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I suspect it's because techies are better at Internet publicity than non-techies, so tech industry gets the most Internet-driven pressure, and Internet is taking about the world.

https://skift.com/2018/04/20/airlines-need-to-work-harder-to...

http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/transportation/218401-...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/shortcuts/2018/mar/06/ineq...

> Silicon Valley seems unique in its headline grabbing push in this regard, despite decades of failed experiments:
https://hbr.org/2016/07/why-diversity-programs-fail ...

Please read the article you linked. You'll learn a lot.
It talks a lot about how entrenched racism and sexism has resisted traditional diversity efforts, and recommends more-successful approaches for the future.

Example:

> Five years after a company implements a college recruitment program targeting female employees, the share of white women, black women, Hispanic women, and Asian-American women in its management rises by about 10%, on average. A program focused on minority recruitment increases the proportion of black male managers by 8% and black female managers by 9%.
Mountain View, too: https://www.mountainview.gov/depts/comdev/preservation/rents...
> what makes you think they did not?

Lots of personal experience with far-left Googlers and other far left-wing folks in and out of the tech industry. Like their right-wing equivalents, they have an agenda to act on and they're not about to respond rationally to evidence one way or another, as evidenced by the Google memo fiasco. Yes, I'm aware this is a huge generalization, but I'm strapped for time so I'll leave the nuanced, longform version for your imagination.

EDIT: Tried to change the wording to make this less likely to trigger a flame war.
The best person is defined as the one that has the best capability to contribute. None of the items you mentioned affects this factor (aside from the first, but making a decision based on that is illegal).
The truth is that info is not all that valuable to Facebook -- they make all their money off of eyeballs. The personal user data they have (status updates, photos, comments) aren't very useful to advertisers. Their most profitable ads are when companies leverage their own proprietary data on the facebook network by connecting their user base to facebook's via cookies and showing you those shoes you were shopping for directly in your facebook feed (without ever caring about your likes!).
Where are Matthew Garrett and Sarah Sharp's Linux kernel forks? Anyone else I forgot?

I mean at least when the NetBSD group ego-tripped and removed Theo, he had the decency to work on OpenBSD.

People who really want to contribute will find a way to, always. Unless something else is more important to them than contributing.
>I have been feeling disappointed that I haven't been able to use my computer science degree to it's full potential.

Sometimes I feel this, which is exactly why I have multiple side projects which I can flitter between as and when the wind takes me. Like any subject, I think you need to remind yourself why you chose it and get back to the core of what you enjoy. I've not yet personally experienced burn-out in my job (and hopefully won't), but I can see people who have their work-job as their only interaction with computers and begin to resent it.

Depending on how much excess time you have, you can really float the boat out there. Time is the most valuable asset you have (which is what companies exchange money for), find a split between work, a hobby and socializing.
Like everything that exists in the real world, it doesn't have to be perfect.
I would expect other cloud providers to offer the same or more but include ads or I would have expected 10 subpar offerings but with a free price tag.

I'm would have expected more competition.
What about Qualtrics (profitable) MX (profitable) Omniture (IPO, sold for $1.8B), and if we're digging as far back as Fairchild Utah has Novell, Wordperfect, etc.

I left Utah to come to Silicon Valley, and definitely hate MLMs more than you, but to claim that Utah is only MLMs is just silly.
That's definitely false. You think when France or UK asks google for access to a terrorists' gmail account its treason?
I find the animations and numerous different interspersed formats (text, square card thingies, profiles, three boxes side by side, one box in the middle, etc.) very distracting from the content.
>NSA isn’t stealing data from _American_ companies and providing it to competitors

That's quite the qualification, since the NSA has been accused of industrial espionage against foreign companies, including German companies.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_espionage#Germany
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That is super creepy. What about people in the range of those notebooks that don't want to be spied on?
It doesn't have to be but I'm a little shocked no one is taking that end of the business.
Hm, the article asserts that Ledger doesn't have tags:

> Sub accounts vs. Tags
> But what if the expense is part of another category as well, like expenses for your vacation? Well, you'd be at a loss. There is no good way to model this in ledger-likes without getting really hacky.

But that's not true. Ledger has tags. You specify a tag with:

:tagname:

For instance:

6-5-2018 Gave food to Bart Simpson, while on vacation
Expenses:bart 1 orange ; :vacation:
Assets:food
Lets assume that we get to the point where one can 3d print pyrex glass (not other glasses - it has to be pyrex). This doesn't resolve the "this piece of glass broke, I need a replacement inline for this 5'x3' manifold."

There is also a very strong bit of "I don't know what the requirements are." A chemist will go to the glass blower and ask for something... they can describe what they're trying to do, but they've got no idea about what they need to actually accomplish it ("I'm trying to create bubbles in a fluid" or "I'm going to be putting a catalyst in an oxygen / hydrogen mixture to examine it while the reaction is taking place"). It is the glass blower that takes those requirements and makes the actual product.

Claiming that in 5 years one will be able to 3d print pyrex glass and glass blowers will go the way of the buggy whip makers is akin to saying that you see a renaissance of visual programming tools and in 5 years programmers won't be needed because you'll be able to have the application automatically generated.

I don't see it.
This is how partisan ideology warps your mind.
1. And you wouldn't? Clearly you never ran any for-profit business whatsoever.

2. Nobody forces you to read.
There's a disturbing trend that's similar to Microsoft's Shared Source [1] initiative from last decade, used by GitLab Enterprise [2] and Greensock [3]. The code is available for anyone to download, but is not under an Open Source license. They have the option of accusing their competitors of looking at their source code.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shared_source

[2] https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ee/

[3] https://github.com/greensock/GreenSock-JS
The only thing missing is the warning at the top that says not all features will work with your old version of Chrome.

How do I know? Because I'm still one of the last people on Win XP at work. FML.
Non sequitur. You claimed "Bezos [acquired the] WaPo to protect Amazon." The article you link to [1] comments on his light pre-transaction diligence. Warren Buffett, too, is known for high light DD and simple acquisition paperwork. For a well-known brand purchased to have "a political watchdog for the public's good," the diligence makes sense without resorting to harebrained conspiracy.

[1] http://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-ceo-jeff-bezos-bought-...
Lehi is much closer to Salt Lake City than San Francisco is to Palo Alto (or, for that matter, Cupertino is to Palo Alto). In fact, you can get from Lehi to Salt Lake City faster than you can get from San Jose to Palo Alto. If you're looking to subdivide regions by a 20 minute drive on the freeway and call one bad and the other good it's going to be a difficult argument to make.
It has been repeatedly shown that the Sufficiently Rich face virtually no limits, restrictions, penalties, etc.
Nobody "avoids" hiring women. Women just avoid applying.
To meet the definition of treason they would have to share it with an entity we are in open conflict with. It would be tough/impossible to prove that China meets the criteria. With all of the colluding with foreign governments going on lately there should probably be some law against providing information to a foreign intelligence agency. Maybe that falls in the category of "undeclared foreign agent".
I can't imagine what it's like to be in Linus' position. After all these years he still hasn't found Linux's own Junio Hamano to turn over maintainer-ship to.
Business insider is complete garbage and should never be referenced.
Expanding on what other people have said with some anecdotes:

Most developers who don't have operational experience of a ecommerce business will recommend some kind of open source cart. If they're in the WordPress community they'll recommend Woocommerce. If they're used to building web apps they'll recommend something built on top of their framework of choice.

Almost everyone who has experience working on a successful ecommerce business will tell you to use Shopify. It has all the basic tools you need to run a successful store. If your store is a failure on Shopify, then it would probably be a multitude worse on a custom built cart.

As stated in other comments, the actual cart is a cost center in a ecommerce business. There are stores using themes with minimal modifications doing millions in sales. On the contrary, you could have the most well built site and still have no sales.

If you want to put your technological skills to use, use it on things that generate traffic like content or marketing.
:) Is there a hosting service that supports it?

This is the other problem I ran into trying to figure out how to get Patreon set up - Github and Gitlab have pretty broad permissions.

It would be good to see people experiment with a wide variety of permissions surrounding issues, from access, to commenting, to creation, to upvoting. A lot of Open Source projects aren't even really looking for funding, but still want something in front of people who are just showing up to complain.

I don't know of a public issue tracker that supports that kind of granularity though (if you do, let me know), so the next best thing I could find is to make a private group on Gitlab for development branches and issue tracking, and then to mirror everything to a public repo for stable releases with issues disabled.

If anyone who works on Gitlab/Github is lurking around, it could potentially be a really cool differentiator to have those kinds of granular permissions.
Well, one would hope. Still, it's a phrase I'd never feel comfortable using, because the first reaction is a lizard-brain emotional response, even when my conscious thought process picks up the in-context meaning immediately afterward.

Honestly, it sounds like a cringeworthy Family Guy joke.
Nonsense. If you're trolling, try harder. If not, I don't believe it anyway.
Could you change the title to say "State of Washington"?
Perch Runway is good, it's a one time initial cost then nothing further. It's a full CMS website solution where the shop is one of the add-ons (shop.perchcms.com). It's all about full control, you make your site exactly how you like, and host it wherever you want. Look it up and read over the features to see if suits your needs. I built a store with Perch and it was extremely snappy and worked well.

It won't take a day to build, it will take longer, like anything worthwhile.

Don't use Shopify or boring solutions like that if you want full control. Get stuck in and make an original, responsive store!
Social Security Administration: Cost to exceed income for first time since 1982
> Because I'm still one of the last people on Win XP at work

Wow, if you are in the US you should file a complaint with OSHA: https://www.osha.gov/workers/file_complaint.html
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> depends on if the device supports 3.2+ compatibility mode which is optional.

For the systems I have in this house it’s not required, i.e. I’m getting the same OpenGL version that’s advertised by the GPU vendors.

> You need to use the method I mentioned to get real post-3.0 OpenGL.

Either I don’t, or the authors of that GLEW library https://www.opengl.org/sdk/libs/GLEW/ already did that. When running on modern GPUs, the code in my repository already uses real post-3.0 OpenGL just fine, including the shaders.

> ok, so? 4.5 isn't really outdated, either.

Right, but 3.1 (Intel Sandy Bridge) is. And 4.0 is outdated, too (Intel Ivy Bridge). Meanwhile, modern Direct3D works fine on these GPUs, 11.0 feature level 10.1, and native 11.0, respectively.
Haskell-zre is pretty cool! I think I'll have some fun playing with it with some of our demo IoT setups. We're purely in the backend data infrastructure business so I don't do deployments any longer, but we'll probably have some fun with it anyway :)
They don’t because of the first amendment. A person is allowed to influence the election as much as they can. There is no difference between HBO broadcasting Bill Maher into millions of home and Bill Maher paying for YouTube ads.

You can’t even differentiate between people and corporations. Because otherwise the government could tell the New York Times to stop writing articles against trump. After all they are a for profit corporation.

It’s a tough spot.
Better add some religious quotas too: 70% Christian, 25% Atheists / non-regligious, 2% Jewish, 1% Islam, 1% Buddhists, 1% Hindus
It absolutely does. E.g. you can't memcpy a uint64 to a double and expect well-defined behavior.

There is some hand-waving in the definition of memcpy so that copying compatible objects is well-defined.
Can you imagine asking Adolph Hitler or Stalin for the name for your child?

"It was an honour to meet President Xi [...]"

I threw up a little...
Yeah, I found that same point quite problematic. There are basically two possibilities:
1) the founder is able to get this plane off the ground
2) the founder is not able to

In case (1), running it by committee is going to mess it up. The nature of a startup is that it is not doing ordinary, well-tested things, so no committee is going to approve what they do. Only a founder (or two) can get things off the ground with a coherent vision.

In case (2), you are screwed whether the founder has absolute control or not. Just don't invest, whether you get control or not.

Now all this may be very different for a Fortune 500, twenty or thirty year old company with an already established business model and good cashflow, etc. But this is talking about new companies, which absolutely should be under control of the founder.

Even in the case of older companies, the example of Apple after they kicked out Steve Jobs, before they brought him back, ought to give one pause about not letting the founders have too much control.
When I hear open source maintainers talk about their woes, it tends to be that they are a single person and their are many people who try to contribute who think they are offering great things, but who are in fact just giving them shit that they must then maintain for the rest of their lives.

In a world in which there are only two people communicating with each other, you're definitely right that the point he is making can be made better. But consider that he just made his point to thousands upon thousands of potential contributors, because the message was shared. This directly addresses two of the things I hear open source maintainers complain about: it discourages the giving of shitty things and it moves away from the poorly scaling one on one communication.
If I'm thinking of a piece of code I wrote while I'm out and about, I'll just pull it up on my phone. I can't do that with sticky notes.

I'm looking for something digital.
I completely disagree. Placing a flat limit of $1000 per person per tax year, and only allowing actual people to contribute should not have any negative effects on free speech.
Nice job! Language-specific coloring is really nice!

I'll give it a try. I normally use a different Golang tool called sift as my grep replacement (which I love so far): https://github.com/svent/sift

Sift's goals seem to be mostly performance (it is super fast), but it would be nice to have some of these more sophisticated coloring features in there as well, as they are useful.
I knew this guy when I was a graduate student there in the 90s. I never went to him for anything elaborate, just some stuck ground glass joints or a box full of round bottom flasks with star cracks in them. The star cracks are bad news, they can implode when you pull vacuum on them. We all heard stories of major injuries that way, so we were careful to get them repaired when we found them.

Rick always had something amazing and elaborate under construction when I went and saw him. Definitely not the things that you could find in a chem glassware catalog.

Machinists are somewhat similar. But in academic settings there are many students and postdocs who need to make their own hardware, and there needs to be someone to train them and to manage the workshop.
I'm not the parent, but it's fairly straightforward to get data into the ledger format.

I have written a handful of Python scripts to convert CSV credit card statements (Chase, credit unions, etc) to ledger. Additionally, pdfquery can be used to extract data from PDF statements.
Ask HN: How would you prove you sent a payment on someone else's behalf?
Let's say that Alice wants to give Bob some money but she doesn't want Bob to know who it came from. Alice can only send money in the form of physical paper checks. Alice asks you to pay Bob for her and she writes you a check for the amount she wants you to give to Bob.

How could you prove to Alice that you did in fact send the requested amount to Bob? A legal proof would be acceptable (i.e. would a contract and/or receipt suffice?), although if it's logically and mathematically air-tight that would be best.
Well, it's also non-sensical. A CLI "interface" needs a lot of thought and work behind it, too, unless you want to end up loathed by your users as something like git is.
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I’m a fan of the “Generic type arguments in JSX elements” - ran into a case where I needed it a few months ago. They’ve always had a workaround, but this is more concise.
union and memcpy are known ways to do type-punning. Caveat to these is that they require at least one memory copy operation. Last I heard, clang and llvm's TBAA is still buggy.
Having lived in Utah and eaten at Cubby's, that's the one part of the story that shouldn't raise an eyebrow. If it's between Cubby's or Kneaders give me Cubby's all day.
I use notion.so and it's by far the best note taking app that I have ever used. No more botched copy-pastes with weird fonts or colours like with OneNote or Evernote. Notion.so forces a clean structure on all my notes and it works with markdown by default (you can also export markdown).

On rare occasions it might fail to get the photos from a copy paste'd article, but I can easily solve that with: fuckyeahmarkdown.com

There are a ton of other features that this web app (+desktop app as well) offers, but it would take a a long block of text to explain.

- Kanban boards
- Unlimited subfolders
- Bookmarks
- To do lists
- Spreadsheets
- Templates
- Etc

I'm not going back to OneNote or Evernote ever again. They were so clunky for me that I wouldn't even go back to read my notes, especially on the horrendous OneNote web app. Not to mention that the infinite space/scroll (unstructured) approach by OneNote was actually a big headache for me due to the fact that I was writing my sections of text all over the place.
I didn't say that. The "if it exists" I wrote came from "women may be biologically" from the parent. I'm disputing the statement that it's biological. The burden of proof is on whoever is making that claim.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_differences_in_education#H...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_differences_in_education#C...
Is this speed competitive with tools like the silver searcher (`ag`) or is the focus here on color?
Honestly reminds me a lot of the Sharktank episode where the guy with SEO experience was selling magnetic healing bracelets. He was making money, but all the sharks passed on his business because as you said it was all a scam.
I've been so excited for experimenting with EKS ever since the announcement but this offering looks very underwhelming.

With kops [0] I can spin up a production cluster on AWS quickly and have just as much functionality (if not more control) without paying Amazon ~$150/mo for the pleasure (per cluster!). It doesn't really seem to be "managed" either.

Maybe now's the time to really start to look at GCP/GKE. I've used them for some GitLab CI stuff in the past but never invested too much time into really seeing how the transition from AWS to GCP is.

[0]: https://github.com/kubernetes/kops
"Social Security’s total cost is projected to exceed its total income (including interest) in 2018 for the first time since 1982" (emphasis mine). Current title ("cost exceeds income for first time since 1982") is clickbait and wrong.
His earlier company PayPal was also pretty customer hostile locking up money for indeterminate amounts of time. They also played the "were not a bank even though we look a lot like one" card.

I think this is just how he operates.
Repos, no. But, no coincidence, I have open two relevant tabs right now:

"Software 2.0", Andrej Karpathy
https://medium.com/@karpathy/software-2-0-a64152b37c35

> It turns out that a large portion of real-world problems have the property that it is significantly easier to collect the data (or more generally, identify a desirable behavior) than to explicitly write the program.

"Deep Learning is Eating Software", Pete Warden
https://petewarden.com/2017/11/13/deep-learning-is-eating-so...

> The pattern is that there’s an existing software project doing data processing using explicit programming logic, and the team charged with maintaining it find they can replace it with a deep-learning-based solution.
Oh, it definitely could be considered as evidence that Github is a better platform for code hosting than gitea, gogs, etc. However I think that the difference is popularity is far more likely to be caused by network effects around Github as well as Github's comparative age.

There are also other factors impacting a users's decision to choose one hosting platform/software over another unrelated to the functionality of the software, such as code licensing and self hosting capability.

In summary, popularity certainly can be an indicator of whether or not a software or service is worth using, but it's not a direct measure of the quality or robustness or whatever other factors you may care about when making a decision.
> Swapping through unions is UB

Writing to union member and reading back as another member should be okay. But it does incur copy.
It also has the same amount of RAM. :)
Also see Lauri Apple's "Awesome Leading and Managing" https://github.com/LappleApple/awesome-leading-and-managing
I was thinking perhaps the poor sherpa tried to recover the coins: money can make people behave illogically, he knew where the coins were buried, he was some way up there, so it might seem less risky to turn back and descend for the last time compared to descending and then at a later date returning, especially if the coins might be gone already (publicity stunt => other teams and sherpas)