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Well this makes some sense, since the speed of sound pretty much stopped technological progress toward every-higher speeds a few decades past.
I don't think it has that much to do with Google than with the enforcement of PC in large companies. It could have happened in a bank or a lawfirm, though those behave more as a club than the silicon valley, and therefore can apply even more pressure on their employees. I think the noise comes from the fact that not everyone agrees with these diversity programs as I think the heated debates on HN illustrated. The debate is impossible internally (as the firing of that guy illustrates, but that's not specific to google, these diversity programs are not up for discussion where I work too), therefore the debate happened outside of google through the proxy of that guy.
> you'll likely find the answer there

Well, I hope the Google Bot (plus whichever one DDG uses) also has an invite to that proprietary, closed, messaging system, or that the "macadmins" owner has set up a channel mirroring system ala IRC web logs, otherwise the system you described isn't contributing to the open body of knowledge.

Related, although mildly off topic, :fu: slack search
"On Tuesday, a 4chan-related Twitter account posted screenshots of fourteen Twitter profiles of Google employees, ranging from rank-and-file engineers to Sundar Pichai himself. Every Googler targeted was either a woman, trans man, or a man of color. This tweet may not have been the origin point of this list of Googlers, but it was spread widely.

"Danielle Brown, only recently named the VP of diversity at Google, was included in the first set of eight screenshots. By Monday, she had already locked her Twitter account after receiving an onslaught of abuse.

"That same collection of eight screenshots made its way onto former Breitbart writer Milo Yiannopoulos’ Facebook on Wednesday.

"The targeting of those specific Googlers might have been the work of outsiders, but anxieties are running high inside the company because of the publication of screenshots from the internal Google+ on alt-right channels. On Tuesday, Gizmodo reported that a meme depicting whistleblowers being beaten was being shared on an internal meme generator.

"On Sunday, alt-right blogger Vox Day published screenshots from the internal Google+, showing employees criticizing the Damore memo. On Monday, Breitbart published an even larger set of internal screenshots. Names and profile pictures were not redacted. "What really gets me is that when Googlers leaked these screenshots, they knew this was the element of the internet they were leaking it to," a former Google employee tells The Verge. "They knew they were subjecting their colleagues to this type of abuse.""

https://www.theverge.com/2017/8/10/16128518/google-town-hall...

On the one hand, given the "discussion", firing the guy who lit the match is starting to look more reasonable.

On the other, the little tiny Libertarian on my shoulder keeps saying, "a company should be free to hire or fire anyone they want."

["If there were policies set in stone saying white men got precedence over black women, would you say "who the hell cares?""

In a company made up of 80% black women? Probably.]
I deserved hit.
No offense to recruiters but who would be a recruiter when they can be a programmer?
I read about this case several times; these are the facts that stuck out the most for me from the long article.

S actually studied to become a professional mnemonist, after leaving journalism, and learned from circus people how to make his performances more engaging. He didn't actually have 100% recall: "His uncle, Reynberg said, could be forgetful. If he didn’t consciously try to commit something to memory, he didn’t always recall it later."

"Reynberg told me that his uncle trained hours a day for his evening performances." "Luria doesn’t deny Shereshevsky’s use of mnemonic devices, but he maintains that these came later, and that they merely complemented Shereshevsky’s immense natural abilities."

"The strength and durability of his memories seemed to be tied up in his ability to create elaborate multisensory mental representations and insert them in imagined story scenes or places; the more vivid this imagery and story, the more deeply rooted it would become in his memory."

"Instead of burning memories on scraps of paper, Shereshevsky found a different kind of erasure in his final years, according to his nephew: he turned to drinking."
Maybe, sometimes, some of us just want to make a thing we use better rather than attaching grandiose moral judgements to the political status of a piece of fucking code.
Who said you're not allowed to have your own opinion? I was merely reacting to it...unless that's the part you have a problem with. Google reacted to his expression, which he offered without duress.
The Infocom archive is really good for this https://archive.org/details/infocomcabinet.

The Deus Ex design doc was released http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/285520/Annotated_version_... along with some other in development Ionstorm games that never shipped.

Nintendo released some early design sketches for classic games like Super Mario Bros and Zelda which are interesting to look at. https://www.nintendo.co.uk/News/2016/December/Take-a-look-be....
I was oversharing pictures of dogs on Facebook, so I helped build https://puppy.pics where people can post as many dog pics as they want, because that's what people there want to see.
Singapore is the city to study. They build massive underground connections, malls, transport etc as they grow. They have massive setbacks to the buildings which allow for it to have a crap ton of trees and plants all between buildings... they plan to double their population and are building smartly.

But, as with any city - the income disparity and the cost of living is high - but all cities need affordable labor as well as economic opportunity.
were you involved in its development or just a loving user ?
Was actually rather surprised to find that he didn't like MI3 (Curse of)! While I definitely loved MI1 and 2, I actually call MI3 my favorite one. (4 was pretty bad, I couldn't get through even the first 20% of the game)

It takes getting used to the art style, but I felt like 3 really hit the spot with the humor, puzzles, voice-acting (!) and even mostly doing away with verbs (something he stated that he wanted). I totally get that there is a certain charm in 1 and 2 that isn't in 3 because of the major differences in art style. I just feel that 3 is such a strong game that shouldn't be overlooked. If I had to criticize it, I would just say that the last act (or two?) falls short. When the theme park part starts, it felt like they just wanted to rush to finish the game. The rollercoaster ride at the end as the boss battle was also lacking. Though, it was actually structurally quite similar to the final battle in MI2.
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Yeah, there's really no excuse for the safety record at Tesla's factory. At least the workers seem to be organizing so hopefully things will improve soon.

Also FYI it's takt time: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takt_time
You made me smirk, but actually OP just wants ballet bookers to know the difference between a Cabriole and a Cambré, and not everyone.
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"The most striking difference between Tensorflow and other numerical computation libraries such as numpy is that operations in Tensorflow are symbolic. This is a powerful concept that allows Tensorflow to do all sort of things (e.g. automatic differentiation)"

Sorry if this is a stupid question, but can someone explain how symbolic operations allow automatic differentiation or link me to a good explanation?
Also, first/last mile is still a bear.

I think the killer combo is self driving cabs for first/last mile, plus rail for intercity travel. Push a button 15 minutes before you want to leave, a cab sits outside your home for up to 30 minutes, you get a warning before each transit sync moment, hop in the cab, get dropped off directly at the platform, get picked up at the designation platform and then dropped at your destination.

It's basically optimal in terms of carbon, throughput, and convenience. Maybe total transit time is no better than a personal car, but you could punch through traffic so at peak times it would be better. And with high speed rail, it could beat personal car even in off peak... At least for some geographies. Obviously if you're not near rail it won't be an improvement in Transit time.
I guess but I'm making the presupposition that Elon Musk is smarter than me, therefore he wouldn't have overlooked this, and am curious to know what I'm missing or what my mental model of how American cities grow and sprawl is failing to take account of.
"Fired Google engineer compares high-paid tech job to Soviet forced labor": https://www.theverge.com/2017/8/10/16127968/fired-google-eng...
Otter browser is pretty fantastic. Use the weekly for the best results.
> blame programmers

Programmers are not making the decisions on how to operate. You're thinking about the businesses who attempt to cut their expense and make huge demands on their workforce, taxes, and on the market themselves.
wow amazing, I never read about anything involving musk prior Tesla incorporation.
It conflates suitability with preference.
People who don't like money I guess.
I have a rule that says something isn't truly Open Source unless you can build it, because binary patching is for chumps. Have you tried to build those? There are several projects attempting to do so, and I have yet to experience "download tar, ..., boot that Darwin build in a (qemu|vm)!" for any value of "...".
streets and parking are a waste because we dont stack them or require that every building include at least three levels of parking as the bottom of each building...
According to the movie they didn't need to because it was easier to just drop bombs from the air.
I dont even allow recruiters to interview me. I never met a male recruiter and that is another symptom of the problem.
If architectural correctness is a goal then why aren't you starting with the renderer in a separate process like Chrome/Chromium?
> all I've got are a couple interviews with folks wishing for a return to the security of the good 'ol days, a trope in Russia now

Not just in Russia. There's these people [1] who are protesting in my hometown (Dresden) every Monday under their famous slogan "I'm not a Nazi BUT..." [2], and the best theory I've heard for why they're shouting out racist paroles in public is basically that.

Before 1990, East Germans were used to not living in particular wealth, but at a quite high level of social security: They knew that if they wanted to, they could perform their current job until retirement, always have a living wage (and then a similarly-sized pension), and their children would be able to afford a good education and raise their offspring in a similarly socially secure environment. [3]

After re-unification in 1990, East German industry was sold out to rich people from West Germany [4], who dismantled most of it and told their East German workers that they don't know how to work [5]. Over the course of a few years, many East Germans lost their jobs, large parts of their pension claims (to currency conversion and increased cost of living), and their social rank (as they had to take a new, lower-paid job).

Today, racism and criticism of immigration is stronger in East Germany than in the western states because many East Germans believe that it's 1990 all over again: Immigrants [6] from a foreign culture [7] take all the good jobs [8] from them, leaving only stressful and low-paying service jobs (or unemployment) for the natives.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pegida

[2] Not really, but could as well be.

[3] Of course, all of this only applies when you're dutifully waving a little red flag at the May 1 rally, and careful about whom you discuss your true opinions about socialism with.

[4] Cave-at: There are always exceptions to this; I'm painting broad strokes here.

[5] Anecdata: My grandmother recalls being told literally that ("first of all, we're going to teach you how to work") by the West German who bought the supermarket that she'd headed for the past 20 years via a 60-hour work week.

[6] Then West Germans, now immigrants and refugees from Africa, the Middle East, and from Asian countries whose name ends in -istan.

[7] 40 years of separation by the Iron Curtain had caused German culture to diverge enough that it's easy for an East German to recognize a West German in the early 90s, and vice versa (and sometimes still today, not just because of dialects).

[8] That's also why it doesn't help when people point out that many of the immigrants are actually quite well-educated.
Geoffrey West's book Scale gets into this -- good read.

https://www.amazon.com/Scale-Universal-Innovation-Sustainabi...
I think you are misunderstanding the recruiter's role. Their job is simply to bring people into the funnel. Deciding whether it's a good fit is entirely up to the candidate and the company. If you let them waste your time with a job that's not good for you, then that's your fault for not asking enough questions up front.
It takes decades for a population center to empty. Plenty of time to recoup an investment. If he starts with low hanging fruit, like transit between deadlocked parts of LA he'll be making money. Maybe eventually he gets down into boondoggle territory, but I don't see why that should be a concern. As part of a larger fund, a few boondoggles are no problem—learning experiences.
Waa? Only way to live outside is naked with dreadlocks?
> Q&A style works much better nowadays.

I believe that's only true if the questioner is versed in "How to ask questions the smart way," and/or the answerer is _also_ versed in that, so they know how to answer what the questioner was _really_ asking

Not to mention the tons of "dear lazyweb, do my homework|task for me, kthxbai" level of effort expended by the questioner
Ask HN: What is the best way for a developer to get better at design?
I became kind of okay at designing websites just from experience, applying common sense, and using good software a lot, but now I want to take my skills to the next level. What is the best way I can improve, without making it my primary occupation?

Can you recommend some learning resources or share good advice?
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There was very recently an article about a maybe-upcoming test: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14896255
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A good list here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4626259
Having recently forced my partner to play through both MI1 and MI2, I must disagree. We played the fan-created hack which is the original SCUMM version but with the full voice from the remastered version hacked on top, and it's super great. We laughed. A lot.
They also filter, yet don't really know anything about what they are filtering.
In a previous life I worked with the Department of Education for a certain state. Their head graphic designer, Fred if I remember correctly, was about 70-something and had Parkinson's. He was able to churn out amazing work using the mouse and Wacom tablet. His wife, who also worked at the DoE, would touch up his work and clean up anything caused by the tremors. Quite an amazing team.

He was also a jazz piano player in private. He created a setup where he used his electric organ as a midi controller in GarageBand. He would record himself playing and, once through, would clean up the extra notes using the note view.

I'm very happy to see technology moving forward to help those whose conditions otherwise prevent or obscure the great things they're capable of!
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Blaming the fired Googler for threats made is like blaming climate scientists for environmental terrorism. There's no evidence that he made any of those threats, merely made an argument using plenty of citations that suggested career choices may be affected by biology. The fact that he was fired for questioning a company policy for something definitely arguable speaks of the echo chamber he mentioned.
An episode that really stood out for me when I first heard it was about Imaginary Numbers: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00tt6b2
I approve of this, but I come at it from an I-just-want-to-be-an-engineer point of view.

When looking for velocity, the first thing to optimise is the feature list. Too often the idea of doing something useful quick and dirty devolves into writing bad code that looks like it covers a feature set until you scratch the surface and find the whole thing is made of bugs.

But if you reduce the feature set (that's the first kind of dirty) then you can build a system that really does what it says on the tin. And the second kind of dirty (code), deosn't matter so much, because in a smaller system the total technical debt is less.
I'm seeing a bunch of white and gray screen areas without any text in them. That's either a refreshing and bold insistence on minimalism or uMatrix doing its job.
Cool about the Wa.

I got a ride on a catamaran once, in South India, when our final year class (high school) was there at a beach on a picnic. Asked the fishermen to let me hop on, and they did. I was sitting in the front, astride the log, with my legs in the water almost up to waist level. We went out to sea for a kilometer or two at least, then came back after a while. Good fun.

It was something like this, but narrower in the front:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/79/Tamil_ca...
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Are there any good resources or writeups for FaaS usecases? I have been hearing about it for a while, but have yet to find myself in a situation where I would want to integrate this into an application I am working on.
It's the opposite of an intimidation tactic. If there are managers who hide accidents, line employees know they can go straight to Musk and a) get the safety issue dealt with, b) get the bad manager fired.

A CEO of Alcoa famously required any injury to be on his desk within 24 hours and some high level executives were fired for not taking it seriously when the information emerged through indirect channels. The ultimate result was dramatically improved safety for ~10,000 employees. Elon Musk is certainly taking a page from Alcoa's playbook here.
> Every school (middle and high) should have at least 1 daily hour about how we are destroying the planet and how to stop its destruction; with less focus on "love the trees" and more focus on "we would die if the planet didn't have trees; so take care of them", and the chemical composition of non-renewable compounds and its practical effects over health, drought, etc.

It's disturbing to me that anybody thinks fear mongering and brain washing is an acceptable solution if they think the end goal is a worthy cause.

Do a little bit of soul searching and research before you decide to attack the minds of an entire generation because you read an activist pamphlet that affected you.
Here you can see some developer pictures. The computers are HP 64000. The light pen/sprite program looks very interesting.

http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--09WfR60x...
Wasn't there a political reason? The air force wanted to show how great it was and the army was prevented from advancing?
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Musk claims to have improved satellite latency by a factor of 52, from 1300 ms to 25 ms. So maybe the issues will be resolved.
This is very new and surprising to me! When trying to think in language, I feel like I need to think about thinking in language (which doesn't make any sense), and am thinking really slowly, like trying to walk while stopping between each step.
On a modern exchange it does mean that because that's what it takes to trades as fast as possible, on a low tech bitcoin exchange where such speeds are not possible, it takes much less; it's HFT none the less. It's still computer programs trading the same algorithms offering up liquidity to flip a quick profit as fast as the tech allows.
Alright then: Britsplaining Dunkirk. Not the actual events, but the significance of it to the national culture. For the actual history it is hard to beat having it narrated to you by Olivier in The World At War.

Many countries have a famous defeat or last stand. Dunkirk is ours; our Thermopylae, our Alamo, our Stalingrad, our Pearl Harbour. Many countries also have a famous mobilisation of the people - a revolution, something with a national day to name streets after. Dunkirk is ours.

The popular memory of Dunkirk is one of spontaneous organisation. Not an organised event run by the state, but one where the official efforts had already failed and British lives could only be saved by a mass ad-hoc action by whichever members of the public happened to be at hand to crew a boat. This ties in with the wider popular memory of the war as "total effort": everyone was a contributor.

This leads to "Dunkirk spirit": spontaneous solidarity in the face of adversity. Often invoked lightheartedly in the face of ordinary disasters like being stuck on a train for hours or squelching about a drenched music festival, but it works for more serious events too. It was invoked a lot when the Ariana Grande concert was bombed in Manchester. This is part of why there is no real counter-part to the individualism of survivalists or "preppers" in the UK: everyone believes that when a real disaster happens, you can rely on your fellow members of the public, and we will survive together.

A detail of the news interview that is very relevant to the whole thing is "stiff upper lip", and responding to threats with blithe dismissal and flippancy. The officer on the beach saying "I wish they wouldn't do that" about the strafing is the exemplar here. But there's quite a few famous, extreme examples: https://www.warhistoryonline.com/featured/major-digby-tatham...
I know that it is not the norm within the auto industry as it is considered as a competitive advantage, but the safety techniques used in assembly lines should be shared among the manufacturers. It would definitely save lives and injuries.
The phrase is "I couldn't care less." As in: You already care the minimum amount.
Google fired him, and his supporters seem to have responded...poorly.

* https://www.facebook.com/myiannopoulos/photos/a.599546946849...

* https://www.theverge.com/2017/8/10/16128518/google-town-hall...

Sounds pretty toxic to me.

Most professors?

* https://www.quora.com/What-do-scientists-think-about-the-bio...
"Symbolic operations" is a fancy way of saying you build up the full mathematical equations with operator overloading instead of computing the results at each individual steps. Having the full equations then allows to differentiate with regards to a variable of your choice included in that equation
> ...and that women and men are biologically different in their suitability for different roles.

_Here_ is where they misrepresent what he said. He didn't suggest that men and women differ in their suitability for different roles, but rather that men and women _generally_ differ in their suitability for different roles. There will always be deviations from the norm, and given the fact that there are known physical and psychological differences between the sexes[1], I don't see why those differences wouldn't lead to differences in career choice overall. However, there are plenty of women suited to be engineers and plenty of men not.

Edit: To those downvoting me, can you please explain why? If I am misinterpreting something, I would love to know the flaw in it.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_differences_in_psychology
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