skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You obviously have never used Bitcoin.

One of the big problems with using bitcoin for something like this is you're not just sending money. Your converting to a different currency, sending money, and converting it back. It would be akin to me wanting to send money to my Dad by converting it to Euro first, sending it, and him converting it back to USD. Neither of us have any interest or use for money in Euro or bitcoin. We both have/need USD.

You also get the volatility of bitcoin. If I send $10 to my Dad in bitcoin, it might be $9 by the time he gets around to converting it to USD. Or $11. Bitcoin could plunge in value (for seemingly no reason that I can tell) and be worth $5. I have no way of knowing what the value of that will be for him when he gets it.

If I want to send my Dad $10 on PayPal, he gets $10. He gets it instantly in his PayPal account as $10. If he transfers it immediately to his bank, it'll be $10. If he transfers it next week, it'll still be $10. It's guaranteed in value.

Also, I don't know if this is still the case but dealing with bitcoin is a pain. If I want to buy bitcoin at Coinbase and I don't have a credit card linked to my account (until recently, you couldn't even use Mastercard), I have to wait a few days for my BTC to arrive, even though they are directly linked to my checking account. I have no idea what the value of my BTC will be when it finally arrives a few days later. I have to send it to my Dad, he has to sell it back to USD (at least at Coinbase, at a lesser rate than buying it). The value could change dramatically at any of those steps.

And if you want to add a card at Coinbase, yeah, that's fun. When I added my card, my bank immediately kicked the attempted authorization out for fraud reasons. 10 minutes later my bank called me about it and I approved it, but the Coinbase told me I couldn't try again for a week. So I had to wait another week before trying to add my Mastercard again.

Bitcoin has a lot of usability issues for non-tech people. And using it for a simple USD->USD money transfer is like using a jackhammer when you need a scalpel.
>helped big traders a little
>reduced HFT

don't big traders use HFT as a market advantage over retail?
That's a good point, I suppose I should focus more on the learning than the income for the first project.
It might. I don't think it passes the Occam's Razor test, though - given Google, I'm more inclined to go with 'an algorithm did something automatically somewhere.'
Probably Donald Knuth's book "3:16 Bible Texts Illuminated" where Knuth goes through chapter 3, verse 16, of most books in the Bible.

http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~uno/316.html

http://www.amazon.com/3-16-Bible-Texts-Illuminated/dp/089579...

While we’re at it, Knuth has also released a book (which is just transcripts of 5-6 lectures) wherein he discusses the 3:16 project: "Things a Computer Scientist Rarely Talks About"

http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~uno/things.html

http://www.amazon.com/Things-Computer-Scientist-Language-Inf...
MLK, Jr. didn't mirror it, nor did he need to.
Whether Republican Watson or Democrat Watson wins, it's already an improvement in that Watson, being a computer, will actually execute policy the same way he said he would during his campaign.
Distant Hammers: Notes on Art and the Apocalypse
Right? I thought conflating those disparate concepts was very weird.
Too late. The pitchforks are out, the angry nerd mob is on a crusade now.
I am literally sick of Google, they discontinued ADT when ADT was the only option for developing the native app for android, and then they introduce new ndk support in Android Studio, now after almost half year, nothing.No news about official final native support.

If it was not ready, why did they introduced it in Google IO? for messing with people's mind?

They make me angry because it is my job, And it make me really much more productive. When I tried Visual Studio native development for mobile, it was beyond anything google has been provided for developers.

I so missed Microsoft tools, And I am begging to our customer to switch to IPhone or Windows Phone.

It is interesting to see how google gets competitive. for years people were begging to google to introduce new emulator, and here it is, just after Microsoft released their android emulator which is super efficient. Coincidence? I don't think so.
"Racism" is a system where a racial group with a monopoly on power in society arranges the rules of that society to continue priveleging their own racial group. "Bigotry" is when you dislike someone because of their race. And the comments that everyone on HN are getting all in their feelings about are neither bigoted nor racist; they are basic, uncontroversial observations from people who have been doing anti-racist and anti-sexist work since before most members of HN's audience had heard either of those terms.
If you're looking for a final external "push" from a stranger, you've come to the right place. Start it. Build the thing you envision. Don't worry about competition in your space for now. Build the best product you can. Learn the stuff you want to learn. Show it to people. Talk about it with clients. Life is short and you only get one shot at it.
You struggled because you couldn't afford the talent you needed, the talent that I'm sure already existed in the country. It's not a talent shortage, it's a cost issue.
We've recently started using it at work and the lack of profiles and graphs (without paying for oddly priced plugins) is quite unfortunate as well.

It was quite disappointing, especially since Gitlabs was on the table as an option but we opted for Bitbucket since we added JIRA a couple years ago.

If the smart people here have any suggestions on how to make Bitbucket look more line GitHub, I'd love to hear.
Yes, I guess it's still curated to some extent but I've clicked on the little menu for items I don't want to see a while bunch of times now and FB appears to be doing what I want it to mostly.
You may not have a problem with it, but hiring based on gender or race is illegal.
"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.
Thank you for that context, that's extremely helpful. I was totally with him until the white male stuff, sadly.
Meritocracy is only good for you if you're better than most people. It's in most people's interest to dislike meritocracy.
> I think camelCase easily beats underscores, but I also think it can reduce clarity a bit as soon as one uses abbreviations or mnemonics that commonly are written in all caps in identifiers.

For my money, I'll take Python conventions of CamelCase for a few things and underscores for the rest. I find underscores a lot more readable (the omnipresence of CamelCase is one of these things that irk me about C#, though it's not as bad as the mutant mix that is Capitalized_underscore which you see in some OCaml codebases).
It has more to do with the current cultural war in USA than anything else. Like all wars it's about power, it's a power grab.

"Reverse-racism" is now an acceptable ideology in the media and in the tech community, and all the social-studies crowd now get jobs as "diversity officers" in Tech companies. It isn't going to end well for some companies, that might get "disrupted" from the inside because of people pushing politics before anything else.
Yes, it should be an interesting story, how these people took over from the inside, if we ever get to hear it.
If you have easy H-1B transfers (which we do), then this is not an issue since the H-1B worker would have no motivation to stick on in a lower wage job.
This was really good listening for a lazy Saturday. He pretty much outlays the road to tablet PCs, massive LCD TVs, etc.
I do, but I don't use the encrypted libraries. I found it to be way faster than OwnCloud and stayed with it afterwards. No idea whether this changed since.

But I agree that they don't take security as serious as they should. I reported an issue with a deterministically named world readable cache directory (https://forum.seafile-server.org/t/security-security-issue-a...) and suggested that they move it inside the Seafile data directory, as this would allow to run multiple installations beside each other and also prevent races where a different user creates the directory, before Seafile does. The suggestion was dismissed as “/tmp is standard, so we will not change this”.

I solved this issue on my box using SystemD's PrivateTmp feature.
> Curious. Are there examples of programming languages that allow spaces in identifiers? Obviously, it would need to be designed for that.

At least Tcl allows spaces in identifiers, but to 'use' such identifiers one does have to add a bit of extra 'sugar' to prevent the code parser from interpreting the spaces as token separators:

Example of spaces in a variable name:

$ rlwrap tclsh
% set "var name with spaces" "contents of the variable"
contents of the variable
% puts ${var name with spaces}
contents of the variable
% set "var name with spaces"
contents of the variable

Example of spaces in a procedure (function) name (the first line defines the procedure):

% proc {my space proc} {string} {puts "'my space proc' called with string='$string'"}

% {my space proc} "hello how are you"
'my space proc' called with string='hello how are you'
% "my space proc" "the quick brown fox"
'my space proc' called with string='the quick brown fox'
% set pn "my space proc"
my space proc
% $pn "this that and the other"
'my space proc' called with string='this that and the other'

So there you have at least one example.
If you're going into a market with an existing market leader, you need to make sure you have a better way of attracting customers.

A lot of engineer types don't understand the sales cycle and how to design their sales funnel to capture curious visitors and cultivate them into paying customers.

Before launching a SAAS, look at whether you have a plan on attracting your "ideal customer" at a rate that makes economic sense to start your business venture.
Protecting everyone is important, but at this point we think disproportionately about people in cars when considering safety. We should be looking at the fact you are vastly more likely to be killed per mile walking or riding than driving. This despite the fact that walking (or cycling) don't even involve hurtling yourself through space at 60mph. (For motorcycles it's not a huge surprise to see higher morbidity, of course, since you combine high speeds AND lack of protection).

In short, we've made driving a car safe, possibly by making it really easy to die doing anything but driving a car. Making drivers nervous, slow, and cautious should help with this. (Correlation =\= causation, I realize). How safe do you feel crossing a busy street with an uncontrolled crosswalk? I hate it - drivers don't actually understand they're supposed to stop. How about bicycling on public roads? Waiting in stop and go traffic on your motorcycle hoping the person texting behind you doesn't pancake you between them and the truck in front of you? (This is a good reason to lane split, btw, or at least adopt a lane position such that if you are hit you get thrown into empty space and not a vehicle).

On a motorcycle you're thirty times as likely to die per mile as you are in a car.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorcycle_safety

On a bicycle you're twice as likely to die _per trip_ - the rate per mile is much higher since people tend to cycle shorter distances than they drive.
http://www.cdc.gov/MMWR/preview/mmwrhtml/mm6431a1.htm

Pedestrian data is hard to gather well since people don't log walking miles like driving miles, but they are also more likely to die per trip, and again, since people walk shorter distances than they drive, almost certainly more likely to die per mile;

"...Pedestrians are over-represented in the crash data, accounting for 14 percent of all traffic fatalities but only 10.9 percent of trips.... "

"In 2013, 4,735 pedestrians and 743 bicyclists were killed in crashes with motor vehicles (National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Traffic Safety Facts). "
http://www.pedbikeinfo.org/data/factsheet_crash.cfm
All "diversity" programs, along with other legalisms like "minority" status, "historically disprivileged groups", etc. are entirely about anti-white racism and dispossession. They have no moral standing and no logical consistency, and they don't pretend to, nor do they even need to. It's utilitarian and provides benefits to a specific group at the expense of another.

I'm happy GitHub is getting to experience the runaway consequences of this toxic and repugnant ideology. Couldn't have happened to a more deserving group of "progressive" folks.
Looks like they trade "structure based purely on meritocracy" by "promote diversity".

I don't see how this can go well. Meritocracy is important among dev and open source. And they don't care about political diversity. I can only imagine this new "culture of fear" where you can't hire white people (even woman).

Skills and experiences should be the only way to choose who you hire, not race or gender.

Anyway, looks like a good time to switch from github to open source solutions.
He also got assassinated before he had the opportunity. He could have been Ghandi, or he could have been Al Sharpton or Jesse Jackson.
At least for [2], I'd suggest the community around Github is the reason many are reluctant to leave.
If you're seeking to stay within the Atlassian ecosystem, the product that you're looking for is actually FishEye[0]. (Yes, yes, paying money, etc., but if you're a large organization, you're already used to buying stuff off the shelf to solve problems like this.)

On the other hand, if you don't feel like drinking the Atlassian sugary beverage with an odd taste, there's LXR[1] (and LXRng[2]), OpenGrok[3] (remember OpenGrok?), and Etsy's Hound[4], not to mention Russ Cox's standalone Go implementation of Google's code search tool[5].

0: https://www.atlassian.com/software/fisheye
1: http://lxr.sourceforge.net/
2: Ironically enough, search Github. lxr.linux.no went down some time ago.
3: http://opengrok.github.io/OpenGrok/
4: https://github.com/etsy/Hound
5: https://github.com/google/codesearch
I wonder if remote-work culture helps with diversity. It obviously does with geographic culture diversity, and with nationality (due to visas), but does it particularly help with racial or gender or age or anything else?

I'd assume it does with gender diversity (since women more often end up taking care of kids/elders/etc. even with a full time job of their own); race/ethnicity seems more indirect.
But I guarantee that in Github's book, I'm one of the "white folks" that shouldn't be leading this.

I don't see how you can guarantee that. Don't get me wrong, I totally understand what you're saying. But this is a one-line bullet point in a slideshow, I'd like to see some more context before I grab my pitchfork.
Ah nice, I had just seen a video of the Commando theme being played on the new pocket operators[1] and it reminded me of the Chipophone. No wonder it seemed familiar...

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihjcUuGttKU
The title should really read "Knuth 3:16 (20002)"

>> Copyright © 20002 Larry Denenberg
>"He was an enthusiastic musician, though exactly which was his instrument is a subject of some dispute (the most likely candidates are the accordion, jew's harp, and flugelhorn)."

It seems the author missed or forgot the legendary pipe organ.

http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~uno/organ.html
When is the disease distinct from the cure? At a certain point, we need to move forward and strive towards a harmonious ideal. Otherwise we delay true equality.
It's a protection racket. If you don't have these worthless diversity officers, if you don't kiss Jesse Jackson's ass when he accuses you of racism, they drag you through the media with the worst implications and associations put next to your name.
What if I connect to your PC using a vpn so it looks like it's just you watching it? I tried connecting to the UK national lottery from abroad via a VPN to my home PC and they could tell.
It is satirical. If you go to the main page, at http://www.larry.denenberg.com/ , you'll see this is described as "a celebration of Don Knuth". The jokes require you to understand who Donald Knuth is and what he's done. A premise is that we're in the far future (20002), and some of the details are fuzzy.

It starts with the title. "Knuth 3:16" makes it sound like Knuth wrote one of the books of the bible. Among CS researches, Knuth's works are held in high esteem.

The "3:16" part more specifically refers to Knuth's study of chapter 3 verse 16 of every book of the Bible. See http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~uno/316.html .

The analysis is of the 16'th sentence of the 3rd chapter of some of Knuth's (presumed) most famous works, plus commentary.

"He was an enthusiastic musician" likely refers to the organ in his house http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~uno/organ.html .

The text "he started life as a college football coach" refers to Knute Rockne, who is shown in the picture. This is a joke on the similarity of Knuth and Knute, with the premise that in 20002 these two famous people have been blurred into one.

"Big Dummies Guide to Visual Basic" refers to a Dr. Fun (2000) cartoon at http://www.ibiblio.org/Dave/Dr-Fun/df200002/df20000210.jpg as if it were real.
Actually, I don't see a big problem with SV companies getting the lion's share of H-1B visa allocations if they are for the highest paying jobs. I would argue that this would ensure that everyone is better off -- workers in Seattle area will see their wages increase while SV companies have (properly) high-priced access to the talent that they claim they cannot get locally.
The most interesting part of this are the links to the actual reviews
It is a great idea to go after an existing niche with an established leader. Why? Because people have already figured out how to acquire customers and make money.

For example, t-shirts were invented forever ago. Plenty of people start t-shirt companies and make money doing it. Hanes sells WAY more t-shirts than you will. It doesn't matter.

An established market is a better place to play than a totally new thing. You can be a very small operator and still make a very good living for yourself.

Think about Basecamp as another example. Microsoft Project owned project management. Basecamp came into the same market with a different angle and made a business out of it.

Traditional wisdom says stay away from existing big fish. I would say swim right next to them or in their wake. There are always little subniches and different ways you can sell the same basic solution in a different way.

Another way to look at it is software is a bit of fashion. People get tired of the same thing. So, sometimes they go buy a new thing that might have one feature they care about that the old thing didn't.

Most huge products you know about, use, and love started in niches that had established leader. This is true for iPhone, iPod, Mac, MacBook, Chromebook, Github, Facebook, Google, Twitter, MySql, Firefox, Chrome, Android, BlackBerry, Galaxy S, Xbox, Playstation, GoPro, and on and on and on and on and on.

Do yourself a favor, make a pitch page, have a beta sign up form, and start finding people to sign up for your beta. It doesn't even have to be a built product yet. It can be unfinished.

The only thing you need to have a business is customers that pay you money. You figure that out and it doesn't matter what niche you are in.
I think you're misunderstanding the argument people make about the concept of privilege. Nothing about it is intentional in the standard sense. It's more that people behave to benefit themselves -- which is natural and fine -- and power has slowly accrued over time to white men more than to other types of people. The argument is not that white men are malicious, but that their traits are implicitly favored and promoted because we tend to gravitate toward and feel more comfortable around people who are similar to ourselves. Ergo, white men in power enable other white men to gain more power.
There's real fear about a user driven backlash against policies coming down the pipe. One recent slide deck was titled "Kill Your Idols?" and examined ways to prevent a LinkedIn esque reputation from forming during proposed policy changes to accelerate growth.

I make no claims as to the accuracy of this information or any relationship with GitHub. All assertions should be considered parody.
> There is a bit of a catch-22 in language design where the more a language is used, the clearer it becomes which parts of it are problematic and should change, but the harder it gets to actually change them. To hone a language you must use it, but applications require that a language's features remain stable, robust, set in stone, and therefore as imperfect as they were at that moment. Furthermore, the more delays are suffered in fixing flaws or plugging holes, the more likely it gets that a dependency is fostered upon them. The options you do not explicitly and insistently leave open, tend to close and seal themselves before you know it.

This rings very true. I look at Ceylon and the features I'm most jealous of are things that Scala would and should just do, except for the need to retain compatibility with 10 years of existing applications and libraries, so instead they're enhancement proposals for the version after the version after the next version, and in the meantime we get by with macros that more-or-less cover the most important use cases. And Scala is relatively young as languages go - its warts are nothing to those of, say, C++. Sometimes I wonder if language design can only advance by new languages killing existing languages - past a certain point it seems impossible to change a language in the ways that it needs to be changed to become good.
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Agreed. Whenever I hear some big successful entrepreneur saying how everything is better now then it used to be (and sincerely believe this to be the case) - They are proving themselves to be completely out of touch with reality.

Sure, today's working class can get access to more goods and services than ever before but when it comes to things that actually matter like our time and our ability to feel fulfilled in our work; we have never been so poor.

People today are unhappy. Our working conditions are deteriorating and we are starting to feel like slaves. Our rents or mortgages are massive and we cannot afford to lose our jobs. People are no longer allowed to be themselves because saying the wrong thing to the wrong person might have serious negative repercussions for their careers and livelihoods. People are turning to video games and drugs to give themselves the feeling of fulfilment that they desperately need.

Based on US statistics I'm like in the top 5% of household income bracket but I feel like a slave at work - I seriously wonder how people in the bottom 95% must feel!

The distribution of income seems so unnatural: http://money.cnn.com/calculator/pf/income-rank/
I bet the distribution of wealth is even worse.
This is blatant violation of the terms of service of Google. Time to sue Google.
I agree that we need to move forward, but I think it's better to focus on tactics that can succeed.
Quantitative risk measures for longer term fundamental investing. Beta, cointegration, correlation, VAR all break down when there is a discrete event that completely changes the fundamental outlook.
>Everyone has a choice.

Yes, everyone has the choice of starving in the streets.
It's a deep, and scary, rabbit hole. If you're at all curious, it seems Sargon of Akkad and Thunderf00t on YouTube are not just slinging shit. I've watched some, and sources have always been included.

Don't get me wrong, they clearly kick things up a notch in the drama department, but they do the ground work in sourcing articles for you.
I can't possibly be satire, it must be "historical records"[0]

[0] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0177789/