skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How does talking about it fix it?

Wouldn't behaving as if we are living in a world where there is no underrepresented group in tech be better? Where it is no surprise that a woman be interviewed and hired for a position? That a little girl building robots and taking apart electronics is just kind of the way things go? That encouraging all children to excel in tech is the norm? Where it is a little strange that a women be asked to speak about a social issue at a tech conference?

It seems that calling attention to bad actors all of the time is kind of like calling attention to school shooters -- suddenly, to the younger more impressionable generation, there is a new alternative to their behavior that they were previously unaware of.
Heaven forbid that the organizers should actually look into a potential speaker's background to see if she has past experience in the topic they want covered.
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I'd take a look at some of my writings for meta transactions and templates here: https://github.com/Storj/Metadisk/wiki

Bitcoin only supports up to 80 byte of data per transaction, our model uses 1 kb or more, which makes unusable for our current platform. We are not creating another cryptocurrency just for the sake of doing so. There are many technical reasons why we can't do this yet.

So we already have a long term plan to implement sidechains or treechains. Currently this is only concept/vaporware, so we are not waiting around until it happens.
The Windows 8 one is frighteningly similar to the Ubuntu logo.
Some of the software shown in the first minute: http://vimeo.com/66085662

Some pretty tools in there.
Data is not stored on the blockchain in our system. Simply "file pointers".
"It was also grounded in the believe that software development is best done by small groups of very good software engineers working in a networked environment."

Wow, what a quote. Now can we repeatedly beat that into management's head.
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There's been lots of douchebaggery going on in other language communities. That it hasn't exploded into a giant fiasco is something of a small miracle.
> after reading it i also started to feel that the conference organizers are arrogant chauvinist pigs because they reached to a woman in tech to talk about ... you'd not believe it ... women in tech

I looked through the article to see what you were referring to with the remark about "arrogant chauvinist pigs," but there was nothing like that. Her issue is that, as a woman in tech, she's doesn't believe she is a default ambassador for women in tech. The apparent implication in your statement that, as a woman, she should be speaking about women instead of technology is the very mindset she's responding to.
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Well, to get my point across further, it needs customers willing to pay for content in the ecosystem. Developers may be there but they won't sustain a presence if they can't make enough money to make it worth their while, so unless Mozilla is going to pay them for premium apps, they will need an audience that is willing to buy them.

This generally means that targeting the lowest end of the market isn't a great idea unless you are trying to make money off the sale of the device alone and not ongoing services like apps.
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Yea--some Harvard MBA making a name for themselves? I wish
I wasn't so cynical. I sincerely hope crypto currencies annihilate the credit card industry. I guess any publicity
is good publicity?
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Upload and Share tend to be the same thing for most users. You want this on that. I don't think it's coincidence that the share icon looks like an upload icon in iOS7.
I think that's old info, pretty sure Coinbase spreads around multiple exchanges now for their buys and sells. They haven't just used Bitstamp in quite a while.
Because load balancers in a diagram are generally a high availability pool of load balancers.
It's a good point, though. He is mainly speaking to the data rates for media involving 'guided' experiences. Interactive experiences would benefit much more linearly with the amount of data able to be stored (google maps on your phone analogy).
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Tokamaks are fine, even great, for "research". It is the "development" where they are non-starters. For the last 20+ years it has been pretty obvious that inertial confinement is a way to go to build a working fusion device.

For fusion development where are 2 main factors in play:

1. in the second half of 199x it was decided that fusion plant produced electricity can't be cheaper than the current then $0.04/kwh of coal electricity, thus focus on "research" (especially to support modelling instead of real testing of conventional nukes) not on "development" as energy source

2. non-proliferation. A working inertial confinement device may probably be miniaturized to the military acceptable size of say a large truck/container. Without all the fuss of gigantic multi-year enrichment programs of fissile materials.

Laser driven is an inertial confinement which is well resistable to miniaturization/weaponization due to its complexity and low efficiency [though even that may start to change slowly with semiconductor lasers]. That makes it fine for "research", and there is no need for "development" due to the above mentioned factor #1.

Even 15 years ago it was obvious that somebody need to put DT target inside the wire spool of the Sandia Z-machine discharge target. They probably even did, un-publicly, put it there back then :) They upgraded the machine since then, slowly, and sometimes later (~2010) publicly announced shooting into DT target. Yet it is pretty obvious that they are not in a rush, very very not in a rush... The Z machine schema has much higher efficiency and much lower level tech (i.e. higher theoretical proliferation potential) than femto-lasers.

There is even slower movement, pretty much no movement at all in areas of DPF or fusor-descendant schemas (except a bit for polywell) - the schemas which were beating Tokamaks since the dawn of times, and one can only speculate how things would be if they got even small share of funding that Tokamaks got...
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I like the Y-shaped old Android logo, but for some reason I feel that it looks upside-down. Could be one dot on top, with 2-3 arrows pointing downwards.

Fascinating article!
not even 1 node transactions,
while postgres-xl has inter-node transactions

and sharding is currenty only-primary-key
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I didn't actually know what the previous speaker was scheduled to speak on. I never thought to ask. I recently spoke in Paris as a pinch-hitter for someone who couldn't make it last minute, and they asked me what I could speak about. That's pretty common, in my experience. Last-minute replacements don't always have to speak on the same topic, as long as it's a valid topic for the conference itself.

In retrospect, women in tech may well have been the original topic, but I never thought to ask, since I have never presented about women in tech before, so why would I be selected as a replacement if it was?
> One thing you learn using java is not moving arrays around.

And then all of a sudden you have an order of magnitude more memory usage because you have a bunch of Characters as opposed to a bunch of chars.
Recursive FOIA requests. Very neat :) Breadth first or depth first is going to be their main problem. The plus for the government is that if they lose a document they now have an off-site backup. Presumably the CIA is not playing ball because they have their own backups.

What a fantastic project.
You save things to persistent storage because you want the copy. In the large majority of cases the format on the filesystem is different from the format in memory because the file format is meant to be more readable by humans or by machines with a different endianness or pointer size etc., whereas data in memory is binary and platform-specific to optimize for fast access by the local machine. The benefit of that distinction doesn't go away just because you make the persistent storage faster.
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You're right. After all, what we're seeing here is just a small theme revamp.
> purpose-built and general-purpose tooling and environments

That seemed to me to be a big unresolved tension in his comparison between command centers and physical workshops. Command centers still just have lots of general use multi-purpose workstations. TV stations do much better on this point, interestingly.

While they all allow for seeing, I wonder what kinds of improvements we could have with purpose-built HID.
I don't believe they were arrogant chauvinist pigs. I believe that they wanted to make sure this important issue was covered in their conference, which is their right and not a bad thing, overall. I did find it weird that my offer for a talk about diversity in tech wouldn't work for those purposes.
git is not reliable in the face of power failures. I believe this is due to insufficient care taken in writing to reflogs and packs when receiving. (Reflogs are appended to, for example, while objects are first written to, fsync'ed, then renamed into place, so object writing is incrementally atomic, while everything else... not so much.)

Fossil uses SQLite3, but it doesn't do what I want -- only git gives me the power of the index, rebase, and light-weight branches. (OK, Mercurial has those too, but it's too late and it sucks. Sorry.)

Fossil does get several important things from using SQLite3: SQL for history (do NOT underestimate this), extensibility (one file format, trivially extensible schema), well-tested ACID semantics support. Oh, one more thing: using SQLite3 minimizes fsyncs per-transaction. There's probably more benefits, actually.

And ZFS? Well, ZFS snapshots give you ACID. If you have a persistent ZIL then fsync() gives you barriers (nice!). But a) snapshots are slow by comparison to SQLite3 COMMITs, and b) you don't get the benefit of SQL.

Oh: and not everyone can haz ZFS, but everyone can haz git.

Everyone also can has SQLite3.

My proposal: backend git's I/O abstraction layer (which is pretty nice) with SQLite3. And if you have ZFS, then always take a snapshot in a post-receive hook; destroy older snapshots later in a cronjob.

(As for zfs destroy, you really want the async zfs destroy feature, which IIRC not every implementation has!)
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Good icon, other than it looks like an axe at smaller sizes.
It would be interesting to ask people if they recognise what the "Milkshake-icon" represents.. I don't think "A drink with two straws" would've been my first guess.
I'd love to play with a Lisp Machine. I live in London, UK, so sadly I can't see any way of using one (either a physical device or a VM). There are pirate copies, but I don't want to go that route.

What lisp machine articles often miss is contrast to other related projects.

Complete introspectable systems: How does the experience compare with using Pharo Smalltalk today? Sure, it doesn't provide a kernel, but it's a pretty complete* system that's very reflective and open to modification.

Running a lisp userland: There are Common Lisp replacements for Emacs, CL window managers, and one or two Lisp Machine style GUI libraries (CLIM). However, most Lispers seem to be happy using other WMs and Emacs. Do the CL applications miss something that the Lisp Machine environment provided, or were the alternatives more compelling somehow?

Other Lisp Machines: The MIT CADR is open source and available online[1]. Lisp Machine articles seem to focus on Symbolics software, what is that the CADR lacks? rms allegedly reimplemented many Symbolics features on MIT Lisp machines.

I'm often struck by how many Lisp Machine features have been implemented on other systems (e.g. CLIM, versioned file systems) yet haven't gained many users. There must be stories here.

1: http://www.unlambda.com/cadr/

*: Of the developers I've met, Emacs hackers seem to live in Emacs more than Smalltalkers in their image. For example, there are multiple Emacs twitter packages, but I've not seen any applications (only libraries) for tweeting from inside a Smalltalk image. I'm not sure what this says about the respective environments.
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The OP also should have included latexmk in the list, which is a build system that runs latex and auxiliary programs such as bibtex sufficiently many times to build a document with correct cross references. It can be configured to rebuild a document whenever any source file changes and refresh a viewer such as evince or xpdf, so you only have to save the .tex file in your editor to see the updated typeset version. I've used LaTeX for years and only discovered latexmk recently, but it has made the workflow much more pleasant.

I've always wished it were easier to define new environments with arbitrary syntax that gets passed to external programs for conversion to LaTeX code while LaTeX is running. A package called dot2texi has that ability for dot code snippets (i.e., AT&T graph visualization tools, dot etc.), and the dot2texi source code shows how to do it in general.

I agree with the comments that Tikz is an amazing package, and I didn't realize until recently that it includes many state of the art graph layout algorithms that are as good or better than dot, with highly customizable features such as allowing the user to specify absolute positions of some of the nodes and letting the algorithm place the rest. It seems the whole section of the Tikz manual pertaining to automated graph drawing is omitted if it's built on a system that doesn't have LuaTeX installed, which is how I must have missed it.
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My startup does exactly this and we just released!

https://www.dwellaware.com/
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> The current limitations on divisibility are easy to change in the future.

Not true.

> 21 million is arbitrary and meaningless.

Also not true.

Changing either of those things requires a hard fork of the network and a majority consensus among the miners globally which is in no way "easy to do".
>I think the right choice is to let your presenter present what they are experts in. Especially since she offered to speak on a similar, but less bounded, topic!

is she an expert or have any equivalent experience to talk about say "African-Americans (or latino) in tech" or any other facet of diversity which she has no direct relation to? Is she an expert on diversity? If yes, than what makes her that?
It sounds like HP is pitching it as memory.
You're assuming a world where the fair arrangement is the only stable equilibrium. Remove overt discrimination, and the world moves to that equilibrium.

Empirical evidence shows that this is not the case. If you look at the dynamics of gender representation in law and medicine, two professions where female representation has gone from 5-10% to 50% over the last 50 years, you can see it behaves like a beam in plastic deformation. You move them to one point through discrimination, and it stays there when the force is removed. You move it to another point through affirmative action, and it stays there when the force is removed.
Interesting. I frequently think back to his talks and use it as a framework to guide my approach especially when debugging. I think about what I can see, and what I can't, and try to address what I can't see. This process has broken through many bugs that seem challenging until they are visible.
1. Browsers are often preinstalled for the user (especially but not only, on mobile Oses). Also, many browsers auto-update, so the new features will be automatically available eventually, without the user installing anything

2. The point is that while browsers are binary, they can then run a huge set of portable apps. As opposed to all those apps not being portable.

3. Everything Mozilla does is open source, and not just Mozilla but also most browsers today are open source - Chromium and WebKit in particular. This is a very open space.
The same way it would apply, in general, to people assaulting other people physically at a tech conference. It generally wouldn't.

It would assume that, in general, people are going to do the right thing and those that don't will bear the brunt of society's punishment for that behavior if they show they are willing to violate the enlightened norm -- be it criminal prosecution or negative social consequences or all of the above. And that bad behavior will be drawn in that much more stark relief because everyone will be acting under the assumption that everyone else will do the right thing.
Whitepaper briefly goes over this. The user or application software get to decide their replication number N. The network is self healing, as in if a portion of a file misses a heartbeat(check in) the network will recover it from the other peices.

To affect a file large amount of nodes would have to go down simultaneously. Again the user has control over this
N = 1 - Data failure
N = 3 - Good for just average cases. Probably still Sybil attacks possible if the have 20-30% of the network.
N = 100 - Are you expecting tactical nuclear strikes or acts of God?

Cool thing is if you increase redundancy to a large number Storj starts to act like a CDN or torrent network. But thats outside the scope of your question.
I use GitHub's gollum [1] git-based markdown-supporting Wiki for pretty much this. It's easy to add a basic username / password protection. I run it on a Digital Ocean instance that had some capacity left over and have a cronjob push to a private bitbucket repo every 30 minutes for backup. I don't have to create notebooks and can use GitHub-flavored markdown (or other any syntax gollum supports).

That said, I like basic idea of extending magpie with a PDF scraper and email. Maybe it would spare some energy to fork gollum and add extension to it to make it more Evernote-like?

[1]: https://github.com/gollum/gollum
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Problem is some people won't stop talking about "fixing it", which gets really frustrating to those of us who have already "fixed it" and moved on. There really does come a point where incessant yelling about societal problems becomes a problem and the continuing attempt to "fix" backfires.
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Have you had any problems with damage to the vehicle? When picking up drunks, my concern would be that they vomit in your car.
It seems like your core point is that it is wrong for a conference organizer to seek out people to speak on a particular topic.

I disagree. This strikes me as exactly the kind of thing organizers should be thinking about.
I didnt mean to imply they are restricted to Bitstamp.
I'd really like reflogs and branches to themselves be objects.

Only packs (maybe) and tags (also maybe) should not be objects.

If reflogs were objects then... they could be pushed and pulled, which would be really nice indeed.

If branches were objects then they could record rebase history. I would really like to be able to capture rebase history: what a branch's HEAD was before and after a rebase, as well as the picks/squashes/edits/rewords/drops done in an interactive rebase, and even the merge pre-/post-base (--onto).
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It's actually a centuries old industry: taxis were already regulated in 1636[1]. I think the point is, though, not whether they can do it better (they are certainly a driver for innovation in the space), but how successful that particular company is going to be.

Given that in most cities you could pick up a phone and get a taxi for over a century, or hit some buttons on your mobile phone and order one for the last 20 years, this becomes a question regarding two aspects of Uber: deregulation and brokerage, which are Uber's two differentiating factors. The author claims that deregulation has been tried numerous times -- and failed pretty much everywhere (although, maybe this time it's different) -- and that brokerage of a commodity is not too profitable[2].

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxicabs_of_the_United_Kingdom#...

[2]: http://www.quora.com/Uber-1/How-big-of-a-deal-is-Uber/answer...
> This type of technology is so intertwined in our daily lives that avoiding it isn't a realistic option.

That seems like somewhat of an apathetic attitude to have. Try living without internet for a week, or even a day. It isn't so bad.
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I really don't understand this whole discussion about redesigning operating systems for this. Just because you have a machine that doesn't lose memory state on power failure doesn't mean you can't reboot it.
The same way that talking about every problem helps you to fix it. Is there something unique about racism and sexism that solves itself if you ignore it?

>calling attention to bad actors all of the time is kind of like calling attention to school shooters

That talking about sexists makes sexists celebrities, and other people will want to become sexists so people will finally listen to them, too?
I really appreciate these guys following through with this. I've benefited from the information they have set free. That we have to pull it kicking and screaming out of the bureaucracies is sad.
I wouldn't either. It will be the government, just as it was last time. Here ya go:

http://www.politico.com/story/2014/06/student-loan-repayment...

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I keep vomit bags and a hawkeye over my passengers for that situation. Two vomiters have vomited out of my car; one has vomited in my car, but i succesfully intercepted that one. On monday, I got sick in my own car (I think food poisoning) and managed to vomit into a bag I had handy, instead of all over my own car, so there have been some residual benefits.
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Fair enough, but affirmative action is a proactive behavior. How much do those points of equilibrium get moved by mere discussion? I think we've all heard the discussion and decided diversity is a Very Good Thing. What I am arguing for is just getting on with it.