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>What Google did not make public was that an employee had accused Mr. Rubin of sexual misconduct. The woman, with whom Mr. Rubin had been having an extramarital relationship, said he coerced her into performing oral sex in a hotel room in 2013, according to two company executives with knowledge of the episode. Google investigated and concluded her claim was credible, said the people, who spoke on the condition that they not be named, citing confidentiality agreements. Mr. Rubin was notified, they said, and Mr. Page asked for his resignation.

> Google could have fired Mr. Rubin and paid him little to nothing on the way out. Instead, the company handed him a $90 million exit package, paid in installments of about $2 million a month for four years, said two people with knowledge of the terms. The last payment is scheduled for next month.
>MongoDB probably feels they have reached critical mass so it does not matter any more...

They have become a new standard and they are aware of it.

Just look at any bootcamps for devs this days , it’s basically always JS + MongoDB. Not Postgres or MySQL , Mongo.

Mongo has become the new MySQL for a lot of devs these days.

It’s often the only DBMS they know...

These move is somewhat coherent with what others are doing in the industry ( Redis Enterprise Modules new licence , Docker preventing download without creating an account etc...)

Open Source is now Venture Backed , as a result it needs to make profit.
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Thanks for the clarification. I guess I was a bit defensive myself as well, being a former humanities guy and a current engineer.

I was just really bothered by the statement "Her presentation was a lot of the sort of thing that this article is trying to do: shaming STEM folks ...", as I didn't think at all that this was what the article is trying to do.
Tracking people via WiFi (even when not connected)
If you watch some of the old webcasts you can see shots of the LOX tank in 0g transitioning to firing. The trick is to use another source of thrust (e.g. cold gas thrusters) to accelerate the rocket slightly and settle the fuel.
Also might be a useful feature to port to other OS VMs, even Unikernels.
Could be. Using Jupyter for ML development or even prototyping (as opposed to presentations / demonstration / teaching like the OP — that's where Jupyter really shines) is a red flag.

I see a similar pattern with Pandas: some people use Pandas not because it's the right tool for the job (Pandas has many strengths), but because they're scared of writing comprehension loops and basic data structures. To avoid the CS-y stuff. But without the CS-y stuff, the result ends up a mess of lambdas, weird reindexing and buggy copy/view semantics.

And then "the next guy", the one who's job it is to clean up and productionalize the maverick's output, ends up having to reinvent and fix the entire solution. Basically doing both jobs.
Some should do degree accreditation based on online learning to give people a lower cost option.
Thanks.

For me, living in Europe, it feels kinda strange when I am supposed to enter my credit card details on a page that is kind of anonymous.

Over here, every site has to state the address, business id and other information. And you can look up company history in a central repository.
Generally a lot of electrical appliances are advertised with kW or W actually meaning kW-hour and W-hour (and yes, this is awful, but it's pretty standard). So your interpretation as 1.8kW is about right.

It varies, as does output, because (as the numbers mention) this all varies wildly by atmospheric temperature and humidity.

(By the way, running the numbers I'm seeing it as 62.77L/kW vs. 50L/kW, which is a 25% improvement, though at much larger scale.)
Not to mention the slight problem with entrapment (not the legal definition, but the human definition) and the heavy handed approach, this all besides the issues with making prostitution illegal.
That is not the TLDR. The post is about cross-cohort vs. same-cohort comparisons. The argument is that if you follow the same people over time, the poor make the biggest percentage gains.

Nothing in this is about inflation or prices of consumer goods. And in fact, inflation metrics take that into account.
Original title was 67 char too long for HN, I did my best to keep most of it but if the mods have better ideas please change it.

This seems like an interesting and potentially legally more threatening (in the immediate future at least) route to take in responsibility for global warming. The ultimate harm will be massive but also highly distributed and long after the fact, and the law around it nebulous. Even company PR to the public isn't necessarily that binding about anything. But material financial statements to investors by public companies and risk disclosures are very well trod areas of law with significant risk for a company breaking its own promises. This suit also appears to escape any sort of argument or debate around global warming itself by going one level meta: it's just about ExxonMobile's own statements about laws and regulations regarding it, which could be passed regardless of the state of the world since that's just politics. It doesn't build in all the externalities at all, nor all the risk, but requiring companies to at least be honest to investors is still a sort of low hanging fruit that would turn the screws on them just a bit.
It sounds nice in theory, but let's face it, a Linux laptop will not make money. In fact, because it is targeting such a narrow, "know-it-all" segment of the market, it will be nitpicked to death.

- "Trackpad on Macbook Pro is better"

- "LED 1080p screen. Why not IPS 2k screen?"

- "Wanted one but the base config is awful and I'm not paying $____ for 16GB RAM and 512GB SSD"

- "Why aren't they offering next business day support like Dell/HP/etc?"
I don't know why Google has always been so generous with its execs. It's a little club I guess. But when someone is walking out the door, why the need to heap money on them? They're all as rich as anyone already. When Pichette left they converted his _unvested_ options to cash. Why? Why give a guy tens of millions when the theory of executive compensation revolves around retention?
I assume they just put together an array of two or three of their high-capacity converters for the competition.
If it was "just a dehumidifier", then someone could've just submitted a pre-existing dehumidifier.

The ignorance in your comment is truly astounding.
RoundUp is the trade name for glyphosate, which is an herbicide, not a pesticide. RoundUp Ready is the trade name for glyphosate-resistant strains of crops. RoundUp and RoundUp Ready are both copyrights of Monsanto.
If wages are stagnant with respect to the consumer price index, they are not capturing productivity gains, because the CPI accounts for lower prices on goods.
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Performance is definitely an important aspect, but coming from a background working at smaller companies, bootstrapping time and development time are a factor as well -- and while Postgres is easy to set up if you're familiar with it (and I dare say it makes DB design fairly straightforward), Mongo and other NoSQLs are pretty objectively easier to just get working if you aren't fluent in relational databases.
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> Why exactly can't you explain that you're male?

What would an explanation provide that saying "I prefer masculine pronouns" doesn't?

> If they do it because they don't even believe you're the gender that you claim to be, then a correction is a terrible tool for changing their mind. Both sides will only dig their heels in and come away feeling hostility for each other.

I agree with you! That's why I think the social standard should be "Everybody chooses their own pronouns", because then there's no external interpretation needed and it doesn't matter whether or not somebody believes something, the only key thing is whatever the stated preference is.
Thanks to the Rust team! Rust 2018 release is one step closer.
Herbicides are pesticides. You’re probably thinking of insecticides..
Regardless of who, inviting an interviewee for a week-long vacation/party is a huge red flag. These things should be reported immediately. It's so sad that humans are conditioned to a social hierarchy and will seldom do anything that might bring the rage of a higher status person. In my short career, I saw too many attempts by C-level suits to build their own little harems (and most were successful in that by the way)
>The suit included a screenshot of an August 2015 email Mr. Rubin sent to one woman. “You will be happy being taken care of,” he wrote. “Being owned is kinda like you are my property, and I can loan you to other people.”

Uhhh
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> Wouldn't the fact that passing resource to modules works in 0.12 help with the mass exodus of output variables for modules?

might. I skipped it, use soft-links, and hard outputs (variable files) to get around it. cuts down on the graph, I can set explicit boundaries (on whats getting eval'd) without having to go through the terraform DSL. equivalent to running separate terraform scripts, on separate portions of the infrastructure.

data source providers (understandably) are not static; there is no way to cache the output of data providers between runs; which means any query retriggers dependencies eval which rebuilds perfectly fine infrastructure. hence why I just output static files. Now there is no chance for terraform to think this variable might change, and ergo, no chance for rebuild of infrastructure that doesn't need it.

> It has been my experience with tens of providers that the time loss occurs when the requests have been handed off to a providers API but not so much in Terraform.

Agree. So this is sort of the point. I don't need to actually bring up machines in a typical DAG fashion - so some of the work is parallelizable. But other parts aren't. If I need 20 machines, I know I need 20 machines. If the AMI's are loaded on the cloud provider, there is absolutely no reason to have them loaded sequentially (such as a "post-config" might require) i.e. incurring large wait times. Once you start using "terraform" variables (off of resources), that is what you get. So I prefer a different variable resolution mechanism (i.e. lazy/evented).

Particularly now that you can ghetto-leverage the cloud providers tag systems, in order to do "proto" service discovery (tag machines for eventual service discovery/config i.e. similar to ansible roles).

I'm twisting the hell out of terraform (for things it is not intended to do). but that is because I want to avoid adding yet another tool to the toolchain. More declarative DSL's = more issues to diagnose.

> As for Terraform itself, my biggest issue is that it has turned around the view of resources and providers.

not so much a problem for me (not multi-cloud). I like knowing (at a glance) what provider-specific features I can expect to be supported. The problem with trying to abstract out cloud provider, is you go with the lowest common denominator (in terms of declarative syntax).

> It should have been going in the direction of https://github.com/google/go-cloud

Never used it.

Also I've never written a terraform module. So its entirely plausible, this is where my issues would be resolved (custom provider) and an "enhanced" dsl.
> it's hard when others take your code and make more money out of it then you

Just my opinion, of course, but I think this is only true for sales and management types who are profit driven. For engineers and artists, it's not really an issue. We want to see our best work appreciated, primarily.
same question here. im keen to understand this. Especially around responsibilities, OKRs and KRAs
It certainly will. Reality nowadays seems more fake.
I am currently working in a company that uses wifi data to extract customer information. The wifi is still a very noisy and localized signal, but I believe that using data such as internet access can get even more information. Does anyone know of companies that work in this area?
Well now. That might tip me over into "kids' first laptop" territory.
Well, the more I think about it, the more I think that political correctness is used in the classical sense you're talking about.

Let's say Bob believes that sex is determined by your genitals at birth and nothing else. If someone wished to be called by a pronoun that doesn't match that, Bob would view this as being "wrong" compared to objective reality as he understands it. So he might go along with something to be "politically correct" although he considers it factually wrong. So Bob is being prevented from espousing the view that he believes to be the truth.
$135k revenue for last month, profit, not much. Transparency Report #44
weary (tired) -> wary (concerned)

not nit-picking, just attempting to help other readers who aren't native English speakers
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Herbicides are technically a class of pesticides
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Well this conversation was about spies and I doubt it is very important what percentage of trainee spies eventually pass.
As someone who enjoys learning this is really enticing to me. However with the demands of my busy work/life schedule, my increasingly challenged attention span--mainly due to the number of competing free resources out there--and my wide range of curiosities I have difficulty deciding where to dedicate my precious time to. Do other people fall in a similar boat? If so any tips or tricks to break through?
SpaceX, not Tesla.
for an SBC with mainline support i would take a hard look at: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/librecomputer/la-frite-...

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It's a theme I like to read about (I mean "practical issues around ML in production settings"). I find company blogs and some research publications are great resources. Examples:

- https://eng.uber.com/
- https://code.fb.com/

and many more. Google also publishes papers on various engineering practices obviously, some ML-related, but I can't find a blog where they focus on that specifically.

Also it's not "to keep up to date", but there's a great paper (from Google) that's often cited:

Machine Learning: The High Interest Credit Card of Technical Debt
https://ai.google/research/pubs/pub43146

It talks about issues you face over the long run (I've experienced some of those). It
also provides interesting pointers for further reading, e.g. about "pipeline jungles".

If others have pointers, I'm curious to hear about them as well.
> And lot of people are living from paycheck to paycheck aren't really planning years down the road.

The average joe had and could have had nothing to do with SpaceX's success. I think OP is referring more to people who could have had an impact, like government entities or aerospace company CEOs.
I'd like to add to this argument.

If Ohio's steel industry grows by 500% who reaps the benefits? Me? The guy writing code in Portland, Oregon?

No... its pretty clear that a specific subset of people receive the benefits. The people who own the steel mill. The people who receive employment from the steel mill. The governments which tax the steel mill. But not me.

Economic growth isn't uniform. Its an uneven field that benefits some and not others. That's why people move and change jobs. That's why societies abandon old interests and embrace new interests.

I don't know why anyone should feel entitled to economic growth if they didn't participate in it in any way.
> Isn't "innocent until proven guilty" one of those rules?

Yeah. If I stab someone, and they get a picture of the event on camera, and then use that picture to find me- that's ok. They don't need to convict me to do that.

> And aren't "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" supposed to be inalienable human rights?

Yep. The pursuit of happiness is to steal everything you own. By your implied logic, that should be 100% legal. Subsequent laws have no affect if they violate those three things, right?

> There you go again, pretending that ICE/CBP never bother anybody who's here legally. That's just not reality, and the cases where they overstep their own legal bounds are the ones that are most relevant here. We are a country of laws and rules, with nobody above those, right?

You're trying to conflate illegal immigration with ICE/CBP abuses. They are two different issues.
My Dad often talks about "challenging" a course, where you take the final test, and if you pass you get full course credit. I've never heard of a school offering this in any kind of usable capacity. At what point did this stop being offered?
That's not correct, the license only says if you make SSPL licensed software itself available as a service, you have to release the service code under the SSPL. Using the licensed software to build anything else at all is ok to do without releasing your code.
Interesting to read the HN thread 4 years ago about Rubin's departure: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8536609

A commenter claimed to have been privy to the real story:

> The truth seems to be both (a) unpleasant for Andy and (b) unremarkable to the rest of us. In other words, it wasn't his choice, but there wasn't a scandalous smoking gun either. He just wanted what Larry wouldn't give him. Nothing that would be front page news.

I don't think that the commenter was necessarily bullshitting at the time. The story conveyed to those inside Google may have been that there was sex involved, not necessarily that the act allegedly involved coercion. Even in 4 years, a lot has changed in how people interpret such accusations.
Organic farmers don’t use organophosphates

There is a big difference between organic and conventional pesticides.
I think Apple could do a better job onboarding people to iPhones. For example they could check to see if you’re interested certain aspects and queue up tutorials that drive extracting settings that would help; but at the end of the day the iPhone does so much more than it did in 2007 & the 2007 version was so much more capable than all preceding phones. The biggest challenge Apple faces is figuring out how to explain thousands of features … and that’s before you install any 3rd party apps.

Steve Jobs called it “an iPod, a phone and an internet communicator” … that was hard to swallow (or learn), but today that’s just the tip of the iceberg.

If you’re fortunate enough to understand the majority of the features you shouldn’t be embarrassed by the ability to help someone figure out the myriad features and details …

Are iPhones hard to use: absolutely not … unless your expectations are off the charts and you think a device that complex should require no effort.

That said, it would be funny if Apple eventually launches a device called iPhone that only makes phone calls.
It does, just not the vanilla version. If you want realistic fuel and engine behavior, you should try with RealismOverhaul mod, where ullage and engine restarts are critical parameters during vehicle design and mission planning.
Unless you're operating at Google/FB/Twitter/etc scale, this is not a problem most of us face IRL. We need to stop pretending we have these problems at 99% of the places we work at. Most of us don't. We don't need 1,000 microservices, Kubernetes, Docker, and a terribly unreliable NoSQL database like MongoDb (there are better, more optimal solutions for those companies than MongoDb (Cassandra being one of them.))
Other people appear to be down-voting you, so I'll comment instead: The standard defense is that the mercury is locked in place inside the amalgam, and does not migrate. I've never looked at the evidence either way.
Similar - wind traps in Persia and Arabia. Those in Dune were probably inspired by their real world counterparts.
where was the machine tested? If it was tested in somewhere more humid then the test data is invalid for use in arid areas where you'd actually need them. Also, that renewable energy is wood chips, so yeah it's renewable but in reality it's just fossil fuels without the "bury for millions of years" step. I'm not sure how that's meant to be an improvement, except perhaps that they can use local trees instead of bringing in other fuels.
> “When Google covers up harassment and passes the trash, it contributes to an environment where people don’t feel safe reporting misconduct,” said Liz Fong-Jones, a Google engineer for more than a decade and an activist on workplace issues. “They suspect that nothing will happen or, worse, that the men will be paid and the women will be pushed aside.”
I replaced `rvm` (ruby) and `nvm` (node) for `asdf`. It also manages multiple versions of Java!
I've always wondered if you couldn't do the same thing by spinning the rocket, and a spiral in the tank. Advantage: doesn't require any reaction mass. Disadvantages: requires a reaction wheel (might be complicated engineering), and spiral in the tank might impact fuel pumping/flowing performance.
IMO Google Cloud correctly describes its serverless platform as a place to host little one-off utilities in your infrastructure that don’t need to consume resources all the time. (Employee onboarding, deployment plumbing, etc). Not as an appropriate way to build your entire product.

If you’re using it that way, it’s really no different from Elastic Beanstalk / Heroku / ye olde shared PHP hosting. Which is fine, but not some kind of revolution. Just the pendulum swinging back.
For those that don’t know, they are sometimes pronounced the exact same, which is why they are often mixed up (see also affect and effect). Where I’m from weary is pronounced WEER-y though.
No offense, but if you don't know how to design/develop a database schema, making it easier to shoot yourself in the foot by using NoSQL database is not the answer.
Awesome.

If you find any bugs, or have any ideas to improve IronDB, don't hesitate to let me know.
Great article. Thanks for sharing this. I think perspectives like yours are what we need to move beyond what are often one-dimensional conversations about diversity.

Aside: Please forgive the nitpick, but despite its widespread use I really don't think "extroverted introvert" is a thing. The problem is that these two things are opposite ends of a spectrum. I think what people really mean when they say "extroverted introvert" is one of two things:

1) Ambivert : "a person whose personality has a balance of extrovert and introvert features"

2) Introvert, but not shy : It is a common misconception that introverts are inherently shy. The two are correlated, but not the same thing. You can be introverted and not be shy, either inherently or by learning to overcome shyness. Extra/introversion has more to do with your preferences and where you derive energy from. Shyness is more fear-based, and fear can be overcome.

Anyway that's not really a critical part of your article but I've sort of unintentionally become a Myers-Briggs nerd over the years and enjoy discussing stuff like that :)
Not blizzard specifically, more Activision-blizzard, but the latest call of duty open beta was reportedly running on vultr for at least some of the game servers.

I think they moved it back to in-house servers when it went live, though, and dropped the server rates from 60hz to 20hz. Kind of a shame, the difference was very noticeable.
From the article it sounds like they care very strongly about those execs not going to work for direct competitors. Gotta provide some kind of consideration for that. While it would be nice to drag these guys through the street a little more, I have to imagine Google is in like the 80th+ percentile of not-evilness by forcing key employees to resign after a single credible complaint.