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Then you should look at other places. Germany has almost only public universities – and a lot of stuff you use today was invented by people at those.
Do you have an arrest record? If not: there's the magic power. Statistically speaking, a poor young black male is much more likely to have an arrest record than a poor young white male.

Edit: holy batman the downvotes. I never considered the possibility that maybe #hnwatch is right.
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Definitely a very heavy-handed move on Google's part. They could at least have told these people why their site was being shut down. The fact that they didn't says a lot about how Google actually views its customers.

I would love to be able to donate to the site's owners to keep their site running on another hosting service.
This is related to the fear of big copyright owners going after PayPal for contributory infringement. It has nothing to do with fraud.

I am not sure who to blame: the PayPal management or the viscios copyright regime, where a company with the legal resources of PayPal is still afraid.
Why isn’t the fundamental theorem of arithmetic obvious?
Wouldn't touchID get disabled until the verification process was finished? They would need the user's password.
Yeah, we got that. But why did you need a Mersenne Twister?
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If you can, avoid Bitbucket. We used them for a few years and it just wasn't good, through and through.

I've been really impressed with Gitlab and we use that as a backup right now but I really think I'll be moving all of our repos over to them. Plus, you can even host your own Gitlab server.
There's a whole subsection dedicated to learning on MDN.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Learn
Deep learning experts understand how neural nets work. But:

1. They don't usually try to explain the specific activations in the hidden layers of the network. This is hard and depends on the specific trained net.

2. They can't guarantee a net's performance before experimenting with it.
I've been seeing this discussion a lot lately, particularly in the publishing world. 79% of editors are white and 78% are women [1], so the statement has validity at least when talking about the gatekeepers of what stories get to be told. Marlon James recently posted about his experiences with it [2] and many writers of color have since shared similar experiences.

My take is that it's not "us vs them", but a need to illuminate where the barriers lie.

[1] http://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/jan/27/us-study-finds-...

[2] https://www.facebook.com/marlon.james1/posts/101537967097308...
I'm not sure about the relevant law, but here is a bunch of articles about it:

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/company-pay-employe...

Interesting, this case was at a telemarketing company too. Wasn't my old firm, but this is EXACTLY the same thing that my old company did. Guess it's an industry wide practice!

> According to a DOL release, American Future Systems — which is based in Malvern, Pennsylvania, and has a number of locations, including in Woodbury Heights, according to the company website — allegedly made telemarketers clock in and out for breaks as short as two to three minutes. The company's timekeeping system would reportedly subtract the break time from the employees' total hours worked each week.

> The DOL said workers were docked pay for virtually all time spent not making sales calls, sometimes bringing their wages below the federal minimum wage.

> The judge ruled that the practice violated the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) and determined that the company is liable to pay back wages.

> In a statement, the company said it never denied any employees a break, but instead worked with them to create a flexible work environment that gave reps personal freedom.

That last sentence, lol.

http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2016/01/company_made_worker...
This is a specific kind of discrimination. Labor organizing is one of the specific kinds of activity protected by law.
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I want to host a small SaaS application, but want to absolutely minimize the amount of time it takes to run it. Is there somewhere that will do the hosting and provide subscription/billing infrastructure I can hook into? Other goodies like a simple site, with a support forum would be awesome, too. Really don't want to spend much time running the Web site that goes with the App.

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> It blows my mind that some people really believe that only white people can be racist. It's like they completely redefined the meaning of the word "racist".

That's the point. Redefine words so that it's impossible for someone who doesn't share their point of view to have any moral high ground.
Apparently Reddit is leaking. Tumblr: the scapegoat for everything they don't like.
I disagree. This discussion is regarding a Discovery News article. These sort of "news" outlets report findings of super powerful warrior princesses and all sorts of other nonsense that goes far beyond the actual source material. We're not all laughing at the science, just the media's latest spin on it.
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A corollary to all of this is how self inflicted it all is.

I left my last job, because I was bored, we were on autopilot as a company, and I had completely mastered our architecture and system. Any assignment I received was trivial to complete. In most ancient societies accomplishing a feat like this would result in not having to do as much work and to supervise others doing it while I take it easy and explore my own interests. While I do think many employers would never do this, as I was exiting the company I discovered, through conversations with my CEO and CTO, that a version of this was more readily available for me than I realized, and I could have done more to take advantage of it.

When I reach such a position of trust and respect of my executives again I will definitely leverage it more than I did at my last job. I suspect a lot of professionals fail to do the same.
Scary that you're getting downvoted for this comment.
I'm not sure if you are correct or not but you just blew my mind. This is an amazing comment.
There's a theory that "devi" and "devil" are connected. That the devis of the so-called pagans became the devils post christian conversion.
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The people who are or plan to be migrant were usually fed with your ideas like yours. "The situation is suck here, but your kids will live in a better place." Then the kids and grandkids still live in the same suck country with a suck elite.

History of Europe and US is all about migration. This situation has pros and cons.
In the context of payment processors, "risky transaction" means fraud.

People are criticizing you because it looks like you wrote your first post without understanding the issue and now try to defend it by altering its meaning through redefinition of common terms.
America != society
It still filters the content, right? You won't see all posts of your friends, afaik. [that was the bad change in early 2012 after all]

Until the end of 2011, you could read really all posts of your friends incl. all Farmville, etc posts. The automatics filtering and the automatic inclusion of certain "featured posts" of friends-of-friends and advertisement is what destroyed FB for me.
> We should really legalize Cannabis. My hope is that everyone just uses that instead of the other stuff that is legal.

And this is precisely the fear of the huge corporate moneyed law-defining entities that sell and profit from the other highly-destructive, highly-addictive stuff but can't profit as much from an easy and cheap to grow plant.
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Doesn't excluding some services from a data cap make a lie out of having data caps to ease congestion, or to penalize "data hogs"?

For example, couldn't you just run Verizon's video app 24x7, and consume much more than your allotment, and not pay for the amount over your cap? Is Verizon prepared for this to happen? In how many cases?

So, data caps, and "bandwidth amounts" are just a way to wring money out of people, without some kind of consumer revolt, right?

Or is it that Verizon's bytes are smaller or more slippery than Netflix' bytes?
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I've always been profoundly confused by people/groups who choose to fight racism with racism. I'm not quite sure that's the best corrective path for this problem. But everyone lets it slide, at least here in the US. Are we just scared?
Yeah, whereas now it's dominated by white women who get book deals off the back of their supposed anti-racist credentials, whereas the black activists who they got their arguments from (and watered them down, naturally) languish unmentioned in obscurity. There's a a lot of complicated history and anger behind the distrust of white feminist activists, most of which I don't think ever reached the mainstream media in any meaningful form, going right up to probably the present day even.
Yes but many employers want to look at how many stars and forks your repo got on github. It's a nice metric to filter repos from candidates, it is not enough for sure but usually repos with tons of stars are considered a good signal and it allows employers to save time before they start looking at your code. Bitbucket doesn't have enough users to offer these kinds of interesting metrics unfortunately.
I dislike anti-discrimination laws in general of course. I think a good compromise would be to limit to manual labor jobs and the like which the laws was originally designed for.
I've found a couple of Chinese companies offering compiled versions of my open source code before...They would change the class names and stuff but keep all the interface methods the same so it was pretty easy to figure out what they had done.
That's a pretty blistering take. Really wonder if Bitbucket will see an uptick in business from this. I can see something like this influencing their users as well as employees.
I saw the original posting while it was still alive and found it really helpful. Yet more similar stories to the ones I occasionally hear (I'm in Seattle). The immediacy of those stories tends to slip away and I find myself applying for interesting AWS jobs. Reminders like this make me press their "Withdraw from All Jobs" button. Better me pressing it now, than it being pressed for me later.
It rather seems that the entire thread is now about this totally minor and uninteresting point, all the while ignoring the GitHub-the-company-is-broken argument. The inability to understand priorities is not surprising but talent isn't leaving GH because of reverse racism: it's the horrible leadership and the dismantling of one of the most innovative workplace cultures that suck.
No. People like feeling like they are useful, and like they matter. Somewhere between some people some of the time and most people most of the time.
> the idea that industrialists benefit from a "docile workforce" is couching things in a questionable Marxian reserve army of labor analysis.

Maybe. But that doesn't mean it's incorrect.

What's your explanation for the much-observed fact that most of the productivity gains of the last thirty years haven't trickled down to most of the workforce?

>Keynes came from the neoclassical Marshallian tradition.

No one in modern economic theory belieces the Marshallian tradition is identical to modern neoclassicism - never mind neoliberalism.
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This would be a good lesson for other companies with SJWs on staff: do what _you_ believe is right, don't let them drive the discussion.
How is the interpretation of a British archaeologist in 1916 relevant to modern archaeology?
They are not fighting racism, they are creating it.
At what point does it become a systemic problem, though?

Github is a major software company, and there are similar signs at other major companies, most of whom are starting down a similar path.
I don't understand that as a criteria to be hired. I could see it as something to help show off, but shouldn't you as an employee be focusing on your company's codebase and not OSS products (unless there is some bug in the product you could fix that impacted your company)?

Maybe it's since I've always worked for companies with > 500 employees, but there is always a pile of work on the products I've worked on that there was little time to contribute externally.
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That is a remarkably dishonest paraphrasing. Problematic, indeed.
My old company wouldn't even let the reps hang up if the customer became verbally abusive. One poor woman had to listen to some sicko try to have phone sex with her for 45 minutes. He was actually masturbating to her on the phone. I only found out because I found her out back crying because she sat there and listened to it because she didn't want to get penalized for disconnecting him.

I felt so bad for some of our reps that I just said fuck this and taught them all a way to deliberately bugsplat their systems which would force the software to hang up and they wouldn't get penalized for looking like they disconnected the call.

I know people in this thread are like "fuck these people for calling me" but they have no idea of how much abuse the reps have to take- from both their employers AND the people on the other end of the phone. No one should have to sit there and listen to the verbal abuse that these reps constantly put up with every day. It's a truly shitty job.
What a malicious sensor could do is store user's fingerprint for retrieval by unauthorized parties.

Of course, taking advantage of the exploit in question requires the phone to be stolen by an extremely sophisticated (if not state-level) bad guy, altered by installation of a malicious sensor that has never been documented to exist in the wild, then recovered by the owner, and then stolen again at a later date. All to acquire personal biometric data that could just as easily be obtained with a piece of Scotch tape.

A simple application of Occam's Razor suggests that Error 53 isn't a "security feature" at all, it's just Apple being a rent-seeking asshole.
If a vendor leaves an umbrella under which you can profitably compete, then there's a business there. Or if you can differentiate enough. Heck, why not?

That said, the risky thing about this in particular is infrastructure products like StatusPage and PagerDuty and Runscope have to work all the time, every time.

If your site is down and PagerDuty doesn't alert you - you're an ex customer. If Runscope gets bogged down and you miss out on metrics for 10-20 minutes, and your clients start leaving - you're an ex customer. If StatusPage goes down in the middle of your outage, you're an ex customer.

And in all those situations, you're going to make noise on your way out (twitter, medium, whatever).

This is incredibly difficult for a solo, bootstrapped operation to achieve. It costs real money and takes real expertise to get that level of performance and availability out of your infrastructure (not to mention what you need to do in the application). This stuff is completely orthogonal to, say, writing the app itself. You can be an amazing Rails/Django/whatever developer and totally mess up your infrastructure - it's super easy to do so.

On the other hand, being a generic SaaS operation charging reasonable fees - no one has expectations of 100% availability, and if people can't access your invoicing app or recruiting backend or whatever for 20-30 minutes in the middle of the night - no one is going to complain.

What are your goals? To build some income? To learn AWS, PHP, etc? It sounds like you've got a couple of different goals here.
With the potential imminent fork, this is a bad time to make such a comparison.
> At what point does it become a systemic problem, though?

When it's actually hard to get a job as a white male developer. We're very far from that point.
Hold on.

Before we make judgment based solely on mentioning race in a slide. I highly recommend reading Nicole Sanchez's full take on the issue here:

http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/columnist/2015/02/12/wome...
> I was rejected in the H1B random lottery step (sigh) after getting an offer from a grown startup in SF,

Ah, sorry about that mate. The process is fucked up.
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>Nowhere have I seen any social democratic reformer argue for artisanal crafts and decentralized governance

That's a very strange point of view, because localism is absolutely fundamental to the more sophisticated and modern European ideals of social democracy.

And it's not necessarily antithetical to centralised provision of essential services like healthcare, infrastructure management, and even business development.

The soc dem origins of the EU have left it notoriously generous when it comes to funding small business initiatives at the local level.
"There's no shortage of smart, hardworking engineers. There's a shortage of smart, hardworking engineers willing to work for very little money." ~ David "Pardo" Keppel

If you're having trouble hiring, it's probably because you're not paying enough. It turns out that talented people are worth paying a lot for.
The problem with sorting by wage is that it gives a massive advantage of SV companies vs even a place like Seattle. They already have to pay higher wages, so a premium on top doesn't hurt as bad.

If it's a lottery system, why not charge 25k per entry or something? It's affordable even by a smaller company is they really want the person. It's affordable by the big tech companies who are being honest about their H-1B visa requests. It puts some hurt on Tata and the like by making them pay through the nose for trying to game the lottery.

Or you could restrict the number issued per company, at least until others have their share. Say every company gets 1500 max, then you bump that up to 2000 for those interested. keep going like that until you exhaust the quota.
>> legal climates that subsidize their inefficiencies and inhibit the onset of diseconomies of scale.

Usually diseconomies of scale start at a very large level , far above the level of a single community. That's the case for most physical goods.

Heck , you see it best in small countries like Israel - everything tends to form into monopolies or duopolies , exactly because of economies of scale. And when the state tries to think about building alternative companies, the sums involved are quite high - $500 million + . this is way beyond what a community could afford to aggregate even under optimal conditions.
It's not like periscope was the only live streaming concept around...
Well, this is really nonsense, unfortunately.

First, all images could've been painted by a human.

Second, if I always click the left one, it says Your result is 5/10. A turing test is to test "a machine's ability to exhibit intelligent behavior equivalent to, or indistinguishable from, that of a human". If I – presumably a human being – score 5 out of 10, the test is not a Turing test after all, because humans aren't tested in a Turing test.

Edit: My observation was obviously wrong. Thanks for pointing it out.
I just finished reading "The Dream Machine" and recommend it highly to anyone in the industry. It's got Licklider a the forefront.

http://www.amazon.com/Dream-Machine-Licklider-Revolution-Com...
I'm sure folks will disagree, but I really enjoy Visual Studio Online. Free private repositories and tools (agile board, etc).

Unfortunately, GitHub is where people expect open source projects to be, so it's almost an inconvenience for contributors to be on anything other than GitHub
It might be neither if it were the default (uncommunicated) strategy of investors...
Read the Diesel build process, especially the section on "migrations".[1]

[1] http://diesel.rs/guides/getting-started/
The documentary "The fog of war" shows actually that the Vietnam war was Conducted on a very rational base. Science cannot deal well with contradictions and human needs I think...
She certainly doesn't say "only white" and she explicitly excludes white women ("some of the biggest barriers to progress"). You can make convoluted excuses for her, but it's obvious that she sees white people (of whatever gender or socioeconomic status) as essentially enemies, and doesn't want them as allies (let alone is willing to accept some of them as people with different, but valid opinions). It's not acceptable to write "we're not looking for Indian folks to lead this", and it shouldn't be if it's "white".

Also, it's definitely not just her, expressions like this have popped up in a number of mainstream places. I am definitely not imagining the various celebrations of white people "dying off", their share in the population dropping, and what have you.
Yes, they did completely redefine the term. And they hold that their definition is the only 'correct' definition; all other definitions were a mistake and it is racist to use them.
But single dog bites are rarely fatal. So you offer the dog your left arm and then cudgel him to death with your right.
They are views directly related to that persons job responsibilities. So Github endorses the views by hiring the person and putting the person in a leadership role. It would be different if the views were not directly related to the persons job responsibilities and policies of the company.
Calling you anything you wish not to be called is an insult. You just called me ignorant without using the word. Does that make it less insulting? Do the forum guidelines say: don't call people ignorant? I can write "person who doesn't know relevant information" in that case. But soon that too will be an insult. I'm not seeing this avoidance of potentially insulting statements going anywhere useful. It just leads to the continual recycling of words for any idea that could possibly accumulate a negative connotation.

I only gave you one example. There are plenty but I don't think it's important. The motivation is there, for the protection of national security, to manipulate anyone who opposes the status quo. To thwart their efforts.

Martin Luther King Jr was pressured to kill himself. That he resisted this pressure doesn't mean that he wasn't pressured. We can quibble about definitions but I think a charitable reader is more than capable of understanding what I meant.
The problem with hard pushes in the aftermath of really bad PR is that it's very easy to over-correct and wind up creating a new problem for yourself. It seems like Github is well on their way to just that with how they've implemented their diversity efforts. A lot of those quotes are truly scary, and are priming the pump for some very nasty lawsuits over hostile work environments that will only wind up creating new PR problems. And if those quotes are any indication, it's unlikely that someone is going to be able to slam on the brakes and stop things from getting further out of hand.
People per km^2:

Europe: 32 (edit: wrong)

US: 35
(Side note: I don't think slavs, goths, vandals, huns, greeks, etruscs, arabs, phoenicians, etc. were affected of any imperialism ideas back in the days when they invaded Europe.)

The issue with the current migration is it encourages the migrants to overtake the largest cities and the proposed legislation with the minimum salary encourages this: you can earn such amount only if you live in the top 3 city. Are you a builder, carpenter, electrician, teacher? Good luck to earn such money as an employee outside the metropolitan areas. Yet the need for these professions is higher than ever.

If the migration would be more balanced, restricting the freedom of move, there would be less side-effects, at least no more ghettos.