skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The OP doesn't refer to "online criticism". The second sentence of the lede refers to "online harassment":

> Google CEO Sundar Pichai has canceled the company’s much anticipated meeting to talk about gender issues today. The move came after some of its employees expressed concern over online harassment they had begun to receive after their questions and names have been published outside the company on a variety of largely alt-right sites.

The OP cites the letter as claiming that "our Dory questions appeared externally this afternoon, and on some websites Googlers are now being named personally":

> We had hoped to have a frank, open discussion today as we always do to bring us together and move forward. But our Dory questions appeared externally this afternoon, and on some websites Googlers are now being named personally. Googlers are writing in, concerned about their safety and worried they may be “outed” publicly for asking a question in the Town Hall.

Dory is Google's Q&A software [0]. It's possible, and likely, that the Googler's who have written in "concerned about their safety" have asked that their questions be withdrawn, which reduces the efficacy of the town hall's Q&A format.

[0] http://searchengineland.com/google-moderator-aka-dory-launch...
I think traditional currency can remain solvent longer than cryptocurrency can remain irrational.
Court to billionaire Martins Beach owner: Open the gate
Very interesting. Keep up the good work.
More than once I've seen "experienced senior developers" who write code in Microsoft Word and then don't understand why the smart quotes cause compiler errors on their string literals.
lot of opportunities similar to this. Flag satellite images with villages appearing to be poor. Parachute down donated supplies automatically with drones. Just randomly send bits of wealth across poor villages in africa/india
Just to let you know - The page shows no quote in IE11 (hail corporate) ;(

Also, 'Show More' button does nothing.

http://imgur.com/a/QAB7f
Cool idea! Went through the "check symptoms" channel and came across a few things...

(1)
Generally slightly more scrolling than I'd like. I'm on a MBPro 13" and if I have more than 1 symptom then I have to scroll down to see what they are (should I decide to remove some).

What does help is that the "Possible Matches" button is just high enough for me to not have to scroll to notice it pop up. Something to keep an eye on if more things get added to this page since it'll be important for users to know when the questions they're answering are leading to possible matches.

(2)
Clicking "X" to remove my single symptom brings me back to the check symptoms starting point. This makes sense, but I noticed there's a message on that page that says "Something went wrong in the browser -- please try again."

Would suggest only having that error message appear if user got there because of an actual error (seems to be a result of reusing a page for multiple purposes).

https://www.myhealthwiz.com/symptoms?status=restart

(3)
Got to this question: "Do your symptoms begin during your period or a few days before?"

But the options were Yes, No, and Don't Know. Doesn't really match what the question was asking.

https://www.myhealthwiz.com/healthwiz_symptom_question?gende...

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Otherwise, great work! Here are a few things I really liked:

- Being able to see the original symptoms I added and the option to remove them

- Seeing potential matches appear as I answer clarifying questions

- Estimates of options (Online Doctor, Visit, etc.)
The Silicon Valley Way?
> Energy storage is part of the model by default.

Not quite. You can end up with a model where there's excessive power during some parts of the day and not enough power during other parts; energy storage would allow using the peaks to fill in the troughs.
I have a largish open-source portfolio, including a markdown parser, a regex engine, some music synthesis, and some more researchy stuff like a font renderer and a prototype of concurrent text editing using CRDT's. I'm lucky to be working at Google where I get paid 20% time to work on this, but the motivation is definitely not money.

The biggest item in my portfolio is xi-editor, and I confess I'm wrestling with some of the questions raised in this thread. I think it has the potential to be a serious player in the editor space, with extremely high performance goals (including fast startup and low RAM usage) yet a modern feel. It also has a great little open-source community around it who have been contributing significant features.

Yet it's at the point where it's _almost_ done enough to use for day-to-day editing, and I'm hesitating a bit before pushing it over the line. I think I'm scared of having lots of users. It's also the case that I'm very interested in the engine and the core of the UX, but the complete product needs a plugin ecosystem and along with that ways to discover, upgrade, and curate the plugins (including making sure they are trustworthy, lately a fairly significant concern). That's potentially a huge amount of work, and it doesn't really line up with my interests.

I'm wondering if it's possible to focus on the parts I care about and try to foster the community to take care of the rest, but I'm not quite sure how that would work.

If this were a business and I had some way of making a few coins from every user, then my incentives would be lined up to make the best overall product possible, including the less fun parts. But that's off the table; among other things, there are a number of good free editors out there, and the niche for a better but non-free editor is also well occupied.

Maybe the HN crowd has some ideas?
> Their massive screw up was a decade ago when they decided shareholder value was more important than having good engineers.

IBM's management believed shareholder value was important, in about the same way Bernie Madoff believed his investor's well-being was important. Which is to say, not at all in actuality.

IBM's management was negligent in regards to shareholder value in almost every way possible.

Believing shareholder value was so important, would require simultaneously believing having good engineers is critical.

The management decided to fleece the company for their own near-term benefit, to the detriment of shareholder value (which is now being represented in the stock price accordingly, and it'll get much worse, soon).
Can anyone who has been investing in digital currency provide some alternatives to Coinbase vis-a-vis fees?

If I am plunking down $65k, then that is almost $1k in fees. In comparison, if I buy stocks, I pay around $7 in commission. I know that it is not a direct comparison cause there is currency conversion fees involved.

Are there any better alternatives? How do you guys invest to avoid fees?

Thanks
+1 to CCL, they are a well-respected organization.

(disclosure, I work at Google, but not in any way related to this project)
All my keys are on alpha keys, so pretty close to the home row. No worse that typing letters.

As an aside, I developed my "snap" layout using a genetic algorithm run over the corpus of my programming career, then shifted around for aesthetic taste. It's served me well for more than ten years.

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We will always have this debate since the scope of healthcare will continue to grow.

Today advanced robotic bionic prosthetics are experimental prototypes. In 100 years, people will be arguing that access to bionic limbs should be a universal human right.
If you look at the design of said device (invented by Lev Sergeivich Termen aka Leo Theremin), you'll suspect that it will require a pretty powerful microwave beam to work.
and I'm hesitating a bit before pushing it over the line. I think I'm scared of having lots of users.

A) What is "lots" of users? (Give me a number)

B) What makes you think you would suddenly have lots?

Cuz most things seem to struggle to get any traction.
I should have added: healthcare. No shit IBM research has publications, they have their own journal. Also, 15 publications in 3 years is pathetic. c'mon
>And when stuff like the Google Memo and subsequent firing comes up, I know that even if I think the Metafilter gestalt is wrong about a handful of things among other opinions that I agree with, and I think can articulate a good thoughtful case that might be worth considering.... I know it's not a good idea to put in the time there.

That thread [1] was particularly hostile, so much so that I'm shocked to see so many people here defending Metafilter's culture. Even though I largely agree with their politics, I don't visit Metafilter very much because the echo chamber is simply too bad. One user in that thread was particularly bullying - they had 98 comments in the thread (nearly 1 in 10), and over 2300 favorites from other users. Politically I'm well to the left of the median commenter on Hacker News, but I've found Metafilter to be unbearably toxic whenever sensitive issues come up.

[1] http://www.metafilter.com/168651/Misogyny-based-on-flawed-er...
We've had users at that scale at least on the real-time side (e.g., 100M/5min, 500B rows), although requires some care.

Might be easiest to discuss more on Slack (https://slack-login.timescale.com/) or email (mike at timescale) if you're interested.
It's easy to forget that at that time Apple was pushing AppletTalk and the TCP stack was a separate installer, so if it was over the network the network would have been the local AppleTalk network, not a global server.

The OS wasn't Unix based back then.
http://reeborg.ca/reeborg.html is a site to learn programming (using either Python or Javascript).

However, unlike other similar sites, the focus is equally on making it easy for students to use AND making it easy for teachers/mentors to use, adapt and create their own learning material. To this end, I am currently writing an online book as a "Teacher's Guide":

https://aroberge.gitbooks.io/reeborg-s-world-advanced-world-...

This is a project that started out 13 years ago as a free desktop application (http://rur-ple.sourceforge.net/) and which I have been working, on and off, during all that time just for the joy of it and knowing that people have found it useful.
We need to send bacteria to those planets. That'd make life multi-planet. Maybe, that's how life arrived on Earth.
Thanks for the heads up! Bug with vue resource version, resolved!
Something like Bitpay guarantees the exchange rate for 15 minutes between invoicing the customer and conversion to USD.

More generally, you'd outsource those risks to dedicated finance companies and handle USD: Exchange rate risk, fee calculation risk, confirmation/double-spending risk, etc. Just like in how there is an entire shell game of risks being offloaded between companies when you accept credit cards, and no merchant directly accepts credit from an unknown customer.
Stripe is hiring frontend engineers
A letter to my daughter, Eleanor, in F#
Why I Don’t Worry About a Super AI
Endless loops are now billing issues, just like a DOS.
Do you true the next secretly chosen and annointed royal red family president after Xi? That's if Xi actually decides to leave after his term is up, of course.
This whole comment section is basically people that didn't read the article, and then people copypasting article contents as replies.
So... let's be reasonable here. If our goal is to protect those individuals, wouldn't you simply use those questions anonymously...?
Mostly agree with Baconner.

It does help with discovery if configured well. 'Configured well' is a fairly high cost, so only worthwhile for a fairly simple data model that will have a large number of consumers.

Typically, there's not much of a population of "people who are unfamiliar with the dataset, but need to ask questions of it".
Three words:

MKULTRA electronic warfare.

This program tested many electronic devices to annoy target subjects.

The russian also had their own, google the "LIDA Machine" (also patented in the US).
ADLS and ADLA do definitely inspire confusion, but your point is well-taken.
“Best Of” lists are the Worst
Basically bitcoin becomes digital gold, and I think that's the most likely outcome of it.
The long name of me

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Put "hello" into cd fld 1

Ask "What is this?" with default answer "HyperCard"

[HyperTalk Poetry.]
How you got from there to 'absolute free speech' seems opaque.
Just email TOPG, he'll change the chart to match the site. You just have to point out what doesn't match and give a link to where it can be verified.
Neat projects! I'm curious, have you seen very much interest in eternum? I have an idea for a similar project, but I am not sure how many people are really interested in IPFS.
Do you need any paid features? The only things you get for $45 are:

- simple password protection (basic auth or single-password-no-login)

- small division of power - not everyone can delete the site and invite contributors.

Everything else is included for free.
Are you old enough to remember Altavista or Excite? I'm guessing not.
Is there a high level write up about this somewhere? I can't figure out off the top of my head how a hostname that starts with a hyphen and gets mistaken for an ssh option causes arbitrary local command execution. Wouldn't the first word of the remote git command slide over and become the hostname?
It depends on your type of grocery store -- maybe gourmet stores carry things like freekah (a type of African grain) and odd varieties of fruit (like Meyer lemons), but I hadn't even heard of these things before joining Blue Apron. It's not a perfect service -- I agree with other posters saying the instructions could be made better, but I've found it quite educational.
Thank you for the explanation looks like you have dedicated a good bit of effort to making a good ts solution, will be testing it out :)
Huh, that's pretty bad, I can't blame you for not using it anymore. I've personally never had it segfault and I've been using it for years now, so it's hard to say what was happening there.
probably the best reason is: we have our CDN spread over 4 different cloud providers. AWS and Digital Ocean could both go down (completely - though we're in several different data centers for each) and it would keep on keepin' on.
And they would be right to do so, because "rights" are not inherent, they're simply social agreements and are thus always up for negotiation. Nature doesn't provide people rights, people do.
AFAIK all these VR/AR devices implement a workaround for that.

Specifically, they render stuff to a texture larger than the displays. When that’s done, they cut a rectangle from that texture to account for the head’s rotation since when the rendering was started. If the head didn’t rotate, they show the rectangle from the center of the texture. Otherwise they show off-center and/or rotated portion of that texture.

While it would be nice to not cheat this way and truly improve rendering latency not just head rotation latency, it’s overwhelmingly harder to do so, at least on current generation GPUs.
I read that painting windmills white attracts insects, which attracts their predators. I'm hoping someone's experimenting with various colors. Maybe reduce the mortality.

[Volunteered at Audubon for a decade. Love birds. Also hope this windmill thing works out.]
OTRS?
I'm trying to give you money, but your pay flow is throwing an error (ios / safari)
I can even play it on iPhone:

https://twitter.com/ontouchstart/status/895833140467572736

Moving cursor with touch is kind of challenging though.
"Fair dealing" is the Canadian equivalent of "fair use", following much of the same principles. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_dealing_in_Canadian_copyr...
Try a Kinesis Advantage: https://jakeseliger.com/2009/07/20/kinesis-advantage. I think it's likely to be a bigger improvement than QWERTY vs Dvorak.
Thank you for going through the product and for the comments, incredibly helpful!
(1) Agree with your feedback (amazing how obvious it is now that you point it out). We'll make the containers around the inputted symptoms shorter to give more room at the bottom of the screen;
(2) That's just bad UX, sorry about that! We'll get right on updating that;
(3) You're 100% right, that is a weird question for the tool to ask for Back Pain... we're looking into what triggered that question and what condition the system was confirming / ruling out.
I'm not going to read any of them, because I looked at their titles. Not saying it's fair, but I'm just done with "How to make your team inspired in love you!" stories by people who are trying to boost their personal brand.

If your team loves you, show me the blog post THEY wrote about how good a manager you are.
I assume the lab was sanitized before extracting the DNA.
Saying something like this does a big disservice to IBM's real accomplishment. Code a brute force chess engine, add some alpha-beta pruning, transposition table, or even some of your heuristics and let us know how it does. Just because it's not an adversarial RNN or whatever, it doesn't mean it's brute force.
How plausible is it to put protective nets around wind turbines, and cats? Or requiring reflective streamers attached to turbine blades, and cats?
>People aren't equations, you can't just input x and expect y.

People react in mostly predictable ways to certain environments and situations. We're largely deterministic state machines. This kind of mystical thinking devalues the importance of a scientific, objective, data based approach to solving human problems. We aren't an exception to science.
> Microsoft probably has all speech engineers working on Cortana instead

Microsoft cognitive services
> ...it's whether or not MS can build an ecosystem with enough buy-in from companies to build apps and services.

I think there might be a titanic fight shaping up in the economy to build out and secure ecosystems in a more Net-centric future. The WalMart diktats to truckers to not drive Amazon loads are just opening salvos in this war, for example.

I see healthy, vibrant ecosystems with a bidirectional value exchange as a way for very large companies to mitigate much of the damage inflicted by their own size. Unfortunately, most large companies are trying their damnedest to build out ecosystems as command and control bot networks, and see it only as a profit source to unidirectionally squeeze. That's tempting because it's so easy, but it means your command and control decisions must be better and more timely than the ecosystem's wisdom of crowds, or you'll suffer the consequences.
What are you doing with a million lines of Pascal? It sounds interesting!
Nice work!

This thread is all over the place haha! Did they ever get to meet at the bridge??:

https://spa.mnesty.com/conversations/amhhqthp/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udNHsk57f24
Might not be a crazy idea, see

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

Invite everyone to freely share ideas. Make lists, then kick out those with the "wrong" ideas.

The are often comparisons between large corporations' command economy and the now failed countries with centralized command economy.

But perhaps there are interesting parallels about how large corporations discover and weed out those with undesirable ideas and how totalitarian regimes do it. It goes into hyperbole territory there, I know, but perhaps there are some common underlying mechanisms...
The state is not saved.
The funny thing about that ... is that IBM's long time ad agency is Ogilvy & Mather.

It was founded by David Ogilvy.

One of his big things was "nothing kills a bad product faster than great advertising"... he would be so ashamed of these ads.
Neat hack: trick Onavo into thinking your app is more popular or more highly used than it actually is.
re maintenance:

Knowing nothing about anything, my first thought was the RP FLIP.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RP_FLIP
They are some really nice web based emulators. It's almost certainly 100% nostalgia but there is a certain charm to these early Mac games...simple but somehow deeply detailed monochrome graphics...easy to use point and click interface...it's great to see them spring back to life in a web browser.
> Why are we here, and are we alone.

An old friend once said, "We're all alone together". I replied, "I can't handle that".

"Well, can you handle this?", he said, with arms spread wide to the sky, laughing.

Not to be anti-technology, but it may well be that the answers to life's questions depend on nothing.
Hoe do you run it?
> Uber has 31,537 employees as of August 2017.

If that's the number you are getting from LinkedIn, then you can consider the LinkedIn numbers to be absolutely worthless. That number is 2x to 3x the actual value.
A) I'll toss out 1M because you asked for a number.

B) Because if I build out my full ambition, it would be better by most objective metrics (speed, features, integration with IDE-like capabilities) than all the free editors out there, and I think there is a real demand for a better editor.

I know what you mean about the struggle for traction. It is of course possible I'm massively mis-estimating the potential userbase.
I miss cyberspace. So much potential.
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> All of us would have been diagnosed properly if Watson was being used on the doctors office, using its data crunching capabilities and symptoms as input to find out what problem we had.

No, unfortunately, I don't think there's any basis to believe that you could have been diagnosed properly by "Watson". Maybe by better data management in medicine. Not by an IBM brand name.

From the article:

> “Why confuse people and make them think it’s going to find something that a physician couldn’t possibly find?... Then you’ve moved into what strikes me as unethical territory when you’re potentially giving hope to people who should never have placed hope in that kind of a system because it’s not a magical box that does that stuff.”
Where can one listen to this? I did t see any links to music in the article.
Good info. If I remember correctly bats had a bigger problem and losing them really screws up the bug population control.
Australians, please enrol to vote for same sex marriage
I have hotcold typing - http://hotcoldtyping.com, a fun way to learn touch typing with instant feedbacks. I'm proud of this tool even though it doesn't bring me money.

Also, remindoro - http://remindoro.com, a chrome extension to have recurring reminders to help me take breaks.
Perhaps a third party not wanting to see better US/Cuba relations?
You are 100% correct if you have zero context. Let me provide some context.

If you look at https://80000hours.org/about/ their goal is to help people make the world better, by a combination of career and charitable donations.

> Our aim is to help as many people as possible lead high-impact careers.

> We do this by providing career advice for talented young people who want to have a social impact.

Given this context, several questions arise:

1. What to give to?

2. Which areas to give to? Health? Social? Education?

3. Which countries?

4. Which programs that you can give to have positive outcome? How do you decide which to give to?

That's the context of question being asked.

The specific article is about an issue that, in this community, is a big question, and 80,000 hours (a YC non-profit BTW) tries to quantify the truth of this common - in their sphere - belief.

It is not an attack, or a denial of any of the things you stated, just a different context for inquiry.
What do you mean by the two types of technology converging?
Reconsidering will not happen. You have a variety of options, as a power user of indeterminate nature:

0) Accept the loss, grieve, then move on to 57+.
1) Use ESR until 57+ becomes ESR someday.
2) Fork Firefox, rebasing your patch onto upstream.
3) Write a WebExtension, requesting APIs if necessary.
4) Stop updating Firefox, surf the web unsafely.

As a power user, each of these is within your theoretical capabilities. I cannot predict which is the appropriate tradeoff, though.
yeah but that's not what was said. The only thing that was said is managers keep track of people they don't like.