skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There’s also no African Americans on the Edge Conference’s roster. I don’t see any people of (obvious) Hispanic descent. Why is no one up in arms over that?

Because people who care don't get nearly as much press as people who talk about women being excluded.

Because the men who work in tech don't care so much about race, but they do care about the obvious lack of women.

Because it's easier to go "we have 40% asians and indians" and ignore the issue than to find a way around "we have 95% males".
You ever win?
I too think its very cynical, but extremely accurate.
We tried to use that to find your GitHub username, but we
couldn't :( maybe you don't even have GitHub ssh keys, do you?

You just need to properly configure your SSH.
The gender situation in IT today is actually worse than it was when I started, twenty-odd years ago. That's sad.

And really, I think the problem starts long before college. There are structural issues in the broader culture and the education system. It's even worse for black and latino kids.
Why Lambda, why not a simple VPS?
It doesn't matter if he only cuts vertically in the animation. The pizza could be on a spinning wheel, and as long as it's a perfect circle, that wouldn't matter to the ninja's cuts.

User antimagic thought it was most natural to draw lines by picking random (x,y) coordinates on a plane, then overlaying a circle. This "natural" choice corresponds to selection method #2, so they ended up getting the 1/2 answer.
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Can you show an example of this?
Wouldn't this only be true if there was a perfect 50/50 split of qualified speakers based on gender? Percentages can be positioned to show that bias exists only when the input doesn't match the result. It is unknown whether the field of applicants had an "acceptable" amount of diversity to begin with.
It gives women, along with other frequently disadvantaged groups, such as minorities, the obese, seniors, and physically challenged persons, a more equitable chance to be heard in the first place. It means that the speakers who are chosen have met a minimum professional relevance level. This is a good short term win.

Will it mean those people have equitable chances to do keynotes today - no more so than the current systems.

Will it mean they have a chance to build a professional reputation that may result in invitations to do keynotes tomorrow - yes. This is a good long term win.
Go has a great SSH library from what I can tell. I'm currently working on a project that is based around SSH, and Go seemed to be the only real option.
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Yeh true. But what I do in those scenarios is hack up an ngnix config with a (self-signed) wildcard certificate and map certain ports to https endpoints on certain subdomains using ngnix reverse-proxy stuff.

So I expose :9000 on the remote host, and then map :9000 to blah.my.website.com:443 using ngnix
That change in culture has to start at high school and college levels, if not sooner, in educational terms for any meaningful changes to happen. Plus the culture that needs to work to change isn't necessarily just the tech culture.
That seems absurdly low.
Awesome photos! I'm looked through both parts 1 & 2 and was most surprised about the detail even in the photo frames. (Photo frames must be thicker at the top so it looks as if the leaders are looking down on you)
Why the Gods Are Not Winning
The killer gaming apps for Apple Watch…might not be games at all
This only worked for me after I renamed id_rsa (and id_rsa.pub).
I don't want to be in a high-profile, financially rewarding biotech career. I just like doing something else.
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Try this one: "Women just don't want to be in a high-profile, financially rewarding career with tons of growth potential, because their parents raised them to be interested in what they thought 'proper ladies' should be interested, e.g. not tech."

I think a large part of this problem is generational. As we see female numbers increase every year, eventually it'll reach some sort of equilibrium. It's like asking 20-30 years ago why there weren't more women in business. I think it was just because until it becomes a socially regular thing to see, only the exceptional will try to break through that glass ceiling. Like the article says, forcing inclusion of women who aren't interested or particularly good at the topic won't help anyone.
Maybe developers valuate themselves too low more often than management, at least when it comes to negotiating salaries?
In general they might think more in terms of what they need (or "should earn"), than what they could earn. That is kind of a mistake.
This can be a good approach, but it's fundamentally limited. If your living expenses are $X/month, the biggest increase you can get by reducing expenses is $X/month.

OTOH, if you focus on producing something, you can potentially achieve $X*BIGNUM/month
Simple and effective,awesome!
If you got all your information about the world from HN, you'd end up thinking that the DPRK is a fairly common holiday destination.
What happens when a treaty such as the TPP or TTIP says that you can jail people for investigating animal abuse? I assume this kind of ruling would be irrelevant then?
public keys I hope?!
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The negative opinions about this ad that strangers feel so compelled to share illustrate solid examples of the sexism that plagues tech.

Actually I didn't find the comments highlighted in the illustration all that sexist. It seemed to me that that commenter was not so much weighing in on what engineers are supposed to look like, but rather attempting to analyze the semantic content of the recruitment ad, because most ads/corporate presentations are so heavily designed and the people depicted are often professional models/actors, whether working on commission or selected from a stock photography database. Think of all the generic business websites where everyone in the photographs just happens to have culturally ideal proportions, have perfect skin/hair/teeth and look impeccably stylish. When I see that I don't think that the company is made up of fantastically good-looking people who happened to be photographed at their desks, but that the people depicted were chosen for a mix of attractive looks and professional presentation.

(Now, I don't mean this as dismissive of sexism in the tech industry, which I think is a huge problem, well summed up by the real-life experiences mentioned in the article.)

At the end of the day, this is just an ad campaign and it is targeted at engineers. [...] News flash: this isn’t by any means an attempt to label “what female engineers look like.” This is literally just ME, an example of ONE engineer at OneLogin. The ad is supposed to be authentic.

Yeah, but 'authenticity' is itself a commodity in the world of advertising, and advertising is fundamentally about turning things into commodities. Paying money to display images of people along with a commercial message in front of the largest audience possible is fundamentally different from presenting a portrait of an individual. Here, the commodity bargain is 'be part of a group of friendly cool people, in exchange for performing this kind of work.' I don't believe that people are reacting to you so much as they are responding to the superficiality of advertising in general.

In fact, if you knew me you would probably know that being famous is one of my biggest nightmares

PTSD aside, aren't nightmares where we are most ourselves?
Some of the better VC firms (eg. a16z, YCombinator) are already putting this in play with their investment decisions, but they would rather profit off it than write a best-selling book. There's a reason why the conventional wisdom in the Valley - at least among firms in the know - is that you need a technical founder who also thoroughly understands the business.
Exceptionalism does work for the 1%.

Unions are simply a pool of skilled laborers whom know they are being paid less than they're worth. Any other assumptions of limitations imposed upon a union member are up to the actual terms of a specific union group.

Nothing about unions existing would change much about the highest skilled groups of (non-union) programmers.
We built Pied Piper kind of server.
Still got it? I bet its still good times.

(Old computers never die .. their users do!)
Sorry, it's late here and my brain is just unable to parse your sentence. Are you asking if it matters if the information is gained officially or unofficially?
The host you're connecting to could be able to, force write/destroy your public repos or clone your (and your employer's) private repos given that he knows their paths, eg: github/github. I'd assume that a few companies have a */secrets repo of some sort.
Mistresses.
Prefix (with fixed number of arguments) need no parentheses

* + 1 2
- * + 3 4
+ 5 6
/ 7 8

Postfix can be indented similarly

1 2 +
3 4 +
5 6 + *
7 8 / - *

Or parentheses less infix

1+2
* 3+4
* 5+6
- 7/8
So kind of like a fancy high-tech long-press?
I just pushed a button and a pound of it showed up at the house.
He explains how nix/guix technology in the realm of personnal computing can improve day-to-day work, in this case the work of a developper. Wingo's setup is kind of complicated: nixos+guix. (I use only Guix OS for Django dev). In my case, Guix is overkill most of the time, since most dependencies are python. Guix can also replace virtualenv taking into account binary dependencies..

Binary dependency is the case met by Wingo.

I think he does not stress enough (first part) the fact that upgrading is painless in nixos and Guix OS (almost, it's still alpha) compared to debian-like distros.

Guix is a good idea. It needs more packages that is all.
I'm glad I was brave enough to click. b^)
Regardless of what you call the universe, we already know 1. Everything we know about it comes from sensory input, and 2. That sensory input's production can be modeled mathematically. But it's hard for me to make sense of what author really means by the claim "the universe is math". He claims after pulling away notation math is "A set of abstract entities with relations between them". Great! But then again... any idea I can conceive of can be said to be abstract entities with relations between them. That's an awfully vague definition. Then it's as if he fills in the void with baggage from his subjective understanding of mathematical structures (object movement is like 4 dimensional spaghetti). It's an interesting read but it seems like he just wants his idea of the universe to be more literal than it is.
How cool would it be if we didn't abandon these old systems but rather put them to use again, in a new context?

Crazier things have happened.
I would be interested in hearing some examples of problem solving that are based on gender or the color of one's skin.
Yes, it's multiply awful for those on the intersections: particularly women of color. Therefore they're the ones we’d expect a consistently ethical person to be most concerned about. (And helping improve their situations helps others too.)
The thesis is that Silicon Valley is repackaging unglamourous, tried-and-true ideas in hipster-friendly format, i.e., by disparaging the mainstream delivery of the equivalent services. The author asserts that this methodology is shallow, transparent, and elitist.

Soylent is Slimfast, Airbnb is vacation rental, Tinder is personals...

It is abrasive, but he's got a (rather recycled) point. I'm not sure if the abrasive tone is intrinsic or simply giving his target a taste of its own medicine. The Soylent snippets really are a little ridiculous. "The home manufacturing center had been by far the most liberating to eliminate..." Allow me to bear your burden of having a refrigerator...

I get turned off by a lot of technocrat stuff, too. I do think that Uber and Airbnb are novel ways of delivering old services. I huff at Airbnb when I get the marketing emails about being in a caring world and all that stuff.

The takeaway, for me, is that with the proliferation of all of this new tech, the average consumer is becoming more keen to grandiose claims. Don't tell me that Soylent is a revolution and that I ought to have ditched my oven; tell me why it's a better product than Slimfast, because that's what you're really up against.
I never realized that SSH does this. Thank you.
Testing with a different database would only be good if you:

a) Also test with your real production database
b) You restrict yourself to using the lowest common feature denominator of both databases (which is probably a pretty low figure)

Still, different databases behave differently in many aspects. And despite how cool SQLite is, PostgreSQL is so much more advanced (specially in SQL querying) that I don't see the point losing all those features. As I have already mentioned in HN, check this amazing presentation: http://use-the-index-luke.com/blog/2015-02/modern-sql before deciding to restrict yourself to a subset of the SQL supported by PostgreSQL.

Given that it's easy to start PostgreSQL from a unit test, and how lightweight PostgreSQL is, I see no real point in using SQLite for testing. Use PostgreSQL!
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Doing management right means your team does not have to work until 8pm every day.
Ask HN: GitHub censoring porn from GitHub pages. Would that be OK or not OK?
In the debate[1] over GitHub's new Code of Conduct[2] and their recent actions to enforce it, a great number if a not majority of HN commenters condemned it as an unconscionable moral betrayal. There was no gray area.

The anti-GitHub sentiment is cropping up in other comment threads, and apparently is driving an exodus from GitHub to Y-Combinator's own GitLab[3].

This is not a troll post. It is a genuine question to understand the value system that seems to dominate tech culture, the very same culture that is experiencing a growing societal backlash.

My hope is that we can have, as dang puts it, a reflective rather than reflexive discussion[4]. Please, comment thoughtfully. Try for "Feynman integrity"[5]. Avoid the knee-jerk. Stay true to HN's own code of conduct[6]. Sorry about all the links.

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[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9966118

[2] https://github.com/blog/2039-adopting-the-open-code-of-conduct

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10003334

[4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10001153

[5] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9996843

[6] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Refactoring the Mirrortocracy
Does diversity of gender/race equate directly to diversity of content? Painting a conference as uninspiring solely based on what percentage of the panel are $demographic seems wrong. Are you suggesting that white males somehow all produce the same content?
Because people are amazing and do amazing things.

Long live the retro-computing revolution!
The value of an investment is usually calculated based on a recurring income stream over time. If you held on to your equity instead of selling it, you'd be entitled to a 3% share of the profits over the life of the company, not just for one year. And if the company was growing, the income stream would be increasing over time. So valuing the company based on one year's profits seems unfair. (Also, if the company were ever sold, you'd be entitled to 3% of the proceeds.)

Also, since the founder would know what the real profit of the company was, why would he be basing the valuation on market sector averages? It sounds like he's trying to take advantage of you.
I don't see why he doesn't just stop bathing and stop changing his clothes altogether, if this is his goal. (After all, this is the same guy who drank a potent antibiotic to keep himself from defecating in order to save water; that wouldn't be the craziest thing he's done, and it would make more sense than buying new clothes every day.)
> if you can't find women, POC for your conference, you didn't look hard enough.

Part of the problem with finding more women and/or POC is that most conference organizers aren't looking for people at all; rather, they're looking for interesting projects/products/businesses. And what happens is they get a representative of that organization on the phone who agrees to send someone to present, but often they don't even know who will actually be getting on stage until much later.

This obviously isn't true if you're getting a keynote speaker to talk about their career, but you only get one of those per event.
Hack on whatever I like.
tl;dr:

1. ssh sends the pubkey you use on github ^1

2. his server compare with the publicly ^2 available pub key you uploaded to github.com

^1 (not mine, i set keys per domain)

^2 news to me!
ha yeah that was definitely an exaggeration. I don't think many people need a complex environment, it's more about personal preference. If I can do a one-time setup that saves me time on all of my future projects, rather than take longer to complete each project, that overhead is well worth it to me.
Continuing to use Flash at this point just seems to be laziness - why is anyone supporting it at all?
Our brains are pretty adept at resolving such ambiguities through context, implicit rules of pragmatics, etc. Sentence (2) may be less syntactically ambiguous but longer range dependencies, at a certain point, run up against hard limits in our ability to keep things in short term memory.

A somewhat related example is center embedding structures, which are grammatical but usually quite difficult to parse once you get a few levels deep:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_embedding
The problem on both ends is the tone, I think. The soylent guy is using really strong language to get you to think things are better his way -- he replaces his clothes rather than cleaning them, he replaced his kitchen/fridge/groceries with his shakes, he replaced the need for preparing solid foods with eating out on every occasion.

The author suggests he's disconnected from reality, because everything he says is only possible because he can afford it. In fact, soylent didn't permit him any of this, except possibly the ability to afford to live like this in the first place.
I believe there are quite a few people who give out possibilities as to why that is, but they seem to have theories that many people just don't want to hear.

I would like to know why you think the possibility that "women just aren't interested in tech" is ridiculous on its face? I would think it would be easy to find out such things with general surveys of young men and women as they leave high school and enter college age to determine their career interests, has no one done this?
ssh: Connection to root@whoami.filippo.io:22 exited: Remote closed the connection

That's what happens to me from OpenWrt
"I hang on to your words because they are to me weighty; and where you say 'I, for my part cannot realise your dissatisfaction with the law of gravitation provided you conceive it according to your own principles' they give me great comfort. I'll have nothing to say against the law of action of gravity. It is against the law which measures its total strength as an inherent force that I venture to oppose my opinion; and I must have expressed myself badly (though I do not find the weak point) or I should not have conveyed any other impression...All I wanted to do was move men (hehe) from the unreserved acceptance of a principle of physical action which might be opposed to a natural truth. The idea that we may possibly have to connect repulsion with the lines of gravitation force (which is going far beyond anything my mind would venture on at present except in private cogitation) shows how far we may have to depart from the view I oppose." - Michael Faraday

Yeah, that's Faraday saying anti-gravity might exist, if he could only unify it with more encompassing lines of force. Note that the "hehe" is my aside. I love the part where he says "your words are weighty". :) The man was funny!
It's a problem that many people aren't aware of, and it's a very compelling argument. The eventual goal should absolutely be to completely ignore irrelevant factors (gender, race, etc) when evaluating anything (such as a conference proposal), and evaluate only based on merit; the question is over the best way to get to that point, and there's quite a bit of evidence to suggest that attempting to ignore it right now doesn't actually work.

The concept of evaluating exclusively merit is completely sensible. Doing so in practice is not trivial. And there are indeed published studies showing that attempting to do so not only fails but produces more bias.
"Zhang trades on his own account and Reuters was not able to independently verify his earnings."
Feds admit storing checkpoint body scan images
I would argue that those machines belonged to their users. I didn't know Wozniak for a fig, but I could CATALOG like a badass.
I think you are on a different subject than what the rest of this chain of comments seem to be talking about.
I didn't choose to be an engineer because it was high profile, financially rewarding with tons of growth potential. I chose it because I absolutely love designing and building things. If you've ever been completely captivated by the sight, sound, and smell of a steam locomotive's moving parts, or sheer awesome thrill of a top fuel dragster or P51 at full throttle as it "digs in", or building something nobody has made before, you are not really an engineer.

If you can't use a piece of machinery, look at software, read about Fukushima, and not always be thinking about how you'd design it better, you are not really an engineer.

If you wouldn't work on cool engineering projects for free just because they are cool, you are not really an engineer.

If you just want to do engineering to make a pile of money and retire, you are not really an engineer.

If you want to present at conferences for the fame and recognition, you are not really an engineer. If you present because you cannot resist telling everyone about this totally awesome piece of engineering, you are likely a real engineer.
The judge ruled it unconstitutional. I don't believe that even the TPP can override such a ruling (assuming it is not ultimately overturned by a higher court).
Kids (and people that didn't grow up) will try for a long time to avoid this discussion. But I have to say to you: you lost. You can leave, or you can adapt. But you can't stop it.
Thank you, Judge B. Lynn Winmill, of the United States District Court for the District of Idaho. Let your name be repeated and known as someone that does away with laws bordering on absurdism and pure corporate protectionism.

That this even needed to be reviewed because it passed state legislatures is insane. That it's a law mimicked by many states is very seriously disturbing. It means that there are hundreds or more of elected representatives that will gladly put corporate greed above constituent health and well being.
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