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Meanwhile, github has quietly dropped the "owner" / "collaborator" tag for contributors to open source projects.

Either you're part of an org, or you're not.

Not too many OS projects have their own org, and commercial entities will be reluctant to add non-employees to their org, in order to distinguish contributors from employees.

Users of OS projects now have now easy way to tell if they're interacting with a collaborator.

Total shambles.
Its funny with all these new sort of bracket like functional programming languages with similar syntax it actually took me a minute to figure out that the code is Swift(probably lack of experience)... Looks like Scala.. no scala doesn't use let.. is it Rust.. nope not Rust.. rust does not use "import".. can't be Ocaml or F# because of no brackets... ah UIKit.
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Yes, but that only puts Panasonic in a good position.

Tesla Batteries can only be used inside of Tesla cars and Powerwalls right now. All the other companies build their own batteries (out of LG Chem cells or Samsung cells).

Tesla only assembles Panasonic cells into batteries. They are not poised to actually benefit from increased global demand of Lithium Ion.
Do you want to also take out the jewish % from the white group, and see how much of an 'imbalance' there is amongst top management / successful founders?

This sort of thinking is stupid.
You might be upset by some quotes here. It's important to not to let that take over you. You end up becoming exactly like the things that bother you. Don't get bothered over the people in the article expressing their opinions. It's the only way to live. Trust me, it takes over.

".. that is life. I cannot change them overnight. I think society, their own experiences, their own reading, their own observations, will bring about the change despite their innate biases."
This is what really confused me. "33% is barely enough to change culture" To me that strikes the perfect balance. You don't get diversity by only pushing on one side.
Trial by combat was only abolished in England in 1819, after the much-publicized case of Ashford v Thornton in which the defendant successfully called for it. (No combat took place - the plaintiff withdrew rather than fight the much larger defendant.)
Competition of all alternatives. As I said, this is not merely identical units.

It includes those cities which do not have housing restrictions. It includes any new units permitted inside existing housing restrictions. It includes increased sharing of housing (this is also impacted by other forms of "housing restrictions" but most people live in situations below maximum occupancy). It includes moving outside of cities entirely (made more attractive in the presence of a basic income).

To the extent that people choose these alternatives, rents will face downward pressure. They may still go up, but "the entirety of BI will simply become rent" seems wrong.
Women of color have always complained about being left out by mainstream feminism. This is not new.

I don't understand it completely, but here is a related wikipedia article.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_feminism
> (translation, chef, specialty craftsman) [...] I'd imagine we WANT coming in, since they are by definition specialty and non-replaceable.

If the ostensible goal of the program is to bring in people for low-supply positions (but short of individual O-1 visas) then isn't salary a reasonable not-too-game-able way to measure that?
Personally it irks me that tech has excellent representation of diversity in the forms of people of colour, specifically Asians from different a diverse set of backgrounds, yet they don't count in the tally of diversity.
Hi. Does anyone still have an invite? I would love to try it out.
I would suggest Atlassian. I've met both founders professionally and at least one of the duo is not weak enough to let this happen to his company. If even they capitulate, then you're fucked.
I don't really understand this. I've published books. It isn't particularly difficult or expensive, any printer can do it. If any group feels their books are being overlooked, they can start a publishing company with little difficulty. If they are correct, their company will make a nice profit for them.
It's not just any department, but a department that specifically deals with diversity and race issues.
> bringing more people into the Google ecosystem

But literally everyone that could use a NEST product already uses google.
Did you read that slide and the comments others have made addressing it? Even after going through some seriously generous contortions to assume good faith, it's racist and alarming.

I also don't think your comment extends good faith you are demanding to the comment and commenters which you're addressing.

there are people complaining about the very notion that
there might be something wrong with how hiring and
promotion happens in technology.

I haven't gotten past the topmost comment thread on this HN post, but I have yet to read one comment here that makes this argument. Many here are addressing a particularly troublesome form of racism using a slide and other primary evidence as exemplary of this type of creeping racism. I haven't yet read a comment that argues that "(a) there is no problem", so the "consensus" you're asserting isn't there. I do agree that there is generally consensus about your second point " (b) GitHub's attempts to address it are unjust.", but maybe it's because GitHub's attempts just might be unjust?
There is already one company that took an algorithm as a voting member of its board.

https://treasurytoday.com/2014/05/algorithm-appointed-to-inv...
Google's search engine was 10x AltaVista.
How is it 2016 and an audience mostly based in California still needs a remedial critical race theory class
I would expect more from a tech company that is supposed to be by programmers for programmers.

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. What does it even mean to be "white"? Who exactly are they talking about and what is it about this group of people that is so bad? There's no need to bring in this gross oversimplification of culture and biology into professional talks. If they're seeing some kind of pattern within their company that correlates with some ethnicity or culture, it's just a coincidence! Start hiring less asshole managers! Who cares what color they are?

American culture is such a bummer when it comes to how it shoves people into categories. We need to start learning how to simply NOT THINK about race, and NOT MENTION IT. There is simply no excuse at all to mention it. People CANNOT be categorized based on skin color at all, AT ALL. People cannot be categorized based on culture either. Virtually everyone is multi-ethnic and multi-racial at some level. To identify even yourself as belonging to a distinct "color" is just a fabrication of American culture that is an unfortunate outcome of the history in this country.

The only way forward is to forget about categorizing people, and just speak to their qualities -> not "white managers are assholes", instead "asshole managers are assholes".
I would guess that the policy was originally written for shady piracy merchants that are at higher risk for fraudulent payments. Now that it's in place, it's easy for a copyright holder to come knocking who wants to license their content in Australia but can't because the Australians are already watching their content on Netflix, who only had the UK rights. It's too late for them to rewrite the policy just to pick up a few hundred dollars in VPN buyers' transaction fees without angering deep-pocketed opposition.
Curious. Are there examples of programming languages that allow spaces in identifiers? Obviously, it would need to be designed for that.

I'm against the case-sensitive nature of some programming languages, and file systems for that matter. While it makes sense in a computing context (faster), you invent a new mode, just for the computer..

(Fortran was probably case-insensitive because upper-case letters were used first, and when lower-case letters were introduced, care was taken to neatly map them into the character set bit-wise, so one could simply clear the sixth binary digit to turn a lower-case letter into its upper-case equivalent, then continue the string comparison.)

Of course, with Unicode, you need a more complicated check, or you could just ignore Unicode in the language itself for identifiers, yet allow it in literals, data types, etc.
"whatever format most people immediately understand at first glance"

Certainly that's a useful starting point. The problem is in figuring that out when there are multiple, roughly similar representation.

But it also depends on the goal. Sometimes it's better to learn a new format (Einstein notation, bra-ket notation, copy editing and proofreading symbols, modern staff notation for music, shorthand, etc.) than to use a system that a larger subset of people will understand immediately.

Forth is an example of a programming language which is developed for programmer productivity, on the assumption that the programmer will put in the effort to be proficient in the language.
I'm happy to be wrong about this but here's why I snipped the thread where I did: (1) "some of the biggest barriers to progress" does not at all "explicitly exclude"; (2) it's not at all "obvious" that she "sees white people as enemies and doesn't want them as allies"—that's projection, filling in a lot of blanks based on assumptions; (3) the bit about "white people dying off" is hauling in a big barrel of off-topic petrol from elsewhere, the last thing we need in a flamewar.
If the comment had shown any care for sticking to the evidence and/or hadn't charged into flameland, I'd agree with you.

We all need to at least try to stick to evidence regardless of ideological position. When we don't, and/or when we pour fuel on the flames, we're partly responsible for what results (in this case a bizarre turn into personal attack).
Good point. Would code review tools catch this? Gerrit, Crucible, et al? More specifically, how obvious would it be and would people question what they see?
If your brave then try Laravel Spark

https://mattstauffer.co/blog/introducing-laravel-spark-a-dee...

https://github.com/laravel/spark
> What reason is there to believe that the same driver who would run a red light (by accident or otherwise) would generally make better ad-hoc judgments without the light?

There would still be assholes. The difference is the other drivers would be checking for cross traffic instead of going as soon as they see the green light.

I'm certainly not convinced and in particular doubt you'd get high traffic flow, but it seems quite plausible for less busy intersections.
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Yeah, that sounds pretty cool.
By none, they correctly had a separate category: http://blog.leeandlow.com/2016/01/26/where-is-the-diversity-...
White people are very fragile
"...you should have a similar objection to an Asian person. Not having that mentioned can't help but seem racist against white people."

It's not purely about representation, although that is important too. It's about centuries of white dominance. A couple decades of people of Asian descent having a strong presence in an industry isn't enough. How many of those overrepresented Asians are holding positions of senior leadership?

"And, in the end, it is just always wrong to say "this is not work for [race X]"."

You're missing the ending part of that statement, which is "to lead". That makes it very different. No one said white people can't be involved, as long as they are not taking up all the space.
I activated my student account (was formerly paying) and voiced my disapproval in the comment section of that form. I'm really happy with GitLab at work though, so I will be switching to that.
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We have the same problem here in apartheid South Africa. For clarity i've had to give my job over 3 times in my career to black South African employees, including for Cisco (my last employer before the current one)
The rules are not being applied, but for me it's quite simple. If you want to bring a black worker in, you need to advertise it on a government website for a month. These details will include salary, role, skills, the sponsoring company as well as the one they will be ultimately working for.
I spent the last 5 months unemployed, but i'm normally a devops/sysadmin. I know my job went to a black South African. I don't mind if they're better, but most of the time they're not. I didn't claim unemployment benefits as I didn't want the shame and the hassle, including having to spend 20 hours a week looking for work on the governments website. If this website included the details of the jobs that allegedly couldn't be filled by a white South African i'd be far better equipped to get a job I am good at where a company is trying to cheap it out.
Note - I am not trying to get at black South Africans here - the RF guys at my last place were superb and better than anybody in white South Africa as we don't train enough of them here - but I am very annoyed where a company can twist the system to avoid paying white South African wages for a white South African job.
I understand why GitHub feels it needs to add structure to their organization. It's impossible for 500 people to coordinate themselves - Combine that with the remote work environment and it gives some people a free ticket to do nothing at all.

That said, I think the remote working aspect won't be a problem if you add a middle management layer. So I agree with adding management but disagree about cancelling remote work.
For 99% of the population (which matters a great deal), Paypal is far easier, faster, and safer than bitcoin (which isn't even a single entity to deal with but rather computer science theory put into a proof of concept).
Zoomquilt.org is amazing. How is that even possible? Really just a movie I guess?
Yes, exactly. While the background in the picture of the baseball player doesn't look photographic, at least the proportions are realistic. But the proportions of the female face are completely unrealistic. How could it be based on a photograph of a real human?

Are these computer-generated images based on photographs of real subjects, or on photographs of stylized paintings?

I don't think this test is very interesting until we can see the images the computer-generated ones were based on.
>I have no idea how you know what your downvoters think about Tumblr.

Because Tumblr is brought up here and on Reddit frequently as this hellhole of idiotic far leftist thought. All I can think is: "have you actually looked at Tumblr beyond following some link at /r/tumblrinaction?" because there's so, so much more than that.

>Reddit is leaking...

Well, one thing you can count on from Reddit (or at least the vocal people in the defaults and conservative subs) is a fear and loathing of Tumblr, as well as considering SRS to be the root of all evil. Any time someone wants to panic about the threat of "SJWs", Tumblr is not far behind in the fear factor.

Hence, "reddit is leaking.." which was a joking way of referring to "tumblr is leaking".

But I still defend Reddit to my friends who are dismissive of it. Reddit contains a lot more than the awful stuff it's well known for. The defaults might be a hive of scum and villainy but there's a ton of great stuff in the smaller subs.
Again, are you arguing that it's ok for the publishing industry to be 79% white and 78% female? Do you oppose diminishing white supremacy and racism? Because it sounds like you do.
Defecting in a prisoners dilemma scenario is not necessarily unethical or greedy. Suppose you run a business and your main competitor proposes that you both form a cartel and raise your prices. This has the same payoff matrix as the conventional prisoners dilemma, but the "right" move is to defect.
> basically only limited by your languages metaprogramming facilities

I'd like to point out that strong static-typing does not preclude powerful metaprogramming! Nim's macro system is extremely powerful because of it's great interplay between it and the type system.

http://nim-lang.org/docs/manual.html#macros
- "This is not work for white folks to lead"

This one I actually don't think is so bad, in context. The title of the slide is "Diversity and Inclusion in Tech". 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.

It's a stretch as a comparison, but no-one gets sued for refusing to hire ugly models. It's because a model's job is to be good looking. That's just the way it is. In a similar way, a head of diversity should probably be... diverse. Although that could include gay white men, for example - maybe that text is shorthand that was qualified in the actual presentation, none of us know.

The white women one mystifies me, though. Women are usually a minority in the workplace, surely their views are valid.
Personally, it's because it's not worth my time. Why should I have any sort of dialogue with such people when it's not going to be productive and will provoke a massive amount of vitriol? At best, it's unproductive, and at worst it's career-ruining.

I think that most people think the same way, and as a result there are absolutely no consequences when the activists go from "challenging" to "outright hateful."
Poor and middle class white people are a figment of your imagination. West Virginia basically is Narnia.
Almost certainly so. Decap the chip, pull the flash contents out to get the key, etc, flash a new backdoored chip, you're done. Hobbyists have been decapping chips and pulling flash for a while, so this is certainly not beyond the abilities of the NSA/CIA/etc. You wouldn't need the exact same make of chip, just one that presents itself as the same.
No the article discusses observed phenomena and attributes their cause to what the author wishes the cause to be, without, as far as I could see, any real evidence.
"...for any reason?" No, they cannot. However, they can indeed terminate use of their services to anyone for no reason. Had they not given a reason, I venture to say they'd have a better defense should this ever go to court. EDIT: grammatical
Why? Any company is free to set their limits on who they want to work with.

When it comes to financial situations, it's all about risk. It's completely within their right to mitigate that risk based on the profiles of the industries they deal with and this is what keeps them in business.
It's not necessarily okay or not okay. You first need to determine what you believe the correct percentage to be and justify why you believe that that percentage is "correct" or "okay".

I'm inclined to believe that there is no correct percentage and that even trying to simplify as you have is disingenuous and leads to simple but wrong explanations that ignore all sorts of contributory factors.

I'm a cis-male that identifies as agender, but I haven't seen any evidence that I'm under-represented in the publishing industry because my gender is discriminated against. That's an extraordinary claim and requires extraordinary evidence.

Furthermore, I'm curious to hear your thoughts on base rates and how they contribute to measurements of diversity?

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base_rate_fallacy
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A lawsuit would be nice to confirm that 1. This is not legal, then 2. Confirm that it's the role of GitHub to get rid of such employees, 3. Have it happen regularly at GitHub for both racist and revert-racist attitudes, until clean, 4. and in the IT sector in general.
Yes, it's clear that some parts of academia has people with really suspicious agendas.
>a significant number of fraudulent transactions happen through VPNs.

The question is about purchasing VPNs not using them.
We use a self hosted gitlab instance, it's the best thing we've done since I've worked there. Incredibly useful.
A middle age white man could be gay. Or have one leg. Or have psychosis. Or be a Muslim.
This is the brave new world we're living in.

If people can get thrown out of conferences for their tweets on unrelated things, if Eich can get in hot water over a political donation, then it is little surprise to see the knife cutting both ways.

You wouldn't forgive a developer for speaking at an MRA conference--why should these people be forgiven for unrelated presentations?

This is the future you chose.

EDIT:

Downvote all you want. This is the kind of goodthink/badthink politicking that happens once you move away from "Does the code work?"

The thing being complained about by my parent poster here is completely consistent with the social norms that have prevailed lately. I would say don't be surprised at the sudden double-standard, but logic apparently isn't the strong point of the mobs.

We've spent so much time lately attacking meritocracies that it is somewhat cathartic to watch the inevitable consequences.

EDIT2:

Just to make this painfully clear--we have decided as a community that it is okay to judge people based on their actions in unrelated contexts. That applies just as much to folks that have slides about "white women being obstacles" in some unrelated context to their work in HR as it does to people that tweet bigoted things while being maintainers of projects.

The logic and principle is exactly the same.
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verification codes don't have to be long. 4-7 numbers with limited amount of retry is plenty.
> The power actually lies with the person that was elected

... unless there's leverage against the elected, something that would subjectively seem to compromise the integrity more than the slowly gotten used to corruption.
I think all your points are correct but they'd be better suited as a reply, rather than as mod action.

I don't see a personal attack anywhere and, in fact, user themselves mentions below they avoided mentioning anyone by name because this is about more than this one particular person.

Won't be fighting this, though - if you think it's better this way, so be it.
Actually I thought that was human because the nipple stood out so clearly.
So this is where it all begins
I was old for as long as I can remember, then. Since age 4 or so.
Isn't this a similar argument made during WWII by the German scientists that were performing medical experiments on prisoners of war to benefit the greater good? Ethics aside, were they scientifically correct?
This brought back memories from old times: I can remember copying some Javascript code to a forum I used to manage to get snow flakes to fall on the screen (during christmas). I loved the effect!
Yes, sorry, I just edited my comment to address that. I wonder whether the point was expanded upon in the actual presentation to address that or not - bullet points on slides are usually "launching off points".