skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let's assume we're not all disingenious a----les, trying for clickbait and gotchas, but still disagree on some points.

I would say that you're right, and this means that specific outcome equality is not indicative of equality of opportunity.

But, it's also true that equality before the law and other measures that have been tKe over the last 3 generations do not guarantee equality of opportunity. Opportunity is in itself a sticky concept.

If you grow up in a family/community where a lot of people are tradesmen then you'll be more likely to be a tradesman. Same for long term welfare dependance, academia, public services, fireman/police, housewives, medicine...

The dynamics are complex and not fully understood. People form an idea about what's normal, possible and such. This is a socially based phenomenon.

I would argue that it is important to the concept of opportunity. The boxes that you put yourself into by default, and others put you in.

There aren't necessarily physical barriers. Lots of people don't end up on the default paths, maybe even most. But, defaults matter.

Anyway, let's think about it in reverse. Let's say we are abolishing sexism, racism, caste systems or some other form of big societal discrimination. A generation later, no change in outcomes. Did we succeed?

OTOH, it's hard to know what to do with specifics like women in tech. It's not inherently bad for women to have different average preferences and that will cause unequal outcomes. But, we also can't ignore outcomes (imo) entirely either. There must be actual outcome changes.

There's also the issue of feedback loops. If certain spheres are male realms, with women in a tiny minority this makes it harder for women to enter in the future.
Why should it be an either-or proposition? There's lots of evidence that young boys are falling behind to girls in early to college education. Maybe both genders need encouraging words? And if we're collectively going to dish out negative articles about men, maybe that should cut both ways too
Dell and HP will still sell you matte on their corporate laptops.

Even the Dell XPS sorta-corporate line has some matte options but they are tricky to find.
a mostly politics free zone where interesting technical news and odd but also interesting subjects could be discussed as well as expanded upon by people who are good in the associated field.

I still think politics; especially US; appears too much. Some stories submitted are little more than hit pieces but fortunately flagging does help
Let's say he really deserves the 10%. That doesn't make him a "cofounder". That only makes him a shareholder. If owning some shares in a company made you a cofounder, by that logic any angel investor or VC is a cofounder of ever single company they funded.

And even if the law says you're technically a "cofounder", it's pathetic to call yourself that for a decade and use that false reputation for your personal gains if you didn't really do anything for the company.
I do agree with that and I have seen quite a few brilliant programmers be born in classes but there is a point where you start to expect them know some basic stuff like what a router, IDE and script are so that I don't have to explain them in full just to say how to make something work.
https://appear.in has been fine for me mostly
> I still think this term is ridiculous

I'm trying to think of a better term. The point is the concept. And in my defense the Wikipedia definition aligns with my usage of the term: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynching.

> The only example I can think of where someone lost their job due to a donation was Brendan Eich

Yeah that was just an example. Another similar scenario I can think of off the top of my head: the president of the University of Missouri was coerced into resigning because he said something that equated to, "I don't believe in institutional racism".

I'm not trying to paint doom and gloom or anything I was responding with the counter argument to, "intolerance wants a voice", which is (naturally by now), "only an intolerant person would condone silencing in the first place".
Are you suggesting humanity will create real life furries?

I guess it's the sort of thing you can count on someone doing the moment it's possible...
We use Zoom.us at my startup and it works great. Not very updated UI design but so much better than Hangouts
> Slightly baffling to see this celebrated by men in these careers as some kind of vindication.

How is it baffling when the dominant narrative is "men in STEM are such horrid creepy sexist misogynists that they are driving the women out"?

Now that was always risible, but still it is the dominant narrative.
Why am I supposed to know it? For the matter I do know it, but nobody needs their computer tell them jokes, especially tasteless ones like this.
That was explained: the agreement Peck had with the nursing home way that he stayed there to assuage the owner of the nursing home who thought it was risky adopting their solution.

I about the title being a bit click-baity, but maybe it’s just because I’ve heard too many romanticized stories of founders doing something like this out of financial necessity instead of essentially dogfooding.
Oh no I'm sorry for the lack of clarity, that was certainly not what I'm implying. They do, and it's an extremely unfortunate problem that we ought to do something about. I was merely suggesting that these differences we tend to eagerly attribute to biology (a la James Damore) could very well be caused by a bunch of cultural and societal factors, of which bullying could be one.

Also, over the last two decades there has been a significant increase in cultural recognition and representation of male "nerds," as people who belonged to that category have gained positions of influence, thanks to the tech boom in the 90s, which can sometimes inspire students to pursue their interests despite the bullying. The lack of such representative role models for young females is disconcerting and could even cause some people to be slightly more affected by the bullying, because perhaps they don't know a female who works in STEM or know of anyone in recent years who made it big, and simply didn't know it was possible to go against the social tide (which happens all too frequently.)

All in all, I think there are a lot of factors at play here and reducing it to one cause seems like wilful ignorance at best.
It's in the article, the nursing home owner wanted him to be on-site.
Please make an easy export function. My only fear is lock-in. If I know I can get my data out at any time, I will put my data into RexPad.

Export can be to text or Markdown. No need to be fancy.

This would replace Evernote for me. It looks better and organization is better (compare RexPad to Evernote’s stacks and notebooks, which are difficult to work with).
I feel you. For any given subject there are 140 people who are an order of magnitude better/more skilled/smarter than you, and can make much better points in with less text.

On the other hand, remember the saying: "Aim for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll end up among the stars."

I keep consoling myself that it's not just about having the most stat points in a single skill. There are projects which can only be accomplished by jacks-of-all-trades, or people who are knowledgeable about several domains. But it requires good self-knowledge. For example, if you have an analytical mind, like animals, have a sense of aesthetics, and patience, you can excel at Origami.
It's definitely not coordinated. It's an emergent phenomenon that was created by the engagement-maximizing feed and recommendation algorithms we're plugged into
> The current way of doing things

Is there a realistic alternative? Sure, universal basic income eventually, but that's not practical at the moment.
We use zoom ( https://zoom.us ) and works quite well. Beside that, I heard a lot of good things about Jitsi ( https://jitsi.org )
TC is not just WordPress blog. There is a lot of leg work that happens to contact VCs, journalists, founders, conduct interviews, verify details etc. I bet 80% of the work that happens at TC is not-engineering. The fact that Arrington carried this entirely on his shoulder while Keith just stayed on sidelines is enough for him not getting credited for TC. However Keith claims on his LinkedIn profile that he advised Arlington and helped him to be successful even initially he did not believed in TC.
Do you have first hand knowledge of what went down? Because if so I would suggest it is unfair to make these characterizations without making your biases known (as I did elsewhere). Especially as you've made at least one clear error (the "umbrella" was Archimedes Labs) which would be odd if you have sufficient knowledge to be able to say "this is exactly what happened here".
[Opinions expressed may not be those of the author]

As a lover of respectful exchanges on here, there's something slightly objectionable about your tone in this thread.
As a rather tiresome pedant, you should stop hassling and lecturing people over nothing.

Yes, the original construction "As a German" was kinda awkward, but everyone seems to know what they meant, so why go on about it. Not sure what your problem is. As an intruder to this thread, it's not really my business anyway. As a participant, it's more your domain. As a reader, half of what you say is pretty confusing to me. As an HN-ite, I'm sure you can do better in the future.
Cool ;)
Hi all!
I'm one of the new team that works on JSON Schema since draft-4.

I could spend time addressing each issue raised here, but that could take some time...

@niftich
We've (the new authorship) actually been working on JSON Schema since late 2014!

If you're using JSON Schema, or are interetested in finding out more, we DO now have a slack server; invite link at the bottom of json-schema.org. Come talk with us.

We're looking for companies who are using it in production to weigh in on new developments and releases. Our current release plan means we will have an RC with time for feedback. We want to hear your issues, comments, and suggestions!

One common problem at current is the level of support. Because draf-4 has been around for a LONG time now, it became the defacto standard, and has the most support. Developers come along and use an older library which only supports draft-4, but want to use new functionaltiy found in draft-7. Many implementations support draft-7, and some even implement new functionaltiy before it's finalised. SO remember to check which version of JSON Schema the library you're using supports.

HyperSchema already exsisted at that point, so we inheirted it. It focuses on providing specification for correct HTTP usage and HATEOAS driven APIs, where as other higher level API specification languages allow you to describe any type of API.

It looks like a good number of you have good questions, ideas, or issues. Thanks for all those replying supporting JSON Schema and those showing a balanced viewpoint.

Come chat with us!
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In such discussions "most" is implied. Interpreting it as "all" is just a rhetoric trick to weaken the opponent's position.
Sure thing! I am working on it right now. The plan is to allow markdown and HTML to start with, but I also want to add docx and PDF support.

I am also investigating automatic daily backups to Dropbox and perhaps even automatic export to Evernote!
I will work on one project for free
I'm an Android/Qt developer with average skills. I'm experienced in working on industrial and mission critical projects for about 7 years. I have experience in UI/UX design as well. I'm open for work for upto 2-3 hours a day, after my office hours the entire year (2018). I'm ready to do this for free, since I cannot accept any payment apart from my full-time employer. I will only work on ONE project. I'm ready for any type of online communications, email is preferred. I will only use toolchain I'm familiar with. I do it for fun and meet people from other parts of the world. I cannot guarantee any timely delivery.

Any takers? Any other thoughts or suggestions?
Advisor is not a founder. The best he could call himself is a "TechCrunch advisor" or "TechCrunch early investor".

There's a huge difference, especially when he's using that fake reputation to deceive naive people to invest in some scam ICOs.
We use the open source Jitsi Meet tool[1], hosted on our own infrastructure with no third party in-between.

Screen sharing is a bit unstable, but conferencing is rock-solid. It's connected to our phone system so people can call in and out [2].

[1]: https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet

[2]: https://github.com/jitsi/jigasi
This is impressive work, but I was particularly interested in his in-passing mention of running Linux apps on Mac. I could use that (EDA tools at best support Linux if even). Lo and behold, there's something Noah that proclaims to do this. Is there anything else? (I'm a heavy user of VMware Fusion, but that's pretty heavy weight).
Nearly 5 years ago, a few months after being rejected from YC for the first time, I came across your Show HN and started using Webflow to build a mockup of my product's sign-up page (I did not know how to code at that time).

Over the next 2.5 years, I reapplied to YC five more times. I interviewed twice in the second round. I eventually got rejected every time. From the ideation stage, to $1M in revenue, YC has an application of mine for every milestone in between (until I did not need to raise money anymore).

My company, Y Athletics (https://yathletics.com), is a profitable business with no investor funding and 7 figure revenues. We've delivered products to over 25,000 paying customers all around the world. We don't solve problems, but we create some amazing products that people want.

This post about Webflow made me nostalgic as it was during that time that I started to read HN religiously (and now I discovered that Vlad and I applied and were rejected in the same batch as well). My first landing page was made on Webflow. I learned how to code using Codeacademy. My first 100 users came from a comment I posted on an Ask HN thread (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6617551). Seeing others building their startups inspired me to continue building mine. My company would probably not exist if it wasn't for HN. Thanks for everything!
I think there is something to be said for what classes don't teach you. You can ace a test but have very little practically knowledge if you don't work with stuff outside of class. I honestly think that you learn 10-50x more in practical knowledge from the organizations that you can join in college than the classes themselves.
What happened to bioinformatics?
> ... much of my long hours were due to my inexperience rather than supernatural productivity.

It takes a fair bit of experience with long days to know that the feeling of doing work and doing 'stuff' pales in comparison with the productivity of doing that work well while rested and focused...

Overtime creates 'undertime', cleaning up tired mistakes takes longer than doing them, and when it comes to coding nothing is worse than wasting 15+ hours implementing something you didn't think clearly enough about to start with, and realizing it was all wasted/could have been done in 1.

> this dedicated early employee surely seemed like she worked 20+ hour days

I feel the discussion of this line is perhaps conflating "worked 20 hour days [on the rare occasion something crazy was happening]", vs "worked 20 hour days [from 0400 hours to midnight every day]". Just because someone worked some 20 hour days does not mean they worked 20 hours every day :)
Introduced me to CyberChef (https://github.com/gchq/CyberChef) which has since become the open source project I contribute to frequently.
Did you know about the story / history behind the building before visiting the area?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYu7xlnT8rA

You can find similar clips from Hillary and Schumer, just not from this decade.
No I had no idea, just kind of randomly came across it while walking around.
> the comments are often even more insightful than the actual posts.

Agree with that. I often just read the comments. The link is just a discussion topic.
Sadly, Microsoft used these dirty trick that Windows 3.1 would autofail if detect any OS that isn't MS-DOS.

That code, while present in the codebase, was deactivated in the release version of Windows 3.1, so it actually ran just fine on DR-DOS.
if you use Qt, why do you limit yourself to android? wouldn’t it be fairly simple to set up ios builds as well?

(i just recently evaluated, and rejected, qt for a project i’m about to start. i found it to be buggy and poorly organized. and $459 per month is just outrageous.)
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I have been a big supporter of script command, infact i never understood the drive for asciinema and others like it written in various languages.
I see asciinema as a dependency to be installed by users to record a session.
Counterproductive for what? Individual happiness? Yeah, maybe. But that's not the only possibility.

50/50 is the "goal", but what's the motivation? Let's assume that we're talking increase in people, i.e. you want more women in STEM/tech/whatever, not simply less men (for some reason this option is rarely mentioned. You could fire enough men to get to 50/50, mathematically that's equally valid). Say I wanted more qualified employees without paying more - I can't think of a better to achieve this.

Of course, I have no evidence for this and it's super paranoid, but it's just one example how the goal might still make sense.
Minus the brains, so no suffering. Hopefully also more energy efficient.
I'm here :) I'm very happy asciinema is useful to you!
`This book does not presume that you
once learned but have forgotten the material from the pre-requisites; it presumes that
you know that material and can go beyond it. The book also presumes a firm grasp
on linear algebra and multivariable calculus, and that you can read and write simple
functions in R. If you are lacking in any of these areas, now would be an excellent
time to leave.`

ouch.
> patriarchal/societal expectations .. main breadwinner

Let's be clear who expects this: women do.

Most women will stop dating a man if they discover he makes less than they do. When I was still in the Bay Area I was on match.com for a bit. >90% of the women's profiles stated they expected their match to make more than they do (even having this information in the form felt a bit weird for me).

And no, this is not because of the "pay gap", which is a myth, or because they can't. In fact, the unwillingness actually increases with income levels, so the women who could most afford it are least willing to date a guy who makes less than they do.
1) News of new and potentially disruptive products and ideas.

2) The opportunity to read to insightful comments rather than always being sucked into flame wars. It’s not always the case but it’s more pro-constructive feedback and commentary than reddit, forums etc...
That picture brings back memories. That room used to be the Edgeio office.
So nicely inspired by this thread /me is trying to create his first Atom package...
Any environment with finite action and state-spaces.
nice one

fire up the redis server--you'll see some ascii art there
The duties of John von Neumann's assistant (1993)
Yandex sells data center waste heat to district heating grid
I call myself a data professional or whatever, but looking at this table of contents I realise there is so much i can still learn!
Yeah, Zoom has been good for us. It's good quality, and you can still see other participants during a presentation.

On the free plan there's a one hour cap to meetings, which is ideal as nobody wants to be in a meeting longer than an hour.
Based on the comment below yours, it seems like a good way of lying to yourself. Not all situations call for what you are saying. Sometimes they are right and you are in the wrong, and you need to correct it. Not necessarily this situation, but many.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16411597

We're really good at justifying our actions. Really, really good. I'd imagine Keith is on the other side of that, and correct or not, has talked himself into believing he's the good guy. But one of them has to be wrong, so the advice that "your interpretation is not wrong" is often wrong.

Similar example: what Jobs did to Kottke in refusing to give him any stock, for valid reasons to Steve, certainly, doesn't mean Steve wasn't wrong. Would rather not say these things because it's not going to win friends, but you are encouraging destructive behavior yourself. There's no easy rule.
3 years ago I was reading HN, wondering what could be improved in my work.
I felt a little bit of burnout but nothing that extreme, yet I wasn't satisfied.

I remember that to me the solution was remote work.
I dreamed of it and coming from Italy it seemed like an impossible request.

I had this idea that even though our job might be good/great, our life isn't defined by our job. I still think this today.
Our life is what we do after our job.
Friends, family, travels.

In one comment a guy discussed the benefits he gained moving from the 9-5 job, to a part time job.
I thought about it for a couple of months and decided to give it a go with my boss.

It went well, and even though I'd love to have the flexibility of remotework right now I'm really happy about this choice.
To me nothing is comparable to being able to spend more time with the people you love.

Side effect of it: some other coworkers started evaluating part-time job as a possibility to increase their quality of life, which is amazing :)
This is exact same pattern that gets repeated everywhere: Winklevoss hires Zuckerberg to do some sort of campus meetup site. While working on this, Zuckerberg crystalizes related idea of profiles and messaging among students - but only shared among friends. Winklevoss does not participate in vision, engineering or anything else but claim the credit for Facebook anyway. I can understand that in early days it would be hard for Arrington to blantly expose Keith as he can do now. Keith had already threatened about litigation and Arrington had no money or time while managing fast growing company all by himself.
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Right, but Mozilla can't attract/keep great LGBTQ employees if the CEO believes that it is okay to actively oppress LGBTQ employees. By extension, this also extends to heterosexual employees who have LGBTQ friends and family members, or to any potential employees who believe in LGBTQ equality.

( And before anyone thinks that 'oppress' is too strong a word, the inability to marry caused tax and inheritance implications for LGBTQ individuals in California, some of which were unrecoverable. To this point, consider that people who died during Prop 8 will never get justice; will never get equal representation. )

I am sorry you feel like your views are unwelcome/oppressed, but religious groups in the United States have a very long and extremely well-documented history of doing real, lasting, absolutely life-altering harm to LGBTQ individuals. This harm caused to LGBTQ Americans isn't the same as feeling like your views are unwelcome at your place of work, and I hope you can at least see the difference.

Brendan Eich may sincerely hold his religious beliefs, but he didn't stop at simply believing: he gave money to further an utterly poisonous cause that brought real, and in some case unrecoverable, harm to tens of thousands of Californians.
Obligatory yosefk link https://yosefk.com/blog/10x-more-selective.html (2013)
> change in behavioral norms

You should have seen the "shall I tell him he has body odour?" ads that the soap manufacturers ran a few decades ago.

Big score, there's deodorant as a life necessity installed in the common mind.

Not a complaint, I just think that soap makers are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.