skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm still struggling to see how free banking or local currencies actually addresses many people not having enough access to resources to be able to fulfil their potential or even to eat, which is the principal problem social democrats aim to solve. It doesn't really matter whether my landlord wants payment in dollars or also accepts Bitcoin, gold, valuns or blue chip company scrip if I don't actually have anything to offer him at the end of the month and am not considered creditworthy. A corollary of Gresham's law is that currencies or currency-like trading arrangements built to extend credit to society's most unfortunate (and least productive) are the ones that people will be least willing to accept.

Private trading circles or backing currency with commodities (usually natural resources mined by oligopolies) would seem to veer towards making society more unequal rather than less.
Stash (Bitbucket Server now) lacks a ton of features that Bitbucket (and Github) have. Like most Atlassian products, the base product has subpar functionality that you can theoretically expand with overpriced and/or low-quality plugins.

Also, the degree to which Atlassian products integrate varies a lot. FishEye and Crucible integrate closely. Both of them integrate OK with Jira. Neither of them really integrate at all with Stash, which has its own implementation of code browsing, search, and review. Jira and Stash integrate acceptably, but not very flexibly, and not to a level that surpasses any number of third-party integrations.

And there's no level of integration that would make Confluence worth using.

There is no good reason to be a full-boat Atlassian shop, period. If Jira is what you want, use it; I'm not a huge fan of it conceptually but it there's nothing wrong with it. Crucible is decent if you're willing to put the effort in to get it set up for your workflow. Nothing else of theirs I've used is worth the time it takes to set up, let alone the cost.
The owner of this Youtube channel works at VPRI with Alan Kay. I believe he mentioned he got a bunch of these tapes from Alan, which he has then been digitizing and uploading now and then.

A number of these ACM talks were recently made available on Youtube by the Computer History Museum [1], with talks/reflections by Butler Lampson, Chuck Tacker, Doug Engelbart, Larry Roberts, Gordon Bell, and many more.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/user/ComputerHistory/videos
You are describing the most convoluted way of using Bitcoin. You just don't do USD->USD transfers with BTC. Instead you hold an amount of BTC and you pay with BTC for services that accept BTC. Conversion USD->BTC and BTC->USD is hard simply because banking system is trying to make it hard.

> If I send $10 to my Dad in bitcoin

Have you tried to use BTC to do business with Amish? Or any other made-up situations where you force BTC on people who don't know how it works or have no business using it?
Better yet - disable credit card donations and stick to just PayPal accounts. A set of people who are willing to donate, have a credit card, but not a PP account is vanishingly small.
> The OS mouse trail was super useful on LCD screens with sluggish pixels: without it, the cursor would be essentially invisible if you moved the mouse too fast.

It's also (still) super useful for visually impaired users.
To measure the validity of the article's claim you'd want to look at how many people are moving one way or the other, not how many states are moving one way or the other.
"But, why were the Japanese more appreciative of the insect kingdom than Westerners?"

I'm not sure why the author believes the preceding paragraphs makes that case.
"But how do those centuries justify focusing only on white people in that slide, if the goal of the slide is diversity?"

Again, no one said white people can't be involved. It says it is not for white people to lead. No one is leaving white people out of this.

"...and there are valid reasons to indeed want a presence of underrepresented minorities, because it's about them."

Think about that for a second. Do you see the subtlety in what you're saying? You're acknowledging that some power should be yielded from those that hold it "because it's about them", but you're not giving people of color the power to run the thing that is in and of itself about them. Only giving up token pieces instead of yielding power is one of many ways that white supremacy gets passed on over the centuries.
Reviewed: Dungeons and Dragons 5th edition
It's still happening.

"The Verge spoke to two users who have been testing the new timeline for a few months. Neither particularly liked it. "I started to get used to it but I still think that it is a terrible idea," Twitter user Robin Bonny told me. "It tears conversations apart, and it's really confusing when some people have been live-tweeting an event and those things get scattered all across my timeline. It makes it extremely hard to follow events, and destroys one of the core values of Twitter, in my opinion." Another user, Coady DiBiase, was only slightly more positive. "It's definitely nice in terms of catching up on things I might've missed, but it's a departure from the core idea of Twitter, so overall it complicates things.""

http://www.theverge.com/2016/2/6/10927874/twitter-algorithmi...
Business journals to tackle publication bias, will publish 'null' results
The entire point of diversity initiatives is that the meritocracy in theory doest not translate into a meritocracy in practice, due to unconscious bias: https://library.gv.com/unconscious-bias-at-work-22e698e9b2d#... as well as other factors.

You're totally right that skills and experiences should be the only way to choose, but right now, tech firms in this society are fundamentally incapable of actually implementing that without diversity initiatives. True meritocracy can only come through promoting diversity.
> 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.

So when Neil deGrasse Tyson talks about his experience constantly being treated as a shoplifter solely based on his race [1], there's "simply no excuse at all"? I'd counter there's simply no excuse at all to attempt silencing necessary discussion about ongoing mass injustice.

[1] http://parade.com/250591/lynnsherr/cosmos-neil-degrasse-tyso...
> "when it's systematic and directed by a privileged ethnic group against an unprivileged ethnic group"

Honest question: does it have to be directed by "a privileged ethnic group" or is it valid if it is by any general group or even a single, privileged person?
"Where Wizards Stay Up Late"[0] is a fascinating account of the invention of the internet (Licklider a major player). I found it to be _much_ more interesting than I expected from the subject material. Highly recommended.

[0] http://www.amazon.com/Where-Wizards-Stay-Up-Late/dp/06848326...
That's delusional conspiracy nonsense. Seriously, take a step back and look at what you're saying.
That's not the standard definition of racism. You're repeating a variation of "racism = prejudice + power", a component of the social justice meme I've been seeing everywhere.

To me it seems like rhetorical sleight of hand, redefining "racism" to depend on a mysterious "power" component which is never adequately demonstrated or explained, or only explained in terms which are themselves actually racist, e.g., "whites have power because most politicians are white".
Why would it be? Are things really so much different where you live as compared to western Europe?
re. 9.jpg: http://www.mymodernmet.com/profiles/blogs/francoise-nielly-v...
x-y and x - y meaning different things seems like a great source of errors to me
The Hardest IQ Question Ever: The Work of John Milnor
"Who's making the assumptions, counsellor(?) ?
"

You are.
Let's take what you said
"... aren't running a tech company."

Nothing in the article said he's running the company, you are making an assumption here.

Nothing you have provided at all backups up your claim that "It's often not a good sign when the top engineers or star salesmen aren't running a tech company.
". So there's an unproven statement combined again with the assumption that engineers aren't running the place (the article says it's being run by one of the co-founders, who was an engineer - "Prior to founding GitHub he worked as an engineer at CNET Networks on Gamespot and the launch of Chow.")

"You say he does "corpdev" and the article clearly points out "development of the corporation" has become a big problem.
"

This badly misunderstands what corpdev does.

It's pretty much not worth continuing this discussion, i'm just pointing out that you are making wildly silly generalizations to how to run companies and what the article actually says.
And yeah, you are making a ton of assumptions to do it.
"Prices start at US$2,930" Not bad, considering...

Starting GPU is a Quadro, but it doesn't keep up with a 960... http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/gpu.php?gpu=Quadro+M3000M
I don't have a link, and I'll admit that this is subjective and anecdotal.

I just recall there being a LOT of people who found it perfectly reasonable to oust somebody for long-ago political donations, despite there being no indication that he ever actually discriminated against anyone at Mozilla.

Yeah, you can make arguments that the mere existence of a such past donation creates a symbolically hostile environment, etc. But those arguments seemed pretty thin to me. At the time Eich made that donation, every major Democratic presidential candidate (including Clinton and Obama) were ALSO publicly opposed to marriage equality. So it seemed like extreme mental gymnastics to put a "hate speech" label on Eich.

In the GitHub story today, if you were feeling charitable then you could likewise apply some positive spin too. There IS some context to those slideshow bullet-points and that tweet, which has been buried under the outrage. Once again, I disagree with these messages even when that context is considered. But my point is that it seemed like there were a lot more people willing to do mental gymnastics in the Eich case than in this one.
Seafile is set up in few minutes so even if not encrypted it is a great self-hosted alternative to the usual suspects.
Not quite sure who is downvoting that. Looks like a decent article for people who aren't like "yeah, nothing new here" after seeing the first diagram.

edit: wtf, I love you people.
I understand perfectly. This is precisely what was (and is still to an extent) said of Jews.
Jumping to conclusions about one's status based on how many trinkets they were buried with

Maybe they've like, already thought about this possibility, before making the determinations that they did? Like it's not just the presence of "stuff" but the kinds of stuff (and a whole range of other factors) which distinguish a high-prestige burial from a sacrificial burial.

Being as, you know, they've thinking about these things for years and years, and you haven't.

Jumping to conclusions about the competence of others (based on a snarky observation or two) isn't very helpful, either.
I've been trying to break this catch-22 by experimenting with a language/VM/codebase without any backwards-compatibility guarantees. Instead of freezing interfaces for others to use, I'm going to guarantee instead that I'll have tests showing how to use my mechanisms, and you need to have tests for the programs you write using them. I'll try to make breakage happen in obvious rather than subtle ways, but if you don't write tests you'll be in a world of hurt. If you write thorough tests, however, it might be a grand adventure as we hopefully keep the language supple over time. Who's with me?

Probably nobody :) Oh well, I'll be here by myself getting muddy in this foot path next to the highway. But it might be entertaining to read about what I've been up to.

http://akkartik.name/post/libraries2

http://akkartik.name/post/readable-bad

http://akkartik.name/about

http://akkartik.name/post/mu
> But in terms of censorship and moral guardian attitudes, I'd say America is clearly going right.

Not really. Seriously, not at all. It's just that whenever a group is attacked by another group for something they've said or done, they tend to accuse the other of censorship. It's a frequently misused term.

The most striking recent example I can think of is when a fairly large number of people boycotted Chic-fil-A because the company's ownership was using its money to lobby for far-right social causes. People on the right accused the left of censorship, purely because they don't understand the meaning of the word but they understand that it's a nasty accusation.

If you look at actual instances of censorship, it's really going down. It is a little amazing what you can print and what you can say, compared to a few decades ago. Small towns occasionally do book bans, and the FCC occasionally scolds someone for something they say on-air, but if you look at the content of what's published and put on the air, things are trending closer and closer to anything goes.
Switch to iOS, at least the platform is consistent. And yes, Swift is amazing.
bitbucket for private repos, github for public. No downside there :-)
It is not about the software.

Github has become the number one place to show of your portfolio. Half of job postings these days encourage you to include a link to your GitHub profile.
> believe that discriminating against white men is okay because they enjoy "white privilege", whatever that is

> It is hard to distinguish the anti-white vitriol I see on this page from the antisemitism of yesteryear. It was often said that Jews were over-represented in various occupations not because their industriousness, intelligence or other virtues, but because of devious trickery (they plot together to deprive others of opportunities). I fail to see how the arguments regarding white men are any different.

It's because you don't even make an attempt to understand the terms of the debate. White privilege is a structural, societal-level advantage that white people have stemming from centuries of economic and cultural disenfranchisement of ethnic minorities, that while you personally can't change, can be worked towards overcoming it. Educate yourself before you throw Godwins around.

https://library.gv.com/unconscious-bias-at-work-22e698e9b2d#...

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/06/the-case...
The irony is corporate sales is even less diverse than tech. Bring back the whiskey, the strippers, the boozy sales lunches, the white guys in suits.

I hope this whole SJW-led assault implodes because I just want to get back to writing software.

Make no mistake, this is a political war.
A nice solution was used during development of the Go language: a tool for code rewriting (it was called "go fix"). It allowed the language authors to quickly and easily transform large swaths of code in the standard library, and also let everybody execute the same transformations in any third-party code. Thus enabling rapid and extremely painless iterations. [I'm consciously simplifying the story a bit to make it shorter and more concise, but I'm not hurting the core message I believe.]
The current dominant themes in certain feminism & diversity cliques in our community are openly hostile towards me. I'm a male. I'm white. I'm middle class. I'm heterosexual.

I'm also a leader. I'm a parent of two daughters. My mother had to fight sexism issues in her career. I am supportive of inclusion & diversity. I am trying to raise my girls to be empowered, confident & curious. But the dominant themes in current diversity & feminist circles are so racist & sexist towards me that my first impulse is outrage.

For those of you who share this impulse- I want to provide the piece of perspective that helps me manage my frustration: Our culture operates under a pendulum. Right now, it's bad, but it will swing back.

There are “equality” people who are openly hostile to certain categories of humans based on gender, sexuality & race. This has happened before and it will happen again.

The pendulum will swing back and we'll look back at these people in the same way as certain stale feminists & race marketeers of the 80s, 70s, 60s, 50s etc. The leaders of these ideas in the tech community who focus on gender & race over building products that people want will not last. They get louder & shriller, but wielding bigotry to fight bigotry always fertilizes suspicion.

You can't fight exclusion with exclusion. So don’t worry about these themes. If people aren’t bitching about their bigotry, their relevance wanes.

Just keep trying to do big things. If someone calls you privileged, it doesn't mean it wasn't hard & that you didn't earn it. You don’t have to argue with every person who writes something stupid on the Internet. To hell with those bigots. Their misery does not earn them the right to rob you of your own self worth and success. Diversity means that all perspectives deserve to be heard. It is ok that someone uses the word diversity to ward off white folks from leading. The community eventually rejects this kind of bigotry.

You can find these people worthy of your contempt and still be supportive of diversity & equality. Now ignore these fools and go build your shit.
That's not a problem because subtraction in Racket, as in any Lisp-like, looks like this:

(- x y)
If you pay taxes, your participation is non-zero.
What would happen if an entire nation stopped eating meat?
One year ago I was working as a frontend engineer and although my JS skills were good, my CSS skills were pitiful. Over the course of the year, I sat down and implemented most of material design. Now I can take a look at basically any mockup and wire it up.

I found it very helpful to look at how other people implemented certain components.
10/10. Most of these computer "generated" pieces are not good art. This is painted by a human who knows what it is to be human in the place that is painted: http://turing.deepart.io/t/7.jpg. This is just eh, shit? http://turing.deepart.io/f/7.png.

I am convinced intelligence programming will tackle these issues some day. But apparently not yet.
None of the languages I typically use allow hyphens in identifiers, but I find that kebab-case to be the easiest on the eyes.
> You just don't do USD->USD transfers with BTC.

But that's primarily what I use PayPal for: sending money to family and friends. Paying for my share of dinner, or concert tickets in a group buy, that kind of thing. I will occasionally buy things using PayPal (usually eBay stuff), but mostly, it's simply a money transfer mechanism.

For that, PayPal is perfect and BTC is overkill. Parent said "You obviously have never used Bitcoin." I have. For this, it's a pain whereas PayPal is flawless ever time.

> Conversion USD->BTC and BTC->USD is hard simply because banking system is trying to make it hard.

But is it really that much harder than any other currency exchange? Off the top of my head, I don't even know how I would buy, sell or change Euro to USD without physically going to the bank.

> Have you tried to use BTC to do business with Amish? Or any other made-up situations where you force BTC on people who don't know how it works or have no business using it?

See, it's this type of attitude that makes people groan when talking to bitcoin advocates. You're calling a situation that I have personally encountered and provided a detailed accounting of to back up my assertion "made-up" and comparing me and my family to Amish?

Come down off your high horse, dude.
What's deep about this is how deep it is in uncanny valley. The stuff you're doing is super interesting though, don't take it too harshly.
No, I disagree with that point of view. You see things as groups holding power and that distribution of power shifting. I think that's a combative and counterproductive perspective.

Instead, I focus on fairness and equal treatment. Individuals - all of them - should be given respect and opportunity. That's what really matters, and if we do that, then we can wipe out discrimination and intolerance.

Our points of view lead to some identical things we want - we both want to end any and all existing discrimination against underrepresented minorities. However, from there, there is divergence.

This is a political difference of opinion. It can't easily go away. What I think is important is that people like you and people like me find ways to meet on common ground and work towards those shared goals. But to do so, we have to accept some political viewpoint differences.

Side note: I find comments like "think about that for a second" etc. from you as potentially condescending. As if you're trying to play the role of a teacher, guiding me to some truth that you already grasp. I'm giving you the benefit of the doubt that you didn't mean it that way.
Someone could, perhaps, simply ask Jeff Bezos to create and maintain a sustainable healthy working environment throughout his company, based on metrics such as days called in sick, workplace accidents etc. Or perhaps we need more regulation demanding such.
It's not some grand conspiracy. There's no secret committee toasting to their success. It's just what has happened when the press and a lot of people believe all of the vitriol that comes out of people like Jackson and Sharpton, or lesser known race-baiters in other communities. South Park did a whole episode about this phenomenon (episode titled "With apologies to Jesse Jackson").

I've been a member of multiple institutions that have fallen on the wrong end of this kind of activism. My Catholic high school has been dragged through the local media for not listing a gay marriage in the Marriages section of the alumni magazine. The inter-fraternity council at my alma mater has a speech code for offensive language and a dress code for offensive clothing, like Indian mascots. I saw the behind-the-scenes arm-twisting by the college administration to make them do it. Every big tech company has to pay the protection money here too. Jesse Jackson and his allies in Congress started saying that the tech industry was racist for not having enough black people, a totally absurd accusation because the only reason why there aren't many black employees is that there aren't many black applicants. Then he got invited to a few board meetings, extracted some donations, and went on his way.
Or Watson learns (through gradient descent of course) that you can make wild campaign promises to win the election and not actually execute on that policy because it's more beneficial to make grand promises while running and not rock the boat while in office.
Love the idea, I think you guys are on to something that might not be that big of a hit now, but once the general public starts to enter into this space you'll be in a great position!
the only mention of remote work limitations I saw in the article was specific to senior managers.
It's both or neither depending on how you want to look at it. The problem isn't any website or subculture, the problem is the entire overarching culture being created by digital natives that are coming into their own.

Internet induced sociopathy has infected an entire generation. No conversation is ever a conservation, everything is a performance for the benefit of third parties. Even face to face every conversion is haunted by what will this sound like when it is posted online. No one deserves the benefit of the doubt because they aren't real people, just words on a screen.

It's the so-called SJWs and the alt-right. It's GG and anti-GG. It's facebook and tumblr and twitter and reddit and lord knows 4chan.

It's sick, it's no ones fault, it's probably unfixable and that's heartbreaking.