and hammer them consistently.
At least you get props for that. :)

No pressure to exhibit coherent and consistent argumentation.
As I said, it depends on the circumstances, but I am sure a lot of "hey would you like to grab lunch sometime" end up as a number in those harassment statistics.

It is also a very one-sided narrative, omitting the advantages that being attractive also brings.
A use case for Go Generics in a Go compiler
ANY BUSINESS YOU START IS Not a STARTUP
What if you live in NYC where a coworking membership is around $500 a month and an office $1000?
Apologies for the off-topic, but does anyone know a nice simple terminal emulator to use with tiling window managers such as i3? I'm using the xfce terminal right now, but that supports tabs which gets a little confusing since so does i3.
An interesting video showing some features of NeXTSTEP, on which GNUStep is based:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGhfB-NICzg
Are Semi-Autonomous Cars Making Us Worse Drivers? – MIT Technology Review
> If you intimidate enough employees via a widespread memo, you will get fired.

Which part of the memo was intimidating, harassing, or illegal? Which part promoted biases?

> As an example, would anyone expect to keep their job if they published a memo with "Blacks on average are [insert negative here]."

No, but that's because of my low expectation of fairness from corporate leadership and middle management, not because I think that opinion is harassing, intimidating, or illegal. I suppose you could argue that it promotes bias, but then you'd have to make the case that it wasn't true. Otherwise it would be reality with the bias, right?
While I wish them success, npm-the-company has been a big disappointment. npm-the-tool is vital to NodeJS, and it's telling that big players in the industry had to bypass npm by releasing yarn.
Epic systems
Like it or not, there is a real tangible productivity factor that comes into play if someone is not a good personality fit in a given team dynamic.

If you have a bunch of quiet, homebody people and then introduce a new brash and loud team member - irrespective of talents, you could see a massive drop in worker happiness and productivity.
Meyers-Briggs is also incredibly easy to game if you know what they're looking for. Not as bad as those silly "ethics tests" some crappy entry-level jobs give ("You see a coworker stealing merchandise. Do you a) punch them, b) tell a manager as soon as possible, c) join them in stealing, d) smoke a joint and forget about it?") but not much better.

Guessing you'd be able to nail what they wanted for office jobs by just picking the organized/responsible/social/intellectual options every time you could, in roughly that order of priority.
Legacy Oracle Applications Won't Be Around Forever. Will You? Webinar with IOUG
Meet Shkendija, Milan’s Rival on the Way to Europa League
I'm really curious as to why you put qualitative in quotes.
Bundle up for the second AI Winter...
Yes, I find that quote quite offensive.

This page is not from the official GNUStep project, and doesn't seem to be written by a GNUStep developer. However the quote is from a comment by web developer associated with GNUStep. That's unfortunate.
Absolutely! Additionally, if we are able to create more cases where this inherently collaborative delivery leads to better software then it would unlock real economic growth. Unfortunately, these are ultimately hard people problems.
I'd say if you put a picture of yourself in pjs on your supposedly professional website, it is fair game.
Even though in this case the software vulnerability was introduced by the researchers, this is still a very innovative proof of concept that combines techniques from biochemistry and computer security.
I don't think you read what I wrote, unfortunately.

Yes, on the topic you selected, grip strength, almost all men are going to be stronger than any women.

To go back to running though. You missed for instance where I said "men are naturally going to typically faster runners than men", which also is true. If you look at this large dataset of compiled 5K pace times, (http://www.pace-calculator.com/5k-pace-comparison.php), you will see that men have a very distinct advantage at all levels (usually a minute and a half pace difference on average).

But you cannot say "almost all men are going to run faster than women", due to the wide spread of pace. There are a significant amount of women capable of an 8 minute / mile pace; this pace is faster than the male average 5K pace at any age.

Nature is important; so is environmental factors. By mentioning that environmental factors exist, I am not dismissive of biological differences. I do think particularly on things like personality, intelligence, and other non-physical traits, it is fairly difficult to pick out what causes what. Testosterone / estrogen traits are fairly easy, we can see the results. Debugging the brain on the other hand is a lot harder.

I did not mention patriarchy or imperialism or feminism. I mention eugenics and tribalism because of the sordid history of this sort of thing; it's a serious warning flag to not rush to conclusion. You can say what you want and think what you want, but I personally would not take any person who does not recognize this warning flag very seriously, to be honest.

In theory, nothing should be out of bounds; in practice, this type of conversation easily degrades into tribalism, which yes I believe human beings are very prone to. (I mean, why else bring up feminism / left wing / patriarchy / imperialism? I didn't mention any of this.) That's not to say "don't discuss this", but I'm not going to say anything else if bringing up the fact that environmental factors exist turns me into some sort of left-wing caricature. :)
Intel building 100 Level 4 self-driving cars, wraps up Mobileye acquisition
Better to quickly evaporate than deal with fighting for food or water. So I would rather move to the center in case nukes start flying around.
Minimal depending on location. In the USA, worst we have heard about is tracking cookies and injected notifications. In China, for example, malware injection has occurred from ISP's ad networks.
Filecoin Token Sale Economics [pdf]
> There is no masterplan and no pushback.

I don't think there's a masterplan or some anti-functional conspiracy, but I do think there's pushback. They implemented the feature behind a flag but from what I've read (can't find the reference now), they are not planning to ever release it.
If you're speaking of the Healthcare Giant based in Wisconsin, I believe you share an office with one other person.

Or at least on the Verona campus. It's been a while since I've been around those parts.
Actual paper: http://dnasec.cs.washington.edu/dnasec.pdf
I feel like scientists are intentionally doing things hey know will generate clickbait headlines. It's probably good for funding.
In the mid 90s I answered an ad to tech some guy Autocad. He lived outside Seattle - and had a very large, rather eccentric house in the woods.

I'd go over a couple times a month to teach him autocad so he could design the various add-on projects he wanted to do to his house.

In a side garage, he had two brand new, mint condition minis that had never been driven. They were beautiful.

I tried to convince him that I'd teach him autocad full time in exchange for one of the minis.

That didn't work; what he told me was that in the 60s he'd been over in the U.K., and that he had two shipping containers loaded with minis and shipped them back to the US - he sold them off over time, but he kept the two.

One he was about to start driving - and the other he said will never be driven "it's going to be my coffin, I am going to be buried in it"
> MIRV are fucking terrifying.

I agree. How one can work on such things is beyond my ability to comprehend.
Flipkart Raises $2.5Bn from SoftBank Vision Fund
I would hope most companies that consider software to be their core business give programmers offices, even if they have to share those offices with another person on the same team. Most companies that do not often consider programmers secondary to their core business, which is a good reason not to work there if you have a choice.
Microsoft Open Source Deep Learning Annotation Tool Adds Tensorflow Support
UEFI? It's nice that Windows automatically finds an ESP and tosses it's bootloader on there but I wish there was some user input on the issue. It does the same thing even if you give it a separate disk.
Fujitsu Bets on Deep Learning and HPC Divergence
> At which point did mediocrity spread from AMD?

Based on the benchmarks, the $500 AMD Ryzen 7 matches the performance of the $1723 Intel i7 6950x.

Is this what you call mediocre? Getting the same performance for less than 1/3 of the price is being mediocre nowadays?
I like how IBM does very elaborate marketing ploys to hype their wares: like Deep Blue competing against Kasparov and Watson competing against Jennings to showcase IBM's engineering prowess. But it does sell the idea pretty well I think, but perhaps the idea is too grand/far ahead of the present.
I'm all for better customer service, especially as a customer.

But I question the motives - is it a way to improve customer service or is it really just a shroud to help cut down on the "social media dirty laundry" posts?

As much as I applaud the idea of quick issue-resolution via text, I don't think texting will actually solve 90% of the issues customers face.
Not just beijing, but other big northern cities as well. Hell even "small" cities. River fronts along songhua on all the cities around there have >>30 story apartment complexes with like 5-20 identical buildings each. One of them uses giant lights to make a sort of pixelated movie screen at night, which only passably works cus the buildings are all the same and run by the same complex.

Very much not just a southern thing.
Crédit Mutuel (a french bank) has adopted Watson [0] and it's not encouraging : it was supposed to help answering emails, : they had to describe manually the concepts in emails and create topics in which looks a lot like decision-trees (and reminds me of this 1985 ad for Texas Instrument's Lisp AI https://www.scientificamerican.com/media/inline/blog/File/De... scroll to see the ad)

Indeed the whole thing looks like a database with basic AI as a sales argument...

[0 - in french] http://www.silicon.fr/credit-mutuel-non-ia-watson-magique-17...
The network lockin effect is very strong, sadly.

This is why such sites without real alternatives should be controlled by society, and not by companies where two people hold the majority of voting rights.
Now, this could be because I'm Swedish and here it's taken as self evident truth that you should have a smörgåsbord of benefits, but if they're having problems beating the benefits offered in Silicon Valley, their solution is to invest money into finding people who are equally skilled but don't value security and work-life benefits as much as money? Shouldn't this instead be a signal that work-life balance and security is highly sought after among skilled individuals, and that if the competition can offer it so should they?

You'd think that being economists they would look at their counterparts in Silicon Valley and the Nordic Countries, especially their outstanding economic performance, and think "hmmm, maybe we don't have to reinvent the wheel after all, maybe we should try out these benefit thingies that are proven to work?". This test looks more like the answer to "can we find other people to validate our opinion that everything's fine?".
Spammer Infrastructure Analysis
I am naive for sure.

Would a hotel reservations agent google my name to find information? No.

Would an abb or home away person google me? Maybe - probably?

No reason individuals could book rooms independently in a hotel.
Amazon to build a network of mobile drone maintenance and delivery platforms
Implication means not explicit. Thus it's up to your interpretation. The context also can affect the implications, including the author's actions after the publication (his interviews on YouTube).
Sharing with one person is still better than a cube or open plan.
You have 12 months to prove yourself after your seed round
> That's why I think it is bad to speak of muslim people, as if that defined them the most.

Lots of people primarily identify by their religious affiliations. I think that's fair.

> Your sex and skin colour is given, your religion can change.

Ask a Muslim which will change first: their gender, their skin color, or whether Mohammed was Allah's prophet.

All that being said, your point about religion and race being separate categories is fair and well taken.
Friend, all the money is the world cannot undo environmental damage. Your tax dollars for gas are for revenue, not to offset environmental damage. Accepting this is very important.

If you have any doubts, throw all your greenbacks into a volcano and let us know if it stops erupting.
He may have realised it any did it anyway.
Most people programming in National Labs get offices, though you might need to share with one person. If you are in the bay area, think about SLAC or LBNL.
BUT! This comes with some caveats... check glassdoor. Be cautious and don't undervalue yourself.
> Instart Logic tech which works around blockers

Hadn't heard about this, but this is why I still keep long blacklist in my /etc/hosts file even though I use uBlock Origin also.

Out of habit I get mine from http://winhelp2002.mvps.org/hosts.htm. Not sure it's the best one, but I started using it years ago when I was still using Windows and have just stuck with it.
Whatever Troy says is true. But for bloggers, please know this. The RSS 2.0 spec specifies that the feed url must be http url (and not https). So if you want your feed url should validate (which is a requirement for certain aggregators like AllTop), then it has to be http.

I wrote my experience of moving my blog to https about it here: https://jjude.com/cost-of-https/
Using Java 8 Streams to Process Large Amounts of Data
IBM Highlights PowerAI, OpenPower System Scalability
The StarCraft 1 BroodWar AI scene has been thriving for a few years now: https://sscaitournament.com/
You can watch 24/7 live AI vs AI games on Twitch at: https://www.twitch.tv/sscait
Support for voting on who to play next and even a betting system are in place, too. For those who wish to get their feet wet with BW AI development, here are the Java / C++ tutorials: https://sscaitournament.com/index.php?action=tutorial
I might say that some parts of code can perform differently depending on the style of source code.
Load up tmux in xfce terminal? Will give you persistance also
It's an unreasonable reading. If you read past the tl;dr you see that none of the differences in traits he talks about are about ability, just interest, so interpreting it as "women aren't as good" is wrong.
I am collecting articles about the cybersecurity, and create weekly aggregated article about them. For example:

https://www.malgregator.com/week-31-2017.html
I've noticed the same in the NYC area: the last few weeks I've had ingredients crushed which has never happened before.

They've also been spamming me with discounts to the wine club only to tell me that they can't legally deliver in NY when I tried to sign up. Don't they know where I live?

I hope they can recover because I do truly like the product and I think they're the best right now (a margin better than Hello Fresh, leagues better than Plated)
I think you're right. Even Reason (a libertarian mag) had editors making the case for Sanders as the best libertarian option from the choices available.

People I know who were not normally political were volunteering for Sanders. He had the groundswell populism that could have gone against Trumps.
Wildcard certificate would not help, that only refers to validity, not destination host.
It's contribution; it's not supposed to cover the full cost.
> You are kicking and screaming against anything that upsets your viewpoint on this issue.

Interesting. So in this case I shouldn't debate anyone here. Because somehow that makes me wrong because... By not agreeing my worldview is small?

> that any discrimination based on age, gender, or race is absolutely not tolerated.

Honestly, I genuinely do not believe that many people here believe this. I think they find excuses for men at every turn or rationalize marginalizing women need (e.g., as I write this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14980201) That is part of _my_ larger point about how the natural response on HN is to say, "Well if you had handled this correctly we wouldn't be in a situation where it looks like sexual harassment."

> So can we argue on these specifics or am I just a bully and a bigot for holding a different opinion?

I want you to re-read this paragraph and ask yourself what the premise here is. This thread starts by saying, "We should debate." I point out how dismissive this often I'd on HN and your response is, "You're kicking and screaming and just as guilty as James. Now, agree with me in total OR call me names."

I don't know if you're a bigot, but this is a poor tactic to adopt when coupled with the ultimatum: "Or am I a bully?"
That can be a reasonable reading, but I don't see what's so controversial about it.

Would you agree that women are naturally physically weaker than men, and this makes for a convincing argument why you would expect more men doing physically demanding jobs? Is this a controversial statement to make?

A difference in traits does not even have to produce a difference in ability to produce a difference in representation. Some of the traits Damore listed allegedly lead women to value a better work/life balance, to focus more on family, etc, which naturally means they would have a lower representation in highly competitive, career-based environments. None of the traits Damore listed seem to discuss "engineering ability", but they do affect all the other skills you need to thrive in the environment.

(This is assuming that the science Damore laid out is sound, which I can't really vouch for, as I am a layman in those fields. However, most of the arguments against Damore seem to be focused on his logical conclusions, rather than the factual basis behind them - e.g. KirinDave seemed to focus on how unfair Damore's conclusions were, rather than how wrong his quoted research was).
Jim Parsons on how you can take part in clinical research