skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Implementation of various data structures in golang
This is a common view point which kind of irritates me. It leads to a lot of false assumptions and gullibility with regards to pop science. What about time travel, teleportation or travel to the nearest star system? All things well with in reach of our imagination and far from our ability.
Artist Turns DNA from Chewed Gum into Sculptures
I gave another try to pentadactyl the other day, and, to be honest, I expected way more from it. I prefer vimperator by far.
That's akin to saying we non-murderers aren't responsible for fixing murders, only murderers are. Anyone can help fix this. You're right that ultimately it comes down to men's attitude and actions but anyone can help achieve the changes necessary.
Trust me ... you really don't. Stripped to shreds by the parent corporation. On last breaths, brought in an ex-Bain asshole who previously worked at the two worst hard drive companies (because music = hard drives, right?) who stripped engineering to the bone. Lost him then promoted an internal guy with no business experience. Who couldn't keep it in his pants at Digi, got swiped by Apple, then booted from there after 7 months.

I believe those are the high points.

The audio CTO during their best moments (Mike Rockwell) just left Dolby for Apple. But I don't think he'll be working on audio.

The state of audio technology (and audio software) remains in utter shambles. And not in a "needs disruption" kind of way. In a "needs a bullet to the head" kind of way.

Ableton is one of the rare bright spots and deserves massive props for being a pearl despite having to swim upstream through the shittiest corner of art and tech.
> I could see this happening an investment firm, at a hospital, at a legal firm but not with Google

Less than 5% of senior VCs, and 5% of F500 CEOs, are women, while more than 20% of F500 general counsel are. Some people are immune, of course, by virtue of their status, but for most people, it's an environment where you don't want to develop a reputation. Especially if you're young--1/3 of new large law firm partners are women in recent years.

I would imagine the situation is similar for medicine too. I can have an easier time picturing this sort of comment at an investment bank, but these days even Wall Street is more drug tests than it is hookers and blow.

My experience in both fields is why I think that the gender disparity needs to be addressed directly, because it is self-perpetuating. An environment where 90% of your bosses and 80% of your coworkers are all men is conducive to a culture that keeps those skewed ratios in place.
Why wait for Apple, when there are OCaml, Haskell, F#, Standard ML, Rust, ATS to choose from?
> If you 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.

A thousand times this. We all have a responsibility to stop workplace harassment. As a manager, it would infuriate me to learn that a member of my team had been treated this way.

It saddens me to think that for most people, incidents like these won't reduce people's interest in working for Google.
Impediment doesn't mean you can't work around it, it just means it's more difficult.
I would like to hear the man's side of it. Is it bad to ask that? Would I be vilified for not trusting the woman?
"Brady also said that it was immaterial whether or not open hiring was a better way to do business. His goal is to make sure his business also helps the community and helps people out of poverty. With that goal, there’s an imperative to try new things. “There’s a lot of recognition that the things people have been doing aren’t working,” he said."
"The best" is, as always, depending on what you need to do.

I'm seeing much better direct device I/O on KVM than on ESXi (which is saying a lot actually, since raw I/O is a bit tricky on the latter).
Ah, my understanding was flawed then. Sorry to spread misinformation!
He doesn't have to on a personal level, but on a professional level, he is an agent of the company and must act in the company's best interests. If he doesn't, he's not doing his job and can be fired.

The irony is that if you escalated to Larry I bet he'd think that the quotes documented here are appalling - and his hands would still be tied. Because he has a fiduciary duty to the shareholders of Google Inc, and it is not in their interests to get sued by an employee. Which again goes to show how dumb the idea of "maximizing shareholder value" is, but then, it's the environment we live under.
The description of Vic Gundotra, if true, is disappointing. One would think that someone so polished and smart would have the sense to realize that such behavior is over the line.
Gold bullion (99.9% or finer, or 24 karat) is around $1200 an ounce currently. 18 karat gold is around 75% pure, so an ounce of the gold Apple would have been using is only worth around $900.
Just a couple of links and quotes from the EEOC. TLDR: Harassment at a work retreat is still harassment. One inappropriate comment is usually not enough from a legal point of view. She is protected from retaliation.

http://eeoc.gov/laws/practices/index.cfm

"Harassment outside of the workplace may also be illegal if there is a link with the workplace. For example, if a supervisor harasses an employee while driving the employee to a meeting."

http://eeoc.gov/laws/types/sexual_harassment.cfm

"Although the law doesn’t prohibit simple teasing, offhand comments, or isolated incidents that are not very serious, harassment is illegal when it is so frequent or severe that it creates a hostile or offensive work environment or when it results in an adverse employment decision (such as the victim being fired or demoted)."

http://eeoc.gov/laws/types/retaliation.cfm

All of the laws we enforce make it illegal to fire, demote, harass, or otherwise “retaliate” against people (applicants or employees) because they filed a charge of discrimination, because they complained to their employer or other covered entity about discrimination on the job, or because they participated in an employment discrimination proceeding (such as an investigation or lawsuit).
Depends on what the hell you mean by "matriarchy". The problem there isn't political views, it's when your wording implies you're so blinded by bigotry you've lost touch with reality.

You can favor this or that party but don't tell me you're disappointed in the korean takeover of alabama.
Back in the 70's many of us scavenged our first Transistors from surplus computer cards. We went to great trouble to catalog the different boards so we could know what we were getting.

see the old EEB magazine at:
http://www.rochester-engineering.com/EEB/
Alto's Adventure is an amazing iOS 8 app, not just a game
wow man. you're terrible.

Edit: I choose to believe I'm being downvoted not because people think the parent isn't actually terrible, but because my comment doesn't add much to the discussion.
An inspiring story. Jeff Hammerbacher seems like a fascinating individual, a true polymath / renaissance man. Here's another good interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iq8R__O8mNc
Specifically, since the numbers are pretty unbelieveable if you haven't seen such arguments before: if the bad guys are as numerous as 1 in 1000, then the number of false positives will be 999*19% > 189 in 1000. That is, if you are identified as a bad guy, then the odds are worse than 1 in 190 (just over 0.5%) that you are one.
I never said that women can't help or change things, I said it is not their responsibility. If it were, even by a tiny degree, and men continue to hurt women, we could say that women just didn't do a good enough job changing men. "Why didn't you leave the company? Why didn't you talk to all the men about appropriate behavior before one of them attacked you?"
This only secures the firmware in the bios, correct?

Is it not the case that these days, harddisks and who-knows-what-other-subsystem have their own firmware which can be upgraded and so infected, separately, right? Infected harddisk firmware being mode of attack described for the Equations Group as far as I can tell.
Show HN: Simple configurable server for catching webhooks written in Golang
Women don't have do, do they? "Have" implies responsibility. See my reply to esgoto.
The biggest concern for Apple would be the processing part. The new "Apple Gold" could be favorable not only for cost efficiency but especially for machinability. Classic gold watches need a lot of manual work, as far as I know. The new material could help in mass manufacturing the Apple Watch.
In something like a watch, if it looks like gold and has some bulk without corresponding heft, it feels fake.

I have a fairly cheap mechanical watch combined with a Milanese mesh strap. I ordered a bunch of different mesh straps, looking for the right material and closeness of weave - it's hard to tell from online photos. The biggest difference between the one I chose and the ones I discarded was weight. The discarded ones felt like they were made of plastic.
It is pretty amazing that we've taken computing, a field that has traditionally been a refuge of social outcasts, and turned it into an environment where being a tactless creep is outrage worthy.
However, wanting to "smash the patriarchy" might indicate that one subscribes to third wave radical feminism, whose definition of sexual harassment includes talking to a woman without her explicit permission.

As such, yes, I would give the accused the benefit of the doubt, at the very least until I'd heard the other side of the story.

Edit: Took me a while to find any of the actual, concrete accusations in that monster of a thread, it seems that Vic "said a number of throughout the years" which is pretty much exactly what I expected, and Rod, on at least one occasion, said something that does sound pretty damn horrible out of context. I apologize if I seemed dismissive, but I'd still like to hear the other side, such as it were.

At the end of the day, I'm mostly worried that getting the Internet at large involved in this will lead to another witch hunt in the style Donglegate.
Maybe companies need to just stop having retreats/events that have all the outward appearance of social gatherings but all the same professionalism rules as the officeplace except for the not wearing a swimsuit to work part.
Self-Desctruct Mode for Large-Scale Data
There's no way to do static analysis on Ruby. There are projects that have succeeded in doing it on a subset of Ruby, but they are not very popular since they can't support the full language.
"Light of Other Days" is a great book but it was written by Stephen Baxter and Arthur C. Clarke.
Please don't take this as an excuse for sexual harassment, but:

As a manager, I wouldn't go on a beach/bikini/swimsuit trip with my team, and certainly not one with large amounts of alcohol (which wasn't necessarily part of the story posted). So many reasons:

* I don't WANT the people who report to me to see my pale un-muscled body. Or the people above me!

* I don't want to accidentally glance at someone and make them feel uncomfortable.

* I don't want to get so loose and comfortable (cue alcohol) around my team that I forget the role I must play as a leader.

I recently declined the opportunity to go on a boat beer bash, just to maintain the proper professional relationship (and these were peers in the org).
> I've seen this in graduate school applications - students with poor marks often stand a better chance of admittance in a top program than a so-so one.

Well, that's probably deceptive, as those guys are probably exceptional in other ways (publications as an undergrad, other research, etc) which takes away from their grades, or they only cared about certain classes which were important to their field.
This looks cool. It looks like Unity. Though I'm really dubious about the game logic being faster to implement without coding.

Unity has a very comprehensive animation system that you can program entirely using the UI without code, with flow charts and so on. I never use it because it is so slow and tedious to drag lots of boxes around and connect them and fill them in rather than write one line of code with a simple equation. I feel the same about Strumpys shader editor for example.
No, Go provides interfaces (aka traits or roles), which you can use to share composable functions (aka methods).

I wasn't talking about creating conventions/apis/facades, rather about how one reuses code.
One off-hand and inappropriate comment is not sexual harassment - and does not justify a witch-hunt (to which people on the Internet are so often inclined).

I'm sure the reasons are stronger if she left the company on account of them (but information is lacking) - I think GP asking for context is a very reasonable question.
According to your analysis then, he is currently protecting himself. Even though, from how I see it, if action were taken against him, it would generate a lot of publicity and support for him and he would not necessarily sacrifice his lifestyle and living means (this is arguable, but I think it's an important argument as to what extent it matters)
> You say this like it's a fact. Did I miss some detail of this incident that came out later?

Yes, the part from the Esquire article revealed a few more things that was disappointing to hear, such as that she notified Hank's (not his real name I understand) employer wanting them to force Hank to remove the part of the HN comment where he said he lost his job. That is significant because it reveals her intentions of turning this into a PR campaign presenting herself as a victim. (Nevermind other references to herself of Joan of Arc). She shouldn't have cared about that part of the comment, but she zoomed in on it, because she realized her game was up -- she wasn't the public victim anymore, people will start sympathizing with Hank from that point on.
I don't think it implies responsibility beyond just being partly responsible for the overall corporate culture and being willing to do something about it when something is harming it.
I think what you're looking for is Harry Roberts' ITCSS?

www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OKZOV-iLj4
Her story is quite a bit different from Adria Richards.
It isn't really your place to call a someone else "over-sensitive to perceived sexual harassment," especially when they're on the side that has traditionally been recipient of most of it.

It is your place to listen and try to understand the world they live in, those traditional recipients of sexual harassment.
Good question!

I made the screencast to explain the use case:
https://vimeo.com/85883356

My co-maintainer Alexey wrote a blog post explaining it too:
http://waterlink.github.io/blog/2015/03/06/introduction-to-c...
I'd probably pay $5/month to the USPS for some sort of 'premium' mailbox to not get bulk mail delivery items to me.
I think Marczellm means "can my looking at, staring at, another person be considered harassment" and not "can someone who looks attractive be harrassment?"
Maybe start thinking with the head on top of your shoulders, not the one inside your pants.
"This style of video is the future of marketing"

Not just for companies, but for cultural organisations and public bodies too.

For example, the Royal Opera House in London has an active and popular Youtube channel. They are a publicly-funded organisation but opera and ballet are still seen as somewhat elitist and expensive. Their Youtube channel gives them an opportunity to showcase their productions and behind-the-scenes footage. The videos are well-made and informative. And it undoubtedly helps bolster their reputation.

https://www.youtube.com/user/RoyalOperaHouse/videos

Another example: a well-known supermarket retailer in the UK (Waitrose) who also have a very polished Youtube channel (of mostly recipes)

https://www.youtube.com/user/Waitrose/videos

I think audiences are savy enough to know when a video has an element of promotion in it. What turns them off is if it feels like a self-congratulatory puff piece. Or if it feels too scripted and fake.
Have you considered that she might have written that bio after these events forced her to leave Google?
You would be "figuratively destroyed"? What does this mean and how do you come to this conclusion? I don't think the quoted bio describes a "troublemaker", could you explain this?
Opera could do this before it turned into Chrome Clone #6783.
> This fits right in line with my prediction [1] that we're all overestimating the amount of gold in the enclosure and that it's going to be cheaper than the high estimates.

Keep in mind doing this type of compositing usually makes the gold MORE expensive. Granted Apple could take it to an unprecedented scale but I couldn't wouldn't hang my hat on it just yet.
I wouldn't describe myself as bitchy but I am a software engineer who thinks the patriarchy needs smashing.
This is the author at a programming conference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6071MRIzCA

You might say that it's loudly styled, but somehow this guy never has people doubting his programming cred: https://www.google.com/search?site=&tbm=isch&source=hp&biw=1...
Do you have any reason to disbelieve the woman? Does she have a history of telling lies?

It seems awfully dismissive to call it "hearsay evidence".

Also, it doesn't look like the law is involved, so I don't think any conviction is taking place.

My take on it: yet another creepy dude in power in a tech company. There's still a little of the "circle the wagons" attitude, but thankfully a lot less than I was expecting.
With your reasoning bugs would have just stopped existing altogether decades ago.

Obviously they haven't.
Yeah, it has gotten slightly better but been a 7 year grind.

For #2, you forgot the ones that just ran out of unemployment benefits.

It's the numbers, not the spin.
I don't know about vilified. I would ask why you don't trust the woman, and do trust the man, given the historical record.
Even as a vim devotee, I think that the suggestion that "power user" implies "vim user" is incorrect at best, and offensive at worst.
It isn't that he must protect Google from a sexual harassment lawsuit, but rather he needs to wait until a proper investigation is done to prevent publishing anything that might be considered libel on the part of himself or his employer.
Wait, sorry. There are two books with similar titles. "The Light of Other Days" is by Stephen Baxter and Arthur C. Clarke. "Light of Other Days" is indeed by Bob Shaw. I have not read the latter. The former deals with a new technology which allows people to see in to the past via microscopic "wormholes".
While there are certainly some valuable properties to gold, one has to wonder how much of the value we place on gold is extrinsic.
I agree that everyone can help.

However, I disagree that claiming that men should take primary responsibility is wrong and I think your analogy is a bit off: unless you're claiming that all men are harassers, which would be pretty hyperbolic.

For better or worse, the men who do this kind of stuff listen to other men a lot more than they listen to women, probably largely because you probably don't respect women if you're harassing them. A clear message that harassment isn't acceptable, coming from other men, is much more likely to reach these people than if only or primarily women are saying it. This kind of behavior thrives when the person taking part in it can rationalize it as normal or OK--and making it clear that isn't the case goes a long way.
https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/clients.html is a good resource. For reference, the clients listed there that don't support ECDSA are: Android 2.3.7, IE 6 / XP, IE 8 / XP, Java 6u45, and OpenSSL 0.9.8y.
"anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity". Sure...
Your /dev/urandom is astonishingly slow. Is this normal for Linux?
What is your biggest weakness?

> Being awesome? Being too humble? Pushing for that last 5% of perfection when I should call it a night? It is really a toss up, I have so many.
Those seem like pretty large generalizations for someone telling others to drop prejudice.
Why can't it be both? Ellis knows the man better than you do.
Archimedes' trick only works if you know the ratio of materials inside ahead of time. Otherwise it could be e.g. some gold + some copper and have the same density as silver.
Then how to Vacuum tubes work?
But I was responding to someone arguing we shouldn't put addicts and felons in the same list.
That is useful information, thank you :-)
For those who don't recall the Adria Richards / Pycon incident, here's the HN discussion, including a comment from the guy who got fired and a response from Adria:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5391667
> social outcast

> tactless creep

What does either of these have to do with the other? I don't think social outcast implies tactless creep, and unfortunately, tactless creep clearly doesn't imply social outcast.
Is there a clear readme on dnschain somewhere? I looked at the github repo, but still don't quite get what actual benefits it brings over running one's own dns server? Using the public server obviously still leaks metadata (who looks up what when) - not that such metadata isn't rather obvious anyway by observing traffic between ips. How is it any better than cacert? Because you pin the trust to your own ca? What stops you from doing that now (how is the trust different with dnschain?).
Exactly. It would be interesting to hear from some Google employees here, both men and women, about their good or bad sexism related experiences at the company.
I tend to think language learning is one of those things that are intrinsically valuable. And, I'm embarrassed to have made it to middle age without fluency in anything other than English. From a pragmatic perspective it might not 've directly profitable...but it makes me happy.
Yeah, I'm sure he would have been just as likely to say "It's taking all of my self control not to grab your ass right now" to a dude, right?
I think what we are dealing with is male culture, not any sort of corporate culture. If we're talking about a corporate culture of not being able to hold people accountable for mistakes in general, then I would agree.
I realize it's fun to paint lawyers with the same brush, but let's be clear here: prosecutors are the ones gunning after constant guilty convictions, and the Roberts Supreme Court has stripped even the most basic ways to challenge their abuses.
Its aimed at beginners. If you know the logic and design upfront, I think coding is quicker. But this allows you to iterate ideas at a faster pace than coding. Its not really a Unity competitor, its a totally novel way of doing things. I think this game is the first proper polished game from the tool.
I thought we're all disruptors here. So if a company's trying to disrupt things, its HR should be hiring self-proclaimed troublemakers.
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that's like saying that a company that only hires 10% of those it interviews is a failure. they have a waiting list of applicants, which allows them to set their quality bar high enough to reject the bottom 65% of applicants. the only difference is here the "interview" is a 10-month paid apprenticeship, while at most companies it's a 2 or 3-day unpaid blitz of tests.
How to Improve Your Information (1993)
I believe CloudFlare's free "Universal SSL" uses ECDSA. Support isn't, um, universal, but it seems to be widespread enough among modern clients.
The comment above is dumb but I see a link here.

Part of me is ecstatic that people in India are delivering street justice to rapists. But eventually that vigilantism is going to kill an innocent person.

This is analogous to delivering justice via social media.