skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just recently left a tech start-up where the "look at how awesome and diverse we are" rhetoric was so bad that I couldn't take it anymore. When I first joined the company, I didn't even bat an eye that every single employee was a white guy (Hispanic male here). It was only later after their recruiter who, I befriended, told me I was their first "diversity hire". I laughed and took it tongue in cheek.

However, over time, they formed a "diversity team" to emphasize in making the company more diverse. Later on, I came to find out that this company did not care about the individuals joining the company, but rather the "diversity quota" they set to meet. Instead of hearing "we hired a great engineer who is great in xyz", we would instead hear the likes of "Susan accepted our offer letter, we finally have a female engineer on our team"; "Tim will be joining our Product team. Hooray for gay!" (Yes, this was actually posted on a slack channel one of the founders).

It became clear that this company was more worried about having mascots rather than seeking talented diverse individuals. I pissed me off so much at how condescending the founders would be when communicating with "non-traditional" employees and how they thought they were such great, progressive leaders.
> They aren't marching with neo nazis.

Let's see....

https://www.reddit.com/r/The_Donald/comments/6rsng3/unite_th...

> I want to be perfectly clear with you guys that many of the people who will be there are National Socialist and Ethnostate sort of groups. I don’t endorse them. In this case, the pursuit of preserving without shame white culture, our goals happen to align. I’ll be there regardless of the questionable company because saving history is more important than our differences. This is probably why they named the event “Unite the Right.”

> Speaking for myself only, I won't be punching right. We need to save civilization first, we can argue about the exact details later.

and from the comments:

> Exactly. Anything to the right of Elizabeth warren is already a nazi ready to gas six trillion Jews so might as well say fuck it. The enemies of my enemy are my friends

https://altright.com/2017/08/05/the-unite-the-right-rally-is...

> The Daily Stormer [a neo-Nazi site] has been promoting the event heavily and it looks like they are going to bring a lot of young new cadres to the rally. Identity Evropa [a white-nationalist group] will be there as well as several Southern Nationalist groups. There will be no Alt-Lite co-rally, it will be just us, the proverbial and literal White Guard out there defending the statue of General Lee. This is a good development. They are quickly becoming irrelevant and losing their street presence as we continue to grow and take up space.

https://www.dailystormer.com/a-normies-guide-to-the-alt-righ...

Describing the origin of the alt-right:

> On 4chan, the Jewish problem was analyzed by news junkies and history buffs, feminism was deconstructred by sexually frustrated young men, and race was considered based on the actual data on the issue. The rehabilitation of Adolf Hitler and the NSDAP largely took place on 4chan.

> This newly formulated Nazi ideology was then combined with the established troll culture, based on memes, hilarious images designed to transmit cultural concepts, and “lulz,” a term coined by the troll Jameth which defines the type of malicious humor associated with trolling.

The only way you can claim that they're not marching with neo-Nazis and promoting neo-Nazism is if you use a definition of alt-right that's different from how the alt-right define themselves. As far as I can tell, the term "alt-lite" was created specifically to disavow the small number of people who refused to stand with the neo-Nazis.
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Definitely. But the information I get from here makes my life productive. I am a civil engineer and sometimes I have no idea what half the words are that people say around here. But I get to learn something new everyday. It's just a guarantee.

But with social media, their business model is to make me click on or look at things. That's just where it ends for them. And the productivity value is just not there. Yes, you can find helpful information, but I have to sift through so much noise.
> Jobs was a Marketer of other peoples ideas

That's an oversimplification. He was a marketer, true, but he also was fanatically pushing people towards standards higher than anyone else in the industry.

If there was nothing special about Jobs, how can it be Apple came up with the Mac (a somewhat just-right version of the Lisa ideas), with the iPod, the iPhone, computers that actually look good (starting with the bondi-blue iMac, which he had little to do with)? To say he only could sell other people's ideas ignore how many of these people voluntarily worked for someone with the reputation of being an insufferable asshole and pull off miracle after miracle.
I agree with this sentiment a lot of the time but consider this:

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=382911

it is a duplicate of

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=378854

which is fixed by https://cgit.kde.org/konversation.git/commit/?id=783dc0f595e...

but upstream for some reason does not think this is important enough to tag and bag into a release.

as much hate as Fedora gets, rdieter has taken the time to backport the changes that we need in Fedora.

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2017-9c3e2138...

Ideally, we'd rather see upstream release this fix but we've all read https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14051106 and I don't want to be too impatient with software that upstream has graciously provided for free (in both senses of the word!)

I guess my point is backporting might make sense if there are small changes we can make to enhance release. However, I agree that there is too much duplication of effort going on.
The conservative right wing, if you can call it that, are really just a bunch of girls blouses. For this simple reason. They forget their manners, then complain of censorship when someone reminds them that the should have some.
also important: your friends always have more friends/likes than you.

edit:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friendship_paradox
The Romans weren't afraid to win wars by attrition. Some of their generals were definitely good but they could just swarm any opposing force with highly disciplined, well armed troops.

Hannibal crushed the Romans several times, it didn't matter. Carthage still got wiped off the map.
What does your household do differently that allows your consumption to stay so low?
This happened to me last night. I was so pissed this morning. I got used to making sure I never left things on over a Tuesday night because they do updates, but this caught me on a Thursday.

Hopefully this will be the year of the Linux desktop......
Does everything need to be about politics?

If you bring >1 people together in some way, shape, or form, you will have politics.
Came here to say this. Just started using UIKit and it's awesome.

Personally I agree with the complaint about BS that all sites built with it look similar and honestly, bland.
The people who need this are people with multiple CPUs, doing CAD/CAM, professional video rendering. If you are doing these things, you are likely paying for some high dollar licenses for special software anyway, and can afford to pay more for your OS to have special features supporting this. I don't think mere mortals need this version, however ReFS looks intriguing, but there may be other ways to have it too.
HBO getting $250k in Bitcoin to pay hackers who stole 'Game of Thrones' scripts
It is possible to objectively determine one's suitability for some jobs, though possibly not all jobs.
Yeah, well, that's just, like, your opinion, man.

I see it differently. Where do new bugs and vulnerabilities come from? When the main developers add features or make changes to existing features that go beyond fixing bugs.

From the point of view of many server administrators, using the latest versions of everything is inherently risky. What they want to use is a stable, solid version that has all the latest security fixes.

It's unlikely that these opposing viewpoints will ever be reconciled.
What Wall Street Is Saying About Snap's Second-Quarter Results
In the demo video they explicitly say Coco is not a blockchain.
Seems the tech industry has a soft spot for British colony TLDs.
> Let's assume ability is independent of sex, completely measurable, and completely random, and remember that 80% of engineers are men (a fact an individual employer can't change in the short term).

> Under those conditions there's an 80% chance the best candidate is a man,

Hold up, I think you skipped a step there. I claim that 80% of engineers are men because of sexist employment practices, not because 80% of people qualified to be an engineer are men and employment practices are entirely unbiased.
My point/observation is not so much about individual moments of feeling/being on the receiving end of discrimination, harrassment or "unfair" treatment, but about this being part/core of the identity.

I hope he will not adopt a victim identity although its sadly likely that this could happen, as this offers him more social currency and validation. Following the logic "better loved and championed by one tribe than by no one".

And who knows how it feels to be him right now. I have no idea.
In a closed system, hence not the Earth.
> I've met him in passing, he didn't strike me as worth considering, then or now.

That seems fairly judgemental to me.

Edit: To clarify, you are making a value judgement of a person based on some unspecified happening when you met then in passing. That seems to indicate you didn't give much chance in the way to understand that person or the reasoning behind their thoughts.
There are C libraries for SSH, like libssh, that would avoid these type of vulnerabilities.

https://www.libssh.org/
He does not have a winning chance, simply because his memo was divisive and just insanely bad for moral there

That is not how law works
> I claim that 80% of engineers are men because of sexist employment practices

Only if requiring a relevant degree is a sexist employment practice.

The 80/20 ratio begins in college, or earlier. Again, not something an individual employer can correct for in the short term.
Treating someone who objects to affirmative action of being a neo-nazi is a valid Godwin point. The world is slightly more subtle than liberals vs neo-nazis.
Sharing economy is usually supply side constrained. There needs to be enough incentive for the "seller". If you are renting your mower for $20, the $ benefit is way lower than renting your house.

An acquaintance of mine setup http://www.rentoid.com/ a looong time ago and I never asked but this is probably the reason.

What I saw was professional hire companies using the site as leadgen because it was free advertising and they had lots of inventory. Makes sense right?

So the sharing economy had problems a long time before fastcompany shared its wisdom ;)
What I've noticed is that Instagrams recommendation algorithms are creepily accurate.

If you like browsing pictures of butts you'll get lots of butts and of the exact kind that you'd like. I'm not sure how they do it. I don't even post on Instagram. And yet I'm addicted now to the Explore tab. They've genuinely managed to build something addictive in a way that other networks are not.

Also Instagram is completely sanitized of politics and any other hot button stuff. So its just a space where you zone out.

Instagram is the crack cocaine of social media. A cocktail of addiction and narcissism refined into its most potent form. I predict that Instagram will continue to grow and might one day rival Facebook itself.
> Much of the argument for the existence of systemic biases comes from willful, repeated ignoring of the already extant evidence for nature/nurture.

I feel it is important to point out that this is an important consideration with regards to sex, not race. There is evidence of sexual dimorphism and hormonal differences between the sexes worldwide, but as far as I know there are no such trends between races. From what I understand, genetic diversity differs more within the races than between them.
I very strongly suspect that some confused person (or algorithm?) saw that that the level design tool Radiant has a "clipper" and ran with it.
That website had 18 JS warnings on load :/
Isn't it supposed to be highly functional?
> Yes. It's not a written definition. It's a living and changing definition created by the people who work there and how YOU make them feel. You need to use your people skills in order to extract the definition from your co-workers.

Agreed, but that's my very complaint! As they say, the pendulum has swung too far! (In my opinion, of course.)

> Look Mom! We are freely debating something right here, right in society! Don't confuse "Google" (an employer) with "society". No one is forcing you to work at Google nor for your employment status to be determined by their code of conduct.

What bothers me is the trajectory we are on. You can debate things "in society", but "freely"? Have you not read news articles on the increasing suppression of free speech on campuses, or people being physically attacked for what they believe in? And of course, Google is free to do whatever it wants, that is true, but please don't simultaneously say that it is indisputable that they have a culture of free speech, or that their messaging is somewhat out of line with their actions.

I'm not unsympathetic to the other side of this debate, how people (myself included) perceive the world makes it extremely difficult to appreciate different points of view, and I often think people are far off the mark, for example the commentary on the intentions of the author of this manifesto.

These conversations agitate me because it can seem like people think you are completely wrong, even though I doubt (or hope not) that is your intent or belief.

EDIT:

I imagine you've seen this:
http://huyenchip.com/2017/08/09/sexism-in-silicon-valley.htm...

"We need to be careful when encouraging affirmative action in tech to ensure it doesn’t reinforce the philosophy of treating women differently."

This is one of the things I had in mind when I said "All these do-gooders are going to reap what they sow in the long run, and it sure as heck isn't what they think it is." Yes, women may be getting hired, but for what reason matters.
I'm not a maker
The term Socialist is widely thrown about, directed at Democrats. It very, very rarely applies. Even Bernie Sanders isn't a Socialist, even though he pretends to be one in name because it bolsters his attempt to appear radical vs the status quo. There is so little actual understanding of what Socialism is these days, people widely believe the Scandinavian nations are Socialist (they're all mixed economy welfare states, not even remotely Socialist, with most of the economy privately owned, vast private wealth very common, and functioning on free market principles with hefty doses of regulation).
To be honest I found instagram much more real than other social media platforms. Especially the story modus seems to make people more open to show their real emotions even when they are unhappy.
Being able to list potential problems with being too far to either political extreme doesn't make you a centrist. Someone to the left of the center of the left, or the right of the center of the right, much less either side of the overall center, can easily do that.

You can be pretty far out and still see the guy two steps farther out as dangerously deluded.
Perhaps, But its certainly how HR departments work!
> Today, we live in a completely different world as our ancestors. Yet, our biology is still exactly the same.

Is that really true? I've heard this kind of argument so many times that it seems right, but I've rarely seen any scientific evidence to back it up. Surely our bodies have evolved in some subtle and diverse ways over many thousands of generations?
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Got it.

Seems to me the the use of "=" notation for CLI args would be rife with situations like this.

Yikes...

[also, still going through the code, but it looks like they are setting up for a call to exec*()]
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I agree, this is a problem, but it's not being solved by this practice.

The example you gave is specifically about a client application of git that wasn't updated to work with the current version of git - probably because of some twisted logic that they didn't have to worry about it until some future date.
> The Guardian misrepresented the contents of the memo, why would Damore trust them to publish the interview honestly?

An argument about how the Guardian's supposed misrepresentation of the memo is would conveniently distraction away from my main point: he ran straight to an alt-right misogynist for his first interview instead of taking any of the other options.
The man is guilty of the ultimate corporate crime: making his employer look bad. As one person I know put it,

> If you write a document that becomes such a public relations nightmare that it requires the CEO to cut short a family vacation to deal with the mess, update your resume.

(http://www.joeydevilla.com/2017/08/08/one-pragmatic-lesson-y...)
I feel like an article such as this should be full of code examples, just talking about this or that in which there are many dependent situations in which "it depends" just makes me get sleepy
All of the trappings of modernity, the advanced technologies, the diversified economies, all rely on strict enforcement of laws and property rights to develop and flourish.
I can't even think of a reason why a comment would cause a 10% speed reduction. Something has seriously gone very wrong there.
>I don't know of a case where it's been entirely successful but it has mitigated sentences.

If true this is remarkable...disturbingly so. Can you cite some cases where this has happened?
Sure, but it's kind of like saying that FTP looked like it would be a useful protocol in 1985, and an early draft of RFC 959 should have been adequate to raise gobs of money. In the end FTP added a lot of value to the internet, but it doesn't mean that the folks who wrote the reference implementations would have known what to do with the equivalent of $1B.
> People are not investing hoping for the project to be developed - they're investing because they know others will as well, which will drive the prices up.

I found out recently that this is called the Greater Fool Theory - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_fool_theory
Like Bloomberg?

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2017-08-10/fired-engin...
I'm not familiar with any that exec ssh. Certainly libgit2 does not, nor do the language bindings on top of it. So libgit2, LibGit2Sharp, Rugged, Jagged, NodeGit are unaffected.
How is Intel screwed by this ? They just have to cut on their overexcessive margins due to lack of competition for a while.

If they are screwed it's by their own choice to abandon desktop and server CPUs to bet all on mobile.
On both my windows 10 systems (one is a Dell T7910 which is fully supported, the other a vaio ultrabook) they exhibit this behavior so I find it difficult to correlate that to hardware or drivers.
Yes, but is the value proposition really $2.5 billion _pre-product_ for a team of maybe 20 (not sure exactly how many people are on Protocol Labs payroll)? And, did people actually do their diligence? Did any of the investors confirm with qualified academics and blockchain specialists that their Proof-of-Spacetime paper is secure and functional?

Or did the market blindly throw $186 million in one hour into a hot deal because it's the hottest deal?

Juan has been saying for years that one of their primary goals for Filecoin was a token sale to fund Protocol Labs.
Not a contradiction, it's a statistical certainty.
The only thing Instagram is good for at this point, is marketing your business.
It's hard for a renter to disappear with your house/apartment but easy to never return your DJ gear.
People have very public debates about consumer brands. Apple or Google or whatever. These B2B businesses can stay out of the spotlight and get far less press. There's an open market for their services and their value is based on reputation, so why not express some unvarnished opinions? Especially when I'm being anonymous online.
IIRC it just requires the location you select for it to store the onedrive folder at to be on a NTFS partition
Some modules are windows only, I've seen many R pipelines that can only run on windows. Azure has capitalized on this.
Crafting Plausible Maps (2015)
Our ancestors couldn't digest cow milk as adults. We've only had farming for around 10,000 years, but people in regions that practiced dairy farming have already developed lactose tolerance.
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> one man more or less moves the direction of the CPU industry: Jim Keller.

I never heard of him, and now I'm glad I did. Thank you for posting that.

Here's a link to wikipedia's article on Jim Keller:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Keller_(engineer)
Oh woah, definitely not sanitized of politics. Probably because I follow some politicians, I get recommendations for these crazy, aggressive political meme pages. I see some very very hot button stuff on my feed.

Count yourself lucky that Instagram looks politically sanitized!
Ask HN: Is NLP a good specialization for freelancing?
I'm currently working in a startup on a project which heavily depends on NLP and ML. I want to eventually go back to freelancing/consulting (I was a freelancer earlier on my career, mainly webdev) but I don't know if I could get enough work to do if I specialize in NLP. Applying NLP previously requires a dataset, and the data being a valuable resource for any company, maybe they prefer to keep this kind of work inside.

Do you know anyone in this path, doing something similar?
Wow, I've never noticed before that my phone charger makes noise when my phone is fully charged,
huh. (Thankfully I can only hear it if my ear is within 1 foot of the charger.)
They should just copy a linux distro. Mint would be a good one. Have a little icon that tells me when I'm out of date, then I can click it and update at my convenience. I think iphone does this, right? To operate their OS? So it is possible to make this work for "normal" users, whomever they are.
The cost by using AWS is hard to foresee.
For years, my s3 storage got charged nothing. But some a month, it got charged several dollars.

I have migrated all my services to GCE. At least GCE provides free decent quotas for every resource.
Woz is the Mozart of 8-bit computer design. His design is surprising, even breathtaking at times, but the kind of magic he did then cannot be done these days of billions of transistors per chip.
It is when the investors throw money at it in the hope they'll get a return on investment. You don't need $250 million to build a distributed Dropbox clone.