skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually they are using the picoprocess ideas taken from Drawbridge research.

You are partially right, it is just that they improved a few things.
I once heard of an American who's degree from Princeton didn't count, because the certificate was in Latin.
I totally see the issue with open offices, especially if they're densely populated. But I think home office has certain shortcomings as well: Communication quality is not as good over video or text chat as IRL, nuances are missed more easily and sharing a whiteboard is harder. In addition, I have the impression that some people slack off much more because they feel "unwatched".
I have but I can't quote anything because I wasn't offended.

Other people were clearly hurt by it though and I don't believe I'm in a position where I should tell other people what they should or shouldn't feel.
Trump is president? Give a guy a heads up.
This is a minor point, but I like the joke she made in the beginning about her height. Not only was it funny, but I was unaware that she was 5'1", and think that makes her accomplishments even more impressive and says something about her tenacity, given that 58% of F500 CEOs are over 6 feet tall.
I don't want to gel or socialize with my colleagues. I want to work with them. If we become friends, we can socialize outside of work.

I'm not paid to chitchat or stand around eating birthday cake. I don't need to love people to work with them. For the most part, even as a systems architect, I don't even need to talk to them. A few emails, echats, and meetings are sufficient.

This may sound harsh, when I heard they were pulling down the cube walls, I threatened to walk. I got to keep my high walled cube, but everyone else was surprised one Monday with low walls. A week later, after the whole office rioted, everyone got their walls back.

If you need/want company, go sit in a common area. But don't take away my isolation. And tell those kids to get the fuck off my lawn.
Good lord, your environment sounds horrific. We have open office plan, but it's quite comfortable because it's spread out enough, and traffic is fairly low.
The problem with diversifying hundreds of dollars is it does not move the needle. What's earning 7% a year on $100, earns you a large Starbucks.

Now this completely changes once you get above 20k invested. Then, diversity is more important and earning 7% a year moves the needle.
(if I may repost a comment I wrote here before...)

We have an open floor plan, and it works like this:

* Desk area is for getting work done. Everyone agrees on this.

* We have "phone rooms" for small discussions. But we limit those usually to 1:1s or discussing office politics.

* Try to limit all discussions at the desk area to 5 people or less.

* If someone sighs loudly as they put on their headphones when you're having a discussion right behind them, then that is their signal to you to keep talking loudly, as their noise-canceling headphones will eliminate any trace of your conversation.

* You can usually carry a conversation at your desk at any volume, because other engineers will let you know if you're being too loud. Engineers tend to be extroverted and won't hesitate to let you know if you're bothering them.

* When someone first sits at their desk, it's polite to immediately engage them in a 30-minute conversation about their weekend or what they did last night. It eases their transition into work.

* A person working without headphones on, signifies that it's ok to tap them on the shoulder to ask them a question.

* A person working WITH headphones on, signifies that it's ok to tap them on the shoulder to ask them a question.

* If someone usually works off in quiet parts of the building, one should always remind them "you're never at your desk" with an accusatory tone.
Headphones are a poor solution to the noise problem in open offices. I find it uncomfortable to wear them for 8 hours at a time, and it means I can't overhear the conversations I do want to overhear. Sitting elsewhere only works if I have a task I can do on a laptop; for serious development work I need a lot of screen real estate. That solution also has the same problem as headphones where I might miss important conversations because I'm too busy hiding from noise created by people doing work completely unrelated to mine.

There's a pretty happy medium, 2-10 person offices (with 4-5 being the most common size) with glass walls. Google used to have a lot of these before completely open plans became en vogue, and it was very rare to hear complaints. They allow frequent interaction with your most common collaborators while blocking out conversations from distant teams. They reduce visual distraction while still allowing in lots of natural light and inviting conversation. Doors were usually left open, so it was pretty comfortable to walk into another office and start up a conversation.

With the giant, open, chicken-farm style floorplans, people feel too self-conscious about dozens of people overhearing to have small 2-3 person conversations near their desks, which means more formal meetings with all the associated overhead, and fewer impromptu questions like "hey does anyone know of a tool to do X?" And then you're still more distracted anyway due to all the typing, people walking by, large groups being loud when gathering to eat lunch or go to a meeting together or whatever.

I only see two advantages of completely open floors: slightly cheaper (glass offices can be made almost as dense, but not quite, and I guess the glass partitions aren't free), and better circulation to dissipate bad odors more quickly.
Many thanks for your feedback, I'll do that.

What do you generally think about the project (vangav backend), do you find it useful for you or any of your friends?
I was very pro-Atom for a while. I've since packed up and moved to Vim and then on to Emacs with evil-mode.

I never had any performance complaints while I was actually using Atom, but a while back I made a mistake when generating a text file that turned out to be ~1.5GB. Luckily, it was just one mistake in the footer, so I could take care of it without regenerating the entire thing.

Without even thinking about it, I opened it up with Emacs, went to the bottom, made my changes, and got back out. About a minute later, I saw how large of a file it was and was suddenly even more impressed with Emacs than I had been.

Just for fun, I then tried to edit it with Atom. Nope.
race does not map onto distinct phenotypes? what exactly do you mean?
In addition to more vacation days, maternity leave, etc
>He didn't actually cite anything, though [1]. He used a bunch of bracketed numbers [2] to look scientistic, but didn't actually provide [3] substantive evidence [5,7,8,6,5,4,3]

What are you talking about? He absolutely linked to all his citations, the fake news Gizmodo stripped out all of his citations/links and graphs when they published the memo.

Here is the full memo with all the links preserved:
https://diversitymemo.com/
Your article states 87.7% efficiency in gasoline refining.

Energy density of gasoline is 34.2 MJ/L:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_density

This means there was 4.8 MJ of energy spent to create 1L of gasoline. The 70kWh(250MJ) tesla is reported to have 390KM range. 4.8 MJ would be 1.92% of the range, or about 7.5km. The Mazda 3 has a combined fuel economy rating of 33 MPG, which is about 14KPL.

As far s I can tell, your statement that an EV can go further on the power needed to refine a gallon of gas, than an ICE car can drive is off by a factor of almost two.

That said, arguing an electric car can go a certain distance based on inefficiencies of another unrelated process is not a very meaningful argument. You need to look at the efficiencies and CO2 produced for drilling/transporting/refining/burning gas vs producing/transmitting/storing/using electric power, and probably the costs of dealing with peak loads vs non-peak loads, and even then the argument is heavily weighted on where your power comes from.
I wonder if it would have been safer and less expensive to just make Netflix charge 15/mo. more if you wanted Disney and get a $10 cut.

Most parents would [have to?] pay that.
> What more do you want from me?

I want you to be cautious about generalizing your past experience to future events.

And if you are (understandably, maybe) unwilling to carefully read, with an open mind, documents like the diversity memo - then maybe you should refrain from criticising it.
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And the store content also come 6 months to a year or more after the original air time.
Oh man I forgot about JED!
It was my first editor. At the time Emacs was often too slow on my computer (circa 1995 maybe even as early as 93).

That editor was awesome and it had a cool library I think called Slang which had its own sort of ncurses implementation and scripting language (probably wrong on the details).

The author also implemented an awesome news reader back you know when people used news readers.
Potential data breach on the 5th of August
I think the problem is less SEC and more money laundering. Something tells me not a lot of KYC is going on.. My guess is that any money laundering that causes grief for the US (ie, terrorism) will get people arrested and put in jail for a long time.
Development halted, yes, but AFAIK rock solid up to current Java release.
> must-see content

There's no such thing.
I think if Cruise or Waymo want to take the next step in promotion they will take the gags out of the testers mouths and let them tell us how well it actually works.
Should Airbnb ban customers it disagrees with?
A few hours later, it's been completely removed from the main HN page (even a few pages in), despite 1600+ votes.

It's a shame that the administrators of this site feel the need to shut down discussion on important issues like this.

The story is clearly important and less than 24 hours old, and already it's been forcibly removed from the front page in favor of a bunch of 15-vote ephemeral Javascript trivia posts.

Pro tip: use https://news.ycombinator.com/best
Musk and Zuckerberg "sit" among the peasants. It makes for a good photo op but in reality they have to spend very little time at their desk. At that level, they probably spend most of their time in meetings, and even when not, it's not like anyone would chastise them for behaving inconsiderately to other people in the office, or taking over a conference room as their impromptu office.
The trouble with shorting it is that shorting turns out to require a complicated structure to exist. Else you can do margin trading on a single exchange, but the actual margin trading bit is not very regulated at all.
Hatchbacks are not mini-SUVs, and many people can't afford to own a mini-SUV. $36,000 with no trims is pricy for a new car.

I've been adamant that owning an EV would be a non-starter for me, but having seen the Bolt, if I were shopping for a new car, I'd buy one in a heartbeat.
High price to pay? I don't think so. Writing and circulating that memo was a colossally stupid thing to do. Stupid on a level that basically puts you into the camp of "nobody wants to work with you anymore". You're now that guy. A liability for any company and obviously an unpleasant human being. I wouldn't want him at my company either, that's for sure.

Computer programmers often make the mistake of treating other humans like cold, calculating machines. But they're not. They have emotions. Emotions, and past experiences, and history. And, unless you're in the extreme Asperger's spectrum of being unable to deal with other human beings, you should know, by age 15 or so, that there are certain subjects that are sensitive and that a company environment is not the place for them.

To help other potential programmers from destroying their careers, I'll post a short list of risky topics here:

* Politics
* Race
* The Holocaust
* Sex

Any one of those could land you in hot water for creating a hostile work environment.

Nobody cares if you have scientific evidence that Jews make for inferior doctors, you don't post a memo claiming that in the company you work at. You just don't. Because you're working with other humans, not with machines, and you have to be smart enough to know what's acceptable office talk and what's acceptable poker night talk.

This Google Engineer is an idiot. I don't care whether he can "out-prgoram" me and code a complete OS in 2 hours. He's still an idiot. And deserves to be fired, because Google doesn't want to employ idiots.
Isn't it so sad that the rich capitalists response to greater convenience is "well now we have breathing room to make things much worse, they sucked in comparison before, let's see if we can make it as horrible as that again".

Replacing technological limitations with unnecessary, arbitrary financial limitations doesn't seem like progress.

Still, at least they're helping to inch us closer to a popular 'uprising' against Disney's perversion of copyright legislation.
You've summed it up nicely--it is basically a nation-size concentration camp.

There are all kinds of wonderful realpolitick reasons for not invading or assassinating or taking direct action. It suits China, it suits the US, it suits the UN, it probably even suits South Korea. And the maintenance cost is just a bunch of dead nork civilians.

Those reasons will make a fine plaque at the memorial for the dead. Our children will wonder how we could let such a thing happen.

EDIT: If somebody would like to explain how the combined armed forces of China and the US couldn't forcibly remove the malnourished and undertrained folks cannibalizing their own country, I'd love to hear the theory.

Least of all since any proper insurgency requires food and support of the locals, which it sounds like may not exist.
The terrible behaviors described by the parent post, are a part of the culture which drive so many individuals to demand that he be fired.

Consider the people within Google who declare their unwillingness to work with the person that believes in science and in treating people like individuals.
It sounds like you would get 40k cash then but have to look for a new job. I don't see it as a bad deal.
EOS did this and advertised to the general public in the US.
Electric bike trials in Australia see 50% purchase and change transport habits
In your "counter" example you highlight my point. Asians, on average, might be shorter, but if you come in with that knowledge and then present the conclusions that asians in professional basketball perform worse than others (exactly what this individual attempted to do with women) would be insane since the asians that do play basketball professional tend to be just as tall as everyone else that does [As an aside, basketball is huge in china and they placed 6th at the last Olympics so it's a nonsensical example anyway]. And it's relevant because it's his fundamental thesis.

As for the field of engineering as a whole, he completely ignores the fact that ratios in other high stress high prestige professions such as medicine and law [0][1] (which have dramatically higher barriers to entry than technology while also having a much stronger historical precedence for being male dominated [we forget that programming was female dominated until the 70s]), while not even, hover at around 2:1[0][1] as opposed the 4 or 5 :1 we see in technology.

He made no verifiable claims that the women in tech were performing at any lower level just attempted to use global stats (questionable ones at best as noted above) to justify painting diversity initiatives as unnecessary.

The sad thing is there are some kernels of not terrible ideas burred at the bottom of all the pseudo science bullshit. I'd love to see more programs opened up to all engineers, because again, just because the average male is more assertive doesn't mean the average male software engineer at google is.

[0]http://www.kff.org/other/state-indicator/physicians-by-gende...

[1]https://www.americanbar.org/content/dam/aba/administrative/m...
I'm wondering the same thing.
I suggest using Hearo's 32 NRR earplugs under the headphones. When people approach to bullshit with you, ignore them for a little bit. If they persist, make a show of taking off the headphones and extracting the earplugs. People will soon learn to leave you alone when you have your headphones on. At least, it worked for me, mostly.
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I honestly wouldn't be surprised if non-binary-gendered people are over-represented in tech.

(This is just an impression I have based on things I've read in the past, so I can't be sure.)
Regardless of whether or not I think Google should have fired him, I'm not sure he really has a case here (but I'm not a lawyer).

He's alleging that Google fired him due to the fact that he had previously made a complaint to the NLRB. I think it's going to be really hard to prove that he is being fired as retaliation because of his complaint, since the memo he sent out seems much more likely to be the cause.

NLRB complaints don't give you immunity from firing for all circumstances. They prevent employers from firing you because you complained.
An Open Letter to James Damore
As a current Pixar employee, the open office trend has unfortunately spread to our admittedly beautiful campus. You have to be fairly senior to get an office around here, lowlifes like me get stuck in shared open hallways and the like.
Okay then ... does look good ... I assume that normal ascii is used under the hood and that is what the lexical analyzer sees. I am open minded -- of course it has to work with emacs -- I am not that open minded ;)
Doesn't matter.. if they aren't doing know your customer and facilitating money laundering that results in money funneling enemies of the US than they'll wind up in jail if they ever step foot on extradition ground.
Spot on. Thanks for these comments and this discussion.
Why do you "barely know" the person across from you?? What, no team building budget?
> Just give every a sound cancellation headphone if they complain.

God dammit.
> Engineers tend to be extroverted and won't hesitate to let you know if you're bothering them.

Might be the first person to claim engineers are extroverted.
I don't see why not. You would end up working with the acquiring company. Often post acquisition jobs can be quite good, and it's an easier way to work at something like Microsoft.
Before, he'd have said it among his friends, who would dismiss it and forget his opinions the following morning.

He published his opinion, that Google's efforts that enabled thousands of his female peers to pursue careers there, are misguided and harmful, that some of his female coworkers are biologically unsuited to their jobs. He did it to himself.
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Ask HN: Business Plan Books
Hey gals and guys,

I grabbed a quick search on here and found this post from 9 years ago (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=195463) and wanted to see if anyone had recommendations on books to look at or examples of good business plans. Thank you.
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Or a large airport business lounge.
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Yeah, for reference, VS Code had just a couple of months prior added editor tabs. The VS Code today is vastly different from the one a year ago.
I'm curious as to what her thoughts are on the author's opinion. Have you talked about this with her? (might be a dangerous conversation)
Spread is, simply, the difference between the buying price and the selling price. Usually in the context of stocks.

Brokering fees are not calculated in with the base prices, though it would be once it's time to calculate returns.
This is wrong wrong wrong. Here's why most developers keep quitting: it's because for them the grass really is always greener on the other side. Usually by about 20%.

I can only assume that right now the best developers are vastly underpaid relative to their worth. Why? Because it turns out every time they get annoyed with their current company they can send out some feelers and get a 20% raise. Most people can't do that. Most teachers can't just quit and get a 20% raise yearly. Do this a few times and ultimately you realize that your intrinsic value didn't really increase 1.2^3 (72%) over the last 3 jobs, it's just that companies were always willing to pay more if they needed to, but (if you were being honest about current salary) only in increments of 20%.

If they were willing to pay more, you were worth it.

There are very very few companies that exist right now that give you crappy work but top notch comp for that work. For those companies, there is not a "huge retention problem", it's just a normal-sized retention problem where in addition to paying their developers based on value they also try to ensure they get to mix things up a bit and enjoy a conference or two.

Most companies don't want to pay for retention. It's pretty sad that most companies can't make staying at their current company more attractive than the risk of starting a new job with a team/company that's unknown.
$10/month for every Disney cartoon movie alone would immediately get millions of families to sign up. That's easily worth not fiddling with disks.

But that's only if the catalog actually has that content. If they do the digital equivalent of the Disney DVD vault then yes screw that.
It looks great. Just one detail my brain couldn't help but notice. The stars seem to be located in front of the back-side belt of asteroid of the planet.
> Human drivers are pretty terrible.

I beg to differ. The average sober human driver has 1 fatal accident in 120-300 million miles traveled, depending on where they live in North America.

Given that we are bags of meat and water, have reaction times measured in hundreds of milliseconds, were never designed to operate heavy machinery, and manage to achieve all that on a mere 100 watts, that's pretty amazing.
The project is almost certainly Aeternity. They forked Zack's code, used his name to publicize their project and then paid Zack off to join their fork with tokens from his own chain! Zack is a smart guy but the whole thing is a shit show.
If employees are measured correctly, it is impossible to slack off. In engineering, measuring hours is silly, measuring output and throughput is what determines performance.
Hi, I'm one of the authors of this post and co-founder of SigOpt (YC W15). I'm happy to answer any questions about the post or SigOpt.

More info on the research behind SigOpt can be found here [1].

[1]: https://sigopt.com/research
Netflix may have added 600 hours but have you plumbed what Netflix adds? Most of the content is crap. Content is not a numbers game it is a hits game.

"Star Wars is worth more than harry potter and james bond combined."[1]

Just the first 6 episodes of Star Wars is 17 hours of footage. This does not include special features, cartoons and other offshoots in this franchise.

Access to this on a whim, along with immediate access to exclusive preview-type content every year prior to the theatrical release is seriously valuable on its own.

I'd venture many people are HBO Go subscribers simply for Game of Thrones right now. And that more than enough do not bother to unsubscribe in the off season.

I think people on HN underestimate how people value content. They don't realize people pay huge sums for complete garbage cable content plans already. A commercial free experience of Disney content, particularly Star Wars / Marvel powered with exclusives priced the same as HBO or Netflix would probably do great.

[1] http://fortune.com/2015/12/24/star-wars-value-worth/