skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As I posted above quoting from Wikipedia:
"One view holds that racism is best understood as 'prejudice plus power' because without the support of political or economic power, prejudice would not be able to manifest as a pervasive cultural, institutional or social phenomenon." To scientifically address issues affecting people as a group and not as individuals, anti-racist people would see the benefit of acknowledging the relevance of power to the perpetuation of racism being institutionally enforced. To deny the power component of racism is to make racism an argument about individual behavior which will never progress beyond "he said she said" which is not how science is done. Science is not done at the individual level but at the group level.
It is something of a feedback loop.

I think my last comment may have implied a bit of disdain for the quality of talent in non-SV places. That isn't the case. I agree with you, I think, that the number and quality of talent outside of SV is sufficient to sustain almost any startup in theory. In practice, purely for artificial reasons, it doesn't hold.

There are two barriers to reaching the "critical mass" you note outside of the valley:

1. The "critical mass" in SV of "interesting," "good" (or whatever favorite positive adjective might apply) is just huge. Even the least interesting corporate-y jobs are strongly influenced by the culture here, and that is a big draw for talent from bottom to top. That's all I really meant, earlier: the density of "good" jobs here is very large.

2. SV is (over-?)run with people who--and this is another of my unpopular opinions around here--have huge egos. I mean spectacularly huge egos. I come from a background of academic research (very mathematical in nature). Yet I never saw such egos as I've seen in this industry. The barrier here is something of a self-imposed psychological one, I think: the fact is that the vast majority of startups don't need even a single person who has an advanced, in-depth, and broad understanding of mathematics, data structures, algorithms, or basically anything else in academic CS, but they seem to treat it as the minimum necessary element to hire. The armchair psychologist in me opines that the interview process in this industry is more about certain people trying to impress themselves or prop their own egos up instead of just accepting that working on some shopping cart, ad analytics platform, or generic-social-media-app-X just isn't that complicated (speaking academically/intellectually here). They don't want to think they're working on something that is academically trivial, and so they engage in employee selection processes that reinforce the view that everything they do is super intellectual and requires only the best minds from the CS world to succeed.
There's an entirely explained version here:

http://www.octohost.io/aws-install.html

I should link to it from the homepage - that will be added shortly.
Your are doing good job, helping patients to find cheap services, you are the first one to do it here in India. Thanks.
Playing with my Pet Tiger Cub
Thanks jl! Everyone I spoke to loved the event, particularly because:

1. The talks were awesome
2. It was ridiculously well-organised (and the food was superb)
3. There was a really good crowd there

I look forward to more YC events in London!
Thanks Kristjan!
I just got hit with this issue. There doesn't seem to be any information on DigiCert's site or Github's.

edit: For some reason, deleting the expired DigiCert certificate from Keychain (and restarting Chrome) allowed it to find a valid chain to the Github certificate. I would recommend doing this if you want to get to Github without turning off SSL.

edit2: (Or they just fixed it and I restarted Chrome.) Can anyone confirm that it works now (without deleting the Intermediate Cert)?
Thanks for the notes! I couldn't open the live stream.

About the notes, some of the advice feels great. But i just can't relate to it. I mean: Stripe - they weren't getting a lot traction, then Peter Thiel funded them. Homejoy - they were about to close, then Paul Graham gave them some money.

Then everything else sounds like "good advice if you can get a meeting with some of SV legends". Specially the Homejoy one sounds to want make you feel guilty if you quit. Well, if I am that close to running out of cash to pay my bills and in the edge of quiting, guess what, I can't get a meeting with a legendary VC to get his money and endorsement. I will just quit.
Yeah, that part of Paul's talk was amazing. He said most people thought Gmail was a mistake, so he explicitly set a goal to make 100 users really happy, and just went round asking them "What exactly can I make this product do to make you happy?" Then he'd just pick things off the list and do them.
I have been using Chef for a number of years.

I started this project with Ansible because I wanted to learn how to use it.

As I went along, I wanted to learn more about TDDing Chef cookbooks with Test Kitchen so I switched back to Chef.
Poetry for Scientists
The knife solo page should help with this:

http://www.octohost.io/knife-solo.html
This really baffles me. Does that mean it's impossible to refer to a person's religiosity in general without offending them if you don't provide the exact name of their faith? So the majority of religious people don't actually acknowledge their religiosity and the only way to talk to them about it is to outwardly treat every religion as if it is a huge special case?
GitHub SSL can't connect
Finally allowed back in - HackerNews locked me out because I was "Submitting too fast." Needed more karma.
Has the royal family been informed?
https://twitter.com/flavmartins/status/493102588410494976
I work at a major "traditional" software company. My project of the last 1.5 months will be open sourced. It solves a (very) domain-specific issue we have that our customers may encounter as well.
Ha. And many thanks to Tim G who's had a hectic couple of support days.
http://chronicle.nytlabs.com/?keyword=negro
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Such a wonderful mind and finely tuned level of metacognition. The arc of the voicing in this passage is beautiful. It saddens me that the world has caused people like him so much pain.
Agreed. Don't forget C-r too.
Do lots of searching before naming your projects, I suppose. Surely he could have used Rosemary.js, or Herb.js, or Bayleaf.js?
I guess it comes down to how far you're willing to push. If you do move to the Valley (as YC partners frequently advise you to), then you probably could get a meeting with Peter Thiel if you really tried. I mean if someone figuratively held a gun to your head and told you to, you probably could.

I agree with the general point, though - you need a certain amount of baseline opportunity to be able to do this stuff. That is a problem that needs fixing.
Well, not quite as a response since it is the same article, maybe more of a re-post. I was really surprised by the conclusion, and thought it was interesting enough to deserve wider distribution. Not many people will read the comments section of a day-old post. Of course antognini's comment sold it a lot better than the article's title, but that's the price of not editorializing in HN submission titles :-)
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What if you are wrong?

You seem to think it's important to believe there is a caste system, which is moving close to Abrahamic Religion territory - you have to believe because (sometimes irrational) faith becomes the very bedrock of your belief system.

You you don't believe, you are part of the problem, right?
Fairchild Semiconductor was a trillion-dollar startup in today's dollars
I'm always surprised at how often this tends to happen to many startups/companies
> I've found LLVM/Clang's better performance when compiling C++ code,

For C code mostly found that LLVM/Clang at compiles faster than GCC at O2 but while producing code which is considerably slower. Setting GCC to O1 usually ends up producing code which is competitive with LLVM/Clang in performance but compiles faster.

When talking about compile speed, it's easy to ignore runtime performance and let a compiler have an unfair advantage just from some difference in optimization to O level.
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bitbucket as well
It doesn't for me.
That's true, but it's very unclear to me whether it's more important than supporting the rare and fragile passion of the childhood reader.
Software failure is costly and impactful. Why not aspire to levels of completeness and rigor comparable to civil engineering?

As a software craftsman and a professional, I recognize the necessity to impose a practice on younger, less experienced programmers to guide them towards high quality work. Civil engineering is a good example for all coders to learn from.
I thought you might have been joking. Weird.
The nice thing about the C-{n,p,f,b,a,e} is they work on the bash shell command line by default. So learning them is actually really useful, even outside of emacs.
Changelogs are very nice. Debian packages always include one, and it's particularly useful when you want to find out what changed since the last install, especially if security is a concern.
one possible reason this doesn't work: A limit on the number of iterations for a password hash is the amount of latency the user is willing to accept, which is (approximately) constant regardless of whether those iterations are computed on the client or the server
Why Doesn’t Facebook Want to Brag About Its Billion-Dollar App Ad Business?
This is debatable.
The universe is not an observer of our existence IF the universe is not a simulation. If the universe happens to be a simulation than there is some external entity or rather the universe in itself, that is some kind of observer. As such, if he does fancy a stroll inside my particular life, I can suddenly become a graph of relationships and influences that have "special" meaning.
If the universe is not an observer, there is still the possibility that a certain miserable existence (think elementary particle) can affect a larger system (think Big Bang). Was the elementary particle special or not? Difficult to say.
You dumb fuck nigger. God talks. The NIST is proof but you're a retaRD-NIGGER.

i GO TO A GOVERNMENT RANDOM NUMBER SITE. wHAT DO YOU SUPPOSE A GOVERNMENT RANDOM NUMBER SITE GIVES US? yOUY DUMB-FUCK NIGGER.
Legislation on cell phone unlocking is a huge missed opportunity
there was also this game I forgot the name but the space ships were so detailed it was amazing when it was demoed on oculus rift.

this new version seems a huge step up from previous version, namely the resolution increase.

I so badly want this now as the low resolution is what has turned me off DK1.

On a side note, I wonder how difficult it will be to see a glove that you can wear and get tacticle feedback?
It seems to me, in many cases, hate for Malcolm X is usually centered around his view of militancy as a viable option and his connection to the Nation of Islam.

America was established through violent militancy, so I don't understand the first point. Many great conflicts have proven that as a viable solution.

The second point makes many people uncomfortable because of the NOI's vocal opinions of the white race as a whole. While the "white devil" philosophy can be supported with case studies of deplorable acts against blacks, such as slavery, Jim Crow laws, segregation, lynchings, to name a few, it was and is a gross exaggeration that is becoming less and less supportable. Malcolm X, later in life, experienced a different side of whites and race, that later led him to shun those negative beliefs.

I admire him for his zest for learning, and his courage to have a militant position in a time of great injustice. I was born in a much better America, and have still faced racism that made me feel worthless, defenseless, and angry -- but I still hesitate to even call out racism for fear of negative reprisal.

While I don't think you or any contemporary "non-racist" white person is responsible for those acts, denial of the past and its lingering effects, and hatred for those who fought to end it doesn't help. Without the fear of violent revolution, I question if we would have progressed as far as we have.
Their SSL chain includes an expired DigiCert certificate as well.
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No, i couldn't. Not until I had dozens and dozens of meetings with other entrepreneurs, then other infestors, create relationships, trust. I would need to spend all my current cash just to pay my expenses on the valley for the time to pull that out. And not working nearly enough to justify it.

I mean, these asvice "work really hard" sounds like bs to me. As a lot of people who fails don't work hard. As luck isn't necessary and people who work hard enough inevitably get lucky.
I work hard and smart as I can. But I still know the odds are against me. Stories about how all my toughest troubles were solved by a legendary VC trusting me isn't much you can learn from.
Yes. And it will probably be one of the most instructive exercises you can engage in with walking a mile in another person's shoes.
Well, the thing is that $60 million is definitely not a "seed" amount of money - it's a ton of money.

In the context of the real world, your way is quite an odd way to interpret the "requirement" -- no money taken, ever, until the very first money that is sold for a percentage is raised at a valuation of $1 billion. Why? Why not let the first valuation be lower?

Under a more reasonable interpretation, i.e. totally bootstrapped, and eventually reaches $1 billion, the stated company meets the criteria. It's worth triple that now, and $60 million as a first raise eight years in is proof positive that it's a "totally bootstrapped business".

I can see where you're coming form, if the question is interepreted as "can I become a billionaire without selling any equity, by completely owning a billion-dollar totally bootstrapped business", but then it isn't nearly as interesting.
Well, I did mistook you for the GP :-)
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I can't take seriously someone who doesn't capitalize letters appropriately.
Aquaemacs is a emacs with some very mac-centric key bindings. It drives purists nuts but I kinda think it works really well.
Do you have examples of recent "mainstream" right-wing rallies that call for racial violence? That sounds absurd. I'd like to know more about it.
This surprised me; even at the height of the phrase "war on terror", it was still matched by "cold war", which was going down, then bounced up: http://chronicle.nytlabs.com/?keyword=cold%20war.war%20on%20...

Also, a nice way of visualizing just how far back this data reaches: http://chronicle.nytlabs.com/?keyword=reconstruction
I'm not tomjen3 or even that up on Malcolm X but note from Wikipedia that when that when with the Nation of Islam he taught that "white people are 'devils'
that blacks are superior to whites, and
that the demise of the white race is imminent."
and that he split with the Nation of Islam over saying the Kennedy assassination was 'chickens coming home to roost' while they sent condolences to the family. All seems a bit iffy to me.
I just upgraded the Cert from DigiCert Website. It's workable for 2038 now. Enough time. Who knows Github exist by that time or not.
Whoa - "can" scores 100% in only one year.
I work with the Certificate Provider DigiCert and confirm that the expired intermediate is a deprecated certificate no longer used in installs. Some sites still have it installed on their server or users might have it installed on their local machine.

If you are on Chrome, follow @huntaub's suggestion and remove the expired certificate from keychain and restart.

We've been notifying customers of the expiration and have Technical Support in the office 24 hours to help the sites who need help updating the certificate.

We're also reaching out to the sites we see having issues online.
Looks like digicert itself screwed up - getting an invalid certificate error on digicert.com. Their twitter feed says they are in contact with GitHub, DigitalOcean, Namecheap, Stripe, Pingdom, and so on. This was a big error, and even they made the mistake on their own root domain.
The flaw in this method is that it assumes there is only one kind of developer: the lone architect, who builds fine tents out of whatever is lying on the ground and then departs.

What it won't get you is breadth of experience, operational background, full-stack thinking, or people who can look at somebody else's work and say "here are the ways in which that is going to blow up in your face, two years from now". (Anybody care to add to this list?)

If all you ever do is bootstrap new projects from nothing then maybe that's the sort of people you want to hire, but it's probably not enough to build a sustainable product.
This article mentions that asymmetric encryption is slow, but I think the more important reason you can't use RSA directly is that it can only encrypt a small message, smaller then the size of the key.

I don't know if these same considerations apply to elliptic curve asymmetric encryption.
I thought someone was after my private repositories
Unmaintainable code : Java Glossary
This kind of argument never seemed very convincing to me. It's the same you see with any kind of fuzzy data. Like what is a "species", when exactly do two groups of animals become different "species"? There's no perfect answer, and attempts at making strict biological definitions often run contrary to popular opinion. Similar to "Is Pluto a planet?", "Is a tomato a fruit?", "Is this blueish-green or greenish-blue?", etc.

The answer isn't to just completely discard the concepts of races, species, planets, fruits, colors, and many other things. It's to understand that all of those things are real scientific concepts, but their precise definitions depend on the context of use.
If you call a person a racist, you're saying 1) that he has certain views about race, and you may also be saying 2) that he takes certain actions in line with those views. Saying someone can't be racist without power is saying "if criteria for definition 2 aren't met, then criteria for definition 1 are not met," which is silly.
His transformation is the most powerful part of this story and probably one of the reasons why so many readers of HN, who value continuous learning and self-improvement, can relate to it.
iwantmydomain as well https://twitter.com/mvxlr/status/493111861131227137
I'd say rather "professionalism" is a way for people to deride behavior they choose not to like and attempt to escape justifying their derision.
Happiest/Unhappiest cities in the USA
It's interesting that it's only during discussions of race and gender that male nerds suddenly become receptive to social science. But in any other discussion, it's their rhetorical whipping boy. How convenient for them.
Michio Kaku – “Technology giving rise to perfect capitalism”
Apparently its a popular idea, but both of the papers Wikipedia cited as references for the existence of that idea found that racism does not require power. Furthermore, they both found that the idea is often used as an excuse for racist behavior by those who don't hold power.
Good point in that you do want to have an identity that accepts whatever kind of difficulty is inherent in achieving your goals. I think this general idea is a bit overstated and simplified though. You don't necessarily have to want to suffer or enjoy every moment of practice. Some parts you can like a lot and others you can hate. You just need to have a belief system around the endeavor that accepts the suffering parts as worthwhile and necessary.

I also think the "Law of Equivalent Exchange" is a good general rule but again an over-simplification. It also reflects a primitive and pessimistic worldview which I believe can be very harmful. I have seen this type of worldview used to justify Luddism or at least quite unwarranted ambivalence about technology. I have also seen beliefs like that law justify things like war. Sometimes there are positive ways forward which are not detrimental compromises against an other.

For example not all technological progress needs to lead to "equivalent" ecological destruction and not all cultural integration need to mean "equivalent" genocide.
I'm seeing the same issue on both GitHub and Heroku today as well. "Cannot connect to the real www.heroku.com

Something is currently interfering with your secure connection to www.heroku.com.

Try to reload this page in a few minutes or after switching to a new network. "
I agree with that. Perhaps more accurate phrasing would be "more time than the seasoned developer would have". Part of getting to the third stage is learning those types of lessons during the second stage - which only comes with experience.
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Oh my gosh, thanks for this! This is invaluable for an aspiring aero engineer. Can't wait to read about the aeroelastic wing project on my flight to japan. And the X-29. And the Oblique wing! I love the cheesy titles.

This is unbelievable technical insight I've always wanted. Gosh, it's things like this that we need to fund NASA more for.
Also -- it took the Civil War to end slavery in this country.
This statement is completely false and intellectually dishonest. It doesn't stand up to even cursory scrutiny.

Do you think black people only exist in the US ?

Do you think racism does not exist in other countries and regions where the affected groups are neither black nor white ?

Have you never heard of ethnic/racist conflict between groups in Africa and South/Southeast Asia ?

Are your blinders so thick and US-centric that you cannot see anything else ?
http://chronicle.nytlabs.com/?keyword=nigger.chink.chinaman

I wonder how much of the change is terms becomes slurs and how much is NYT racism.
I see you're relatively new to Hacker News and may not have had time to fully grasp our culture. While I value the experience of those who remember usenet newsgroups, this is not usenet and we do not appreciate the same sort of posts as might have been popular there.

Having looked over your comment history, I believe you may need to reread the guidelines at https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Take particular note of:

"Be civil. Don't say things you wouldn't say in a face to face conversation."

"Please avoid introducing classic flamewar topics unless you have something genuinely new to say about them."

Also note that you have already been asked to stop trolling by one of our moderators, dang, at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7644504 .
How expensive food items are "created": truffles, caviar: http://chronicle.nytlabs.com/?keyword=truffles.caviar
What a fuck up. How did that go unnoticed.
Here is a map of suicide rates by state.

http://www.nimh.nih.gov/statistics/4NAT_MAP.shtml

A dark but humorous interpretation is that the unhappy people in some of these states simply aren't living long enough to report on their state of mind.
Everyone knows that the only question you need to ask is "how is this an issue?"

http://27bslash6.com/interviews.html
Sounds pretty encouraging. I hope Facebook's financial backing can turn this into a mass market product in a few years. Also interesting that the development kits cost only $350. I wonder if that could drop lower with a bigger production, or if the economy of scale benefits have already been reaped via 3rd party hardware producers.
Safety critical software projects do have levels of completeness and rigor comparable to civil engineering. An example is the space shuttle control software, which ran for decades without a single serious failure - by contrast, the shuttle hardware in the same time period suffered two lethal failures.

The price paid for that, of course, is levels of cost and bureaucracy comparable to civil engineering. Try to build a website for a startup that way and you'll be out of business long before you ship anything. The correct level of rigor depends on what you're doing.
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