skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Individuals and companies with billions of dollars in cash can't really stick it in a mattress and ignore it.

True. Far better to bury it somewhere remote. See this "news article" from the future about how it plays out:

The desert dollar industry
January 1, 2021

These days, the desert is swimming in cash... literally.
Over the last six months, a booming business in illegal
cash storage has sprung up in Nevada, New Mexico, and
Arizona where analysts estimate that $30 billion worth of
$100 notes have been hidden. By day, smugglers drive deep
into the desert, SUVs loaded down with suitcases full of
Ben Franklins. Once they've found an ideal spot, they wait
till the sun goes down and frantically dig a hole, only to
drive away the next morning with nothing but the cache's
GPS coordinates and a drone or two to guard it. When asked
about the sorts of people staying at her motel these days,
Smith shrugs. "I don't ask who they are and they pay cash."

...

http://jpkoning.blogspot.com/2015/12/the-desert-dollar-indus...
The larger point is that minorities are more minor in tech than in the general population.

There are a lot of hispanic people in San Francisco. There are next to no hispanic people in startup offices in San Francisco. Unless they're cleaners, but I think we can all agree that doesn't count for what we're talking about.

Same for black people. There are many of them in the streets in San Francisco. Next to nobody in startup offices in San Francisco.

etc.
I suspect you're right about the first part. That makes me sad, because I'd hope we'd be more even-keeled as a community.

I haven't seen any evidence that the second is true, though. I've not heard of a plausible mechanism by which - all else equal - men would be better at abstract reasoning than women or vice versa.
> They aren't barred in no way in pursuing these kind of careers

Admittedly, this is about (academic) science, not tech, but Neil deGrasse Tyson disagrees: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7ihNLEDiuM
What is your "typing style"? Newer keyboard layouts trying to reduce the "pinky" usage. "Programmer Dvorak", for instance, places frequently use programming keys (e.g. [ }) more conveniently on the keyboard. What you're doing might work for you, but there are quite a few people with RSI issues so something that helps and is reproducible is needed.
Whites and men already enjoy a privileged status in the USA in most areas of society and efforts like these are an attempt to even it out. Whether or not this example is the correct method, that is the motivation. Additionally, there are plenty of efforts using this principle to include men in traditionally female dominated fields like nursing and teaching.
I wish I had snapchat when I was growing up instead of just AIM! It's one of the new messaging platforms that I am excited about because it introduces a new (mostly visual) means of communication.
Overrepresented minority, but still a minority nonetheless.
Yes, having a iMac instead of a windows in the home, with a parent who forbid me from playing games but allowed me to write my own, made a lot of the difference. My peer group was not interested in anything to do with computers besides world of warcraft.

This is not a sarcastic comment.
The Hyperledger Project
I wish I could upvote this more to get it on the front page because it makes so much sense.
Chemical equation balancing: An integer programming approach
Android is over 70% of the market.
Or it could be that Slack are actually progressive and have a diverse workforce and these developers were very happy to accept an award on behalf of their company due to working in a place that they love working for.
There are ways to also encrypt the boot partition.

There are various protection mechanism that rely on software alone (bootloader), software + hardware (TPM), software + firmware and software + hardware + firmware.

The question is always what do you want besides encrypting the main partition mainly in terms of integrity checks.

And older BIOS with a TPM or a modern UEFI with or without a TPM can provide additional integrity check for both the host configuration (BIOS/Device settings) as well as storage device specific integrity checks.

TXT basically allows you to measure various elements using the UEFI and more importantly for OEM's at least TXT has extensive DRM capabilities that can restrict the user from installing "untrusted" operating systems or making modifications to the host it self (e.g. chaging bios settings).

Beyond that TXT gives only a slight improvement as far as actual security goes against cold boot attacks as it allows you to take measurement when switching between S4 and S5 power states (soft off and hibernate) it still doesn't allow any measurement for S1-S3 states which are legacy sleep mode.

A modern UEFI with or without a TPM can ensure that the OS will not boot or will boot into recovery mode if any changes were made to the hardware or firmware configurations as well as if any tampering was done to the bootloader (secure boot keys) with a TPM you can be slightly more assured that no one tampered with anything since the TPM is a better cryptographic storage than the UEFI's ram/nvram.
Even if you are correct that they are well defined, by that definition Lisp, Ruby, Python, JavaScript and Julia are strongly typed. C, Forth and assembly language are not. So the distinction isn't useful in this discussion.
Wow, great way to get honest feedback here.

I appreciate it!
I agree with you that this is great but

> The very fact that this is newsworthy says a lot about the lack of diversity in our industry.

I don't like this logic. The news media has their own agenda, we shouldn't use "what they choose to write about" as a barometer.
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Not limited to Haswell and early Broadwell, some Skylake CPUs lost TSX as well.

https://www.reddit.com/r/hardware/comments/44k218/intel_disa...

Also some Skylake i5s and i7s had TSX issues, but I don't know whether Intel managed to fix them or is going to disable TSX. So far ARK lists them as supported.
Cool. I hope they get equity too, not just award-show glory.
Your counterarguments strike me as mansplainingly unreflective.

... So there are less of them.

Do you really think no-one thought of this? The objective is for ratios to reflect the general population of the area. In general, thats kindof what we should expect in a meritocracy, right?

... underrepresented because they didn't formally or informally study engineering.

Which is obvious. Now: Why do you think that is? And what can we do about it?

As Itp says below '... women and minorities are certainly passively barred from these kind of careers. By virtue of opportunity, environment, peer group, role model, education, and all sorts of passive mechanisms.'

edit: I also don't agree with the sentiment of your anecdote explaining how minorities should outwork everyone else (i.e. work harder than everyone else) if they want to get noticed

(Edited)
I'm hispanic (not that it should matter!) and grew up dirt poor. Yes, I lacked the privilege of many of my now peers. In the end though I've built a successful career for myself. I'm proud at having done that through working hard and being good at what I do. My ethnicity is only a distraction to my tale.
I haven't programmed in C, but my view comes from this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QM1iUe6IofM&feature=youtu.be...

What would be the C equivalent of:

(let ((last-response))
(defun get-response ()
(print last-response)
(setf last-response (read))))

(print (get-response))
(print (get-response))

Notice that no other function can use last-response. It only exists for get-response, but it exists outside the scope of get-response. Does C have this?
You'd have to see how persistent it is. There have probably been studies, but give people decaf when they expect caffeine and compare against a control who expects and receives caffeine (ok, perhaps not in coffee, but a pill for measured and consistent dosage). Then you'll know how much of something it is.
I bet it's part of where we had our experiences. In Germany, it's almost exclusively leftist. It doesn't get in my way, because I care about the technology and don't think politics have a place there, but many people do strongly put both in one bin (if you allow me, I noticed that these are mostly people who do not really shine with their code contributions and want to "contribute" in other ways instead of improving their skills).
> Diverse teams bring different perspectives for solving problems. By problems I don't mean just technical ones, but also design, usability, and marketing. <

Honest question here regarding quoting of statistics.

If statistics showed that homogenous teams led to better solving of problems, does that mean the teams should discourage diversity?

If not, then clearly the reason why diversity is encouraged is not because it brings better results, rather that it is considered as a more 'just' position.

It's like when people say "Studies show that gay parents are better parents than straight parents" as a reason to support gay marriage. The idea is simple, even if it didn't, that wouldn't be a reason against gay marriage.
How big do the mountains need to be?

I moved from London to Graz, Austria[0] a couple of years ago. The city has a population of roughly 300k and is surrounded by large hills.

There are some really good universities here, so quite a lot of interesting research happening, and a decent night life (although with a young family I don't get to see much of it).

A car would be useful for exploring the countryside, but a bicycle would certainly see you in the middle of "nature" easily within 30 minutes ride.

Speaking German would help, but not mandatory, as almost everyone speaks some English. If you have your own projects to work on, then you're in a good position. Trying to find employment here, without speaking German, is quite difficult, mostly due to the small population base.

There is an English speaking language group that meets at a bar on Thursday nights.[1]

There are around half a dozen co-working spaces which charge in the region of €20-€25 per day, with discounts for monthly commitments.[2]

Transport to and from the UK isn't brilliant. There are no cheap direct flights (some might see this as a positive!), so your options are Lufthansa with a connection somewhere, or train to Vienna and direct on Austrian or Easyjet from there.

In short, it's a nice little city, reasonable climate, good architecture, decent cultural attractions especially in semester, good natural surroundings, but if you're from somewhere big in the UK, like London, it'll seem very, very quiet.

Happy to help if you want more info.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graz

[1] http://www.anglo-austrian.at/

[2] http://coworkinggraz.net/
It's a hard fact to accept that the majority of the tech-world is leftist

Paul Graham argues this is necessary for the success of the tech world:

https://twitter.com/paulg/status/656280768373727232

http://www.paulgraham.com/siliconvalley.html

"That's the connection between technology and liberalism. Without exception the high-tech cities in the US are also the most liberal. But it's not because liberals are smarter that this is so. It's because liberal cities tolerate odd ideas, and smart people by definition have odd ideas."
NPR did a segment on Instagram that sounds an awful lot like this. See Act One of "Status Update": http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/573/s...
It's probably worth at some point adding at least one example of actually then sending them mail somewhere via a local sendmail binary, and one for via SMTP.

IME if you provide an email sending library without email generation suggestions, or vice versa, yours users will do something completely unexpected (and probably not to your taste) for the other half.

(note that I'm explicitly not complaining that you didn't already do that, given how recently you got started - just trying to make sure it's on your list of stuff to do because bitter experience says it's more important than you might initially expect :)
This is pretty stupid. Teens aren't the trendsetters, they're the early adopters. Teens follow their older siblings who are the true trend setters. There's no way a 13 year old determines whats popular, it is older 18-30 cool people who are the true trend setters. Rappers and pop icons for the most part, there are no 13 year old pop icons.
> Somehow between the 20th and 21st century, our skin colour turned white and we're no different than white people.

Fun fact: in the beginning of the 20th century, you weren't white if you were Irish or Italian.

"White" in the US has little to do with skin colour. It's more of a social construct.

> The definition of white has changed significantly over the course of American history. Even among Europeans those not considered white at some point in American history include Southern Europeans (Italian, Spaniard, Greek, Portuguese, etc.), Irish people and Central Europeans (Germans, Poles) and Eastern Europeans (Russians) but mostly notably[citation needed] Polish people due to the Partitions of Poland.[21][22]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Americans#Historical_and...
WW3 RAPIST WANTS IT LEGAL,LIKE MUSLIM
I experimented with decaf beans once. Normally I need my normal coffee, or I get a headache.

I knowingly substituted decaf and went a few days with no headache. Good decaf is hard to come by though.
Even with equal skills, minorities are still discriminated against:

http://www.nber.org/papers/w9873

>The results show significant discrimination against African-American names: White names receive 50 percent more callbacks for interviews.
I don't know if that's true, but I haven't heard a viable explanation about why the opposite would be plausible, either. I'm not a neuroscientist, but I don't know of any reasons why one gender would be better at mental tasks than another.
I know, I forgot to check the formula before clicking the submit button. I meant it as you explain. The problem is that this commutator equation implies nothing about partial derivatives of H with respect to spatial coordinates that EM fields are function of, because Dyson's x_l are not spatial coordinates (which are always real numbers), but they are non-relativistic Heisenberg operators of coordinates of considered particle (infinite matrices).

The difference is as important as the difference between coordinate of a space point and coordinate of a particle at some definite time. This confusion was probably caused by the unfortunate choice of notation, where particle coordinates were denoted as x_l, notation better spent on the general spatial coordinates. If we use, say, r_l to denote Heisenberg operators for the particle coordinates, it is clear that (not being a function of operators r_l) implies nothing about (not being a function of position x_l).

Let me simplify this argument. What Dyson is saying seems no different from saying that if you have a field v_l(x) giving velocity of water at general point x, this field is obviously not a function of coordinates r_l of a test particle and it follows that sum of derivatives ∂_lv_l is zero. Behold, we arrive at the conclusion that the flow must be incompressible, no need to assume anything from experience. All water must be incompressible! The absurdity of this conclusion is pretty obvious, and the reason it was obtained is clear: v_l is independent of r_l, but it depends on x_l, so nothing about partial derivatives ∂/∂x_l can be easily inferred.
Do you disagree that there are underprivileged hispanics, or people who were in a similar situation as you, but didn't "make it"?? What solution do you suggest for them?
>underrepresented
The tech sector (or the industry/science/etc. sectors) aren't the senate or whatever that they need to "represent" anyone. They should hire based on skill/merit and try to produce the best product that they can. Please stop pushing these crazy leftist agendas everywhere
They're using "ban a book" to elicit a specific response here. Look; a publisher has the right to publish or not any work they wish for any reason they wish.

If the publisher had turned around and tried to stop the author from publishing this themselves (via indie routes) or going to another publisher, sure, I'd agree that that would be akin to trying to "ban" something.

But the reality is here that the publisher just opted out of publishing this specific works, as is their right. Sorry, author, but you sound bitter. Move on.
Yes, I can read IEEE Annals of the History of Computer papers with it! Subscriptions are extremely expensive plus I despise the IEEE enough for previous conduct that I'd rather not pay them.
Screw the Facebook copycat. I want a quick filter by my lists. Right now I only follow other deveopers, and have narrowed my usage of Twitter for that one use case. When I start following more than one "circle", the feed is overwhelming and I end up never looking at it.

I could even see a Moments section that is fed off people you follow.
I recently worked on a RN project, after months of not touching it, and found out that there's a new thing called rnpm (https://github.com/rnpm/rnpm) that solves this issue.
Sure landscapers could piecemeal this together with 4-5 different SaaS products that serve broad purposes. But they haven't. And they probably won't. Something like this helps them introduce technology to their business in an adoptable way.
Well, we use Elasticsearch extensively for our applications and have developed our internal best practices for running it. A single instance is not recommended for ES. If you're totally fine with losing logs, I guess it's okay, but logs are a critical part of production infra for us and so we would either run a larger cluster with data-only and master-only nodes for optimum reliability.
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But let's say you were asked to accept an award on behalf of your company from a group that had a troubled history of anti-semitic sentiment and it was thought that, amongst this group, there were still large swaths of members who held anti-semitic beliefs. Would you feel patronized and start job searching?
I do see what you're getting at. But this situation at least seems more like four engineers, all women of color, were asked to take on additional public duties to reflect what appears to be a sincere initiative on the part of their company to be progressive and diverse. There's a fairly crucial difference there.
Hi, I'm the author. I appreciate the time you've taken to read and provide constructive criticism of my work. Here's my full write up (on GitHub, so it should continue to work): https://github.com/walkerkq/textmining_southpark/blob/master...

I was working under the assumption that we do not know ALL the words since the show's been renewed through 2019. This covers the first 18 seasons.

Additionally, the counting up their most frequent words produced results with very little semantic meaning - things like "just" and "dont" - which can be seen in this (really boring) wordcloud: https://github.com/walkerkq/textmining_southpark/blob/master...

Looking into the log likelihood of each word for each speaker produced results that were much more intuitive and carried more meaning, like ppod said below: I think the idea is that what we are really trying to measure is something unobservable like the underlying nature of the character or the writers' tendencies to give characters certain ways of speaking.
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Well, we don't know who asked who. So that's somewhat speculative

My company lost a woman engineer by badgering her about representing the company in terms of diversity. Turns out she just wanted to be an engineer.
It really is just another social medium.

We used to have ICQ, AIM, MSN, YIM, and a host of other lesser known methods to chat. This is just one geared toward sending quick pictures. I doubt the privacy part of it is even significant to most users.
I agree with this whole heartedly:

"We have a shitty pipeline and we are working on fixing it."

But that doesn't mean that something isn't also broken at the hiring end of the pipeline. If you're a woman, lgbt, or non-white-European descended person, even if you make it through most of the pipeline, you're often fighting an uphill battle at the end of it. It is possible to simultaneously work on the rest of the pipeline while acknowledging and working on what's happening at this part of it too.
What do you mean by "flagging people as trolls"? HN doesn't let you flag accounts, only posts.
LibreOffice has improved its looks and added more interoperable features
Legacy science publishers are one of the best examples of copyright fail - how times have changed such that the current rules are no longer aligned with reasonable goals of current society.
Considering that Matlab, which is supposed to be a stable platform, seems about as buggy as Julia with a lot of regressions, API changes, and new bugs every release, I, too, prefer Julia, as it's not only a nicer language with better programmer and execution efficiency, but it's also open source.

I'd rather try to fix a bug in some undocumented codebase than wait 6 months for a new black box.
I'm curious why the author's agent didn't just approach other mainstream publishers with it. After all, if he's a critical and commercial success with HarperCollins then it's very likely that someone, somewhere will take a serious interest. Now I know that the publishing world has conglomerated a lot in the last 20 years...but still there are other players.

edit: and editors at other imprints owned by the same group will often take a different view.
Well I have the same priors but I'm willing to at least consider the possibility that I'm wrong about this. Admittedly I'm married to a lady with EE degree so this wouldn't be the first time I've had to consider that. Inb4 n=1 etc. :-)
I guess the strategy is: Apply political pressure to bring more minorities in. Accept the side effect that quality is lower. Wait for the culture to change. Once minorities are at "normal" levels, lift pressure and wait for quality to return.

Currently, I can observe females in computer science simply being there for the quota, while more competent males get rejected. I just hope the quality hit will not hurt us too much and I hope society believes we have "normal" levels quickly.
responding to cgy1>

Asians make up 5.5% of the population of the US, this includes all Asians. I don't have figures for their representation in the tech industry at large but some quick googling shows they make up some 39% of Silicon Valley workers.

African Americans make up 13% and Latinos 17%, which means for every one Asian worker in tech, we should expect around two to three African American and Latino workers.

I don't think there should be quotas but the tech industry demographics do not come anywhere close to tracking with our country's demographics.
Amazon adds its own tracking info depending on how you clicked into their site. There's no referral details included. If you prefer the pure link:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00UULNTHK
Well the news media write about a lot of things but that's different to being newsworthy. Readers decide that. It's why Yahoo's homepage might have a story about a wounded war veteran returning home next to one of Kim and Kayne. When Kim and Kayne get 10x or 100x the shares it's not Yahoo's fault right?
I work at a very small company. There are only 4 developers: 3 full-time and 1 part-time.

A full work week is defined as 35 hours, 5 of which are to be spent on research/study.

So when you figure in the daily standup, I get to spend ~29 hours per week building things -- essentially protected from everything else.
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Which is, of course, the problem with "white pride": "white" really just means "not an other". Italian Pride, Irish Pride, Polish Pride, all relatively noncontroversial. "White Pride", however, really means "proud of not being one of those others".