skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Culturally there are two main groups:

Except, really, no.

> 1. Popular or "cool" people. Anyone who is not "book smart".

Except lots of people in this group are book smart, and even recognized as such by their peers in this group. It just isn't seen as dominating who they are.

> 2. Nerds, geeks, etc. People considered to be smart.

I would say that nerds, geeks, etc. as distinct from "popular" are defined more by perceived (from the "popular" perspective) overattachment to niche intellectual pursuits.

There is a very loose correlation with perceived smarts here, but its quite possible to be perceived as geeky/nerdy without being perceived as smart, and vice versa.

Also, you leave out (3) the very wide group of people who are neither particularly popular nor perceived as geeks/nerds.
Yep, $25 safety razor + 25 cent Feather blades are the best value for shaving bar none.
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That would be fine if they advertised it as such. There's no mention of "beta" or "pre-release" or anything like that on any of Ethereum's marketing materials, AFAICT.
You're correct. I should have said "judges and lawyers" rather than lawmakers.
This is interesting to me. The lack of diversity in the tech industry is definitely something that will be harmful in the long run. Diversity is necessary to improve the relevance of new ideas in tech and to promote them to broader audiences from different cultures.

The trend towards making a pariah out of anyone with opposing points of view can be equally harmful to promoting diversity of thought. Making people afraid of speaking their minds can hardly help the flow of new ideas or positively impact the industry. While I likely don't agree with the political ideology of a speaker at the RNC, I definitely agree with the right of anyone to do so without being held captive by the threat of activism at home. Boycotting and protesting people with different political views may feel good in the short run, but it is unhelpful to promoting freedom and equality in the long run.

If they can't say what I find reprehensible today, how do I know that views I hold dear will be "allowed" in the future?
From Peter Thiels perspective its a smart move because he's the only one willing to do something this crazy. This gives him a "monopoly" (as he likes to say) on political access as it relates to the tech world if Trump wins. In short it looks like a bet. Personally I find Trump an archetype of everything I'm trying to get away from in life.... but that is not the point. Also this is just my opinion and maybe their is no greater agenda and Peter Thiel just likes him.
Oh, somehow I overlooked that. That's a pretty strong action they are taking.
The funny thing is that in most Windows tools, it doesn't mean even alternate file streams. It simply is flat out illegal (unless used as a drive letter); most tools will reject any program trying to save a file in the format of "filename:ADS".

Even in managed code tools, it's this way. For instance, in C#, a statement like this:

File.WriteAllText(@"c:\test.txt:teststream", "AFS test");

Will error with "path format is not supported". There's no way to access ADS natively in .NET. The only way to access ADS is to evoke native Win32 methods.
The End of Microservices
Isn't a libertarian just what Republicans call themselves in Northern California?
While I can certainly understand where the woman who wrote this article is coming from, I really enjoy hearing and seeing women in tech. I work in tech, albeit peripherally (EA/Admin role at the moment, just getting in the door), and 99% of the time I feel like I've wandered into a men's club. I am treated really well by my male colleagues (I'm lucky enough to work with a group of kind, talented people, though), and generally am treated well by the men I meet at meetups and the SF tech scene, but they don't see me as a threat. I'm not on GitHub responding to code reviews and changing things they've worked on. I'm not competing for their jobs. I have a feeling that the second that happened, a large percentage of the men who are now cordial to me would be less than that.
I guess my point is that though I see why nobody wants to be a token female on a panel, and nobody should be coerced into giving talks they're uncomfortable or unqualified for, as a woman just stepping into the scene, it would be really great to see more women speaking out visibly in the field.
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It's used by all the browsers on Windows these days. They all create a 'Zone.Identifier' stream when a file is downloaded to mark is downloaded. It's content's is what triggers the "You downloaded this file! It's Evil!' warning in Windows.

To be fair, it's not used by a ton of things, since it requires NTFS, disappears when files are moved to different filesystems, and various things that read and write files destroy them if they're not careful, not to mention actually enumerating the streams is tricky, last I checked.
Is Spry a Smalltalk?
I would argue that it's a bit of a self-fulfilling prophecy. It was great and necessary when women really were disadvantaged. But now that they are generally "equal", it's detrimental to them. I.e. It's entirely plausible that society is self-correcting against the unfairly-claimed bias by...being biased. One can "factually" be certain that men are not "favoured", therefore they can treat men exactly as they see it. They take their degrees, their experience, their work at face-value. However, they can not honestly do so with women because they know that there is a claimed bias against them. Therefore all work, degrees, experience, etc, of women is suspect as there is no way to know which items were "embellished" to promote the "equality" of women.
I'm interested to hear your reasoning around this if you get a moment. I think ts very clearly an open source product - all the installers regardless of what 'edition' you choose to deploy are available without any paywall or login via their yum / apt repos, all the code is within them and open to contribute to and inspect.
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Phonetically, I'm think it should be an iota, not an epsilon, though either is far closer than sigma.
Perot got 18.9% of the popular vote in 1992. Gonna be tough to beat.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_ele...
> Given the libertarian/Randian streak that runs through silicon valley, support for Trump doesn't seem too outlandish.

What? Exactly what libertarian values does Trump espouse?
Granted this is one anecdote, but in my experience state and local governments in North Texas are generally much easier to deal with than the federal government. Some are better than others, but I haven't run into any yet that are really bad. Some, like the Dallas Police Department and Dallas Area Rapid Transit, even have mobile apps to facilitate activities that are often done from a phone but awkward to do via the web.
> Mr. Thiel will have a direct line to a chief executive who hints at a penchant for making big things happen for his supporters.

Look at this masterfully subtle insinuation that Trump will be corrupt.

The NY Times never fails to impress.

> This year there was an opportunity for a Republican to make overtures to tech — but with Mr. Trump, that chance seems to have passed.

>[...]

>it almost seems like he’s gone out of his way to smite Silicon Valley leaders on the issues they care about,

Yes, like bringing in scores of cheap H1Bs as veritable indentured servants (their right to reside in the country is is tied to their employer). This drives down wages – of course SV VCs and founders want this.

Of course the NY Times does not elaborate at all on this point

> “As a black guy in Silicon Valley, I just find it very hard to support a candidate who has been called racist,” Mr. Johnson said.

Oh my god
You'd think any actual libertarian would be jumping at the chance to get Johnson over the 5% threshold.
Some people are completely lost on the idea of intent vs the result. If we're not 50/50 on gender balance apparently we're all super racist.
> After that, he suggested, things went south because, among other things, women were given the right to vote.

Wow, does Peter Thiel really think that women shouldn't be allowed to vote?
Most talks were good but a handful were nuggets where clearly the deciding factor why that person got the talk was because she was a woman and not her expertise in the area.

And how did you come to "know" this, exactly? As opposed to merely speculating that that's what the deciding factor was?

Really, now -- please do tell.
Yes, it generates static HTML pages that work with JavaScript disabled.
The CEO of GitLab is fine with it (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12129755) and it gets us off the but not 100% of everything is open source train to an actual discussion
I'm sorry but that is an utterly ridiculous comparison.
Solaris unfies it too. You can even use the runat command to open a shell where extended attributes are exposed as and can be manipulated as regular files.

http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E23824_01/html/821-1474/fsattr-5.h...
The other clowns who ran for the Libertarian party nomination make it really hard to take Gary Johnson seriously. That he is their candidate really just says he meets the very, very low bar that was set by the other candidates.
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Hi! Engineer at USDS here.

There's definitely quite a bit of PostgreSQL in use in government, so this does not need to be a blocker. As someone noted, PAM auth is a good solution; and I think if you use CentOS or RHEL (Use the latest release please!) you'll end up with a FIPS OpenSSL which PostgreSQL is linked against.

More generally, the VA TRM is not a permanent thing, it's precisely the type of existing process which can be improved with the feedback of on the ground software engineers. If this is a blocker for you, I'm sure folks at DSVA would be happy to help!
Why not more Gary Johnson supporters?
Disclosure: I'm an engineer at USDS and these are my own opinions.

We hire for experience, which comes in all sorts of shapes and sizes. Based on my personal observations, the team is actually the most diverse team I've ever worked on by a number of dimensions. We've pulled folks from retirement, others who are chronologically younger but have been contributing to Python and Debian for years, those who have uprooted their family. The job is an incredible mix - it requires being able to debug a slow performing database index one moment, briefing a deputy secretary the next, all while empowering the other federal employees and contractors to do great things.

I would be remiss not to take this opportunity to link to our hiring page. https://www.usds.gov/join

I do recognize that there are lots of talented folks that aren't able to move to DC or can't make it work for a variety of reasons. That's okay. There are many other ways to contribute to our country [0] - working for state/local government, volunteering in your community, being a good parent, inventing the next breakthrough, actually using your turn signals, and many more.

[0] Yes I recognize that not everyone here is US based. Though the point actually is probably true for all countries.
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Trump has an extensive history of using racism to divide people for his own benefit.
Decreased regulation, meritocratic systems, and property rights

Why is this being downvoted?
HN tends not to include author names in titles.
I'm willing to bet they contribute more open source code, more often and more transparently than anything nearly as successful and extensive.
There are plenty of racists around, that's true.
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dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12086034
A note on personal experience as a tech contractor at a federal agency: I worked as a contractor at the US Geological Survey (USGS), in the Department of the Interior each summer between 2006 and 2010.

The most useful thing I worked on was a program for calculating air-sea carbon flux: I did the OS X GUI and helped with the core logic (computing air-sea carbon flux is nontrivial). At the time I was appalled that we spent $10k on what could have just been an R package around a wrapper for the C++ core. But since then the program has become a very common tool for ocean acidification research, with ~175 citations, many of these have since been cited in all sorts of climate change policy documents. It's admittedly hard to assess value, but it's definitely more than 10k. And definitely a public good that the market cannot be counted on to deliver.

I also found out at some point that the contractor I was working for (a Fortune 500 engineering and defense company) billed the USGS more than twice what I received (I got no real benefits). The federal employees I worked with detested the contracting company because they knew how much it was skimming from the contract employees, many of whom were full-time and had been there for years. When I figured this all out, I quit, started my own company, and was hired directly as an independent contractor. Unfortunately, this was not an option for most people, as this wouldn't have worked for a full-time, year-round position.
There are smarter people than any of us who support nearly every political position. One more dude supporting somebody hardly makes a difference in terms of that. You should always pause and reflect on your views from time to time, not just when some random smart guy reveals views that don't match yours.
I get a daily email from http://www.codeproject.com, which sometimes have interesting tech news (not as much as in the past though). See http://www.codeproject.com/Feature/Insider/
> So git should refuse to write the file to disk?

Yes, since it's /impossible/ for the file to have the same name on Windows as on Linux (or whatever OS was originally used to add it to the repository). And yes, git definitely ought to complain loudly in such a case.

I suppose git could be modified to be aware of alternate data streams, but there would probably still be a discrepancy with the way other tools would present the file (think about how "dir foo*" or "dir foo:bar" would behave for such a file on windows vs. linux).

> How am I supposed to use a git repo that contains such problematic files on Windows then?

Unless the repository is usable without those files, you can't. Unsurprisingly, that's the price of being able to use the same set of files in environments that have different file naming rules.
I don't know how we'd find a nice, automated solution to removing people's wordy signatures.
A two-time governor running with another two-time governor as his VP? Both former Republicans overwhelmingly re-elected in Democratic states? Both fiscally conservative and socially liberal?

I take that pretty seriously.
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Yup...and I'm quite curious how the author squares these two lines:

> [Thiel] will become the most prominent public face of a species so endangered it might as well be called extinct: the Silicon Valley Trump supporter.

and

> The danger, then, is that not only could Mr. Thiel’s public embrace of Mr. Trump backfire on him, but it could also become another plot point in the larger story line that Silicon Valley is exclusionary and narrow-minded and that its innovations are advancing global inequality.

So...the author thinks that there are almost no Trump supporters in the valley, and also thinks that a single public supporter of Trump will lead to people believing that Trump is the problem with Silicon valley...
Some tools assume particular characters mean things. For example GNU tar will assume if you find ":" in the filename of the archive it's marks a hostname..
To be fair, the name seems to be based on the book Make Room! Make Room!, not the movie (extremely loosely based on the book) Soylent Green. Soylent in the book (also, the forms of soylent other than soylent green in the movie) was not made from people.

On the other hand, the movie probably has more cultural currency than the novel, so its still probably fairly poor branding.
He's so inconsistent with his rhetoric that it's hard to say. But the libertarian impression exists in the negative: Clinton's style is decidedly not libertarian, and Trump is a businessman by trade so I think in the mind of voters "it stands to reason."
That was before the Republican party ran completely off the rails, and embraced the old white scared vote.
I've never seen/heard a non-derogatory use of "brogrammer" -- maybe gkilmain will enlighten us with some use I'm not aware of (has it already been reclaimed by brogrammers making in-group use of the term?), but the connotations are overwhelmingly negative: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=brogrammer
I believe they are the creators, I don't know how to import these assets to your project but you can fork their project and use the models.
What features specifically exist in Excel but not in open office?
When he says things like "I will force company X to do Y" I find it hard to take him seriously as a small government or pro-property-rights candidate.

My personal prediction is that if elected he will grow the size of government dramatically, quite likely more than Sanders would have if elected and certainly more than Clinton (who is the "conservative" candidate in this election if that means status quo). He will also grow the power of government, which is more important and significant.
> feature that almost nobody uses because it has a shitty non-file based API that also breaks most tools unless they are specifically aware of them: extended attributes

Mind you, OS X makes extensive use of extended attributes in addition to resource forks (and it's largely deprecated resource forks in favor of app folders). Spend some time poking around Siracusa's reviews (since Tiger); he loves to go into detail about every new way Apple makes use of extended attributes.

Also, it's not fair to say that almost nobody uses them. Chrome makes use of extended attributes, as does KDE's metadata system and a few other things.

> (limiting their size to strings that will fit in RAM)

That's an understatement. The Linux kernel API limits the size of all extended attributes to 64KB, and the most popular filesystems limit them further to 4KB. That's not really comparable to a true fork.

ZFS is the exception: its extended attributes are implemented as forks, and the maximum size of an extended attribute is the same as that of a file. Unfortunately, those aren't accessible on ZOL because the kernel won't support it, so you can really only take advantage of it on Solaris/Illumos (and maybe FreeBSD?).
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Examples? Should be pretty easy to find if it is an "extensive history"
> It comes down to user experience

Indeed, it does. My experience visiting SPAs is frankly one of annoyance. Somehow, with 32GB of memory, dual SSDs and an i7 extreme processor, the browser grinds to a crawl with at least 1 CPU core maxed out for however long it takes for the extraneous (to me) transition/effect to complete. As a side effect the CPU fan kicks in for my auditory pleasure.

Compare that to a traditional web page where the browser only needs to handle a small fragment of html after initial page load, which typically makes for blazing fast page transitions, indistinguishable from SPA transitions.

I get the benefit of offloading work to the client when scalability is an issue, but for a static blog site? Not so much, I'd say using React in this case is less about the user experience and more about the developer's.
Four pages is tl;dr length for recruiters and most hiring managers.
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Worth reading as he talks about this exact issue:

http://reactionwheel.net/2015/10/the-deployment-age.html

We're headed into a deployment age w/r/t the internet, where bigger companies roll out solutions funded internally.
Nah man, of course it diminishes their challenges. You literally start your post by diminishing their challenges; you do this in response to a post that makes the highly uncontroversial point that minorities are perceived differently in the workplace.

The interesting thing is that your line of advice really just needs a single, model minority person to prove it right. "Look! She didn't accede to the haters! Please ignore all the other people like her who gave up along the way! She obviously focused on what was under her personal control, and that's all that mattered."

But it isn't all that matters. If that were true, diversity in tech would not be an issue. Instead, only the most resilient people, those most willing to overlook the ongoing and systemic discrimination, make it.
I've been impressed with the GitLab founder in every interaction I've had with him. He treats people well and makes an effort to connect with every dev/person interested in his product. He's building a great culture.
I have no problem with it if they actually have a purpose, like .docx or .tar.gz
The lack of diversity in the tech industry is definitely something that will be harmful in the long run.

My intuition is that the harm has already been done, but we will only fully understand it 10 years hence.

Making people afraid of speaking their minds can hardly help the flow of new ideas or positively impact the industry.

There seem to be a lot of people online who have been indoctrinated to believe that pressuring/intimidating/shaming people into compliance is a useful means of changing people's minds. History tells us that it never works that way. You change people's minds through friendly interaction, by living and working with them.
proving the OP's point?
Trump is definitely not libertarian:

https://www.politicalcompass.org/uselection2016

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/01/donald-trump-...
What do you like about him?
There's nothing wrong with seeking reassurance. Not everyone can be naturally confident, and in most cases the lack of it becomes a barrier. Take maths in British schools for example: most kids presume that it's hard, and I've witnessed many times when they just refuse to try and have a go because of this pop delusion (because yeah, it's almost cool to be bad in maths). But I've also taught lower set kids where their learning (and consequently test scores) boosted significantly once they realised that the 'fear' was all in their heads.

But confidence is not like a switch that can be flipped on/off. It might surge, but then it will tail off again. So you need support - not necessarily all the time - that's enough to push you back up in the air. In the classroom, a good mentor will give you that. In an environment that is often perceived by a group of people to be a bit 'scary' - like tech - the occasional empowerment talk will give you that. That's why I don't (well, no longer) see these "women" talks as awkward - on the contrary, they are much needed. You might roll your eyes, but there will be some in the audience feeling just a little less scared about the too-big-for-me ideas in their heads - and so increase the likelihood of executing them.
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Yup, this is exactly the kind of behavior OP was talking about.
Because people's opinions should totally be discounted based on the color of their skin! Privileged or not, I will never support those who try to fight that privilege with discrimination and censorship.
I've never seen anyone claim Silicon Valley is meritocratic, yet I've seen tens of people get worked up about it on Hacker News.
He's not a murderer, unlike the other option
I would guess some people who had a profitable side project turned it into their primary source of income. Someone making $1000 a month from a side project can't afford to quit their day job. Someone making $10k a month from a side project can probably afford to quit their job and make the side project their primary focus.
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