skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yea, that was a head scratcher. Where are these places with all white people? Because looking around at my current team, I'm one of two white guys, and there's a white woman, the remaining 20 or so are all either of south-east Asian or Chinese descent. My previous company was probably 75% Chinese, 20% Indian, and maybe 1% white. Prior to that, my company was a bit whiter, but 60%+ were foreign nationals. It gets to the point where "Man, the U.S. Visa system totally sucks!" is the default lunch conversation. There's definitely a gender gap, but as far as race goes, I don't see this lack of diversity.
I really wish business insider would post an article that refrains from wild speculation and provides actual evidence to support their outlandish claims.
Even working directly for a large company is a gamble for someone with a visa. It's one of the little secrets of H1Bs, Green Cards and consulting: Go though a consulting firm, and you get hit by less incidental layoffs (since you are just capex), and even if you are not renewed, the consulting firm will just keep you on the roster (although probably unpaid), while they hand you another gig. Compared to the ticking bomb caused by a layoff, it makes those places attractive from a safety perspective.

This is not really a valley thing either: Here in the midwest, we have companies that are 50+% indian consultants, and companies that are 95% white, with very little in between, and it's all about whether H1Bs work there, directly or consulting.
To me, it seems like some people are looking forward and are excited about a silicon Valley collapse.
on my case, since I don't follow sports is checking the weather. it's sad because I really like twitter but I don't see a bright future for them.
#4: "it is self-explanatory."
The limited partners who give VCs money include managed pension funds, college endowments, and others that very much relate to middle america. It's not all the VC's money that is being burned. They get a 2% annual rake and they can usually ponzi scheme their way to profitability through existing relationships or getting out profitably at the initial IPO price of a company (very rare these days)
White person explaining how black people are just too lazy.
Is this factoring in state taxes and social security? I know some states don't have income taxes, but that seems to just be a handful.
"This CEO said the Valley used to be a place of "quirky people" but was now filled with "arrogant" people"

Valuations and market corrections aside, this comment is the thing that resonates with me the most. I got into tech and the Internet as a kid in the early 90s because of all the cool, intelligent weirdos thinking about and building the future. I've been traveling out to SF for about a decade now from NYC to do work, and it's been sad to watch that city go from a place I thought could be the only other place besides NYC I could live to a city I try to avoid. It feels like it's getting harder and harder to find those awesome weirdo hackers. The homogeny is brutal in SF.

The one upside is that it's still the Internet and I don't have to be there physically to enjoy the parts of it I like.
The biggest one is that people all across America are invested in tech companies. Pension funds are big investors in PE and VC funds, as well as investors in publicly listed equities. A tech bust would put further strain on already strained public pension systems across the US, and could even result in something like a federal government bailout if those systems cannot bear the additional burden (i.e. taxpayers everywhere foot the bill).
The longer a lack of diversity persists
in a company's trajectory the harder it
becomes to fix it.

Google and Microsoft seem to have had no problem hiring a lot of Indians or Chinese.
I think it's worthwhile pointing out that the warning isn't against taking necessary ultrasounds, but unnecessary ones. And if there's a tiny risk from an unnecessary procedure, then why take it?

And the concern with the device in the link is that it's an unregulated ultrasound device which could, in the hands of someone well-meaning but ill-advised, deliver a dose of ultrasound far in excess of that deemed safe by regulators.
I don't agree: the fix is hard, because not only do you have to pick one of the many at-war non-standard standards for your links in JSON, but then clients must figure out how to interpret the links. I think the empirical evidence of the last two decades overwhelmingly supports this conclusion.

This is what HTML gives developers: they don't even realize they are satisfying the HATEOAS constraint because it is simply so natural.
Aww, what a shame. I thought that it would be code written itself according to Oulipian principles, rather than merely code written to generate Oulipian literature.
Simply stating a number like that adds absolutely nothing of value. There are a lot of questions you need the answers to in order to make any kind of judgment:

- What is the racial makeup of the accepted applicant pool?

- What is the racial makeup of the interviewed applicant pool (including those not extended offers)?

- What is the racial makeup of the overall applicant pool (including those not invited for interviews)?

- What is the racial makeup of people otherwise qualified to apply?

The whole way up to the overall population of I think 12-13% African-American. Even without seeing numbers I can guarantee that African-American applicants to Google and Yahoo are much closer to 1% than they are to 13%. It's a systemic problem (I am not referring to systemic racism) and you need to address the root causes of each stage.

But it's much easier to say "Silicon Valley is racist" I guess.

Edit: And assuming that average foreign worker is equivalently skilled and cheaper than average American worker, of course they're going to favor hiring the foreign worker. It's economics.
Just last month, at the age of thirty-three, I was officially diagnosed as autistic by the NHS. Could some things in my life have been easier if I had been diagnosed earlier? Certainly. On the other hand, out of all the diagnoses to have missed, autism was a lucky break. It's not degenerative. I didn't get more autistic from thirty years of not taking my autism meds. I was never in any danger of dying of autism.

I'm not saying that hoopism did anything wrong. That is one very lucky daughter to have such an involved patent. I'm merely saying that you're not going to ruin your child's life if you don't catch it right away. It seems like parents are under a lot of pressure and I just wanted to say, as someone who has been on the other side of it, that your kids aren't going to hate you if you accidentally miss this one.
> I have found a near perfect antidote: I point out that the USA is the world's most powerful nation (I'm from a small weak nation that has historically trashed a lot). So, I continue: are you saying that only Americans can be racist, for they are so powerful?

That's a really good point.

There's this idea in the world of "white guilt" - that white people have been exceptionally cruel, by enslaving, killing, colonizing other races/nations.

The reality is that most people/races were viciously cruel; people fought wars, killed/raped their opponents, enslaved their prisoners, ... for generations. The difference is simply that whites (Europeans) have been so much more efficient at it (as with so many other things), because they were the first to develop advanced technology.
You can read the code! There are PDF files for the functions and variables.
Imagine you actually had cultural barriers to entry to deal with as well.

Have you considered that the non-Americans that are successful in SV had much larger barriers to break, including learning new languages, and dealing with visa hassle?

For example my girl friend was deported the other day because a border guard (wrongly) though she didn't have the right visas to enter the country we are living in when we returned from holidays. No native has to deal with this kind of administrative nightmare.
I'm a bit surprised. Isn't that a different approach than containerization?

I hope this wasn't acquisition to simply kill unikernel approach.
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This is interesting, and I can see that adding 1d10m is easier than adding 24 * 60 * 60000 + 10 * 60000 to a (millisecond) timestamp. Though I have to guess m is minute, not millisecond or month.

But...the display and storage of a timezone is a datetime, and it doesn't appear to have a timezone attached. Meaning I'd still rather just store/retrieve/work with millis since epoch, since that avoids any ambiguity about what timezone the timestamp takes place in. With just a datetime...I can ~assume~ it's GMT, but...is it? Millis since epoch are the same across all timezones, there is no ambiguity; datetimes vary, and I have to make assumptions, and make sure my library/driver/etc handles conversions correctly.
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TL;DR: A series of markup and styling hacks that exploit HTML interpretation quirks of various web email services can be hacked to intentionally vary message appearance between services. Coupled with forwarding, which further transforms the email using service-specific quirks, you can make a game where different paths of forwarding across services trigger different appearances.

Fun hack! I feel like there should be some clever practical applications but I'm drawing a blank.
I'm assuming you already have a phone number that you'd otherwise regularly use. (does anyone not??)

If that's the case, then you can register it to Signal on an iPod and not have to worry about base-band attacks on iPhone/Android devices. That's the point.
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Of course.

My biggest inspiration (other than taking a perfect shot at a whitetail deer and him just dropping dead) was a good PDF about shotGroups over on the CRAN[1]. It is a little dry and statistically heavy (meaning you need to have some statistical background to make sense of it), but well enough detailed for the info that triggered me to pursue this pet project.

I would love to write it at a level where if a person with no statistical background would be able to read through it and be able to understand it "enough". (Which requires a lot of rewriting on my part to make sure I'm also not boring a person with statistics background to death too explaining what Standard Deviation is :P)

[1] https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/shotGroups/vignettes...
Which seems like a good thing to me, because then maybe, just maybe, startups with steady revenue growth will get funded again.
I'm not sure how easily interconvertible they are (and http://www.jsoftware.com/papers/j4apl.htm suggests: "considerably, but not trivially"); but, as far as I know, APL per se is mostly gone from the modern computing world, with J its free successor: http://jsoftware.com .
> 90% of the startups will be repriced or die and 10% will make it

Wasn't that inevitable though?

There's a lot of money at stake, but the number of affected people is relatively low, isn't it? I understand why HN readers are interested in this, but is it a big story outside of tech circles?
What about that OneNote design is bad? It may look ugly to you but I find it serves its purpose well. It's a metaphor the kind of people who use it will understand.
LOL, sticker tax rates are a joke in poor taste. Look at Total government spending as % GDP (Federal, State, Local).

US broke 40% spending to GDP recently. http://www.usgovernmentspending.com/spending_brief.php?brief...

Switzerland spends ~31-34% GDP.
http://www.tradingeconomics.com/switzerland/government-spend...

PS: O wait, debt and interest payments don't count... Sorry.
I hope the replacement will be programmer-friendly. I still remap my French keyboards in QWERTY because I never got accustomed to hunt for programming characters on AZERTY keyboards.

I don't know how useful it would be to get programmers and IT pros on-board, in order to help adoption.
> After all companies paid their share, the foundation became solvent. This is purely a business accounting issue arising from dealing with rapid growth because the outreach program was so successful.

I am completely ignorant of this situation, but it is clear that the source you provided doesn't dispute the allegations but instead provides further support that the allegations are true.

The outreach program was so successful that the company went out of business!

And it was the accounting department's fault! Not the person in charge! (anyone care for a game of office politics?)

Honestly, the allegation came across as absurd in the original post, but your post makes me think that the story might actually be true.
Incorrect stereotyping based on race, isn't there a name for that...
Flask and JWT auth
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Wow, this was a very creative use of forwarding.
This is one of the most blatant cases of spin and justification I've ever read. VCs put "ratchets and downturn protections" in order to satiate founder greed? Ha! More like VCs waved huge valuations in front of founders and said "don't worry about the terms, this is good for everyone."

If nothing else this article does a good job of demonstrating why its important to always check your sources and their biases.
I have an issue with all the designers who claim to have found the X number of design principles to create 'good' design. There's just something wrong with trying to define anything as 'obviously good'. What's obviously good for me might not be for someone else and the current landscape of incoherently designed interfaces/products/OSes/webpages we use every day just proves to me that if there was such a thing like an obviously good design we would not be in the mess that we call UX/UI design today.
Silicon Valley can recruit and train African Americans.

Why not do it?
Regarding timestamps: https://howtologatimestamp.info/
The OP is suggesting there is a trend of sorts. My interpretation is that she/he is suggesting there is something akin to a "pump and dump" scheme going on in SV right now. That's a bold accusation. I've not seen evidence of this, but perhaps I'm missing something here.

What I have seen evidence of is a slowing economy and a shift towards more conservative investments. It happened in the early 2000s, in 2008, and it seems to be happening now.
My mistake – thanks for the correction!
Excited might not be the right word, but there's no question a lot of people are encouraged to see this happening. That's not schadenfreude but rather for the tech sector to have long term health and innovation built around solid businesses with real revenues and profits the silliness of the last few years needs to stop.
I'm surprised the author is so big on kerf but doesn't mention q/kdb+[1] at all, which kerf took almost all these ideas from and which has a much bigger user base.

1) https://kx.com/
The tech bubble burst in 1999-2000 affected even small sized software companies in Europe.

In Portugal it caused the first signs of the current crisis, and caused quite a few of us in IT to move abroad.
That's unfair. Not all rich people are criminals.
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I don't feel your reply addresses any of my points. For example, you simply list the Itti/Baldi paper's abstract and say that, basically, because the word 'priming' doesn't appear in the abstract means the research has nothing to do with it. That seems incredibly disingenuous to me. The research is directly about predicting where human eyeballs will involuntarily move when presented with certain visual stimuli. If you can't see the direct connection with drawing attention to priming artifacts in an ad, I think it's probably just not possible for us to even converse about the topic at all.

The rest of the reply is similar. Using ctrl-f to search for the word 'priming' in a source doesn't constitute an effort to see how it could be connected to priming.
From yesterday:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10938593
It's pretty standard in the US, due to our history, for colored people to just feel out of place in 9/10 white environment.

But it goes beyond that, and is most likely true for French blacks as well, that if you're the only one who is distinctly visually different, you feel out of place.

It's not something you can really explain to white males, but at least female devs tend to have somewhat of a similar experience. Just the sense of not belonging by virtue of being the one who clearly isn't like the others. Imagine yourself trying to work in a software studio in an arab country. Everyone is way darker than you, just, everyone, at work, on the street, and so on. They talk about different TV shows and they frown on anything bacon, and they wear these odd dresses you never feel comfy in because you like your jeans.
They're louder than you, they tend to argue way more, because it's just part of the culture to do that, and it makes you uncomfortable. And also, you keep hearing about these white Christian terrorists, that look like you, that they wish would just get shot.
It will have a cleansing effect for our ecosystem, much as forest fires do for theirs. The arrogance and irrational exuberance that has become commonplace among founders and VCs will be curtailed, and rent & traffic may become somewhat manageable.
After SF collapses, housing prices will drop and the Phoenix will rise again.
Disclaimer: I am not a particle physicist

In the theoretical physics courses I took in college, we spent a while on anti-matter, and one of the things that the professor mentioned was that it is widely accepted that photons are their own anti-particles as well. Researching this now (read: googling for sources that seem legitimate), that seems to still be widely accepted.

However, I have never read anything that suggests that photon collisions would lead to annihilation. Is there a reason such might be the case for {anti-,}neutrinos?
I'm in Chicago, far away from the action in SV. Lately, my friends and I have been getting unsolicited calls to participate in the next rounds of funding for various "unicorns." We are mostly just laughing, because it's farily obvious that we are only getting these calls now, after all these years of unbelievable[1] tech returns, because SV thinks that backwards and unprogressive midwesterners like us are going to be the goats buying the top of their grand pump-n-dump scheme.

[1] as in, not believable
and this model does not go down well with the American electorate, generally speaking.

Actually, the U.S. government already spends about 41% of GDP: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_spending#As_a_perce..., and that's roughly comparable with some European countries. So taxes are already extremely high.

At least on the federal level, about a quarter is spent on Social Security (income transfer), another quarter is spent on healthcare (mostly Medicare, with some Medicaid) and another fifth goes to defense / warfare: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_federal_budget.

U.S. tax mostly goes to transfer payments and defense / warfare. Whether that is a good thing is debatable; personally, I'd like to see more innovation and less warfare/welfare (http://www.amazon.com/Launching-Innovation-Renaissance-Bring...), but by pretty much any reasonable standard the U.S. already pays lots of tax.
I'm not sure why you think that this is political correctness. There's a clear representation gap in employment at high-wage jobs for large portions of the population. And, that's a social issue that has been identified. As a society we can then either ignore it or address it.

I get that you have a strong opinion on why that gap exists. And, you have opinions on which things won't work to solve the problem. But, by dismissing the issue as political correctness, you seem to be saying that it's not something that we, as a society, should address.

And, that's fine if you believe that. We can all decide to do nothing. But, as an alternative approach, I'd ask that you try to role-play for a moment that one of these people are one of your family. Would you try to help them? Or, would you tell them to get lost?

I think that we have reached a point where a lot of people have started to view vast segments of population as 'others'. Our society seems to be turning into 'us' vs. 'them', and to me that's problematic. We have double standards when it comes to our family and friends vs. everyone else. Personally, I think that's an awful state of affairs and limits the advancement of Humanity.
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Would love to see some responses here from the HN community.
For what it's worth to anyone else on the thread: nobody who takes a moment to read the article will believe that this is a fair summary of it.
It seems OP was referring to tax as % of ones income and you are talking taxes as % of GDP is what I was trying to get at.
On Amazon:

Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge+ 32GB INR 53,900.00

Samsung Note 5 64GB INR 53,900.00

Apple iPhone 6S+ 64GB INR 72,980.00

These are the highest-end Android and iOS phones available right now. There's a considerable gap in the prices. The gap is more than the gap between Android high-end and Android mid-range.
There are many other benefits to unikernels especially depending on which implementation you choose to go with. For example, MirageOS and Rumprun are good examples of clean-slate vs current systems. I'd recommend reading some of the articles at http://unikernel.org/resources to get better view of this.

As for 'a user friendly mechanism like Docker' ... well, I hope today's news convinces you that it's in progress.
As someone who isn't a native English speaker, I've long noticed that, as you mention, "minority" doesn't mean "the opposite of majority" (I'm not sure since when, or exactly what it does mean; you say success is key, but success in what field - chess, boxing, beer-making? Listing just a dozen fields is probably enough to demonstrate that no minorities exist according to the "success" definition.)

However, to return to grandparent's comment - I, similarly to its author, have never noticed that the word "color" had been similarly redefined. Isn't "a person of color" the opposite of "white", where "white" means a having skin with a color at a mostly-agreed-upon pinkish/palish range?
Middle America has nothing to do with Silicon Valley in the same way they have nothing to do with collateralized debt obligations and credit default swaps. Most people aren't directly invested in anything complicated - except perhaps at arms-length if their pension fund manager has brought into it.

Despite not being invested in complex derivatives, middle america sure noticed the banking crisis.