skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, the point is "this isn't a place where the white folk will lead".

"the white folk"? That's pretty close to "you people"/"those people".
You might be right—it would explain why Licklider replies by joking that it would sell better.
Which countries in Europe would that be?
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Doesn't get it a free pass under discrimination law.

How stupid can you be to post a "no white leadership", in writing?
Yes. Here's some information: http://www.businessinsider.com/github-harassment-story-2014-...

More, supposedly from insiders: https://medium.com/@geeekcore1/facts-conveniently-withheld-d...
Big Data Ethics: racially biased training data versus machine learning
yep, this apparently has been a wall street operation than anything else. Google needs the capital to transform and sustain the decline of web search revenue.
What's Google's End Game for Machine Learning and Semantic Search
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Precision matters, but you're just nitpicking based on your interpretation of "fit". I guess you're thinking of it as whether the candidate is "fit" for the position. My use of it was referring to whether it was a fit for what they're looking for (where money is obviously an important factor).
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heck, even COBOL '75 (maybe even '68) allowed hyphens in identifiers.
That's not a high bar though. The only other high profile desktop OS around at the time, Windows NT, was more stable than any pre-OS X Apple OS for a long, long time.
I was commenting on "most CAD software", not just Autodesk products. Autodesk is not a sexy company (monopoly or otherwise) but I really wonder whether DWG/AutoCAD's key market, architectural drafting (as opposed to architectural drawing) is ever going to be a rewarding activity for anyone.

I've got years of diverse experience in the field of architecture and software, and Revit seems like a very clever toy but not a substitute for endless labour over details. Good architects draw every brick (or equivalent), and/or they also work in close experimental collaboration with the people fabricating the building elements. I'm thinking in the first case of Caruso St. John http://www.carusostjohn.com/ drawing every brick
and in the second of a practice like Grimshaw http://grimshaw-architects.com/ using lost-wax casting (investment casting) to make components. The trade or craft knowledge involved means there are effective constraints which cannot even be expressed in Revit (individual bricks are not really an option in Revit, and you definitely wouldn't want to design a metal casting using Revit... It's an Autocad job, or better, a job for something more expressive like Maya or Mudbox (or whatever it's called) or whatever tool suits your aesthetic. You can't get to Rodin from Autocad.)
Imminent fork? Bitcoin already forked back in August 2015: http://www.coindesk.com/bitcoin-software-forked-in-bid-to-re...
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Used this service last year, and it was insanely outdated, glad to see they rebuilt for the ground up.

That being said - $40 a year is obscene for what they offer IMO. Luckily I am able to use basic without needed the extra features.

I'd love to pay to support this product, but probably not more than $10 a year. Call me cheap, but this is a nice to have, and competes with free services such as Google Keep.
I did exactly the same...
H1-B is mostly about money, and the best and most robust solution, in terms of being difficult to subvert, is to use money as the measure: To limit H1-B to the talent that's unobtainable locally, to auction the visas to the highest bidder, and have a high reserve price, say $30k. To an R&D company creating enormous value per employee it would be just a speed bump. To a body shop depressing wages by renting out compliant mediocrities to mediocre managers who find it comforting to have their crappy ideas never questioned, it would make continuing that blight painfully expensive.
Hi anyone who is reading this. This was my first try at developing for Android. I know this is a very simple app, but I'm really proud of having accomplished it.

I've developed it to scratch a personal itch -- I was doing this manually in spreadsheets, so I'm a user of it myself.

Any feedback is very welcome! Thanks.
Just wow. I'm thinking about pulling my personal Jekyll site hosted off GitHub pages and host somewhere else. Not sure about the alternatives though, with custom domain support. Ah well, a nice weekend task.
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First, your statement that abortions have decreased crime in the US is based on one of the most flawed and controversial studies in the scientific community [1]. Correlation does not imply causation.

Second, Utilitarianism roughly translates to "the greatest good for the greatest number." If a pregnant, utilitarian woman was granted with the power of foresight, she would abort her child only if he/her was to provide a negative net utility to society. If the child was to provide a net benefit to humankind, she would not abort.

Third, your assumption that unborn (and born) children are a burden to society is correct, but that initial investment is small with regards to the average net "benefit" a grown human creates. It must also be noted that the vast majority of humans benefit humankind through their work (although some have greater impact than others).

No person can see the future, however, so most utilitarians would never abort their children, as the probability their offspring benefit humanity as a whole is greater than the chance that they destroy value.

Frankly, I doubt any woman considers the ethical implications of abortion when they undergo one, and are primarily concerned with family, relationship, and personal problems. If one thinks beyond personal convenience, and look at the bigger picture, abortions are morally unjust from almost every popular ethical system.

Think hard about the choice your parents made by not aborting you. Do you think they made the right decision? Whether you're old, young, rich, poor, hopeful or hopeless, I imagine you'll answer yes.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legalized_abortion_and_crime_e...
If they give it a "Manifest Destiny" point of view to work from... that would be a problem! ;)
Agda allows for "mixfix" function names with spaces. It's very interesting.
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"...I should just give it a go regardless if I'm looking to learn. I would love to learn, I'd class it as a success if it paid for its own hosting and made me more than say $100 a month."

I think you've made up your mind but are just looking for a bump on the right direction. Go do it! You know you want to try. At worst, you learned some new stuff.
How to conduct a technical interview for software engineer?
That's what Stalin said.

But since parent was being sarcastic, yes, Stalinism is about being considerate.
I meant to use it as a communications tool, not for pushing/pulling/etc. Responding to issues, accepting/declining PRs, and so forth.
Wow you wouldn't want anyone with a penis inside a women's bathroom regardless of what their gender is? Why is that?
The problem with that one is that all the artists are technically apes too (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ape).
Right.

Except this isn't anything to do with Watson-the-jepordy-winner. It's a set of web services which are useful for doing analysis on various things.

The question answering service was withdrawn last year: https://developer.ibm.com/watson/blog/2015/11/11/watson-ques...
If we look around the bar, and see that the vast majority of people crying over the beers are black, would it be a reasonable thing for me to assert that the white folk that are here (you included) must've gotten extra unlucky?

I think that's a reasonable thing to assert. That's what privilege is: the number of times you can fuck up (self-inflicted bad things) or be unlucky (externally inflicted bad things) before you lose all your chips.

That's the nice things about probability and statistics. They allow us to compare an individual to a group.
What do you mean by "having some kind of bar ... to meet"?
Isn't that what most interviewers do? For example have a expectation of javascript knowledge and ask questions to determine how knowledgable they are?
I used 2checkout.com for years and years for a small business in Canada. Switched to Beanstream.com years ago (lower fees, but doesn't accept amex in usd).

I'd never use or recommend paypal for any business. Their history of seizing funds, freezing accounts, and pulling money from bank accounts is atrocious.
>> Not paving roads would decrease vehicle speeds, too. Adding obstructions to windshields would also likely increase uncertainty and cut vehicle speeds.

Removing suspensions from cars, as well. Most people would slow down if all your teeth could be broken by a sufficiently large bump.
http://web.archive.org/web/20151222211210/https://sites.goog...

I am particularly interested in the "FIRED FOR CONTACTING JEFF" story.
"unionized" is a bit better for this purpose. It's rare for chemists to talk about the process of ceasing to be ionized.

Another shibboleth is "coax": One syllable or two?
Well, I work with really large codebases in Rust (Servo or Rust itself), so the twenty seconds to a compile error are a lot. Whereas when hacking on Go's compiler it's much, much less.
I switched to RTM after Microsoft bought Wunderlist, and I'm satisfied with it. It doesn't allow file attachments, but there are workarounds. I do think $40 is a tad steep when compared to some of the other options out there.
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Maybe they have data that shows otherwise? Obviously there's no causality but it's feasible that there are high levels of correlation amongst users of their service. Or maybe not. I have no idea and neither does anyone else here, unfortunately. Everyone is just engaging in Kremlinology based on crumbs of information.
> converting to a different currency, sending money, and converting it back

No need if you earn and spend it.

> You also get the volatility of bitcoin

Absolutely true in the short term, absolutely false in the long run. Bitcoin's volatility has statistically declined as its usage has increased.

> using it for a simple USD->USD money transfer is like using a jackhammer when you need a scalpel

Cannot argue there. The key is to stop using USD whenever possible.
You're talking about a service which is theoretically used every day to help you run your life, and you think $40/year is expensive? In my experience, even my poorer friends routinely spend that at a bar or a restaurant.

I've spent lots on various GTD apps, but lately settled on facilethings.com which is focused on the GTD workflow. I pay around $100/year.
Many people would agree with you that race doesn't say that much about a person. However, it's quite naive to argue that racial issues are not a part of every day life. We live in a world built on racial divides and conflicts. It's obviously venerable to strive towards a non-racist society, but to do so one needs to understand the issues at hand.
This comment breaks the HN guidelines, as do several other of the comments you've posted, including in this thread. We ban accounts that do this, and it's the last thing this angry thread needs more of. Kindly reread the HN guidelines and follow them when posting here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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I can't picture a white person being an ally if white people are explicitly excluded from leadership.

BTW, do you want to get started on explaining away "we can't teach white male managers empathy or compassion"?
It's rarely possible to achieve a goal merely by pretending you've already achieved it. If current problems are driven by subconscious biases then you need to eliminate those. It seems to me that the best way to eliminate them is to forcibly overcome them until people get used to seeing more minorities in these positions and replace their subconscious biases with new ones.
> they are saying there is no excuse to treat Neil deGrasse Tyson as a shoplifter because of his race

If that's really what he's saying, then that's even dumber. You can change how you think. You can help to change the thinking of the people you come in contact with. You can't change anyone you've never met, particularly the people who treated Tyson as a shoplifter. I'd love it if racism were to just disappear too. But wanting it to happen doesn't make it happen.
Fortran was case-insensitive because it used early character encodings that did not support sensitivity.
Diversity is a touchy subject. As a black engineer myself I've worked at three companies where I've been the only black technical worker and it's hard some times. I've gone to conferences where I've been maybe 1 of 5 or 6 engineers out of hundreds. i don't do any hiring but I often wonder if there is a lack of qualified black male or female engineers or what but sometimes I do feel isolated.
If you look at the code, and can't identify it as language X, then it probably deserves a new name.
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This article seems stale - the site is working again: https://sites.google.com/site/thefaceofamazon/ .The link in the article is a bit deceptive: It's not to the site, it's directly to an error message.

Did someone here verify that the site ever actually down, or was this a cool publicity stunt?
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Oh yes, all of those bitcoin accepting services.
It will swing back in thirty years. In thirty years I plan to be retired. Or have died of my unhealthy lifestyle. Or at the most optimistic become too old to code competitively.

My point is, far as I'm concerned I can't afford to just sit tight and wait for it to blow over. And neither can the rest of you.
It's a shinier version of a tasks function available in every phone for $0.
Came here to report this too.
PayPal looses money on fraud (charge-back fraud mostly I assume). They had to pioneer fraud prediction/detection tech to even survive, let alone be profitable.

Actually after Peter Thiel left PayPal, he founded Palantir, which is strongly inspired by their fraud tech. Just more general.

Sure - in an ideal world the law enforcement would just catch all the bad guys and manage to get the money back. But when that doesn't happen a business has to account for it.
> You've exposed your father to losses without explaining to him that BTC is in fact not USD and USD/BTC is a floating exchange rate.

You are assuming that both of us were not aware of that. We both were and were interested in trying something new. But it is still a reality of using Bitcoin when the entire transaction is not in bitcoin.

Anyway, the larger point remains: there are some transaction that bitcoin is ill suited for and PayPal is great for. Sending money to people is one of the core features of PayPal that works like a breeze whereas buying and selling a different currency just to send money makes little sense.
You are setting up an enormous straw man. When you say people like the GP say:

> We will always be just as hateful and prejudiced as the worst of us are now.

That is emphatically not what the GP is saying. The problem is not the ideal that race should not matter, it's that history does not go away, or more generally we can not build the ideal world from first principles.

Those with privilege often wish it was as simple as simply being "color-blind", then everything would be fair, right? Wrong. Because even if no white person harbored racist thoughts of any kind, we are still saddled with racist institutions and wealth distribution. Even if police magically became completely egalitarian, black people would still suffer the brunt of police brutality, because they still live in the poorest areas where there is the most crime.

The bottom line is that, if you are a white male (which I am), then you really and truly should be listening and not proclaiming any strong opinion or solution, because privilege is a blind, and so you really are not qualified to have an opinion about what should be done about sexism or racism. I feel like this is especially onerous for geeks (again, like me) who value their ability to reason, but understand that your (my) feelings being hurt is much less of an indignity than most black people face on a regular basis. Don't get defensive and try to prove how non-racist you are. Instead just take a deep breath and realize that this country forcibly imported 10 million African slaves. Despite how uncomfortable that makes a lot of people, there really is no way for that legacy to ever be erased.
> what would really count as a "visual turing test"

I disagree - nobody would say drawings/paintings (by humans) based on photos or observations by eye are less legitimate than scenes completely imagined.
I was only 3/10 - so I think it takes an eye for art to beat it. In my mind this is like a chess program getting to 1200. Not enough to beat an expert, but it's on to something.
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Well, there are those claims of unwarranted scrutiny and his assumptions that they were race-based... and then there are his bogus claims about what was said about him in the media and before Congress, which have been documented.

http://thefederalist.com/2014/09/15/did-neil-degrasse-tyson-...
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We have been using Luigi in production for a year now at AdRoll, to manage a graph of tens of data processing tasks.
We have been really happy with it.

You can read more about our setup in these two blog posts:

http://tech.adroll.com/blog/data/2015/09/22/data-pipelines-d...

http://tech.adroll.com/blog/data/2015/10/15/luigi.html
Cyclists like you make people like me vote against pro-cyclist laws. You have no moral right to slow down all traffic on a road to the speed of your calves because you feel unsafe in your designated lane, and I hope you soon have no legal right to do that.
Haven't seen anybody mention Microsoft's Visual Studio Team Services[1]... private repos, reasonably priced for teams, and some pretty sweet extra tools and integration into other services. I've used it for a few projects and prefer some parts of it to github. You don't have to use Visual Studio itself or, really, ANY other Microsoft tools.

[1] https://www.visualstudio.com/products/visual-studio-team-ser...
Great service. Enough features to be powerful, not too many to be complicated or difficult to use. Just right imo.

And they're not a data mining company in disguise.

Had a pro account for years and will continue to renew.
Buying the engagement ring can be just the tip of the iceberg - the disappointing monetary ROIs when you start a family. You get different kinds of payoffs however.
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I very much like the idea of auctioning these off to companies, either explicitly (pay the government for each one) or implicitly (bid up the salaries you'll pay for them). Although I'm not a fan of large taxes, I think the former is slightly less distortionary.
You can change jobs but it requires going through a bureaucratic obstacle, and if you ever find yourself without a job temporarily, you'd better find a new one _very_ fast or you're deported. Worse, switching jobs can make it a lot harder to get a green card since it resets. H1-B holders seem to find it hard to switch jobs which is why big companies like Cisco are are able to accumulate so many of them. They just park themselves at a big company and try to keep their head down and wait out the green card process.

With more flexibility afforded to H1-B holders to find a real market-rate job, many of the perceived problems of the program would go away in my opinion.

Natural-born US citizen in the tech industy here.
> it is still unsettling when you feel like you can't participate in discussions about programming languages without indulging into self-promotion

Ahem, cough, cough, er, ...
> Not talking or thinking about race ... does absolutely nothing to help.

But in the better future world we're trying to create where there is much less discrimination on the basis of ethnicity or sex or other body attributes, isn't that exactly what we'd be doing, not talking or thinking about race because it just isn't important to us? Isn't not talking or thinking about race exactly what we should be doing, as much as possible?
> Not because I think those exact people would be harmful or aggressive, and this is more than likely going to be met with accusations of me being a bad man- but I don't know who else out there is going to pretend they're trans to creep/spy/abuse women.

This is the same logic used to discriminate against Muslims because we don't know that they're not terrorists.

(And, incidentally, why on earth does everyone take it for granted that a public bathroom is a place where you can easily spy on other people's genitals? The entire problem could be solved forever if builders used proper floor-to-ceiling walls, with louvered vents for ventilation. It weirds me out that nobody else thinks bathroom design is insane.)
Let's say we all started ignoring everything you're talking about today.

Currently a black family making $100k will live in roughly the same area as a white family making $30k.

This family is also much more likely to have family that has gone to prison due to previous racist institutions, and less likely to have had 3 generations of parents having gone to Stanford.

So sure, race gets ignored, but do you think people will start ignoring all the other social signals? Even if you ignore everything else, being born to a white family in itself means you inherit centuries of advantages

This is the justification behind affirmative action. Even if it might not be "fair" when looking at an individual case, its also pretty unfair when a kid just happens to be born to a family that has had opportunity robbed from them until extremely recently.

Your end goal might be laudable, but the path to reach it requires corrections
I got 6/10. 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. E.g. I was very surprised a computer produced this: http://turing.deepart.io/f/0.png or this http://turing.deepart.io/f/4.png

But the opposite heuristic doesn't work either, because not all the computer paintings are abstract. It mimics a lot of different styles and I am extremely impressed.
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Simple solution. Set up an Ask HN: What does job not being a good fit mean to you. See how many people say it relates to cultural fit vs pay.
This reminds me of cleaning the Comet Cursor[1] adware, which did this (and other random and obnoxious effects), off of people's PCs back in the early 2000s. IIRC, it was bundled with Real Player and usually accompanied with Gator...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comet_Cursor
> * 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.*

I don't think you understand Occam's Razor.