skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The whole thing made a textbook hostile workplace. He said the people around him only got their jobs because of their race or gender and were therefore incompetent.
Citations are worthless when the reasoning that is citing them is shoddy. If you cite things, it makes the facts that you're referencing true. It doesn't make the logic of your argument true.
> "Diversity of thought is more important than diversity of skin color" is one of those dog whistles.

I find it highly unlikely that a black woman in charge of Inclusion and Diversity at a most socially progressive company would blow into that particular dog whistle.
Maybe this is a dumb question, but why not just charge commercial users more instead?
Title could just as well be: Things you can't say on HN without being censored by an archaic down voting system.
I’m talking from an employment perspective where your wage is on the line.

The Supreme Court has ruled in the US that there is no exception to free speech for hate speech. If this is not preferred, your argument is with the judicial branch or Congress and a constitutional amendment, not me.
It's interesting that lists of the verboten keep rising to the top of Hacker News. If this keeps happening, it would only be rational to believe these things aren't verboten and their authors (whose work keeps rising to the top of link aggregators like this) aren't writing in good faith that they were.

In fact, isn't it - to a degree - virtue signaling to write that one thinks it's such a shame that these verboten things are so verboten as to write an article enumerating them and describing how verboten they are?

And yet, ctrl-f, "virtue". Ah, there it is.
I really like the idea of park insurance. We will completely reimburse the full value of the destroyed property. But it’s a national park now.
More or less important than him taking action to remove legal rights from thousands (hundreds of thousands? millions?) of Californians?

ETA: also the difference between resigned and fired is significant without a large number of Mozilla Corp. Board members being on record as saying they would have fired him if he hadn't.
I'm glad it mentions H-1Bs.

Similarly to identity-conservatives, for whom belief in global warming is heresy and tax cuts are gospel, I believe there is a similar phenomenon with identity-progressives around immigration, in this case specifically the H-1B program. There seems to be some belief in its sacred power that is not to be questioned and not to be curtailed.

As I see it, big businesses - not least the major tech companies - are loaded with incredibly bright, incredibly well-compensated staff. These companies can figure out solutions to the toughest scientific and technical problems, can create new markets when regulations shift, and change the world. They sure as sh*t will figure out how to adapt if immigration policies change and the H-1B program is reduced. As it stands right now, to me it seems - by and large - a handout for companies to get mid-range IT talent enslaved to them for a fractional price of what they'd pay an American.
Oh alright; they both are! Twisted my arm, but I try to be open to compromise
* Beginner to programming - https://automatetheboringstuff.com/ and http://greenteapress.com/wp/think-python-2e/

* Already know a language - https://learnxinyminutes.com/docs/python3/ and https://docs.python.org/3/tutorial/

* In depth - Fluent Python (http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920032519.do)

* Pythonic way - https://gist.github.com/JeffPaine/6213790 and http://www.effectivepython.com/

* Practice - https://www.codewars.com/

For more links, see a list I made(https://github.com/learnbyexample/scripting_course/blob/mast...)
There are people, who:

- when they are in the room, others pay attention to them and wait for their opinion

- when they start speaking, everyone listens

- when they decide they want to go or do something, the rest follow

Be that person.
This post is a dog whistle.
I doubt you'll get a second opportunity. He probably won't survive his full term.
In my first month in NYC I was yelled at by someone I'd met in a bar because I didn't do enough to stop my mother from voting for Trump. [0]

[0] My mother didn't actually vote for Trump, but this woman got the impression that she had and was appalled that I hadn't done more to stop her.
interesting article. right. back to the original question...
2 years ago when I was first experimenting with Ethereum, it was necessary for trying to extract out smart contract addresses among other things. Now, I'd likely use etherscan or such, unless I was building something proprietary.
"Diversity" may be an emotionally charged word, but also is a useful and common word in the biological sciences for a number of purposes. Of note especially is its common usage in ecology relevant to the CDC's goals of cataloging diverse bacterial and viral infections from clinical samples.
before you get too excited...this is the same country that mandates that some % of TV and radio content be "Canadian"
You are literally part of the phenomena described.

This, "I'm right, you're wrong, this is the only lens to look at this through" positioning is really bad.

In Policy Debate (CEDA, Cross-Examination) it's part of the sport to take mundane issues like creating a tax credit for electric vehicles and both teams try to extrapolate out to the worst possible impacts. Nuclear war, mass famine, extinction, etc.

It seems to me that we're adopting this quality for our public discourse, and that's a bad way to go. There is no 'discourse' in debate, that's an activity about winners and losers, not about truth seeking or implementing any real policy.

Sure, people can hold animosity toward Trump, just like most trump supporters hold animosity towards Secretary Clinton. But you shouldn't extend this animosity towards the people that support that candidate, and you shouldn't convince yourself that there aren't two sides to every issue, because there are.
You think this is a dog whistle?

> “There can be 12 white, blue-eyed, blond men in a room and they’re going to be diverse too because they’re going to bring a different life experience and life perspective to the conversation,” the inaugural diversity chief said.

> ”Diversity is the human experience,” she said, according to Quartz. “I get a little bit frustrated when diversity or the term diversity is tagged to the people of color, or the women, or the LGBT.”

This is what Denise Young Smith, 20 year HR veteran at Apple said. She 'resigned' and was replaced after the ensuing outrage.
>his financial support of legislative efforts to prohibit the same civil rights enjoyed by some in this country for other fellow Americans depending on their sexual preference.

...So his political views.
"If San Francisco residents really believed that sea levels were rising, they’d have all sold their homes by now."

To be fair, that probably hits too close to home.
People cannot make decisions using facts; there are too many issues at play and the interactions between the facts are too complicated. In practice decisions are made by copying other socially successful persons.

It seems completely obvious to me that any social grouping will have some strongly held convictions that are not based on fact. A unique set of sacred cows that persist because it is orders of magnitude faster to copy successful examples than figure out why they were successful.

I mean, I applaud efforts to align cultural conversation with fact. Very worthwhile activity. But it seems more important to me to accept that social groups can behave erratically, and that nothing should be taking precedence over the rule of law; and anything that looks like mass hysteria should be resisted.

The enemy is the idea that 'everybody knows' something and therefore due process can be thrown out. I recall the slogan 'Not My President' being trotted out when Trump won. That sort of thing is dangerous. Disagreeing with the result of an election? That is fine. A bout half the population can do that. Chipping away at the legitimacy of the electoral process, because you can't say and do what Trump says and does? Huge threat.
You are aware that many people said pretty much the same thing about many of Obama's initiatives and policies.
Censoring the CDC, of all organizations. What a travesty. The entire world looks to the US CDC for guidelines.

Let's be clear: The political right in the US pretends to care about free speech until they get serious political power.

It wasn't too long ago that conservatives were strongly against the depiction of violence and sex in video games.
> I think a lot of people are used to saying what's on their mind without consequence.

No, it's simpler still. What is happening is that conservatives feel awkward and nervous being a minority (irony much?), so they look to strawman arguments to make themselves feel better.

Obviously you can have those fights if you want. You just can't find many people to agree with you. This is like walking into a megachurch in Mississippi and complaining that no one wants to listen to your opinions on reproductive health care.
I'd argue there's a vast difference between an automatic update for something that was already manually installed, by the user, and automatically installing something without any indication to the user that it was installed. Worse, it's impossible to argue that this was even a useful extension.

I don't watch television, and I don't keep up with any popular modern shows. I had no idea what Mr. Robot was until looking through this thread, and the description text for the addon was, at first glance, suspicious. This was a terrible idea and isn't even remotely analogous to applying security updates automatically. If I have something I specifically installed, fine, I can expect those addons to be updated automatically. I don't expect them to side load something I don't even want. "Delight fans" my ass. You have to be a fan first, and I'm not even sure most people who are fans of Mr. Robot would think this is a particularly good idea.

Funny enough, the only thing I can think of that's even remotely similar to this is the "Hell, Dolly" plugin for WordPress, and that's installed out of the box as part of the distribution.
Let's imagine that some form of shaking down service/content providers in order to achieve certain speeds/priorities becomes some established part of the landscape before the FCC or Congress changes hands again.

If, when that happens, the decision is made that this is not an acceptable state of affairs, it will then look and feel to the ISPs like not a potential way of extracting rent, but a lost revenue stream. They'll yell loudly about lost revenue stream and tell everybody how they will have to charge consumers more in order to make up for it. They'll shout about how the government is taxing the internet. They'll go to court and see if the lost revenue gives them a better case under the law.

And because it'll be the status quo -- but one in which most of the rents they're extracting are invisible to consumers -- they'll be more successful at persuading people than they already have been.
Haha! I’d appreciate such regulations for startup pitches by blacklisting phrases like “deep learning”, “blockchain-based”, “disruptive”, “fast-moving”, “lean”.
My implementation:

def santa_list(people):
return dict(zip(
people[1:] + people[:1],
people))

(shuffle if you want to).
Can't tell if this is serious
You can say all of these things anywhere with minimal actual consequences other than social consequences. You have to be so deep into first world problems that you can't see that social consequences are not the biggest problem for most Americans right now.

* You can support Trump, it doesn't mean other people don't have the right to think you're a moron, bigot, or supporter of fascism for doing so. You go right ahead and think the same thing about them. NO ONE ACTUALLY CARES. Most people are too busy working to get caught up in politics.

* Diversity of thought often comes with diversity of skin color because people with different skin color have a hell of a different experience than white people. They even have different experiences among their different ethnicities. Does it mean white people can't have different thoughts? No, but when you're in a bubble how would you even know?

* The way the H1-B is written now is terrible both to the H1-B holder and American workers. It forces workers to get paid below what they should get paid both as an H1-B worker and as the American worker. H1-B holders should not require sponsoring by a company. If their skills are in such high demand they should have no problem getting a job.

* If they could afford to sell. If they were stupid. Maybe they are optimists? Seems like San Fran has a ton of optimists. Maybe they plan on selling before sea levels rise or trust their government to bail them out.

* If this was all he said, sure, there's room for conversation about how and why we got into this situation, but it was a stupid screed against diversity. This guy is no champion of discourse. I doubt you could do what he did anywhere and have it go over well. You keep your politics out of your work whenever possible and speak your mind at home. A company is not a free speech zone.

* Equality of treatment doesn't mean equality of outcomes. That's a strawman argument.
Just because something happened in the past and resulted in some benefits doesn’t necessarily mean we have to continue it. For example, the two world wars and their impacts also helped accelerate technological progress to a great degree, but I’m sure nobody would argue that we need more of them. In our current times, and in this century, we’ll have better alternatives that help humankind (if people accept them). Meat will not be a necessity for those living in a globalized world.
Well, that depends on what the goal is.

If you want to have a workforce representative of a given community, and the characteristics of that community are evaluated along ethnic or skin color, then diversity thereof is key.

If you want a workforce representative of people's economic status, then you evaluate on economic characteristics of the community.

IF you're looking for creativity then diversity in thought is paramount [however, that does not imply not guarantee diversity in any other human feature.]

The issue can become muddled due to a couple of reasons. Companies while looking to address ethnic diversity imbalance will imply that increasing ethnic diversity will coincidentally result in creative diversity [with the implication that greater creative diversity results in company success]. Their confounding of these things make things muddled.

If diversity of culture were necessary to succeed, then relative monocultures like China and Japan would never succeed.
I 100% agree with your premise that “the more voices the better” (i.e. the fewer voices that are silenced, the better). What you describe certainly covers much of what’s happening, but something else is happening too: Voices are being silenced.

And to respond to your opening sentence, I don’t mean anyone is silenced physically (who does that?), but rather psychologically, culturally, and socially. That’s not a good thing.

Giving everyone a voice is good precisely because it facilitates debate, such that good ideas rise to the surface and bad ideas sink. Silencing voices opposed to your own views may serve you in the short term, but as a principle it’s incredibly dangerous and almost certainly harmful in the long run.

Edit: P.S. This doesn’t mean that bad ideas shouldn’t float down to a point where their advocation questions ones’ rational credibility, nor does it mean we should be entitled to say anything we want (no matter how extreme) without consequence.

For example, if you blurted out “The earth is flat - it’s all a conspiracy!”, most people would shake their heads in pity and keep walking away. But if someone presents evidence or ideas to a claim so extreme, the degree of our interest must be proportionate to the credibility of the evidence and the logical consistency of the argument — not the social stigma attached to the topic. This is a subtle distinction, but so important.

Social stigma can serve perhaps as a caching mechanism of consensus, but it is a tool we must wield with extreme caution.
Show HN: Serverless Twitter bot for colourising photos
interesting. right. back to the original question...
I don't miss hearing the voices of the historically dominant. Other voices are being heard instead: the voices of those who have long been beaten down.

As someone who is loyal to the human race before my demographic, I'm thrilled.
Trump enjoys engaging in rape and sexual assault, being an unashamed racist, and is corrupt as hell.

No surprise that supporting all that will lose you friends.
Looks like a great idea.

https://www.irishtimes.com/business/technology/facebook-free...
They show the supply side.

I'd like to see the demand side. How much toxic waste does each person's behavior promote being used? How much is embodied in each product?
Yes, I am kind of tired of this dictatorship of the minority too.

It's like everybody need to receive a gold medal for being different nowadays.

But we never speak about the average Joe, who struggles in life too!
it sounds like calling things 'dogwhistles' is a very convenient way for you to absolve yourself of having to think critically
Sorry, baser instincts got the better of me. I did not know how to flag; I thought I had not reached the Karma threshold. I appreciate the link with instructions.
They're many fronts attacking the first amendment, both government and corporations. Silicon Valley does not share the idology it once did.

Undoing Net Neutrality is a clear sign of this. It will hurt startups that try and compete in the spaces that Google/Netflix/Spotify occupy before it really hurts consumers. NN cements the current leaders in their position as they can pay the tolls and blocking them would be mass outrage. But gives very little room for a newcomer to compete.
IIM Ahmadabad Jobs 2017 – Recruitment for Various Posts
IIM - Indian Institute of Management has released notification for various 3 Posts (Academic Associates: Communication Area,Academic Associates – Centre for Management in Agriculture (CMA),and Research Associate: P&QM Area). All the deatils about the job and post like education details, age limit, walk in interview dates,etc are available on official site of IIM.
thank the good lord Vishnu -- I thought this would be an article about moving past Pink Floyd.
I think one problem might be that people don't want to tolerate anything, any exception to a position, that while true, might perceptively undermine their narrative.

Essentially, in colloquial, they don't want to give an inch for fear they'll grant a mile.

For example. A position might be, yes, means yes, but it can also mean no, if the person saying yes, feels they were forced into yes. So unless it was a resolute yes, it means no.

Someone might want to take exception to that and say that, no, it depends on the situation and personality, etc., and that there are grey areas and there will always be and we also know people might initially think something is a good idea and retroactively take back a yes. But some people may not want to admit that people do on occasion retroactively change their minds on something.
Perhaps you do not understand it's revolutionary aspects.
Statistics, We have a problem
Nit-picking about the definition of words is another form of "dog whistling" that popular society has learned to detect.
For some who may be less familiar, PI = Principal Investigator. This is how a receiver of a grant is referred to.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principal_investigator
If you owned a national currency, you would have the legal taxing authority and guns behind your papers. If you owned gold, you would have a shiny incorruptible metal in your hand to hand over for industrial if not artistic uses, in a pinch. Heck, even if you owned a potato, you could eat it -- and in dire circumstances that has a huge amount of value and maybe you can convince somebody to trade something else valuable.

If you "own" bitcoins, you have some numbers graffitied over people's hard drives. Yes they can't change it because electricity, and the numbers only get so big, and you have some different numbers that can be turned into the graffitied numbers by one particular algorithm that people like at the moment. Without transactions, these properties are completely arbitrary. I don't see how by themselves they can give anything approaching the necessities for a store of value. The truth is, without competitive transactional uses bitcoin has no fundamental value. Without fundamental value it can't be much of a store of value, since literally anything else without fundamental value can be equally good. You can store something like the goodwill of the network, as now, which isn't nothing, but it can be notoriously fickle.
Political views only matter when your company markets itself on values. Oracle and Google aren't about freedom, Mozilla is, GNU/linux is. When you want to be the rudder for a company based on values your background needs to be unassailable, in other words, boring. You can't be boring when you take an active role in a cause that is directly against your employees.
No, and that tweet was from Aug. 2016 with nothing further from him about 1password, unless I missed it, so clearly he didn't feel compelled to either continue his research or he didn't find anything worth disclosing. Your guess as to which is meant.

But other researchers have played with 1password and most have historically had good things to say about it, except recently when they started pushing everyone to the online vaults like I mentioned.

And yes, he is a security researcher for Google.
I think you overestimate your understanding of human history. I am especially sure of this because you think something just changed.

I don't think you want a fairer game. You just want to win the current one.

Best of luck.
Yes
https://electrek.co/2017/11/29/tesla-mining-bitcoin-model-s-...
This article seems to be debating an issue that doesn’t exist. It seems to call Ferriss for not speaking his mind, but I listened to the podcast referenced and it was one short statement amongst lots of other stuff.

I would like to hear an entire podcast from Ferriss. But this author seems to criticize a Ferriss for not going into detail and that’s inappropriate. It would be valid if Ferriss left out these details in a book or in depth coverage, but he author is taking a few sentences and reading way too much into it.

What do you call it when someone uses a bigger name to try to rouse controversy in order to get clicks? It’s not yellow journalism, but there must be a term for this kind of shitposting.
The point of a dog whistle is to say something with a secondary meaning that escapes some part of the audience.

When that part of the audience starts using the dog whistle, the goal has been met: they're using it in good faith, while the original user is still signalling the secondary message.

That's why "family values" works so well as a political slogan -- nobody is against "family values" in a superficial sense, and half of the population understands that "family values" is really code for "christian values."
I stopped reading here:

“If San Francisco residents really believed that sea levels were rising, they’d have all sold their homes by now.”

Apparently the author has never been to San Francisco or seen the sea level estimates for the next 30-70 years.

The last time I looked the northernmost and easternmost parts of SF will have some trouble, but by far the biggest areas of concern are east of 101 south of the city. And yes, if people thought ahead that far they would probably be concerned but even in the areas that are predicted to have the most impact we’re still talking 25+ years.
Bi-Directional Middle-Out for CloudOps and DevOps
Irrelevant, as it is not working on a powerful laptop anymore, which means it is not a real blockchain anymore.
Whataboutism is whataboutism. Whatabout this do you not understand?