skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People ask white guys to remember the privilege they experience because it is invisible to them.

No one walks around every day thinking, "My whole life, I've never been attacked by a tiger. Thank god." But people who have been attacked by a tiger certainly remember it!

That's an extreme example to illustrate what privilege means in this context. It's the absence of challenges that other people face. In that respect it is indeed an assumption, in that it is an unexamined filter through which white guys perceive the world.

It doesn't mean white guys don't face challenges too. You've had your own tiger attacks, plenty of them it sounds like. So imagine sitting in a room with a guy the same age as you--but he was raised by healthy, wealthy, devoted parents, went to the best private schools, raised his first seed round from his dad's friends. "God, I've worked so hard to get where I am," he says. "I can't stand it when people say I haven't earned everything I've got."

Wouldn't you feel a bit resentful toward that person? Give me a break, right? He was born on 3rd base and thinks he hit a triple. That's a form of privilege, really the original form of privilege, the one that defined the word.

What we are coming to understand now is that there are other forms of privilege. Just like that guy didn't choose to be born to rich parents, he also didn't choose to born a white guy. Neither did I. But there is ample evidence that being a white guy is an advantage, at least in U.S. society, and certainly in the tech field today. Call it: being born a little ways down the first base line. I've had an easier time beating the throw to first than someone born closer to home base--even if I don't realize it, even if I still ran as fast as I can. (extended metaphor alert)

What would you want from that rich guy? Some awareness--a willingness to listen to other perspectives and life stories. Some introspection--a willingness to compare and integrate them with his own personal experiences. Some empathy--appreciation for others. And fairness--a willingness to consider people for partnerships, collaboration, work, ideas, even if they didn't go to the same fancy schools, or wear expensive dress shirts every day. Even if they have a totally different life story. Even if they look different, talk different. And ideally advocacy--telling his rich buddies to think about these things, to not be so quick to hire folks who mostly look and talk just like themselves, to give people a chance and actively work on inclusiveness.

So I don't think it's an issue of trying to force feed anything. I'm asking you to consider that there is more to the situation than you might have experienced or thought about. If you're in a position to deliver the things I list above, then some other person who is working hard might really appreciate it.

edit: crpatino puts it much better than I did:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11572275
If your goal is to utterly break and dehumanize a person until they're rendered psychotic, incontinent, incapable of human interaction or ever being able to take care of themselves again, this is how you accomplish it.

We handled interrogations with Nazis better. We showed them respect and they gave us valuable information.

It leads me to believe intelligence wasn't the main motivator for the continued torture of these people, but only an excuse.
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What about Florida?

Or does that not count because it's "Disney World"?
There are far worse places in this world than Chernobyl at this point. Agra, India and war torn Syria comes to mind.
> The CIA is a sickening and surprisingly amateurish organisation. Their actions over the past decades have ruined the United States' international moral authority.

I'm not even sure that's true. I think the perception of the CIA (perhaps due to generally positive portrayals of it on TV and in movies) is completely different to, say, the perception people have of the Stasi or KGB.

And yet did those organizations, which people rightly consider to be bad, actually do anything worse than the CIA has been doing in the last 70 years?
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I respectfully disagree; even though the (often inaccurate) generalisation of white male privilege does not necessarily apply to you, the tech world has an inclusion problem along many different lines: education level, affluence, race, gender to name but a few. I tend to think that those of us who've made it into the industry, whilst pushing against one or more of those biases, (including you in this, because of your socio-economic background) should be helping others from similar situations enter the field.

Just because we, personally, have made it, doesn't mean we shouldn't make the path easier for others.
Thanks for the link. Pretty badass. Bookmarking it and passing it along.
You don't get the point. You won't be traveling inside that truck. You will only drive trucks in and out of your city.
Looks like a good candidate for http://ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com/
In Denmark, companies are required to clearly and visibly state things such as total price - if they fail to do so, the "contract" is invalid.

Something approximately the same as that is true across the EU under the recent changes to the consumer protection rules.

On your other points, I'll just mention that this subthread was originally about whether accepting e-mail as a cancellation method was appropriate, not so much the original topic of trying to force people to call as an aggressive way to deter cancellation. It seems we all agree that making it excessively difficult for someone to cancel when they're entitled to is scummy behaviour, and I imagine the law in many places would take a similar view.
I tried that recently and discovered that Twitter now require a mobile number to obtain API access even for read-only, which was an immediate hard-stop.
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They talk a good talk, but I wish more companies would walk the walk. The way companies hire now is like interviewing a surgeon by having her carve a turkey.
Just call it "tribal privilege". That pretty much covers all the "soft" prejudicial discrimination that happens everywhere around the world.

If the tribe currently in power in your locale believes you are a member, your life is easier than it otherwise would be. If it believes you are a xeno, or even an enemy of the tribe, then it will be more difficult, whether it is by intentional impediment or by withholding assistance.

This is why Jews are privileged in modern Israel, but unprivileged in Tsarist Russia. It is why Mexico had a disgustingly detailed race hierarchy imposed by Spain. It is why Rwandans massacred each other after Germany and Belgium explicitly favored one subtribe over another. It is why Shi'ite Muslims find it easier to live in Iran than in Saudi Arabia. It is why Chicago city government is corrupt to the core. Skin color is not the only possible tribal indicator.

I would guess that the ruling tribe in the U.S. has not imputed membership to strangers based on their skin color for a long, long time--at least since Irish, Italians, Greeks, Iberians, Ashkenazi Jews, and Eastern Europeans were not considered members. Non-whites may see it as "white privilege", but that is only because the tribe in power is so incredibly bigoted that they have multiple, ranked categories of xeno, such that if you were on fire, they would have to ask you what you looked like before ignition in order to decide whether they would spit on you, piss on you, or just let you burn.

I recall entering a Walgreens in New Orleans. As I watched, someone walked in with a backpack, indiscriminately shoveled several items from a shelf into it, and walked right back out. I glanced to the checkout, where an employee who had also seen the same thing shrugged at me. Tribal privilege. The clerk chose to favor the people of her city/neighborhood over her corporate employer. And you know what? Neither Walgreens nor the NOPD are in my tribe, either, so I shrugged right back. I wouldn't exactly let that guy into my house, but I'm not about to flip him to the cops over one measly bag of deodorant sticks, either. I am too well aware of how certain cities treat their poor people to wish one of them into a jail cell.
Funny thing is, they could buy DDoS's on ebay for ~$100.
> The reason for this lies in the fact that, as the Romans said in the past, Nil nove sul sole.

This is actually originally from Ecclesiastes, not the Romans.
Considering that by doing well you also mean moving the majority of their R&D from Europe to Asia.
But we are "getting" people to do things now by supporting a culture that stigmatises the choices that people make if they are not deemed appropriate for their class, gender or race.
The historical purpose and utility of torture is to produce made-up confessions and bullshit "intelligence" to lend some veneer of necessity to whatever course of action the high and mighty have already committed to.

Just about anybody with a Middle-Eastern-sounding name and the slightest plausible connection to or proximity with "﻿Al Qaeda" (conveniently defined and delimited by the torturers themselves) would have been equally useful for this purpose. There is no "right" man, no "wrong" man. That's torture. It's a show, a blood pageant. It's reading the Tarot or goat entrails.

That's the system, the procedure you defend when you apologize for torture.
A bit disappointing, it's about time they finally got around to it and yet "Check back here for more info as we continue to make progress." The remaining question is whether it'll be for pro users only as well...
"Steam has figured it out because they're the rake"

While that is not literally false, it is incomplete and leads to false conclusions. I've seen indie game developers report that they also see revenue bumps from seeing their games go on sale that they would not otherwise see, so it's not just Steam profiting. I have no reason to believe that the movie studios would not also see non-trivial profits from scraping the long tail. Pretty much everybody seems to win on Steam with those prices, which is why they've been going on for so long.

I have also seen indie houses report that they discounted too far sometimes [1], but all in all what I can see is that the indie houses have found that time-based pricing works quite shockingly well. By "shockingly well" I do not merely mean a rhetorical flourish... I mean, I personally have been surprised at what they've reported.

[1]: http://www.carpefulgur.com/drakblog/?p=9
Wow. What was the time limit, and how long did you actually take?
Perhaps the integration will extend to triggering a search on the back end.
Would be awesome with a uwp app for this, so you could continue listening across device.
Time to start hacking! https://poppopret.org/2013/06/10/summercon-2013-hacking-the-...
This is exactly how the EU cookie law works.
How long do you imagine it takes to unload a single car or two cars in a given city and move on to the next city? Once that "last mile" is handled, what else is that truck going to do until the next train shipment arrives? It'll sit doing nothing. If it moved on to another city, it could have just been loaded somewhere else and didn't need to be loaded at last mile.

Trains have several single points of failure for a larger load. When there is a problem, all of the load is affected, it takes longer to repair, and problems with both the rails and the trains happen regularly. And trains have more complex maneuvering than trucks; switching lines is a non-trivial time-consuming matter and operators have a tough job just on the existing lines.

The fact remains we don't have enough rail to service most of the country, and nobody is paying for new rail, not to mention the issue of fitting more track on the existing land and bridges used for rail. Demand has been increasing steadily on rail, and only so much traffic can possibly run on the rails - which are shared with passenger trains, btw. To switch to trains you'd be adding 230% more traffic to the rails.
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> if it can be fixed why not fix it?

Because your cure is worse than the disease.

> you don't think any effort should be spent trying to correct something that's broken in the world.

I think racism is bad. I think it's bad in all circumstances because it corrupts our meritocratic society.

Using racism to fix racism is dumb. Because racism is bad in all circumstances.
It seems reasonable to want some analytics and it looks like they did a good job from a privacy standpoint (random IDs that you can even change if you wish). They even allow you to opt-out. There is simply no betrayal here.
I was astonished when I first learned that in the United States, it wasn't until partway through the 20th Century that people of Italian or Jewish ancestry were considered "white."
This sounds like the EU proposal for cookies :)

The article was targeting another scenario: An installed app that tracks users.
Obviously, for websites this would rather translate to: Do not track your users, especially not using 3rd party services.
Maybe to avoid the competition going [arbitrary amount] dollar cheaper.
> I agree with you that in hindsight this is an obvious feature

In hindsight? It's about time! I've been waiting for this for years...
> the laborers at Earth Bound Farms south of Salinas (supplies large quantities of "organic" produce all up and down the west coast)

Why on earth did you pick them out so incredibly specifically and put scare quotes around organic? Doesn't seem relevant.
I've never personally experienced something like affirmative action holding me back, and I'm not advocating people blame that system. I am all for taking personal responsibility for _everything_ you have to deal with in life (not just race or finances, every potential setback that prevents you from living the happy life you want).

I will say, though, that it doesn't seem completely crazy to be angry at a system that is purposely favoring people with a race other than yours. I'm not asian, but I have heard that asians get the most points "docked" from them automatically when applying to colleges because asians study harder/do better on tests in general. It's not just that certain racists think that, it's that it's literally built into the system. If you study really hard despite a poor upbringing and get an A- on a test, and then know that it really only counts for a "B" for other races (even those that grew up in rich families with personal tutors), that wouldn't bother you even a little?

And the sentiment you mention in your last sentence goes both ways. Lots of non-white people complain about not getting a job or otherwise not getting opportunities because of their race. And that's when there isn't an actual documented system in place that enforces it! I am sure some of them are absolutely right, but it's unlikely all of them are.
I'm sure someone at Nokia suggested most of that language.
This is a toe in the water, to test the temperature.

I'm sure that it must be crazy annoying to read those titles, and then see Leprechaun 4 (4! in space! it was awful) as one of the only options.

But movie licensing is about as organized and simple as anything else in hollywood.
"SQL is the worst form of database querying, except for all the other forms."

IMO, if you think of Prolog(s) as a database(s), that model is far more enjoyable to work with than SQL.
Is Nokia that involved in connected health?
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The point is, opt-out is the problem.
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Out of curiosity, are there any limitations on those Danish rules? For example, suppose someone is running subscription access to a magazine at $5/month, but wants to offer a discount if customers sign up for a whole year to say $45. This sort of promotion isn't unusual, and it's potentially beneficial to both the magazine and the reader, but from your description it wouldn't be viable under Danish law.
Can you give me any real-world examples of an anarchic society?
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Wow this is familiar lol.....

My hybrid cloud storage team here at Microsoft in Silicon Valley (which was a startup called StorSimple that Microsoft acquired) already built this feature for our hybrid cloud storage virtual appliance that released a few months ago and its already in production and being used by customers.....

We called it Just in Time Item Level Restore but it's the exact same thing........and looks exactly the same in behavior as well.....and we have various optimization to make it efficient and deal with latency and stuff.....

(Btw we have nothing to do with one drive or one drive for business. That'a completely separate team. We only build enterprise storage devices)

Ugh this is why you want to be in the consumer space , not the enterprise space.

If a consumer product and enterprise product make the exact same thing/product, most people remember/see the consumer product.

The race conditions and clever data structures to represent the file blobs and file system structure in the cloud to do this efficiently is actually very cool......I'm not sure how they (Dropbox) implemented it but I wonder how similar it would be to how we did it.

Oh well this is my last week here in Microsoft and I'm moving to Apple in a different space so I guess I don't really care about storage anymore lol.

At least at Apple the cloud services and applications will be the backend for consumer used front end applications.

People will think Dropbox was the first one to do this because it's in consumer space so it's more well known......

Well actually I can link all the public announcements and stuff that was dated long before this video on the feature.

We should have made a public video like this. We have videos but they were all for internal demos....

Click the Preview link (skip to item level recovery section but the PM explanation doesn't do it justice so you won't see it as the same from a technical feature point of view but it's exactly the same and behaved the same zero storage on disk but the file system thinks it's there)

To accomplish all our feature we actually have low level stuff as well but I can't go into the details since I'm not allowed to so I'll leave it at that.

But Dropbox is a great company and I'm glad this feature is now available to Consumers not just enterprise.

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/announcing-the-storsi...

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/announcing-general-av...
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Driverless container carriers, traveling at medium speeds across the country, in groups, with only last mile labor required...sounds like, Trains?
55 in a residenial zone? WTF?
Wait what, it's going to be for businesses only? That would be kind of silly...
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The most interesting thing about the Chernobyl disaster is that it seems like human inhabitation is a more destructive force towards wildlife than the levels of radiation that are present - wildlife seems to flourish in this area.
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A 16 megapixel favicon does sound scary.
Yes, or Datomic in particular is very nice, too. But there's a difference between "enjoyable" and "good" in a general sense.
In my case, it's much more difficult to find Japanese series. Japan isn't nearly as big on file sharing as we are. Anime, sure, but I'd like to watch things with real people too.

Example: try finding the live action version of Nobunaga Concerto [信長協奏曲] (not the anime that's readily available.) Now I'm sure someone here can do it. But look at its seed ratio compared to say, Game of Thrones or Last Week Tonight. And this is a really easy case, because it's being streamed subtitled from Crunchyroll. Now imagine the difficulty of series not conveniently subtitled into English on major streaming services already.
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To add insult to injury, they plan on returning to the phone business next year :)
The privilege you enjoy you do not enjoy because of being a white male, but rather because you're part of one of the dominant social groups. If you go to another country you'll see that people do treat you differently and might discriminate against you depending on your sex/looks/ancestry/etc.

Those that are different always have some disadvantages. We should be working towards fair societies, not replacing one type of discrimination with another.
Really? And who determines what can you protest against/about? , do you have to pass an exam to protest certain things or a college degree is valid? Restricting peoples abilities to protest is one of the first things that dictatorships do.
There are plenty of examples where private companies control water distribution without government assistance or oversight if you look past the USA. We don't need fanciful theoretical speculation to know what happens in practice.

(note: not continuing with this thread because holy fuck hivemind downvotes.)
I just don't see how. It seems like a fairly obvious point that the two systems would be indistinguishable from the outside.
I strongly disagree with your second paragraph, as well as the sensationalism you attribute to the quoted phrase, which adds no meaningful argument to the discussion. The history of Singapore's leading officials showcases nepotism at every turn of policy and appointment. There are reasons why most other advanced nations have term limits for leaders: it leads to a less corrupt society.
Well, good for the founders. I hope they and their investors walked off with a tidy sum from this. I have the Withings watch, and it's a very decent little device. They tackled the biggest gripe many people have with health monitor bracelets - that they look stupid and toylike. Withings made an actual watch out of it, and a decent-looking one. I replaced the band with a better leather one, and it gets compliments.
Isn't that a pretty low market-cap for that kind of revenue figure (not even 2x)? Are expectations not very good for them?
Now picture someone not quite as old as you, who missed that first wave of internet excitement. They've never had that excitement, and they're the ones graduating college and going west now. I went out straight after high school, moved from the East Coast, did my tour of duty. It's weird because at that age I had no idea what kind of life I might want to live; what kind of lives were even available to live, really. And I didn't have the same dreams you may have had, definitely not the same inspirations.

All the aspects of the OP's writing that hit me like a gut punch now were absolutely bog standard to me. Only once I'd left (largely due to depression and burnout) did I realize how far that life is from the life I want to live.
KDE does this automatically. I'd guess there is similar functionality for other DEs too.
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That's interesting -- I generally think of Schmitt as constructing a theory of dictatorship, but you're right: he's also black-hat hacking the constitutional order at the same time. That's a fantastic insight, I think, because you're really crystallizing him as a practitioner as well as a theorist.
$191M and Google got Nest for a billion. Nokia got a good deal there
Volume up + T = Tab

Volume down + C = Ctrl-C

It's not ideal but works.
Is it more important to you to use that specific term, or to get your point across? Because the one seems to be getting in the way of the other, is the point that's under discussion here.