skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't understand these criticisms. As an American, I think our cities would be vastly improved if we copied this form of housing for lots of people, instead of just low-income housing. (In my city, the low-income-only housing is usually the highest quality housing across the city, and is far nicer than anything a mid-income person is allowed to purchase).

The current alternative that US prefers is far worse, in my opinion -- these micro-unit apod-ment things, with no personal space, no outdoor space, grossly overburdened personal-areas-forced-into-common-areas, and general dorm-room-for-life lifestyle.
You make excellent points and are, logically speaking, correct. We are emotional creatures and we usually respond emotionally. If the list was called "hitler is my hero" there would be a visceral reaction. The framing, the contextual anchoring of a comment does matter and it should matter since we are social creatures that respond emotionally.

I very much agree with the top comment made by Const-me and the overall points you made. Unfortunately fear and anger are what drives political discourse and media feeds that fire.
Yes , here is how I did it.

1. Put duck duck go as the default browser on your phone

2. Learn the bang paths. Realize that you still may
have to fall back to google .

3. Once you have mastered the bang paths start targeting your search queries

4. Realize you can’t live without bang paths

5. You should now be motivated to use duck duck go exclusively .
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Maybe you're right. Sorry. It was just my initial reaction based on that this GNU design issue has been raised to my attention before.
Strap ratio: efficiency of turning investment into ARR
From the first chart in the link, I can't help but notice reddit is now slower with Turbofan + Ignition. It probably has something to do with a JS Dev who deeply understands how AutoCodegen works and driven the project accordingly.
> > "Their answers will be compared with those of current Goldman employees, who have already been identified as exhibiting traits that mark high performance such as teamwork, analytical thinking and judgment, Jahansouz said."

> Awful idea.

No, no, it's a wonderful way to ensure a monoculture and the absence of innovation!
Yeah, but that's part of the old patriarchal system where men make money and women stay at home. In this age of double incomes, it should be irrelevant. Still, some people cling to the old patriarchy.
I'm glad they're trying to add something new to the mix. I think it's been made clear that having a degree/internships/experience on paper doesn't really correlate with a great candidate. However, I am curious what the specifics of this personality test are.

I'm also a bit concerned that hiring people with similar personality traits of "top-performers" will cut down on diversity of thought and different perspectives. Maybe it doesn't matter as much when dealing with the analytical/data driven side of finance - but I would assume having a group of high performing employees with different personalities would be more well rounded than a lot of one type of employee.
The intuition blindspot
Did you read the authoritarian spectre? Your deductions hint you didn't.

Seriously - the guy above you would support anyone in power and talk down to anyone not in it.
No magic, just a bigger number of hash iterations.

I have setup my KeePass to use around 100 mil iterations. It takes 1 second to validate the password on the CPU, on a GPU it will be maybe 100-1000 tries per second.
Great idea.

It would be better if they could do some analysis over their Facebook profile, for example.
My personal split is probably around 30% DDG, 70% Google. DDG go fails on local searches (Turkey, Turkish sources) and sometimes very long queries like stacktraces does not retrieve effective results.
"smart people only"

Isn't that the whole point of university? I don't get it.
Learning differences between functional and Object Oriented Programming
Philosophers have been pondering on the definition of 'human' (and other categorizations) for at least 2000 years.

The relation with this problem is that you can offer the following attempt at definition: "it's human if the direct ancestors are human". Of course, it fails ;)

Another attempt is via attributes (fe, "if it has a head, arms, legs, and an IQ of at least X and DNA that has ..., it's human"). This also quickly fails.

I think the current consensus amongst philosophers is that a binary categorization is impossible in these cases.
ie, whatever the definition, you will either exclude things you want to be included and/or include things you don't want in there.
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Happens without any extensions. I'm on Arch Linux, not Ubuntu.

I don't care enough to debug it further. Firefox is stable enough these days that restarting it isn't even a daily occurence. I have enough patience to wait that 10+ seconds, it's just a minor annoyance.
I've sort of switched...

DuckDuckGo has !bangs. If you search for "!so javascript", then you just end up on stackoverflow.com with a search term of "javascript". There's dozens (hundreds?) of these !bangs -- including !g if you want to run the search on Google.

So I've installed this extension below for Safari. I use the !bangs in the address bar if I want to go somewhere specific -- !so (stackoverflow), !a (amazon), !y (stock quotes). And, otherwise, it just uses Google search.

http://tbastos.com/project/safari-bangsearch/
To answer the title question: I discovered this week that Bing has radically improved in recent years. Between them & DDG, I don't see that I'll need to rely on Google search ever again.
I switched to DDG from Google about one and half years ago. DDG is my daily driver.

DDG is excellent for programming questions/how-tos. It shows popular StackOverflow questions inline[1]. For Python, it shows Python/NumPy/SciPy documentation inline as well[2]. It may do this for other languages, but I have not witnessed it.

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[4].

DDG also has a community-driven program to add more search features, called DuckDuckHack[5]. I believe all (at least most) of the features I shared above came through that program. A list of all "Instant Answers" can be found here[6].

Need to fallback to Google? (I personally never have.) There's "bangs" for alternative search engines and popular sites[7].

Make the switch. You'll be pleasantly surprised how easy and refreshing it will be.

[1]: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=python+sort+a+list+of+strings

[2]: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=numpy+sum

[3]: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=weather

[4]: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=exploratorium+sf

[5]: https://duckduckhack.com/

[6]: https://duck.co/ia

[7]: https://duckduckgo.com/bang
There are no rainbow tables, all of they should be using salts.
"Tech in SV" is a tiny portion of the country. People are talking about this as if it's a national problem. Are there places which are insular and unaccepting of non-leftist views? Probably. Is the whole country that way? Absolutely not.
You are probably correct. The server-side GQL implementations I have worked on expect only POST requests, and expect each requests' body to contain a query or a mutation.
People have also reported it when performing parallel compilation using GCC, so it's not limited to PHP.
One of the big issues here is whether "active means" includes firing people who earnestly question the "active means".
Doesn't this really create a message where tampering is evident and not hack-proof or have I misunderstood?
> If the general population has a different distribution (again whether you agree or not with that assumption), then there should be a natural imbalance among the cream of the top that made it to Google.

Your conclusion does not follow from the premise. It's not hard to come up with a distribution that is identical for the top x% but differs for the general population. Or one where the difference in top x% is in the opposite direction of the general population (e.g. two normal distributions where mu1 < mu2, and sigma1 > sigma2).
Yeah it kind of deflates the buzz. It's like...

SKELETON KEY UNLOCKS FORT KNOX

"They cheated a little by installing a particular lock into the gate themselves."
Those who use DDG, do you miss dates in results? Having a date present definitely helps me think about the results:

https://www.google.com/search?q=dcss+branch+order

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=dcss+branch+order

This isn't a case where I _know_ I only want 2017 results, and so I do the syntax to filter it down automatically. I want all results, but I want to be aware of the timeline of whatever I'm going to click.
Spoken like an extremist.

Everyone knew they could be fired from GM decades ago for expressing opinions that dissent from the party line.

Everyone knew they could be ostracized by their community for being divorced, having an abortion, yadda yadda in the 1950s-1960s nuclear family model.

Did it turn into violent uprising?

Violence stemming from this are a symptom of greater social ills. The Google situation is one instance, not some inflection point. The people that will radicalize on this already are. They'll just go "more" radical.

No one is owed anything by anyone else. There is no law of the universe requiring this.

Having grown up fuck poor and fighting my way into a decent coding gig the last couple years, all these whiny Googlers should grow the eff up.

American Exceptionalism has hit the end of the line, and the spoiled brats it created are going to get angry and turn against everyone that gave them what they have.

Fine, let them. Tear it out down out of petulant spite. Then what do they have?

We're cogs in a corporate machine. It's like Trump voters suddenly going OOPSY, WTF? As if no one was telling them this. People been saying this for years. And some whiny brats who drank the kool-aid are finally waking up to this. Welcome to reality.
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:) Your comment must be something that came out of an AI bot: right down the middle, ambiguous to the max.

Saying nothing with so many words :) and with the right amount of righteous indignation.

Love it! It proves my point actually.
Mostly. I do a lot of searching of English NHS websites and Google or Bing still seem better than DDG for that.

But the rest of the time I use DDG, and I use DDG before trying something else.
Thanks, that distinction is helpful :)
Situationist and Highlights Milan Fashion Week Fall Winter 2017/2018
>I pay high gas taxes and if that can't more than offset the environmental impact whomever is in charge should be fired for incompetence.

Edit: comment predicated on the assumption that this is in California, where Lyft is located

No, you don't pay high taxes, and second, political forces are such that gas taxes can not be raised to what they should be to prevent your "firing for incompetence." The politics don't work that way.
Self satisfaction that we are doing SOMETHING for a cause which we think is right.
Then an enterprising but low paid employee can rent their spot to a more highly paid employee and make a solid profit.
So what. I use 1Password, which the article says holds to 95,000 passwords per second with one GPU. So if say my password is 10 characters, only alphanumerical (a-zA-Z0-9) without any symbols, it takes this one GPU 6210/95000 = 8834730167035.16 seconds or ~280,000 years to try all combinations. Even with 1000 GPUs and technical progress, easily more than a lifetime.

As my pass phrase is significantly stronger than that, I'm absolutely not worried..
discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14979151
And he also said maybe he was biased to see only data that supported his claim.

That would have been a sure fire sign I was out of my element.

Free speech all you want. But there are going to be consequences.

> I just think that it's worth thinking about and that there should be more scientific studies to explore this.

There are. All you have to do is Google it.
Inevitably any large population centre is going to have nearby military defences, so any large population centre is a target, right?
So this is Meteor?
> You just don't really see that in Western cities so much.

You should visit the projects in the NY area or chicago. There are rows and rows of same red apartment complexes. But those seem to be falling out of favor now as they are being torn down.
Isn't this OK though for most use-cases? Startpage will effectively act as a proxy for your searches, preventing Google from associating your searches with your identity.
It still feeds them though, which I suppose is a problem.
It depends on the test that they use. The widely used psychological tests are designed to detect adversarial responses.
The convenience of bangs. (Other comments elaborate on the details)
As man in tech, that had the pleasure of working with very good fellow technical females, I fully agree with you.

We don't need stuff that turns good professionals away from our field.
> "The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum"

For further reading on this topic:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton_window
>but I'm pretty sure everyone who agrees with that rant probably thinks it's just because of some supposed biological reason.

I sense someone is still operating from the ignorance of not having read and understood the scientific reference supporting the diversity memo...or a troll
I reckon finance people are not that keen on social media so that wouldn't work.
Buildings snap to a grid. Units take up space according to a hitbox. Hitbox size varies according to each type of unit (E.g. Thors are huge). This becomes important when dealing with AoE.

Consider a group of mutalisks. If you select-all and issue an attack-command or move-command, the mutalisks will bunch up tight and then disperse. Cf a video on the "magic-box technique".

So I wouldn't be surprised if position-values were floats.
>The big reason to have a loud exhaust is to keep people in cars from changing lanes into the space you're occupying.

That's what bikers tell people so that those people stop calling them names. Doesn't mean it's true. The real reason bikes or cars or trucks are modified to have loud exhausts is because the driver wants to draw more attention to themselves for purely cosmetic reasons. If safety was a priority, they would leave the exhaust stock and just not ride in blind spots, not weave in and out of traffic, keep to the speed limit, and generally drive in a predictable fashion.

>has to drive it like that for a week (who vastly outnumber people with loud exhausts)

This is also not true. How would the amount of rusted cars without a muffler for one week outnumber the people who drive like that permanently? The people who either drive without a muffler or who have a modified muffler? For the entire life of the car?

The best way to avoid listening to loud exhausts is for insecure assholes to stop modifying their muffler.
A rising sentiment that IBM’s Watson can’t deliver on its promises
As a person in the world I had the same reaction!
I hope they do not suffer the same issues the already released Ryzen 7 and Ryzen 5 series CPUs are having.

I'm cautiously optimistic for EPYC the server grade CPU that AMD is releasing soon, although in this world of "per core" licensing costs there is a strong need for less cores and more single-thread performance in the server.
A Nice-to-have would be static IP address so that you can run a private home server. Pity that the site don't include this since only a few vpn providers have an option for that.
Well, I'm not talking about adversarial responses.
Given recent events, I'm scared of using Google lest they build a database of persons who search for the non-pc terms or visit non-pc sites.

I'm not making this up. I didn't visit a link to a Thiel talk on youtube posted here for this reason.
I hope they do not suffer the same issues the already released Ryzen 7 and Ryzen 5 series CPUs are having.

I'm also cautiously optimistic for EPYC the server grade CPU that AMD is releasing soon, although in this world of "per-core" licensing costs there is a strong need for less cores and more single-thread performance in the server.
Not to mention that one of those employees can easily get all of their friends and relatives employed if having similar answers is all it takes.
> If you accept the premise that there's such a thing as a male-dominated work culture with stereotypically male values, then attitudes and actions that match those values are considered better ("normative") by default.

You've just said that if you accept male-dominated work culture exists, males are considered better by default.

Ergo either males are considered better by default or such a culture doesn't exist. You deny the latter, so clearly you are claiming the former.

You just made that claim, not the guy who was fired.
A extremely difficult thing to find nowadays: a bit of privacy (if you skip bangs)
oh and bangs too
Built a few things to teach myself new stuff, the ones that are still online are:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bitmasch.b... - Wanted to learn a cross platform app framework. Built a simple game that would help my niece get better at basic addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. Made with Apache Cordova. She only played it a few times, but her dad (my brother) ended up getting hooked on it for a while, beating other people's high score with 50-100 points every time someone beat his highscore.

http://p2pool.jir.dk - Wanted to get some experience in building a crawler and was interested in p2pool cryptocurrency mining at the time, so I built a p2pool crawler. The site does have adsense, but it doesn't really make any money.
Yeah it's a really bad idea to hope your new employee works well in a team and exhibits good judgement.
> Debrah Soh, the author supposedly has a PhD in sexual neuroscience

That's "sexual" in the sense of "sexology", not "gender", though. She studies sexual paraphilia ("why people are into what they’re into sexually"), not gender differences as they pertain to society.
> a citation for the introduction of the first motorway speed limits

in the UK, 25 November 1965 [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Road_speed_limits_in_the_Unite...
See https://github.com/piroor/treestyletab/issues/1224
Why not putting it on the device like every other apps?
"In court documents, Fillelkes claimed that a recruiter told her she needed to put her dates of graduation on her resume so the company could view how old she was."

I had a feeling some people reviewing resumes did that. At least that's one upside of dropping out and finishing my degree years later.
> JFC, people, stop linking to his site. Links are currency

Hear, hear! This applies to just about everything people get outraged about these days: making people outraged on the internet is a business model that works. If you don't like that, ignore the things that outrage you instead of taking the bait.
I wonder if future iterations of linked In will track not only the performance but also the culture you are taking along with you.
Someone needs to inform EFF, this sets an important precedent:
Having to alter your software because it references a domain makes it dependent on all data being in line with DMCA requirements interpreted by the copyright holders(that is you can't use your software without complying with terms of domain owner). It transforms control of web experience.
Imagine that a domain owner requests you mine some cryptocurrency to load his website and any browser that doesn't send him proof of mining is illegal(in reality this can be done with mandatory JavaScript and cookies checked on server for hash matches) due "access control" portion of DMCA.
Most software makers can't afford to ignore DMCA or fight it.
Nobody "used" public shaming to silence anyone. It was Google's reputation as a nice place to work that was tarnished when it became public knowledge Google employed people who not only thought a large number of his colleagues were not adequate to be his colleagues (and he did say as much when he mentioned that the bar was being lowered in name of diversity) and were only hired because they had the right genitalia, but thought it'd be a good idea to share this belief. Some people will doubtlessly find it insulting.
Personally I have no interest in moving away from Google Search, as I specifically use them because Google learns from previous searches I've made and shows me more relevant results. Searching "unzip" shows me the Linux command, not unrelated materials for example.
I wish I didn't have to use the bangs so much.
At least not standard three-column landing page with huge fonts, cheesy icons and "testimonials", like most of corporate opensource.
I switched to DDG probably 3 years ago, I use it all the time. I wish stackunderflow didn't dominate the results in any SE over the primary sources, but I understand it's popularity based... Tired of the tracking, use the duck.
Of course they'll shut up for fear of losing their job and the means to support their family.

Totally agree, but it was like this. Religion and politics never mixed while working, outside a small circle of friends. Even then, if one was "offended" and complained, you'd be screwed.

But Google did the right thing--if you ask 100 top corp lawyers, advisors and politicians. Better to fire a guy than having to deal with the wrath of the side currently winning the debate. In the end Google is there to make money for its shareholders: not to advance workplace free speech or to deliver the most useful results for its users.

Google will probable spend a few million to fight and then settle this case. It will feel like losing a dime to the average person.
> write high performance JavaScript

Does anyone with high performance requirements writes JS? Isn't that setting yourself up for failure on the first step?
Yes, pretty much. DuckDuckGo usually surfaces the best StackOverflow answer. Rarely I'll feel like I need a broader search so I'll append "!g" to my search and look at the Google results. And once in a while I get something useful from that broader search. If I had to get by with only DuckDuckGo I would be fine.
It it !g or g!

Just trying to understand the placement of the exclamation point
> designed to detect adversarial responses

Sounds like an interesting topic. I'd love to read some articles/literature on it.
> Pre-80s computing involved mainframes, data entry... secretarial tasks.

...sending rockets to the moon...
I would love to switch off Delphi, but I'm heavily dependent on spring4d which is Delphi only right now. I may build some smaller programs or utilities in Lazarus.
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> providing limited free parking is "stealing" from those who don't drive

This doesn't seem right - it assumes that the resources going toward parking would be otherwise spent on employees. If money was taken from employees as a payroll deduction, then "stealing" might apply, but until the money is promised to employees, its not employee money, it belongs to the company. There is no theft that I can see.
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I'm not sure if "adversarial" is the right word, but I'm talking about people trying to game the test with dishonest answers.
He is clearly being aggressively demonized by some, at least internally.

Even Sundar's statement using the word 'neurotic' reads like an attempt to smear him. James Damore referred to neuroticism in the personality metric sense.