skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think in large part, automation/technology has made most work unimportant. I mean, remember how people used to have secretaries? Now that's a luxury for only the elite. And it makes sense, when you have email and voicemail and so on, you don't really need a secretary. Nice to have, sure, but that's a job that technology has pretty much marginalized.

I wish I had a reference, but I remember reading a story about a steel mill that has like 1/5th the workforce it did 30 years ago, but is producing the same volume. That's one example, but I really don't think it's isolated. Everything is getting more efficient. There's this notion that more efficiency always creates more opportunity, but I find that idea suspect. Sometimes, sure, but at a certain point, sometimes things are just good enough.

Even knowledge work is susceptible. On one hand, it's great that things like programming are becoming a lot easier, but on the other hand, if your programmers are 10x more productive in Ruby than they are in C... well you probably don't need as many programmers. Remember the great recession? I think one of the interesting things that happened there is that a lot of jobs got eliminated out of necessity... and then they never really came back. The popular opinion is to blame a weak economy and I'm sure that's a factor, but I think a lot of it was, companies got rid of those people and then realized they didn't really need them.

The problem is, society hasn't caught up. So everyone feels the need to prove they're doing /something/, and firing someone is an awful experience, so I think most people are employed because they have to be employed, and because their employers don't really want to have to cut them loose unless they have to.

Even startups aren't really immune to this. Sure they have to be lean, but how many startup exist because the founders think they need to be doing, well, something.
key takeaway for me was that the word "widdershins" means counterclockwise
I don’t need to change to fit within my industry. My industry needs to change to make everyone feel included and accepted.

Human cultures in general just aren't that good at making different people feel at home. Given our history, why in the world would we expect any of them to be good at that at all? The natural inclination is to make the different individual, the outgroup person, conform to group norms. The way human cultures have dealt with our typically primate social instincts is to accede to them. The way we are with regard to our instincts and typical behaviors around groups is woven into our culture and the way we think. Also consider: We've probably been evolving our group instincts for far longer than we've had language. What would that imply about how deeply ingrained and how conscious such behaviors are?

Now, given that the above is true, what rationale can you come up with that would lead us to believe that our cultural knowledge equips us to deal well with diversity? Actually, I don't even think the "mental furnishings" in academic writings around these subjects that I've been exposed to are very useful to everyday people in everyday situations. (I could cite your suspicion around agendas to be evidence in this regard.) If there is any community that has the potential to engage in the "meta-level" self examination required to develop mental tools for dealing with this, I propose that certain subsets of the tech community are good candidates. (Though there is a lot of groupthink there as well.)
right, I ended up implementing something like that. However, it is counterintuitive to the IOS model of app sandboxing.
Huge outside money influx into the Valley during last year
>Blackberry fell behind, failing to deliver the diversity of apps that iOS and Android did. Sales of devices fell and hence they've had to lay off 1000s.

BB had a string of embarrassing system outages that also didn't help.
In enterprise environments, your traffic is/was strongly encrypted from the device to your BES server.
What about that individual's opinion? Or do you mean to say that because of their gender and race, they already conform to your stereotype?
3 hours of personal time in the office might be a bit much, but the figure of 60% of purchases being made during work hours doesn't surprise me and I don't think it's a big deal. There is only so much output that can come from a person in a day. When I work for 3 or 4 hours straight, I can physically feel the brain-drain and need a break. A few minutes of personal time taking a walk outside or ordering stuff I need at home is all it takes to get back in my zone. I actually once fainted publicly after working too many hours straight without taking the slightest hint of a break. There's a balance that you need to strike. Take care of yourself. Get stuff done. Don't work 9 hours straight without taking a few breathers to stay on your game.
The opinions of one group do not represent the individuals therein.
You are being downvoted because you are trivializing someone's problem. More accurately, you claim isolation can't exist for white people.

Yes, other people have worse problems, but this doesn't make OP's problems disappear. Would you do the opposite with a happy person (other people have better lives than you so you don't deserve to be happy)?
> If you add any actual value to your company today, your career is probably not moving in the right direction. Real work is for people at the bottom who plan to stay there.

Does anyone know what he means by this? I'm afraid it hits too close to home for me.
The need for external validation is a major pathology for the gifted. "Normal" people get varied feedback about their work/performance from the external world, so they learn not to associate and derive their self-worth from external inputs.

Gifted kids always hear "you're good / you're the best" so they learn to build their self-image based on this external praise. Essentially, since external feedback is always positive, a strong coupling forms between external inputs and one's feeling of self worth.

Later on in life when the world starts to send them not-so-positive feedback about their work, gifted kids take it really badly because the negative feedback hits their core.... whereas a not-so-gifted kids have learned not to take external feedback so seriously long ago.

It's definitely something to watch out for. Remember---you are not your work. Your worth is not connected to what you've achieved or what you own---your worth stems from your human nature, and your unlimited ability to adapt, learn, and do stuff in the future.
I am not even sure how to properly describe it. My friends who know the real me know that I am more of an in your face kind of person, not in a bad or menacing way but in a way that may make some co-workers uncomfortable.

I like to have spirited debates with friends, which from the outside might look like arguing or some sort of confrontation. When dealing with co-workers or people that
I am not very close with I do my best to tone down my personality.

I am not a small guy and certain people I've come across have even confided in me that they were for some reason intimidated by me when they first meet me. I don't think that would be the case if I were not black. not really sure what that's about

Even little things like the type of music I am willing to admit I enjoy are different between peer groups.

not sure if that answers your question but that kind of sums it up
I only care about my research and not climbing the ladder. My hope is that my research will be great enough that I won't have to conform to climb the ladder, but that is a gamble.

> Even though you don't feel you fit in in the US, do you ever feel relief at just not getting attention for being different?

I've never really had that feeling before; I never get into the situation where I feel like I'm with "my own people."
How about I split the difference?

"All people have good in them." OK. I can accept that as a true statement.

"The source of racism, anger, war ... is people." Also true. One might even say "All people have bad/evil in them."

"Basically good"? I can't go that far. I mean, do you watch the news much? There's a fair number of "not basically good" people.

Worse: I am not immune to being one of the "not basically good" people.
Fluentd goes Gopher
Woman here. My college had a 4:1 male:female ratio. I got used to it, I suppose, but, I'm only honestly beginning to understand the difficulties I encountered. If an idea cropped up in my head that made me feel as though I had it rough for being female, I squashed it immediately. The last thing I ever would be willing to do was blame something I could not control. I didn't really see the depression I had, as something connected.

I hopped from computer engineering, to electrical engineering, to get a bachelors in Art. I worked cross discipline between Art and CS, to publish academically. I got my masters in CS. I was accepted as a PhD student in CS, but at that point, I was so isolated that I essentially collapsed from stress, overvaluing my work, and undervaluing my health.

I work as a software developer now, in the interim of 'not really knowing what to do with my life', being that I've seen so many facets of where I can go, what I can do, and once again, haven't got the faintest clue aside from a small amount of intuition to guide me in what to do. That, and an obsession with everything related to technology, and enough technical/logical/mathematical books to build a house with.

I don't know so much if it's that my surroundings changed that tempered my feelings, introspections, and feelings of isolation, or the experiences I've been through. I'd say it's easy, but it isn't. I'd say it's hard, but it isn't. I just sort of imagine everyone in life goes through something similar once in a while, even if on the surface, it looks totally different.
I didn't mind it back then. Considering the servers and workstations were completely dedicated to a single application, managing them was very straightforward. What was far worse, was teaching incredibly impatient traders - with hundreds of thousands on the line at any given moment - how to use a mouse, as more recent versions of our software became their initial introduction to Windows.
Judicial Watch Obtains Key Fast and Furious Information
How to go from structureless to structured without losing your vibe
How to make friends and influence people - Dale Carnegie
There's many ways for private stockholders to liquidate shares:

- Founders can often sell shares during fundraising events, either through a pre-allocated block of shares called Series FF, or by having the company use a portion of the raised capital to buy back some of their shares at the same price.

- Any private stockholder can simply sell shares on the secondary market. However, most often, the company has the "right of first refusal." That means that the sale must be presented to the company before going through, and the company has the option to buy back those shares at the same price instead of letting the sale happen.

- Stockholders can also cash out by building derivative contracts where they "sell the upside" on their shares at a specific price. Think of it kind of like selling a stock option. ESO & Equidate are examples of companies / funds that facilitate this.
It's funny, as I was reading it I kept thinking "I can't believe she'd feel that way if she lived here, in Oakland." It was a nice surprise to find out that she liked it when she got here.

I've lived and worked in Oakland for the last 13 years. Some of the people I work with, when we moved from Berkeley to Oakland, were afraid to be in Oakland. Of course, I didn't find this out until many years later, but it was shocking nonetheless.

When I travel to other places, like SC/NC, I (as a white male) feel alone and isolated. I just don't subscribe to the culture there anymore (I'm from KY). It feels foreign, sterile and separated. I really don't like being there, other than visiting with family.
Why would these use cases need end to end encryption?
The problem with work is a lack of purpose, and a lack of knowledge about how to build it.

Every person wants to feel that the work that they do is meaningful. Find me a person who says they truly desire for their work—for the majority of their contributions in life—to have no purpose. We all desire it.

So the problem, then, is: how do we create a purposeful workplace?

Most workplaces operate under a complex inhuman chaos that easily leads to malaise and disengagement. The problems are cultural, structural, and endemic: infighting, passive aggressive behavior, individuality, game playing, ladder climbing, loss of motivation, complacency, self-interest, and more.

These are a consequence of an organization which fails to think systematically, fails to understand human psychology, fails to base their work methods on real knowledge, and fails to understand the statistics behind all components human or otherwise.

In essence, organizations that fail to achieve systemic quality through these means are the ones which fail to achieve purpose. Aim to improve the system, and the end result and the structure under which it's produced improves as a side effect.

It is pure and almost zen-like in its simplicity, but instead, lacking the necessary knowledge and the means to implement it, most corporate environments devolve into a haystack of individual-focused complexity, which leads to the dark center of corporate culture which we all dread: the one which robs our work of purpose.

Improve the system, understand how every part of it works, and improve everything. Begin at Deming: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._Edwards_Deming
Vision Blocks – Fun app to improve your eye sight
I'm an Atom user too, and I'm envious of the Theseus plugin for Brackets: https://github.com/adobe-research/theseus
Lately it has become my editor of choice for JavaScript, TypeScript and MarkDown on Windows. I use a few extensions for linting and live preview and so far they work really well. I hope the startup gets faster with time because that's the only downside I can currently think of. Being open source and cross platform is a big advantage, if I invest time into learning a tool I'd like to be able to use it regardless which OS I'm currently using.
it probably wasn't just because you were a nerd. Utah is incredibly isolating to many non-Mormons.
Already getting 504 errors. Such an API cannot be free unless they got a huge amount of funding...
There aren't any. Anthropologists have been all over this. There are degrees of egalitarianism and obviously there are unambiguous patriarchies. No one's ever found a matriarchy, or evidence of one existing.
It doesn't sound like you know the first thing about Carol Dweck's work. You heard the term "self esteem expert", which incidentally is about as misleading as possible, and went off on what you imagine that to be.

Nowhere in the article does it say anything about PhDs. A Bachelor's degree is more than sufficient to do the sort of "plumbing" you mention. And it is exactly that sort of thing where the employers are chronically complaining that they can't find any qualified candidates without getting more H1B visas.

Someone may not need a PhD to do this sort of thing, but they DO need more than the remedial Algebra II class that qualified as a math prerequisite for their Communications degree, which they went into because they were told in 2nd grade that they're "not a math person".
Seeing what PhDs get paid, I think the intersection of people smart enough to qualify for a PhD, and the people idealistic enough to forgo better pay in other industries is shrinking.
Xen Security Advisories XSA-109 and XSA-110 Prerelease
"The internet is great partly because people chose what they do how and at what pace, because it's more like a book and less like TV, and making it more like TV is not improvement."

Well worth thinking about.
Where is the research paper which supports this apps' claim that these exercises help in eyesight improvement?
But Google is not pushing GWT anymore since a long time, they don't want more adoption of the framework, instead, they want you to start using Dart, so beware of GWT's future.
No, the two branches (Symbolics and Lisp Machines) ran their own Lisp Machine Lisp which was a fairly complex melange of MacLisp-derived CommonLisp-precursor constructs.

Plus it had its own object system (Flavors).
I don't mean to be flippant but can someone separate out the concrete recommendations from the abstract motivational speaking?

All I hear is a series of "X or Y?" slides, which sort of imply there's a decisive answer on the way, but when you peer through the verbiage it ends up being some form of "Do both!"
A great IDE to learn array languages for most people: Excel/Google Spreadsheets.

No, I am not kidding. Excel, or spreadsheets in general, is a great, readily available environment to learn how to think like an APL programmer. Sure, the notations are not there, and you will be copy-and-pasting cell references as opposed to typing in obscure operators, but the essential idea is there: how to think about computation in a geometrical/tabular way.
Probably related to the Gervais Principle.

http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-o...
Yet another white, male engineer here. I agree with the "what am I supposed to do about it" responses. I don't think I'm doing anything exclusionary (my team does have a lot of non-whites, mostly Indian and Chinese). The guy she uses as the main example - the teammate who made the domestic abuse "jokes" - clearly should be out on his ass with a lawsuit. I think we can all agree with that. But what exactly do you want the other 99% of us who just happen to have been born into the majority to do?

One theme from the article that bothered me:

>diversity lightning struck: I was a black woman reporting to another black woman in a technical role. Moreover, our team was predominantly black.

This sounds like she's most comfortable working only with black people - in which case, the pleas for all-inclusive diversity sound a bit hollow...
Re:AWS, this test benchmarked Cloudways managed WordPress on top of AWS. They don't specify instance type, underlying software config, etc. This has little to do with AWS.
Fake GPS
Have you read the actual arguments at http://www.drop-dropbox.com/?

Being involved in the gov't that started the terror scare and almost dragging my country in a disastrous war is quite something different than trying to nudge me into signing up for Google+. Torture, honorable, seriously??!
The Manhattan Project was engineering in the open?

EricBurnett was talking about appreciating (some of) FB's values, not relishing the scale of their challenges (another reason people join FB). It's the latter reason that I imagine engineers joined The Manhattan Project (other than those who viewed it as a way to protect against nefarious forces in the world, valid or not).
Why? "Legacy" implies "not a moving target." If you know the software you need to run, you can QA your API compatibility layer until it works with exactly that software.

CrossOver Office (the commercial version of Wine) is basically authored by picking particular versions of particular software that they want to get working, and then treating them as unit tests to write code against. When the program works, the library works. No more or less is needed.
Frankly, the person this article is most relevant to is not white guys with power. And that's a good thing. For everyone who has been in a similar situation to the author, this sort of experience hopefully can help them figure out what they want, what they value, and where they belong.

But there are some clear things you shouldn't do, just from the text:

- Group outings that exclude specific individuals, because of personal preference, religion, race, etc. If that means someone doesn't drink, make sure drinking isn't the only way to socialize.
- Avoid people because their otherness makes you uncomfortable. This frankly just sucks, and there's not really anything the other person can do about it.
- Conversely, treat people as fragile. You may not understand someone, and that's OK. It doesn't mean they'll be offended because you give them challenging tasks, it doesn't mean they should be held back from "dangerous" situations.

The list goes on, but the other thing you can do, is actually listen to your reports. Ask them what they want in life. Ask them what their goals are, how their family is, what they feel best doing, when they feel most stressed out. And work to actually resolve what you can, with their help (i.e. don't just fire someone because they're avoiding someone else. That would likely be overkill, and scare the crap out of the person you were trying to "protect").
I wish [racial group x] were still afraid of coming here. It was the best kept secret in the bay area for a long time.

Solve for x.
Not in Silicon Valley. If you're a good programmer straight out of college, you're offered 90-100k at least these days and within 3 years you're making > 120k.
The solution you offer is exactly what server rendering is meant to stop. You should load content as fast as possible and that means rendering it on the server.

Please stop putting loading icons and spinners where your content should be.
Great idea! Can't wait to see the updates.
13-year-old just got an investment from Intel Capital to help the blind read
I have been the odd man out on some teams and been part of the collective for others. The third option of diverse teams seems more inclusive on the surface.

EX: Current team has 2 black females one from the US the other from Africa, 2 Indian females from India, 1 Indian male from India, 2 white males born in the US, 2 Asian males one born in the US another born outside. Team lead is american born Asian. We are managed by a black female, who's boss is a white female, who's boss is a black male.

However, in my experience rather than have more people fit in you end up with everyone feeling like they don't fit in for a long period of time.

PS: Ok, there is the default 'can speak English clearly' group. But culture goes beyond language.
Great example! Github needs to give their code some TLC though. It seems like new comments on a pull request don't show up until after I push a new commit.
I would like to believe that everyone is basically good and its society that causes so many people to end up being... well not so good.

But that is just what i would like to believe and not necessarily reality.
In most corporations (at those I've been involved with), the people who actually get the work done very rarely advance.

Your career is not the work you do. It's how you're perceived socially within a company structure.

This essay is actually very good: http://www.ribbonfarm.com/the-gervais-principle/

My personal experience is that those who are highly skilled and add value become an immediate threat to those who are just "punching a clock". It's important to note that those people may be at any level of an organization.
Interestingly, upstart's first release was the same month that launchd's license problem went away. If Apple had been a little more responsive to the community, upstart may have never taken off.
This is not the right question to ask.

Instead of trying to find one tool that solves all of your problems, try understanding what your problems are. Once you have a list of problems, ask how you can solve each of those problems. When you have solutions, THEN you figure out which technologies are best for implementing those solutions.
I left a chemistry program with an MA and managed to be admitted into a physics PhD program. Such things are not impossible, but you'd better have people willing to get your back when the time comes.

I had

a) physics professors at the previous school (UCSB) willing to write letters, make phone calls
b) solid unpublished work that raised some eyebrows
c) professors on the admitting end willing to shepherd my application