skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, as a life long White Man who likes football and hot dogs, and it somewhat fat I agree with you 100%.

Radical anti Male Feminism and Euro phobic racism are wonderful things for everyone. And there good for the economy. Just like you, I will continue to watch the glorious Television programming.
I have done things like modulating a GPIO pin or LED to return a byte or two and see it on a oscilloscope. One time I was debugging an embedded device from a customer for a temperature controller where periodically the readings would be out of range. Turned out the CPU IP had a bug with interrupt handling when a particular instruction was used and after confirming no other side effect in simulations, the solution was to avoid using that instruction in the firmware.
Don't these kinds of services usually have a bandwidth limit? Maybe they went over.
Or a 21st century poultry processing plant worker.

I think his point is that those jobs still exist, the working poor are still suffering as much as they always have been, and that there's been a recent reversal in progress.

My ancestors worked in shitty conditions that destroyed their bodies to see that their descendents could have a better life. And, here we are, and their descendants are living relatively as terribly as they did.
I tried googling King and failed to find him saying that but came across this quote

“Let's get one thing clear right now, shall we? There is no Idea Dump, no Story Central, no Island of the Buried Bestsellers; good story ideas seem to come quite literally from nowhere, sailing at you right out of the empty sky: two previously unrelated ideas come together and make something new under the sun. Your job isn't to find these ideas but to recognize them when they show up.”
Got 10/10. I think though if I would have only be looking at one picture at time and were to say yes or no. My score would have been much lower. Quite often in the computer-generated ones it looks like someone have gone nuts with the smudge tool in photoshop.
Subcontractors should always spell out that some parts of the delivered project will use MIT licenced code, or code licenced to the subcontracting company itself.

Personally, when I do business development and two companies end up co-authoring a library (like say a new plugin), we always specify what parts of the new library are for the company we helped write the plugin, and what parts are "ours".

Sometimes we'll write a bit and say "this is yours, we'll never use it again", and sometimes we'll say "we wrote this, you can use it, but we're free to give it to anyone else too".
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The political left-right paradigm is an abstraction around the deeper tension between shame and fear. As long as someone wants you to be afraid of something, right-wing politics will exist. As long as someone wants you to feel ashamed of something, left-wing politics will exist.

Complete rejection of both fear and shame and anyone who wants you to feel them is the only way to escape the left-wing/right-wing dichotomy.
Yes, it appears I am wrong about my label of "novice" from the pure verbosity point of view. Being a core contributor to anything does not imply being a good programmer. I don't know this person (and don't care, I have no ties to the Rails community). I think that dismissing the use of a runtime debugger is a novice action.
> The system is totally stacked in your favor

Is it? What about white men who grew up as orphans? Or with parents that had severe mental illness? What about white men with emotional disorders?

What about white male cancer survivors? Or white male single parents?

What about white men who grew up as historically disadvantaged minorities in their home countries?

Why is it OK to assume the system is stacked in someone's favor? How is that not prejudice?
So you'll just take a guess at your biases and then try to counteract them arbitrarily?

I'd like to know how you even begin to judge what ethnicity someone is just by looking at them. Sounds like an extremely fraught game to play.

Part of the answer is surely to try your utmost to take all the subjectivity out of the process. I've mentioned it here previously, and people said that they enjoy getting to make subjective value judgments of candidates. I think that is a poor attitude.

This is the kind of process I was thinking:

One person strips CV's of irrelevant info (names, ages, schools, etc). They hand that to another person who decides who to interview.
When the candidate is interviewed, pre-determined questions get asked, and then notes are taken of their answers and any relevant info, and that gets handed over to the person who makes the ultimate hiring decision.

Even that process probably leaks a bit, but it's better than simply trying to guess.
Seafile offers things that other projects don't (most notably delta sync, which is a long-standing issue of contention on the OwnCloud repository). And with respect to encryption, I am storing everything synced inside of Veracrypt volumes (one of the Truecrypt successors), and so I'm not too worried about Seafile's lack of encryption features.
The question there is whether the incoming new voters are enough to counter the predilection of existing voters to shift towards the center and right as they age.

Idealism burns out as it contends with the friction of reality and becomes jaded. Priorities also shift, as save the world becomes save my job becomes save my family.
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Anybody remember cleansweeper ?
It's true that "an insult" is over the top, but please don't go there in response.
Can someone explain to me why GitHub needs a "Social Impact Team". What benefits do they bring to the organisation? It looks to me like a massive money pit.
Culls occur from the bottom up. Engineers, then management.
In particular, on the last part, see FRE rule 404:

"(a) Character Evidence.

(1) Prohibited Uses. Evidence of a person’s character or character trait is not admissible to prove that on a particular occasion the person acted in accordance with the character or trait.

...
(b) Crimes, Wrongs, or Other Acts.

(1) Prohibited Uses. Evidence of a crime, wrong, or other act is not admissible to prove a person’s character in order to show that on a particular occasion the person acted in accordance with the character."

(Note the above is basic federal evidence law :P, if you wanted to sue over the NLR act. Most state evidence rules are similar in the civil realm, and differ a bit in the criminal realm)
Do you seriously think most of this is based in straight-up hatred of white males? Every time I read something like was in the article, I view it as representative of what the author feels every day. God forbid we feel that way for 5 seconds before we throw it away.
So, what measures are they taking to match Berkeley undergraduate sex ratio (52.1% female 47.9% male [1]) with the sex ratio of the entire US in the same age range (51% male 49% female [2]). A woman is roughly 1.13 (13%) times more likely to be an undergraduate at Berkeley than a man. Or is this a topic best avoided?

[1] http://opa.berkeley.edu/uc-berkeley-fall-enrollment-data

[2] http://www.census.gov/population/age/data/files/2012/2012gen... @ 15-19yo
Just an FYI. I've been contacted by Atlassian to make my search technology available for Bitbucket's ecosystem. Right now it's being developed as a chrome extension, and you can learn more about it here:

http://gitsense.bitbucket.org/

If things go smoothly, Bitbucket users will be able to make search, a first class citizen.

Edit:

I should have mentioned it, but the current version of GitSense in the Chrome store doesn't support Bitbucket. I'm still testing it out but it should be updated within the next couple of days.
There was a time when making things like this was my dream. Then I realized 15 years of experience programming didn't translate to any experience with a soldering iron. That didn't discourage me from learning more about electronics, but it did change my focus on how I might start entrepreneurial ventures.
It's always possible to make changes to your schema without needing to potentially roll back the database. It may just be more annoying than you are willing to attempt. You might need to roll back your code to a previous version, but if you structure your changes right, you'll do it in multiple steps. (These are basically what's laid out in the article, but broken down more.)

1. Change your code to write to old and new schema; keep reading from old schema.
2. Migrate data to new schema in background.
3. Add a flag to control where you're reading from. Default it to read from old location. Keep writing to both.
4. Flip the flag on some subset of your jobs. Ensure everything is still running smoothly for as long as you like.
5. Change the default to read from new schema. Wait as long as you like to be comfortable that the change is working properly.
6. Delete the code that reads from the old schema.
7. Delete the code that writes to the old schema.
8. Drop the data in the old schema.

At any point prior to deleting the old data, if you encounter problems you can roll back to an old version of the code. If your schema changes are incompatible, you can make an entire new database with the new schema. This may temporarily waste some storage space, but it's very safe.
Love the step by step approach connecting English and intuition to the more formal and theoretical stuff. Not ready to learn this stuff but Hindley-Milner is on my TODO list later. I can tell by first page that this will help a lot given the math looks like gibberish to me.

Note: Strange I did great in Algebra, Calculus, etc back in H.S. and college but proofs and such look gibberish. Maybe I should've taken a class with set theory or formal logic, eh? Paying for it now as I skim formal methods & FP papers...
Possibly another reason to call shenanigans:

Recently, Twitter has been caught removing hashtags from auto-complete. They've done this in the past with some more controversial topics I'm not going to bring up here, but today, they did it with the #RIPTwitter hashtag that made it to #1 trending.

There is a chance this is a technical problem (the way Twitter works, it's really really hard to tell if something is intended censorship or platform breakage), but given how it's happened in the past...
Hmmm I can invest my capital in 30 countries easily with a carefully selected index fund. If I could move across borders freely, it would be hard (if not impossible) to do the same thing. So I'd say it isn't the same footing that applies.
That looked a bit rough in comparison but with plenty of detail. I'll add that one too. Thanks.
I just want to throw out that there's nothing about this that won't work for !("high scale, complex") sites. I worked at a ~20 person startup and we arrived at the same decision regarding database migrations and, you know what, it wasn't that hard and it didn't take that much time and it made deploys a lot smoother.

I see a lot of other people mentioning the annoyance factor. Like anything else, you get used to it, and appreciate its advantages.
If only we could prevent the news from making discoveries public before they've had a chance to be verified. Even if the news media publishes a retraction, it usually happens long after the initial results are already spread and reinforced as common knowledge.

I'm only just an armchair opinion but I get the impression that a some people are gaming the system for profit rather at the expense of intellectual honesty. The prospect of the field of science incentivizing 'junk science' is really unsettling.
This is awesome, I hope some Mac user with the know-how sees this and is motivated to get python-ptrace on Darwin...
The biggest 'privilege' someone can have is not white skin, its money. All the people who bang on about diversity are usually upper class, and never talk about the socioeconomic component of it.
This should be on every programmer's "Must Read" list of computer history books. I would put this up there with "Hackers" in terms of the volume of critical information about how basic questions of computer science were answered.
> This may not exactly be censorship but it's basically punishing climate change skepticism.

Its charging a company with a legal obligation to disclose material facts relevant to its future business prospects for misrepresenting the information it had.

That's not "punishing climate skepticism" except to the extent that "climate skepticism" is a label which abuses "skepticism" to mean "active, knowing misrepresentation".
Wow,no kidding https://github.com/Yasushi/putty/blob/31a2ad775f393aad1c31a9...

It's beautiful and incredibly scary at the same time.
And I wish you all the best.
Thanks for taking the time to write feedback. I really appreciate it.

Search is known and being worked on. FishEye should work in the interim until we do Stash native search - if not - please contact our support team.

Project areas - will get the team to dig into this more, and understand the real underlying use-case you need this. Is it search? Permissions? Discovery?
Pliny the Elder died there, trying to run ships across the sea to save people [0] from the eruption. He was asthmatic and succumbed to smoke inhalation.

But I think that informs the situation a little. The eruption was going on long enough that Plinius could show up, say "pack up your household, let's go", think about how things were going, disseminate orders to wear pillows on everyone's heads to protect from falling rocks, and even take a bath [1].

[0] Well, maybe just his friends, but he was still a historian who mounted a rescue mission.

[1] which was likely because of an asthma attack and thinking the steam would help, but there is some thought it was to also demonstrate coolness under pressure and help prevent a panic in his charges.
Let's assume that this whole discussion really is about resource redistribution. I don't actually think so, but we can take that as a hypothetical.

A winner comes over to the losers bar, and you want him to give every loser, white or black, the same number of chips.

The problem is that after you all get your re-up, you get to go play at the white table again, and they go back to play at the black table again, which means that you have a way greater chance to not come back to the losers' bar.

Ideally, you'd make both games have the same probability distributions, and that might happen eventually, but until then, the underprivileged losers should get more resources to have similar outcomes.

Expected value is everything.
Thanks! We changed the URL to that from http://2016/jan/the-noonday-demon-by-andrew-solomon. Probably just a copy-paste slip-up.
Software Development Explained with Cars [Infographic]
Also, this is a great perspective from Twitter's only black engineer in a leadership position: https://gimletmedia.com/episode/52-raising-the-bar
> need some suggestion on where to begin.

Go back to LinkedIn and start using the advanced search feature. Keyword in on individuals you see with promising sales profiles.

Build a list of 10-30 people, in your space. Reach out to these people 1:1, you must have a live conversation with them (in-person preferably) network with them, make a friend, seek their advice, share what you are working on and ask for a referral!

That is where you will find your sales people. You won't find them with a job board post. They must be hunted & wooed. Done right this process will take several weeks and require dozens of conversations.

It's exhausting, and deeply satisfying once you've pulsed the market and know you've found the right people.
Ask HN? Best way to insure only parts of an image remain?
Is this even really a problem or just a tv show gimmick? To clarify, If I have lots of images with censored parts of them, and I want to include these images in a pdf, what is the best way to insure that those original pre-edited images could never be pulled out from the pdf file at a later date. Would any simple cut and paste tool accomplish this (for sure)? Or do I need pro software?
How do you think military/industrial funding reaches the institution? Governments.
Comparing two snapshots would convert multiple modifications into one big change.
How quickly people forget :)
I'll see what we can do on the profile page part. Would be easy to "put something" on the page - harder to put the right thing. Email me if you have thoughts (scott@).

Email should be built in. Raise a support ticket with our amazing support team if any issues with that.

I'll check on README. I thought we had equivalent, but perhaps in a different place. Will have to wait until the team wakes up.

> Maybe it's intentional, but coming from GitHub a local server install of Bitbucket is just so plain

We try to be deliberate about adding features that matter. The Bitbucket server team is one of the best at Atlassian, so hopefully you're saying the lack of "right features" is the issue, not just the extra whitespace.

Thanks for taking time to add feedback. I really appreciate it & helps us make a better product.
We should have a bonus for finding great old articles that never were posted to HN before.

There was another one earlier today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11048637.
> I support the right of the KKK to march through the streets, but that doesn't mean I should have to hire one of their members.

That's not the analogy. It's contrived, but to stick with the theme of white racists, is it ethical (legality aside) for a board full of clansmen to fire a CEO that donated to the ADL? To keep it simple, let's say the CEO is not Jewish, but does financially support the ADL.
Yes, children need to be taught personal responsibility. BEFORE they are talked into impossibly expensive loans sold via lies.
That bugs me also. We're working on it, but will take a while I'm afraid. One of those "death by a thousand cuts" issues, but really difficult to fix & migrate millions of users.

No excuse, but wanted to set expectations.
What's your reason for living in SF and still traveling frequently? Access to work in SF?

I ask because I'm a remote worker for an SF startup, home base in a low cost of living area, but I travel frequently as well (but the home was purchased somewhere where the house is paid in full already and the monthly upkeep is ~$500/month).
> Most of my friends are feminists.

> There's practically no hostility

There are many people who identify as feminists who are fair, rational, and genuinely want equal opportunities for all.

There are many other people who identify as feminists who are militantly against anything but total female domination.

The word is used by so many different groups with different ideologies in different contexts that it's become meaningless.
Pretty cool. It prompted me to wonder how long it took for news of the event to disseminate throughout the empire and how it was received. The attached articles don't really go into it. But the Wikipedia article includes this curious point, which I had never encountered before:

The eruption was documented by contemporary historians and is generally accepted as having started on 24 August 79, relying on one version of the text of Pliny's letter. However the archeological excavations of Pompeii suggest that the city was buried about three months later. This is supported by another version of the letter, which gives the date of the eruption as November 23.

Which makes me want to imagine historians 2000 years from now debating whether 9/11 really occurred on 9/11 or closer to 12/11.

Which almost makes me want to go ask on /r/AskHistorians whether there is any record of Pompeii Truthers. I'd be kinda shocked if there wasn't.
This sentence seems like an oxymoron to me:

>> True meritocracy can only come through promoting diversity.

If you are taking diversity into account, you are taking things other than merit into account and so it isn't a 'true' meritocracy. Not only that but it also suffers from the no true Scotsman fallacy.

The best way to promote meritocracy is to base your decisions on merit and nothing else. To avoid unconscious bias, you would have to hire someone without knowing their age, sex, sexual orientation or anything else that you could consider discriminatory. That would mean hiring someone that you haven't and that's a little extreme.
From carpet salesman to VC
Very cool; having fun with this, made my wife's day :)

What libaries did you use? And security? Not sure if you are looking to make money with it or just as showcase: if the latter why would you need login? Just exchange pub keys (can be sent by link in mail which the app picks up) and you really have something cool :)
Show HN: Serve markdown and see HTML
Maybe we should get the band together.
I'll check. There are ways to set them up without using the web UI, but we can probably do a better job of documenting them for the power user. Stay tuned.

For Clustering - any reason you need active/active? We have mirroring[1] which (from our chats with most of our customers) is what people prefer.

[1] - https://confluence.atlassian.com/bitbucketserver/smart-mirro...
That sounds really interesting. How did you get from modulating a GPIO pin to figuring out that particular instruction was bad?
As I understand it, the 10k isn't that your tweets are 10k, it's that you can attach a 10k text-document to a tweet, just like you can attach a picture or a link to a tweet. With that in mind it makes perfect sense since people were already doing that with pictures-of-text.
Those US Presidents didn't go to party schools. They were in different kind of fraternities.
H1B system is broken. It is especially hard if you are from India or China. Although you can change employers, you need to restart the green card process from scratch which introduces lots of uncertainties. Obama wanted to allow H1Bs to change employers easily by giving them better portability but USCIS came up with a bad rule which i believe is due to lobbying by employers. Australia & Canada have better immigration systems where they give PR quickly.

It is bad for US as well. Immigrants are generally more risk taking than citizens & H1B does not allow them to take risks when they are young because they will be waiting in the line for PR (Green Card). By the time they get green card it will be decade or more and their risk appetite would have reduced due to having family/children.

In general, I don't believe most of the high salaries in tech may not be sustainable. Lots of tech jobs will move to India & China (or any low cost country in future which has a good pool of educated people), that is just capital chasing good enough talent which is cheap. Moving up the value chain is the only option.
I think this is one of the core questions that those playing identity politics games completely ignore. The very nature of their own efforts is, itself, something-ism. As you illustrate, they're categorizing a whole group, and assuming that every member of it fits its stereotypical mold.

So in one respect, sure, as a white male I had some advantages, but there are plenty of other ways to look at it. As a "nerd" I was bullied; I suffer from an incurable disease; I'm not a particularly attractive person; I'm notably uncoordinated and bad at sports. And on the other hand, I've got a fairly sharp mind, and have some talents and a supportive network around me. A lot of these things apply to other people in and out of my demographic cohort, to such a degree of ... let's say "diversity" ... that it makes no sense to focus on those demographics when thinking about who has privileges or disadvantages.
Once upon a time in the olden days, if certain makes of PC couldn't successfully complete the Power On Self Test and couldn't initialise video output to report the problem, it would beep the fault code through the system speaker.
See _Small is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered"
I'm imagining someone trying something along these lines:

maybe find ~/ | grep . | parallel rm {}

...and be fairly surprised to find everything deleted. It wasn't find's fault!