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Honeywell | North Ryde (Sydney) Australia | Full-time | Onsite

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The only defense I've seen for that is "You want the company to be big enough to sue when they screw it up"
How to Value Your Company
I'm responding to the parent, who was questioning the existence of Slack, because IRC already exists. That's not reasonable, as I explained in the comment you're replying to, and even more in another reply.

IRC doesn't work "perfectly fine", at least in the context of the problems that Slack solves.

I think we largely agree on technical matters; it's a matter of what relevance this has to the OP -- a Slack client for the terminal.

If your stance is that IRC is irrelevant to this thread because Slack and IRC solve different problems, then I might mostly agree. But I didn't bring up IRC!
> Thus even the men who are aware of the presence of bad actors are sometimes blind to how many of them there are, just how horrible their actions are, and more importantly who the bad actors are.

This. And as a man I am sick of it. I want nothing but the best for the women in my life, and the powerlessness of this situation makes me angry. We men are stubborn motherfuckers and it is rare for to meet someone like what is described in the post and also who seems ready/willing/able to changeinto treating others respectfully. Hence the trash bit -- just fucking throw them out.

So many of us want to get back to solving relevant problems. Interpersonal shit like this keeps coming up in our community and it needs to just. fucking. stop.
You can't say "wow, look how much smaller the C program is" and then ignore why it's so much smaller in the first place (no runtime, no garbage collection, etc.) If that's the case, then we should hand-roll assembly all the time because it's "smaller". You also can't just call Java inefficient because it produces larger programs or is "slower". It's all about choosing the right tool for the job.
1.6.0 does not appear to be installable via pip yet, though. (you can install tensorflow==1.6.0rc1 if you really want it now)

The inclusion of AVX instructions should give model training a notable speed boost at lower numbers of CPUs.
ملخص مباراة برشلونة ولاس بالماس 1-1 – هدف عالمى لميسي
> Are you the token woman? Are you qualified?”

> a manager at Microsoft told me I was only hired because I was a woman.

> “You must have had a lot of offers because you are black.”

I’m not in any way condoning this sexist/racist behaviour.

But statements like these reflect the fact that “affirmative action,” “positive discrimination,” quotas etc are HURTING women, by creating prejudice against them.

Some want to solve tech gender disparity by “engineering” an equality of outcome.

The harm done by these social engineers will last for generations.
Any accompanying software tech to mitigate the latency issues?
> I'm pretty sure a lot of this is illegal in many of the countries you plan to operate in.

Which may also may make soliciting people to work on it (or hosting such solicitations) illegal in many jurisdictions, potentially including the one HN operates in.
Fix It, Block Memcached's UDP Source Port 11211
Virta Health
San Francisco, CA (ONSITE)
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Open roles:
Data Engineer
Fullstack Engineer
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Data Scientist
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Our stack consists of Python/Flask, React, React Native, Postgres, and AWS.
Pardon my question: what kind of education did you have?

I deeply regret not studying Computer Science but yours seems to be deeper than that. I'd be very interested in the courses you took.
Nike | Beaverton (Portland), Oregon | Full Time, Contract | ONSITE

Nike's rapidly evolving Digital organization builds everything from NRC, NTC, and Nike apps, to nike.com, to touch screens and Kinect-powered video walls in our flagship stores (https://news.nike.com/news/nike-soho-trial-zones).

I'm building out a data telemetry team powering real time personalization and recommendations, triggered communications services, analytics, digital marketing, and more. I am looking for folks for both our instrumentation team (iOS/Android engineer, product manager, front end engineer) working with experiences and apps to collect and understand their data, and our intake team (product manager) building out distributed systems for ingest and analytics monitoring. Send me an email nick.bergseng@nike.com, or check out our jobs site for all the other teams!

https://jobs.nike.com/category/digital-and-technology-jobs/1...
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A real life story.

Once upon a time, in a far far Canada, there was a "Smart LED lighting module" startup. They had plan A and plan B: A - find a freaking huge buyer for the product, and forego all normal sales and marketing till late stage, B - start building up sales from scratch through a regular marketing/sales push.

At the start, both plans were given go. Sales through plan B were going up, but a "big name salesman" from plan A camp also scored a kill - one of the biggest lighting supplies distributor in USA. Upon hearing that, happy C levels completely wrapped up all further product development/marketing/bd and waited for them to obediently sign a cheque.

But, not so easy! That sale was just for their trial run, which would've taken few month, and they wanted changes, and the company simply can't pull out half million units from a Chinese contractor on a minute notice.

They eagerly put a bond for goods and dished out some cash for company's equity.

Half a year later, they come and say: "Ah we have kinda lost interest in that experimental thingy, and since we are in a financial crisis now, we have to wrap up all nonessential developments." They paid the bond, got their goods, and threw them into garbage and to liquidators. C-levels, investors, and the big distributor co. are still suing each other since 2014.

Morale of the story - all eggs in one basket is bad.
Nim language v0.18.0 released
> So many of us want to get back to solving relevant problems

With respect: digging out from beneath literal millenia of unjust treatment (I mean, this behavior didn't start when we decided women were allowed to have jobs) is probably a relevant problem for decent humans in general.
Try setting the same finger multiple times as different finger "profiles"
> Let's even assume that 90% of the time, things are great for women in high tech. How many women are willing to put up with even 10% (or even 1%) of their time dealing with such behavior? I'm not sure if I would. And then we wonder why so many women aren't interested in technology careers, or leave after a short period of time.

This is backwards. In fields women are interested in (say, dancing), they face much more harassment, because their greater interest and the increased competition from other women raise the bar for behavior that will drive them away.

Donald Trump has been accused of walking into the changing rooms at his beauty pageants. How many female engineers do you think would tolerate the boss repeatedly walking in on them naked? But a lot of girls would really, really like to be beauty queens.
Another dozen will opine about “inherent differences” in the sexes to explain differences in STEM employment

And yet another dozen will opine about how there are no such inherent differences, a far more evidence-free assertion.
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„tipped minimum“ - just wow! As someone living in Asia the American tipping culture is ridiculous and highly unfair. This countr is broken on so many levels.
I do actually want to give credit to this point. I have no strong feelings at all on Marissa/yahoo, but if you join a company as a CEO and it loses 90% of it's value, from a business perspective at the very least, you failed.

If you know the ship is sinking, then you should sell it right away (at 50B) then invest that in index funds, and end up with +7% each year, instead of -90% over 4 years.
The actions that led to the conditions of the gilded age were most certainly selfish acts of the ruling class. The conditions were not created for the sake of it, or because it was funny etc.

I sincerely doubt the people making all the money were not doing it because the poor people they were exploiting (or killing) might eventually get iPhones or penicillin

I also don't know why I can't criticize the conditions resulting from policies in the gilded age because there's a chance that the policies were maybe not "soley intended to have malicious consequences". Again, things aren't black and white. "Modern tech is nice" and "poverty is bad" are not diametrically opposing ideas.

I'm confused by what you're arguing here. People want to reduce inequality, and you're argument seems to boil down to "nothing really matters anyway" or "maybe them being poor is for the best" (which you insist is something we can never actually find out..?) If you're saying that human nature is inherently corrupt and humanity can't unite to make progress for broadly selfish reasons, I might actually agree. But talking about how this is shitty and / or how to fix it doesn't seem pointless, either.
I didn't know what I was doing was called seiza, but I've been getting better at it thanks to jiujitsu. My knees are the biggest obstacle due to untreated osgood-schlatter during my teens, but I'm working on it. Hopefully I'll be able to seiza and squat comfortably by the end of the year.
I might be an outlier, but I interface with all of those on a daily basis in my role as a software engineer
How does putting the lede at the top leave you nowhere to go...?
I'm one of the 10x founders. Just wanted to comments here...I won't answer every question but this one felt important to answer. My thoughts are as follows...

There are mitigating factors as it relates to what we are offering and the concerns you raise -- and one misunderstanding.

The misunderstanding first...we are not selling anyone to anything. We have no involvement in finding you the job, we are not recruiters, we are not headhunters. So we have no alignment with anyone other than YOU.

The first mitigating factor is that we offer two different negotiation options. One is us leading the process and speaking directly to your prosepctive employer, the other is us advising you behind the scenes and you talk directly to your prospective employer. In both cases, we are working hand in hand with you so nothing that is being conveyed is something you're not endorsing. Our goal IS to get to a yes, but ONLY a yes that you feel good about. If you don't feel good about it, then the negotiation ends and we move on.

The other thing is that we're offering to provide this service during our beta phase as a pay what you feel it's worth to you. You could choose to pay us nothing...we need to EARN whatever amount you choose to pay us. So we are 100% incentivized to be both ethical and effective during this process. Because if we're not, you're not going to recommend us to others and you're not going to pay us. And honestly, this business will be built and has been built almost exclusively on recommendations and word of mouth so that's a MAJOR incentive to us.

I do agree with you about one thing though, negotiating is NOT about fighting. It's about presenting reasonable and substantiated reasons why certain points should be adjusted. It's about knowing the myriad of areas TO negotiate. It's about understanding the standards and practices across different verticals. And most importantly it's about truly understanding what YOU want out of a deal. Fighting has NO place in this process.

As a concluding comment, agenting is a VERY old profession and widely used in many other verticals. There is a very good reason for this, put simply, most people are not the best at advocating for themselves. But if that doesn't describe you, if you possess all the knowledge required to get you the best deal possible, that's great. No need for our help. Otherwise, let us prove to you why there is a difference. If you don't like it, don't pay us.
That is the most fun I've had reading a hashtag stream in a while. Thanks!
I wish governments would just get on with it and open source their functionality for those of us who want to "serve our country"
Does this just come down to a semantic idea that if something isn't in pursuit of AGI, its not really AI? That feels unfair to most of these researchers who absolutely disagree with that.

And to consider these algorithms to not "learn" is similarly unfair. They do. They learn to solve specific problems (at least right now), but they do learn.
Quantstamp is in the process of building a decentralized solution for smart contract verification.
I feel exactly the same way and have faced similar thoughts.
If nothing happens I assume no offense was taken and move on I guess... but sometimes that bothers me more.
Is it 14:59 yet for this boring conservative daddy figure who doesn’t even believe in God? I’m tired of his name, let alone his voice and opinions.
Maybe do what you think is right and be quick to apologize if it is appropriate.

Edit: I am absolutely baffled by the downvotes. What am I missing?
> Is that not open enough for you?

I was trying to contrast with existing solutions—IRCCloud, for example, "solves" the problem of history search by effectively wrapping IRC into a proprietary web cloud service.

By an "open-ecosystem solution", I mean a solution that applies to anyone and everyone who uses the IRC protocol, rather than only for users of some specific client.

I'm not saying IRC isn't amenable to open-ecosystem solutions; I'm saying that nobody has (yet) tried to solve this problem in an open-ecosystem way.

> As opposed to...?

As opposed to network-operators being enabled to solve these problems for users of their networks.

Consider the contrast of POP3 vs. IMAP. In POP3, the tasks of "email storage" and "email search" are left to the user, and often they'll solve them badly (by e.g. setting up direct POP3 connections from several devices to one POP3 account, ending up with random emails living only on one or another device, whichever one happened to pull them.) In IMAP, by contrast, email storage and indexing happen on the IMAP server, and users don't need to worry about it. But, since the solution doesn't involve any proprietary services, users can still "take control" of the process if they want—in this case, by setting up their own IMAP server. They just don't have to do that.

> You're free to write and propose your own RFCs and extend IRC however you wish.

I think we're in violent agreement about that. My point was that nobody seems to want to do that for the IRC ecosystem vis-a-vis network-level message archiving.
Also of note, https://github.com/uber/queryparser/blob/master/FUTURE.md got cut from earlier drafts.
Michael Fogleman's in this thread, you know? :P

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16496005
My understanding is its not taxing, its shift work and the thousands of edge cases across the various gov departments that have evolved their pay systems, contracts/union agreements separately
Noting how if two women are talking to each other at a conference, it becomes highly unlikely any guys will walk up and join us. If three women are talking, forget about it.

I would feel intimidated walking up to a group of women because I might be criticized for anything I did. And wouldn't a woman feel intimidated walking up to a group of men too?
It would still be inefficient to transfer these streams from the sensor to the processor. You'd have to fab the processor on the same chip as the sensor, and even transferring the data on-chip from the pixels to the processing units might be inefficient.
If you truly want control of your device you simply cannot buy anything that runs iOS.

When Apple decides that the support for your iOS device ends, you have no choice but to upgrade, or risk running outdated vulnerable software.

The laptops, desktops are a different story since you can breathe new life to them by installing a free operating system.
You'd rather have plain text than hand-written diagrams? I think most of the difficulty is in not knowing APL like notation.
It's hard to design an incentive structure that's perfectly aligned. In the case of a commission only on the increase, now they've gone from having too much of an incentive to get any deal done quickly to not enough of an incentive to close a deal even if it isn't a large increase. You can fiddle around with a fixed part and incentive part, but it is very hard to find the right spot. One alternative is to pay by the hour but that comes with its own set of perverse incentives.
The impact of drinks really can't be overstated. As a booze-loving city, Portland restaurant's economy is especially interesting. At least half of the meals I eat out are at bars and you can get a quality meal for $8-12. But this all hinges on drinks subsidizing the rest of the meal.
(Disclosure: I am a former Uber employee.)

HEY! In 2016, I worked on the pilot program that was the predecessor of the product. It was just me and an intern finding ways to modify Uber's core dispatch and billing workflows to make workflows like this possible.

The project started attracting interest in the company, and we handed it off to a newly-formed dedicated team for the project. They made it into a fully-fledged, HIPAA-compliant product with a great UX.

I'm absolutely ecstatic that this launched. Although I probably can't answer any questions about the project, since they probably had to rewrite all of my prototype code.
You're right, I'm going to call my next software project Ford Motor Company
Except there aren't many good resources to learn it and the documentation isn't very good. Hopefully this will improve soon.
Well I'm going to play the devil's advocate: How would you feel about looking for an employee for months, spending tremendous amounts of money on recruiting them, training them afterwards, only to find out that they're not going to work for you for several years and didn't even mention that, possibly messing up your financial situation, screwing up any long term planning, etc? How do you feel when someone takes an unplanned vacation (and that's just for a few weeks)?

The other cases of harassment are terrible. But I can sympathize with the managers/business owners on this one - not that I support them. I see their point.
Any idea why AMDs fork[0] hasn't been merged yet?

0: https://github.com/ROCmSoftwarePlatform/hiptensorflow
Sorry if you think he's only a useful idiot. For me, I credit him a lot with working out of long term depression. And putting me in a state to turn my life around for the better.

Listen to him sincerely care about men: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIQP_CbBRrQ

Seriously, I hadn't felt that way since Mister Rogers, that someone actually thought my betterment and well being was worth emotion.
> The other half of me, I feel like I should say something. But by doing so, that asserts my male patriarchy views

When I have been in these situations, the root problem has been someone being shitty to a friend/colleague/co-worker/whatever. Saying "that's shitty, stop" doesn't mean you're speaking for any particular person or that you're defending her person specifically--what you are doing, and you can explain if asked, is that you are establishing social norms with your behavior that you are telling the group that you expect everybody to follow.

There are many axes along which one can be shitty, and it is not a reinforcement of patriarchal structures to set expectations that people be decent to one another--so long, of course, as you're doing so evenly. I have gone hard at co-workers who were shitty to women. I have also gone hard at co-workers who were jerks in code reviews.

What I quoted strikes me as perhaps a misapplication of the idea of patriarchy and what it does to society--at least, in the sort of case you're describing. Could this be taken to an extreme that would validate your concerns? Totally. But in practice? It never has been the case for me (and I am solicitous about asking if I am out of my lane). It is important to be willing to listen, in case that, yes, you are out of your lane--but I have never seen a default posture of "no, we don't allow shitty behavior up in here" cause friction with anybody it shouldn't cause friction with.
i think the term is more prominent on the NLP side, via information retrieval (IR) and clustering. i first saw it in IR, and you'd see it in stanford's CS 124 or CS 224N, for example. if the parent is talking about people who are working on a system that has text-understanding component, i can understand their surprise.
The parent was referring to Keras which is a NN API hence why I responded talking about NN.
(Disclosure: I am a former Uber employee.)

A handful of cities already have UberESPAÑOL. I'm not certain, but I imagine that the healthcare provider's dashboard should be able to request the product if it is available at the pickup location.

https://www.uber.com/drive/san-diego/resources/san-diego-ube...
You missed the point: the jerks aren’t different people than the saeethearts. The women aren’t angels.
High-profile testing consultant and angry man James Bach watched the video and decided the product was bullshit. He didn't try it. http://www.satisfice.com/blog/archives/1768