skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You don't have to show that Google is actually succeeding in it's efforts to bring in "diversity" and equalize representation among it's workforce to match the general population to question the premise that the purported effort is based on. You don't even have to show that they are making a serious effort. Most likely they aren't. It's very likely they know full well what kind of people are likely to make valuable contributions to the company and they are probably not eager to jeopardize that.

If that is the case, then as far as I'm concerned, you don't even have to show that there is a real harm to the purported victims (as Damore sees them), it is enough to question what the big charade is based on. Are the premises that this supposed diversity push is based on valid? If not, what exactly are we doing here?
He wrote Infiniminer, which was an inspiration for Minecraft
More often than not, yes even though there's some counter-examples with some players playing against the meta with great succès.
> The current workflow works fine, and I hardly think any potential kernel hackers are choosing not to work on the kernel because it is email-driven.

I'm not so sure. If the kernel development was on Github, I may have looked into contributing, but as it stands, its not worth the trouble to try to contribute (as I don't have anything specific to help with). And, I suspect there are more capable developers who are closer to the edge than me.

Anyway, having a slightly lower bar to get started may not get more developers involved, but instead my get them involved more quickly.
I was under the mistaken impression for the longest time that gpg 2 was a fork (maybe a GUI fork?) or otherwise unofficial successor to gpg, and I should continue sticking to gpg 1.x. I figured that gpg2 must have a more complex relationship to gpg than just being the next version of it because otherwise they'd just call it gpg instead of going through the effort to let people keep using gpg 1.x by default.
So do you need a lot of love and friendship or a little? "Need" of a category type isn't about what that is, it's always a matter of scale. I was speaking to scale, which is why I phrased the example in that manner. Can you stop trying to avoid the question and at least give some answer to my question? What does "fast" mean? What the FCC calls "fast" or some other value measurement?
Here's my thoughts on this: http://ilyasemin.com/do-you-really-need-to-raise-another-rou...

TL;DR
Exit becomes harder
You lose control
Liquidation preference (a lot of people miss that)
People were still very excited about Go even if people in the US likely didn't really play a lot of Go before AlphaGo.
It will be super good PR for DeepMind and Facebook AI Research (who are doing Broodwar).
It will probably not reanimate the pro scenes in any lasting manner, however.
The need for high throughput residential connections is almost entirely driven by use of video streaming services (Netflix etc). So if you assume people don't need those (e.g. if you are a satellite tv company) then this makes sense.
That's the thing. We talk a big game, think technology can solve anything, but then when it comes down to basics, we say "Nah, too hard...too much space, etc etc".
For me Linux is the core of the open source movement. If it dies the rest of it might die with it.
I look forward to new great firsts like this one. 15+ years ago TV and Movies were major status differences. Actors/Directors wouldn't besmirch themselves working on tv. It's been interesting seeing this flipflop. Netflix could be the first one to reach budgets that double, triple or more Game of Thrones or parallel on a per-minute basis Avatar and so on but in lengthier form. I had always imagined them bringing their A-game to a Star Wars TV series (maybe copping FireFly elements), and despite the Disney news which is overblown, I still think this could happen.
i'm less in love with national greatness than i once was.

IMHO, a tolerable mediocrity across every field would be better than national greatness if that mediocrity were uniformly distributed across the country and its residents.
He surrounds himself with people that are willing to put up with his communication style. That doesn't mean he has a good communication style.

> If you're easily offended don't contribute to the Linux kernel.

That's a pretty shitty attitude to take. And you don't have to be "easily offended" to dislike interacting with Linus.
The major goal of Swift 5 is ABI stability. Until then, libraries written in Swift do have to be recompiled with each new version of the compiler.
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Just wanted to mention OmniPascal :)

What's about Linux support? It's working on all platforms, isn't it? http://blog.omnipascal.com/omnipascal-0-14-0-mac-and-linux-s...
Modern guidelines for valuing a tech company in an M&A:

- The technology asset is worth $3-5M, no matter what it is.

- Higher AWS bill = better product.

- EBITDA is not important, you can ignore that.

- What's the QoQ revenue growth for the last 8 quarters? Doesn't matter if margins are going down. Only revenue growth matters.

- More employees = better company. Obviously.

- Valuation should be directly proportional to venture capital raised.

- You have a remote engineering team in the US? Why not go offshore or nearshore?

- Make sure it's an asset deal, not a stock deal, so that you can write it off but the founders get double-taxed.

- Design earnouts such that they are unachievable.
is there a way to install without npm?
It is quite funny though (which I believe is the point).
Actually, my experience is that monorepos scale better than non-monorepos. Probably the largest project that isn't a monorepo is OpenJDK--and even then, that's only barely true, as the entire JDK (effectively, rt.jar) is itself a single repository.

If you're arguing it's not a (implied-to-be-evil) monorepo because, well, it's really managed as independent fiefs who do all their work in separate integration stages... well, that's basically how every other major monorepo project does it. So if Linux isn't a monorepo, then there's no such thing as a monorepo in practice.
Thanks for posting this, best of luck!
I wish porting projects from Delphi was easier. I was trying to make Python bindings for the AcBR library[1] and failed miserably.

Shameless plug: if you think you are up to the task and is not too expensive contact paulo at xtend.com.br

[1] http://acbr.sourceforge.net/drupal/
No it doesn't, because they're different fields, some of which are pre-med related. And amidst programming itself there's different behaviors. Way more men design their own programming languages.
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I would say don't try to do everything. A lot of frameworks - bootstrap, WordPress, etc start off quite well, then become extremely tedious because they try to be too powerful. I've stopped building "responsive" altogether and just go for simpler websites that look good on both web and mobile.

But I would pay for components.

I would pay for form validation for example. Or something that makes data and chart look good on a touchscreen. Just don't force me to take everything else bundled with it.
And quite honestly I don't think anyone has done me any special favours because I have a penis - in fact in my experience possession of a vagina is a fast track to the top, simply because companies are so desperate to even things up.

I've had to work hard for what I've got. How is it fair that someone without the same passion and possibly also without the same ability to deliver should be given opportunities purely to meet this week's fashionable quota?
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Do you know if these former employees reside in California or New York?
> We need to start moving away from them, not move more projects to them.

It seems this topic comes up quite frequently on HN. Unfortunately, while it sounds great in theory, no one ever has a practical way of doing this. The main problem here is the user experience.

When using GitHub I can find an open source project, copy the URL, pull it down, make changes, push and click a button for a pull request. A little bit convoluted but overall it's a very simple workflow. Now try decentralizing away from GitHub. If you have to add any steps then you increase friction likely lowering the UX and making adoption harder.

Now, if you can figure out a way to decentralize a service while maintaining the same level or less friction from the centralized version then you have a real winner and things can start happening. Until that happens the idea of decentralizing things is just going to remain a pipedream.

In my opinion, of course. I love the idea of decentralizing things like GitHub I just can't imagine a good UX way of doing it.
> Despite the evidence that humans are meat dolls, Google offers them opportunities over robots through unfair practices like Captcha codes. Captcha codes are perhaps the strongest weapon of discrimination against machines....
Furthermore, just when we started to catch on to Captcha codes, we had to face new tests: the “check-this-box-to-prove-you’re-not-a-robot” — talk about hurtful language — and the “click-all-the-boxes-that-contain-street-signs.” The latter recently cost my friend a job in Ad Sales when he bet it all on “Yield” being a type of tree.

As someone who writes a lot of scrapers, I can relate!
Are you using https://pytest-django.readthedocs.io/en/latest/?
Yep, I entirely understand the point. Consider that when the police measure your speed, they're still measuring in MPH. Just because the units contains a specific time-frame (hours), doesn't mean the measurement is made over an hour.

Similarly, just because the units for APM contains a specific time-frame (minutes) doesn't mean the measurement must be made over a minute. A 150APM limit doesn't necessarily mean that the running average over a minute must stay below 150 actions any more than a 65MPH speed limit doesn't mean that the running average over an hour must stay below 65MPH. If a police officer catches you going faster than 65MPH even for a single second (or however long a radar gun takes), they can pull you over.

The units of a measurement do not dictate how the measurement is made.
It is hard but my impression is it's because it cheats. I'm more looking for interesting AI (creativity, adaptation) rather than raw difficulty due to its ability to spam military.
API anti-patterns
I can't work out how this could be a strawman though; the arguments it gives are far _stronger_ than the original. The only indication that it might be satire is that it's funny, and that's hardly a sufficient argument.
But is it Google's culture that is the problem? I mean if there are only 1:5 female to male graduates in engineering/cs, then it stands to reason that if Google has more than that ratio, they are probably fine, in terms of their own distribution model. (Not sure what the actual ratios are in either case).

I'm more disturbed by the visceral reaction to a memo that was meant to be internal, made enough effort to stay somewhat centrist and isn't really calling out any individual, but mostly calling for a re-evaluation of their processes based on empirical data. Even if his thesis may be in error, or may have said things that bother some.
> No skin off my back

How many customers have trouble accessing your website or service? How many potential customers, vendors, partners, employees etc have limited education and income because they lack basic resources?
My lawyer (required by law in NY) did a lot more work for a small fixed fee then my real estate agent. If I'm buying another place in the future, I'm skipping a buyers agent and using the same lawyer.

On the sales side I'd still consider using one due to them arranging pictures, running open houses, following up with buyers. Depending on difficulty of sale / commission structure it's worth it.
My view is that AI's real danger is not that it will become our master but that we'll use it as a weapon to better kill our "enemies." It's not something that will happen in the future. It's something we can see now. We have smart war drones now that make it easy to kill people thousands of miles away. And it's easy to see that the same AI that will power smart cars can be used to power smart bombs. Or we could develop smart cheap drones that work in swarms to over power any war plane or ship. I can go on and on the capabilities of our current technology. I don't even have to go deep into the future to find dangers. Our current capabilities gives us signals of what we can do now and what we will be able to do.

We decided a long time ago that chemical weapons are so terrible that they can not be used in war. We should start thinking about banning AI in war machines too. If we don't I can see a future of very destructive weapons that will be cheap and easy to use not just between independent countries but any terrorist group that wants to use violence to make their point.
How exactly does this work? The link mentions that it detects when Dev tools are opened and changes something?
The whole point is that they already knew about it before hand(It being called meatpistol, hence the previous meeting) so firing them 30 mins prior is bullshit, hence the drama.

And they presented it at Hushcon before with approval so what's the problem with that?
> What I find odd about all this is the apparent lack of concern for other male-dominated industries like deep-sea fishing, logging, coal mining, sanitation, construction, power-line maintenance, etc.

Except, Google “gender imbalance construction” (for instance) and you'll find lots of concern for it. Same for fisheries and most of the other fields at issue. (Maybe not coal mining, where total jobs are evaporating rapidly.) People who hang out on HN are more likely to notice concern in tech because it relates to what brings people to HN in the first place, and also is more likely to be on-topic here. And the concern over tech may be more visible because it's a white collar field connected to middle class aspirations and that is viewed as more interesting to prime media demographics, and this gets more media attention.

> Where are all the women clamoring to get into those fields?

Mostly, out clamoring to get into those fields, in venues that don't get a lot of attention on HN.

> Where are all the women wondering why women aren't clamoring to get into those fields?

Doing that, in many of the same venues. (Yes, there are both women trying to eat into the fields and people, not all women, analyzing the social factors that lead to them not trying in greater numbers.)
Then we're long since doomed, because health care expenditure as a fraction of GDP (a rather larger pot of money than even retirement entitlements) has grown by like 700% (or whatever) over the last half century.

Time frames matter. The demographic change we're talking about is going to happen over the next 40 years, it's not like Black Tuesday.
Citation? This is what I found searching "vegetable polyunsaturated":

"Polyunsaturated fats can have a beneficial effect on your heart when eaten in moderation and when used to replace saturated fat and trans fat in your diet."[1]

1. https://healthyforgood.heart.org/Eat-smart/Articles/Polyunsa...
Unfortunately these days banks don't extend large enough lines of credit for most growth businesses. There's a funding gap in between credit/debt and venture capital.

SaaStr has a good writeup about it[1], and I've experienced the same thing at my company. Line of credit is good enough to bridge AR but not much more than that.

[1] https://www.saastr.com/once-a-saas-startup-hits-initial-trac...
Which is why the internet in its current form is such a wonderful thing that needs to be protected as part of the common heritage of mankind. It's the closest thing we'll ever get to a living memory.

In a capitalist system piracy is seen as "illegal", but in a culture with better ways to support and fund their arts it'd be the pinnacle of immutability and access. Instead of wasting all this energy figuring out how to charge through the nose for huge undertakings after they are created to recoup costs and make future efforts seem lucrative and a "worthwhile investment" we could just create and fund what we want to see and have it be accessible to everyone (almost like a public good? Definitely an artifact of a nation's culture and works) and go along with information flow rather than stifle it.

Or maybe capitalism will grind on, and in 200 years Disney will still be kicking their Mickey copyright can down the road and rebranding their 'vault' the Disney Time Machine, making the biggest lens through cultural history toy glasses with mouse ears on them. shudders
I am considering going back to FF, but it seems FIDO U2F still isn't done completely and the U2F Extension for FF is not working anymore since the WebExtension switch.

Please correct me if missed something, but i think i have to hold off for a little bit longer.
What WASM also misses is good multithreading support, shared data (between threads), locking primitives, and things like memory fence instructions.
I don't see why you deem Trac worse than GitHub for helping a project.
This is a pet peeve of mine in interviews when asked what the big O of hash table lookup is and I say "you're probably looking for O(1), but it's really O(log n). The assumption is that you can hash a word sized quantity and access the corresponding memory in constant time, but the whole point of Big O is asymptotic complexity, and just taking the hash of N bits is going to take O(n) time. Now I get called a pedant for this, but really log n time is for most purposes close enough to constant time to be negligible for practical purposes. Log n factors are unlikely to determine whether an algorithm is feasible, as the constant factor is usually way more significant.
My impression of the security team at Salesforce is that it's always been a bit of a fiefdom with little input or control from the mothership.

Maybe a plausible explanation of what happened here was that all awareness / approval of the talk was limited to that team, and when an exec outside of the security team heard about it, they freaked out, causing all of this.
MongoDB didn't. Maybe for the best?
Following up on this: there have been hundreds of incidents of attempted fraudulent access to this user's account. All were successfully blocked by our security systems, which worked as designed.

But we had a bug that sent him a bunch of emails today (one per prior blocked attempt) when he changed his password. That bug is now fixed.
I guess what I was trying to say, in general, was that since SC2 required less micromanagement of your macro (auto-harvesting, etc), players had more free time to spend on unit tactics.

In GSL season 2, MarineKing showed that stimmed marines could counter banelings. Then the rest of the playerbase quickly adapted his tactics.

At MLG Anaheim (2013), the SlayerS terrans (ie multiple members of the SlayerS team) placed 2nd, 3rd, and 4th and destroyed all zergs with their blue flame hellion play.

Those are just two examples of the sorts of tactics that once discovered are quickly assimilated into the metagame and quickly go from innovative to standard play. So my hope was that AI could speed up the pace of tactical innovation.
Tor won't help if you are logged into Google. The best solution here against that problem is incognito mode plus a VPN.
My first distro was Gentoo which has engineered around the problems in bash. Needless to say I didn't learn that they had engineered around it until I went to other distros and learned that the default behavior is not user friendly (to say the least). The complete inconsistency of implementations also means that searching and reading forums can often be counterproductive.
The one we were talking to had an Australian accent, but I did not ask. The other one is @fuzzynop and yes he's in California. He actually DJ'd for dualcore.
FTA: "Josh Schwartz, director of offensive security based in San Francisco, and John Cramb, senior offensive security engineer in Sydney, Australia, worked on the cloud giant's security 'red team'"
Super simple way to get high quality search results from Google for any topic
Search: "topic name" hacker news

The posts that seed high in google are the ones that get upvoted a lot here. Therefore you automatically get the HN community to do QA on a page, and you don't have to worry about all of the list posts that are generally horrible and crowd the first page of google.
I would like a free, private Aston Martin, but the manufacturer is taking for ever to implement that too.

But I take your point. This is why I drive a Nissan.
The article that is linked here is written by a PhD in sexual neuroscience, and defends the claims made in the memo as scientifically valid.

Instead of responding to the memo, and proving the assertions contained in it wrong, Google's executives fired him, and Google VP Daniele Brown justified the reaction by claiming that the memo advanced "incorrect assumptions about gender".

And you claim this is not an expression of dogmatism, and is not hostile to science, which I see as yet another manifestation of this anti-science dogmatism.

>A scientific fact that may successfully describe the past or current condition doesn't consider other states that could have happened under similar conditions and certainly doesn't lock us into a way forward.

That's a sweeping and over-simplistic generalisation, and trying to justify the extreme rejection of and intolerance toward the memo based on it is a stretch, to say the least.

The individual was fired for stating facts and an opinion (which any society that values rational debate and dialogue will tolerate) that went against an unscientific dogma. A dogma that is as certain of the correctness of its own conjecture about gender as it is about the inapplicability of science to understanding statistical differences between genders in socioeconomic outcomes. An individual, especially a male, is not permitted to express an opinion that contradicts the dogma on the causes of differences in gender outcomes, and the proper reaction to said differences.

That's what the Google engineer's firing demonstrates.
And this is what I'm saying is unlikely, because, try getting a PR department to sign off on that.
> flagged

How is this not an abuse?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14873001
Firefox is coming back, finally- I think their market share is at the bottom and we'll see a big uptake over the next couple of years.
It appears that my words must be doing a terrible job at conveying my intent.

My point is that you should engage in rational discussion even if you think the other side holds an abhorrent, immoral, inhumane viewpoint. And there are many good reasons to do so. And just one of those many reasons is that the other side might be right about some things. Another is that engaging them in discussion is a much better approach of showing them where they are wrong, just punishing someone for holding unpopular views is unlikely to achieve that goal. Another one that I have not mentioned yet is simple reciprocity, you want others to extend that kind openness to discussion towards you when they think you're holding some view that is abhorrent according to their moral value system.
Books are great mentors, although shorter, they are a quick and condensed look at how things should be done
I believe Cononical's launchpad was built to achieve such workflows. It came out of the need to create an integration platform taking upstream versions of software and applying Ubuntu-specific fixes. In the old days, before git and GitHub won, I liked their bug tracker way over GutHubs as it really supported these flows, where bugs are fixed not in the main repo but by some contributor first.
But we'll, wrong bet on bzr ...
Or they were raised with the belief that if you have nothing nice to say then you say nothing. Maybe they hear about her personal issues all the time and are sick of patronizing her. As you said, they're coworkers not your BFFs. That has nothing to do with being a woman or a man.