skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It also has evidence of physicasl threats. Those made it to the recently dropped/dismissed NLRB complaint, and it seems (was mentioned in a thread on HM, for sure) that peple involved had received very stern slaps on their wrists.

Please do put a link if you can find it easily. Wading through the history on HN is non-trivial. I will certainly accept legally filed complaints as evidence.

And, they damn sure should have gotten more than slaps on the wrist for threats of physical violence.

> he did a) what Google asked him to do -- provided feedback

And even if I were doing this on a technical issue, I'm going to make sure my arguments are solid before I send it into the ether if the issue is going to cause political grief. That's just common sense.

> stronger than any debunkings of his memo

This one from the Economist is a good general start (I chose the Economist because it doesn't really fall in the "liberal rag" category that most people would place things like Salon, Wired, etc.)
https://www.economist.com/news/international/21726276-last-w...

There are lots of other problems with his memo that the whole "social science" field that he is quoting has come under strong dispute in the last decade or so.

The most significant point is that Damore ignores any evidence that doesn't support his point. If you're going to be controversial, you have to explain the stuff that doesn't agree with you as well.

> But faulting him for being fired over a memo that he didn't leak

I thought he explicitly posted it to internal Google circulation. I really hate how it moved to the press (people who did THAT should be fired as well), but I do not believe that he simply gave a confidential memo to HR and then it got leaked. Please do correct me if I am wrong.

Should Damore have lost his job? In my opinion, no.

However, only an idiot goes looking for bear without a really big gun and being surprised when he gets mauled.
Yeah my dad was in a long term care facility for a bit after he had a severe case of acute pancreatitis and they almost killed him. We had to fight with the insurance company to get him readmitted to a real hospital and he was days from dying when he came in. They did a second surgery and put him on another round of antibiotics and he’s at home and healthy for years now.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16255519
Managing distractions, clearing, and changing your environment are particularly effective for me. I was reminded of the following study skills lecture, some of which is applicable when trying to get going and keep going in a work context.

Marty Lobdell - Study Less Study Smart ~60 min.
Study environment commentary from 10:15
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlU-zDU6aQ0
In the 70's a 7000-ton building was moved in Bogotá using steel rollers. It was cheaper to move than to demolish and rebuild. http://www.colombia.co/en/trade-with-colombia/innovation/cud...
>Some people say Python is a good enough Lisp.

After a full year writing Python professionally, and then Common Lisp, i can confidently say this is not true.
Why Developers Love Node.js and what's their main issue with it?
The SJWs have no evidence for their broad and vague claims either, which are almost completely exaggerated for personal gain, and have nothing to do with actual social justice, which they seek to deny to those they hate, attack and defame.

Don't try and drag science into this, when this is a set of social issues based on a bunch of people's mental health issues and how they're taking it out on other people.
That's why your boss makes you sign a non-compete, specifically banning you from starting a competing business :)
These last couple weeks, and my first two years of work, I think I've hit my best groove by waking up at 06:00, optionally going for ~20-30 minutes in the gym, and jumping straight into work. When I delay eating until at least noon (so fasting for at least the eight hours I spend in bed, plus six or more waking hours in the morning), I tend to maintain a healthy body weight and feel little or no gnawing hunger.

I'm currently working from home, and it seems to work even better at home than it did full time with an office commute, and I clock out more or less whenever I feel like it (which is less often than I would've guessed).
I've spent the last year at home, and these last two weeks have been literally an integer factor more productive and enjoyable. I've enjoyed it so much that I currently work somewhat on weekends as well, by choice.
It's my version of the the silicon valley since I'm in another country. I love it
See also the UK's minister of agriculture trying to feed his four-year-old daughter a beefburger during the mad cow disease era:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/may/16/news...
Fascinating how large it is.. it's more than a learning.. or at least it's deep learning (sic).
5 years for me, and counting. I'm so much happier and more productive, especially since where I work went to an open plan office: bright, noisy, visual distractions everywhere, speakerphones on every desk, little "huddle" tables in between developer desks in each 4-or-5 person "cube".

I have no problems connecting with people on Lync (or more recently HipChat). Interactions are via phone, email, Confluence and Jira.

I get to have a home-cooked lunch with my wife every day. I save all the time I'd spend commuting and dealing with interruptions. No money spent on gas. No getting sick from people coming in and spreading germs (something of an epidemic right now at my office).

I'm pretty sure at some point I'll be forced to give this up, but man, it's been a fantastic ride so far.
Great to see you here again and particularly great to hear these news! I was already relieved to see your HN submission in May and now I see that was the time when the first public contributions after your AskHN appeared on the GH profile you used here (What I didn't see is that you already used reddit again only some 3 weeks later)

The reason I contacted the police was that I wanted to delegate taking care of this to professionals. I'm not a psychologist and what I think might be a reasonable approach to helping out in such a situation actually might or might not be. (People seem to have very different approaches here from "I feel you bro" through "Hey it's not that bad" to "You can be really proud of x, y and z" and up to "C'mon, stop whining!" and even "It's actually your fault")

I'm very glad to see that this seems to have been the right decision. I wasn't too confident about it at first, b/c police really didn't leave a professional impression. When I read that post I was at work and my wife and kid were at home. They were quite shocked (and the neighbors probably somewhat "excited") that KriPo showed up at our place. Turned out, I was also right not to trust their research capabilities. I literally[1] stalked the sh*t out of you and sent them a good dozen of profiles together with your name, (work) phone number and address and the letter to your ex, her profiles &c. That may sound creepy but I actually really wanted to make sure they have all the information they need to reach out to you as fast as possible (I expected it to take minutes, not a week). Turns out doing so was both right and wrong: They really seemed not to be skilled investigators, but to the extent that some days (!) later they called me and told me they couldn't open the links.

So after that I really wasn't that full of confidence what concerns the police, so until I saw your HN submission in May I always thought about calling you but didn't really know how you'd react.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16403671
Agreed. Been WFH for six years and around year two I was probably the least healthy I'd ever been in my life. I had been waking up naturally around 8am every day which I thought was amazing, but I generally liked to be online by 9am so there wasn't much time to fit a workout in.

At year three I started waking at 6am to fit in 2-3 hours of personal improvement time, primarily working out and reading. Unless it's an emergency, I'm not doing anyone else's stuff within those 2-3 hours. I also go to sleep around 10, which takes some getting used to.

Today I'm the most physically and mentally healthy that I've ever been. I actually live close to NYC but the train / ferry commute would take those critical two hours away. Going to keep my current system in place as long as I can.
I use Evernote for exactly this. I organized it with a couple of notebooks: Filing cabinet, Family, Work, Inbox and Templates. I have about 20 tags that I can assign to each note and I rename all notes with the date in the name so a combination of tags, title and notebook alsways yields the result I want.

A couple of takeaways:
-	Evernote Premium is well wort hit, it converts all PDFs and images with OCR so that the text within it is searcheable

-	I scan each incoming mail item that’s even remotely significant. All bills, letters etc. go into the filing cabinet, should I ever need it.

-	The scannable app (by Evernote) outperforms almost any scanner below 500 dollars. And it’s free.

-	The web clipper is awesome for storing websites for future reading

-	I use Evernote not only as a filing cabinet, but also as a notebook for random notes/ideas, repository for my children’s drawings, scrapbook, wish list, to-do pad, grocery list, you name it.

We’re completely paperless (only some really important papers and drawings are kept) and it’s a huge improvement in our lives. As opposed to most people, I can tell you exactly how much our electric bill is, when the last PTA meeting was, what the VIN number of the car is, the exact dimensions of my living room and where/when we bought that nice IKEA vase. All within seconds. I find it liberating how much space in my head is cleared because I don’t have to remember all that stuff anymore.

If you're interested in going paperless: https://www.jamierubin.net/going-paperless/
I don't know the answer to that myself unfortunately. I know the entirety of the runtime itself is OSS and when you do local run/debug of a Function it's the same runtime that Azure uses.

It's not an apples to apples comparison though since OpenWhisk is intended to be self deployed.

I mentioned Functions here just because many folks don't know that most Azure SDKs, runtimes, tooling, etc are OSS by default.
>I can imagine that this was easier to deal with for a large team than the original implementation in Lisp

You can bet this was simply due to lack of Lisp developers at Yahoo. And I can bet that the Lisp code was easier to read.

I once delivered a sophisticated pricing modeler to a financial institution, in Python, done mostly in functional style. Code well documented and commented, and easy to understand. And Python is one of the easiest languages to learn.

The customer's IT deparment insisted on a complete rewrite to Java, because that's what their developers knew.
If they only had reasonable pricing
If women choose to take less lucrative careers, make less lucrative family roles, and negotiate their salaries less than men, than that's fine with me. Personal freedom and equal opportunity will not always mean equality of outcome, especially in richer countries where women are free to live the life and career they want instead of the life and career they need to survive.
swap your carbs for fat and see what happens when you're diabetic already :|
Warning.js: the opposite of noscript warnings
> overzealous pedantry

Some people might consider it pedantic to insist to someone who was confused by a choice of wording, and offered a less potentially confusing alternative, that actually it's fine because it's technically correct, regardless of how people understand it when they read it.
>this is just the tip of the iceberg.

However the full iceberg is still only found on the Lisp languages.

Some features are found in other languages, but the combination of metaprogramming with homoiconicity is one of the key elements, and that is arguably only found in Lisp.
From the book's website:

"This is a draft textbook on data analysis methods, intended for a one-semester course for advance undergraduate students who have already taken classes in probability, mathematical statistics, and linear regression. It began as the lecture notes for 36-402 at Carnegie Mellon University."
Only when using the handset, and on connections without sidetone. With speakerphone style conversations there would be no perceived need to yell.
Weird, I wonder if it's more regional, or just completely disconnected from culture, and more of a family-by-family thing.
Absolutely it is. Nothing wrong with pedantry per-se, but with respect to this particular discussion it helps to understand the motivation to understand if the person is not clear on what "he" means, which we can help correct to prevent future confusion when future comments use gender-neutral "he", or is just trying to have some fun, which we can safely ignore.
A meritocracy isn't unfair by definition. It is an ideology based around what people can achieve. These achievements don't have to be grand or anything. They can be small and incremental. It is an ideology about empowering people, no matter who they are.

Even those who don't have equal capability compared to others can contribute in small ways, and so, they can indeed achieve merit based on merely doing what they can do, even if it is small.

But, it is many small things that add up to massive changes, and that is what a meritocracy is ~ just chip in where you can contribute, and you can make a difference, no matter who you are.

However, there are issues where a meritocracy cannot be of use, and that is in a system designed deliberately to exclude merit, and instead empower those who prefer there be imbalance, injustice, and unfairness. SJW ideologies which seek to belittle and mute those they consider the "enemy" are like this.
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It showed me that there are other worlds beyond LAMP boundaries.

It also gave me new parameters for procrastination. LOL
I'm used to Transip.eu, very good product, very good services.

https://www.transip.eu/
I strongly suspect that your mother's unfortunate experience was 100% caused by official Soviet antisemitism, not by anything about her gender. Post-war Soviet policy was to deny most Jews the right to even study in prestigious universities, to deny them higher degrees for spurious reasons, and exclude them from many research institutions [1] - is it any wonder that your mother found it difficult to obtain a university teaching position?

> While the USSR might have been seen as a “feminist” heaven back in the day it was far from that

Compared to the West at the time, the USSR was feminist. I have talked to several Soviet Jewish women who emigrated to the US in the 1970s. All of them were struck by blatant gender discrimination that was normal in America at the time, but to them seemed like something out of a 19th century novel; for example, needing a husband's permission to open a bank account.

[1] See, for example, https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Антисемитизм_в_советской_матем...
FlightSimLabs Alleged Malware Analysis
I would imagine this is very common. I also wonder if there are "billionaires" who aren't even actual billionaires, just CIA operatives with legends slowly built up around them through the years.
Would you share info about how you transitioned out of coding? I'm looking to do the same.
You might enjoy reading Yihui Xie (bookdown, Knitr)'s very honest blog post on his problems that sound similar to yours:

https://yihui.name/en/2018/02/career-crisis/
Moving from a top research group to a fortune 500 company just last year, I couldn't agree with you more.

I had great resources in some places (access to the finest minds in my field, for example) and was completely hamstrung in others (a hard salary cap as an assistant researcher, extreme difficulty getting a new whiteboard installed in my office, etc)

Industry isn't perfect either but seems to be better at recognizing that researchers are best used in the role they were trained for and not doing ancillary work.
Yes, transip.eu is good services !
Steps to starting a new project
Which country do you assume OP is in? In Germany women only make up 16% of engineers http://www.zeit.de/2013/38/frauenanteil-ingenieure. In my starting class of 300 ten years ago there were 5 women in electrical and computer engineering. Mech and building engineering was much higher. Computer science was somewhat in between.
In my high school some girls went for math and many for medicine (still a science, somewhat), but none went for engineering or computer science AFAIK.

I think you're too easily discounting his personal experience. If you ask me, at least in Germany, EE and CS is pretty much devoid of women. And if you're talking about dating, a small pool of women surrounded by men will probably be off the market most of the time. So him never dating engineers at least in my experience, is the norm.

They're doing a lot here to attract girls to STEM, but it isn't bearing much fruit.
There are consistent, globally found physical[1] and psychological differences[2] between the sexes, so it's a bit more complicated than comparing people with different eye colors.

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

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_differences_in_psychology
The insight that a great many programmers, probably including myself, consider their particular tiny tiny tiny subsection of the programming universe to actually be the most common case by a large margin.

As such, I let "nobody needs X" and "everyone should use Y" and "why does Z even exist" comments slide off me, except in the cases where I can genuinely help someone expand their horizons.
>do any of the lisps have a package system like npm with tiny, nano libraries?

In the Common Lisp world there is Quicklisp which works perfectly, however "nano libraries" a la NPM are often shunned in that community (as well as in many others).

Often a Common Lisp library will only require 2 or 3 dependencies and each one might require 0, 1, or 2 dependencies.

Part of this is due to the comprehensive "standard library" built into the language specification itself, part is also due to maturity -- some third party libs have become de-facto standards.
That depends very much on where the cables were running. Some of them will have gotten longer than needed, others shorter and for some it may not have made a big difference, merely a slight change of angle.

The phone companies deal with cable splices all the time (roughly at the rate of backhoe deployment), so they most likely shut down the trunks one-by-one, extended the ones that needed more wire and they may or may not have decided to take up the slack in the remainder (to avoid parasitic inductance and capacitance from rolling up the excess wire).
I was there too. Oh my gosh, how hard it was for me to push myself to do any work on time.

For me, the solution was to change job. I didn't want to work on a thing that I haven't believe in. It was just uninteresting. Now I can say I work in awesome place, on wonderful project where I learn interesting new stuff every day and feel that I become a better dev every day.
The exact shape depends on your cost function. If you want to stop as early as possible when a strong effect is present (at the cost of running the test longer when the effect is weak), you can make the area get wider.
So if someone who is anti-semitic believes that Jesus died on the cross at the behest of his Jewish contemporaries, and I also believe the same thing because that's what history has taught me, does that make me anti-semitic?

Or is that one ok because it hasn't been debunked?

In which case, according to Wikipedia, the Frankfurt school "consisted of neo-Marxist dissidents uncomfortable with existing capitalist, fascist, or communist systems." Has that been debunked? If so, where?
I am surprised that it was practical to move, I suppose it must have been a small manual branch exchange given the time.

Big central offices are massive buildings often with deep basements.
Rich and prosperous corporations, and a trodden-on and money-deprived worker-class, not to mention the abused poor and homeless?
Oracle open-sources DTrace under the GPL
Currently the sunrise here is at 6:45-7am. I'm up between 5:45-6:00 by myself anyway, but I usually just waste that time checking email/reading HN/reddit. I will make sure to not check phone until 7am. These are my plans and of course there is a big chance that I do not achieve all of this at once, it might take some adjustment, but if I do not check my phone, read and workout it's a win for me. I want to allocate 3-4 hours for myself in the morning.

Getting up early is an amazing feeling, but I learned that by tiring myself for a week, eventually your body will go to bed earlier and you'll wake up earlier. Do it for two weeks and you should be able to become an early riser.

5:30ish - wake up, bathroom etc

5:45ish - Have breakfast. Want to eat slower so I allocate 30 minutes.

6:15ish - 7:00 - read/cook lunch and dinner.

7:00am - head out to the gym

9:00am - back from the gym

9:30ish shower, eat, check email

10 - start working or an hour long nap depending on how I feel.
Material science is real; nanotech, not so much. Glad you found your way out of that dead end. I have a friend with a Ph.D. in nanotech. He is a pretty good GPU programmer.
Going beyond Wireshark: experiments in visualising network traffic
I guess the author wants to secure an online cryptocurrency exchange website (like MtGox or Coincheck), not to exchange cryptographic keys.

I think the correct answer is that you shouldn't write your own exchange unless you know a lot about security or you hire someone that knows a lot about security. (For reference: I don't know.) An online exchange is a giant multimillions piñata, just waiting to be hacked.
How to Refine Android App Development Using Psychological Concepts
Those observations were excluded.
Sounds like you need a process, rather than a tool. Personally, I jot down everything that gets mentioned to me on paper and, within 1-2 days, it will end up in the project management system (if it is something to be worked on). Once it's there, I strike it through in my notepad. So basically, 99% of my notepad is a scribble - only 1% that I need to think about remains un-struck.
The Circuitry in Our Cells
Just playing the Devil's advocate here.

These days I work with a person who was working remote for around 5 years or so. He now works with us full time. There are somethings you forget and forgive me for saying this, you also gain a lot of bad habits. The worse among them being ability to work with a team and collaborate. You also lose out on learning from technical discussions, practices going on in the industry, colleagues who share things. And most important of all ambition that comes from peer pressure. You sort of lose out on so many things that it will hard to start working with a team again.

Sure if you are at the top of your game, you can drive things on your terms. But please rethink your stance. Also, its quite hard for long term remote workers to start working with teams. Many bad habits crawl to the workplace. Most important of them being dysfunctional communication, sometimes its as simple as committing code and writing documentation.

Remote workers can be bad cultural fits for almost any culture. Simply due to the fact that they are exposed to none.