skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Except when everyone just sort of naturally agrees that we're at good-enough value already and doesn't bother, which is what's happening at a lot of these places.

You don't push and your competitors don't push because all the people who are at the low level of actually doing things rather than sitting in meetings don't feel like bothering with it. Surprisingly (or not) it actually works out well with the only bad part being some fat cats in suits think they're paying money for actual work. Not that it matters if they "waste" their money, it will trickle back up to them pretty soon.
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My fundamental complaint is that Apple, as a company, prefers form over function. Avoiding right mouse clicks in the name of simplicity. Designing thin laptops instead of durable laptops. Restricting installation on iOS to just the App Store.
Medium is more or less a blogging platform. I don't think that people who post essays on there have much control over how it displays on any given device/browser, given the minimalist text editor it provides.
I still contend that creating an institutional gaggle of smart kids is wrong. It's equivalent to creating a school just for black kids; it's merely form of segregation. I hope they stop doing it, for the sake of society in general.

As for me, I was correctly diagnosed with bipolar disorder after many years of misdiagnoses. Now with proper treatment I don't have mood swings, take rash actions, or go into months-long dark, suicidally depressive states. But I also can't output 2 weeks of project work in 3 days with 8 hours of sleep anymore. I'll take the good with the bad though. Overall, the death of my father was probably the main catalyst for improving myself.
Slides from Rust talk about JohnMQ
slides: http://johnmq.github.io/slides

and accompanying notes: http://johnmq.github.io/slides/notes.txt - basically a main content of the talk

(they are required if you want to understand what is happening, since the slides only as a visual help for a talk)

BTW, I am looking for collaborators. So if you moved by this project and like Rust language feel free to drop me a comment or email.
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The Horrific Practice of “Food Spherification”
Me thinks you don't really understand the contrast between "form" and "function":

> Avoiding right mouse clicks in the name of simplicity

Simplicity has nothing to do with form, that is function.

> Designing thin laptops instead of durable laptops.

Thin/light laptops has nothing to do with form, that is function (who wants to carry around a brick?). And what is more durable than a MBP anyways?

> Restricting installation on iOS to just the App Store.

Security and safe experiences has nothing to do with form, that is function.

"Form" would be fashion, and Apple definitely has plenty of that, but all the points you listed don't focus on that.
Forth is untyped, not dynamically typed. ;)
Butterfly Network, one of the companies mentioned in the article, has a panel discussion next week in NYC on artificial intelligence. Panel includes David Ferrucci (one of the creators of IBM’s Watson) and Max Tegmark (who hypothesizes that consciousness is a state of matter that can be mathematically described). More info here: https://4combinator-speaker-series.eventbrite.com
Thanks for writing this. I'm sorry you had to go through all that and will try (despite cognitive biases being hard to self-correct) to never contribute to anyone experiencing the same sort of behavior.

And that's really all I can offer without risking dishonesty.
Blackberry did always support "decrypt at the BES" which meant essentially corporate key escrow. It did mean the system owner (company) had full control of everything, but it meant governments/carriers/etc. didn't.

It's a great security model for businesses. For consumers, allowing "3 of 5 trusted friends" to do key recovery for you, with a 7 day delay, might also be a good model.

I actually have no problem with key recovery/key repository type systems (reluctant to say "key escrow" when it's not mandatory) -- as long as the users are explicitly informed and given a choice. For 99% of users, some kind of key recovery usually is the right choice.
Consider your year end choice carefully.
> You have personalities like Richard Branson and Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos, who are not engineers.

Elon Musk has a BS in Physics, Jeff Bezos has an engineering degree (electrical/computer science.) Maybe they never got their PE licenses but they have strong enough technical backgrounds to grasp the science of what they're doing.
Wow, the views counter... Haven't read the article yet, just astonished at the rate of increase...
What about the Native American societies, which tracked heritage matrilineally? If we looked hard enough we ought to find some matriarchies somewhere.
Great to see APOBECs in the news! My colleagues and I have been working on solving the structures of these proteins for the last 5 years and more. If HNers have any questions, I'll try answering to the best of my knowledge.
I live in Orlando, the city that got some infamy a number of years ago for banning the public unstructured feedings. I feel confident in saying that education seems to have failed, but banning seems to have been fairly successful at least with respect to curbing the behavior.

So that leaves the question of whether or not it's a net negative. Panhandling is demonstrably dangerous, and an argument for unstructured feeding is an argument for the status quo. I can definitely say that the status quo is an abject failure. As for the structured efforts, those must be measured and improved on an individual basis. They certainly have their own issues, but at least in my city those structured feeding facilities also provide access and information on medical care, job placement, and other assistance that is relevant to the homeless population.
Subscription services are almost always more profitable than ad supported services. If encrypted gmail and hangouts were priced like the storage I buy from Google, I'd be a paying customer.
Yep. This is precisely what Mayday.US is fighting.
IIRC Blackberry gave PIN-based/consumer/BIS messaging keys to those governments, and had key escrow for BES deployed in country, but when I took a US-BES Blackberry into UAE, India, KSA, etc., I still had end to end protection.
Designing Poetic APIs
> It would be very interesting to see some code in CL, which would allow to run embedded J.

Not exactly CL, but it seems like a natural fit for Racket.
I understand your point. But I don't think the author was arguing just for a different form of homeogeny. But regardless, even if that were the case one has to put themselves in the authors shoes. [Statement A] Having lived in environments where I was the minority I then find it refreshing to be in the majority at times. When I then discuss the issues I find with the homeogenic environment I find myself in you could read Statement A as being an indication I want a different form of homeogeny or as a valid critique of the environment I'm discussing.

Regardless of the authors own desires the situation of the demographic bias that is clearly indisputable in the IT industry warrants her statements be considered on the grounds of the words without subjecting hidden intent. And those words are criticism of this IT homeogeny.

I also agree that your question of cultural balkanisation is interesting. But I don't think the IT industry in particular ever has to worry about this except when it comes to the balkanisation it already creates by dejecting minorities of race and sex, but also in dejecting members of the majority that simply find this environment offers too little culturally to bother with.
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I just asked this in #google-containers IRC channel, and ~isdal chimed in to say this is now possible -- "The new gcloud SDK allows you to run multiple docker containers at the same time with all of them sharing the same datastore (and other APIs".
IMAX  Interstellar Print Assembly
Cancel your plans and throw your phone in a lake, the Internet Arcade has arrived
Thanks for posting this Kirill; I was a victim of this.

Being a recent transplant to GA, I didn't have a Georgia drivers license. This basically meant that my voter registration got destroyed.

Not happy.
The closest thing is Redick (https://code.google.com/p/redick/), but that's still just S-exp syntax. It wouldn't be hard to write a readtable to parse J syntax.
This is exactly it. She keeps saying diversity, but what she describes feeling comfortable with is a homogenous environment, just of people she identifies with. She didn't like Oakland because it was diverse, she liked the black part of Oakland because it was full of black people.
In a company of any complexity there are going to be projects that can't really be tackled by one person in total isolation. Whenever explicit teamwork and collaboration are required, scheduling conflicts become possible.
>good luck if your HR department defends the company and not you

What do you mean "if"? That is what HR is for, defending the company. They do not exist for your benefit.
Ask HN: What Python framework would you use to serve up a REST API?
flask+uwsgi+nginx, tornado, or something else?
I suppose it depends on how you define “architecture”. I usually take it to mean something along the lines of the properties of a software design that are difficult to change once determined and/or that potentially affect the entire code base and/or that are expected to last for a long time. Given some such definition, it is certainly very expensive to change architecture, and therefore relatively unlikely that you’d want to rewrite on such a sweeping scale. That still applies even if the architecture you’ve developed after a while isn’t what you’d ideally chose if you were starting over.

I don’t really see any qualitative difference from any other large (but not that large) scale rewrite, though. To me it’s still just a quantitative cost/benefit question, albeit one where the cost is very high so you probably need to have some severe obstacle to overcome before the big rewrite is justified.
I'm writing a chapter for AOSA on something like this: a self-hosting compiler of a subset of Python to Python bytecode. It'll present the full code (about the same length) and try to explain it well for people not into compilers yet, but in the meantime I recommend the Wirth book.

What's your favorite shorter intro? I'd especially like to reference other educational compilers that are self-hosting.
>"I feel like there isn’t anyone who can identify with my story, so I don’t tell it."

I absolutely identify.

I've experienced a lot of this, but I'm a man as well as forthright and according to some - intimidating.

Thing is, I expect those things carry their own challenges - being rejected outright rather than given the opportunity to suck it up.
Item A is not precisely accurate communication, because it is not voting in the sense of other voting. A criminal jury verdict has to be unanimous, but we send them to a sealed room and tell them 'Come back when you have a unanimous verdict.', rather than "Oh, you voted and disagreed? Well, Not Guilty then."

There is a strong understanding among the populace that a jury is a majoritarian body, that unanimity is a legal fiction, and that juries which can't effectively suppress dissenting opinions are failures in their social function, and we demand both extended "deliberation", and a completely new trial to correct their issue.

We even reinforce this understanding in caselaw; A last-ditch effort to un-"hang" a jury is termed an Allen Charge, which is apparently when the judge instructs the jury's minority vote that their position isn't reasonable while glaring at them menacingly.
Yeah that's hard to wrap my head around. We have 2k in a large app and that's daunting. Really curious why that came to be (though that's probably the least interesting thing in this article)
Yeah totally — I only knew about it because I took an editorial design class back in the day. One of those little things that not many people are aware of that goes into book design!
Oh do me a fucking favour. Non-white men have built cities and civilisations for 10,000 years, hewn staggering beauty from jungle, from plains, from desert and mountains, in Giza, Mexico, India, China and elsewhere.

250 years ago a bunch of Europeans stumbled on cheap coal and condensing boilers and crop rotation - those gifts gave to the whole world and it's future - but not because our ancestors were white, just because they were in the right place at the right time.

I am really hoping you were trolling for the lolz.
It is not a thought about hidden intent, but a thought about the end-game of diversity. Perhaps there is such a thing as too much diversity, for example, where there are no groups in the company with relative homogeneity and everyone feels isolated? Perhaps the value of diversity is not diversity itself, but rather having a selection of possible groups into which a new hire might chose to integrate?

The current narrative around diversity does not seem to quite align to her story, which is why I am intrigued. It raises interesting questions. If her story is a story of a woman leaving one culture of homogeneity that excluded her to another culture of homogeneity that included her, that says different things about the value of diversity than moving from a culture of homogeneity to a culture of diversity.
>I don’t need to change to fit within my industry. My industry needs to change to make everyone feel included and accepted

Well hold on a second. I don't agree that, when someone feels bad about something, it's everyone else's fault/responsibility. I and many others have felt excluded and/or different at times; the ideal response is to address those feelings yourself, not to blame other people.
> You may have to work more for it, but that's it.

Fortunately getting a doctorate doesn't have a hard deadline, or at least that's my impression (of course it may vary).
It is easy to say for me too, and I am neither white nor a man. It is easy to say because it is simple reality.
Well, in Python the reversing is as short as a print
I have had great experience with LiquidWeb. They offer fully managed dedicated / cloud / vps servers. They will even manage all software stack for you. They will even do things like "install Nginx with php-fpm and optimize mysql". If there is any problem, they will usually fix it before you notice it.

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Honestly one of my favorite computer logos ever.
> The Emojipedia itself is full of strange cultural assumptions.

Completely agreed. Despite this though, emoji have been a net win. Everyone was using emoticons anyway, but there was no way to use them between devices (gmail sending emoticons as attachments in emails springs to mind). Now we can send them via text message in all major smartphone OSs and they're used on Twitter etc. There's clearly a cultural demand for them, as they've become a part of the way we communicate, so standardisation is a good thing. Whether unicode is the place to do it though... I don't know, but I don't know who else could either, and it's not like there's a lack of code points in the unicode spec for it.
This D-Bag Needs to Be Kicked in the Face
Once Rad is out, will he end up with 10% equity? I'm asking to figure out whether he'll get rich from Tinder's meteoric success, assuming the company continues to do well.

(Is it even possible for Rad or any other founder to cash out their shares before a liquidity event like IPO or acquisition? I know the answer used to be "no," but Airbnb seems to have changed that in recent years, and I'm quite unsure how it works now.)
Conductor: Simply massive computing power. For anyone.
You can deploy Swift apps to iOS7 and Mavericks [1]

[1]: http://stackoverflow.com/q/24001778
Things have changed in how we produce and utilize art a little in the 300+ years since then.

Back then, it took as much time and effort and money, and almost as much skill and talent, to copy art as it did to create new art.

Ordinary could not afford copies of art. The wealthy and powerful patrons that could afford to have art made wanted original works, not copies of existing works--they were buying art to show off the wealth and success of themselves or of the region they ruled, and copying someone else's art would do a poor job of that.

Also, art tended to be the work of a single artist (with possibly a handful of assistants). They generally did not have anything on the scale of a modern movie or television show or video game.
I thought Blackberry is this service where all your mail and communication is routed in cleartext through their services

That's how consumer BlackBerry worked (while other consumer services at the time that had no encryption whatsoever) but the enterprise version was as secure as they could make it.
2006 Startup Success panel with Joe Kraus and Reid Hoffman
You can put whatever code you want into the Flex phrase rules. The 'lexer hack' can be implemented there. That's what I do whenever I have to parse something like C.
Reminds me of a Dilbert comic from over a decade ago. Dilbert was working from home, and the joke was him saying something like "Do I owe my employer the full 8 hours of work or just the 2 hours of productivity I would have if I went in to the office?"
> However, with aggressive deforestation and JIT it would make for an interesting rival.

SERIES had a lot of early work in deforestation and almost made it into the Common Lisp standard: http://series.sourceforge.net/

I want to see NESL (http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~scandal/nesl.html) brought back for modern systems. Even StarLisp (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/*Lisp) makes Hadoop look absolutely retarded.
> You no longer are opting to choose based on cost/performance of the employee. are we seriously okay with this? Isn't that demoralizing to the new hire? Now every moment, they are wondering if they got hired because of who their parents are, versus whether they earned it or not.

If you're a white male who is honest with himself, you'll understand that being a white male carries with it a set of privileges.

Just consider: a white child is significantly more likely to go to a school with experienced teachers than a black child, more likely to take honors classes in high school, more likely to get into a good university, and when they graduate, are more likely to get job offers based on nothing more than their white male name[1].

Let's not fool ourselves: humans are not the coldly rational actors we like to think. Ignore the fact that I've already got a leg up on networking because my (white male) peers work the jobs I want to work. When it's time for me to go in for an interview for a software engineering position the odds are overwhelmingly high that every person who interviews me, from the team interview up to senior management, will look a lot like me. That goes a long way in me getting the job - our monkey brains are pretty well wired to look at someone that looks like ourself and think "yeah, he's a competent, trustworthy individual!"

So yeah, I don't think anyone's actually hired in the cold cost/benefit analysis you talk about. There's lots of chances for significant bias to creep in. In reality, if people were hired solely based on the criteria you talk about, and race/gender/... were not considered, I bet we'd see more diverse workforces than we have now.

If someone can figure out how to set up a blinded interview that would be interesting.

[1] http://www.nber.org/papers/w9873.pdf
I'm not against people doing weird stuff, so all these smileys and putting them in every new mobile app and all that stuff is fine. I don't like it, but it's just my opinion, so that's fine.

But what I'm really against is spoiling one of the most important of all standards we have now with that. I consider a bit questionable the fact that emoji (and other inconsistent symbol sets) are built into unicode already, but considering the time it was done and the origin of those symbols that's somewhat OK. But, srsly, guys, racial diversity for some smileys in the unicode? Really? Why not racial diversity for Pacman? It's crazy, really. It's some symbols that even shouldn't actually be there (in the unicode, I mean).

I guess we really should see that as a problem. Unicode is a complicated standard. Actual encodings of unicode even more so. Imperfect programs working on imperfect systems, trying to support that stuff, rendering engines rendering that stuff, countless font formats and protocols having to deal with that stuff and et cetera, et cetera — even more so. And unless we are forking unicode itself with purpose to make "coding standard for sane people" (and if we are sane, we are NOT doing it for obvious reasons) we must to be thinking about supporting all insane stuff introduced into unicode itself, because it is the reason for standards to exist in the first place — to be covered by implementations. So introducing all that complicated stuff without any real reason is a big problem, and we should be worried, because it's us who will suffer from awful standards later, and not some guys with fancy hairstyles doing business with mtv and stuff.

So you want colorful smileys? Use imaging file formats, goddammit. PNG, SVG. Invent your own markup standard (like {smiley12:asian}) to be used with all sorts of tweeting apps. Don't mess with encoding standards.

Cannot something be done about that?
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What society have you seen that wasn't created/run by dead white men? Because colonialism, slavery and all that. You're free to count the lives that your ubermen improved, but the rest of us are going to subtract the ones they fucked up.
and most of the shitholes you've probably never seen are also legacies of dead white men.
For what it's worth, Unicode itself does not utilize those assumptions and that probably matters more than how Emojipedia.org interprets them. Those characters are simply referred to as "Two Women Holding Hands" and "Two Men Holding Hands" in the specification.

I think the beauty is that many of the characters can have several different meanings depending on context and culture.
Reading this made me remember how much I loved TENEX and TOPS-20. Many thanks for the post!
I know a lot of people in the biosciences with under-graduate degrees. They also have technologist's diplomas because an under-grad degree in biology is almost completely worthless in the job market.

No one should go into most sciences (including physics) if they a) intend to stop at the undergrad level and b) expect it to be of non-trivial value in the job market.

Engineering degrees are economically useful at the undergrad level. Science degrees are not, at least not any moreso than English or philosophy degrees. So there is absolutely no need to promote STEM degrees as a career choice. They are a very bad one, outside of engineering (and even there it depends on field and timing).
Worth checking out if you have a chromecast or if you're interested in seeing how news orgs are experimenting with delivering news via new means.
I sense a problem in that she actually "belongs" to a minority - meaning how can she expect not to be a minority at work? Or at least, why blame the workplace? If it bothers her, maybe the only option really is to move to a place with different demographics?

Edit: thanks for the downvote. My question is serious. Since she is part of a minority, even in a perfectly diverse workplace she will still be in the minority. Hence the diversity movement won't fix her problem. (Just looked it up: "Blacks and African Americans" are 13.5% of the US population. So in a SCRUM team of "normal" diversity she will be the only Black woman. According to Wikipedia, a SCRUM development team consists of 3-9 individuals: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrum_%28software_development%...).
thanks to QE and low interest rates there is a lot of money slushing around looking (and having pretty tough time finding and competing for) where to invest. I.e. it is a sellers(founders) market out there.