skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I doubt that's practical in the US. The country has many miles of state highways (and the older US Routes; US 41 north of Chicago is a popular bypass for a toll road) for which a limited-access road with no at-grade intersections is far too expensive to be worth it, but traffic is light enough that a 55 or 65 mile per hour speed limit is reasonable.
How Minecraft Is Inspiring the Next Generation of Young Architects
I don't quite get why nobody simply creates function bindings that have a query template string on one side, that is represented as a function that creates a parameterized query under the covers, and a solid type that represents a record that is returned? I mean instead of jumping through all the binding chains.. just have a string and type... call the generated function based on the string, return an array/stream/whatever of <type>

I'd rather use template string generated promises in node, tbh, than any ORM.
It started in 2013 but the issue persists ever since, so I think it still matters.

The thing I don't get is that why can't I just aes-encrypt my file and upload somewhere for secure-backup, there is no way to break it unless you gave out your aes key.
It's really easy to create a squarespace site, or a wordpress blog, or pretty much any number of things. Hell at the likely TPS for the site it would be easy to self host on a small VPS.
Live video streaming server using animated GIFs
I recommend the following:

1. Check out Jennifer Dewalt's project 180 websites in 180 days - http://jenniferdewalt.com

2. Free Code Camp is quite good (but the focus is more on coding rather than design) - http://www.freecodecamp.com

3. Nathan Barry's books are great - http://nathanbarry.com/books

4. [Plug] - I'm starting a new site for online courses and need beta testers for some HTML and CSS courses which go from scratch to pro level. Happy to give your friend early access for free - http://learnetto.com
What about a photograph with filters applied to it? Does that count?
If they pursue this genuinely, they'll be perpetually flip-flopping between states - it won't take long under this leadership for the hard-done-by minority to change to white/male, and then 'reverse sex/racism' would be sex/racism towards non-white/female...
would be interesting to see what was the content actually promoted and what they consider a terrorist act. I wouldn't be surprised if one is critical about US military actions this would also fall under "promoting". Hard to understand what this means. I think we need our open decentralized web back where information can not be made disappear by one who doesn't like the content. We criticize the same censorship if some backward country like Turkey or Egypt is doing it. Yet in the name of the war on terror the same people are calling for torches & pitchforks.
> (6) Some of the biggest barriers to progress are white women.

I'm just glad I dumped Github. I'm pretty sure they'd find my white female friends [some of whom needed to transition] being discriminated against as okay based on those slides.
Is it ever a good idea to mix shipping products with social activism?

What are some examples where this has ever gone well?
He talked a lot about input and displays. I wonder what he would think of today's tablets and touchscreen laptops.
Building a product (III) – Unfreeze and iterate
There are plenty of women of color applying for editor positions. Yet you go to the National Book Awards and the audience is predominantly white women and Daniel Handler makes jokes about watermelon on stage [1].

[1] http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2014/11/21/365707391/...
I'm okay with it, because I can get a job elsewhere. Some minorities can't. I don't need to be able to get a job at GitHub, because for some stupid reason, society has a general bias in favor of me. I can work anywhere, but the folks they're giving a shot are folks who don't have it as good as I do.
> Have you ever really seen that happen? Not me.

In 99% cases, that happens because your requirements change. If you hire a competent developer, the total cost of development is always a pittance compared to what you pay monthly/quarterly to a product based company.
They describe it as "fully-featured private Git repositories" so not a replacement for Google code. Also it's pretty inconceivable they'd retire Google Code early, forcing repos to move to a competitor, then introduce a new public service.
Wow, I've never seen that. I mean, people often like to see some kind of evidence of something you've worked on, and looking at someone's Github profile is an easy way to do that. But I've never heard of stars and forks being used as a crude filtering mechanism.

There are so many factors that go into whether or not a repo becomes popular, which aren't necessarily related to anything that reflects on the creator's merits as an engineering hire. I think you'd skew your candidate pool in a weird way if you leaned on these metrics too heavily. Honestly, I'd be curious to hear more about how it's used in hiring.
Jack Dorsey has stated that they never planned to change it next week: https://twitter.com/jack/status/696081566032723968
Flat != Meritocracy

Hierarchy != Non-meritocracy

You can have hierarchy and still be based on productivity and merit.
Apparently it's only a rumor and nothing more.
https://twitter.com/jack/status/696081566032723968
Diversity does not just mean skin color. You might as well try to empty the ocean with a spoon then pat yourself on the back for "doing your best."
Why avoid Bitbucket? We switched to it from github at work and haven't encountered any major issues.
Race is a goofy power structure which puts certain people ("whites") on top of others.

Whiteness changes with political needs. Hilariously, Irish-Americans, Jews, etc weren't always considered white. They had to become white. Nowadays, certain Asians are held up as model minorities and may get some honorary whiteness.

With children getting murdered by the state for being black, it's obvious race is about white supremacy. (Analogously, sexism is about male supremacy, also known as patriarchy.)
Not in the UK though.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/article/34667100/poor-white-bo...

> If you're white, male and poor enough to qualify for a free meal at school then you face the toughest challenge when starting out in life.

> That's what the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) has said in "the most comprehensive review ever carried out on progress towards greater equality in Britain".

Frankly the debate should really be "How do we give everyone the best start in life" rather than "how do we cripple some groups so everyone gets an equal start in life".
So do I - that was my point to parent: I don't use the browser tools not because of JS (which is a concern) but because of not wanting private keys stored online which would be required to do so.
I'd argue the point is "don't stomp in and make it all about you".
I think going into any market knowing you won't have any advantage (tech or otherwise) is how you waste time (and potentially money).

A few years ago I saw a keynote at a game development conference talking about how on the app store most developers copy successful games. The presenter (David Whatley) called it mining for gold where others have already turned up every nugget possible (paraphrased because it's been a while...).

I think that's a good way to look at this as well. As a user of statuspage.io I can tell you that they leave a lot to be desired + their pricing isn't attractive. They have however a pretty robust and compelling solution.

Can you do something that will make me leave statuspage.io (after spending hours customizing my page) and _need_ to move over to your service? If so the answer is GO FOR IT and don't look back. I have a feeling the answer is no, and that's why you're unsure, at which point I'd start looking for other problems to solve.

Peter Thiel makes a good argument in his book Zero to One that every company needs to be designed to be a monopoly. While I disagree with some of that (competition is healthy), as a founder I know the importance of your differentiator being leaps ahead and not just an update away.

P.S. - The reason we pay for statuspage.io is because we don't have to build (and maintain) the whole management system and don't want to worry about it. For any legit company it's worth it.
Oh my mistake, I just googled it and didn't read the page:

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

Seems they included all of Russia too.
Reverse racism is a myth.
Modern comedy ... in America
Experience is valid too. Being white or male doesn't mean you don't understand discrimination because you don't have experience with it.

An equally absurd corollary to "those that have experienced discrimination have unique insight into preventing discrimination" is "those that have experienced privilege have unique insight into privilege and how to dismantle it".

Just because you're on one side or the other doesn't make you more qualified by experience. We need people with understanding of both sides of the coin. In other words, we need diversity with respect to experiencing privilege and discrimination to understand what is happening and how to address it. When you don't have people on the other side of the coin, racist attitudes like the ones reflected in that slide proliferate.

Being white doesn't disqualify you from having experience being discriminated either. There are gay, lesbian and transgender white men, women and other gender identities. Head over to The Advocate and read some essays/blog posts from gay white males.

Furthermore, discriminating white people and men from this sphere of work (or any other) gives them some similar experiences and insight into discrimination.
At the moment.

Destroying company culture takes some time.
Any form of encryption can be cracked eventually, given enough time and processing power. What if a new type of supercomputer is invented tomorrow that can crack 2048 bit in minutes? Not publishing your data would give you the opportunity to re-encrypt using the latest method.
Definitively not for any reason. I can't terminate it because somebody is black, for example.
Suppose that the algorithmic timeline is a user discovery disaster akin to Facebook's. How implausible would a migration to an open source Twitter clone truly be? The chronological timeline itself isn't that difficult to build so I could imagine some sort of protocol being written for a Twitter-like service and then a client - website, app, etc - built on top of it. Twitter is unique in its position in that it doesn't have any real direct competition and that could change if it starts stumbling.
Well, that was enlightening actually. Thanks for posting.
Saw this in the issues? https://github.com/tholman/90s-cursor-effects/issues/2#issue...
Real Netflix and Chill
>H1-B is subsidy for the already rich

My small 55 person company is survivng thanks to H1Bs. We struggled to find a dba and a critical dev for years, and found a couple of good H1B candidates.

Saying that this program only benefits billionaires is a bit absurd.
Meta characters were also added for file, unit, record, and group separators. Some may correctly argue that using these chars to structure data in flat files is a more simple and technically superior solution to the alternatives.

Still, people will stick to what they're familiar with despite the technical benefits. That's why we have CSV, TSV, JSON, etc.

I'd argue that 'most practical' is whatever format most people immediately understand at first glance. That literally means everybody, not just a small subset of programmers who already use a perticular sytling standard.
I'm aware of Hayek's 1974 work on denationalization of currency.

Actually Hayek himself was somewhat confused on the subject. He didn't favor free banking. Lawrence H. White later wrote a paper in 1999 entitled "Why Didn't Hayek Favor Laissez Faire in Banking?" that clears up some misconceptions.

Your definition of "currency" is too narrow, though. It includes much more than monetary certificates for bank deposits. See the history of local currencies, Silvio Gesell's Freiwirtschaft, etc.

Even within a free banking system, there would be inherent limitations in that banks would have to adjust their reserves so as to make full use of their lending capacity and profit on interest, because of the clearinghouse mechanism acting as a reflux. You're aware of the free banking theories of Selgin, White and Dowd, I presume.

Once you extend "currency" to being much more than bank money, though, I think your concerns become severely diminished.
So, to what number does the publishing industry "whiteness %" drop if you were to remove all those groups from it too?
I think of college as an investment. I wouldn't take a business loan out on an idea that had little to no hope of making money and college students shouldn't major in a degree that has no chance of monitary success.

It's all about risk/reward and trying to reduce your personal risk as much as possible.

I would hardly call it ’indentured servitude’. Everyone has a choice.

There needs to be more personal responsibility.
You can also use separate build and deploy containers... build in a container with all the tooling you need, that exports out to a mount point everything needed to run, then turn that mount point into the new deploy container.
specialk's comment thread went haywire, not this one. yaakov34's comment is a reply to the GP and very much on the same topic. Can you reconsider?
It also fails to understand and accommodate intersectionality needs with respect to cognitive diversity.

Related reading:

Tact Filter:
http://www.mit.edu/~jcb/tact.html

Ozark English:
http://ozarque.livejournal.com/176349.html

When Nerds Collide:
https://medium.com/@maradydd/when-nerds-collide-31895b01e68c
That just means it'll happen two weeks from now. :P
So I have blocked all the crazies in my life, abusers, two guys I have a restraining order on. They friended someone I was friends with and showed up at a location I frequent recently, I think our mutual friend told them where I'd be.

I'm thinking it would be great if I could set a filter somehow on my InitialChatFriendList to order the top visitors and also set it so I can immediately tell if there is a list of viewers who are viewing me from a page of someone who I have not friended and possibly an IP address to at least tell me what City they are in? I have received a death threat, that is why I'm a little paranoid sometimes.
Don't know about reverse racism but I know very well that reverse sexism exist where I live so I'm tempted to say you are likely wrong.
This is an interesting idea. Maybe we should be looking at this as an optimization problem where drivers have a limited budget for attention and we want to concentrate it in the parts where it's most useful by varying the quality of UI assists?
I would just like to point out that people tend to take the most practical approach possible when learning HTML and CSS. So they learn JQuery, Bootstrap, Wordpress, Rails, etc. because it's the fastest way to get things done.

It is my opinion that this leaves a large gap in ones education, and so supplemental / lower-leveled resources should be sought out if one wants to have an "expert-level" understanding of HTML and CSS.
A few mins from the end of the video, he said he wished they had picked another name than "workstation". Then someone from the audience suggested a different name, which Licklider said would probably sell better. Can anyone make out that name?
So running a successful business means you are ’screwi ng your neighbor’ now?
harder as a minority.

Not if you are Chinese or Indian.
When you have conflicting myopic world views, sometimes you just have to pick one.
GitLab doesn't run on JRuby as far as I'm aware of.
Given they are publicly singling out white women, I'm not really sure that is true.

You shouldn't be generalizing on race if you want me to believe that.
I have been advocating for just that: awarding visas to the the highest bidder. It is very simple yet effective.

One other thing is necessary: to attribute visas every month instead of once a year.

Here is my paper on the issue: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_yEsHOtzN3yZ3JoYXlTdDh0R0k...
Oh, very neat. I've read most of the papers in the proceedings of this conference, the 1986 ACM Conference on the History of Personal Workstations [1], which is full of great information. But while 10 of the 13 speakers wrote up their talks as papers for the proceedings, three didn't, and this was one of the missing ones (the other two were the talks from Alan Kay and Charles H. House). So it's great to now have the talk available.

[1] Open access, click on the "table of contents" tab: http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=12178&picked=prox
Most cities have housing restrictions. Since this will most likely never change, rent will go up accordingly.
I don't think it really needs to be 10x. It needs be significantly better at something, and enough so that you can get people to switch to your solution.

Or you might have a clever strategy for reaching potential customers that the elephant in the room hasn't reached yet. That could be enough to carve a niche on your own.
Why America is moving left
Here's what I got:

- iPhone and iPad

- Broadband, technically not a product I guess.

- Salesforce.com, if you were around during that time, I think you'd agree.

- Touchscreen Ultrabooks, I don't care what anyone says, I LOVE them!
You might want to look into using https://github.com/kzk/unicorn-worker-killer which _should_ be enabled by default (https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/blob/bce482a59a235ed...). Besides that we're working on fixing performance problems, cutting down memory usage, etc.
If you lose all your chips at the "black table" and I lose mine at the "white table", as we cry over our beers it would be ridiculous for you to assert that I should feel privileged compared to you when our outcomes have turned out to be identical.
If this continues to proliferate, instead of achieving a World where minorities have equal opportunity with non-minorities, we will instead end up with a mix of institutions where those in the majority have an advantage and other institutions where those who are minorities have an advantage. This doesn't look like equality, but a reversion to something looking like "separate but equal".
Wait, what? Our microservices have actual human users?
"Tawada was alluding to the idea that Japanese appreciation of insects is one marker of Japanese cultural uniqueness... A major proponent of this Japanese "insect appreciation" argument was Lafcadio Hearn (1850-1904), the Irish author celebrated as the Westerner who has perhaps come closest to grasping the unique "soul" of Japan."

This fits in to the Nihonjinron[1] literary genre of Japan, which explores Japan's alleged uniqueness. Hearn was leading light of the Nihonjinron genre. It also fits in with Japanese Nationalism[2] and Orientalism[3].

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nihonjinron

[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_nationalism

[3] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orientalism
What BIZX did with SourceForge is already promising I think.
Is ServiceWorker ready?
Some random thoughts and observations after reading this thread:

[1] I'm interested in the differences between reactions to this, versus Brendan Eich's gay marriage scandal at Mozilla a couple of years ago.

Don't get me wrong... I supported marriage equality then, and I do not support the worst of the statements called out in this story now. However, there are rational arguments that the HN community overreacted in BOTH cases. You have to assume that self-interest factors into the difference.

[2] Why are people so reluctant to move from GitHub to Bitbucket or GitLab? I've done work with all three, and personally haven't found any of them to be significantly more or less reliable than the others (i.e. they ALL go down occasionally). GitLab's interface is virtually on-par with GitHub at this point, and frankly Bitbucket is far superior if you're using JIRA.

Current architecture trends are moving toward smaller services, with a proliferating number of repositories. So GitHub's pricing model, in which you're charged by the number of repos, is becoming less competitive every day against Bitbucket and GitLab charging per user. I sometimes wonder how many HN people do actual work on teams of significant size, and how many are college students or micro-startup founders who don't really pay much for tooling anyway? GitHub's pricing model makes NO sense for established companies with lots of projects, and it seems weird that so few people here bring this up.
Yes, presumably the leaders are to issue orders and everyone else is to follow them. That is not the kind of participation that allows opinions.

This sounds excessively harsh, do you really think that's how GitHub will run the program?
Yup. It's hardly any different to the standard sorting, because facebook's business is controlling what you see. I don't know why people keep spreading that like it's some protip.
Sometimes just having a different pricing model is enough.
Personally I don't think Google Maps (upon it's conception) was 10x better than Mapquest. Even for a while after Maps came around, Mapquest was pretty compelling. Yahoo Maps was also around during this time, circa 2002 I believe, though I don't recall using it much.

I can think of quite a few products that weren't all that great upon first release. Sometimes it takes a few iterations/generations for it to really make sense.
Thanks :)

Regarding ugliness - I started on a stylesheet, and then just decided that wasn't the point. I just wanted something quick to demonstrate this use of KBFS, and I'm not expecting (or desirous of) people to use it as a genuine service.

I've been working a bit on a blog for my own ramblings (some here may have tried the naked domain and noticed it 503s) - I'm now interested in doing that as the demo here but fixed to my account. (And uh.. with a stylesheet and stuff!)

As you noted, it would then seem sensible to do some caching - but I think this needs careful thought to not destroy the purpose and benefit of hosting posts on Keybase. I suppose it would have to display the cached copy, and then load from KBFS in the background anyway, to verify it (not only as untampered-with, but also as being still the latest version).
This has been around on the Internet for many years.
There's only one way to find out if you can get the level of success you want :)

Unless you wanted to try your luck in the social network space, because there's no way anyone could achieve anything against the clear leader MySpace.
This articl was a bit of a hit job. GitHub is changing as revenue and staff increase. That makes sense. There are always growing pains. A flat, so-called meritocratic structure only works in a few situations. GitHub makes the majority of its revenue from enterprise. It only makes sense to mirror the structure of your most valued customers. A VP of important corporate enterprise customer expects to talk to another VP at GitHub to get things done.

I am not sure there are many success stories for increasing diversity in any industry. There are minor improvements to diversity but not much. At most companies I've worked for, the majority of the HR department were white female and the majority of engineering department were male. It was a very clean separation. I've always found that a bit odd in terms of diversity.

I think it's unfair to class everyone with white skin as "white", or darker skin as black or south asian or middle eastern. There is so much diversity in culture and backgrounds that stretch far beyond skin color. Can we stop classifying people based on skin color and just build great software to make the world a better place?
And the military usage goes back to the early 1900s:

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/re-up
Twitter could just make it so the algorithmic timeline is implemented as a "show me what I missed" feature via a button. Exactly what FB should have done. Good UX can sidestep this entire issue.