skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In point of fact, an African-American guy and a white guy from the same neighborhood and school will have had different experiences growing up. For example, the white guy probably never had the cops called on him for wandering down a dark street wearing a hoodie. He probably also got more job interviews, if his name sounds white and his friend's doesn't. These experiences will have shaped the two men differently.

That doesn't mean they'll give different answers to a question on how to traverse a linked list. But they'll give different answers on how to build a content moderation feature, how to prevent abuse, how to protect freedom of expression on the platform.
In fact, probably the guy responsible for storing most passwords is your friendly sysadmin, and a lot of them won't get caught using a GUI on Mac or Windows ;)
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Yeah. A lot of white men get that sense.
> what "diversity" he is looking for at Twitter.

Because being explicit about how he wants race quotas might make him look racist, which would make it harder for him to use accusations of racism as a tool.

The quest for "diversity" essentially is an implicit accusation of racism. It basically says "we're not as racially diverse as we would naturally be if racism wasnt rigging the race game".

His goal is to take jobs from whites just because they are white and give them to blacks just because they are black, i.e. explicit racism. The twisted logic is basically that you have to fight racism with racism, but that racism-the-cure isnt really racism, and that only racism-the-cause is "true racism". It essentially boils down to the claims that only white people can be racists, that whites are inherently racists, and that any statistical imbalance in the percentage of blacks in a certain organisation and the percentage of blacks in the overall population is a product of white racism.
The article says the police will first run the plate and try to contact the owner before they take the stuff. Will they be doing this for locked cars too?
According to Marx, everything of value is produced by human. Some humans (like engineers and programmers) can just produce more valuable stuff than others.

If we believe Marx and that jobs are going to disappear, that requires either rich people not using money or money disappearing from the system. Currently inflation encourages rich people to use money in some way or another. And we have no reason to expect deflation.

Where is money going to disappear?
Counter-point to your counter-point!

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Glossary/Vendor_Pre...
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You understand REST.
> P.S. #12 - lol!

In view of today's news, this is not funny at all.

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If that's true, then it should be easy to name some startups that fell into technical mediocrity and recovered. Are there any?

I saw the opposite happen firsthand: a company that was about to get steamrolled by a competitor, and they knew it. There was nothing they could do, even though they had over two years to prepare. The reason they couldn't do anything was because their team was mediocre. Last I checked, that company no longer had any job listings.

How many people here have similar stories? It's tempting to believe that mediocre programmers can be mentored, but it doesn't seem that simple.
Wow, trying to redefine racial diversity as racism.

Having a different skin color makes a HUGE impact on the way you experience life, especially in America. Holding all other things equal, that alone will give you a different outlook on life, and likely different ideas too.
(I accidentally down voted you, sorry).

The fact that Twitter enables diversity doesn't mean that they have or understand diversity. It may be that they simply haven't accidentally stepped on it.

If they don't know why what they're doing is working then they can't successfully improve it further, or avoid squashing it unintentionally and irreparably.

Honestly your comment reads very racist to me. "why do we need a non-Asian engineer?", "suppose I'm wrong, and black people actually do think differently. [if twitter is doing good] why do we think that "different" is actually better or even useful?"

So Twitter is doing great, and you've basically reduced it to either 'race/perspective never matters' or 'non white/asians are inferior'. I'm sure you'll say it's the former.

Wow.

(Now that I've re-read your comment, I'm happy with my down vote).
the 4th amendment has been incorporated to the states. states can't legislate/constitutionalize less protections than what federal law provides.. you know... because the supremacy clause

this should be killed by a federal court very fast

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incorporation_of_the_Bill_of_R...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supremacy_Clause
> There were also the Hiring Committee meetings that became contentious when I advocated for diverse candidates. Candidates who were dinged for not being fast enough to solve problems, not having internships at ‘strong’ companies and who took too long to finish their degree. Only after hours of lobbying would they be hired. Needless to say, the majority of them performed well.

Why is it needless to say that?
Positive Train Control is the train safety technology at issue here. It isn't ready. The "attempt at crippling the economy" is to shut down instead of operating in violation of the regulation.

The railroad companies claim to have spent billions on implementation but it's not available yet. As the article says, they're not allowed to collaborate or share implementation costs because of trust regulations. Also keep in mind the scale of the deployment. There's hundreds of thousands of cars on the track today, and putting something on each car isn't something that takes an afternoon.

The government can't make it happen by creating a regulation and a deadline.

edit: Fixed definition of PTC.
Has the practice been tested in federal court in any use substantially similar? Because its not clear to me how it could withstand challenge under either the Fourth Amendment (as applied to the states by way of the Fourteenth) or the bare Fourteenth Amendment due process, nor is the taking of private property for public purposes (presumably, here, the prevention of crime) accompanied by just compensation, as required by the Fifth Amendment as applied to the states by the Fourteenth Amendment.

A state statute can't generally just brush away federal constitutional requirements.
In the description of the first video there is the link to the paper about that recreation, it was published in 2013:

http://www.eprg.org/papers/202paper.pdf
I ran a few. I wouldn't rate it highly.

George Washington	GreaterEuropean, British
John Smith	GreaterEuropean, British
Barack Obama	GreaterAfrican, Africans
Mike Brown	GreaterEuropean, British
Tamir Rice	GreaterEuropean, Jewish
Eric Garner	GreaterEuropean, British
John Crawford	GreaterEuropean, British
Akai Gurley	GreaterEuropean, British
Ezell Ford	GreaterEuropean, British
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The implication is that diversity of experience/background/culture leads to diversity of thought and diversity of ideas. That's fairly logical and noble goal, but it ignores the idea that that same diversity of interests contributes to a different average career path. It simultaneously argues for "the same, but different".

If we're going to blame the employers, can someone show me that there's a disproportionately large number of unemployed minority engineers that are seeking work but not getting it?
I would like to see this make it to the front page so we can see a decent discussion.

ESR's source didn't actually provide him any proof or really any explanation of where he got his info at all.

But if this gets a little more exposure maybe it will be possible to get Linus himself to weigh in.
If you're bargain hunting, do your own damn shopping. I can't imagine why anyone would use Instacart for a trip to Costco, you lose half the benefits of your Costco membership PLUS you have to pay a heavy fee for that kind of cargo movement.

This whole article rings to me like "You mean I have to PAY people to bring things to my door at my convenience at a moments notice? No one told me that!" No fucking shit. Even a pizza guy gets paid for delivery and that's all he does!
Thank you! Funny you should mention "general purpose customizable CRUD app for small businesses". That's exactly what I started building, then decided to make a smaller, simpler version first - and so ListMakr was born.
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about 5% of staff are non-white, for a definition of white that includes hispanic and asian people.
I would like to get an opinion on that claim from somebody who doesn't have a vested interest in it being true.
"Didn't want a religious miracle. Robbed me of my free will. One star."
Too clarify, when I commented the story had a much different title. It was much different from the different title the story has now.
What percent of the nation's income do you think the wealthiest 10% should pocket in a fair society?
That may well be true. But from what I have read and seen in life, people with secure, well paid jobs who don't actually need the money very frequently put up all kinds of self imposed barriers between themselves and making something entrepreneurial happen successfully. They turn their noses up at work they could be doing or avenues for making money that are, in fact, currently open to them, while waiting for something better that fits their narrow parameters of what is acceptable. Sometimes nothing better ever does show up. They are sometimes turning their noses up at the only avenue that will ever start them down the path they state they wish to take. When nothing shows up that meets their picky standards, they often then complain about how baffled and frustrated they are that they just can't seem to make it work.

There is nothing wrong with saying "I only want to make this transition if it meets thus and such conditions because I am basically happy where I am at, so it needs to flat out be an improvement of my current situation or I am not interested at all." But that isn't usually the position these people take. They usually express extreme bafflement and frustration at how impossible it is while actively throttling any hope of success because their expectations are simply too high.

All I am saying is "Well, you actually can start doing side work right now and are choosing not to. First, recognize that it is a choice."

The OP can make that choice if they so desire, but people are usually happier with their lives and also more effective when they recognize that, no, really, they are making a choice. Doors aren't actually barred and locked to them. They just don't happen to want to go through the ones that are currently open and do not feel compelled to because they are pretty comfortable.

Not everyone is that comfortable. Sometimes, people who are comfortable fail to recognize that is the actual problem. They have no perspective. I am just offering perspective.

"Duke Nukem Forever" comes to mind. The company was fat and happy. They didn't really need the money. So they dicked around and dicked around and dicked around forever, until it became a running joke in some circles.
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The thing is for a lot of low level electronics, you can buy "identical" products from a range of manufacturers, so while I know what you're describing happens too, it's tricky because there are also plenty of designs that "make the rounds" (e.g. lots of products are just tiny variations over reference designs from a chipset designer - you see this a lot with low end Chinese tablets, which are often almost-but-not-quite identical variations over what appears to be AllWinner and MTK reference designs).
It's been a while since I tinkered with it, but the size of the library was the biggest turn off. It's currently at 259k for the min version. That's a lot to add, especially if you're targeting mobile.
> Because an unlocked car is a situation that can be addressed while a locked car is one that can not

They could, by the same logic by which they steal (er, "confiscate") goods that are visible in unlocked cars, just tow away locked cars that have visible goods in them that are an "invitation to thieves". Or, for that matter, locked or unlocked cars that, by their value and ease of theft are, themselves, "invitations to thieves".
Sorry for late reply.

When using the python bindings, you could not simply request N instances using image ID X. You had to come up with an (account) unique name for each one, like webserver-01 and webserver-02.

It is somewhat fundamentally anti "cattles not pets", which led to some weird code in libraries to try to pick IDs that were not used.

My experience here is approximately 1 year old.
I'm not convinced that these services are necessarily worse for the environment; they might even be better in some circumstances.

Having dedicated delivery drivers who can, for instance, go grab groceries at Whole Foods for five people who all live in the same neighbourhood and then deliver them is likely better for the environment than each of those five people getting in their own car and driving to Whole Foods separately.

Shopping once a week like people have "been doing for years" also means you don't get fresh ingredients. I don't want to make dinner with herbs that have been sitting in my fridge for a week on top of however long they were at the store; I want ones I picked up (or had delivered) that day. And people who live in small apartments don't necessarily have the space to "stock up" on stuff in advance.
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If it does it's job, appears well-made, and is a good price, I'm not sure why I'd hit it in the ratings.

And hence my quandary; I don't consider three stars to be a "hit...in the ratings". It does the job, doesn't stand out in any other way, three stars. But, as you point out, it's not fair in the inflated system that we have available. So which wins out, an honest review system that benefits consumers, or review inflation that benefits product sellers? I haven't decided, nor figured out any means of compromise.

As I once heard about bug priority, if everything's a Priority 1, then nothing is a Pri 1. And if everything that isn't complete shite is five stars, then really nothing is five stars. Five stars just means it doesn't suck. Then why don't we have just one star or no stars from which to choose? In other words, the precision of the rating system is not what the five choices would imply.
I love Elizabeth Zwicky's explanation at http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=C4r... :

> "Engineers do not give out 5s. If you tell an engineer that the possible rating scale is 1 to 5 and they like you, they give you a 4. Because tomorrow they might love you and then they would give you a 5. They probably won't, but they might, so they give you a 4 so that they have room. We all are totally okay with this. But the world is also full of this other class of people who if they like you give you a 5. They're quite consistent about it. 'I like you. I see nothing wrong with that. I'm giving you a 5.'"
Huge upvote here. As much as we would like to forget about race in America, the fact is: Race Matters.

The way people look at you, talk to you (or ignore you), talk about you, extend invites, etc..that ALL changes with your race.
I'm still not sure this would be a company suited for YC-expected massive growth, but thank you and respect for expanding on the idea.
44% are non-white. There's a table with the numbers right in the article.
> It's also worth questioning how a black person would think differently from the (apparently highly effective) white/Asian workforce. I've seen very few meaningful examples of this and I've never experienced it (in most of my jobs I'm the only person of my race).

The arguments for diversity usually say that organizations improve when people from different backgrounds are part of them. This is the argument for increasing diversity along gender, orientation, and ethnic lines. If different points of view help then we should be trying for ideological diversity directly.
I've seen a waiting line at every bathroom for every conference I've ever attended. Waited in many of them too. One of the constants of the universe it seems - no matter how big the venue, there are never enough toilets.

...though what this has to do with people being jerks is unclear. Am I to understand the Pycon CoC addresses event coordination and venue selection? And there's a section in there about number of bathrooms? If so, now I definitely want a link, if not, I'm just grasping at straws admittedly, because I have no idea what your comment is supposed to be about otherwise.

But apparently, asking you to prove a statement is "sea lioning". Asking someone to uphold the most basic characteristic of discussion among intelligent people, the burden of proof, is now somehow seen as a thing to be avoided.

If we're going to talk about things on Hacker News, could they be please be done using the normal rules of debate/discussion instead of these bizzaro world ones?
So no warrant would be needed to get a list of domains a person has visited.

Which is a great idea, because what you really want is people in high stress jobs not turning to organisations like mental health charities or alcohol support groups for help because they fear being outed, or people concerned about medical conditions not using on-line services provided by the NHS for fear of putting up insurance premiums, never mind the obvious things like compromising the high profile, married political candidate who visited bestgaypornevah.com every day last month.

The idea that any information that would normally be effectively private should be subject to government snooping without a good reason and proper oversight is inevitably a chilling effect, and it's all too likely that in the worst cases some people in the kinds of situation I mentioned before will literally die because of it. As much as I hate over-the-top political rhetoric, if we're going to have this debate for real now, I suspect the civil liberties groups are going to have start making blunt, bold statements like that to make their case.

It would also help if the people debating these issues in Parliament better understood the technical implications of some of the proposals and therefore why some of the safeguards also proposed in this debate won't or can't actually work. For example, even if we accept that logging visited web domains and making those logs subject to warrantless examination is justified, I'd like to know what technical mechanisms the average MP believes to exist for identifying and recording the domain name of all visited web sites reliably but nothing more, and how much they think it would cost ISPs to implement those mechanisms across the board.
Or relists under a slightly different part number.
In this case, the only source for their article is the ESR blog post. We came very close to the amusing spectacle of ESR blog commenters claiming that the Breitbart post was confirmation of the blog post, but the dude pulled back at the last minute.
Sure, it's also possible that said VP arrogantly insisted his idea was a panacea and/or vetoed the OP's other ideas to help. We weren't in the meeting.

But I can only go by the arguments the poster who was in the meeting made, and he seemed insistent that Dorsey is sincere about diversity, and decided to focus on why the "tech visionary" VP's idea was notionally sensible but had practical limitations rather than lambast their general attitude. And it's not an idea that ranks particularly high on an ignorance scale, or particularly shocking that a "tech visionary" not expected to have any particular expertise in the area of diversity might gravitate towards a tech solution. Ironically, it sounds like precisely the sort of misguided suggestion a VP is likely to propose after reading articles about name-based studies of hiring biases and being shocked by their findings them rather than the sort of idea that gets proposed out of ignorance or dismissive attitudes towards diverse hiring policies. Certainly sounds like a better response than "go and talk to HR about it. After finishing your work, obviously" that he might find all too common a response elsewhere...

Normally when we're discussing quitting over straws that broke the camel's back it's allegations of subtle workplace bullying rather than not thinking an engineer's idea would work...
And how about for data?

1. Log into a cell phone/computer. 2. See if there are any files with incorrect permissions. 3. Make backups and delete the originals so no hackers can get them?
Postmates charged me $140 for a $10 burrito once ($14-ish with fees). I didn't notice for a few days, since the estimate was not that high, and I usually don't close out immediately. I called their support, and they immediately refunded the entire balance of the meal. Their support has been generally fantastic in my experience, and their high prices are really the only way to make the model work.
You're the one asking why the company should be blamed. You wouldn't be doing that if you didn't think that a company should be able to do stuff like this.
It seems like the only thing Dropbox doesn't have is the verbs.

On the other hand, I've never much cared about the "no true REST" crap that the conversation always seems to turn into. I'm too pragmatic to care if I'm adhering to someone's concept of a convention.
Alameda county right across the bridge is 12.6% black or african american, and Oakland in particular is 28%. Of course I think all this bears little relevance to a company that recruits candidates from pretty much anywhere.
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Users often desire more than one cable.
A Web Application Firewall (WAF) with PHP and PSR-7?
>that wasn't always the case. i remember times where pv could be faster on a lot of forks

32bit, or 64bit pre-virtualization hardware extension (vt-x/d, ept, amd equivalents) are really the only ways this should have been the case. Each time you make a fork() system call on 64bit PV you're making an extra context switch and flushing the TLB that an HVM instance does not need
> These experiences will have shaped the two men differently.

You are implying that those negative experiences are a product of racism and not of simple statistics.

Maybe, only maybe, people _dont have_ as many problems with white guys wandering down a dark street wearing a hoodie as they have with black guys wandering down a dark street wearing a hoodie, so they dont call the cops on the former and call the cops on the latter.

Youre implicitely ruling out the mere _possibility_ that there maybe, only maybe, _might_ be a problem with blacks, that isnt a problem with whites, asians, indians or hispanics.
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According to this article, yes:

http://www.newhavenindependent.org/index.php/archives/entry/...

Another interesting tidbit from that: you have to show ID to get your stuff back, and you can only pick it up between 9:30AM and 3:30PM on weekdays. Which is pretty unbelievably shitty.
I'm reminded of the opening scene of Reservoir Dogs: "The USB cable was okay. It wasn't anything special."
Ok, so what's the black perspective on eliminating the fail whale? What's the black idea about how to filter my feed?

Lets be concrete here, rather than appealing to vague platitudes.