skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you're talking about US that's incorrect. There's a fall from peak 1.3m in 2000 to 940k in 2017 employees in automanufacturing[1] despite total population rising from 280m to 325m. Percentagewise it went from .46% to .28% of population.

[1] https://www.bls.gov/iag/tgs/iagauto.htm
It's all very interesting. The lawyer is a woman, born in India. She should be very vocal against Damore, right? Instead, she is exposing bigotry inside Google. I see the same screenshots already posted here previously. Of course they have names, dates and all other details, and all this information can be easily checked during the trial. I don't think Dhillon would be stupid enough to make it up.

This is going to be very interesting...
America runs on Github!
I wish the same thing. There is a double standard where the shit can only role down the proverbial hill. As someone pointed out below, https://twitter.com/mjaeckel/status/950446329603461121, shows that lots of the evidence in the lawsuit is "It's perfectly fine if [the left-leaning] do it, but unacceptable if someone else does"
Well I didn't know, not everyone uses it on a daily basis.
It is obviously clear that not everyone who works at Disney supported the idea to take works of art and culture from the public and retroactively put them back under copyright, nor the idea that lobbying from such organizations should have such enormous power in dictating policy in a democratic country where a democratic vote would had gone in an other direction. Cory Doctorow has dedicated a large part of his life (and wealth) towards combating such behavior, and obviously it's not fair when such polarized views conflict with people who just happen to work for a large company.

That said, I personally don't judge him too harshly for it. If you spend your whole life working and using your money to save the oceans and meet a representative for BP, I strongly suspect that images from the Gulf oil spill will pop up and the meeting will be very frosty. It comes with the territory, as people rarely do spend their whole life and worldly possessions unless they also have strong views on the issue. Its not uncommon to see such personalities to be founders of movements but at the same time be rather poor diplomats.
This is why you don't rely on third parties for your build dependencies!
>You are putting quite a lot of meaning into my sentence that isn't there, projecting is never useful in a discussion.

Okay.

>I said that currently the progressive-left is sacrificing reason and that it will lead to a rise to the right.

No they're not. How is it that you think the 'progressive-left' is sacrificing reason?
Maybe it will prevent some folks from refreshing the page and possibly exacerbating the issue?
Yeah, this sounds like a great tool. Of course it can be used for good and bad. Hell even "cp" is a potent copyright violating tool, if used in that purpose.

I can easily see a toolkit that makes sure everything is FDE with a distributed key network, and revocation from anywhere if needed. I also see remote distributed shutdown requests, sealed storage locking, remote device nuking, and plenty of other features if a device falls into the wrong hands.... even if that is local law enforcement.

Part of this also feels like the Neuromancer universe, where companies are the state actors, and the real states have only limited jurisdiction.

(And yes, I would help build a set of tools like this. They have multiple purposes, legal and illegal. Not my fault if someone uses them illegally in a jurisdiction. )
I don't need the free time right now :( Time to get a coffee.
This is the same company that had an internal program called “Hell”.

I agree with the parent that Uber developers are just unethical.

I’m wondering if they ask you to strangle a kitten during the tech interview, just to see how you react.
So you’re saying that if I put up my own Git server (for a fee), it’s likely to have better uptime statistics than GitHub?

I can’t push changes to the decentralized Git protocol, only to a (centralized) server instance.
Probably a quick update just to get the current downtime on the page.
I think you just did.
That's true, but they are still deterministic and can be designed to be egalitarian.

Humans, on the other hand, cannot be trusted in the way that a computer can.
Seems that it is automatically generated, though, because it's now "The status is still red at the beginning of the day" all over.
For people who don't dream lucidly, what are your dreams like? Do you experience them in third person? Is it like being on rails? My wife often tells me that, in her dreams, she's still herself but also not herself. Is it like a compulsion, where you know what's happening but you're not in control of yourself?
I think that's a very real thing to consider. I'm very much a classical liberal and if this election has shown me anything it's that I'm not a Democrat anymore.
If the stars align and Stack Overflow goes down too, I can just go home.
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All the "diversity" nonsense finally shows its consequences.
Apparently the status has been "red" every day since December 1st: https://status.github.com/messages/2017-12-07

"The status is still red at the beginning of the day"

Yesterday was the first "normal" day, before this outage.
Is GitHub Down? (Angry Unicorns)
Just hit 2 links this morning only to get an Angry Unicorn. Anybody else seeing this?
It's been only 7 minutes and I already noticed it (outside of HN), we rely too much on github :P
I saw that, too, and was fairly concerned. A smoothly running, quality focused engineering organization doesn't leave a status page un-updated for 3+ weeks...

Also, "reports of service unavailability"? I would expect monitoring tools to be screaming...
No, no there isn't. And if holding conservative views makes the workplace "hostile", a ridiculously vague and subjective state of affairs, it's not because of the conservatives.
Welcome to the modern tech world. While you're waiting for the site to come back up, let me tell you all about my new startup, SquareWheel(TM).

edit: Oh jesus christ, there's a fucking tech company called Square Wheel. Kill me now.
so is it interesting for you to know that a service you don't use daily is down for a couple hours? this random github outage happens basically every other month, and is fixed in like 30 minutes. every time it's on HN frontpage.

people who use Github will already know.
So this isn't really anything to do with Git then is it? So why joke we centralised Git when really we centralised a bunch of other things that are not really anything to do with Git?
Apple protects its customers. Encryption that stops cops also stops criminals.

Uber is only protecting its profits. The customers are incidental to its blatant lawbreaking.
Am I the only one who has project's mirror on Gitlab for exactly this purpose?
The other implication of testing this on "another group of dolphin" is the ethical dimension.

Some people believe it's unethical to imprison dolphins in a small pool.

I'd argue we certainly don't need to capture more dolphins to 'prove' they are intelligent.

I also never understood why the barrier is set so high for giving any other species but ourselves credit for being intelligent.
Different passwords and usernames for every website. To make that easy you get a password manager. (pass, LastPass, etc, etc)
I think it's just a tragedy of a strong ego that allows people who are really talented to assume they can treat other people however they please.

Separating the ideas from the personalities who express them is really important, especially nowadays when it's really easy to get glimpses of personalities online. You're not hurting anyone but yourself by allowing a bruised ego to get in the way of acquiring new ideas and knowledge.

Newton was a total jerk to anyone who he thought was dumber than him (everyone), in fact I read that his quote "... standing on the shoulders of giants." was actually a dig at a colleague who was short (in Bryson's Brief History of the World, I think).

I have this same conversation whenever talking about Taleb's work, where his ideas about risk and randomness are somehow conflated with his twitter persona. You can be a total asshole and still have good ideas, or you can have shitty ideas and be the nicest person around. Some of the nicest people you'll meet are in places where they'll shake your hand, look you in the eye, buy you a beer and then proceed to tell you how great a job our president is doing.

I also prefer when good ideas come from good people, but so long as their ideas aren't about how to treat other people (making themselves hypocrites) I say fuck 'em, better to take their ideas and be a better version of their proponent.
There is something similar with cars, actually.

In many countries, when you injure a pedestrian through absolutely no fault of your own (i. e. they drunkenly stumbled onto the street and you had no time to react), you (or your insurance) are still liable for damages.

Why is that? Because when you drive a car, you get all the benefits of, well, driving. Pedestrians get absolutely nothing, except the "chance" to suffer whenever they don't pay enough attention.

Note that this is civil law. If you had no chance to avoid the accident, nobody is blaming you, nor will you face criminal charges. But the pedestrian suffered damages, and cash transfers can (re-)distribute those damages to more accurately represent what would be considered "fair".
Since you need to to be aware of the raid to use the tool, it seems particularly useful vs. attackers that aren't afraid of being noticed, and whom you cannot keep out otherwise. Particularly the police, in other words. Not that it's impossible it'd be useful otherwise...
It helps to spend the time people have now that they can't use GH.
GitHub is having issues
Is there any relation with bitbucket shutdown few days ago?
I was wrong. They’re brothers. I should learn to not HN before coffee :)
This was submitted a few minutes later, but it got more traction:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16124357
I wasn't able to get the netrc file working, my password does contain spaces which seems to be an issue for netrc parsers.

In fact looks like I'm not able to get netrc or SSH keys working.
You are correct, much better lift, speed, economy from a single large slower moving rotor (or a pair of counter-rotating blades, cost/benefits described in other posts).

The reason all the cheap drones use 4 or more engines is that they can individually be very simple, with the motor directly driving a rotor. With no swashplate to alter blade pitch the mechanism is very simple. Short blades are easy to make for a required strength and stiffness, and the torque of electric motors is sufficient to rapidly change rotor speed to change lift for steering. The control system is simple. However efficiency is terrible, both in terms of lift, and maneuvering.

The energy to change blade speeds constantly to maintain attitude is a significant cost. But having low rotational inertia, frequent changes are required, especially in windy conditions. As blade diameter increases (and hence inertia) the resulting energy costs to change speed increase too, as does the size/power/weight of the motor.
It won't be kept up to date for sure.
Plus the law will definitely change all arbitration clauses from ECJ to British version.
For simple, secure use (which is what we are talking about) there is little functional difference between Keepass and Lastpass.
what is this, facebook?!?
Who's talking about a paragon of ethics? Trade unions don't exist because they are supremely ethical. They don't even exist because they are more ethical than corporations (they're probably not.)

They exist because a corporation is inherently coordinated in a way that gives them power over workers. Unions just allow workers to adopt that same inherent coordination to seize power back. Unions aren't a moral force, they're just a counter-balance.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16124357
Further I think these are things that are generally harder to decentralize. I'm not sure how much marginal value there is doing so.
Hrrm?

This site seems legit, and offers 84 400mg pills for #2.99
Thanks for all that you are doing with the donations. It really shows great integrity which is in rare supply these days.

I know it's a long shot and some people are gonna rag on me-- but I want to ask, are you/the fund, at all interested in experimental digital physics? I've had this project on the backburner for a while, have been reading textbooks on automata, partial differential equations, and particle physics to get to a place where I can better engineer model universes.

The gist of the project in a few words, is to create a simple 2d universe with enough information dynamics to allow for universal computation and most importantly, evolution. Conway's "Game of Life" is turing complete, aka universal, as are many automata and digital simulations. However, these models were not designed with evolution in mind..nor simple principles like the duality between mass and energy-- or analogously in a simple digital realm, storage and movement.

This universe that we reside in might be complex and hardly simulatable in all its glory with our current computational powers. However, if we strip out EM, the weak force, the strong force, maybe even gravity..go down to 2 spatial dimensions, we still might be able to produce a universe in which computers form, and evolution takes hold to produce intelligent forms. Now, I am not asserting that intelligence of our caliber will form or if it is even probable. But I think this endeavor is worth some salt.

I've written a blog post[1] more about the proposal but it mostly reiterates what I mentioned here. There is also the movie which is amateur but still informative and entertaining.[2]

My email is in my profile in case you are at all interested in pursuing the proposal.

Cheers.

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[1] https://scrollto.com/life-a-universe-simulation/

[2] http://amzn.to/2qWUFQC
The contemporary equivalent, albeit one or a few steps up the abstraction ladder, is "how to get started with (javascript|frontend development)" guides — append "in 2018" for better SEO — which boil down to "use React".
I keep hearing about all kinds of lists lately. Some seem to think these are good idea.

> IS IT FINALLY TIME TO TAKE THE 'SHITTY MEDIA MEN' LIST SERIOUSLY?

http://www.newsweek.com/it-finally-time-take-shitty-media-me...

Feels a bit soviet union-esq to me. But the left seems to be rallying behind ideas like these, lets see how this turns out.
I'd argue that government gets more and more power with technological advance. Just few decades ago regimes could only dream about total surveillance, now Chinese government are putting this in practice and I'm sure many will follow.
That was different before. They likely changed some historic data when they put the current issue online. Probably just pushed out a quick update.
I would learn React if I was you. Check out create-react-app on Github. It will set you up with a working app to play with in a matter of seconds. If you're expecting to use React Native it looks like they have a create-react-native-app also.
What-about-ism
>memo about why men are naturally better at computers than women

oh, boy
so, front page of HN is a good way of alleviating server load?
I find it useful because I don't use github directly, but some of my software's dependencies do. It's a nice heads up, because I probably won't be checking otherwise.
This is why you don't mention your political or religious beliefs in the workplace. That said, other commenters are saying political affiliation is protected in california.
So happy I moved our dev team to Gitea earlier this year. Already paying dividends!
I refreshed a page and boom ... . Check status, but that was not updated yet. Friday is coming sooner! :)
How Hemper (an ECommerce Store) Grew Their Email List by 40,000 in Ten Months
From twitter: http://classicprogrammerpaintings.com/post/144953638470/gith...
All that is missing is mention of blockchain.
I know of at least one solution: https://bifax.org/
The entire keeping and sharing internal blacklists, threatening to put people on them, could make a hostile workplace. I'm not a lawyer and I don't know where the line is, but it seems possible.
It is code, it is not a programming language.
In what respect is "tipping off" a crime? Is it a crime if, after seeing a speed trap, I flash my brights at the next motorist?

I'm not a lawyer, but unless there's a gag order, I don't think it's a crime to tell someone you're being raided by police, especially if that someone is your security or legal staff.
> Mozart...

I am interested, and I googled Mozart arrested, Mozart arrested for Copyright, Mozart arrested for Music, but couldn't find anything, could you please post a link/story about Mozart getting arrested?
Tell me more - sounds like a productive thing to work on given all productivity is gone for the immediate foreseeable future.
Whether it's religiously motivated or not, it's always a political view.
Nahhh, I wouldn't rely on a server. I'd rely on a distributed network or a TOR gateway to a onionsite that is HA'ed with onionbalance. Even better if you can put in a 3g sim and have it talk using that as a backup.

Most of the time, your adversary is a thief with low/mild tech intelligence who'd let it talk to the net. Then game over, data's gone and you have a portable spy rig if you play your cards right.
This is why it pays to host your own source repositories. It is kind of shocking that many people with the skills and means are too cheap to host their own. I personally could not risk github deleting my repositories or (in this case) going down for any length of time.
Anyone know specifics? They handled that DDoS attack really well not too long ago ...
No. We need a proper whitepaper explaining how to make GitHub decentralized with blockchain tokenization using distributed smart-contracts. ;)

(Did I forget any important buzzword?)
California, at least, where the alleged incidents took place.

I encourage anyone interested in the situation to read the filed suit. The first 20 or so pages are specifically about Damore and it is a very approachable and an interesting read. It also specifies the alleged violated laws / section.
Will this work if I use Bittrex, Binance, and Gemini?
Scrolling through those screencaps, I'd get up and walk out if I saw that on the internal slack where I work. It's one thing for someone to post it, it's another for HR to condone it by not policing it.

EDIT. Not commenting on it, but https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DTCqvlRXUAILVUL.jpg:large . The fact that there is open discussion on terroristic activities, and the fact that it's not removed over the course of 24 hours. What in the fuck?
It was 8 minutes and the stroy was already running in HN, checked it before status.github.com even. We rely too much on HN :P
A long time ago I came across this question [1] (probably through Hackernews): "What do you believe is true even though you cannot prove it." I found the question hugely fascinating. For me one answer is that some attributes which we think of as uniquely human, such as intelligence or consciousness, aren't actually so unique. I believe at least many mammals and possibly other animals (birds? some fish?) have some form of (perhaps basic) intelligence.

Of course there is always a big risk in anthropomorphizing behavior and there are huge challenges in designing replicable experiments. However, ultimately humans are just apes so it shouldn't be too surprising if some of our human attributes actually evolved much earlier. In any case I find research like that mentioned in the article immensely interesting. There is still so much we can learn on this front.

[1] https://www.edge.org/annual-question/what-do-you-believe-is-...
Is this like https://web.archive.org/ for software?
The Secret to How Lyft’s Round Up Program Raised Over $3M
In theory they could be more egalitarian but the original comment was about big corporations taking over from governments with their tech.

These corporations care mainly about profit so i don't think whatever rules they come up with will be good for society.
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I don't know how they could make these things up and get away with it:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DTCqa-XX0AA6DJs.jpg
There is the name of the person, their message sent to other Google employees, that they got reported to HR - how on Earth could this be an "unproved allegation"? It's all easily verifiable. If Damore and his lawyer were fabricating this, it would be an equivalent of a professional suicide. And an incredibly stupid and pointless thing to do.
That same logic can and does apply to Bitcoin. The governments can seize or buy many ASICs and mine in secret to destroy trust in Bitcoin's longest chain.

The mining has ALREADY been centralized in a small number of mining pools. They become a cartel that charges high fees, no collusion needed. You have only one miner every 10 mins, and it has to take every transaction made in the whole world. You call that a good scalable design. Not to mention they can just be DDOSed.

But anyway tell me again why it's not rational behavior for someone to mine Bitcoin Cash in secret and then unleash their far longer chain, after shorting Bitcoin Cash on the exchanges? Why is Bitcoin Cash even secure at all?
Also, the workflow on Github is one many people like, and it differs a bit if you have to use git "the old fashioned way". Not that it's hard or impossible, but it differs. I can't imagine explaining the GitHub-less workflow to my colleges..
Setting up your own instance of a bit server is free.

If you want issues, CI etc... Then you need a local version of github which you will pay for.
Yeah I bet these guys will have this fixed in no time. If you manage your own instance you are bound to have a less entertaining landing page when it breaks.

I've worked on numerous enterprise git servers - they all inevitably go down for at least a half day every 6-9 months.
Because we also centralized git.
... and there are queues for all ping pong tables around the globe.
While I kind of hate Atlassian products (bloated, horrible APIs), and Bitbucket has some serious UX problems (Find), it's still better than have your repos be offline.

There's not much that can go wrong on a single instance with a local database. Have a failover in case the HW fails and you are good to go, and it's faster. The pricing is not great, but perhaps that's something GitLab can solve.

But being hip and being lean (even if it costs more) is more important I guess.
The obvious follow on question is how much daylight exists between "expressing incompatible political views" and "making the workplace hostile."

Team Edward will argue that there are people for whom their political mindset finds disagreement with certain political precepts to be tautologically hostile, no matter how they are expressed.

Team Jacob will point to the news for an instance of egregious public political expression and say that it's obviously the category of hostility they're defending against.

Around and around we go again...
The status page is broken, it was mostly green 10 minutes ago.
Until you need to PR a change to get it to production.
You can email patches. This is now the Linux team works.
I can't help thinking that it should then be possible to write a tool that ingests a codebase and shows you a graph similar to the ones in this article. Perhaps that would be a good way to figure out where to start working on reducing the code complexity. But I have to think on this for a while to see if I still believe it after mulling it over.
no it hasn't, that's just a convenient narrative pushed by a group of people who are trying avoid the bad press from using their real slogans that say things like 'diversity is white genocide'
Is it just me or is the new GitHub Status page a joke? It used to show historical charts for uptime and latency for each of the different services, which was actually useful. Now it is just a daily messages list.