skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The educational system is not effective in doing research. The military/industrial/educational complex is incredibly effective at doing research

At the end of the day it's still the same academicians doing the work at these institutions, regardless of the funding source. If the DOD has more success than the NIH for example in funding good research, it's probably because their budget is literally 20 times bigger.
Who cares what coworkers claim? If job performance is used for evaluations and promotions, then fairness is preserved.

And the assumption that minorities can only be hired by insufficient scrutiny is not a very enlightened attitude. Perhaps the company can look really hard for qualified candidates that help balance the workforce. How about that?

I agree that real progress is the right way to evaluate hiring/ admissions programs. Do qualified people end up in a diverse student/worker population? Then you're doing it right.
https://notabug.org might be a good place, in fact it is.
I'm not saying be undistinguishable from native Chinese, I'm saying adapt to the culture and you'll do better. Don't think, "I'm going native" think of it as transitioning into the mainstream of Chinese society. Celebrate New Years with your coworkers, eat the local fare, defer to ancestor worship, observe deference to elders, etc... the things that allow locals to function within their society. You don't go ahead and show them how "guanxi" is bad, etc. you function within the local framework.
> Even chit jobs are not the chit, I grew up with. They are just Terrible. Even immigrants are leaving them.

Chit jobs?
Yep. I stopped using them years ago; I cannot understand how such a bad company is still used by so many people.
The problem is that people do it. Telling people to stop talking about it is not going to solve the problem while the reality remains that many, many people out there judge others based on race and other "inaccurate categorizations."
Weird timing! Just this afternoon I finished cleaning up a transcript of an Oral History interview with Licklider from 1988:

http://wcarss.ca/refs/aspray-licklider-interview.html
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We're a new on-demand labor app ala TaskRabbit or Handy.com, just better.

The app is strictly production mode.

http://giss.tv/dev/ToDoosy-release.apk
I like the idea of combining a todo list and a calendar.

Here's a UI concept:

Every day, it shows me the standard 9-5 "time grid" of 30-minute blocks. Maybe it would show them a week into the future too, like the 'week' view of a calendar app.

Underneath, I'd have my stack of TODO items. Every morning, I would drag a few items into the blank spaces on the calendar to plan my day. Then, I could check things off as I finish them. If I fall behind, no bigs: just drag the old items onto tomorrow's time grid sometime.

I've tried to simulate this with Trello. That's a great way to get the 'TODO' part down, but it isn't so great for planning my time.

I've tried this with Org-mode. This really comes the closest out of all of them.
It used to happen more. The most famous example is probably Arsenal - the Royal Navy dockyard they're named after certainly isn't anywhere in Highbury! On a smaller scale, Leyton Orient were once Clapton Orient.

And yes, both of those examples are of clubs moving from one place in London to another. But if you live in Woolwich, your club might as well move to the moon as Highbury.
If you are a Mac user, I'll suggest OmniFocus. Aligns pretty well with the GTD method and syncs to phone apps and calendar.
I'm not an expert by any means and I got 10/10
except that because of the original remote nature of Github the first thing you saw was their work and then the person. by changing the culture they are increasing a bias that may have been less prevalent or even non existent in such a work culture.

Trying to apply normal social dynamics to a play where you have a completely async environment(meaning they don't even see each other), is a little bit of a stretch.

A lot of interviews in tech don't even involve voice or face to face communication. If you take away looks, sound and name, what else is there besides quality of work?

see my comment below:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11050965
That's the core truth people don't seem to want to directly address. Most criticism of meritocracy approaches it from the angle that it is meant to give everyone an equal shot and has failed, when the real goal is to sift away those who can't contribute, at which it works marvelously (which isn't to say everyone who deserves a given shot gets one).

What some people seem to want instead is some sort of egalitocracy, but I have no idea how to make such a beast productive or useful, particularly for tech work, which has a fairly high intellectual bar.
The problem is that white kid could dress up in a suit and tie, go into an interview, and be totally free of racial judgment (also dropping any obvious mannerisms). A black man can do that, including dropping any mannerisms, but they will still be black.
> Case-sensitivity makes sense because it enforces uniformity of code.

I don't see that case-sensitivity helps to achieve uniformity of code that much. Factors like code structure, common design patterns, and source code formatting are more important. The approach to the structure and design of an application or library is something that each individual development group decides for themselves. Source code formatting can (and should) be enforced by formatting tools.

Having used a case-insensitive language for a while (Object Pascal) I find that developers tend to follow the case convention of a given software project anyway and if they don't the case-sensitive typos aren't an issue. They don't make the code harder to understand and it all compiles.
I use GitLab at work and I think the only thing GitLab is lacking is the community. What do you find lacking in GitLab?
Omnifocus is incredible unfortunately it's one Mac and iPhone.
It's interesting to see how people react to this, in the context of the reactions to their first VC raise of 100 million dollars -- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4220353

e.g. "They want to do bigger and better things with Github. They're not quite done trying to change the world. Now they are not only profitable, but they have substantial capital to invest in further innovations."

and "I bet nobody here as anything bad to say about the exceptional skills of the github team. However such a huge investment may force them to "overscale" in order to be able to reach the expected return (by the VC)."
Sorry about my earlier Nazi comment, then.
I've also found it very useful to bend VmWare Fusion to my will -- between Windows in the guest, VmWare and the OSX host (with high-res / Retina screens), the cursor is often "off" relative to the actual pointer... until I enable the trail in Windows, at which point everything works properly. I have no idea why.
That sounds horrible. My previous statement used overly strong words and perhaps over-generalized. I do think that working conditions in some industries are better (in particular for blue-collar jobs).

My focus is more on white-collar jobs (which apparently makes up most of US jobs today: http://www.businessinsider.com.au/great-news-weve-become-a-w...). We have become boxed-in and subjected to deteriorating work conditions.

I think allowing white-collar workers to work remotely would be a huge step forward. Then more flexibility with regard to work hours would be another big step forward.
These two things are so easy for most companies to implement (and studies suggest they would actually benefit form this financially) and yet they don't do it because the executives at these companies want to feel 'in control' of their employees.
JUst CTRL+F'd to check if anyone here had seen Terminator.
IBM doesn't have much of a presence in SV... not since they stopped making drives here years ago.
I spotted something, but it doesn't seem to be related to the "one
minute" vid you linked to. None the less, it's fun; "J.C.R. Licklider in
One Minute"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMpfmDEC5JQ

The 1963 "Intergalactic Computer Network" paper is also fun reading.

http://worrydream.com/refs/Licklider-IntergalacticNetwork.pd...
Don't worry. If there's any bullshit in the article, I'm sure Apple will help us discern which parts are true and which parts are false, the expensive way. Every time.
Actually, I have plenty of logic to back up my argument in a sister thread with ElComradio, and I just apologized to the German kid. FWIW, only ElComradio was engaging with me in an actual discussion there, and his replies are reasonable, but I am thoroughly downvoted anyway, so how's that for evidence of a hivemind?
If the discussion of racism is honest, it can help. There are generally no honest discussions of racism, however, because people cannot separate the emotional content sufficiently, and so most discussions are useless at best.
Yeah, Python tried this as well with their 2to3 tool (https://docs.python.org/3.5/library/2to3.html), but their release bump was a little bigger than the Go prerelease changes (and the users not as flexible) so it wasn't much of a magic bullet.
I don't know why you are so frustrated. It seems misplaced. The system is totally stacked in your favor (and my favor).
There is absolutely nothing "obscene" about $40/year ($3.33/mo) for a premium upgrade on a freemium app that has had thousands of hours and plenty of blood, sweat and tears invested into it.

Frankly, I find your comments bordering on disrespectful to the developers and probably depressing to anyone who tries to earn a living developing software.
> we have never been so poor.

I agree with the thrust of your post: the working class is rich in palliatives and bromides and poor in things that actually make life better, but I do take a small issue with your superlative. I'm certainly glad I'm not a 19th century meatpacker.
You have to take the article with a grain of salt. Their anonymous sources are likely the most disgruntled of the disgruntled employees.
I'm at US Customs so we have pretty much the entire atlassian suite self hosted: stash, jira, fisheye, confluence and crucible, some plugins... some of the parent/sibling comments have spelled out the poor integration between stash and the rest of the suite.

Here's some additional things off the top of my head...

- search! maybe our fisheye isnt indexing all our repos properly (we just recently migrated 10+ years of svn codebases too, in addition to a slew of new git repos) but I would have hoped to be able to do deep code searches within stash itself, across many/all repos.

- project areas: Only one level hierarchy. we'd rather be able to form adhoc groups (think github organizations) under those project areas

cant think of any more right now but it's late saturday evening :) but you can certainly have your folks contact us at CBP and we'd be happy to give deeper feedback if you want it
Another good read is "Machines of Loving Grace" [1]. Much more focused on Artificial Intelligence (AI) vs. Intelligence Amplification (IA), but covers a lot of the work influenced by Engelbart and Licklider.

[1] http://smile.amazon.com/Machines-Loving-Grace-Common-Between...
Seeing it all first-hand was definitely the low-point of my schooling, but the high-point of my education.
> It is difficult for someone that is not part of a minority to spearhead efforts to outreach to one, because they don't experience the same issues. Literally, they don't have the right experience for the job.

We've invented tools to deal with this: language and literature. Almost everyone has experienced some form of discrimination, even if for many it is only occasional and minor, and that's enough to give a good writer an opening to get inside the reader's head and use that to build upon and paint a vivid picture of the more frequent or major discrimination the writer has dealt with.
"Never be afraid of a crowded market... just be better than everybody else." ~~ Bob Parsons

Note that "better" does not necessarily mean "better product". It could mean better marketing, better sales force, all of the above, or "other".

I suggest that you read The Discipline of Market Leaders, Marketing Warfare, and Differentiate or Die, and give serious thought to those ideas.
It is.

But it's not in certain contexts.
Like in areas where a basic understanding of technology apply like on a tech blog or high profile position in politics or company where you make decisions that steer the tech sector, you'll do best with some basic programming knowledge.

Nothing serious is needed either, just a few weeks of learning Python and just read up on the rest of the programming world and you should at least have some understanding on how everything works.

Because I see more and more people in areas where programming knowledge can apply say "It's okay to not learn how to code" and people where it doesn't apply never go out of their way to say that.

Knowing how to code isn't always about getting a great job, sometimes it's just about making yourself better at your existing one.
We don't know the technical details behind. For all it's worth, the button might be like one of those thunderbolt ports that has direct memory access and can alter the firmware during a software upgrade.
This really amazes me, great job. Much preferred to the "live coding" link of yesterday which I found a bit shallow.
>I guessed that most of the things that looked "too real" were based on photos with filters applied to make it look like a painting, and that the abstract stuff was generated by humans.

I too used the same method and 5/10. Looking at the other comments, it seems people have better idea what art is than I do.
> Find a company with a problem they're willing to pay $100 a month for.

That doesn't seem easy at all.
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> Why does it matter for someone who deals with 0's and 1's what the color of the skin of your coworker is?

It seems crazy to me that someone would have to explain this on a public forum.If you are a white male I'm sure it might be hard for you to understand why race, gender, and class matter and how they intersect with your life, your work, and that of your colleagues.
As a remote developer for over a decade, I can agree with this. The thought of going back to working in a box on the warehouse floor they call an office 5 or 6 days a week, makes me dizzy. I will never do that again, now that I know what its like to leave the dark side.
The only todo app that ever worked for me for several months was Habitica [1]. It's the best gamified system I've ever seen, at the time it turned me in a big believer of gamification as the future of work. Until I basically reached a typical RPG plateau, and you couldn't switch to a new character without losing all your progress forever, so I gave up. If only they had a mode where you could "collect" characters that you level up one after another, I would still be using it.

[1] https://habitica.com/static/front
Lets not deliberately ignore the point that was trying to be made. Its possible in this industry, to not even know the race or ethnicity of a coworker. That's a positive thing.
This gets redirected to defonic. why use a URL redirect to hide the destination from HN?
I'm having a guess that companies decide they want to be 'diverse' and not all white guys and the easiest way to hit the number target is to hire some women. The quota approach seems a bit flawed - they should be mostly colour and sex blind, perhaps dropping the bar a little bit for disadvantaged groups.

Another funny thing is after going on about hiring more dark skinned people a lot of companies are hiring Indians just because they are good at the job (eg Nadella) so they're having to say no not that sort of coloured person, the other lot.
Or just play Defcon.

http://www.introversion.co.uk/defcon/
A perfect example of this is DaShan (Henry Mark Roswell).

That said, mainstream Chinese society is basically Han Chinese, which is largely eastern China. There's a lot more to China than just the eastern areas. Xinjiang and Tibet are two areas of the PRC that are essentially occupied countries experiencing ethnic cleansing via dilution. The ethnicities that are the majority (or used to be the majority) in these regions are second class citizens in the PRC.

Insterestingly, I think by using China as an example is an example of an issue I've raised a few times in this thread. Countries as large as the United States and the US are hard to generalize about. There are many remarkably different regions flying the same flag. One of the issues the frustrates me is that Silicon Valley needs to be representative of the United States instead of California, neighboring states and those US states and cities that many California transplants come from. Large countries have utility insofar as exerting economic, political and military force upon other nations, but they present internal complications because of internal diversity. There's no reason that Silicon Valley should be representative of US diversity. US diversity is and should be merely one of several contributors to diversity of Silicon Valley. The US, like China, is one nation composed of many states many of which could function as their own nation as many countries in the EU do.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dashan
No, it says that Tyson's views on global warming defy the actual data, then links to an article referencing why.

And neither article says that warming would not be a problem, instead indicating that popular climate models for rates of warming have a lot of errors... and shows some.
North Korea launches long-range rocket
Doing caching correctly is tricky. Some kind of cache hinting might be needed. As a default though having it cache with a 5 minute interval would blunt the hit of a popular page very significantly. It would also allow for the use of a CDN like Fastly, Akamai, CloudFront, or CloudFlare in front if things get very hot.

An even more impressive trick might be a TLS server with SNI running vhosts which could check that the content was signed by a keybase user with a DNS proof for controlling that same domain. That would allow custom domains based on DNS CNAMEs. Now I'm getting carried away though ;)
because then someone could tweet 'I think racism is bad', 100 people would reply 'I agree' and then they could change it to 'I am pro-nazi'
"No complaining! Someone has it worse!"

These types of statements are not constructive in any way.
Is it telling that there's an actual name for a specific type of assault popularized by drunken people in Australia? It's almost as if this idea has become part of the culture. I'm not aware of any other types of assaults that have become so mainstream that they're given their own name (which doesn't mean they don't exist). Is it actually a part of the culture, meaning these laws are justified? I could also see the danger of naming something, when someone is drunk it just comes into their head as an action to do (which would also justify the laws).
I find a lot of the use cases end up using hadoop anyway and I was wondering why tools like oozie are not used. It appears as if such projects are feats of engineering and nothing more. I might be gravely mistaken but that's how I see. Comments that suggest otherwise would be greatly appreciated. EDIT: I also find it odd that one might write a workflow manager because they can't find an equivalent one for python.
Acknowledgement is useless and not actionable. The end goal of people who bring up privilege is to engender a sense of guilt over undeserved advantages, which then leads to resources flowing out of the guilty group.

So at our losers' table, you would ask the white winners to help you out over me, and over the other white guys at the losers' table, because we, the white losers, must have fucked up more to get here. The underprivileged losers are entitled to disproportionate aid from the winners.
There's always more to learn. What am I missing?
> It is not about the software.

For me, it emphatically is about the software.

Even for totally private repos, where popularity is not a factor, I continue to turn to Github because the UIs for both Bitbucket and GitLab continue to stand in the way of me easily getting shit done.
If you follow events you're most likely searching for it through a keyword or hashtags not following it in your timeline. Searches right now have a "live" option which is chronological order. Very few people should follow live events or live chats through their home timeline.
Usborne 1980s computer programming books for kids become free downloads
I wish your world existed. It doesn't, however, and minority groups need advantages over me in order to get the kinds of jobs I can get.

I hope we can move past this some day, but that's not happening today.
I'd agree, but a common doom-mongering narrative is "things are worse than they used to be and they're getting ever worse!"

Very few people say "the present has a number of trade-offs that's arguably not much better or about as bad as the past." That said, I think a lot of the gains are invisible to white professional class heterosexual secular/christian males, which is part of the problem.

As a pure issue of labor, the average work conditions are probably the same or worse than in 1970 and purchasing power is about the same. Both of those are bad things that need to change, but there are vast cultural and technological improvements that often get diminished, and I think the comment above is a pushback against that, which does advance their argument.

If you only identify with the historically most privileged group, a lot of the advantages like "not being provided with inferior safety equipment because of your race" or "living in constant fear of your career being destroyed because of your sexuality" don't seem very important. What seems "toxic" to the most privileged group can seem like "acceptable tradeoffs" to other groups, and this also speaks to the attitudes of many immigrants and H1-B employees.
Paypal is an absolutely worthless organization; the recent tie-up with the Uber and other companies to directly use their app for payment has resulted in money being used directly from my bank account over the credit cards that I have added, there is no way to set default payment method. I really do not how a big company like that can operate on such shameless policies, too big to fail has hurt people more than anything else.
Ohhhh, how could I forget?

Please use the same markdown syntax across ALL your products.
> Prepare for some people actually getting angry about it once you te that the paintings they liked most are computer generated (from pictures but still).

My girlfriend is a fine arts major and isn't speaking to me right now.
Hey, I'm reading that and there's an apparent typo of "oral" which should be "aural":
"and I put together oral radar"

Edit: Also, some footnotes might be helpful.

There's a reference to problems with DC bias when all bits are the same; could be good to put that in contemporary context of 8b/10b codes etc.

The following words seem to be a reference to Christopher Strachey:
"Licklider: Yes, probably the first person who wrote about it was a young Britisher. He mentioned the concept at a computer meeting in Paris, I think in 1960 -- sponsored by UNESCO, maybe."

See http://www.bobbemer.com/TIMESHAR.HTM
Its not ideal for the employee though, since they are restricted to work for one employer. But otherwise, yes, it is a very good deal.
No way should people hope for Facebook having complete control over arguably the 3 most popular social networks: Facebook, Instagram and Twitter.
I think the post is referring to a hotel maid scenario.
And it looks like Team Wayback has now successfully captured at least the articles I tested.

Note: you have to select the latest capture as the default still shows the Goog's off-line messages.