skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's the social "flows" of the sites that differentiate them. On Reddit, you subscribe to a number of communities, and then you only see content that a bunch of people agree fits those communities' standards. On Tumblr, you subscribe to a bunch of individuals' blogs, where those bloggers all have 1. a very simple/encouraged inbuilt mechanism for sharing things they see from their own subscriptions onto their own blog, and 2. a culture of "signal-boosting"—a term loosely meaning "passing along chain letters", or more generally, sharing something they wouldn't have posted for its own sake, with an audience that didn't sign up for such content, because "it's important that this spread until it reaches the people who are affected by it." As if it were a local weather emergency or an amber alert or something.

The combined result is that, on Tumblr, you'll subscribe to people for one thing, and then inevitably they'll "signal-boost" other things into your feed that you didn't sign up for. The most often "signal-boosted" thing is Social Justice discourse. This is why people get the impression Tumblr is a Social Justice website: if you subscribe to blogs about porn, cats, and tech, you'll end up with a dashboard containing porn, cats, tech, and "signal-boosted" Social Justice.

Personally, my problem isn't with Social Justice, but with "signal-boosting" itself. I (very carefully) use Tumblr, and enjoy doing so, but only by strictly following a policy of unsubscribing from any blog that "signal-boosts" anything. I think this means that I end up following only blogs that are completely disconnected from Tumblr's social graph, though, so I don't know how precisely I can be said to be "using Tumblr" at this point, rather than just being subscribed to some blogs that happen to be hosted there.
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Every 4 years older people (and their ideologies) die off, and they're replaced by the younger generation that organically leans left. The current version of the GOP is going to continue facing an uphill battle unless they lighten their stance on social issues and move close to the middle.
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I'm just musing, and hoping someone might have an explanation. Language is complicated, and emotionally-loaded words are especially so.

Let me put it this way. If I call someone cancerous, I'm not trivializing the group of people that have cancer and distilling them to a pejorative. In general, if I use a disease as an insult it's fine, but if I use a disability as an insult it's usually offensive. They're both afflictions, but they're treated differently in uncountable ways.

I could list some reasons, but none of them really feel like they get at the root cause of the difference. Do you have any insight?
Oh fuck off. This has nothing to do with civil rights.

It's a bunch of rich corporate board members trying to game the system and further enrich themselves through abuse of foreign indentured servants.
Just a little poc, nothing interesting, 1.0.3 released
I wouldn't mind transferring my "privilege" whatever that is supposed to mean. Actually I would laugh at them. This "privilege" thing doesn't make me happy. Even if a lack of "privilege" would make me unhappy I don't care. I already am. The real world is a shitty place. Nothing here is worth living for.
Comments like the one you replied to, threaten to derail our discourse with the distortions you've already pointed out.

Comments like yours, on the other hand, are the reason I come to HN. Measured rebuttals without being too biased one way or the other-- it really enhances the reading experience of those going through this thread.

It's hard to convey my appreciation through an upvote, since that can be confused for just popularity, so I had to say it here.
There is a lot of anger in this thread. I understand. Honest question though: how much of it isn't coming from white men? I ask because the tone of what is causing this anger has been publicly said, and masked as "culture" and other phrases, about women and people of color for a very long time.
This probably could be done using git filter-branch as well.

Not rewriting history, I still have this little script called fakecommit[0] lying around I have used in the past to commit stuff under other people's names.

[0]: https://github.com/winks/dotfiles/blob/cfd9d994d0bcd7510203a...
Getting quickly down-voted for a thoughtful comment.

White fragility is real.
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That makes sense--the comment wasn't speculative, and we do not know for sure. Given the history though it might very well be true.
Are we THAT forgetful? http://kiledjian.com/main/2013/6/7/nsa-is-using-google-faceb...

Dropbox was listed on PRISM documents. Are you kidding me?
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> If their policies end up damaging the organization, that's also awesome - because it'll become evident they're bad policies, and companies will stop implementing them.

I'm a bit more cynical - if it fails, I suspect the failure will be blamed on "wreckers".
Wasnt github already involved in a scandal with a female employee who quit and came out a few years back?
The historical question has to address the current facts on the ground, though. Those centuries matter in some ways, for example, in currently poverty rates among black people, for example, which are a disgrace to the US. But how do those centuries justify focusing only on white people in that slide, if the goal of the slide is diversity?

I didn't miss "to lead", I referred to it. My point is that no matter the position - rank and file, or leadership; technical or non-technical; etc. etc. - it is never ok to say "this position is not for [race of gender X]". It's just wrong.

Again, it's fine to say "it would be helpful to have a presence of [group X] here". That focuses on the positive, doesn't exclude a specific group, and there are valid reasons to indeed want a presence of underrepresented minorities, because it's about them.

In other words, this entire initiative could be done in a non-racist way.
Yes, that's worth celebrating!

But we also have to remember that, to someone not in those well-represented groups, it's not a huge consolation. Diversity isn't a floating-point number between 0.0 and 1.0.
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The problem will self-correct at some point once the lawsuits are filed and the cost of such efforts is visible to executive leadership and investors. Even if they settle the suits early on, it'll still be a very expensive lesson. Workplaces with problems like Github is apparently developing rarely get better on their own without first experiencing the consequences.
I was referencing it mostly for the visualization of the "flower" that fails with pca/linear mapping.

The original Sammon's paper is here [1], this said from what I know isomaps are a more widespread tool - but I never found such a good visualization.

[1] http://theoval.cmp.uea.ac.uk/~gcc/matlab/sammon/sammon.pdf
I agree your previous comment shouldn't be downvoted, but now you just wrote a racist one, so I guess it should.
Honestly, when I'm dealing with a trusted merchant, Bitcoin is less painful than a credit card, especially if there's nothing to ship (e.g. with Namecheap and Prgmr). I have Mycelium on my phone - I scan the QR code, punch in my pin, and order completes a few seconds later.
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Every human being should be judged for the content of their character, not the color of their skin.

The law disagrees with you. I can very easily see Github on the losing side of workplace racial discrimination claim here.
That is our `sql` function
I worked doing telephone surveys for a summer. It could really wear on you when people weren't polite. (And simply saying "No thanks" and hanging up was polite enough.)

People who hung up right off, workers tended to say (to the disconnected line), "I'm sorry, I believe the call got cut off. I'll set you up for auto-reply every five minutes..."
In COBOL, dashes are the way of joining words. Very readable actually.
So much for owning something you thought you owned. This has happened again and again, and will increasingly happen in the future under whatever disguise, security-wise or not.
> 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.

WTH are you talking about? If you're for women's rights you support people who are also for women's rights, regardless of race, religion or gender they are.

I don't know who Carly Fiorina is, but I know Margaret Thatcher, and she did nothing for women. By your logic though, just because she was a woman, feminists should have supported her over men in the opposing (socialist) party that supported women's rights?
I've ran a Paranoia campaign where the players were all High Programmers. Technically, the players could reprogram The Computer, but they usually refrain from doing so, partly out of fear of offending all the other High Programmers and partly because trying to reprogram The Computer require a skill check (with failure causing more bugs to be introduced into the system). Any programming that they do is rather subtle, to avoid raising alarm.

The end result is a rather byzantine situation where everyone (including The Computer) is plotting against everyone else, all being sufficiently paranoid.
people don't like meritocracy /sarcasm
There is a difference between reducing the amount of incidents that happen and reducing the severity of the injuries suffered by an incident.
Yep. This has solidified my opinion. I'm moving all my code off Github.

Sorry, as a white male, I don't have to take this kind of blatant racism, abuse, and shaming when it comes to hosting my code. BitBucket does a good job without the uppity diversity attitude.
This isn't true at all. You can add as many fields as you want. You'll need to recompile to use them, of course.
> 37% of Americans aren't white, but only 21% of editors aren't.

how many chinese restaurants are run by non-chinese?

these stats don't make any sense, if you just look at them that way.
maybe whites like being editors more…
if you don't find the reason, you won't find the solution.
Inaccurate.

What this thread shows is the sentiment that, if you claim diversity is important, leaving out a group specifically to increase diversity (as opposed to, say, merely reducing their proportion in the cohort) is in fact not being intellectually consistent or honest.

Don't fall into the flippant "Oh ho ho if white's aren't involved I guess it can't ever be legit" sarcastic dismissal. That's neither fair nor accurate.
> Keeping people alive at any cost, and imposing to people how much they should contribute for achieving that, is not something everyone can agree with

Oh, unless the people are politicians, is that what you are saying? Of course, not everyone can agree with that, either. But it is already the norm, so this is just an extension to the rule. So the question is just how much they would agree to contribute.
I've also found this to be true. It's horseshoe theory: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horseshoe_theory
>removing white lines induces uncertainty and thus cuts vehicle speeds by 13%

Surely that effect is temporary?
I happen to be one of these 'foreign indentured servants'. Or rather someone who would gladly be a 'foreign indentured servant' if only the H-1B lottery picked me. I am also pretty sure that there are probably millions if not tens of millions of people just like me.
Counterpoint: copying every single page of every book and making it searchable can be fair use. It just takes only 10 years of litigation and appeals to determine that. See Authors Guild v. Google.
https://www.eff.org/document/ruling-appeals-court

Also, the "TV Eyes" system that recorded television newscasts and made the searchable was fair use, though certain features were found to be infringing. See https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/08/dangerous-decision-fai....

Point is, the law is hardly clear cut and never is with new technologies. Without someone willing to take a risk and develop a potentially infringing technology we would never have had VCRs, MP3 players, YouTube.... I applaud the creators for making an incredibly useful resource and I hope if they do face legal threats they get a zealous pro-bono defense from someone like the EFF or Larry Lessig.
What about "remote company" myth?

> Its once famous remote-employee culture has been rolled back. Senior managers are no longer allowed to live afar and must report to the office. This was one reason why some senior execs departed or were asked to leave, one person close to the company told us.
> There was a remote culture and very little hierarchical structure which worked wonderfully when they were 30 and 50 people, but at 500, it doesn't work.
I was surprised by how early the work on touchscreens he mentions was. Was it the 1950s, or am I misremembering?

The one I want most is the brain-computer interface he talks about. It's disappointing that we haven't gotten further on that in 30 years.
Yeah, that seems like the trick. The ape ones are really very similar to each other.
To potentially increase conversions, you could make me first write a message, then ask me to sign up and perhaps invite a friend that could discover that message. If I spent time and I'm happy about that message, I'd more likely go through the signup process.
Why not try https://twtxtlist.cf/?
Things are changing, which makes it seem like we're going left. It appears that way because by its nature conservatism resists change. But I don't think there's any genuine move to the left. It's rhetoric from both sides.

I see little to no evidence that this country has moved left over the past 30 years other than GWB's expansion of Medicare and Reagan's Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act.
No it's not !!! I don't drink much! Because I don't drink during the week. I start drinking really late on Fridays (about 7pm) and finish early (about 3am), and only repeat that again Saturday nights, so really 5 whole days without alcohol is like really good. Kebab is meat and meat is healthy. Anyway what would we do if not drink?

(Much /s)
You: White people are 79% of the publishing industry. Do you oppose diminishing White Supremacy (I mean, they're way overrepresented!)? Are you saying it's okay?

White Supremacists: Jewish people are 2% of the american population, but they hold the majority of top positions in the publishing industry. Do you oppose diminishing Jewish Supremacy? Are you saying it's okay?

Both of these arguments are terrible, and are both based on the premise that over-representation of some group in some industry or position constitutes a serious problem and probable conspiracy.
I recently saw someone walk in front of a train that had just started to leave the station. There were warning lights and bells on the train, which was slowly approaching the crosswalk. (There were no pedestrian boom gates for this level crossing.)

The person did a huge jump backwards when the engineer blew the train's horn.

I still couldn't believe that someone would cross train tracks without looking.
I'm inclined to agree. I wonder, however, about the huge amount of VC money and the pressures of money and capitalism. I wouldn't be surprised if these experiments are more lip service than actual concrete restructuring given that people in positions of power tend to want to protect their power bases, and investors tend to want to protect their investments.

Edits - I am not losing anything by them changing things. I have not invested any money in them, I use their service though, and pay for a pro account. I am curious to see what happens and am optimistic about humans but pessimistic about VC money!
Is this supposed to be satirical? I am obviously missing something... What site is it satirizing?
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It's not me, it's Thaler and Sunstein.

I'm left libertarian myself and I'd like to drink less alcohol, personally.
The "mutual credit" doesn't have to replace the prior monetary order. It can coexist and the point is it provides a resilient fallback, as well as the ability to finance projects without waiting for a higher political authority to greenlight you.

The Bolsheviks never tried decentralization. Quite the contrary, they were all devoted to having a single top-down vanguard force the program on the citizenry. They nearly destroyed their country between 1918-1921 with their policy of "war communism" and had to introduce capitalist reforms in the NEP just so the peasantry didn't starve to death. Their doctrine of international revolution was a separate idea altogether.

Also, how does relinquishing monetary monopoly mean you have to retire the army? They're two completely orthogonal things.

OWS was a joke from the start. It had no identifiable goals to speak of.
Elaborate.
Oh sweet thanks! I didn't even notice they had a community edition
And men are how much more likely to become firemen? And women are how much more likely to be flight attendants? And men or how less likely to be in marketing?

For the life of me I can't understand why people insist on having equal representation in every industry. It'd be on thing if there were numbers proving a massive backlog of people of a certain race/gender wanting positions in a field but unable to get them. It's another entirely when there's no demand, and we insist on artificially generating it to make people feel warm and fuzzy that every job on the planet has equal representation across race/age/gender.
10/10. My partner got 5/10, which he claims is because he's "more like a computer" (he's autistic). There were features in all of them that struck me as expressive in a very human way.

It's amazing to live in a time when questions about human identity and expression are more than just hypothetical.
Yes, it is free and it comes from the sun. It provides our fuel and thereby our operating temperature (37 degrees C) that gets us up in the morning to do things and create value (wealth/profit) that can very often be transferred via money to and from other wealth creators. And that means all of us on Earth. The earth is so productive that we can afford to trade value residing in abstract forms as in the arts, caring professions and the bureaucracies (government).

Natural resources don't run out. The quantity of elements on earth has and will remain the same for a few billion years. Application of energy and information permits inter-conversion of their combined forms as we wish, if we're smart enough. Not a given, I admit.

The creation of global wealth over the last 20-30 years has brought millions out of poverty. This is unprecedented. And it hasn't been wealth taken from others.
The discussion on the prior post is discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11004808
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Mocks Populi

There is a an apocryphal story in which your anonymous correspondent was on a small business jet somewhere between Davos and Dubai, when he asked a former Thatcher minister what shade of pink the Financial Times newspaper was. "Parlour," the minister replied. It is in the spirit of this self-referential anecdote that an auspicious news peg has provided an opportunity to sound off on a pet saw and perhaps let on that I went to Cambridge.

Broadly, this newspaper is neither here nor there on a given issue, other than to say that it is different from what you expect - and for reasons that may surprise you. The prediction will be driven by the available data, include a smirk at the newcomer, and give a sop to the status quo. All things equal, it will predict outcomes that are some function of the sum of elements by the number of elements, and provide a view that is "radically centerist," if perhaps a bit smug. A reversion to the mean, indeed.

-- Every Economist Article Ever
I've only bought one Ruby book and it's POODR by Sandi Metz. One of the best programming books I've ever read.
Tools will probably show that you are trying to merge/push all commits since (and including) the changed one, unless they have something special to detect rebases and display them differently.
Socially it has. Economically it really hasn't though I think that may change unless the decline of the American interior reverses on its own.
We never planned to reorder timelines next week.

Jack isn't saying Twitter doesn't intend to use algorithmic timelines in the future.
> A pocket-sized computer that a user can not just rent but _pwn_

Then don't buy an iPhone. Simple. You and the other dozen people on the planet will surely be missed.

The rest of us absolutely want Apple to be as aggressive about security/privacy as they possibly can be. Especially with even moderate countries e.g. UK, Australia being equally aggressive about invading privacy.
That sounds really strange. What version are you running?
That's nonsense. The very idea of dictatorship is to dictate, i.e. to prescribe the rules. It doesn't matter whether that is given from any number of individuals directly or channeled through a representative.
> Programmers are abstract thinkers, and it's disgusting to see them lower themselves and adopt the semantics and memes of obvious cultural constructs like race.

You have to be joking. This is sarcasm, right?
Knowing that it was a turing test actually made it easier for me. (8/10) While I did take into account the painting style (the random rainbow look was suspect), I mostly ignored images where the subject looked like a photograph. This one threw me off on that basis though: http://turing.deepart.io/t/4.jpg.
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I'm a white person. My family came from Cuba with the clothes on their backs 50 years ago. Everything they ever had was taken by the Communists. Like millions of other Cubans, they came here with nothing and had to rebuild their lives. I grew up in a very unique environment, the Cuban-American community in Miami. I'd say that's a pretty "diverse" background. But I guarantee that in Github's book, I'm one of the "white folks" that shouldn't be leading this.

I'm sick of this politics of division. It pits people against each other and treats them as members of some helpless group instead of as individual human beings, with their own unique story and their own untapped potential.
Exactly this.

Do you really think Apple hasn't been shocked/annoyed at how China/US/et al have actively tried to hack their customers including attempt to compromise their own servers ?
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You realize that by leaving, you would be negatively impacting the economic development of your native country, correct? Mass exoduses of capital and the most capable members of a nation's society have historically had disastrous effects. It would be harming orders of magnitude more people than those who benefited slightly by leaving.
It is nothing like a Wikipedia - you can't edit my tweet for a start.

It is more like a micro blogging platform with an integrated RSS Reader.

My tweets are my blogs entries limited to 140 characters.

Clicking on followers is the same as clicking on subscribe to another blog RSS.

When I view all my followers tweets, that timeline is exactly like me viewing all my subscribed RSS in an RSS reader, the only different is you see the content there and then rather than clicking a link to view the entire story.

Retweets is same as reblog button on a blog.

Reply to a tweet is same as making a comment to a blog post.

As for Facebook I don't have an FB account to know how it functions. I'm guessing if you think about it long enough it is close to being a blog too with more bells and whistles. Adding your family/friends is akin to subscribing to their feed is just like subscribing to RSS on a blog.
How does this explain the stories of exellent cell coverage in the middle of nowhere in Africa?