skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Since others are picking apart your argument in the large

Ha! No one else has even evidenced reading the post, I applaud you for seeming to have at least read it.

so they've had much less time to be dragged down by systemic racism.

They're not being "dragged down" at all, they're being "pushed up."
There is no reason to think that given enough time they will eventually be dragged down.

There is not some race in the US conspiring to keep other races down given enough time. I'd imagine any race accussed of such a thing would find it highly offensive.

Far be it from me to make the accusation, but there is precedent to say that Asians and Jews are oppressing everyone else in the US because of their greater average income, and because they hold "high prestige" positions in proportionally greater numbers.

There is no evidence for societal wide mechanisms keeping particular races down. People looks at measurements, see differences, then try to blame the measuring stick, i.e. society for the differences.

the fact that they are lighter of skin tone tends to make them a less targeted group by racist actors.

That doesn't even sound like the way people like to imagine "institutional racism." I thought the whole point was that there is no conscious targetting and not anyone particular actor but society as a whole in some fuzzy, unspecified way is to blame.

Who is 'we' and what exactly do 'we see'??? I'm dying to know.

I don't get this tone here.

We is anyone who looks, what we see is similarity in crime rates, test scores, achievement, SES, income, etc. anything people in the US try to ascribe to "institutional racism." Yet we see similar metrics and behavior in countries with different institutional histories, and in the countries where these US minorities originate.
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I suppose I did move the goalposts, however unintentional it may have been. Yes, what I'm really defending here is the basic premise of copyright. I have no interest in defending copyright that effectively lasts forever, or that has such wide scope that we see billion-dollar lawsuits over work that shouldn't have been covered by copyright in the first place, or other similarly obvious abuses from the relatively recent past.

However, if the underlying question we're asking here is still whether copyright adversely affects other potential economic models for creating and distributing new works, I think my original point remains valid. How would the scenarios you mentioned support alternative model(s) that would be more attractive to creators than what we have (or at least, should have) under some sort of copyright scheme?
Because a lot of this information was previously only available to logged in users of a particular service. Would you be okay with someone placing recording devices under the tables of restaurants and then putting the recordings and transcriptions online? Any conversations they pick up happened in a public place where anyone could have overheard them.
Not so much standalone, but being able to substitute other services. Logging and service-management are two issues off the top of my head. I'd love to be able to disable those, and manage them with another service/package.
I have been using gishpuppy for several years. It actually works. It's a free service, you create an email for any website that asks for one. There are addons/extension for firefox and perhaps other browsers, too.

http://www.gishpuppy.com/
> She could have hired a team of machine learning grad students to build her a personalized spam filter.

Or instead of reinventing the wheel, installed an existing spam detection product like SpamAssassin on the email server.
Infants can't sign contracts, and we don't tax infants anyway because they don't meet the income requirements.

Your comparison to wolves and sheep is not apt -- the "violence" of taxation is only as punishment for reaping the benefits of previous payers and not abiding by the rules the common voters agreed on. You are under no obligation to reap those benefits -- in fact, society is perfectly happy to give them to you for free (albeit minimally) in the form of welfare, and charities are satisfied with giving you free food and shelter should you find the system of commerce and taxation too burdensome.

That you are not afforded the extended benefits gained by common taxation at your pleasure and rate without yourself contributing is not theft in the most basic sense; it's more like an obtuse mischaracterization. It makes an interesting civics thought experiment, but nothing more.
The fastest data to search through is always the data you ignore.
Event Sourcing as a Database (presentation)
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Background: was wooed into a new development position with the promise of a variety of greenfield projects. Reality was managing a dumpster fire of a project the previous dev left, then twiddling my thumbs for a few months. I literally have had nothing to do. I've decided that I'm going to seek employment elsewhere, but my question is, should I tell my manager? We were coworkers at a previous job, and that relationship (in part) helped me land my current role. I've already talked to him about my lack of tasks, so me leaving wouldn't be coming out of left field.
Why can't it just be some random hash? For me, a key benefit of a disposable mail account is not to have any identifiers including username.
In 2012, court rules Java APIs are not copyrightable. In 2014, that decision was appealed and overruled, declaring Java APIs copyrightable. The case was sent back to determine if Google's reimplementing APIs was "fair use" of copyrighted material.

Now we saw that trial, where jury ruled on fair use. It was fair use.

(nothing to do with any small function, that was in 2012)
I had untreated strep when I was a kid, because the strep screen came back negative. Turns out it was group C, which didn't show up on the strep screen, but also didn't resolve itself. Some months later it got much worse. Somebody finally did a culture, figured it out, and gave me antibiotics (which cleared it up). Fast forward to age 29, when I had to have open heart surgery to get a mechanical mitral valve, for which I have to be on warfarin for the rest of my life (which comes packaged with increased risk of stroke and hemorrhage for the rest of my life) along with a beta blocker ('bystolic', aka nebivolol) because something happened to mess up my heart rate regulation during the surgery. I'd call strep pretty serious.
Yes, I'm glad they made it optional. I don't like it, but being able to easily turn it off makes it a non-issue to me.
Hard, yes. Harder than curing resistant infections?
You charge for significant version upgrades. The industry was OK with that model for decades before SaaS became feasible.

Very soon having a big monthly software bill will be seen as normal. This makes me sad. Don't we have enough recurring bills as it is?
It'd pe perfect, if only we could take people out of the equation.

Seriously, I think that the cost/benefit ratio of a perfect history is so terrible that there are very very few people that follow through with it.

If one submits a PR and it has a messy history, what is the reviewer supposed to do? Make them go through the commits and clean them up? How will the reviewer verify that every commit compiles? Make them squash it? We are back to square one. If you only have squash commits from PRs and run CI on them, you are sure that every commit compiles.
I'm having a similar experience. I have a username that is NEVER taken... Not even on Gmail, and yet it was not available. I sense that the form is wrong, or maybe it's not accepting new users right now.
Libmill could be worth a look. https://github.com/sustrik/libmill
Concentration Camp Terezin
This article is painting the wrong picture, exaggerating this paltry 10 yen rise.

At least from a normal household point of view living in Tokyo, I see rising prices all around - rent getting more expensive, the same type of fish (as an example) I've been buying in supermarket getting more expensive.

Recently I was shopping for a bicycle bag. I saw some blog reviews from 2 years ago stating the price was around 5000 yen; But I see all the shops are now selling it for over 7000 yen!
That reminds me of this article
https://www.wired.com/2011/10/virus-hits-drone-fleet/
It's kinda sad that what they show in this show is not comedy but the reality of the Silicon Valley
The article [1] was about a log search/parsing service, so 20 GB of log files/second. Log files are usually text.

[1] http://blog.scalyr.com/2014/05/searching-20-gbsec-systems-en...
> Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. If such evidence cannot be provided, I see no reason to just accept someone's claim at face-value.

I didn't say you should accept their claim at face value. I said you should not assume that the cause the the experience is mental illness, but rather accept that they had an experience that you don't understand. Was it god? Was it some sort of neuralogical event? Was it the onset of paranoid delusions? You don't know and assuming you do is arrogant.

> Someone who knows more about human biology or human psychology than me may, in fact, know something more about myself than I do.

Just because someone is an expert, or has more knowledge, doesn't mean they can't be wrong. When you dismiss someone's subjective experience because you think you know better (rather than just taking it with a grain of salt) you do them and yourself a disservice.
I think there are two important points, first that there is no longer a clear distinction between public and private spaces. To pick the immediate example, I am currently sitting in my bedroom, but on the other hand I am writing in a public forum. Plus there are conceptually less clear examples, for example chat rooms which are basically public, but I still have the expectation that everybody present belongs to a small community.

The other important point is, that there is a shift to questions instead of answers. Technology moves just too fast to give good guidelines in terms of rules. It would perhaps help to define a questionnaire that researches have to fill out, just to demonstrate that they thought about the question. For example, the question "Which groups are especially vulnerable to a leak of the data?" may prompt filtering of said groups and prevent some damage. (That obviously does not help against black hats, but would probably helped in the current OKCupid case.)

And lastly I think that there is a mismatch what "reasonable expectation of privacy" means, most people do not have any idea what "big data" means, they believe that Facebook reviews flagged comments, but do not understand that they can (and I would guess do) analyze each and every interaction with Facebook. (I don't mean to single out FB, it is just they are the most obvious example due to their size and the sort of private nature of the network.)
The platform is only hours old in terms of public availability, but here's a pretty cool customer service demo bot that scans a knowledgebase first, but can create a helpdesk ticket if human assistance is required: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9IMsJW4ca0
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I feel like this kind of service would be used for nefarious means pretty regularly, and subsequently the people trying to track that kind of activity would be knocking on the door quite often. Did you find that to be an issue?

Once upon a time I considered a similar service that could be abused and ultimately chose not to go ahead because it simply "isn't my problem" to deal with those two groups of people. I wanted no part in it, for good or evil, even as an unbiased conduit.
No, you cannot tell what caste a person is by the way they talk. There are 800+ languages and thousand of dialects in India. On an average the dialect changes every 7 kilometer is any direction. You cannot also visually tell the difference between high/low caste.

The best indicator is last name and hence social strata (centuries of exploitation has left them 'backward'). There are plenty of 'backward caste' people in high position and extremely rich.

Though racism and casteism have similar effects they are not the same
I'm not so sure about that; I believe "it is right" implies the existence of a moral right. That may not have been the direct intent of the parent comment, but it definitely follows from that claim.
I avoided phrasing it that way in case we got bogged down with how we're defining terms and what assumptions are reasonable to make. Of course you can't prove the general negative case, but even if you started trying to work with a more concrete economic model, anything realistic enough to be useful would most likely also be too complicated to analyze completely.
That's actually surprising and I think it's a smart way for people to respond. Rather than trying to fight a losing battle and complaining about the problems of such a system, they seemed to realize the better course is to simply give everyone excellent ratings.

It also likely meant people were more productive as a result of not having to deal with getting bombed with a subjective score and other harsh annoyances, so in effect they were simply maximizing shareholder value.

On the other hand, Goldman likely does attract some of the best people, so everyone may just have been being honest.
Citation needed.

I've been directly involved in hiring/interviewing under these circumstances and the idea of lowering technical standards just to meet a quota was never entertained. We simply recruited through diverse avenues. Mostly the diversity statement itself was sufficient to let potential candidates know they could apply without fear of rejection for not being "like us".

I've never actually seen evidence of active discrimination against a more qualified white candidate. Maybe it happens but it certainly isn't a result of diversity policies.
Here's a non-javascript javascript alternative that's a few orders of magnitude simpler:

http://intercoolerjs.org
The author of this article has clearly not played much SimCity.
It seems that he was arguing against the sentiment rather than the statement
My own megacorp (which is mentioned in the article) when to a warm & fuzzy review system some months ago, I don't really like it. They used to do stack ranking behind closed doors (although they vehemently denied it) ... which only bothered me because they didn't tell us where we fell in the stack. Let me know where I stand compared to everyone else in my bracket, that's all I really want.
Tesla Reveals New Details of Its Autopilot Program
Yes. I understand "racism" (at least in this context) to mean "bias in favor of or against candidates based on their race", not "paying attention to race". The latter is something we can hopefully stop doing once we're confident the former isn't happening. I don't understand the reasoning that involves refusing to think about whether the former is happening. (And besides, if GitHub as policy does not pay attention to race, but individual interviews and reviews -- which are notoriously subject to human whim on all sorts of axes -- might be biased on race, you definitely haven't achieved the goal of your system not paying attention to race.)

Again, this seems pretty straightforward for a technical shop... if your goal is, say, "We should not have features on GitHub for Desktop that preference one platform over another," then the way to get to that goal is you add testing processes that explicitly try out things on Windows, Mac, and Linux. Even if you develop your software with some platform-agnostic library (which is a perfectly reasonable way to achieve the goal), you test the software in a non-platform-agnostic way, precisely because you want to know if you got it wrong. You don't say "We're platform-agnostic" and remove the OS field from bug reports, unless you are 200% sure that your code is platform-agnostic even when things go wrong. If you see lots of cross-platform bugs, fine! You still leave it in there so that, one day, if somehow things are disproportionately broken on Windows, you're able to actively respond to that.
This is more like the 70-20-10 rule -- not so much numbers that you've calculated based on careful observation of any particular business, but rather a nice set of round numbers to aim for.

I've heard of this rule before, although when I heard it it was the "45% rule". Close enough.
Deciding to do things this way is a tradeoff. Writing data into a search index is maybe 10x more expensive than writing it into a log. But doing actual search typically happens in something like log(n) time. Even for pathological queries, they're still far more efficient than scans.

From a cost perspective, this system is a bet that most data it writes is rarely or never read from.
The Blackberry alternative that was suggested to Obama was the Sectera Edge by General Dynamics, which made the F-16 before it was sold to Lockheed

http://www.networkworld.com/article/2234082/what-obama-won-t...
But you're still making the same false equivocation. A "large amount of societal discrimination" ≠ institutional racism. It's a subtle distinction, but once you grasp it you can see the need for affirmative action and understand that it's not just about helping certain groups deemed "trendy".
She asked and they gave her options she didn't like and then worked around it. Big difference
Avoiding extra processes is good, but it's not the end of the world to exec netcat.
Some of this you covered in your comment in that thread (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3750882). Is there anything in the past four years that you learned since that comment?
Wait until you have a job offer and then give 2 weeks.
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Colin Powell at the time many of the people he communicated with just didn't use email... He has had two of his emails marked as classified...

http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2016/02/05/Colin-Powell-Condo...
As far as I've experienced on OS X, any running process does not survive logout. Granted it's a single session, and that session is also GUI.

For a GUI login, I'd expect systemd to do exactly this. Right now, wayward processes ignore or just don't grok whatever "quit" notification the DE sends, and this will cause delayed restart/shutdown for 1m30s at which point systemd kills the user session. 1m30s is too long.

Whereas on GUIless server, where I use tmux, the idea I'd login, run tmux and create a session or two, detach, logout, and by logging out all my tmux sessions go poof is not expected. But even in the cited thread there's a mechanism for such processes to get a separate user session.
Anyone who has been on both sides of the hiring table would find this account of things implausible.

First of all, running someone through a full interview cycle is hideously expensive. Just by his own account, it seems like some 10 man hours of Uber's time was spent solely to usher just one person through this cycle.

Secondly, the results of work samples are rarely of much value. Outsiders are missing key information and perspectives that affect the viability of their work samples. Even if genuinely good work did come out of one of these samples, the initial conception of the idea is only a starting point and the least valuable component. How the idea is executed and refined is far more important and it's usually far more prudent to hire the person interviewing to work on it than to save the money of going through with the charade.

What's a far more likely explanation is that Uber learned over the course of the interviewing process that their requirements had changed and retooled towards a new approach. This happens all the time and isn't especially nefarious. Yes, Uber should have been more proactive in notifying prospective candidates about this but companies seem almost universally bad at communicating effectively through the hiring loop.
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This looks neat, looking forward to trying it out on my distributed systems.
The irony was not lost on me, but I think it's an interesting term to describe the way in which people communicate with each other. Some memes need to piggy-back on the traits of other memes in order to propagate, and "virtue signaling" is one of those. My usage of it is predominately to encourage more thoughtful reflection on what people actually say and not make snap judgements or stereotypes about another's positions.
> Also refusing a gift isn't extremely rude in Chinese culture if it's in the nebulous "I scratch your back you scratch mine" gray area that might be bribery. Accepting is basically signing on for the "deal".

So, the person who tells you it is rude to decline, is really just attempting to persuade you to "sign the deal".

After living in Asia for a few years, I can understand how accepting gifts from family members and pretending to decline them is a form of showing respect. I wonder how that developed and why the straightforward Western approach of simply saying, "this is an amazing gift, thank you so much" isn't more common.

Westerners do sometimes say "you shouldn't have" while accepting gifts. We only try to decline the most over-the-top gifts. I guess levels of "politeness" vary across cultures and from situation to situation. In the case of giving and receiving gifts, China's culture appears to be more polite

At any rate, similar to pushing education on other parts of the world, the act of making this a cultural norm seems to make the act lose its meaning, particularly for people outside the culture, like me.

I wonder whether government officials in China really believe in education, and how many view it as a charade. I tend to think it's only a charade when viewed as a charade, and only helpful when viewed as helpful. Education is what it is to you
A rough analogy for this situation would be if a company had an "employees must use blackberries" policy, but the CFO of the company outright refused because he wanted to use his iPhone. Are they going to fire the CFO over that? Possible but not likely, especially if he is doing a good job otherwise.

In the same way, the Secretary of State can also refuse to comply with government policy (not law). You can't fire the Secretary of State for using the wrong email server. It just doesn't work that way. The fact that national security is involved does change things, but organizational politics is pretty much the same all over. If Clinton's email server contained the nuclear launch codes or the contents of Area 51 then the government would have handled it differently. It's unlikely that any lasting and serious security threats were exposed.
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I love how they are not doing an IPO
"(generally)" ?

But you're right, it's sad how many people insist on feeling smart by taking a general statement as a universal statement and nitpicking it. It's so tiring.
If you've been injured, call an accident (tort) lawyer. Uber will respond to a legal inquiry much more quickly and seriously than to a customer service inquiry.

Most tort lawyers work on contingency, so you usually won't have to pay anything up front, though they will demand 30-50% of any payout you receive.
Don't know the source, but as far as 'watching other people working', here are two of my favorites:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VGjA66RSm0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P73REgj-3UE
There is an interesting RadioLab episode that covers antibiotic resistance and an unlikely source of new antibiotics.

Staph Retreat - Nov 2015
http://www.radiolab.org/story/best-medicine/

Or load it up in your favorite mobile podcast app.
A generalised hatred for the JS ecosystem, I believe.