skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I haven't used "Dory" but am assuming that yes, questions could be read without referring to their author. I interpreted from the OP's wording that screenshots/snapshots of Dory were leaked, and these leaks would have contained names attached to questions. The Google CEO doesn't elaborate, but maybe the Googlers who expressed concerns to him were afraid that when the questions were made public, doxxers would make public the identities of the questioners?

So sure, maybe the internal Dory system should have been configured for anonymity. Come to think of it, Google should have just used its own Forms, which allows respondents to authenticate via email address, and for responses to be stored into a private, management-only spreadsheet. I think it's safe to say Google has handled many aspects of its response to Damore in a sub-optimal way.
Over half of the Finnish population supports a basic income
this here. I've spent the last couple of years working on a similar data discovery style product and after a lot of playing around with concepts I think semi-natural language descriptions typed and also generated based on your manual data selection can be really useful.

If I'm speaking i have to finish the whole thought and deal with excluding all my "uuhms" and half thoughts. If I'm typing i can intellisense prompt for relevant things. Correlate Sales with _[Discounts, ...]. I think terse natural langage descriptions of data views are really useful aside from voice.

Incidentally nothing like trying to play around with this stuff to make you super self conscious about uuh how you speak.
What ever happened with that ruling in, I think, 2013 that the Treaty of Hidalgo allowed him to close land access to the beach, and that the Treaty had priority over the California constitution? I remember reading that this was being appealed, but have not seen what happened to that.
Because people are arrogantly overconfident when it comes to their understanding of legal precedence.
This article is so well written I am left wondering what happens if the tide completely reverses and it becomes overwhelmingly clear that Google should not have fired him.
It's more that progress has become more incremental, while most of the low-hanging fruit has already been picked (as in other disciplines). But progress has not stopped.

For example, contrast what the 1996 and 2011 editions of the Garbage Collection Handbook have to say on (hard) real-time garbage collection. Real-time GC has seen a lot of progress since 2000.

And there have been also plenty of discoveries in other areas. For example, Monte-Carlo tree search, as used by Go-playing programs, is about a decade old [1].

[1] https://hal.inria.fr/inria-00116992/document
Count me as part of the strange group that is dismayed at the quality but for some reason I can't fully explain, keeps showing up.

I've had an account since late 2000 (yes, 17 years). I still read Metafilter pretty much every day, but I have gotten to where I will not comment, because I recognize that I do not think the "right" way. I've made perhaps two comments in the last 6 years. I frequently will type up a comment but then erase it without clicking save, because I know my thoughts would not be welcome.

For example, when the thread[1] about the Democratic National Convention was underway last summer, I noticed the thread was up for 48 hours, had over 3000 comments, and barely any mention of the resignation of the DNC chair (Debbie Wasserman Schultz), which had occurred just a few days prior. Go ahead and look through that that thread now (it's long since closed). There are a grand total of four mentions of Schultz's name. That's it, out of more than 3000 total comments. That's really strange, isn't it? The chair of one of the two major US party resigning a few days before their presidential convention is highly unusual and really should garner a bit more conversation, one would think. I'm sure if the chair of the RNC had resigned a few days before the Republican convention, there would have been more than just four comments about it. I was about to point this out, but then I realized that if they wanted to talk about it, they already would have. No one wanted to hear it. The groupthink is just that strong. Shut up and toe the party line (in every sense).

I also see other folks commenting here saying Metafilter's moderation is good and that poor comments are removed, but then I frequently see things like this comment, which is the first response to a post[2] about the recently-leaked climate change report:

> thank god i'll be dead by then. enjoy your eternal life on a cinder, peter thiel

That was allowed to remain (and has multiple "favorites"), because it's apparently okay if the Earth is ruined and everyone dies, as long as some techbro Metafilter doesn't like gets what's coming to him. That's what passes for "quality" on Metafilter these days, along with near-daily posts about how horrible white people are.[3]

And yet I can't look away. I'm still there reading it every day. Don't ask me why.

[1] http://www.metafilter.com/161201/Chase-the-Clouds-Away

[2] http://www.metafilter.com/168710/Very-High-Confidence

[3] http://www.metafilter.com/168715/White-Americans-are-probabl...
They should be careful to hire someone they can trust, and they should probably hold onto the ignition keys...
No it's not. Illegally holding on to property that's not yours isn't leverage - its theft and leaves you open to prosecution. If you have a contract with someone and they're in breach then the courts provide you an avenue for relief - not blackmail.
Do you know where the gtfs file is located by default? I know a bus company in Argentina that has that info somewhere and Google.is using it in maps but I couldn't find the gtfs file.

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I do agree. It can work and when you've put the time into designing it to work then it can feel fairly magical, but there's a point at which you feel like you're almost pre-creating all the queries for users.
Show HN: @foodscoutbot – a Slack bot that picks nearby restaurants for you
Chinese App Developers File Antitrust Complaint Against Apple
basically, with real estate info easily accessible these days, agents do not worth 6% anymore, they might be worthing 1% for paperwork and some very basic consultation, but that's it, in my opinion, that can also be eliminated, we should be able to buy house like buying a car, or like buying items from the supermarket, because, 6% is too much these days.
Bad. Lossy -> Lossy transcoding will always introduce artifacts. Unless the origin source is lossless. (Actually lossless, not a file someone transcoded to a lossless format from a lossy origin)
I type 60-70 WPM with 2-4 fingers lol
> as I scientist I am very uninterested in AI based on neural nets because of the lack of explication

Neural nets are more like reflexes than reasoning. Most of them are feed forward and some don't even have memory and can't solve references. So it's unfair to expect a job that is best done based on graphs or on memory-attention to be done by a rudimentary system that only knows to map X to y.

But they are not totally unexplainable - you can get gradients on the data and see what parts of the input data most influenced the output, then you can perturb the inputs to see how the output would change.
People are failing to recognize that it doesnt matter what percentage of programs fail/succeed. The metric that matters is the ROI on programs. If 25% of programs succeed, giving a 100x ROI, then they more than make up for the failed programs.
Unless we know a better way (UBI seems promising) to help people, then programs seem to be the best bet.

The problem is that people hear "75% of programs fail" and think "Dont start programs". This is like saying "75% of businesses fail therefore do not start a business" .
Using Convolutional Neural Networks to Speed Up Systems
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You need to debounce
I will dig up some old projects...

Does anyone know if XCMDs are supported?
I was about to make the same mistake yesterday , but I had written a validation function that would check inside a folder only, and fortunately I did not upload the file in that folder. And the next morning , I read this article...
Man I gotta be careful LOL
Even that is a throwback to Turbo Pascal - you type "fp" in the shell (on Windows, after adding C:\FPC\bin or equivalent to your PATH).
> I'm not talking about tesla power walls - although they would go some way to smoothing the troughs for solar.

Tesla has some of the largest utility scale battery storage systems in the world deployed:

http://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-powerpack-uses-2017-7/#...
If they don't acknowledge the first text the answer is to send another much more extreme text? Why not just a reminder of the first text? Or call them? Or talk to them in person, because he seems to have been there in person.

If they missed the first text there's a good chance they might miss the second text as well.
My project http://www.fractalide.com is looking to build out a new hypercard type environmont
I think you're glossing over many accomplishments in ML. It's not just vision that is successful. There's NLP, optimization, ranking, voice, speech, recommendations and many other tasks that work well.

You say the limiting factor is data. But there has been a trend in the last 2 years to run ML on data generated from simulations (games, auto, chemical bonds, robots in VR, AlphaGo, etc). Simulations are dynamic datasets with unlimited flexibility. The better we learn to simulate, the closer we will get to reasoning. Both simulations and reasoning are based on object-relation graphs for describing the scene.

My vision is that we will build better, more precise simulators that would allow an AI to input a problem and run experiments and search ("what happens if"). Just like AlphaGo, but for the real world. A combination of neural nets for "intuition" and simulators for precision would solve the problem.

Simulators could be of many kinds: chemical molecule simulator, cell simulator, physical simulator, city traffic simulator, car simulator, flight simulator, and so on. Basically what's been the object of activity of supercomputing, but this time with neural nets selecting the experiments.
Yeah. I was thinking more like C (with possibly glib as the object model), so that it can then be wrapped in Python etc.
This article also favors AMD

http://www.techradar.com/news/ryzen-threadripper-16-core-pro...
TIL about Ablative Armour, thanks for the interesting read.

Isn't turning the ship at those speeds nearly impossible? You'd either have to slow the entire ship down first (the whole idea) or burn a ton of fuel to turn it while accelerating at a percentage of light speed, while avoiding debis and the spaceships engines explosions. I believe this is why scientists researching this prefer magnetic sails as a means to slow down. Or maybe an alternative engine scheme that doesn't require doing a 360 turn.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ablative_armor
Mine does. It's good to occasionally try out new recipes but otherwise it's only shaving 5 minutes off my shopping.
Anecdotally, my almost four-year old Surface Pro 2 is still a perfect dev machine.
> Employment here is based solely upon individual merit and qualifications directly related to professional competence. We strictly prohibit unlawful discrimination or harassment on the basis of race, color, religion, veteran status, national origin, ancestry, pregnancy status, sex, gender identity or expression, age, marital status, mental or physical disability, medical condition, sexual orientation, or any other characteristics protected by law. We also make all reasonable accommodations to meet our obligations under laws protecting the rights of the disabled.

From the code of conduct. "XX% of hiring must be of phenotype Y" is in direct violation of the code of conduct. "If two candidates of phenotype X and Y are equally qualified, prefer the X candidate" is in direct violation of the code of conduct. "Target hiring search based on phenotype X" is in direct violation of the code of conduct.

Edit. "women-in-tech initiatives" _are not_ a form of discrimination. Phenotype-based hiring and promotion policies _are_.

Edit2. There is no such thing as protected groups under law. There are only protected characteristics. For example, sex. One can't discriminate on the basis of sex, _either_ female or male. Favoring females is de-favoring males, thus discrimination.
Touchboard: http://www.timelabs.io/touchboard
Open source app for iPad to send keys to your pc / mac.
I use it for gaming, I really find it useful, here is a video of it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1KOUj9SK_c

I've also made CbrConverter: https://github.com/timefrancesco/cbr-converter

Coverts pdf to cbr and vice versa.

And then there are a bunch of other small projects like:

- Ebay Search Scheduler (schedule Ebay searches with custom parameters)

- Twitter Time Machine (download and browse your twitter timeline) https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/tweet-time-machine-2/id83212... - windows version also available

- Autosleep (put the windows down for good) https://github.com/timefrancesco/autosleep

And many others I really enjoyed making and using.
>DDG also has a great inline weather "app" using DarkSky (which is an underrated weather site, IMO)[3]. Searching for businesses/restaurants shows a mini map ala OpenStreetMap (or other providers if you choose) and business information from Yelp

Do you know a way to get inline dusk and dawn times (like weather has) for a specific zip code?
It seems like you are just dancing around with the definition of "equal capacity" so that you can say things that seem to contradict the points discussed, while not contradicting them, but also not admitting that they are correct.

There are women that are just as good marines as men, and there are women that are just as physically fit as men. However, despite this, it's entirely possible that statistically fewer women pass. You haven't denied this empirical data nor tried to argue that it is purely for cultural reasons that fewer women can pass these physical fitness tests. So it's possible that fewer women end up in a profession for purely biological reasons, you are conceding?

Similarly, it's possible that there are women (many women) who are just as good or better programmers than many men, and enjoy it just as much and are equally capable. But, that when you look at the averages, fewer women prefer it. Then, part of that relative difference could be explained by biological factors.

Again, this is not a complicated argument. There's no evidence to suggest that biological factors account for 100% of the gender gap in developers but there's also not much evidence to suggest that any factor accounts for 100% of the gap. It's likely to be a combination of factors, and we should try to honestly understand how big a role each one plays.
ScalaQuest
Good point, and I guess it would be up to the employee to negotiate more $ for their office (if possible).
I discovered the historic CHIP-8 architecture and decided to write the mother of all CHIP-8 apps, including an interactive dev environment for it:

https://github.com/tallforasmurf/CHIP8IDE
In addition to some random, minor bits of free software and one larger bit that's nowhere near finished, I have for years kept a goofy little minimalist thing going just to have it in the world:

http://thislikethat.com

It costs me almost nothing, I check in on it a few times a year, and once in a while I find something fun there.
Little Bobby Tables grew up...
I used https://github.com/magicmonty/bash-git-prompt for a long time - it's a bunch of bash scripts that show git info for directories that are git repositories.

I've since switched to the fish shell (https://fishshell.com/) which has this built in.

It doesn't matter which shell you use, all the common ones have some kind of plugins or extensions for that.
Most startups fail. We'd better shut down YCombinator!
Smaller than Russian losses during WWII.
Wow! Hard to believe I would ever, ever, ever see AMD on the top of that list! Amazing! Forget about the price, just amazing to see AMD at the top, now factor in the price and wow Intel is screwed. Not because of this one release, but because they are getting pounded from all angles.

Intel's strategy of limiting the PCI throughput to hold GPU manufactures back is over, and these AMD cpu's are going to be paired super well with GPU makers, mostly Nvidia but of course their own ATI, which is really going to making Intel look sad soon. Boat loads of major players have been irked by Intel holding back PCI throughput, AMD let it rip, and "thread ripped" too!
Personally love .NET and Visual Studio development, especially when I was forced back into Java recently. I'm not a huge fan of Windows 10 and but I really would love to stay in the development ecosystem for the foreseeable future.

That being said if they ever put out a fully functional VS for linux, I'd switch in a heartbeat.
Heath includes a chapter "Euclid in Arabia" detailing the various translations from Greek to Arabic.
How do we even know you work there?
Pence is pretty clearly saying smoking is bad for you.

>This is not to say that smoking is good for you.... news flash: smoking is not good for you. If you are reading this article through the blue haze of cigarette smoke you should quit.
Thanks, I actually did read the memo and did also follow up on the sources.
What you call "topics Metafilter doesn't do well" I call "same-old rehashes." They're topics the world doesn't do well. It's a feature of the site, not a bug.
What's your argument exactly? Saving more people will worsen the climate situation?
> ... what the Web could have been... If never became as easy to create high quality freeform sites and apps...

You're writing as if it's too late. It's not!

What the Web has going for it today are ubiquity, multimedia capabilities, and the ability to deploy applications with no end-user installation step. There has never been a platform as advanced on these three axes as the Web today. This is a really big deal.

As you highlighted, the missing piece is the creation environment. If only someone could create an accessible, freeform, code-backed interaction design tool for the modern web, learning from forebears like Hypercard and Flash, and respecting/leveraging modern creatives' & engineers' tools of the trade.

Sounds crazy. But that hasn't stopped us from chasing this dream at Haiku: https://haiku.ai
I definitely remember making a hypercard stack that served an ore deposit data base over the internet. That was about 1995
That sounds like a very interesting story!

Care to share (if possible) how you ended up showing your game to Bill Gates when you were 14? Hiw old was he at that time?
Paul Allen provided a lot of the funding for SETI Institute's radio array design and construction, but operational budget has been really tough.

It's not quite enough to build the instruments. We have to fund the ongoing science, too. Philanthropy does play a role here, too, of course: endowments for academic research, but generally not as inspiring as making Very Large objects.
I guess I'll be the unpopular opinion and say I enjoyed reading the few stories that caught my attention. They weren't as in depth as I had hoped, but it's still interesting to see how managers deal with situations. The airplane and kite bit had me cringing a little but I see what he was going for there.
My podcast was featured on the front page of iTunes. Here's what happened.
That sounds like a very interesting story!

Care to share how did you end up showing your game to Bill Gates? How old was he at the time?
What is the state of the art concerning security of Jupyter? As it provides in essence a remote shell it's vulnerable to local privilege escalation.

Some people "sandbox" it in Docker (and this is controversial AFAIK), but although I like the notebook UI, I don't want to give people a "native" shell just to do some data exploration.
I co-founded and run a makerspace called SparkCC (http://sparkcc.org).

It's not-for-profit but I've met lots of amazing people. I've been able to use my skills and knowledge to help many of them and many of them have used their skills and knowledge to help me. It's fantastic...:)
Why does the same criticism not apply to brain cells?
This is no excuse to sue their investee. WORST VCs ever. This will serve as a cautionary tale to avoid working with benchmark.
Electricity doesn't usually have carbon in it. It's more convenient to push electrons back and forth in a wire than it is to push carbon atoms back and forth.
I don't know about the sicko slur, but I run it on Basilisk II from time to time if it will be useful.
HyperCard was my first foray into programming at the Christa McAuliffe Space Education Center - Apparently Starfleet runs on HyperCard, [here's a video][1] showing the program in action. Most of the software in the video is built in HyperCard.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XG2lSb1xrNM "Four Hours: A Space Trip"
Huh, a README that doesn't even attempt to explain what the project is.
I've experimented with grid layout; I like the Kinesis Advantsge. Would you mind sharing? Which brand works well for you?
Is this essentially just scraped data from pages like this? Visa_requirements_for_United_States_citizens
Probably a lot of Uber drivers, who are not employees, choose to list themselves as such.
Wow that's an unfortunate bug. It's fixed now, sorry about that. Email me once you've signed up and I'll give you a discount (say, 100%).
> But I notice that most discussions on sexism in technology companies focus on the outcomes; gender ratios and pay gaps.

It's a specific instance of the more general manage-by-metrics disease. The thing you actually want is hard to measure, but it correlates with something that is easy to measure. So instead of doing the hard work to understand what is actually happening in detail, they measure the easy thing and optimize for that instead. Even though doing that frequently breaks the original correlation.

The result is the bureaucracy edition of a paperclip maximizer. You get what you measure instead of what you really want. Or bang your head against the wall, if the thing you measured is actually stickier than the real problem.

> t 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.

To some extent this is just the same disease. Is sexism supposed to be alright if it turns out there are equally large amounts in both places? Should we be satisfied that it's the root of the problem if there is very little at Google but even less somewhere else?

Stop trying to measure things against other things and just consider them in their own right. Sexism is bad regardless of how common it is. You don't fight it because there is more of it over here than over there, you fight it everywhere because it exists when it shouldn't exist.
Yes they did. The post was on an internal board which, if I understand right, was in response to a question by Google management about their diversity practices.
K, cool nbd.. we'll just move on and call the next person on the list
I enjoyed hearing the firsthand stories from various managers. I like that they are organized into a template of problem statement, lessons learned etc. with summaries and are very concise and to the point. I like that they are filterable too. Reminds me of the old antipatterns catalog http://wiki.c2.com/?AntiPatternsCatalog
You know why the FizzBuzz test is used? It's because a lot of senior devs with 10 years of experience really can't code a solution. They work at companies that don't do FizzBuzz style tests.