skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This story appears to go beyond a simple HR dispute, but is endemic of a culture all too common in our industry that we should have zero tolerance of and should work to undermine. It appears that not only were inappropriate statements made, but other high-ups at Google weren't willing to stand up for what's right. Considering this happened at an employer of many readers on this site who may have additional insights or stories to add, I think it's perfectly reasonable to have posted here.
Probably people should be talking about the reduced density of the material, which is really significant. A men's-size 18k gold watch is heavy... too heavy for many people who don't have enormous meat appendages.
This is definitely an argument against certain cookie-cutter approaches to programming ("learn Rails in 15 days!" etc.). Even leaving AI out of the picture, a skillset that's limited to a particular language or framework is going to become obsolete much more quickly than someone who understands foundational CS concepts, approaches programming from the point of view of general problem solving, and makes an effort to keep up to date with new advances. It seems plausible that programming as a discipline will be one of the last occupations at which humans are dominant, but "final-stage" programming will probably (hopefully!) look very different from the programming we do now, just as current practice differs from what was done in the 70s or 80s.
Change of scenery is an important thing when trying to break out of a bad pattern. Novelty is actually processed by a different part of the brain than whatever rut we may be in is.

The book Iconoclast explains that even moving furniture around can put us into a more creative state, because our creativity is activated by novelty.
The fact you can post this after reading that twitter feed only makes me believe it harder
I have a pair of pants that I bought from a friends' startup which are, um, well-fitting enough that my wife has told me:

1) they're her favorite pair of my pants.

2) wearing them at work might be sexual harassment.

The manufacturer brands themselves as professional, so it's not like I'm trying to do a David Bowie impression. They're very comfortable and look nice, so I'd prefer to keep wearing them unless they're actually improper. Is there a good way to definitively determine this without asking awkward questions of the women in my office?
I believe her, and I believe by the historical record that her male harasser incapable of being a "director" of people, that is, the word "people" defined to include women.
It's a bakery, requiring little to no skills, and nothing more than being able to repeat physical activity, and only 35% make it through the program (a 10 month on-the-job job).

I don't think this is the "success" story it's being made to be.
I think a tool like showterm would be better (especially since the text remains selectable)…
Well, that is bad!
PokeGlitch is surprisingly playable (if you're very familiar with Red), once you get past the two-minute Growl move sound.

e: Or not, as the Viridian PokeCenter crashed the game. Was fun while it lasted, though.
Gee, apparently it helps that I never saw Tukey, at least
not in person! I heard about Tukey from (1)
Tukey's lemma, equivalent to the axiom of choice, (2)
convergence and uniformity in topology, (3)
stepwise regression, (4) the statistics of power
spectral estimation, (5) exploratory data analysis, and
(6) the fast Fourier transform. So, with (1)-(6),
I didn't pay attention to how he looked! But when
I wanted to go for a Ph.D., I wrote him at Princeton,
explained where my career had run into his work
and asked if there was education for a career in
such things. I got back a nice letter from
G. S. Watson saying, "Yes" and claiming that
Princeton was one of the best places for such
work. I did apply to Princeton, and did get
accepted, but I went to Johns Hopkins instead
(my wife was already in her Ph.D. program there
so that we wouldn't have to move!).
It's incredibly inappropriate for a manager to make sexual remarks about one of their employees.

> As a male, the mere presence of an overly sexy woman can put me in a state similar to fear: rising heart rate, mild trembling, goosebumps, inability to concentrate on whatever I was doing (talking to someone or doing work) etc.

You sound like you're speaking on behalf of all males. You don't. If that's really your reaction, you should seek counseling. Trembling and being unable to work are not really normal reactions.
These structures remind me of proteins, which are very much tangled and have to resist lots of stresses as well. A quick search yields:

Is tensegrity a unifying concept of protein folds?
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0014579302...
A compliment, when given by a superior about a subordinate's physical appearance, could be considered harassment. Here's a handy guide from The Guardian [1].

> could we consider overly sexy looks a form of harassment too?

Probably not. If you're unable to work near an "overly sexy woman" and she is following your company's dress code, then I'd say that's probably your problem, not hers. For it to be harassment, her appearance would have to be somehow directed at you, or somehow encroaching on personal boundaries. If someone who is clothed and just trying to do her everyday job puts you "in a state similar to fear", that's pretty unfortunate for you.

[1] http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/womens-blog/2014/apr...
If they care, one major reason is an employer's liability for everything an employee does.

Perhaps if you could insure your company for each employee, it would be clearer whether you should hire someone and employers would take more well-justified risks on people.
I agree. Frankly I don't care if it's gold or not (or, since I don't wear gold jewelry, I don't care if it's silver/titanium/stainless or not).

As long as it looks nice and performs well.
Thank you for the interesting post !

I'm curious why Bolt isn't a good fit for your timeseries project ? It has excellent iteration support, supports concurrent readers, is already mmaped and can hold multiple "namespaces" through the use of buckets.
With the full photo of Lenna (after resizing the image).
She mentions in one of the comments:

> It was ... in Maui, "It's taking all of my self control not to grab your ass right now."

Was she in a thong, on the beach, after hours, after drinks, intentionally shaking her butt in his face, flirting with him when he said that?

Who knows. And we can't know because she doesn't give us any context from what I could see. Why would she publish this kind of accusation (like pinning the quote above to the top of your twitter profile) without context? I'm guessing that's because the context hurts her narrative.

Here's a recent sexual harassment allegation that also lacked context:

> The final straw was when a female coworker and a friend were hula hooping to music in the office, and male coworkers lined up on a bench to stare. "It looked like something out of a strip club," Horvath says. "When I brought this up to male coworkers, they didn’t see a problem with it. But for me it felt unsafe and to be honest, really embarrassing. That was the moment I decided to finally leave GitHub.

This was her final straw, the moment she decided she had to leave. What context does she give us? Did you notice where she mentioned this was at a party? Or that this was a performance, not just people hula hooping on their own in some corner of the office? Or how females were also impressed with and enjoying the hula hooping? Nope, no context, because it hurts her narrative of males misbehaving.

I only glanced at the long list of tweets or comments to see if there was more details or if anyone tried to defend themselves and didn't see anything but blaming the people accused by her. Note I'm not saying that just because a coworker is in a swimming suit it's ok to harass them. But I don't think it's by any means clear that there is no context in which the above money quote is ok.
Looks pretty cool, but it supports a very limited set of styles. It's not really comparable to rubocop, nor is it able to enforce conformance to any of the popular style guides in full. In fact, at a glance it appears to make decisions about your code that fly in the face of many of the popular style guides (double spaces for indentation and no freaking semicolons [seriously?]).

The auto-formatting option does not clarify which of these it enforces, and one of these isn't even a style rule (always handle the err parameter in node.js).

To really rub it in, it also makes it very clear that there is no configuration! Deal with it in a way that strikes me as uncomfortably smug.

I appreciate you sharing, and I could see this being useful for running over a codebase. I might use it to convert all tabs to double spaces (since that's my preference anyway) and check to make sure there are no unused declared variables, but that might be the extent of it. But to be honest, reading the documentation here has made me really want to see a community-developed tool inspired by Rubocop.
I'm wondering how insurance works here - will your legal insurance cover you if you hire those convicted of crimes?

If you want to play the game of capitalism well, ie win more of the profit, then you can't let humanity encroach on that. For better or worse.
Do you think it's good enough to replace Graphite's Carbon at this point? Not as a drop in to graphite, but as a backend to a custom metrics system?

I know your project is young and probably has not seen much battle testing, but your blog post indicates to me that you've put a lot of thought into it being robust.

We are using Carbon for our metrics solution at the moment, and I've read its source and it's not something I'd give a big 'ready for production' stamp even though I know many shops are using it in production.

Perhaps, if you feel like it and will entertain my cheap grab for information, could you give super small explanation of the performance differences between your partition style format and for example Whisper (like RRD, it's what Carbon uses) and InfluxDB? As far as I understand Whisper is simply a cyclic buffer of fixed time distance points in a file per series. And InfluxDB is simply a key value store I think.

Your solution lies somewhere in between those right?
It's a little buried on the ai2html site, but there is a whole host of things listed here: https://delicious.com/archietse/ai2html

It's a pretty impressive tool, and clearly the NYT uses the hell out of it.
If you (man or woman) work somewhere where the culture is harassing/hostile to women (or to anyone), you should take it seriously and either work elsewhere or try to stop it.

It's surprising how far some men will go if the behavior is tolerated. Often socially dominant men or those who have some kind of position of authority will get worse and worse. They will often not address the comments at anyone in particular but will just say lewd things and talk about sexual topics when doing so is not invited or warranted, often mixed with humor.

When a joke is told by a person with some authority, the response is typically laughter, even if the joke was inappropriate. Even those who might otherwise disapprove tend not to say anything.

Many women are just ambitious enough to ignore it, thinking that such behavior is in their best career interest (and it may be).

Some people have a knee-jerk negative reaction to feminism, but the important thing to realize is that when you are a woman you have to constantly turn down sex and sexual interest from males. This is true 100x for attractive women. When coupled with organizational power dynamics this is a very serious issue because it causes the victims extra stress and is bullying and unfair.

To generalize, don't ever hire or work with anyone you'd characterize as a bully.
What's the context of the statement? For all we know, it could've been an offhand joke by a drunk co-worker at a happy hour while the two were flirting.
Sure it is.

The most obvious metric of its "success" is the simple conditional 35% > 0%.

And while I agree, the motivation behind the CEO's thinking is based on bottom-line thinking, and not do-gooder motivation, its still nice to see SOME outside-the-box thinking on this issue.
Please reconsider this line of thinking. Setting aside that "overly sexy looks" is the most arbitrary measure in the universe, you're basically saying "my reaction to attraction to someone means they are a problem".

If you continue down this line you basically end up at the conclusion that women should not be allowed in the workplace because they distract the men. Which is as ridiculous as saying that men should not be allowed in the workplace because they are distracted by the women. Neither are reasonable places to end up.
Currently not and this is part of the Java 9-10 roadmap.

However all JVMs have state of the art profilers like e.g. Visual VM, Java Flight Recorder and many others that help track down which data structures might need some help.
Great video! I'd be interested to see the Avid equivalent (don't get me wrong, I love Pro Tools, but it seems like a culturally different organization).
This needs to be investigated quickly. We don't know the details. She forced their hand and they'll have to respond publicly about this. It sounds like a last resort type action after stonewalling and lack of support.

If this is true, it is very sickening. Often this is talked about in general terms -- there is sexism, harassment, comments, jokes, etc. out there -- in the "industry". But in this case there is particular person and particular incident that took place. Hopefully this is not ignored.

We just recently talked about Adria Richards again (the Pycon incident from a few years back). And one point I was trying to make regarding that incident was that it should have been separated from harassment and discrimination discourse. It was about PR and about a personal agenda. The reason for it, is because if it is isn't, it hurts and diminishes other future sexual harassment allegations -- it reduces them to "she is just probably pulling an Adria on us". Besides the harm caused to all the parties in that controversy, there was a much larger harm, and that is a future harm to cause of preventing and rooting out these horrible things.

I have a daughter, and it sickens me that one day should have choose to persue a career with these companies she would have to deal with this kind stuff. And if this is true, I somehow didn't expect this from Google. I could see this happening at an investment firm, at a hospital, at a legal firm but not with Google, which seemingly go out of their way to tell the world how inclusive, and non-discriminantory and not evil they are.
So you're saying she's a liar?
https://twitter.com/justkelly_ok/status/574069743134486528

There is no context where that would be appropriate.
Alcohol, the hour, and the geographic location excuses sexual harassment in your mind?
http://vault.simplebits.com/publications/bulletproof/ comes close, alas it is quite old. OTOH it may be still worth taking a look, because the same way of thinking still applies.
Also, it was written in the golden age of the web. I'd say in those years the cleaniest code was written. Later we got one-page-web-sites, javascript-everything, moronic war for the mobile, and crap like OOCSS and BEM, i. e. went back into the mess.
We also got gazillion of frameworks and node powered tools to produce mess even faster and in larger quantities.
I wonder, will we ever get another 'clean the web' revolition like one in 200x
This seems pretty damn unacceptable.

I'm sick of working with overgrown children in our industry, who can't behave like reasonable human beings around women. It's just wrong.

I'm also sick of all-male teams put together by male managers who have decided women can't do this work.

Grow up. Drop the prejudice. We'll all be better off.
>A person with past convictions will generally be more loyal to the company that hired him //

The risk factor is that they won't, that they're not really reformed, that if they robbed in the past then ripping off your office will seem a good option (or letting a friend know how to do it without getting caught, etc.).

Any evidence to back up your claim? It would be lovely to think that this is true.

FWIW I'm for applying grace, but not necessarily being naive as to the idea that it will always be repaid with loyalty rather than strife.
I definitely don't think she's lying about this, but someone with such a strongly-worded bio is definitely more likely to exaggerate or be over-sensitive to perceived sexual harassment. (Think Adria Richards)
Thanks for pointing this out; people will often believe that because someone is telling a story on Twitter, we need not take it seriously. What if the most used internet forums are the only place where some women can air the truth, after trying all other avenues?
Yonatan Zunger's comment on the G+ post is illuminating:

"Damned straight, I wouldn't. But at this point numerous legal issues kick in so I can't say anything further in public, including any of the obscenities I'm thinking right now.﻿"

My read on that is that he doesn't consider it acceptable, but any public show of support or acknowledgment that the incidents in question occurred would be construed as an admission of guilt by Google, which would open them up to a sexual harassment lawsuit. So ironically, the same laws that are designed to protect women in the workforce strip them of support from anyone who is a high-ranking official in the company that employs them.

I wouldn't be surprised if the eng director in question got a private reprimand, but doing anything career-affecting (like removing him from a management chain, or firing him) requires significant documentation of a pattern of behavior...which is hard to generate when his accusers (quite understandably) leave the company.
>only 35% make it through the program.
That is better than not having the program at all and having the addicts stay where they are. I think it is a success, because helping one addict is successful and now that person is a beacon of light. Other addicts will see that they are doing something productive, they got clean, and that maybe, they can get clean and get a job too. I think there's more to it than just who made it through the program.
Ask HN: I'm Being Recruited as a Deployment Strategist by Palantir
I am being recruited to work as a deployment strategist in Palantir (outside of US) - what can I expect in the interview? I'm looking to hear from people who have interviewed/are currently working at palantir

Also, what is the typical salary around this position, I have a few references but I'm always looking for more information.
You're not really giving me much reason to put any stock in your prediction. Your complete lack of detail or explanation makes it sound like you're pulling a number out of the air.

The people making much higher estimates of the gold watch's price (most notably, John Gruber) are backing their estimates with analysis and citations.
No, that's not what I said. Don't misconstrue my words.

I'm saying that we shouldn't be so quick to take her words as an unbiased, unexaggerated account of what happened
> Was she in a thong, on the beach, after hours, after drinks, with her butt in his face when he said that?

First, I don't see any evidence that this was the context for the remark, and it's turning the focus off of the comment and on to what she was doing at the time.

Second, if that were the context, it wouldn't make it right for her manager to make sexual comments at her. If she wasn't pursuing a romantic relationship with him, he shouldn't make overt sexual comments at her. If she were offended by his comment, it means he wasn't aware of the situation enough to act appropriately. That's on him.
Apple Watch Less-Gold.
I agree very much with all of this, except, women aren't responsible for fixing male violence and objectification, we men are. So I would concur with the first sentence if "you" is aimed at men.
> It was about PR and about a personal agenda

You say this like it's a fact. Did I miss some detail of this incident that came out later?
What? I certainly hope we don't convict people based on hearsay evidence
FWIW (and I know I'm beating a dead horse), I did an informal survey on Facebook about this. The question was, simply, "Are dresses formal attire?" The universal consensus is "no." Dresses can be easier than pants, comfortable like pajamas, etc. So I think there's a good chance that many men simply have the wrong idea about dresses and they're the equivalent of jeans & hoodies.

Anyway. Maybe it's worth asking the women you know.
Too bad this is equivalent to a known NP-hard problem ( Entscheidungsproblem). Sooooo much for THAT fartup company!!!
It seems to me a large amount of titles are edited, usually for the worse.

I understand some more click-bait titles getting changed (though I don't usually agree), but some edits, like this one, are seemingly without reason.
It's a pretty nuclear step, this. Not just because it forces the employers hand, but because for standing up and shouting about this she's going to be a target for a tirade of misogynist abuse from the trogolodytes of the net.
You should take everything on twitter with a grain of salt, no offense to particular people.
Sure, but the severity of the allegations completely depend on the context.
Ah, very nice. And everything is there:

Stupid games, random images, random sound snippets you really had to have on your computer, nice gradient background (anyone ever changed the color gradient of the title bar with TuneUp 97 or whatever that was called?)

Nostalgia.

Edit: Oh god, Acid Box... one of my first DirectDraw attempts with a tutorial had me program a sin-wave with almost exactly that font.
I read through your post, and I am curious; what is the reasoning driving having metrics split across partitions, rather than partitioning by metric itself?
What would be the consequences to Zunger if he did elaborate? Why must he protect Google from a lawsuit?
I doubt this is a male/female issue. This manager most likely lacks respect for all people.
You are focusing on the most innocuous of a string of comments, one of which was "It's taking all of my self control not to grab your ass right now."

Don't try to make this something it's not, this is a very clearcut case of harassment.
"bitchy software engineer. doing what i can to smash the patriarchy."

Doesn't HR vet self-proclaimed troublemakers anymore, or is it OK to hire anti-establishment people as long as they're of the right flavor?

If I had "asshole software engineer. doing what I can to smash the matriacrchy" in my twitter bio, I would be figuratively destroyed.
Tiny ToCS Volume 3
Here's the author speaking at a programming conference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6071MRIzCA

As you can see, she is appropriately attired.
Ask your wife if she would be ok with you wearing them to dinner with her parents.
Just to clarify, you was aimed at men and women equally. We all have to act to fix it.
I consider it the best science fiction book for people who are interested in historical fiction and speculative historical fiction. Longest list of citations for a fiction book I've ever seen. And as you say, excellent premise.
I would hope that everyone would be "sensitive" to sexual harassment, in that they would be ready to identify when it is happening to them and others. How can a perosn "exaggerate" quotes?
Revisiting the Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon
Well, Canada doesn't have Senseo, but why would I use a Senseo over my Keurig. I really like the reusable cup design of the EZCup, and there isn't any cleanup. I'm guessing the Senseo by looks of the cups are similar to the Tassimo design we have here, but the pucks aren't nearly as clean and neat. I brought one in to the office, and you don't need to be near a sink, so it's really handy. Converted a Starbucks, Tim Hortons, and a French Press user, and now they're all using it. The AeroPress user, she hasn't converted, though she hasn't even tried it.