skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sounds like the "Two Wrongs Make a Right" Fallacy.

Person 1 did X(Racism) to person 2.

Therefore, Person 2 is justified to do X(Reversed Racism) to person 1.

And of course the blatant generalization, considering not everyone behaved like person 1.
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Ironically this is a good example of the screed in my profile :)

We're being downvoted because we were in something of a flamewar, and people are trying to discourage that with downvotes. If there were mandatory reasons and attributions required for modding, you wouldn't have to second-guess what was going on. I also know it's not you downvoting because you can't downvote a direct reply to your own comment.

Anyway, yes, time to move on.
This is news because there have been recent changes to this document since Github adopted it. Here's the commit that included them: https://archive.is/WndkY

I find this introduces needless politics where they don't belong. I also don't subscribe to the idea that sexism and racism can only happen if the victim is of the correct gender or race. For those reasons, I've closed my private repos and no longer financially support Github.
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> Avoids arbitrary code execution for installation. (Avoids setup.py)

This isn't much of an advantage as you're trusting code compiled on an untrusted machine. I suppose it saves you some CPU cycles, but don't be fooled into thinking it's safer.
I work in an office where almost nobody wears a suit but the A/C is still way too cold. Even the men sometimes bring extra layers to keep warm with.

I think at this point this low temperature has less to do with patriarchy and more to do with tradition---the thermostat is set to 68 because that's what thermostats are set to. Maybe a few well-articulated complaints to the facilities people could make a difference? Who doesn't want to be able to claim they saved the company $X million in energy costs?

Of course, the reverse is often an issue in the winter: the heat is up way too high. We've essentially reversed the seasons inside our buildings!
What do you suppose is the over/under on this becoming a public utility, or just another aspect of running a proper regional 911 system?
You are missing the context: the document has been modified since to add new policies for "reverse-isms".
Awesome to see some Sydney companies here. Product looks really interesting as well. Best of luck finding someone
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protect or not protect their customers ... based on their race

literal racism.
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That's just crazy. Rewind 130 years and you find a handful of reservoirs, some tunnels and viaducts, and gravity. That's all you need to provide some of the country's finest drinking water to 8 million people. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_york_city_water_supply

People were smarter then, because the technology didn't exist for them to be so stupid.
I certainly agree that we can do most of the same things if our needs don't change, but usually our needs do change. Even if the software isn't simply more bloated than it used to be, we usually have new needs: say, creating or consuming something in a crazy new format. I guess we've pretty much maximized the number of pixels that fit on a hand/pocket-sized screen, but if filling our entire living room wall with 16K resolution video is the new norm someday, and we're showing off a video we just took using our pocket/wrist device, we need serious horsepower. This example is hyperbole but the point is, for the most part, I find it hard to predict that we won't find a way to use serious increases in processing whenever it's available.
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I strongly disagree with your assertion. The real question is —— all things being equal (equivalent monetary amount, recruitment pool, legitimacy, etc.), for a given start-up today: would it be better to join YC or a given universities partnership program for start-ups?

I truly believe it would be better to join YC for the following reasons:

1) Capital. In terms of capital resources. YC will most likely be able to help raise a given start-up more many than a university because the primary purpose of YC is that, while that is not the case for universities.

2) Cross-disciplinary expertise. Granted this may be an advantage that universities have over YC. But, it’s much easier to recruit faculty as YC venture backed start-up than as a non-YC venture backed start-up, unless there are contractual obligations that skew incentives towards the universities themselves.

3) SBIR/STTR. SBIR stands for Small Business Innovation Research, while STTR stands for Small Business Technology Transfer. They are both congressionally mandated programs so that “….domestic small businesses can engage in R&D that has a strong potential for technology commercialization.” Nothing precludes a given start-up from not getting SBIR/STTR funds. In fact, an organization like YC helps bolster the case that the technology in question can be commercialized.

4) Scientific/technical credibility and legitimacy. Yes, YC is not a research university, and will not bring that level of “scientific/technical” credibility and legitimacy. But, they do offer credibility and legitimacy for partners, users, VCS, etc. In addition, most founders that are tackling a scientific/technical problem, usually have experience in that field, and bring a degree of scientific/technical expertise.

5) Bleeding-edge equipment that cannot be purchased. The cost/quality/risk really depends on the industry. For example, contract-research organizations (CROs) are common place for big companies and small companies throughout the pharmaceutical industry. In this case, CROs play the function that a university would in conducting/publishing the research.
Or – for a more traditional comparison – cooking.

I live in a house of 8 where we order food communally, last month my food bill was £93.35 ($145.50), so $4.85/day for three (subjectively very healthy) meals.

Not your typical setup, but still perhaps of interest.
If your app provides a way to buy something that could use an in-app purchase (e.g. not physical goods), but you try to use your own method of doing so, then Apple will reject your app during review. The review guidelines specifically disallow doing that.
Are there community buildbots for OSX and Windows for people who don't own licenses of those OSes?
> Imagine 'receiving' a ticket for a lifetime (inflation-adjusting & compounding) $350k income-per-year like that from someone else who actually worked for it (or guess what, inherited it himself), would you ever have to work?

Don't folks of your politics normally argue that with a basic income people would still work?

> Would this create a system not just with unequal outcomes, but with inequality by design?

Nature is unequal by design. Unless you're arguing for some Harrison Bergeron-type future where we scar attractive people and literally cut tall people off at the knees, there's nothing you can do about it. What you're proposing is the financial equivalent.

> And we can keep that to large amounts, like say $100k.

$100,000 is not a large amount: it's 1-5 years' salary (or less!).

> But there have to be limits

Why?
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There's lots of 1998-2001 stuff on cryptome.org :)

Total TFH then. Now, not so much :(
"New" is a relative term. I think there's still some gas in the tank, but if there's no growth in the next couple years Twitter will probably be on a permanent downward trend.
Yes and so we went down the slippery slope. The law is enough, anything more is pushing your own values on other people.
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This is a great intro into the subject.

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Of course, there is an argument that, accepting the "prejudice plus power" definition, operating in a context in which preference is given to the concerns of a class that is less powerful in other contexts creates a context in which that group is empowered over the group that is more powerful in other context, converting -- by the "prejudice plus power" definition -- what would be "reverse racism" in other context to simply "racism" in that context (and, of course, vice versa.)
No, the CBO study looked at the actual dollars coming from people; as Prof. Mankiw notes, while there might be invididual exceptions the overall figures are as stated.
That's actually a remarkably apt analogy, though not for the reasons you think.

As with cooking there's long been a concerted effort to teach everyone basic coding skills. Does that mean everyone will become paid software developers? No. But not everyone becomes a professional chef, either, and yet those basic skills come in pretty darn handy...
I could really see Apple starting to deprecate the Mac with the release of the iPad Pro. "Now you can develop iOS on iOS! No emulator required!"
Doesn't this go against what Kickstarter is about? Will other projects feel pressure to refund if they don't pan out?
This pretty much describes flattr.
Wheels solved one major issue that few people talk about: packages that needed compiling on 64-bit Windows (which was a mess, bordering the impossible).
Since Columbia and Colombia are the same word, and we're speaking in English... I'm not convinced either is "right".
You're free to not participate or start your own organization though, there is no pushing. Github also isn't applying this to every repo you have on the site, just their own - which they have ever right to do.
hi smortaz, project lead for PTVS. i'd love to get a pointer to the script (or repro). this should definitely not be the case! sorry about your experience.
Huh...

I've always thought that "this thing might totally fail" was something that people understood when backing a kickstarter project.

The idea that if they fail, they have to refund everybody's contribution kindof stinks, since I've always thought kickstarter was for people trying new things (which is obviously going to have a lot of stories about failure)

Maybe there is more to the story here.
The policies on "reverse racism" and "reverse sexism" are mostly to stop arguments that many consider to be trolling. Some people make the argument that initiatives like http://www.blackgirlscode.com and http://www.pyladies.com are racist and sexist because they exclude whites/men. GitHub is not interested in having that debate.
> That would unfortunately render your website idea mostly incorrect

I meant correct in the context of trying to spell Colombia, the country name, given that's what I was talking about - obviously the spelling Columbia is correct if you're referring to anything else which actually goes by that spelling..
And his legal defense case is "the wage fixing was discovered 5 year ago, this case is essentially the same as a different case we lost against other plaintiffs, so we shouldn't be liable to the other victims also"
No, classic bait n switch doesn't involve refunding money...
Not true. The JRE version on my copy of PyCharm is 7 (it's from 2014 and may be JRE8 now) and it's running on Windows currently. I ended up buying Intellij IDEA instead and I know it's running under JRE 8 by default, so I assume so is the latest Pycharm.

You can also configure it to run on whatever JRE you want as well. I've switched it to 8 before without an issue.

https://intellij-support.jetbrains.com/hc/en-us/articles/206...
Power always exists within a particular context. If you have the power in a context to get a code of conduct defined which licenses prejudice in your group's favor, and punishes it when it is against your group, it is a pretty strained claim to argue that its only those prejudiced against you in that context that are acting with a combination of prejudice and power.
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> its value relies in forcing manual labor on initial key exchange

Setting up NNTP peers has always been manual, and one has always gotten one's newsfeed through one's peers which is why this can work; as your edit noted, this can't work for SMTP because it's a different model.

> If I get your key and start signing spam with it, sending it all over the place, you'll soon be overflowed by "yo!"s, you'll have to regenerate keys, rebuild trust (a process you've forced to be slow), and your mail won't go through for days or weeks.

And for NNTP that would be okay.

Solving the SMTP spam problem is something else entirely, and I wouldn't want to taken on that burden. But Usenet could have been saved.
Running Windows in a VM eats your battery alive.
They may not be pushing but Github as a technical tool amassed a community of millions of users based on its functionality.

Now it's espousing radical politics as a company. Politics many users most likely don't support (based on my personal opinion and discussion about this around the web).

They are free to do as they like but trying to introduce their politics into a non-political community/userbase is a bad idea. I predict this will not work out well for them.
Agreed, but it was really confusing as to why this was posted on HN at all with the renamed title. The submission link probably should have been to the commit diff instead, but I don't think the HN mods ever change the actual target of a submission.
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> doesn't work for things like email

Which is why I was writing about Usenet☺

Controlling spam in general is a much tougher problem, but in the directed cyclic graph which is Usenet, it could have been done.
Am a bit disappointed that there are no respect here for the origin of the bomb and its success.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_bombings_of_Hiroshima_a...

Does the HN realise there is anotehr world outside of Silicon Velley ??
That's pretty fair.
The unfairness comes when we talk about investment. A lot of counties like India invested heavily on education. What happened to the talent produced by that investment ? They all ran away to US.

...*

It also allows america to get away with it by not investing in their own education or labour force.

One of the two us is missing a part of the picture. I have met many immigrants from India and other countries. Many are sharp. But here's the thing; none of them have capstone degrees from India.

They may have attended high school in India, and maybe undergraduate. But universities in India do not have a good reputation in the United States. So people who want to work in the United States frequently come to get degrees in the United States.

In fact the "problem" as I heard it recently was exactly the other way around. Foreigners come to the United States, spend twelve years getting a BS & PhD on grants, and increasingly elect to return to their home country. In years past, more of those students would stay in the US, but barriers to citizenship are apparently as high or higher than ever.

I am not at the forefront of hiring and international labor politics, but this is what I have seen & heard in the past ~8 years in America.
I pity the people who have to run 17K refunds by hand.
This line of argument stems from the totalitarian hierarchical nature of a corporation which is a dictatorship. The argument boils down to excommunicating yourself for not following the Kings rules.

Just like "don't buy the product" line, it does not work on an individual level.
Combined cycle is very important, but that still only gets you from maybe 35% to maybe 54%. That means that half is still "wasted". It's those pesky laws of thermodynamics. Who was that Carnot guy who's causing us all these problems?

What that link also discusses is that using the residual energy for community heating can get you "theoretical efficiency" of 95%. Now we're talking!
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I've seen these in some apartment buildings in Norway. Except a truck would still come by periodically and suck out the garbage from the buildings garbage storage hold.
If you want to get a feel for what PTVS is like, you can watch these short videos:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLReL099Y5nRdLgGAdrb_Y...

10k foot view web page: https://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/features/python-vs

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When it comes to mass data collection, the EFF is definitely a fan of erasing history. So it's not that simple.

It's a problem of balancing privacy rights and press rights.
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my general experience is that software startups are not doing distributed teams as much as it seemed like they used to. This is not exactly backed by data - which seems contradictory lately too.

Does anyone know why? Or is my experience skewed?

(links to reliable data would be amazing, too)
I don't know why they are actually shutting down, but this explanation doesn't ring true. They're blaming DRM complications - a part of the project that no one cares about - as the lynchpin that has taken down the whole thing.

To be honest, I would be quite surprised if anyone receives any money back. The "everyone should have their money back by the end of September" thing seems quite long. Having seen some other, very similar scenarios play out, to me it sounds like they did something else with the money and are trying to stave off the consequences of it or are trying to buy time hoping for a miracle that will allow them to replace it.
Anyone else have issues with pillow/PIL and wheels? I have to force that package to not install from cached wheels, because the first build is fine, but subsequent installs from the cached wheel seem to break.
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Ubuntu

All have radical politics for adopting similar CoCs? They're also not applying it to all of github, just projects they maintain. And every community is political, that line just gets used anytime someone raises a concern about something to shut it down.