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Practical object oriented design in Ruby by Sandi Metz is hugely popular, and not just inside the Ruby community, and rightly so, it's one of if not the greatest texts on programming I've read.
> One person familiar with Wanstrath's relationship with these VCs told us they are "thrilled" with him and with the changes he's been making at the company.

I, too, like watching a nice horror story unfold.

> It's led by Nicole Sanchez, vice president of social impact

Does she have more or less to say than the vice president of sanitary hygiene? Maybe the chef of the cantina wants to have a word about the hiring process of technical personnel, too.
BTW: "An artist or an ape?" test by Mikhail Simkin http://reverent.org/an_artist_or_an_ape.html
Rich areas are "tightly held," they usually don't have mortgages and the owners are wealthy enough to not need to sell at a loss in downturns. These are the safest areas but don't get the huge appreciation in the upswings
Suggestion: search through the Geocity, Tripod, ... archives that survived and use Archive.org

About mouse cursors and effects: Windows 95 Plus CD contained many desktop themes incl various themed cursor, background wallpapers, animated screensaver. Wonderful for its time.
Here is the site that was disabled, as it was on Jan. 18 on archive.org: https://web.archive.org/web/20160118052937/http://sites.goog...

"Amazon has a management abuse problem. This was made clear in the August article by the New York Times. Even worse is that Amazon is in denial about this problem and claims that all employees should report their management problems to HR or to Jeff Bezos himself. This site documents all of the cases where Amazon managers have mistreated their employees and escalating only made it worse and never helped the employees deal with their bad managers.

Amazon is a great company for its customers. It's about time that it became a great company for its really hard working employees as well.

To add your story to this site, email theFACEofAmazon @ gmail.com or anonymously leave a voicemail at (425) 310-2347. We will never disclose your personal information, so please include as many details as you are comfortable sharing."
In the US this is true mostly for the sciences. In the humanities, not so much.
I believe that has to do with the vanishing gradient issue which has been studied.

As for why nets converge at all, there's this paper whichI believe tries to establish some theory why bigger nets don't have such a big problem with local optima: http://arxiv.org/abs/1412.0233
Huh, I don't get it, why are US corporations so eager to take on them the tasks that should be done by law enforcement? What does PayPal gain by playing police and taking on liability for checking the content of transations? What kind of other petty crime are they going to start policing and can they be held liable if they fail to?
Since github doesn't want to deal with white male developers, I'm migrating my repos to GitLab. So long octocat.
IMHO this corporatism thing is just 'No true scotsman' for capitalism. If the right is able to do that, then the left should be allowed to get back talking about communism and socialism again, since none of the problems that happened were in the original thing thought. Also, no true scotsman is too a compelling narrative. I mean, I'm not here to bash you, but since I started looking into this topics more closely, this type of argument doesn't seem much coherent anymore, without state intervention 'the system' would have crumbled a long time ago. IDK it just sounds like ideology.

Slavery, colonization and wars enabled a lot of prosperity building too, and also a lot of technological innovation.
Sure, but we're talking about white women, which make up about 33% of the population of the US. Are you arguing that it's ok that 79% of the publishing industry is white and 78% is female?
I love how the guy quoted saying that they can't teach white, male middle managers empathy is a white male middle manager. I guess he's saying that he's proud of what he is.
That's not really what I'm asking, though. Yes, let's say it's not actually hard yet. Is it reasonable to ignore signs that things might get to that point and wait for if and when it does?

I think it's reasonable to worry well before that.

(I don't know what if anything we can or should do aside from worry.)
There is a subtle irony in your comment. I think it is interesting to tease out because much of the arguments on diversity come from one's own perspective.

So, if you'll indulge me, your argument is essentially 'us vs them' is a bad thing. About right? If so, I agree. We're not going to solve an exclusionary tech culture by excluding people or creating two sides to a debating war.

But what strikes me is that your comment didn't even reference Nicole Sanchez by name once. Your comment was "she" and "her" time and time again. Did you even notice yourself do it? I somehow doubt it was intentional. But I'm an optimist.
How apropos of my username here.

This famous duel subverted the will of the King of France, helping to bring about the end of judicial combat:

http://www.thearma.org/essays/DOTC.htm#.VrZbiHNMHqA
Nice story. I have similar feelings about my own attempt, Runa (https://github.com/djc/runa), in particular about just how large a language (ecosystem) has to be in order to be viable to a few more people.

Still, just the journey is quite interesting. It makes you understand other programming languages and their tradeoffs better, and I'm now much less afraid of parsers and lexers and so on. :)
Out with flat org structure based purely on meritocracy, in with supervisors and middle managers. This has ticked off many people in the old guard.

This is almost certainly a mistake, from my experience. Our fairly small team's productivity dropped by I'd estimate 300% even with a much larger team once HQ decided we needed to bring in management layers. I wonder what GH hopes to gain from these changes.
I am pretty sure that if the prior for #hnwatch being right has non-zero probability, then the downvotes are evidence that strengthens the posterior.
I can't deny that I feel some amount of Schadenfreude. And also a strange longing for popcorn.
As a 10/10er, I think the fact that people tend to score less goes to show that:

1. The photos are low-res enough to hide the most ridiculous artifacts produced by neural nets

2. The machine-generated images are trying to emulate the likes of van Gogh, not the likes of Leonardo (again hiding the extent of NNs complete inability to understand what they're doing)

3. Most people simply neither paint nor appreciate visual art, so this is not as powerful as the Turing test! (One point of the Turing test is that a human easily passes it, because all humans speak; they don't all paint.)
Roads Gone Wild (2004)
Others have pointed out that A) the particular market you're looking it is somewhat tricky because of reliability requirements; and B) that a market with competition is a market with customers who will pay money, which is very true.

I want to offer a counterpoint to B, which is that a market with a clear leader is a market that isn't nearly as big as you think it is. The reason for this is that peeling customers off an incumbent is a lot more difficult than it seems at first. The temptation is to tell yourself, "This is a success if I get even a little bit of the market." That may be true for a market that's wide open, or that doesn't have a clear market leader. But if there is one, then your market size is really more like 20% of the addressable market, and your little slice of success has to be a lot larger than you think it is. And if its a good market, you've probably got a LOT of competitors thinking the same thing, and you're fighting it out over the slice of the market you can actually get to. I've experienced this in the event registration space, where a few companies like EventBrite dominate, and 300 other ticket companies fight it out for the 10% of the market that's actually up for grabs. Your marketing costs skyrocket, the customer acquisition costs are dramatically increased, and you're looking at a long slog to get to profitability.

All of that said, this doesn't mean don't do it. I'm a big fan of niche products, and being able to do the technical side means you've got an advantage over some potential competition who have to hire or contract out that part. But be aware that business success in a venture like this is harder than it may seem at first.
I see. That patch makes it a lot nicer to find out that none of the sites i wanted to look for show up in the data :)
I agree, both Vine and Periscope seem to be good value.

I wondered if they bought many busts for equivalent valuations, fortunately Wikipedia has a list:

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

And there's a list of companies I haven't heard of, no idea if they were good buys or not (Gnip, Namo Media and others).
> you can protect yourself by [...] deleting the old address keys.

I think it's important to distinguish between "deleting" and "securely erasing" here. The former often provides only a layer of obscurity, while the latter takes expertise to perform reliably.

Ideally the wallet's key deletion functionality would include ensuring the private data doesn't remain on disk (and warn if the media makes this impossible), but I think this is more or less impossible; a secure erase facility really needs to be implemented at the OS level, since it requires knowledge of the workings of the filesystems in use as well as its interactions with the physical media. And it gets worse; in the case of any solid state devices that perform their own write balancing, even the operating system can't know what data has actually been lost.

Of course, if someone has your (unencrypted) hard drive digging around for old ZCash key data is probably low on the list of privacy-compromising information available to them anyway.
The Pinterest link to the statue submitted earlier (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11049681), if it's supposed to be a depiction, makes the dog look pretty damn big by today's standards. I would not fancy my chances against it with just a cudgel... :)
Wasn't it pretty obvious github was broken when the hovarth episode happened?

They are in a special cognitive dissonance zone, they are wildly successful and that cures a lot of problems. They have time and money to worry about issues that aren't the products, and be vocal about it. Now the community seems to be mostly pacified, they like git and github has the mindshare, but they are coasting. Or so it seems, maybe the enterprise version I've never used has some badass features.
SwiftKey co-founder sold his stake for a bicycle, misses out on share of $250M
If you are worried that a subcontractor would copy-paste some existing code, I would be more worried that they would reuse code between clients. Just imagine the lawsuit where a for-profit competitor found out that your flagship product has code that they previously bought through the some developer.
+1 for Freecodecamp, also something that helped me a LOT was actually doing projects. Specifically, Envato Tuts+ has a lot of PSD to HTML conversion courses that helped a lot.
GitLab is pretty nice and auto-imports from GitHub!
> Github is a major software company...

I don't know what your definition of major is, but Github is not it in my book. Don't get me wrong, they make a semi-decent product, better than anyone else at this point, but they are by no means the only solution in their market.
Seriously? Downvoting this because you can't hear anything wrong about your favorite company?
Bring on the suits! While GH is busy distracting their world-class engineers with B.S. reverse-racism meetings, they will successfully free up their equity pool for more suit hires. That should suck the life out real quick...

Goodbye revolutionary, forward-thinking work culture & hierarchy (meritocracy). You will be gravely missed. Good luck hiring sub-par engineers for the next 2 years and watching your data centers go down on a daily basis.

I guess the only question left is... who are you switching to?
The History of Computing in Colour (2013)
You might have to institute a minimum donation amount, and link to a page explaining why. And I honestly don't think it will matter much if the minimum donation has to be $3 instead of $1 due to fraudulent charges & fees
Why has this been downvoted? Remember all the stories we've heard about Google refusing to give earned bonuses to employees who shared their salary information? What about the google exec who was blacklisted for the offhand comment that software engineers should probably unionize? We've seen plenty of evidence on HN of this sentiment. Though Google today might have changed its views.
What I wish for is an algorithm that can identify topics and allow me to filter away said topics.
They aren't talking Google Code. If you read the linked article, they are talking a new thing Google "Cloud Source Repositories".

https://cloud.google.com/source-repositories/

Haven't had a change to review it yet but seems to be they retired Google Code in preparation for this, not because they were acquiescing the market to Github.
This kind of anti-white, anti-male racism is poisoning Silicon Valley. Honest, meritocratic people can't idly stand by while self-serving idiot racists take over. I'm now cancelling my GitHub account and moving to BitBucket.
The mistake of sociological studies labeling a concept called white privilege was when people started using it to villify others for the negative space of discrimination they didn't receive.

IDK why, but people tend to not like being blamed for things they didn't do.

If that's not the mesaage we're supposed to take out of the concept, them somebody has got a lot of work to do to figure out a better way of communicating it. Someone who is not me, because I'm a programmer, just trying to take care of my own family, not a sociologist.
Depends if you are talking about private small landlords or corporate institutional (ie, Related). The former has totally different motivations and needs. I haven't received rent reductions but I have fought off rent increases in strong markets.
I once saw a pedestrian step in front of a speeding police car with lights and sirens. I couldn't believe it.
White women make progress towards equality faster than any other group that's being discriminated.

The argument is that instead of focusing on the core issue that discrimination is inherently bad and needs to be fought against, white women put the focus specifically on them. This means other groups are ignored until white women have achieved their goals until a new conversation can be started.

I'm not sure whether other groups would have made progress sooner without this problem but it's a possiblity and that would make white women significant barrier.

I admit it's hard to go from that further to biggest barrier but I don't think one should discard that notion too easily. "Moderates" pushing for some bad compromise is the worse is better of politics. MLK famously considered white moderates to be a bigger issue than racist groups at one point.
Like, they never blocked your account for logging in from abroad?

My first account is still in zombie state because it can't be closed without sending them scans of some papers I couldn't care less about sending (and didn't have them abroad). There was no money there so I simply opened another one, but still an annoyance.
10.000 photos of space missions released (2015)
>>It's kind of missing the point if your diversity initiative is being run by white people.

How can anybody who advocates equality say no white person can lead a diversity movement? Just because somebody is white doesn't mean they aren't an oppressed minority (female, transgender, Jewish or some other oppressed group like a furry).

I think we collectively need to declare it's not okay to say "people with skin color ____" cannot possibly understand Y or have an opinion on Y. To do so is institutionalized racism.

edit: typo
> but the publishing industry is 79% white and 78% female

The US is 77.7% of the US population. I hardly think that a 2% imbalance is an issue to create divisiveness over. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demography_of_the_United_State...
I searched for that tweet [1] and I think the context makes it different. He doesn't talk about management directly, but about healthcare as a remedy to avoid people getting fired and then losing health, housing or similar things.

The article put that tweet in a context where it could be interpreted as "white males in Github are bad, let's fire them" and I think he says something completely different.

1: https://twitter.com/_danilo/status/690601512813367297
If Github wants to pass on solid talent just because of that person's race or sex, that's their (foolish) decision. It's a seller's market, and that talent will go elsewhere.
Apple's software update could kill your iPhone 6
Do you use gitlab.com or you own instance ?

We use our own instance since 2 years (60+ users, 200+ repo) and the only down time is for update
If GitHub is rejecting otherwise qualified white males for employment they are opening themselves up to legal liability. I cannot imagine some of their statements wouldn't serve to hurt them in a trial.
This article about how an early investor valued it is a very interesting read and might give you some insights:

http://techcrunch.com/2015/10/18/can-the-past-help-a-vc-pred...

Also, they were very shrewd with their sales process. I can't recall where I read it, but they made a private pitch where they got people from all the major players, so that must have given Twitter pause.
Thank you I was trying to remember who said that quote ;-) ...

But seriously I'm not sure that just because checkers and various logical puzzles lend themselves to simple algorithms equates to "high-level reasoning requires very little computation"

I mean unless I've managed to miss all the AI bots sitting n the web asking me to talk. I think this might be a paradox that only existed until people thought more carefully about high level reasoning.
Ask HN: Is encryption safe enough to publish encrypted copy of private data
If we have private data, encrypted using best practices (salted, 2048bit keys, private keys stored off line, etc), is it considered safe to post this encrypted data in a publicly accessible location?

Imagine if everyone encrypted and published a tarball of their email history. Would this data be considered "vulnerable" to attacks ?
Please explain 'nothing at all'? I am a junior engineer who left a place recently where I couldve upped my title for better pay and work retaining my title.
> the crosswalk changes.

Alternatively, car drivers need to recognise the fact that they're in control of a lethal bit of machinery and drive appropriately - and this means stopping at the lights.
Well, what are the alternatives?

Hosted: Bitbucket, GitLab

Self-hosted: GitLab, Gogs

None of these come close to GitHub in my experience.
Yep, precisely this.

The most basic anti-fraud check is comparing card issuing country against the IP location. If there's a mismatch, it's a first red flag. If you see someone popping up from a VPN or a Tor exit, it's largely the same thing.
Is Google Sites a monopoly or near monopoly?
Yet it's the social democratic systems that are ideologically dirty but strive to achieve practical solutions that seem to get the best results.

All ideologically "pure" solutions like different anarchist models, puristic free market ideologies etc. turn out to be very fragile if there is some aspect of human nature and social organization they didn't take into account.

Free markets modulated with social democracy seems to work very well in practice.

It's the old dilemma between big ball of mud vs. finding the right set of primitives that fix it all.
Systems in production
Note that it is much easier for a computer to create a human-like painting than to behave like a human. The Turing test requires a two-way interaction medium.
Explain to me your subtle irony. Because frankly, it's so subtle it doesn't seem to exist.
I am a white customer.

Am I welcome at Github???
Am I wrong in thinking the "white women" they are referencing to are HR or hiring managers?
That seems to be humanity in a nutshell - fuck you, got mine.

Most of us are not altruistic enough to put other people ahead of us and ours. Self > family > clan > tribe > race > everybody else. However you choose to segment your identity up and what characteristics you base it upon, that's generally the hierarchy of fucks you give about other people.
I have a pretty extensive background working as a security engineer at an ISP out of high school, so I can handle that junk pretty easily.
You are comparing an individual to a group which is a mismatch.

It would be absurd to tell someone to recognize their privilege that the odds were in their favor but nonetheless they rolled poorly. It's like telling some white guy on death row to feel privileged he had a lower chance of being there.
How many more years before all of these orgs finally come to the realization that making hiring decisions based on skin color or genitals isn't a winning strategy?
Many of those things have improved faster outside the US and in some of them the US is a poor outlier among developed countries.
What are you even saying with this comment?
Any given IP is "owned" by an Autonomous System[1], so if you see a user whose IP is from AS14061[2], you know they're coming from DigitalOcean and you can say, "No content for you". They are basically checking your IP against a big list and seeing where you're coming from.

In some cases it is more ambiguous, say the IP belongs to Verizon but it happens to one of the blocks Verizon provisions in the EU or as part of their PPI infrastructure. You only know this because someone has annotated this metadata (eg MaxMind). Or if its a Comcast Business account IP, do you call that commercial and block it? It could be someone at home who forked out for the business class service. This is again where IP-surveillance companies come into play.

In even more ambiguous cases, the IP belongs to AS####A (A hosting company) but is announced by AS####B (A residential ISP), such that traffic from to or from the IPs belonging to AS####A looks for all the world that it is really AS####B's traffic. Do you treat those users a residential because ISP-B is potentially renting that IP space or do you call it commercial?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autonomous_system_%28Internet%...

[2] http://bgp.he.net/AS14061
Seems like that would simply cause deflation in equal measure once people catch on.
PayPal could at least offer the option for purchases funded entirely from existing funds in the buyer's account. That they don't suggests that protecting buyers is more valuable to them than protecting sellers.
The irony is remote workers are one of the best ways to remove much the physical power politics due to human biology. Size, body language, sexual attraction, etc.
> My argument is that all of these tools are useless since they can be done without them.

My gulpfile.js minifies several application modules and 3rd party libraries into a small set of modular, organized files. A polyfill is included. ES7 is converted to ES5. Bootstrap 2 libraries are upconverted to BS3. BS2 icons and BS3 glyphicons are converted to font awesome. Image URIs are transformed/replaced on disk dynamically and in CSS/JS references to my modular preferences. Public access keys (rollbar, stripe, etc.) are injected into my builds from .env variables. Tiny changes can be injected into libraries until the maintainence cost of a fork becomes less than the cost of a replace. This script can be called with one command, this script's submodules can be called individually. The full command is mulithreaded. Perhaps the issue is not that these actions can technically be done without a build tool, but that you don't use any of the advanced functionality these tools were built to automate?