skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wasn't commenting on the effectiveness of remote work. My point was that it's reasonable to ask more from senior management.

I'm sensing righteous indignation in your comment and a lot of the other comments. It's missplaced. Remote vs. in-office work is not a right vs. wrong battle. I work 100% remotely and sometimes I wish I was in the office.

Every company, employee, situation, etc. is different. It should be up to Github and its employees to decide what is right for their particular situation.
I have on my Facebook lots of feminist friends.

One thing they frequently claim, is that they are NOT censoring anything, people are free to do whatever they want.

Yet they keep pushing for this behaviour (black listing people that disagree with feminism, nagging companies until they decide to not launch products in some markets because fear of feminist backlash, and so on).

I honestly don't see how they don't notice how illogical their position are.
You've obviously never used PayPal as a merchant. They have way more fraud than anyone else.
> I can't recall any major incidents or any loss of code, ever.

It's Git either way, how does code get lost? It's not centralized unless you don't trust your local copies.
Progressivism eating itself.
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I was referring to the first line, "This is not work for white folks to lead."

The language of that is pretty clear to me. Look up the definition of lead.
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I'm not really trying to make a judgement on the moral aspects, I'm just a fan of accurately representing the situation. What if a disproportionate amount of the applications are from women? That'd be a societal thing and not necessarily the direct fault of hiring managers. There are a lot of important factors that need sussed out to make good decisions here.
Your result is 10/10!

I guess as of today T-1000 would get his bitch ass kicked.
> "this is not work for white folks to lead", i.e. she doesn't want white allies

Not wanting to be an ally unless you're allowed to be in charge is a pretty perfect illustration of why the slide exists.
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Exactly right - the Turing test as it was originally conceived is very hard to implement (some argue impossible). To use the popular phrase, this is "not even wrong".
> I even read of people claiming they are trans-black because they inside them feel black (and I am quoting literally) and so other people must see them that way.

Wouldn't that constitute cultural appropriation?
Since our team is small and will remain small for a while we're going to run Bitbucket on one of our private servers. For the first 10 users it's only $10 (one-time payment).
That's not absurd at all.

Being a white male is being allowed at a table in a casino where the expected value of the game is positive, and much higher than any other table. You can still lose, but the players in general don't. You should be thankful for being allowed to play a game with the highest expected value.
Your money surely is. Just keep your mouth shut and obey the code of conduct.
As a white middle-aged male, Tumblr is the only place I've experienced what it is like to be on the receiving end of racism. It's quite fascinating to see just how vile some of it gets. Of course it is only fascinating to me because I can trivially withdraw from it and not be particularly affected.
been using gitlab for the past two years at work and the only time it's inaccessible is when upgrading it. it does have a lot of other issues like response time and a difficult to navigate ui but crashing is not one of them.
"Racial" is not the same as "racist." I don't think it helps the conversation to conflate them, and it's anti-intellectual criticism that inhibits even speaking about race.
You raise a good point.

I know others have waxed on the irony of the centralized role GitHub plays in a supposedly decentralized world of the DVCS that is git.

It would be cool if there were a Behance or even a Dribbble for programmers: a way for us to present our creations well but also easily in a host agnostic and semi or fully automated way.

Many of us or don't invest the effort necessary to maintain a work portfolio, unlike say design oriented fields where it's the norm. I think there could be something to it.
I'm not sure about your sampling of "many". I can count the number of interviews where my code was actually looked at on one hand; no doubt this is different for unicorn-type companies.

At any rate, enter the law of triviality. Making something simple that lots of people will understand is more likely to lead to more stars than something brilliant but complex, yet more indicative of development skill. This selects for gaming of the system and/or salesmanship; no doubt said employers will screech about a lack of "qualified" candidates before long.
When this bubble pops, no one is gonna care about diversity in tech. It's only because there's big money do people care about diversity.
Who is saying they can't have an opinion?
Who cares if he didn't mention her by name? I refer to my own mother using pronouns sometimes - it's a feature of the English language. What about using pronouns in place of a proper name is problematic to you?
Doesn't entirely solve the problem. But you could use multiple remotes. Still gives github power in terms of forks and stars, but your commits can be in many places. (and you can decide to do issues where you want)
Now you can self-host BitBucket also with BitBucket Server[1]. We're starting a migration to it at my work right now.

[1] https://www.atlassian.com/software/bitbucket/download
Maybe Github's words and deeds will result in a lawsuit by "white people" and we'll get this legally settled.
>Some of these folks may be hanging out until GitHub offers some kind of "liquidity event" — a way for longtime employees or investors to sell some of their shares — which one person believes could take place soon. (A GitHub spokesperson refused comment on that.)

This event is not likely to come any time soon because Andreessen Horowitz bid the price up so high.
Just out of interest, what are other examples of this?
why would you ignore aesthetics? I'd much rather spend my time poring over pleasant looking code than ugly looking code.
"The US is 77.7% of the US population"

I think you mean 77.7% white? It should be noted that the census counts North African and Middle Eastern as white, which is inaccurate. That number also drops to 62.6% when you take out Hispanics that describe themselves as white. So it's probably more like a 20 point difference than 2.
Peter Thiel gave a great talk about "second mover advantage".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLWyP83iU5M

Choose an existing market/app and go after it, but only if you bring a 10x differentiator.
It's... quite heartening, to see HN call out the blatantly anti-equality messaging highlighted in this article, and to not have it buried at the bottom of the page.

Lots of unsourced speculation as to what's going on behind the scenes, but I wonder if a few years from now, we'll all look back at the day they decided to throw out meritocracy (symbolically, as the rug, and realistically, as the reorganization) as the beginning of the end...

Aside: I'm getting rather tired of being downvoted and nobody bothering to at least explain why.
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I read it. It's ridiculous handwringing that assumes a moral stance and ignores any fact that contravenes that stance in pursuit of a banal point. I didn't see any reason to give something rooted in dishonesty an honest appraisal.
I suppose my goals are a culmination of all of them. The end goal would be to have some nice passive income (i.e. $1000/mo) but that would likely be income from multiple projects etc. This specific post was about taking that first step.

I suppose there's a lot more than a software problem behind SP.io, the 24/7 availability infrastructure etc. I'm not tied to that idea at all, it was just one of a few things I use in my day job that I thought I cold re-create with some improvements to areas I find annoying/lacking.
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I suspect a certain amount of behind-the-scenes leaning on them.
Hyphenated words are a common/familiar feature of English underscores are not.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyphen#Joining
Therefore... Apple shouldn't try to protect you?
I'm not sure how you expect to be able to leave or receive private messages in public places if they know who you are.
Got 8/10. Of the choices, I was instantly sure that this one wasn't computer-generated from a photo because of the unnatural dark area on the top: http://turing.deepart.io/t/6.jpg. I think (even if photos weren't involved) the fact that the dark area is out-of-place but still aesthetically congruent may suggest something about human creativity that would be hard to replicate using a computer.
Personally, I don't find it that verbose. It is more verbose than other languages but it all just makes sense.

I agree, older version of Eclipse on bad hardware is truly awful. Thankfully I am using a better machine now.
You're setting up a straw man here.

No one talking about white privilege says it means white people can't ever have a tough life. Just as being black doesn't mean you can't ever be successful.

It's simply argued that if all other things were equal, chances are you'd have it harder as a minority.

As an example: http://www.nber.org/digest/sep03/w9873.html

> a white name yields as many more [job] callbacks as an additional eight years of experience
Looking at teardowns, like the one at ifixit [1], the touch id sensor seems to be a pretty standard imaging sensor that heads to an NXP chip. I'd be willing to bet that the encryption of the print happens on the nxp chip instead of the imager, so if the NSA/whoever were doing a "repair", they'd probably just put an MiTM chip on that insecure path for later playback. Against a state actor, Touch ID is a triviality.

[1] https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/iPhone+5s+Teardown/17383
If you get your phone repaired and TouchID no longer works when you get it back then it's not going to take a genius to put two and two together and figure out that it might be related to the repair.
>> I honestly don't see how they don't notice how illogical their position are.

I have a friend on Twitter who's a raging feminist. I asked her if she was concerned about Carly Fiorina being excluded from the GOP debate since she was the only woman and actually had more votes in the Iowa caucus than two other male candidates who they kept in the debate.

Her response was that she never cared about any GOP candidate. It just makes no sense to me. If you're for women's rights, then it shouldn't matter what race, religion or political party someone is, in order to support them - they're women, and should be supported regardless.
Hence defamation. "We did it because we can" is very different from "we did it because you broke the rules."
It's generally believed and accepted all animals are sentient.
Today's state-level agency is tomorrow's small town police department, and next week's street criminal. Attacks only get better.

Also, Apple is not only designing phones for you and me, but for businesses who nowadays are the target of state-level security agencies.

Clearly Apple fudged the implementation of this feature, and it's a PR nightmare, but all evidence points to their intentions being genuine.
> No really, just read reddit.com/r/tumblrinaction

Before reading that subreddit, one should probably be aware of Poe's law. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law
We treat stories as dupes if they've had a significant thread in the past year.

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=Beej%27s%20Guide%20to%20Networ...
What about experience? If nothing else (and there is else), it's reasonable to think that someone from a group which has been discriminated against may have more insight about battling systemic discrimination and racism (i.e. diversity hiring) than someone from a more privileged background (privileged in the sense of being from a majority group which was not the subject of systemic discrimination). Note that, like for any other hire, this type of personal experience is only one element involved in selecting the best fit for a role. I shouldn't have to say that last bit, but people like to think in black-and-white (pun intended) about race, sex, and class.
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And what if he does have an arrest record? Got any other stats instead to conclusively demonstrate his undeniable white magic? Where does a black person with no arrest record fit on your magic powers scale?

Oh, never mind, I forgot for a second you're addressing something/someone specific with generalisations that are meaningless to him and have nothing to do with his life or status.

Your argument is piss poor; that's why you were downvoted (not by me). Congrats on your successful upvote fishing, by implying/imagining some kind of HN conspiracy/agenda/hive mind.
9/10 , FB share not working . I would really like to see result for higher res images . For now I will just pass and not comment on the results .
One thing I'm learning on a similar adventure is that either you make money or you don't make a penny.

Breaking that "first paying customers" barrier is difficult. Don't get discouraged when you show your project and no one pays attention, because that's what's going to happen and that's when you will really have to work hard for your dreams.

Programming is easy. Keeping your morale high is extremely difficult.
What if the "owner" of the device, i.e. the person who paid her hard-earned wages to "own" it, is not interested in using the "TouchID" feature?

Is there an untapped niche for a similarly-sized single board computer (not several computers, baseband processor, SIM card that runs code, etc. jammed into a hermetically sealed casing that is worthy of being in the Museum for Modern Art) that just does simple simpler, "boring", useless things like send and receive packets, read, write and store files, etc.

A pocket-sized computer that a user can not just rent but _pwn_, that does not make gratuitous network connections to some "mothership" and allow for easy monitoring and remote control by a third party, and that does not brick itself if it's casing is opened. A computer that can be, to the fullest extent possible via open source software, controlled entirely by the user.

Who knows maybe a person could turn such a small computer into "a device for sending and receiving text, images, sound and video over a network, such as the internet."

Nah, there would be no use for such a thing. Only a device _that can handle payments_ is worth using to send and receive text, images, audio and video.

What is the point of a device used to communicate, e.g., a "phone", if it cannot also be used to spend money?
Interesting. I first heard of this term when Nicki Minaj came out with "The Re-up."
Are people actually using Seafile? I found it interesting back then, and participated in this discussion but dismissed it as the author didn't really seem to take it serious. His statement:

"I don't quite understand why using a single IV for the whole library is vulnerable to known-plaintext attacks."

That might be an acceptable response if you're trying to build a secure system and don't fully understand your tools yet, not many people do, but it should be followed with an eager question on how to improve. Instead he follows up with:

"I know it's better to use different IV and key for each file/block. But that would greatly increase complexity."

As if that's an excuse. And besides, solutions had been suggested and it's not that complex. Finally he just states that the security improvements are not scheduled.
Niches with a single dominant provider are generally a hot bed of discontent. If you know the market well enough and understand the issues that cause the discontent then it's an excellent place to be.
I don't understand moving from Facebook to Twitter (or vice versa) - they're completely different use cases.
Man, I feel sorry for anyone who actually buys into the "flat meritocracy" myth.
He could be a Latino, profile says he is from Puerto Rico.
It's much simpler than that. This is NOT a Turing test in that the computer generated images have been selected beforehand from the best results. What users are grading here is not the quality of the algorithm that generated the pictures; it's the quality of the choice made by the human who selected these specific pictures among all the examples of computer-generated art.
I said relatively junior. [i.e. They have no management responsibilities and are pure developers]

We pretty much have Developer -> Senior Developer -> CTO.
I'm happy to indulge, although HN is not the most convenient forum for long discussions.

The reason that I didn't, and don't, want to make this about Nicole Sanchez is that, unfortunately, I don't think that she is unique in holding these views, or acting on them within a mainstream company. In fact, the original comment in this thread quotes an even more explicit statement by someone else in Github (about how you can't "teach empathy to white male middle managers). There is also the matter of the "open code of conduct", subscribed to by Github among others (apparently not so open, since they refused to change it) which up and says that "we will not act on complaints of reverse racism", which rather clearly means racism against white people.

So yes, avoiding mentioning Nicole Sanchez was intentional in the sense that I am not interested in arguing ad hominem. Her name and person don't hold any particular significance for the discussion or for me personally, and I hope that you are mature enough not to retort "well, that's because she is not a white male". I am absolutely certain down to the inner core of my soul that I wouldn't care to weave her name into my comments if it was "Dwight Higginbotham".
> - "This is not work for white folks to lead"

> Well, it's not. It's kind of missing the point if your diversity initiative is being run by white people.

On the one hand, sure, it would be odd if it were entirely led by a group of people that the initiative is not meant to directly benefit.

But on the other,

1. The title implies it is white people that must be left out of leadership there. It does not mention Asian people, which is odd, as the tech industry is currently mostly white and Asian men. Asian people are highly overrepresented, much more than white people, relative to their percentage in the country. That means if you have objections to putting a white person in a leadership position for a diversity initiative, you should have a similar objection to an Asian person. Not having that mentioned can't help but seem racist against white people.

2. Diversity initiatives need to work with everyone, not just the newcomers, but also the existing tech industry, which is mostly white and Asian men. White and Asian men could be helpful in guiding the industry towards more diversity, in particular, by doing so in a way that gets as many other white and Asian men on board with such changes. They might know best what would work to convince them, for example.

3. And, in the end, it is just always wrong to say "this is not work for [race X]". That's racist and offensive. Instead, it would have been fine to say "this is work where we need a strong leadership presence of currently underrepresented groups".
I think something like gitlab + diaspora might actually have a chance of gaining some mindshare... at least the intent of diaspora, not the execution.

Maybe using something like keybase as an orchestration layer for gitlab either central and/or decentralized?
Redefining common words makes your ideology impossible to discuss with outsiders.

That makes your followers who have adopted the new definitions fairly immune to persuasion. Some cults work like this. I've never seen it done by anyone with a defendable agenda.
To be prevented from participating in a process is to be prevented from having a meaningful opinion about that process.
9/10. The low res made it harder to tell which one was computer generated, but it was still pretty clear. Now if they could do it full size, I'd start to be interested.
Furthermore, the distribution of race is not equal across the US and very very few people move further than 500 miles away from where their parents lived. The racial makeup you should expect in a company (or geographically focused industry) should be approximate that of the state and neighboring states in which that company is located (or that industry is concentrated).

US Census Quick Facts Data Sheet by State:
http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/index.html
censorship has a very strict definition, so they may be right in a way.
Probably because we have no idea why Google shut down the site - they're not always clear and it's not always obvious.

Stating that Google shut this particular site down because 'they were advocating for the interests of labor over the interests of large high tech companies' is long-jumping to a completely unsupported conclusion.
That's a problem that needs to called attention to, critizied and addressed but not accepted.
Twitter has suspended 125,000 accounts promoting terrorist acts
Any VPN provider who uses PayPal is very foolish. Actually, most people should steer clear of PayPal.
He's talking about the Nazis, the go to reference for people clueless about Germany who lack any ability to have a serious discussion. He's a clown.
I would rather make the call myself about what I want to see delegate to some twitter algorithm. And yes, I'm going to sometimes miss tweets I'd otherwise be interested in; it's no big loss. What I want to see is what's happening now.
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Who's making the assumptions, counsellor(?) ?

I didn't write the article which is fingering him as the root of the problem.

You say he does "corpdev" and the article clearly points out "development of the corporation" has become a big problem.

I'll take your word on Mr. Drummond, though.
I think you may overestimate how strong people are.
Same here. I like that Gitlab is so open. I hope they continue to grow and more people trust them to host both private and public code.
Valuable comment. Also, gender and ethnicity get neutralized when remote employees have text-based conversation, allowing your words to be the focus as they should.
My point about Tumblr is that it's a huge site containing a lot of blogs. Seems like half (or over half) is porn. Most of the other half seems dedicated to rabid fanbases of various bits of pop culture. There's some politics like everywhere else on the net, but I have no idea why so many people here, including my downvoters, think it's this despicable bastion of frothy far leftism when that's only a small part of it. Hell, there's a dedicated base of white power blogging on Tumblr but no one ever mentions that.

It's like saying Reddit is nothing but Red Pill / MRA / gamergate types, or HN is nothing more than clueless Valley types. Or that Twitter is nothing but people sending each other 140 character descriptions of lunch. I really hate lazy stereotypes of complex interactions, especially on a place like HN where people should be "native" enough to digital culture to know better.
What do you mean by "clear"? Is that a synonym for "sell"?

If a house does not sell at a certain price, typically the owner can lower the sale price.
bitbucket server (used to be called stash) has practically no search capability. it's the underappreciated killer feature of github IMO
It's not always fun and games: I'm Assyrian (a middle eastern, ethnically Christian ethnicity). When the first news reports of ISIS ethnically cleansing Assyrians in areas under their control came out, prominent members of social justice tumblr started joking about it being 'karma' because white-passing Christian-ish people were on the receiving end of genocide.