skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You cannot prove meritocracy doesn't work. Fortunately you don't have to. The burden of proof is required for positive claims.

We don't have a lot of evidence meritocracy works. We have several pieces of evidence suggesting that it, in fact, didn't serve github very well. The fact there was a sexual harassment lawsuit with a barely kept secret about a whole group of women bound by arbitration and non-disparage agreements is probably evidece it doesn't.

The sad part, most people will never really understand how much Tom sacrificed to protect his friends during his final days there.
The record setter I saw was 1,500 lines from two JDBC exceptions.
I think you are teasing me, but my answer would be: no, it doesn't count. The Turing test is about "understanding". The filtering of those images has no understanding of what the images are about.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9251952

Previous previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6331565

Previous previous previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5403988

Or consider this followup: "Everything is Bullshit": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7945256

So this has me wondering, I've heard about people having their cremated remains condensed into a diamond. How much carbon can be extracted from a pile of cow dung? It might be possible to form an artificial diamond from actual bullshit.
Would love to see any data on that. I think people are probably taking all the good stuff for granted and developing a sense of entitlement and that is probably a problem.
Unfortunately, I can't say this is unexpected: http://breuleux.github.io/earl-grey/repl/
Just curious, what makes them obviously fraudulent?
Can you people please not pollute this board with your over the top non-sense?
Classic root vulnerability – traceroute and bad memory management (2000)
If you want more like I did, this interview with Licklider's son contains quite a bit of information:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mi4pVeyAhU0

And this is only a minute long but has some great clips of Licklider and Larry Roberts. Anybody know what broadcast it came from?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GfOTUoBpRw
Fantastic point. In a sea of not-fantastic points.
Potentially, but at the exclusion as I say of anyone who simply doesn't have those sort of funds. Can a local food business afford 100k+ for a chef? It appears to me that this would disallow many smaller businesses from being able to utilize specialty or cultural labor. Thus my suggestion to address violations of the intent of the law; yes, more game-able, but actually gets at the root of the problem.
Photos.app is atrocious from a UI perspective. It's an iOS app shoehorned onto OS X. How to back up your library to, oh, I don't know, an external disk? Drink the kool aid or else.
"Situation is real, but the problem is made up". You did made up that point, after all.

Once again - if you are using other currency, being it BTC, CHF, EUR, RUB or CNY, you are exposing yourself and counterparty to exchange rate fluctuations. Difference is - with BTC you have some extra possibilities.

As for PayPal - yeah, it's a breeze until it's not. I.e. until they've blocked your account because reasons. With BTC I own my money. With PayPal, PayPal owns me.
Just to point out... the US is the western only country on the planet which cares, or even mentions, people's skin colour/race AT ALL.

Literally every other western country calls people... people. A man is "a man" not "a green/blue/pink/red/etc man". A women is "a women" not "a green/blue/pink/red/etc woman".

Continuously giving skin colour qualifiers in descriptions of people... is (to non-US people) bizarre, and seems to be a large part of the language used to keep racism alive in the US.

That's as far as I've been able to tell so far anyway. :(
> People today are unhappy.

I look around on the subway in the morning and almost everyone has this glum, unhappy expression on their face.
How long ago did you see that? And where?

The median price for a single-family home in the Bay Area is $841,560 as of Summer 2015.
Well put. As someone who comes from India which has tried at tested all sort of welfare to see no benefits I know how important it is to keep government out of as many things as possible. Some lame ass reforms alone pulled millions of Indians out of poverty while billions of dollars on welfare could not.

I spent more money on my education in USA that what my parents had earned over their lifetime, without any government support. I wonder why American youngsters are so pessimistic about their future. If a poor Indian can come here and kill it they have no excuse.
HA! no.
What's being advocated by this '...NOT THINK... NOT MENTION...' is essentially racial pacifism. In theory, yes, we shouldn't perpetrate violence or war upon each other. But if those who seek to eliminate violence rely solely on pacifism, it leaves those with no such intentions to perpetuate war uncontested. Should people ignore genocide because they idealize a non-violent future?

The thought promoted by the OP (of this idea) seems to imply that by setting an example behavior based on our ideals, others, with no such ideals, will somehow be compelled to adopt them. I just can't imagine anyone actually thinks that's true.

A German citizen in 1940 doesn't want anyone to see murder in the world, so he sets an example by NOT THINKING and NOT MENTIONING murder. And millions of people get murdered by his fellow countrymen who don't share the same ideals.

Pacifism has it's place and is often respectable. But non-confrontational, silent pacifism is a holey personal journey and has little hope of having any influence outside oneself.
>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.<

IMO, the resources aren't there...and it's not complicated...

Cyber crime, fraud, identity theft...the manpower is simply not there to keep up with it all...sometimes you're lucky if someone has the time to complete a ticket, or report...

It's very possible conditions could get much, much worse before/if they improve...

IMHO, at a business level all sorts of decisions are being made that aren't going to be popular with the public...
Remember 2005? 43 Folders? That was awesome.
I'm not an expert, but LinkedIn doesn't seem that awful a company at $14 billion market cap, especially given the following:

- The have $3 billion in cash [0]

- They are cash-flow positive, and have a $3 billion run rate. (So taking the cash out of the picture, their market cap is less than 4x revenue)

- Many business people (high value customers) use them many times a day.

- May people pay for the service. (I've paid as both a job-seeker and hiring manager)

- They have a stranglehold on executive search, with enormous pricing power.

- They have done this on the back of a dated product, without much evolution. This isn't the negative that it sounds like. It highlights their market strength. (Bloomberg and Salesforce are similar examples)

While the lack of future growth may warrant a price drop, I think they're taking a lot of heat for the industry as a whole. If they deserve a 40% drop, many others deserve much worse.

[0] https://www.google.com/finance?q=NYSE%3ALNKD&ei=oIa2VuGwD4WK...
Think about the press. How often do you see "joe schmoe did something stupid" vs "celebrity did something stupid"?

Now, if you are rich and powerful, but not enough so to be famous, then I could see your point.
OK, I can readily believe lots of our problems stem from subconscious biases. But what do you think about the questions I posed? Are we trying to create a world where we don't care about body attributes? If so, do you advocate doing the exact opposite behavior (deliberately paying attention to body attributes and factoring them into decisions) for some temporary period and then stopping?
Exactly. Some aspect of the product should be 10x better than the competition.

Could be 10x lower operating costs by moving an on-premise solution to the cloud.

Could be 10x faster config and deployment.
Obviously this is a controversial sentiment but it's refreshing to see somebody state it so plainly. The idea that I get special privileges I didn't earn is uncomfortable, but if we're going to try and change that I am scared of a simple reversal in which we punish me for being part of a privileged class.

That said, I don't think I "prefer" anything about the way the world works now.
My very first task with RTM was on March 2011 "Try out Remember The Milk" and ever since then I've been using it almost every day, great app, really fits well with my life style. BTW I really love the upgrade!
...I'm not seeing how this relates to GitHub. Did GitHub hire the authors of those articles..?
Not proven. Only about 93% of humans have died. The correlation between being human and dying is remarkably weak in recent decades.
I think we'll go with https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.larry.denenberg.com....
Last I checked, git on TFS didn't support certificate based authentication.
I'm refusing to accept the split between "we" and "they" based on appearance or minor biological factors.

Show me a discrete situation where this results in bad decision making on my side, and I'll change my behavior.
Votes affect ordering even of top level comments.

As far as I understand it you mostly don't see it because once a thread gets to the top it is receiving a net positive stream of incoming vote and since it is already at the top it will receive more votes that threads further down the page.

Sometimes threads are detached by admins and end up at the bottom of the page. In those cases they are usually (possibly always) clearly marked as such.
Well to be fair, a white man's opinion on racism or sexism is sort of like a Pacific Islander's idea of how cold it is in Siberia. But on the other hand being ignorant does not make you less-than-human which seems to have become a common opinion in the age of Twitter lynch mobs.
Maybe they want to move encryption onto the sensor chip in future generations, because the scheme you described is indeed a joke.

But to be honest, it's not like fingerprints are such a hard to obtain secret in the first place.
ls -l ~/.bashrc
Paypal provide fraud management filters via the API. Payments can be flagged based on a variety of criteria and automatically rejected or held pending until they are manually reviewed. If you require more sophisticated fraud management tools, I would suggest using a payment gateway service.

https://developer.paypal.com/docs/classic/fmf/integration-gu...
France takes this stance on matters of race. So much so any numbers regarding race in France are simply estimates because there are no official numbers.

In practice so far, it hasn't fared any better, but probably not worse either.

Like in the U.S., one of the biggest hindrances or obstacles to success is segregation (forced or by choice). Wanting success essentially entails assuming the culture and practices of the successful, but for some fraction of people, being malleable and becoming like the mainstream is antithetical as it's interpreted as "giving in" to the larger culture, while simultaneously wanting to be part of the larger culture and to be accepted by the larger culture. So there is that ambivalence.

Personally, if I wanted to succeed in China or Mexico, I'm willing to bet I'd improve my chances by adopting local customs, manners and attitudes, rather than being steadfast about my own. [it's somewhat peculiar some Americans are sheepish about being "too American" while abroad but simultaneously believe that integration into the mainstream isn't all that necessary. It tells me that their brain tells them one thing, but in practice, when given the opportunity, try to be like Romans while in Rome]

Personally, I think people put too much stock in group identity over say, personal identity. But you know, let people do as they wish.
Do white-passing gay people not get to have a say in diversity issues?

I really don't like this trend of painting everyone with white-ish skin as a homogenous oppressor class. It's pretty clear to me that a diversity department that explicitly bans white people from leadership positions will not represent my interests if I am discriminated against.
That would be a great point if it wasn't competing in a marketplace with other products. None of those pro features make me go "wow, this saves me so much time" compared to other offerings.

My argument isn't that paying $40 for software a year is obscene, it's that this particular feature set in the competitive space is not worth $40 to me. And correct me if I'm wrong, but if I actually wanted to use these features with my girlfriend, would we not have to both spend $40?
Everyone is biased[1], even toward groups they themselves belong to. It's impossible not to think about it. Biases are hard-wired into humans.

To come anywhere near social equality, you have to recognize your own biases and actively ignore them.

1. http://www.boston.com/news/science/blogs/science-in-mind/201...
I have yet to come across a person who keeps up with their todo list on a daily basis.
Don't forget another one (used by openstack projects):

http://docs.openstack.org/developer/taskflow/

Comments/questions welcome!
Strongly considering moving my private repos and dumping my paid GitHub subscription.
If we could all grow up and act like professionals, that would be great. I have a hard time understanding why the tech industry always tends to create this much drama.

At the end of the day, this is about software, not about your genitals. I don't care if you're liberal or conservative, black or white, straight or gay, or anything in between! In fact, i won't bring it up, or ask. I simply do not care, the only thing i care about is your pull request.

How any company can include a slide like the one in the article (backup link here: http://i.imgur.com/p5zwScc.png) is absolutely beyond me. I am paying you to make a great product, not to make daily diversity meetings.
As you say, it's about conventions, but with a case-Sensitive system you are more likely going to HAVE TO enforce naming conventions, because there's a distinction now. Otherwise you'd write "MidiPort"/"MIDIPort"/"midiPort" or what have you.

Keep in mind we wouldn't need to care about enforcing case in a style guide, if case didn't matter, because there are no distinctions, and you'd be more inclined to write it the natural way; no camelCase to overrule ambiguation in writing "MIDI Port" as midiPort, or MidiPort, MIDIport, etc.

Case-sensitivity only creates unnecessary dissonance, and leads to clever uses of that system, adding even more choice; and as we know from The Matrix, the problem is choice. ;)

So if we keep it closer to how we would normally read and write words, I think there would be less dissonance about that aspect of programming, or naming files for that matter.
I don't see how your comment relates to mine. My point was that the simple fact of the existence of downvotes alone are a wholly insufficient basis for reaching a conclusion about #hnwatch.

Its too common for people to be so certain of their own viewpoint that they will simply assume the worst (ie racism and sexism) of anyone who disagrees with them, rather than consider that their critics might have damn good (non-racist, non-sexist) reasons for disagreeing with them.
This is like saying I shouldn't be worrying about my budget, because in the future that I am trying to create where I have plenty of money, I won't need to.
I think America is already in the left, and now is moving a bit to the right, although still in the left of the centre.
All gone!
Oh yes. No one is any better than anyone else at anything. In fact, github isn't a better hosted SCM/code review/issue tracking platform than any other. Which makes sense, because none of their employees are better at doing anything than anyone else. It's all just a rationalization, and a lie. Old boys club all the way down.

But why didn't the old boys club decide to have microsoft's hosted team foundation server win? Or sourceforge? The silicon valley conspiracy is hard to understand at times ...
I think it is definitely over-engineered. If it is a scare tactic to bring people to Apple repair centers why isn't this happening with other Apple products?
Hunh. My bad, I was under the impression (based off some other comments) that replacing the home button/finger scanner with a legit one and updating the security pair would make the issue go away, but looks like I was wrong.
Wow, you've been using it since 2005? I didn't realize until just now they actually went live Oct 11th, 2005. It's already been over 10 years since they started this thing.
I pretty much declared todo bankruptcy a while ago. Now I just use Siri for scheduled reminders, and I've recently started playing wtih shared Reminders lists, which was a feature I wasn't aware of until I found it by accident.
> "We need to start learning how to simply NOT THINK about race, and
> NOT MENTION IT." We live in a world where this is not remotely possible.
> Suggesting it is the worst sort of idealism.

This saddens me.

I'm somewhat curious on knowing some other data points on your spectrum of (bad) idealism..

But the 'not remotely possible' claim sounds like you've decided for all of us that we're incapable of ever thinking of skin colour in the future the same way we think of, say, hair colour today.

I suspect your position is based upon your current cultural surroundings, in which case I'd prescribe travel. Lots of it.
Dear Google or Facebook,

Please buy Twitter and improve their product. Both these companies know how to create a product that delight users at the end of the day.
Why don't they just make it optional? Also, why do they refuse to give users the one thing they want, an edit button? Seems so simple to me. What am I missing?
You haven't been paying much attention then. Especially with all of the refugees coming into Europe, there is absolutely racism and discrimination based on race.

There is also a long history of racism in Australia towards the indigenous population, and more recently towards immigrants.

Pretty much everywhere you have two different cultures meeting you have racism. The modern western cultures are no exception.
I'm expecting a 30-40% decline in S&P 500, 30% decline in bay area real estate values, 30% of bay area "well-funded" startups going bust, and 25% reduction in market rate pay for software engineers over the next 2 years. Hopefully that will turn out to be a gloomy forecast, but it's best to prepare for the worst.

I don't dispute your gloom, but I challenge your %s.

- "Well Funded Startups" have a >1 correlation to the overall stock market. (Market moves 10%, they move higher than 10%) So if we see a several year 30-40% decline in the S&P, this will cause more than 30% of the "well-funded" startups to go bust. Anyone who can't switch to cash flow positive would have a high likelihood of going under.

- Real Estate values tend to move slower than stock market prices. (People can ride the market out, and just not sell the house) It would take a very sustained market hit to cut real estate by 30%. Also, much of the money fleeing China is coming to the Bay Area. (This isn't to say that it couldn't happen, but you'd need to see 5+ years of a depressed stock market) The reason it tanked so much in 2008 was that the bubble was in the financing mechanism.

- I think if you count equity, the market rate pay for engineers would get hit worse. Options that on-paper are worth 500K can quickly go to zero in a down round. Other variable comp will get hit too. Not sure about base salaries. Even in an enormous down market, most of the world will still be short engineers. In 2001 the folks who got crushed were the Marketing majors posing as Web Engineers.

You didn't mention my big hope though... A 30-50% reduction in Bay Area commute times! :-)

One bright side to a crash - it is better to start a company where good talent is plentiful and cash is scarce, than the other way around.
It's more that they imply the poster is really angry. If you saw two speakers in the street, one arguing reasonably and the other swearing his head off, I think most people would place less value on the ranter.
GPS isn't accurate enough to keep a car in the right lane. You need maybe 0.5m resolution for that, and GPS only gives you 3m or so.
I looked into this problem extensively a few years ago. Banks are actually moving backwards. The ones that previously exposed an API are killing them off and moving to a proprietary API that talks only to their app. Every retail bank is basically creating their own version of Mint, where you add your accounts from other institutions to their app.
Or they would spend more time hanging out with friends and getting drunk in public, the pan-cultural pastime of unemployed young men.
Is that true though?

I know a few people over 30 with ridiculously accommodating parents who still live at home and play MMOs for 12+ hours a day. I feel sometimes the solution for many people is to simply force people to do what's best for them.
Economics is an art, not a science. (As much as they like to pretend otherwise)
Well, first, this talk is mostly about gender, which is completely different than race.

If you think about what race really is, it's not what it seems (unlike sex and gender, which have not only a more consistent historical difference, and a stronger biological one as well). Race is more cultural than anything else.

Sure it starts with physical traits, but whether or not you're black, white, or asian, does not depend on your biology. You're actually not born that way (even if the labels make it seem like you belong to a certain geographical location, they're just labels), and the proof is people who are of mixed race.

People who are half black, half white, from my experience, they choose which culture to belong to, and we all confuse it with their race. Obama is a great example. People saying he's our "black" president. What? What does that really mean? He's clearly half white, half black, so why is he a "black president"? That statement is inaccurate, and people should always say, he's our first "half black, half white, president". So what's going on there? People just categorize themselves, and it's just a matter of the stories and memes they adopt from a set of some kind of cultural background. In other words, it's all made up. Half-white, half-black people often choose to be black because they think black is cool. They adopt that culture and roll with it.

So in short, if people keep categorizing themselves, there's no way out of this. Categorization will lead to division among people. "Black" people are just Americans with a different sub-culture, that's it. "Black" people are just as racially diverse among themselves as they are in comparison to "white" people. There are "blacks" from east Africa, west Africa, and Saudi Arabia. Every "black" group is culturally and ethnically different. Why group them?

I'll recognize there is a history to be dealt with here. And that is that we've inherited inequality that is for the most part based on skin color (because that's how our ignorant ancestors decided to categorize people), so that division of inequality still lingers. But there is a case for both repairing the damage, while at the same time getting everyone to forget there is any kind of racial categorization. There is only sub-cultures within American culture.
Cinderella story: Son of unskilled factory worker, picked up for Rs 3.2cr. #IPL
CEO Dorsey responds to Twitter timeline outrage
While we've got your attention, the number one feature I'd like to see is installation and configuration that meshes well with devops tools.like Chef, Puppet or Ansible. Your current installers require multiple phases of installing the files/dbs and then interacting with running apps via a web ui to configure.

Could you make it so that you could just lay down files, attach storage and start the service?

Also, clustering (active/active) word be awesome.