skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What you describe is an important goal, but I agree with protomyth[0] - they're doing it backwards. If you want to make the industry more accessible to minorities, focus on making information and training more accessible to them, and not on status rewards (being a speaker on a conference is first and foremost a status reward).

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[0] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14481090
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Glad to see the legacy of Dr King is alive and well.
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If this is the underlying thought guiding GitHub -- yes I've read the other stuff about the company -- it might be time to start setting up my own git server.

"We're not releasing this killer new feature because too many white people worked on it."
Myth is science. It's how people transferred knowledge from generation to generation, and it's always based on observations of the world. Thing is though, in the ancient times they didn't have the access we started to have in the last centuries into the structure of things, so all they could do was to interpret that which they saw and that which they learned through earlier myths. Dismissing religion and myths as fairy tales because they are not relevant anymore is wrong, for one even fairy tales are, or were, tools for sharing knowledge along generations. Yes, we have better means of knowledge today, but we wouldn't have came here without religion and myths, they have been an important step in cognitive evolution of humankind. And still today important as part of our history and also a still-comtemporary sociological phaenomenon that directly affects us in every way.
You defend the leeching practices of financiers by the claim that the law already demands obvious hints in contracts, but consequently pretend that there was no obligation to educate. This is a contradiction.

> but most people are going to blame you for not making yourself competent

Shouldn't it go both ways? Businesses might be confident with your assertion and might rely on it to do business. But blame is the wrong attitude if you go in holding that opinion it's fraud. If you let someone sign a contract although you are sure they didn't read it, that's fraud. Simple as that. Why do I get weird looks when I actually start reading a contract I am about to sign?
Why would they want to solve the mental health issues when they provide so many good excuses for wire tapping the internet?

EDIT: People don't understand politics for the same reason they don't understand Facebook. If you're not the big lobby consultant getting these people elected, you are the product.
I'm not sure what you mean by "deep-copied" in this case. But I suspect it would involve losing the identity of the objects, which is unacceptable for correctness.

Moreover, typical Scala.js code constructs cyclic dependencies between Scala objects and JS objects routinely. If Scala.js has its own GC, you'll have to manage those cyclic heap references, which will involve weak maps and other trickery so complicated that we would most likely lose all the performance that wasm would otherwise bring us.

It's just not worth it.
Ask HN: What is the best way to use $200 to improve your life/career
If you had an extra $200 to spend how would you use it to improve your life and/or career?
I have a prepaid gift card and want to use it productively. Thank you for your thoughts!
Fascinating and useful explanation. I think, then, the difference compared to the US must be that in the US, the majority of both parties have authoritarian tendencies, but there is a vocal minority of "libertarians" in both parties, whereas in the UK, you seem to be saying that libertarian pressure comes mostly from the outside the traditional political structure.

I do wonder, more broadly, whether it is possible for a country to have the benefits of the "European" approach (better social services) and of the "American" approach (more robust civil liberty) all in one, or if they are somehow mutually exclusive.

From the standpoint of security, I don't see much of a correlation between the level of surveillance/repression/etc and the level of terrorist activity. It seems to me the biggest determinants of whether a country will suffer terrorist attacks are: 1) immigration policy, 2) perceived level of "colonialist"/"globalist" behavior, and 3) wealth. It is very interesting to me that Poland has virtually no terrorist attacks whereas their neighbors, Germany, France, and UK, have them quite regularly, but I don't know the explanation. It is surely not that Poland regulates the internet more tightly.
I suspect that they have this kind of alarming data on so many people they don't have the resources to act on all of it or it would require to round up entire communities which is politically infeasible.
No, that's a false dichotomy. The fact I prefer a mix of cultures, doesn't mean I'm against whatever conference you'd like to see (unless you were explicitly excluding people, that is). I'm not even saying staying in the monoculture of your own origin is bad, if that's what you want to do. And btw, East Asia has some awesomely diverse conferences :)
It's the only free source of education left, and we can't have that, it's dangerous.

That and the porn, prostitution has been going downhill ever since HD porn is available. Can't have that.
It's embarrassing watching you trying to argue, when it's more than obvious you haven't got the slightest clue of what you're talking about and probably never used Common Lisp in your life.

Rather than wasting your time propagating fallacies and outright lies, wouldn't it be better to get informed?

I won't hold my breath.
> and where the concept of a null pointer does not exist

How that would benefit stability? I'd argue that having an equivalent of NaN for integer types would benefit array index computations more.
The more I work, the luckier I get :-)

Just to clarify few points, trend following is not technical analysis in a sense of chart/pattern reading – maybe it can work for someone, but I have tested a lot of patterns and they do not work for me... the reality is we cannot predict what the weather is going to be tomorrow, let alone the stock market next week.

But if you agree that the market is not efficient and trend do emerge, then you can find a quantitative strategy that will let you to follow the rent in up and down markets and make money doing it, you’ll never catch the top or to bottom, but will catch the majority of the trend in the middle...

Why bother opening a hedge fund, look for investors and clients – just the regulatory paperwork would be nightmare, when I am leaving comfortable life, plan to travel the world and will leave a nice "lifestyle business" to my kids...

Let me tell you what, why not take and read one of the Ed Thorp books, maybe it will inspire you to look at the markets in t a different way – I think it is a great risk reward, your are risking few hours from your time and the potential reward can be life changing...
"Your organization is not allowed to register for GitHub because it's not diverse enough."
There are a myriad of options available to gain platform agnosticism and nowhere did I, or even the original commentator, state that Electron was the only viable path.

Ironically, you should read the comments from your own example as they descend into debate regarding these very options:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14453252

And what's really amusing is that you've now missed this point twice in a two day period.
And internet freedom in the rest of the world, by extension. If they go through with this nonsense, a lot of EU politicians will push for similar things, with the excuse that "if the UK can do it, why can't we?".
Sloppy of me, but I meant value before the variable/register.
I am exactly in same situation and experiences with Scala.JS as you... my #1 choice atm.
In the case of the Tony Martin case, he was determined as not acting in self defense and that his actions were an overreaction as well as premeditated to some extent. He shot the intruders in the back as they were fleeing and illegally owned a shotgun, his license having been previously revoked for violent behaviour.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Martin_(farmer)
Not OP, not endorsing their opinion, just linking for info:

https://freedomhouse.org/report/freedom-press/2016/netherlan...
You do realize that just because its called a one in a million event doesn't actually mean it has to happen every million years, and it doesn't have to wait a million years, right? A one in a million event could happen after 50,000 years, it just means on average it's expected to happen every million years.
Not even a day after the killings. The opportunism is staggering.
Lack of hubris does not imply lack of self-esteem.
One hundred and twenty two chapters :o
MOSAIC: Processing a Trillion-Edge Graph on a Single Machine [pdf]
Learning code should be the only way to make programming 'more accessible'. Black, white, yellow, red, gay, straight, whatever. None of that should matter. All that matters is that you can pull your weight.
Slide deck : https://taesoo.gtisc.gatech.edu/pubs/2017/maass:mosaic-slide...
yes, several personal stuff, some internal facing business apps , and few public facing I did as contractor.

It's a whole different world than anything else in frontend. The libraries from scala are immense.
What if he wants to quit scala.js and go code trading bots to get filthy rich :)
So what if someone thinks that GTA multiplayer has enough ways to communicate each other without transfering a word (for example driving a taxi means tuesday and changing a weapon you can direct message to ceratin person in team).
This can be done in any video game that has multiplayer.
I bet from the phone company they don't see the problem. Both were intending to place a call so they both pay :)
Having lived in Ghana in mid 2000's this story does not surprise me. The team that I worked with went on to work for Google, Microsoft and Yahoo. Another colleague built up the Internet in Africa, building 15 Internet Exchanges in different countries for under 200,000 dollars.

In 1974 the literacy rate in Ghana was the same as in Portugal. Things diverged. Portugal became a democracy, Ghana went through many years of dictatorship and misguided help from the west.

I remember once interviewing one person sent from the States to help the software company I was working with. His expertises was 'Network Streamlining', that turned out to be sorting out cables. If you take the expense of sending somebody from the states, versus sending from Ghana to the West for training versus the payback. We should be sending more people to the west for training rather than the other way round.
> Typesafe->Lightbend transition

The renaming never affected the staffing of the Scala team at Lightbend -- we've been doing about 2/3 of core Scala development (major thank you to the community for the other third!) since 2.10 (when I went from post-doc in Martin's lab to the Scala team lead position).

In my opinion, it was a good thing that feature development slowed down in Scala 2.x (while Martin pushed the research frontier forward in Dotty), so we could focus on (in no particular order) compiler performance, a new back-end and optimizer, Java 8 support, modularization,...
Looks like it has peaked to me..
That's what every American says.
The paper they linked to has a much better description of how they figure out file authors, and how they avoid issues with one-time contributors.
The article is from 2011 but little has changed.

> Unless they pay thousands of dollars, Lisp hackers are still stuck with Emacs.

Still true today. SBCL + slime (or slimv for vim) make a decent IDE for my shell terminal, but it's nothing for mouse pushers and a far cry from a LispM.
> Edit: Yes, there are better and worse ways to go about it. Realising too late and reverting the original list was not the best. Reaching out to / inviting diverse groups rather than fixing balance later would be better. Hope they learned and will do it better next year. Organisers which care about it from the beginning somehow manage to get a decent m/f split - both in the audience and in the speakers. (see linux.conf for a good example)

A couple other comments said that they did a blind review of the submitted papers. I can't think of a farer review process.
It looks like they didn't even inform the speakers https://twitter.com/framerate/status/870038985422249984
Mars has useful quantities of ice and an atmosphere that's 96% CO2. We wouldn't need to export any oxygen to Mars and probably wouldn't need to export much or any water either. Really, the biggest doubt is about the quantity of readily-available nitrogen.

On the grandest scale, we could take CO2 from Venus and hydrogen from Saturn or Jupiter. The logistics aren't exactly straightforward, but the quantities available are immense.
If the species dies, all of my potential descendants die. I have genes that have evolved to prevent such an occurrence.
Common Lisp has multiple "socket apis", most of them well-documented, widely used, well-tested and robust.

Your other point about "finical [sic], security, encryption-type problems" I do not understand at all since you do not go into any details.

I've noticed that a lot of people will claim a lot of things when it comes to Lisp, but it is extremely rare that these claims have any merit whatsoever. More than often enough, those making the claims are obviously completely clueless and have never spent more than a couple of minutes [if that] looking at Lisp. Yet they feel confident making all sorts of false proclamations and spreading lies and misinformation.
I just checked a bag of noodles I had lying around, and it uses

protein: 蛋白质, fat: 脂肪, sodium: 钠, carbohydrates: 碳水化合物, energy content: 能量 (measured in kJ: 千焦)

So there is the additional problem of a. measuring different things (or using different units) and b. using different words to mean the same things.
Most matter in the universe is dead. So even if we assume that we can't come up with anything interesting and worthy achieving right now we can still transform dead matter into thinking matter that might eventually come up with something.

At worst you would be wasting dead matter on a useless endeavor while ideally you discover more interesting things down the road. Seems like a decent tradeoff.
Can you not
They realized they blindly selected and enjoyed topics submitted by the undiverse, and this is the discordant backlash.

"Oh God, I liked a talk by a white male! Cancel everything."
I've noticed (as a non american) that every single book I see in american airport book shops (at least the sort of business/self-help ones which seem to constitute 95% of american airport book shops) follow this exact title style: $PITHY_PHRASE: $MEANDERING_SUBTITLE_THAT_IS_A_BIT_TOO_LONG

It's very unimaginative.
Canada calling: tech industry lures workers north in wake of Trump
I understand that the agreement is a way of raising money from nations to fund e.g. putting pollution scrubbers on factories.

What does it mean for a state to follow the agreement? I don't think they're allowed to give tax money to foreign countries(though I wouldn't mind if they were allowed to).
How many people died last week in the UK from fentanyl overdoses? How many from alcohol involved traffic accidents? More than this. Why is terror more terrible than unexpected death by other means?
SecureLogin Authentication Protocol 1.0
Institute of Cryptoanarchy
If population of speakers are representative of population of Electron users I fail to see the issue.

Unless the organizers think by skewing the sample they can somehow change the underlying data. (Which maybe to a very minor extent but probably not much).

Short of that they are simply damaging their own conference and thus subverting dissemination and development of their own platform.

This kind of thing is a canary IMOP. When peripheral issues (to the tech.. it's about the tech right?) subsume critical issues it ain't headed in the right direction.

But hey, I wasn't going anyway. If the tech is any indication, the Electron conference was 20X as expensive as the QT conference :)
It does not. But my team has at least established that interest exists, and we are actively working on a new contract, stay tuned!
> No one is going to rewrite the Linux Kernel in Rust. It is far too big ...

Please refrain from using strawman arguments. Nobody proposed to rewrite everything at once. This is what TFA actually wrote:

| So the idea would rather be to rewrite pieces of the Linux kernel in Rust, so the change can be incremental and one doesn’t need to rewrite the whole OS

See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14479559

(It puzzles me what this strawman was good for, given that the remaining arguments are independent from the "too big" argument anyway.)
UKIP are very right wing, are already villified by the left, and who rely on incidents like this for their conversions. They stand to lose nothing by doing so.
Any more info on your recommendation system? Anything we can check out?
I didn't live here until I was a teen, and I spent my childhood in Southeast Asia.

I've also lived for years at a time in a half-dozen other countries around the world.

So far, there's no other country I would rather live in than the USA. YMMV, and I respect that.

But please also consider that I am speaking from relevant experience.
PG-Strom: SSD-To-GPU Direct SQL Execution
On one side of the scales we have that Mars is pretty. On the other side, we have the continued existence of humans in the face of one random asteroid.

I care more about hedging against an asteroid strike than I do about the natural beauty of a planet that no one's even seen up close.
Slides : https://www.slideshare.net/kaigai/20170602ossummitanintellig...
The Wonderful WiFi232: BBSing Has Never Been Easier
There are countless millions of lifeless beautiful giant rock worlds carved and shaped throughout the eons by the interaction of elements. And yet, there's only one of such rocks, that we know so far, has been graced by the beauty of life. Life spreads, grows, adapts, multiplies. It, just like all other elements in the universe that came before it, shapes its environment as it interacts with it. Life isn't any different from the wind and water that shapes the mountains, or the meteor that carves a valley deep into the earth.
> absurd libel laws and take any and every opportunity to cry "regulate the internet"

You do realise there's a very consistent theme here?

It's not about terrorism. It's not about the media. It's not even about internet. The underlying narrative is a systematic need to be able to control the messengers. Why impose hard propaganda when you can have unlimited pressure points available to influence what is being relayed to the public at large?

For some reason, the UK government (regardless of parties in power) seems to be fundamentally attracted to autocracy.
I don't think better mental health support would have any effect on Islamic terror attacks. These religious zealots are not mentally ill in the traditional sense.
I just realized I've never read Icarus' story as a story of hubris.
To me it simply read as a "trust people who know better" exactly like little red riding hood, or the "don't cry wolf" one.
I feel cut out of the world know.
It does a lot better than cutting it in half.
Shhh logic has no power here.
Exactly. To me, if the reason why folks kill others is because they were brainwashed (due to religious fundamentalism or not), the correct action would be to solve the issues that cause folks to be drawn to such fundamentalism.
Sure, but those laws are not enforced to the letter of the law, but to the 'spirit' of the law. Which means your not going to get arrested for taking your kid and their bat home from practice just because you forgot the ball.
>I never said anything about advocating for unqualified people.

That's what being against meritocracy means. A system based on something other than merit. If the people in charge aren't the people with the most merit, they aren't really qualified.

>Almost all Fortune 1000+ companies are doing this today

Appeal to popularity is a fallacy

> And it's been conclusively shown to be improving the quality and strength of the board and encouraging more diverse people to join the SLTs.

Do you have citations for those?

>Not sure what that rant at the end has to do with anything.

Personal reasons, mainly. Just tired of being seen as nothing but a trans person. Yeah, it's part of me, but I hate when people make that my entire personality.
Gosh for a moment there I thought we were talking in-game, as this article seems rather light on logistics, and heavy on clickbait.
May's policies around the internet are boarding on authoritarian. Not sure how you will stop people from driving cars in the capital city...

Nevertheless, its interesting to see this flame bait by independent so quickly. Who owns that paper anyways? It has a .co.uk domain?
The Culture of Critique by Kevin MacDonald is very eye opening in the literal sense of the word.
Tips To Protect Your Pc From WannaCry Ransomware Virus Attack
https://www.earngurus.com/tips-protect-wannacry-ransomware-v...
This is a common reaction, and it started from a misunderstanding of the terms.

I recommend reading

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/racism

And then

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sexism

Of course, it's a complex topic, and there's a lot more great material which would help you get a better understanding.

While particularly focused on a specific type of racism in the US, includes a decent 101 on racism generally -
https://medium.com/@absurdistwords/how-to-discuss-race-with-...
She seems pretty talented to me.
I think most reasonable people would think a 10-2 verdict is more acceptable in some circumstances than a retrial.

Meanwhile, the jury selection process in the US is, in my eyes, a complete distortion of the whole concept.
Yeah, there's no way I'm going to defend the TSA's methodologies. They a pain to deal with.

The good thing I'll say is that somewhere around 57 million people visited the US last year. 99.9%+ had no trouble other than long lines and the general frustration that comes with long distance travel. So your fears, while completely understandable, are also very, very unlikely to cause any actual trouble.
What you saw isn't actually bad, because - unlike the current icon storm on mobile - each icon on that screenshot has a tooltip. Hovering a mouse over a button and waiting for a tooltip is one of the most basic computer use skills. And if you have that, then icons suddenly have a better value proposition.

Not that I personally like icons. I feel I can pattern-match a word faster than I can pattern-match an icon.
Not to mention that they caused a massive extinction, eradicating most species that can't handle oxygen, except a few survivors that stuck to a few low-oxygen niches.