skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There're two/three forces in PRC ideological and cultural ministries repsenting the worldviews of Han, Manchu and Hui respectively.
In Mao era, the three had been forged into one piece by iron fist of the communist ideology.

After Mao era, the three founding groups of the CCP separated as the minorities' ethnicity awareness grows.
Manchu and Hui elites have concentrated in arts, culture and media related 'soft power' agencies.

Therefore, it's not hard to see the conflicts in these domains. In fact , the ethnic Hui controlled CCTV removed all words, images and performances about pigs in the 2007 Spring Festival Gala Show for the Year of Boar.

There've been severe cultural conflicts under the hood of harmonic society and the Han majority are losing control of many domains in recent years, including the law enforcement ministry.

Don't be shocked if the PRC becomes a Islamic state with Chinese characteristics in the next 60 years if the Han majority still can't find something unique to believe in (no,the western ideology failed in 1989 already, though Christian Han are growing rapidly).

Forget the Uyghur, focus on Hui, one of the three founding ethnic groups of the CCP.

President Xi resorts to Neo Conficius Ideology to spirit up the money-addictive Han majority.But Hui has Allah and 陈克礼.

Let's see if there will be any pig related shows in the next CCTV Gala for the year of Boar 2019.
Financial perspective is an issue but this also.

Its complicated and its not directly related to your core work/competency. One uses a lot of frameworks/tools to build on top of what if they are accessible and you can't build the thing completely on your own? Its quite to get started to be sure which one is just some regulatory checklist and which ones actually matter. I have trying to be knowledgeable on this but compared to normal web development informations are both sparse and harder to grok. And its also much harder to test/validate than just checking if my script/css is working/looking right. I have done very little screenreader tests but it somethings they are terribly good at working through and some things break too easily. It might make perfect sense for an accessibility expert but can be very non-intuitive for a regular developer.
Yes, it is hard to tell if a new product will last and for them it is useless, but such website could tell which brands are more trusty in this manner.
Glad to see the lines blurred even more. Accessible design isn't about changing things to check off items of a list - your users' ability lie on a spectrum, and our job is to make sure we aren't ignoring vast sections of that spectrum.

When trying to sell people on Shade[0] I like to explain that good contrast isn't just for people with a visual impairment, but important for folks on old monitors, classroom projects, or even looking at their phone in direct sunlight.

Mega props for Safia[1] for posing this question, the responses in here are super eye-opening.

[0]: http://halogensoftworks.com/shade/

[1]: https://twitter.com/captainsafia
It seems like you're talking about squashing, not rebasing.
Ugh, why do they need to be provisioned by a third party.

So the authorities know where to send the speeding tickets.
See also: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNjxe8ShM-8 (On The Turing Completeness of PowerPoint)
Guys, here is one niche idea that has been brewing in my head for sometime now. I was a part time bouncer for a strip club in London, Uk years ago and always been interested in the economics and profit dynamics of the profession. So please bear in mind when reading this, is nothing to do with the social and anthropological side of things. There are tons of inefficiencies in the strip club industry. It cost money to handle money. Strip clubs would allow the dancers to handle all the money they made throughout the entire shift, then have a wait-staff style pay-out at the end of the night where they would tally up the dances and add up all the money the exotic dancer owe the strip club “house.” The dances are tracked by either the strip club DJ or the house mum. This, of course, could accumulate to hundreds of pounds which the exotic dancer had been managing all night long. After split with the strip club, earnings are further depleted. Tips in the industry is standard. It's customary to tip strip club DJ & house mum i.e. £1 a dance. There is an opportunity to introduce a payment service using blockchain technology leveraging smart contracts to govern the core financial side of strip club where the exotic dancer is the only one who needs a smartphone and an app. The client chooses what service he wants and pays accordingly, still in cash, but in a more controlled manner.

All thoughts gratefully welcomed....

My personal email is rume.gbenedio@yahoo.com
Is the rumpkernel truly a spin-off? It originated in NetBSD master and my understanding is that they'll continue maintaining it going forward. It's part of their system design.

Contrast that with rump Linux kernels: maintained completely out-of-tree and, AFAIK, very little interest in merging and maintaining a complete rump environment in mainline. Rump kernels are easier in NetBSD, anyhow, because of their very carefully designed and maintained device subsystems.
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It feels like an unachievable goal if I think about it even if the devices are designed to be very servicable.

Let's use the same example of a hypothetical simple toaster -like device, and assume that you have a specific breakage where fixing it takes 20% of the effort required to make the device in the first place.

I'd say it's feasible that massproduction and automation brings up the efficiency so that this already means that producing the item takes less human hours than fixing the item even if it's easily openable and servicable.

Furthermore, even if you have a scenario where fixing an item takes 20% of the hours to build the item, it's feasible that the local repairperson in a first wold country costs more than 5 times per hour than the cheapest possible place in the world where the item was manufactured.

It is quite realistic that the efficiencies of the global mass production toolchain mean that repairing many types of items doesn't make practical sense no matter how serviceable they are.

A person manually soldering a single capacitor can reasonably cost more than the manufacturing of the entire circuit board and its components - and that's not caused by faulty design, but by the effect of scale and automation; it's not that repair is expensive but that replacements are dirt cheap.
No, you shouldn't have to go through the lottery again.
It costs you nothing to smile and be courteous. It might find you a change of heart.
You're uncomfortable with touch, in a way that most people aren't.

That's totally fine. I'm guessing you send off signals that you're uncomfortable with it.

Part of social skills is knowing how to read those signals and respecting them. There are definitely people who I take pains to not touch (due to the signals they send), even in a crowded bar.

I'll tell you it's definitely not a power thing. Most of the time, it is somewhat reciprocal. If it's not, then any well-adjusted person backs off.
Whatever the perceived tone, what Caroline didn't do was suggest improvements, provide examples. It was a teachable moment.
Just because people disagree doesn't mean they should downvote you, so I upvoted you.

That being said, I don't know how to respond. I disagree wholeheartedly. I don't think that the military acts with the best interest of most citizens.
There's a couple of issues that stand out to me: Github is engaging in risky behaviour by reaching out to individuals (specifically activists) for hire explicitly on the basis of "diversity" and trying to incorporate those individuals in a highly merit-based environment.

Secondly, Coraline seems to think that human relationships are a one way street: that she is entitled to be direct and even confrontational or insensitive, especially if she believes she is "right" or in a "mentor" role, and yet her peers are expected to walk on eggshells around her, lest they be accused of attacking her.

One part that stood out as particularly odd was her insistence to stay at work while she was suffering with a mental health issue that was clearly affecting her job performance, in spite of her manager's request that she take mental health leave. It sounds like she just flat out ignored her manager under the assumption that her manager just needed to accept whatever her therapist advised her to do, which is kind of ridiculous on the face of it.
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I have Spinal Muscular Atrophy and due to weakness can only use a mouse + on-screen keyboard.

My biggest gripe is sites that load with focus on an element that doesn't allow me to scroll down via the down arrow. This forces me to click the middle of the page to continue navigation via OSK.

Bad:
https://circleci.com/gh/wbond/asn1crypto (can't even page down)
https://pypi.python.org/pypi (new pypi might change this)

Good:
https://www.youtube.com
https://www.quora.com
A man I worked with used a combination of a magnifier--he could see a foot-high letter, I gather--and a screen reader.
I flew next to a navy Commander who was responsible for
coordinating the use of Navy ships and personnel with television and movie production companies. His take on it was that the Navy wouldn't participate if it made the services look bad or show them to be operating in a manner that wasn't in service to their mission. It seemed like a reasonable trade-off.

He also mentioned that CGI was making the use of actual hardware less common.
So fix the implementation. Rather than say "well there's not a lot of brown people contributing to this JS package so we need to get some more" why not fix the way the mentioned biases (which I agree 100% exist) are affecting how merit is decided?

The idea that the best way to fix biases in favor of wealthy white men is to add new biases against wealthy white men is crazy.
I was wondering when the other shoe was going to drop. Now both of the "star" SV CEOs who had the gall to constructively engage with the administration are under fire for "harassment". I wonder how Thiel has managed to avoid these Alinsky playbook tactics so far.

In any company of tens of thousands of people, you can always find a few people who are mistreated (even at such bastions of social justice as Google and Microsoft, see the recent news about Google's internal mailing list). The strategy in this case seems to be to take these few cases, and blow them completely out of proportion in social media to ensure political compliance from the CEO, or in this case just to punish for previous non-compliance. Not even the second coming of Steve Jobs is immune.
Thanks, that helps. For evidence of "high degree of independent discretionary decision-making", are certified notes from the company's senior executives and HR considered admissible? It sounds like this would be something that can warrant very strong justification.
> Consider if the situations were reversed. What if some white male engineer was simply being terse in an email to her. Might she attribute it to rudeness, sexism, or transphobia? If the company fired the engineer would you be arguing that she should be a bit more charitable in her interpretations?

These are good questions, and I don't know the answers. I'd like to tell you how I'd react, but I think given the current context it'd be hard for me to do so without my opinion of this whole thread coloring my answer.

> It can be very hard to capture the subtleties of spoken word in text form. The onus has pretty much always been on the individual to ensure they are being professional. I definitely think something is fishy here. It may very well be that Github has some serious issues, but the flip side of that coin (and Occam's razor) is that she sent out some rude emails and was fired.

What I'll say is this: I can see how her comments could be perceived as rude, or "unempathetic." I cannot see how - especially at Github, a place not known for cultural sensitivity - they were firable. I think there is a double/triple/quadruple standard going on here where people are, without even realizing it, passing their opinions of somebody through ideological blinders. I think this issue may be part of a core problem with Github's culture.
I'd urge folks in this thread to remember to treat this post as only speaking for Maria, and not as political capital for your personal POV about Women in Tech, because, well, that's the entire point of her post.

Not everyone is going to agree on the best way to foster diversity and inclusiveness, and that's fine.
Ehh...

I can see it either way, honestly. I think the issues raised are worth discussing here. I don't know that the post itself is.
Why don't you just pay for the 5 year warranty if you want it, instead of wanting to make it mandatory that everyone pay?
New photo shows Amelia Earhart may have lived after crashing into the Pacific
I think it's more idiomatic because otherwise you have to do:

char c = EOF;
while (c != EOF) {
c = getchar();
...
}

The idiomatic way reads better: "while next character is not EOF".

Your (excellent) example of bad style is bad because it reads poorly: "if the result of the assignment of bar & 0xf to foo is true". Not only that, but it is not obvious what the result of an assignment is, if anything. (Yes, I do know it is the value, but personally, I think <nothing> is a more logical result).
I definitely see how the graph with numbers at the top and numbers mentioned inside the paper could be misleading. I hope I made it clear enough in the post and paper what the limitations are that people don't misinterpret my findings even if they may be disappointing in my methods and their limits.
Traffic cameras, radar guns, and license plates already work pretty well for that.
Ultimately you're mostly talking about the cost of digital typography.
Very happy to see you responding!

Let me be totally clear about something: you have built something interesting and you should run with it. You will hear a ton of criticism, including on this forum, telling you to pack it up and take it home. That is bullshit. It is easy to criticize and hard to build. I'm often wrong - and I've been in your shoes. It can be hugely discouraging to read a bunch of criticism on hackernews. Don't take it too personally.

Keep on pursuing. At some point, if you do have to call it quits, make sure it is a reasoned decision based on (1) having already made your best efforts and (2) market feedback. Don't base it on the stuff you read from internet strangers.

Best of luck!

(Luck is when preparedness meets opportunity.)
Biases are not just socially constructed - they're often rooted in biology. It might just be the case that for biological reasons, females (in general) aren't as interested in creating technology.

The gender imbalance in fields like programming and nursing is larger in the most "fair and evolved" societies (e.g. Denmark), because these societies allow biological gender differences to more freely assert themselves.
That's misleading.

For the S class: "Based on S 550e Plug-In Hybrid with options".

As soon as you select any other model:

* S550 - $108,506

* S63 - $196,496

* S65 - $241,129

* others - $180K, $230K.

So the S-Class is "for the base model" but using it as a litmus for the S class range is no different to only looking at the Model S 60, at $68K.
ja nie rozumiem, please explain the meaning.

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Good Article on that: http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2015/03/learning-love-s...

"In his 2014 book Bending Adversity, Pilling grapples with the cognitive dissonance at the heart of 21st-century Japan: is it a harbinger of global stagnation? Or is it a model of global sustainability? In the book’s most-quoted passage, a British MP, on arriving in Tokyo in the early 2000s and surveying its lively environs, is reported to have said: “If this is a recession, I want one.”
www.tinyeyes.com made me open my eyes when I became a parent.
I realise that by starting by saying that everyone is held back by something I probably sound dismissive to the people who have to contend with dramatically more than others who are held back by less. I apologise for that. Almost everyone can find factors outside themselves that make their lives harder but some are much more serious and pervasive than others.

As to the alternative? I think that attempting to achieve in your area and simultaneously trying to fix society are big asks. I've noticed some minority high achievers seem to have deluded themselves into not believing that they have been much discriminated against when they clearly have. I think that that is a strategy that can help some people (although they will sometimes then say unhelpful things in the context of a wider discussion). This self delusion is, I believe, part of their maintaining the non paranoid outlook and the growth mindset that has helped them achieve what they have.

> success is a function of personal achievement and minority status. That's just life. To deny that is, to me, simply unrealistic.

I'm explicitly not denying this, I'm acknowledging it and I want society as a whole and companies and other groups of people to spot this and try to fix it. What I am saying, based on personal observation is that being on the look out for these kinds of discrimination is a strategy that may not be in the interests of specific individuals in terms of maximising their personal achievement.
There's a great Fed press briefing where William Dudley mentions this, and someone heckles him "I can't eat an iPad!"

https://www.yahoo.com/amphtml/news/blogs/lookout/fed-officia...
> assume mistakes are honest and be polite in correcting them.

I think many social activists, esp. those I see on social media, could use a heavy dose of this kind of thinking. People are human, humans make mistakes, and most people I run into in life are too busy with their own affairs to always be perfectly conscious about their words and actions.
I see, I didn't know that. Thanks for the clarification.
Finally.. Although I am not optimistic about seeing results soon. Companies will go to extremes to circumvent such rules.

But it's shocking to see their lack of insight:

> software should be easier to repair and update

ROFL!
As a node developer I agree with you, I think the benefit with nice might be that relative paths are shorter in node imports?
- Canadian

- No degree

- Software developer

- 3 years of experience

How can I move to the US permanently?
While being patriotic and emphasizing the good that the military do they often also portray civilian government as ineffective, out of touch, overpaid, etc.

The thing that bothers me is that its an inherently right wing message.
> the paper is so obtuse as to require a specialized degree to understand.

I have no degree in physics and I find the authors make a decent job giving several summaries (abstract, introduction, description of the work) that make clear that they propose hypotheticals that could be observed, not actual observerations.

> We discuss whether these two effects could be observed.
That's true - I looked into why even though there's no cache-control header: when there's no explicit cache header, some browsers will cache anything with a Last Modified header for some small fraction of the distance between the current date and the header.

Here's the chrome code for that:

https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/49.0.2606.2/net/http/http_response_headers.cc#949

As this is a static site, those Last Modified dates are probably coming from the fs under the webserver. Obviously for dynamic sites the Last Modified header won't be there unless you put it there.
> I don't find Bentley or Rolls cabin quality to be better than a Mercedes

I've only been in a Bentley once, and I think you misunderstand. The quality of -either- a Bentley, Rolls, Mercedes, Audi or whatever, all of those, far exceeds the Model S, which is more akin in cabin quality to my old Altima.
You're assuming that I don't already do this - I do :)
I'm surprised it took them this long. I've used ``-Wall -Werror`` on all my code for decades. If you use it from the start it's easy to maintain and catches a lot of potential bugs. There are the occasional false positives and warnings coming from 3rd party headers. For these I add warning specific suppressions.
I also can name a few things that are dominated by woman, or latin, jews, etc...

Is this really a problem?

I think that some of these lines of thought, while are valid points to justify and individual problem, tend to fall into a slippery slop that tends to beleving that a true (ideal) society is all greyed out with everyone in the same mold: genderless, opinionless, etc...
That isn't really reasonable. No product is expected to work _forever_. Things fail. ICs go out of production.
Love this part in the Author's Note:

In a sense, this is a military history—one in which the adversary is formless, timeless, and pervasive. Here, too, there are victories and losses, campaigns upon campaigns, heroes and hubris, survival and resilience—and inevitably, the wounded, the condemned, the forgotten, the dead. In the end, cancer truly emerges, as a nineteenth-century surgeon once wrote in a book’s frontispiece, as “the emperor of all maladies, the king of terrors.”