skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The more I hear about the inner workings of Google, the less impressed I am. It seems their vaunted hiring process has let in folks who specialize more at internal politicking than getting things done. It doesn't take too many of those kind of people to ruin a culture, and cause a company to stagnate or go backwards.
Thanks for chiming in. That all sounds very interesting and this thread has got my gears turning.

I regret not considering Make for Docker administration months/years ago. I've taken to using bash scripts or, worse, tagged bash comments to recall commonly used complex commands.
> implies Ribbon is "good UI"

Where was that implied?
Definitely stay far away from wine if you care about your wallet. With what you have said about teas it would only be a matter of finding the correct wine (I think people call it their Eureka wine?) and you would be hooked in a far more expensive habit.

My wife is a winemaker, we work on wines together, and we rarely drink wine for the sole purpose of getting drunk. We love wines far more than any other alcoholic beverage, however the quality to price ratio of beer or spirits is orders of magnitude more reasonable than wine when just looking to enjoy an evening. We reserve wine for special occasions, regular get togethers with our industry friends, and when she either come homes with free wine from work or a bottle from another home or professional winemaker looking for opinions. We certainly couldnt afford to regularly drink the wines she makes ($40-$150) but we have a great appreciation for those that can.

Drink a beer with a similar level of alcohol and residual sugar to a wine and in almost every case (even most natural wine) the beer will be almost impossible to enjoy. The vast majority of high alcohol beers rely on sugar to strike a balance that the natural components of wine achieve effortlessly. What separated vitis vinifera wine from all other fermented beverages to me is that wine has an ability to effortlessly strike balance no other alcohol can compare with.

The romanticism of wine for better or worse has built a market willing to spend significantly more on wine than they do on all but the most expensive spirits in the world. This over millennia has allowed winemakers the freedom to explore, understand, and later control the most minute details of viticulture and enology in the pursuit of eeking out ever more flavor and nuance from fermented grapes.
I'd argue that someone needs to needs to make a Google Chat Product equivalent of the Cleveland Browns Quarterback Graveyard jersey (https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Clb2inPWAAAh3lX.jpg), but Google seems intent on circumventing that possibility by using pants-on-head moronic namespacing.
Broken on mobile. Tried a single word and it displayed a blank block of text.
It's different because you can set your profile privacy to "Friends Only" so prospective employers can't look at your info. Facebook, however, has access to all that data and who knows if/how they might discriminate (doubtful it would be explicit/intentional, but it's easy to accidentally let bias creep into machine learning algorithms).
Direct message doesn't require physical contact.
Seriously if there is a plan to deprecate Hangouts, then it should not use back the same brand for GSuite to confuse users.

Do not understand why the need to have separate app for video chat, especially the one consumer facing. WhatsApp, WeChat etc all combine text, voice and video chat in one.
Like, for example?

To be serious, those are sort of contrived. "Sending a notification" isn't something you want to be managing as state at all. What you probably mean is that you want to send that notification once, on an "official" build. And that requires storing the fact that the notification was sent and a timestamp somewhere (like, heh, a file).

And as for building into a database... that just seems weird to me. I'd be very curious to hear about systems that have successfully done this. As just a general design point, storing clearly derived data (it's build output from "source" files!) in a database is generally considered bad form. It also introduces the idea of an outside dependency on a build, which is also bad form (the "source" code isn't enough anymore, you need a deployed system out there somewhere also).
Hey! Thanks for feedback, we saw indeed that engagement isn't that great with the section and I didn't thought about the "handpicked" stuff. We started with some pretty much random generic domains there and are looking to build a database of handpicked stuff :)
I would compare it to sugar instead. At some point in the last century, food companies figured out that they could leverage the sweet tooth inherent in us using refined sugars. Dental health declined rapidly and obesity went up. It took a couple of decades for society to catch up and put in place countermeasures. To me it seems it's getting better, although at a pretty slow pace; people generally know more about the issue, sugar taxes are being put in place, and there's now some social stigma around excessive candy eating.

Similarly, we're beginning to wise up around the exploitation of our attention. The dopamine hit is real, just like with sugar, but we can also learn to override those impulses by focusing on longer-term goals (being in shape, having a healthy social life).
You _could_ do something like this:

make -f- << sed 's/MAKE_TARGET/\$@/' Makefile.descriptive

But for the sake of compatibility I wouldn't.
It'd require careful calculation between the base of the mountain and the top, plus some other location for calibration purposes.
What software do you use? What is your source of shows?
He was single in the sense of the single person to work on.the site. I don't know what his relationship status was. His main motivation was probably financial, not finding a partner.
The Median Young Family Has Nearly Zero Wealth
I work at Microsoft, and I know around promo time in addition to people on your team, managers ask for feedback from people not on your team that you’ve interacted with as well so that can be used in conjunction with whatever projects work you’ve completed.
is not mobile, but I noticed indeed a but when there are no results for a particular keyword.
Can't the same be said about apps?

You download Google Chrome. For all you know it's phoning home all your passwords to Google in a way they can decrypt and they can empty your bank account.
At Google you can ask your coworkers to write feedback that would be included in your promo package. I wonder why the author didn't ask the developers that they helped to write a few sentences explaining how much time they'd saved thanks to the author's help. The hiring committee wouldn't ask for any metric if there were already a few people testifying that "I saved XX hours".

Disclaimer: I work at Google.
Awesome!
Crypto - we're on it. It should be live in a week or two max.

Thanks for trying us out, and happy to buy your first coffee :)
It's not quite true: places of employment that are ok with you firing a client, while they exist, are rare. When I was an independent contractor, I was loath to fire a client because they can be hard to find, but knowing I could and doing so was a good feeling. I don't know if the positive of that offset the mental stress of generating clients, but it was one of the positives. So was the freedom to work when you want. I now work remotely full-time for a company with an incredibly flexible attitude toward getting your work done, but I still feel guilty for running errands on "company time". The flip side to that is when I worked for myself, all time was potentially company time.

So it's all fit & personality.
I have generally chosen to deal with this problem by refusing to acknowledge the existence of bonuses or promotions. It is harder for a warped incentive structure to warp your behavior if you refuse to be motivated by its prizes.
It’s not the baseline in cryptocurrency, and my point is both the ICOing companies and investors are in on the game so nobody is fooling one another. I don’t have the stomach to spew BS for money so I’m not involved in the ecosystem. But I think you need to be a bit more realistic and not view investors as just a class of people that are being ripped off - most, especially bigger/institutional are savvy with their money.
China: Big Data Fuels Crackdown in Minority Region – Human Rights Watch
Yes that's true, which is why I said "why not both?" The manager should do more, but so should the employee. Sitting there and saying "I'm blocked, woe is me" is garbage compared to saying "I'm blocked. Can you please help me Mr/Ms XYZ?"
Its a bizarre place for so many reasons. Us swedes are everywhere because of igaming. No one in Sweden ever thinks or talks about Malta, but we are enough Swedes here to be counted as a small city.
A business decision can be driven by all product decisions, but that would be a bad way to make a business decision.

Look at that discontinued list and look at the business services that have been discontinued, can you find any? Can you find more than 5? Look at G-Suite + GCP (Google's business offerings) and tell me how many there are. There are dozens. Many of which have been around for 10+ years (Email, Docs, Sheets, Analytics). So if I'm a business, making a business decision about a new business service from Google it's an incredibly safe bet that this service will be around for the long hall.

You can point to consumer services to try and discount that... but you'd be wrong to, and I think you know that.
Any examples? I don't know of any other state that has 1 city with such an impact on the entire state as to turn it blue.
IANAL. I had this talk with a lawyer friend a few weeks ago. I thought there was a way to show the design of the device is faulty - for example a speed gun at sunset reports inaccurate times. But it's a very high standard to get a court to allow that.
Is the short-term thinking a cause or an effect?

I think short-term thinking by superiors causes short-term behavior by reports.

If the management pays fairly, with fair raises, fair balance, fair acknowledgement of all kinds of work and not just the flashy stuff, most reports would focus on the right things, do their jobs well and not look to switch jobs all the time.

But if the management is always trying to escape giving promotions/raises, does not acknowledge the underlying effort to get something to production, only thinks about their own empires (basically short-term selfish thinking) it will cause a disproportionately high number of reports to behave the same aka look out for their selfish interests.

I am absolutely certain that top companies look to retain good players (top != stock price or market cap).
It's about time for the "adding new words" portion in the Google What-The-Fuck-Is-This-For product cycle. Last time we had that was Allo and Duo, before that was Plus. The "filler projects" just have normal nouns like Inbox or Photos or whatever.
Live by the algorithm...die by the algorithm
In the comments here and articles like this one, what is the rationale against naming and shaming? Is it legal CYA? Some kind of arbitrary hurdles for would-be exploiters?

I want to know what stuff to avoid what companies don't care about security.
At this point do you really think Windows Phone is getting new features?

I thought it was already abandoned as a failed project by Nicrosoft?
The google promotion process sounds about as horrendous as their hiring process.
Congrats on your launch!
There is huge opportunity in the relatively boring fields of digitizing paper-based tasks for established industries. I worked in this field ( mobile data collection & integration for environmental management systems in forestry, oil & gas) for a significant period and the hard part was not the data collection but the unique workflows of each organization. Nobody wants to change "how" they fit the data collection piece into the rest of their processes so you either don't offer it (and create a easily replaceable niche service) or you end up with numerous bespoke customized solutions - what's your plan?

I'd challenge your statement that there's nothing available for some of your biggest potential markets, unless you're talking a more complete lifecycle solution specifically targeting verticals than just the data collection. Also, what's the "automation" component? To me that implies some form of automatic data collection or predictive workflow creation - both which are huge selling points, but hard to pull off.

Finally a key feature that you could consider are the document management aspects around data collection. Even big organizations do this poorly. The ability to accurately group and find related documents (like inspections over time or by project) tends to be missing in data collection. As a user I likely have one or more sets of related documents that fit together based on some component of my workflow that I share with a team, clients regulators and the public in different capacities. The most common solution I see is the network share and an email alias.

Good luck with your venture and enjoy the ride!
It's like Slack, but with a slightly different conversation threading model (and more Google integrations). Ostensibly its conversation model is better at keeping different conversations separate within the same room.
Iceland's population is about 300’000 and it's probably amongst the least corrupt (held the bankers to account) and most approachable (ministers’ direct phone numbers in phone books) I know of. Do not confuse corruption and integration into the community.
Does this mean the "memory shortage" that has been inflating global RAM prices due to smartphone production demand might come to an end soon?
Fluent UI is probably mentioned because "Microsoft Office Fluent user interface (UI)" (short: Fluent UI) used to mean Ribbon UI, long before the Fluent Design System existed.

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff461922(v=offic...
There are other issues at play when it comes to helping out remote team members.

When you're co-located with someone you develop better comradery with that person. You'll know them better and they'll come right to your desk when they ask for help so you're more likely to help them. And you sit with them as they execute commands so you can see exactly what's going on.

remote coworkers are easier to ignore, harder to help, and harder to socialize with.
Microsoft's "Ribbon" thing is very distinctive, it's not "obvious"... although whether it's "good" is debatable.
Bill Gates is saying this is his favourite book of all time: https://www.gatesnotes.com/Books/Enlightenment-Now
> For several jobs in a row, I've felt that helping others on a team is undervalued and under-recorded. I've been planning to implement the "assist" metric, similar to basketball, on my own team for a while.

The metric might be a good idea, but I think the real problem goes deeper than that.

Take a step back and ask yourself a more fundamental question: should everyone who does good work be promoted?

By definition, promotions are limited and each level is more difficult to attain than the last one. Obviously, you can't promote everyone. Even worse, not everyone will be happier when promoted. So why does literally everyone want to be promoted? Why do they work so hard to get it?

It's because there are no other ways of rewarding good work. And by "rewarding", I don't only mean "giving people recognition" or "giving people fun work". Those are important and should not be overlooked. Nevertheless, if you don't also give people money, sooner or later they'll fall behind their needs or just the rising costs of everything around them. Then they'll have to choose whether they need money more than intrinsic rewards. And then we're back to the original dilemma: do I play the promotion game or do I just bugger off somewhere where I can get what I need?

TL;DR: Retention shouldn't be only about promotion. Give people real rewards and incentives for doing a good job at their level.
"Fluent" was the official name for the new Office UI system introduced with Office 2007 (which included not only the ribbon, but other stuff like the new context menus/floating toolbar, new keyboard shortcut system, etc.) The name didn't really catch on and I think Microsoft stopped using it after a short time, but I guess they eventually reused it for the new design concept introduced with Windows Redstone.
This book is certainly being pushed very hard lately...
I'm wondering if personally keeping track of it somehow skews the statistics. Maybe the change is significant but overall not that big something like ~10%

I would be interested in cranking through the data myself to see how my phone statistics change vs others. If there was a way to time activities spent in apps...
I come from a blue collar background, and have a large blue collar network on Facebook. I regularly see people posting about jobs, sharing that they are looking for jobs, etc. It will often be in just a generic post along the lines of "x construction is looking for laborers, $20 an hour call #" then reshared a hundred times.

I think a formalized and well designed way of doing this could work and a have a large benefit.
It's just a little slow, the website was probably getting hit
quite a bit.

But thank you, based on your comments, I wouldn't want to work for your organization or ones that you are hiring for. I get job interviews on the website alone, so thanks I'm doing fine. Basically the website is recruiter repelant.
Is it just me, or do stories like this make it increasingly clear that working at large companies like Google, Amazon, etc are a mistake?

Getting on a company that becomes Google/Amazon/etc (or more likely doesn't but that's life) is one thing, getting sucked into the corporate dystopia described in that blog post is quite another.

I guess I'll continue to work at smallish start-ups because the idea of being swallowed by a programmer black-hole doesn't appeal :-)
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You can have a composite password to unlock consisting of keyfile + passphrase.
Go on vacation for a decent period of time? In finance, key employees have mandatory two-week leaves, which serve to detect embezzlement. Here we could have the same, but to detect positive influences.
I didn't say it would apply to everyone.
"when meeting my skip-manager (your managers manager) for the first time during my exit interview"

This is a huge issue... You should have more actively met with them.
It seems to me that this is the money quote:

> The prioritization of friends/family content over publishers was the last straw.
Don't blame yourself, spelling mistakes happen.
The headline about facebook being a blue-collar linkedin reminded me of this article from the time when facebook's position was more upscale.
A few more thoughts:

I.F. Stone, H.L. Mencken, and others (see particularly George Seldes) are far more practitioners than theorists, but they've had a significant mark on theory and make many great observations. Mencken's "Brayard vs. Lionheart" (I believe that's mentioned in my reading list) is especially apt, and is short to boot. It describes a large element of the information-theoretic component (though Mencken of course doesn't call it that) through his Gresham's Law reference and dynamic.

Thanks for Gasset, Luhmann, Benjamin, and Chun, as I don't think I've previously run across them.

Added to the already imposing book-mountain.
I love tarsnap
I would pay cash money to read an interview with a higher-up about what the fuck is happening at google with all these chat apps.

Tech Journalists, somebody, ask a C suite or even just a team lead, "why are there fifteen chat apps and what is the google chat app long term strategy." Then link your patreon.

Where are these kids hiding? I'm in South Bay all the time - which bar do I need to and who do I need to feed alcohol to until I get answers? It's to me the world's greatest unsolved mystery.
I honestly prefer the Friends and Family content over all the videos and articles that were filling up my feed previously. I think that it sucks for all these publishers that relied on Facebook, but I know I for one was getting fed up with Facebook being filled with stuff my friends liked instead of life updates.
What's igaming? I'm kind of guessing online poker.
OP said slack. DM is as simple as doing "/msg @joe.blow I'm blocked, can you please help me?". If no response, go to @joe.blow's colleagues. If still no response, go to their boss. If still no response, go to their bosses's boss. Repeat until you run out of people to escalate to, at which point you find another job.
Though I find microservices intellectually interesting, the project is not something I am likely to use. I am more of a "general reader." As a general reader, I find slides without the accompanying presentation rarely hold my attention. I would rather have a good README.MD.
Prototyping with Sketch a massive update Watch out tutorial
Snapchat gives free ads credits to startups, Y Combinator has automatic access
It's because it was just published. You see the same thing with many books, or movies. It's partly deliberate marketing, and partly because there are people excited about it. For that matter, there's been plenty of noise from people who disagree as well. But it all surrounds the fact that it was just released.
What about, for example, a source file that needs to be downloaded and diffed from the web? What about when you need to pull stuff from a database? You can hack your way around but it's not the most fun.
Has anyone tried changing their computer display to grayscale as well? I tried it for a bit but found that code syntax lacks color. Also graphics in papers all of a sudden are infinitely less informative (elucidating blue from red is really hard in grayscale)
>It was also confirmed explicitly during the Q&A at the blackhat talk in 2016, which I believe is on YouTube.

doesn't look like it. https://www.blackhat.com/docs/us-16/materials/us-16-Mandt-De...
I see what you mean, go with it if you think you can pull it, be aware however that if your order is quite large you might influence the market, you could sell it in batches though to minimize risk. If you want to make a profit it's already active trading, and I'd be wary of doing forex with this sum of money. Anyway this stuff is quite far from my area of knowledge... Just never trust the market completely. Good luck!
If you gamify you also have to maintain the game.

Players will game the system, the mere fact that the game exists itself will change the overall dynamics, this and that everything is in constant, natural change, all makes it necessary to maintain the gaming rules.
That would be trivial to circumvent (pick up your phone and browse their profile from that) and would have false negatives (large company with many users behind NAT).
So after reading this and trying to enable on my own GSuite and getting nothing but errors I see this: "Chat will be made available over the next 7 days. "

So I expect over the next 7 days I'll have at least 20 emails from GSuite power users of why I haven't enabled it yet.
The reason I don't like doing this is portability. Since the steps within the makefile are going to be run through a shell, it is going to behave differently on different systems.

If your makefile fixes up a file using sed and your system has gnu sed, your makefile may fail on a system with BSD sed (e.g., a mac). If you rely on bash-isms, your makefile may not work on a debian system where it will be run with dash instead of bash. And so on.
I use Hangouts on my phone and computer to chat with friends and family on phones, computers, and tablets. If Hangouts gets deprecated I won't switch to Allo (I don't even think it's available on tablets), I will switch to something without Google.
If you search for "Google Chat" the first result is Hangouts, and the sidebar card is for Google Talk. So, not even Google can keep up with their own rhythm