skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
the SJW thing is in the most classic sense a meme. it's spread into tech and it's really disappointing. i don't really get it. the only explanation I have is that it offers people the feeling that they are somehow smarter than the rest of the sheep for realizing the effects of "the patriarchy" and "privilege". They have a more enlightened perspective and one which has easy to use go-to rhetorical defenses when called into question. These views also have the attribute of making the person feel like they are by definition always on the morally right side of any argument, since they are de facto always supportive of the victim. (Since they define the victim.)

The problem is that these things are set up to be unfalsifiable, and claiming that perhaps situation A or B was not in fact influenced by some hidden, systemic, nefarious thing like the patriarchy sets you up to be labeled at best ignorant and at worst sexist/racist/intolerant/etc. Simple explanations for cause and effect events in society are by definition suspect, if they cannot be tied to some larger scale societal struggle and narrative. It's basically a intellectual framework that has built up immunity from criticism via built-in argumentative tricks, similar to various forms of pseudo-science.

This is not to say there aren't plenty of places where discrimination happens and needs to be confronted. But it is not always the answer, and it is certainly not always the dominant factor in our day to day lives. Folks like the one you posted above seem to see everything in life through this lens, and it colors their opinions on everything, from the important to the mundane.
As Hamish McKenzie wrote in his piece about Elon Musk battling the media: (http://pandodaily.com/2013/11/13/why-elon-musk-is-right-to-f...)

<quote>"There is no established rubric for peer review in the media; adherence to truth is largely a matter of self-regulation. Instead of peer review, in which experts check the work of other experts, media has editors and fact-checkers. Often, those people are not experts in the matters their institutions are covering. Worse, sometimes they are novices on subjects ranging from climate science to jet propulsion to even basic statistics.

But they still get to control the headlines on those stories. They still serve as the major conduit through which the public is informed about what are often intrinsically complex but extremely important matters. And even with strong editing standards in place, it is inevitable that some of the reporting for which they are responsible will lack crucial nuance or just be plain wrong."</quote>

I don't get the sense that the reporter was trying to mislead, but she was doing what reporters always do; twist what was happening into a narrative that they had concluded existed before they began researching and writing the piece. Something contradicts what you have to say? Discard it, and search for something that fits your story. Just like when you would write an essay in college; you're making a claim, and backing it up.

The same is true of events. Creating a story by asking some people questions and trying to bind their responses into a single narrative with one story that makes sense is often-times impossible. Not because the reporter is doing a bad job, but because their task is impossible. The war in Syria is often shown as two warring factions, when in reality there are dozens of groups who play off each other and fight against each other at different times. Even the armies themselves are trying to piece together who is fighting for and against whom today; to expect a reporter to do so is absurd. But that’s exactly what we do.

How, then, can we have any hope of gaining a definitive understanding in the world, if even people paid to do so full-time have difficulty grasping it? Maybe there isn’t any. Life isn’t simple, people aren’t just good or evil, and situations are never binary. Maybe we’re not ever supposed to look at what’s happening in the world and say, “I understand now; it’s simple.” Because it’s not. If we think that we’re probably missing a lot of pieces of the story.
It's been running for 7 months without a crash and without leaking memory, serving several million requests/day.

Sounds cool. What kind of server are you running this on?
That was really fun to scroll through!
What languages are you referring to than? Perl and PHP are really the only others that are sort of in the same class as Ruby and Python.
This will require you to weigh the risks. While I like the approach, you'll have to trust your gut. You're gut is going to have to say that MGMT will believe the cost of replacing Jerry < the cost of replacing you irregardless of most personal relationships. Especially if the loss of Jerry could negatively impact revenue more then the loss of you as an employee. There's also a moral factor if you're gone and above is cold hearted logic.
Time and time again, studies have shown that people attribute more positive attributes like kindness and honesty to people who are more physically attractive, irrelevant of sex. This holds even when people are explicitly warned beforehand and told to keep their bias in check.
Why We Still Need Web-safe Fonts
Are you certain about that? Because I sure am not.
Breakthrough Israeli Device Will Circumcise 700,000 Rwandans
None of his achievements as an entrepreneur give him insights into philosophy, political economy or anything else he writes on. I granted him "entrepreneur" status. He can have "compu-sci" intellectual too.

You can see my comment here on his pseud-osity: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6988150 to save repeating myself.
Would you mind naming some; I'm curious now. I don't follow pg very closely.
from a female founder:

PG picks the best.

it's time we step up to plate ladies. if we want to compete toe to toe with the gents then we have to be better than the ones we are up against. period. if you're better, trust me, he will pick you regardless of your gender.

it might even be in your favor if you just happen to be a woman on top of being better :)
Open Source forever, baby!
There are several states without income taxes and/or sales taxes as well (NV, OR, TX, FL). Depending upon your income stream/sources and lifestyle this is hugely important. Once you retire...for example...you may spend more than you earn...or you may buy a car (that last 10 years). For other people, its real-estate (maintenance) taxes that are a function of asset-bases (often inflated, and not income). {etc}
Amazing Thanks!!!
You appear to be requesting science in order to justify doing science. I am here to tell you that is silly.
> but the user must necessarily trust the server at least with the data they intend to encrypt

not true. if i distribute an app that encrypts user data (based on a username/password-derived key), stores it on a server, and lets them access it anywhere (from the app), the server can be stupid as a bag of rocks and know nothing about the data, and more importantly, require absolutely no trust from the client because the client encrypts everything via code it owns. at this point, the user only needs to trust the app and the platform it runs on, because the server has absolutely nothing to do with the encryption.
You are not in high school anymore, you don't need to accept the bullying of this guy. Tell him to act like adult, and tell your boss that he needs to follow proper HR practices and control this guy. Your sanity and peace of mind depends on a healthy work environment. If your boss can't control this guy tell him that you will seek legal advice on how to deal with this situation.

You boss will hear this and make sure things get under control. the last thing he needs is a lawsuit
Warning Rant mode:

Wow, that is an insanely monetized blog. Does anyone else see random works linking to search ads and if you select something you get a search query ad?

The content is also pretty muddy. In my opinion Microsoft's campaign isn't childish, it's just lame. Does Google do all these things? Of course they do, it makes them billions of dollars a quarter. Does it bother Microsoft that they can't seem to get away with the same kinds of things? Of course it does, their search ads monetize at 1/3 to 1/5th the rate that Google's do. Would they like someone other than folks who understand how search works to "get" this ? Sure.

But that is the same battle animal rights people have trying to convince egg eaters that the eggs came out of tortured chickens. At one level it may be true, and at a much larger level it may be totally irrelevant to the consumer.

So where does that put the OP who is trying exploit Microsoft's strategy to pick up some AdSense coin out of Google? Does he care? Really? His subtext is "Hey we're all gettin' rich here off the Goog, Microsoft. Go whine somewhere else." Heck Google doesn't particularly care about their search results at the level where this is being argued, they only care that they are tasty enough to lure enough eyeballs to feed their customers, the advertisers. If they get less tasty they will fix them, if someone gets mouthy about whether or not their content should be considered tasty they will fix them too.

There is web search technology which is one thing, and there is web search the business which is a completely different thing. Confusing them will make it hard to reason coherently about them.
> Its not an unrealistic marginal rate for NYC or perhaps even parts of California.

The claim was that personal income tax "in the US" was about 50%.

That's very different than saying the truth which is that "maximum marginal income (including payroll) tax rates in the highest-tax US states are around 50%".

> you see entry level jobs that offer salaries already at or neat the top tax brackets

The top US federal marginal rate starts at $400,001 for a single filer; $450,001 for married filing jointly/qualified widow(er), $225,001 for married filing separately, and $425,001 for head of household.

I've never seen anything fairly described as entry-level offering a salary at or near that, even in expensive places like SF.
Well, at the end of the day he really is the only one who can change his behavior. I'm not saying I'll be mad if he doesn't, it was simply my way of saying "Don't give up on us because we're not all bitches."

I didn't feel that this warranted more or less blame on anyone's part. He seems like he might assume a woman is up tight based on his experiences -- I can't change how he feels about that. Unfortunately I also can't change the women that caused him to feel that way. All I can do is try my hardest to not be like the women he speaks of and ask him to reconsider his position.

I appreciate the nitpicking fwiw. I think you misinterpreted what I said, possibly due to the fact that I sometimes suck with words.
Your competitor is doing something else. Better advertising, better customer support, better prices, find out what is it that these customers like. Remember your customers are not only buying a service but a relationship with you.

Any links to your company and your competitor, so that we can compare you two
That is not my argument or thinking. I may, for example, want one component, but it has two types (or more) or error reporting that I want. I am now forced to decouple that into two components. But, it shouldn't be two components, otherwise I would have already made it two components. Furthermore, anything that should be 2 or more components is rather unlikely to also require exactly the same kind of split for error handling. I anticipate the result being a bunch of artificially split up components, each which knows way too much about other components (because they should have been one component).

It just sounds like a mess. Not the worst mess in the world, to be sure, but error handling just isn't the way that I want to be forced to architect my system. Imagine, for example, I declared that primitive types are important, and thus you have to create components that either work with int, or double (or char vs unicode, or whatever). For some project you might just split things up like that anyway, but it would be pretty unusual in most cases. Or, if that seems contrived, I say const correctness is important, and thus components must be const or not. Elaborate with any language feature you consider important...

tl;dr: Yes, think long and hard about error handling. But no, I don't necessarily want/need/like organizing code into components based on that need. Error handling is only one of many competing pressures on how I might organize code.
I mean, I think the point of all security is to reduce the total numbers of deaths from terrorist attacks overall, not just per means of transportation.

That said, the fact of the matter is that the article doesn't back up its claim that airport security doesn't reduce terrorist casualties overall. Instead it states some bizarre equivalence between the decline in the number of hijackings (-6.9) and the increase in the number of instances of other kinds of terrorism (+6.8). But clearly other forms of terrorism do not cause nearly as much death as plane hijackings do, which for each one numbers in the hundreds, so we could be talking about an integer factor decrease in the number of deaths from terrorist attacks - 4x, 5x, 6x - by merely replacing them with other, less destructive terrorism. After all, the relative destructiveness of a plane hijacking is WHY terrorists do it at all. Suddenly airport security seems to look a lot more effective and a lot more worth it. So obviously they didn't mention casualties at all, since it would undermine the point they are trying to make.

Everytime someone complains about security at the airport - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3dYS7PcAG4

People are enjoying an incredible privilege being able to fly in the air.
Bitcoin - not created in 2013 but really came out for the non-techs this year. It's in my own opinion a glimpse at the future of money.
If PG spent his time addressing each injustice in the world individually, he would not have enough time for anything else in his life. He has however kindly provided the world with essays on honest discourse, and provided us with a platform that we can use to discuss various injustices in our industry.

PG 'throwing in' during "Donglegate" would not have done anything to improve the situation.
Most games don't support v6 anyway, so it's not like that would help.
> Would you name some other ways to get rich with a reliability approaching that of starting a VC-funded startup?

Yes, just invest in a mutual fund. Overall VC returns are in line with the broader market at best, and are often worse. (Source: http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2013/02/venture-capital-returns.html)
What kind of hacker refuses to test contentious hypotheses by gathering more data?
And that's why Win/Google store are full of crap.

Come on, we all started a piece of website/soft/app/gamemaker/whatever trending techno atm when we were 14/15/16.

That's undoubtedly worth these 140+pts.
I found this Schneier post (https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2009/07/homomorphic_e...) from 3.5 years ago responding a seemingly identical IBM press release and explaining why it's an impractical solution.
Forming DHS was, at least notionally, about coordination. Moving airline security from private carriers to the federal government was about liability. Since it was a new internal security operation, it made sense to included it in the new internal security department. But since it wasn't a federal agency before, it wasn't really part of the coordination of existing federal agencies that motivated the creation of a new internal security department.
I fail to see how questioning the validity of the technique constitutes "goal-post movement". I requested citations and you supplied them, which I appreciate. I fail to see how said exchange requires that I respond "oh, hey, there sure are a lot of papers, you must be right!"

On the other hand, I must concede that I previously failed to look closely enough on first inspection at your third link. In my opinion, it does a great deal more to substantiate your statement than the IAT stuff does. I'd like to see similar studies with much higher n, but it's hard to argue with the analysis.
Phusion Passenger 4.0.30 released, fixes premature cookie expiration bug
If this got popular, I'm not sure how easy it would be to detect if someone broke your seal, replaced the screws/stickers as they were and resealed it with a clear topcoat of a similar gloss level.
Yeah, I was speaking entirely from a self employed perspective, although the semantics get tricky with incorporation. In the UK, though, you can do a similar thing where you incorporate, pay yourself under the level where you have to pay National Insurance (there's a free allowance), and then pay the remainder using dividends (which attract no NI), so you can theoretically reduce your exposure to these types of taxes to nil.
No, Microsoft never breaks anything. They deprecate relentlessly and push out new libs to replace old ones, but they never have the balls to actually fix anything. It's immensely frustrating that no lib ever reaches better than 80% good. It goes "1.0broken -> 1.1usable -> 2.0baroque -> 2.1deprecated -> Replacement lib 1.0broken".
Am I mistaken that this is related to ValleyWag's stance and not The Information?

EDIT: yes, I am clearly mistaken on a second glance. I hadn't actually reached the end of the article's updates (curse browsing on a phone and careless reading).
a breakthrough in useless tradition.
Airport security is a sieve anyway. Shortly after 9/11 I carried 10 inch knife through security. Forgot I had it on me. Oops..

In their defense: I tend to do well with these kinds of situations. Exuding a combination of "not criminal" and "don't mess with me" does wonders.
As I replied below, my argument is not that reasoning and controlling error handling is not important (I spent a long time in real-time, critical systems such as avionics). It is that components doesn't strike me as the most commodious way to express my decisions on error handling (I may be wrong, I haven't seen the code).
The absolute worst thing I've ever done for myself was to go to college. I had a 50% scholarship towards one of THE top electrical engineering schools in the country (not MIT, but you'd be in the right state if you were guessing), and I toughed it out for four years. Due to financial aid f&ckery, I made the choice to drop out with around half a year of credits to go to complete my BA. I had my own consulting business at the time, and I made a pretty decent run of it for about a year at which point I realized I was a MUCH better 'technology person' than 'business person'. I made the jump to full-time sysadmin for other companies at that time, and haven't looked back since. NONE of the skills I use today (either in my 'day job' as a nix sysadmin or 'real job' as a musician/bandleader) came from my college experience. I had over $100k worth of debt (slightly less now, almost 10years later) and no degree. If I had to do it all over again, I would've skipped college entirely, gone straight into the 'failed' consulting business, and taken the extra four years of earnings instead of the staggering amount of debt. I have never once felt limited due to my lack of degree. The fact that I don't have one is easily eclipsed by what I've achieved professionally, and companies have had no problem bringing me on at top dollar (according to the various sysadmin salary surveys I read) to do my thing.

I'm not saying my path is for everyone, and as always Your Mileage May Vary. However, if I had a time machine I'd go back and slap my younger self around until he decided to forgo college entirely :-) In my experience, it wasn't worth it - from the 'you NEEEEEED a degree to get a good job!' perspective AND the 'crushing amounts of debt' perspective.
I think it's pretty cool, How will you guys monetize? and are there any other use cases for it?
In Brazil, it used to be very difficult to obtain the permit to legally carry a gun. A couple years ago, there was a national referendum and now it is effectively impossible to legally carry a gun unless you are linked to a LEA, private security company or the judicial system.

Result? A 260% increase in murders after robbery[1] (link in Portuguese, sorry). I guess every idiot that voted for these stupid laws deserves to get shot.

The government excuse? Blame the victim. Like people are more likely to fight back unarmed.

[1] http://g1.globo.com/sao-paulo/noticia/2013/04/abc-tem-aument...
Every reporter tries to simplify complex events to make it more palatable to a wider audience (for that is what media seek, I guess). Most of the time though, this 'simplification' goes too far. If there was more honesty in reporting (i.e. the reporter can give the events and say that they don't really know why it is that way) it would be more honest but maybe we are so used to people 'explaining' stuff that we aren't ready for that kind of reporting yet.
Morality is important to bring into the equation. Although s/he didn't have to, as you say, I'm glad s/he did. One should always keep ethics as a fundamental layer in discussing law, especially about actions that result in forms of torture (e.g. prison).
This reminds me of the story of a former collegue of mine who worked as a consultant out of Oslo, Norway.
15/20 years ago the Oslo airport was still quite close to the city center, and for a while he had a client in Bergen, 400 km west.
He was living a 5 minute bike ride from the airport. He would go there, enter the plane, and get to the office in less than an hour. He would be home for dinner every day.
Environmental aspects aside I think this was what was deemed the future in the 60s...
Then the airport was moved 50 km north of Oslo, then came the terrorists and all the security regulations.
> Which I say about very, very few people.

Going by your personality as demonstrated here it seems you idolize intellect so when you "think he's more intelligent than" you you're going to put him on a pedastle. This may seem natural to you, but it comes across as fawning and misplaced.
"Milo carefully said nothing when Major —— de Coverley stepped into the mess hall with his fierce and austere dignity the day he returned and found his way blocked by a wall of officers waiting in line to sign loyalty oaths. At the far end of the food counter, a group of men who had arrived earlier were pledging allegiance to the flag, with trays of food balanced in one hand, in order to be allowed to take seats at the table. Already at the tables, a group that had arrived still earlier was singing “The Star-Spangled Banner” in order that they might use the salt and pepper and ketchup there. The hubub began to subside slowly as Major —— de Coverley paused in the doorway with a frown of puzzled disapproval, as though viewing something bizarre."
Haiku's Not Unix (HNU?) ;)
A little bit of self-doubt is expected from civilised people.

You're wrong in calling my thinking fallacious, because my point was merely to emphasise how reductionistic approaches never give a complete picture, which is why people from a STEM background often benefit from further training in psychology and social sciences. However, Theodores' reply ('A few things:...') does a better job than mine.

Nevertheless, Glazier's fallacy is tangential, so thank you for posting.
"Most people hate spending money on outside help"

Managers at large companies love hiring consultants. They look like they're being professional, they don't have to figure it out themselves, and they can shift responsibility onto the consultant. The last works if you hire a reputable consultant (ie. expensive) that no one would object to your having hired. So in fact, hiring a specifically expensive consultant would be desireable.