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This was mostly only true in the 90s tho, when we saw the hockey stick part of the S curve: between 1981 and 1987 your comparable choice would have been upgrading a 5mhz 8088 to a 10mhz 286.

a 386 machine would be ~$10k (in 80s $s!) and more like a high end multichip Xeon system or something today - they actually had a compaq 386 of that vintage in my first job and it was still in active service in 2001.
> if something you say doesn't offend or piss someone off, you just haven't ran into the right person yet.

Agreed. No matter how calculated you are chances are someone is going to be angry or atleast peeved by you having an opinion. I believe that everyone has a right to voicing their opinion. By this I mean that people should have a chance to be heard, but I believe the backlash that comes from voicing an opinion is sometimes a necessary evil and it too should not be completely silenced. There's a healthy balance in the war of words.

I personally feel despite the backlash if you feel strongly about something that you feel is right then speak out about it, and have a voice. Some words need to be heard and expressed. People do often have strong biases, but your words can hold power to sway someone to either side.

One important thing to note about truly making a debate a learning experience is just because the person is on the other side of the debate doesn't mean you can't learn some principle or truth from them. You can almost always learn or see some shred of truth from any argument no matter how fallacious, wrong, or stupid it may seem. Our job as conversationalists should be to try to separate the fact from the fiction.

As words are expressed and understood people come to know where their misconceptions lie. They start aligning their perceptions with what they truly feel is right.

I love hacker news the community often does not take a single side, and the views on both sides are heard. This helps me decide where I should stand on the issue. So I just have to say thank you to those who give constructive thoughts that help guide the conversation.
Besides all that drama, being sensitive to gender is important and awesome.
I transcribe the following:
"Go is a poor choice of language for a container runtime," Abrams wrote in a blog post." Go is a great language, but for small system utilities that need tight control over threads and make a high volume of syscalls, there are better options."

Is this true ?
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To play devil's advocate:

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> As a senior engineer she was in a mentor role.

Being in a mentor role does not mean you have to right to mentor. Assuming you have a superior position, and deciding to use it to explain something obvious to someone else as "educating" them is not a good social interaction for the other person, and may make them feel trapped and uncomfortable. The author never said the junior developer expressed interest in mentorship, merely that "this teammate seemed to be benefiting from it." Not willing engaged, but "benefiting." Without context, it is imaginable that said mentoree didn't want these interactions or this relationship and the author never identified this social cue.

> I don't think that directly communicating a relevant fact - that trans is not a gender - to someone contributing to a survey intended to collect data about marginalized people is the same as expecting her peers to walk on egg shells. That's just asking them to get their facts straight.

The article starts by complaining about "drive-by issue comments", then described opening what might be considered a drive-by issue. That could be construed as contradictory. Moreover, said issue may be construed as a (company-)public dressing-down. A developer came though and, in a public manner observable by all their peers, informed another that they were not being sensitive enough. It's reasonable, I think, to be upset in that context.

> A simple one-on-one conversation probably could have resolved that situation very easily, but GH management seems in this case to have insulated that person from learning from their mistake

The author could have initiated such a conversation herself in lieu of the issue.

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My point is that a lot of things are a matter of perception, and one person's is seldom the whole story. Caroline clearly had a bad go of it at GitHub, that isn't deniable. But individuals' perceptions are fickle things, and it is seldom the case that any one tells the whole story.
This isn't _entirely_ accurate. Gender binary may be an oversimplification or diminutive concept, but the idea that it "never existed" is a little extreme. It would almost be like saying religion never really existed because it's a figment of human imagination. In that sense, sure, binary genders are a bandaid over a complex subject, but it does exist. In fact, it is quite literally birthed from the genesis of more than a few religious ideologies. It exists just as much as the religions that buy into them exist.

Anyway back on topic:

Open field text boxes come with a practical cost of being much more difficult to aggregate, and let's be honest, the gender data is probably not important enough for GitHub to expend too much energy on. The more costly you make the data to mine, the less likely that the data will be used effectively.
> The second case is more risky

Not if they're otherwise identical companies, it isn't. There may be reasons to expect a correlation between risk and cash holdings, or something to that effect, but ultimately a share in a company is a share of ownership of that company's assets. If a company didn't become $10B more valuable when given $10B in cash, where exactly did that value disappear to? Value doesn't vanish into thin air simply because it's now owned by a company.
Interesting. I'm familiar with Israeli tech companies and it's odd they wouldn't buy in.

בהצלחה!
The comment on visas potentially refers to the fact that one of the criteria for certain visa categories is that one be distinguished in one's field. Serving as a reviewer demonstrates that one has acted as a judge of one's peers, and is therefore of superior standing.
Does the converse not slip just as easily off the tongue?

> The people who generally push against that "meritocracy" are the ones who benefit from it not being implemented in the first place.
ASML point of view: "Litho today, litho tomorrow." On to 5nm! On to 2nm! That's 10 silicon atoms across.

[1] http://staticwww.asml.com/doclib/investor/investor_day/asml_...
> I've always said that if a computer would work better if I was splendidly dressed then I would go Armani.

Nope! If computers worked better when the programmers were splendidly dressed, that would make splendid dressing an effective tool.

Alas, programmers, by and large, don't like those; they prefer working with crude tools, or none at all.

They would say, things like, "Real programmers can proudly make it work without the cop-out of just putting on that Armani. Debugging with Armani is no more effective than a well-placed printf if you know what you're doing."
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I really hope they get self driving cars working with nothing more than current GPS maps, plus lots of sensors. Considering the drive I took this weekend, past actively changing construction zones, landslides, along infrequently traveled roads (and even a logging road), I wouldn't want to trust my life to stale data.
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Hi, I’m a founder of an Australian startup, and my co-founders and I are in SF for the next 2 days (until Friday evening, 5 Jul ‘17).

Our startup is a seed-stage consumer internet platform, and our mission is to make it easy to learn about any person.

Website: www.karma.wiki
Executive Summary: https://goo.gl/Exm4hg
Pitch Deck: https://goo.gl/sGkg13

Thanks
This is the technical blog from the tool author: https://blogs.oracle.com/developers/three-new-open-source-co...
A store in my area (Fred Meyer) that sells about everything, recently started pushing this service where you shop online and then pull into this special parking space where someone brings you your stuff and loads it into your trunk. I thought it was a great idea, so at about 3 I loaded everything I needed for dinner into my online shopping cart and went to check out. Turns out the earliest they could have it ready for me was the next day. I wasn't even expecting to have to pick a time frame at all. I figured I would just see some message about it being ready in 30 minutes, or some other short time frame.

You'd be amazed at how good entrenched companies are at completely failing to understand what their competitive advantage even is, let alone using it.
Similar topic a couple of months ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14280084
Not to mention that it should be marked with a red 50% off tag and hung on the discount rack.
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Quite some time after edits have closed, I noticed a rather glaring factual error. Jefferson didn't author the constitution. I mean, he was inarguably a big influence, but my snark above is about how similar the constitution of the CSA was to the constitution of the USA, and that Jefferson was one of the primary authors of the constitution of the USA, therefore his words were used to justify slavery. But I made a factual error, swapping Jefferson and Madison.

Oops.
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yes, we should be sensitive to it, but let's say this story came from a straight white man. if you were github, would you want someone toxic working for you? someone who's accused someone of being transphobic over a form they made? someone who's toxic in Slack with all the other members? someone who starts writing bad code (failing at their own job)? no, you wouldn't. just because someone's a minority doesn't give them the right to be treated above others. it's a little something called equality.
To be fair, GitHub is large enough that they'll have a dozen applicants by the time you're out the door. If resolving a problem is harder than firing part of it, well... that's the layer cake.
You can try writing "Show HN" at the start of your title, but that hasn't even helped me too much. I still get more upvotes/karma from writing witty comments instead of publishing code.
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We did all that in the DARPA Grand Challenge over a decade ago. Most of the problems today involve dealing with other road users.

(Some of the self-driving car projects today are less capable on bad roads than the off-road systems of 2005. They don't have to be; it just comes from focusing on lane following on freeways as the primary goal.)
Welp. No need to progress as a species. As it has always been so it shall ever be.
Not sure about that, but Oracle is a poor choice as a source of open source tools, given their history.
It's hackernews clickbait for sure :p
You're grossly uninformed about what that means. And if you do know and you're just trolling, you're disgusting
I didn't mention dynamic typing anywhere?
Thinking humanity from first principles we need to help each other in order to help ourselves.
>> ideally only want to target the exact place that triggers a warning

On the other hand, its typically some library that is messing up the static analysis tool.

While the #pragama options are good for disabling warnings in typical projects, from personal experience they are broken in NVCC.
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This is so stupid. So WTF does a person who is neither a man nor woman refer to themselves as? You either have a penis or you don't. Stop twisting the definitions. If you're going to be so asinine about changing it to "people," then hopefully you better not ignore the fact that you're now referring to children and babies, which defeats the entire tone of the website.
Incorrect.

China comes number four on the list of lithium producing companies.

Much of the world's lithium reserves seem to come from South America.

http://investingnews.com/daily/resource-investing/energy-inv...
Annecdata ahoy: I bought a TV from Amazon and they stopped showing me more TV's after I rated it. Maybe they think you're still in the market and might send those stands/DSLRs back because you didn't rate them.
The economic realities would be quite different if software companies were legally accountable for their defects, just like in many other industries.
Help your client understand how to go about a project :)
> empathy is important to communicating effectively.

Yes, but that applies just as well to the data scientist--who, when she saw this comment, didn't do what any reasonable person would do and call up/message/whatever the coworker who made the comment and straighten out any confusion/misunderstanding, but instead went right to her boss and complained. That should not be the first resort--it should be the last resort. A little empathy on the data scientist's part would have led to: "Hm, that seemed abrasive at first glance, but she does have a valid point..."
> - A post-racial/genre approach, where the differences are made as irrelevant as any physical trait, so the change comes naturally but it's a long process (what I've mostly seen in France)

I grew up (in the US) thinking that my generation (I'm a very early "millennial", apparently—the kind that well remembers a pre-Web world and grew up with a lot of Gen X media) pretty much had this down, and that especially the tech people did. The Internet of the hacker world wasn't supposed to care about this stuff, just results and ability.

Now everyone seems more divided over sex than it did then. Hell, sexual orientations of all sorts and interracial relationships (anyone else remember those "look who's coming to dinner" episodes of daytime talk shows in the 90s?) and such, which were all still very much issues to the adult public when I was growing up, really do seem to be disappearing as Things To Be Upset About (I know, bathroom bills and not counting your chickens and so on, but the progress there seems huge and very real), but the regular ol' divide between men and women? It seems to be way worse than it was.

I'm not sure what happened, but this certainly wasn't something I expected to be a major problem for adults of Gen X/Millennial generations. And I was raised in the Midwest and surrounded by Republicans (including my parents), so it's not like I grew up in a liberal bubble or something. The last decade or so's "culture war"-type battles in online communities, all the reports of significant difficulties for women in technology, and so on, have caught me very much by surprise.
I aspire to be as levelheaded and kind as you are, someday, in handling difficult situations.
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Great question. The answer is yes, but you can control for it.
There are laws allowing person to shoot intruder in their house. And I can't serve nulls from my own web server? That would be ridiculous.
thanks for the post, great job. i'm using react with clojurescript (reagent). i also would love to see a react tutorial with js_of_ocaml.
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> it should be painfully obvious that "i9" is just a reaction to the threat of ThreadRipper from AMD

This is incorrect. As Ryan Shrout from PcPer notes,[1]

> In some circles of the Internet, the Core i9 release and the parts that were announced last month from Intel seem as obvious a reaction to AMD’s Ryzen processor and Threadripper as could be shown. In truth, it’s hard to see the likes of the Core i9-7900X as reactionary in its current state; Intel has clearly been planning the Skylake-X release for many months. What Ryzen did for the consumer market was bring higher 4-count core processors to prevalence, and the HEDT line from Intel has very little overlap in that regard. Threadripper having just been announced in the last 60 days (even when you take into account the rumors that have circulated), seems unable to have been the progenitor of the Core i9 line, isn't its entirety. That being said, it is absolutely true that Intel has reacted to the Ryzen and Threadripper lines with pricing and timing adjustments.

[1] : https://www.pcper.com/reviews/Processors/Intel-Core-i9-7900X...
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> I do get the impression from this kind of expose that she might be difficult to work with.

I get that impression as well, but I also get the impression that GitHub is a difficult place to work (from things like the data scientist going straight to her boss to complain, instead of trying to resolve any issue at the coworker level first, which is what would happen in a professional workplace).
In that case I guess my problem is we bought our first computer in '95, so my kind of baseline experience is that super fast world.
Additionally "thin craze" matters - I remember having an old 15" laptop in the mid/late '00s that would actually give me backache after carrying it in my backpack for a while.

Today I can't even tell if my 13" dell xps is in it or not.
Are you really making the argument that government provided services are socialism lite?

So I guess the Romans were socialists then with their aquaducts.
Right, especially its famous MySQL "Community"...
Brains like yours are more advanced than the computers they are hooking these up to, and those brains still cause a lot of fatalities every year.

Why make the problem harder than it needs to be? Why not shoot for superhuman? Who cares if the submarine swims like a fish?
The author was one of the heaviest early contributors on the Openstack project.
"states devoted about 6 percent of block grants in 2016 to programs for mothers, compared to 78 percent for infants and special-needs children"

Maybe that simply reflects the need - babies have more issues, so more attention is needed? I really dislike such manipulative use of statistics.
IC design is largely a process of simulating and specifying the next generation of integrated circuits.

So in the strict sense, not only can a computer compute itself, but it can compute its (more capable) successor generation.

Practically, this now occurs in large server farms, so it takes a large number of computers to compute themselves and/or progeny. But this is very much what happens.
Imagine you're paying $300m to put a satellite in to space (SpaceX nominally charges $60m for private customers, and satellites are often hundreds of millions of dollars). The satellite will be in service for 5-15 years.

Imagine that, due to price (you save, I'm guessing, $40m or more) you choose a young rocket company that has experienced two serious failures that destroyed the payload.

Imagine that company is very cautious and will happily abort any launch that looks odd.

I imagine the caution is a positive aspect.
Sending out character per second would mean that you'll keep connection open for long time and even if your server is behind CDN this would eventually let attacker exhaust your resources.
Either consciousness lives in the physical constructs of the human brain or it is supernatural / "magic". If the first case is true, then there is every reason to believe it is open to the scrutiny of the scientific process. What we know for sure is that there are very many scientific questions about the brain that still remain to be answered before we have to throw up our hands and admit that it is all ineffable.

IMO science is doomed to always leave something out as you say.. it will reach a fundamental building block that simply exists, can not be expressed in terms of something else and might as well be called God. But i just haven't heard any convincing arguments that consciousness can't be understood before we reach that point.
Wait, so some person reads a twitter post of someone commenting on kids going through sexual reassignment surgery and how they consider it an issue.

They find a project they're associated with. They go on it's github repo and they start an issue with a title of "Transphobic maintainer should be removed from project". Not "Potentially transphobic maintainers and how their association with the project hurts it in the long run". Not even "My feelings were hurt after I interpreted some comment of one of the maintainers in some way, please let's discuss". No, they simply demanded removal of someone, based on an, at best, ambiguously "transphobic" twitter comment.

And you're here telling me that person isn't the one with the problem.
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Trees aren't brains.

Forests are brains.
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So suggest a public or concrete metric. Public github repos, for example.

Merits are important in engineering. If our merit measurements are low resolution, enhance them.

I don't care what team members look or sound like as long as they are good.
What happened was something else entirely, with a success in decentralised governance to punish the bad actor. What do you want us to look at exactly?
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That is an interesting perspective, but quite different than mine. But it could be there is both a shortage of devs and it is difficult to hire and eval etc.

Seattle is estimated to have over 15,000 dev openings. My last company wanted to hire several hundred on its own. All the people we wanted had multiple offers. There seemed to be more jobs than people, but to be fair, it could be because we were all missing a bunch of good people. But it was hard to even get people to apply, they were tired of companies bugging them to interview. It sure felt like there was a shortage devs, because they didn't even want to interview with us.
Wow you really drank the kool-aid did you? QE has meant huge asset inflation and huge profits for asset holders. At the expense mainly of future generations and current retirees. You know where the US-Fed balance sheet stands right now?
Well, GitHub doesn't own he trademark for Git, only for GitHub. They have a mutual agreement with the Git project (Software Freedom Conservancy). The Git project guidelines seem to disallow this usage:

For example, imagine a software project which is only tangentially
related to Git. It might use Git as a side effect, or might just be
"Git-like" in the sense of being a distributed system with chained
hashes. Let's say as an example that it does backups. We'd prefer it
not call itself GitBackups. We don't endorse it, and it's just using the
name to imply association that isn't there. You can come up with similar
hypotheticals: GitMail that stores mailing list archives in Git, or
GitWiki that uses Git as a backing store.
Nowhere do I say that I don't care at all about the quality of my staff. In fact I'm often told my hiring process is pretty rigorous.

What I am claiming is that work is generally done by teams and optimising for high performing and highly capable teams is not the same as optimising for high performing and highly capable individuals (my understanding of what most people mean by 'meritocracy').

It's not merely word games. I've observed poorly performing teams built entirely of highly capable people. That kind of dynamic can hobble a company.
>Calling a comment transphobic in no way implies that the speaker of that comment is transhpobic.

Then what does it imply, that the comment has a phobia of or holds hate for trans people?

If I call your post autistic, does that not imply I think less of you for making it?
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Abrams is the author of the Go Netlink library, and participates in an interesting conversation here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14470231 (as `vishvananda`, it's the top comment).

Many of the things the commenters discuss there are intricate. It's a lot of people who've worked on container runtimes and the issues relate to the interaction of Go with POSIX process and thread semantics. Go is not really intended to have transparent, finely controlled integration with C systems stuff...while Rust is.