skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That sounds good, but I am concerned Bitbucket will go in the same direction soon because they are always playing catch-up to compete with Github.
> Really now.

Many (most?) definitions of feminism are along the lines of "supporting equal rights for men and women" or "equality between the sexes".

Feminism is an umbrella term for a group of ideologies, some of who do not agree with either of those definitions. In that sense my statement is not accurate. However it is still far more accurate that your attempt to use the latin root of the word to define its meaning while ignoring its use and history.

> Citation needed for italicized text

Here's one:
I am a feminist and I support equal rights for men as well women.

Here's another one to an established feminist thinker:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feminism#cite_note-hooks-6
If you stay within the Apple ecosystem like they really want you to, then you don't need that because your thunderbolt display has an ethernet adapter as well as some extra usb ports. The Apple monitor is their replacement for the docking station. Power and connectivity, as well as a place to put the laptop for reasonable space efficiency.
It's unfortunate, but the GP will probably see these videos and feel vindicated in their belief that these cops are acting righteously, purely in self-defense. It works for both sides of the coin, but when presented with conflicting evidence people often double down on their beliefs. (e.g. Statements like "These videos prove that there are no systemic factors at play, this is pure self-defense. It's just a coincidence that these people are all black.")
Your entire rant is protracted and without substance. It boils down to comparing 9c to gcc and concluding that the former is not a C compiler relative to the standards of the latter. In which case, tcc, pcc and ACK would also be disqualified as C compilers under your definition.
If it's not big-bang like described here, it's not really disruption IMO. There's a difference between evolution and revolution.

One is taking little steps that the incumbent can see as they come, and thus the game is a balance between nimble/fast and resourceful/slow. A gap-spotting game: who fills each niche in the industry first?

The other is as he alludes to: collateral damage from a wrecking ball. Someone invents a pocket sized device that has GPS and can download maps. Not because they were trying to do that, it just happened. Now nobody ever needs a GPS device anymore. Or a paper map.
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I would consider it not only reprehensible but absurd, as these examples are.

I can't think of any advantages a racist bank would have, can you? The approach by this lender is rather to dig deeper into individuals and give them an opportunity based on personal data. It seems just as likely that resulting correlations could help any given race.

I believe algorithmic attempts to understand people are a form of intelligence to support, even if they discover things we might not like or make mistakes along the way. Should they find uncomfortable truths we can own up, have a laugh and grow; it will be a lot easier than fighting facts.

Prejudice is literally pre-judging, making assertions based on fear without knowing the facts. Perhaps it's the algorithms themselves that are in need of protection here.
Your metrics are the percentage of patents asserted and how many make it to trial? You don't even consider the amount of settlements that happened for obvious universal technologies, or perhaps more importantly the number of uses of a patent to implement something useful which could not have been developed independently.

You're asking to assume patents are useful until proven otherwise, and waving your hands about cherry-picking, when in fact you'd have to cherry-pick pretty severely to find an example of a software patent which would stand up to an honest evaluation of its novelty. This is because software is not created by lone inventors having eureka moments behind closed doors—the state of the art is pushed forward primarily through massive collaboration. The vast majority of software patents only exist because software and mathematics are arcane topics that the patent office doesn't have the expertise to understand or the incentive to evaluate honestly.

Software patents and IP are not natural laws with inherent value. It is not for us to empirically prove their harm, rather they are specific legal constructs designed for the public good, and thus their good must be justified, not the other way around.
> Imagine how I talk to prospective hires

"This is Bob, he does the QA."

It might be unusual, but at the same time it seems odd that Bob's position would be an issue to them as compared to their compensation package, duties, etc.
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There were some good reasons behind the intent for vendor prefixing, but it was a flawed solution to a real problem. As vendor prefixed made it to production builds, we ended up not with experimental properties that we could still change willy nily, but with strangely named properties that we have to support forever (since content depend on them working correctly), and without even the benefit of being able to evolve the design of the unprefixed version anyway we like, since "best practices" mean that css authors very often writen the unprefixed property in their stylesheet along with the prefixed one for future proofing.

What browsers are mostly doing (and the CSSWG is in the process of formalizing) is that experimental features should be included in nightly/preview/developer builds, but not in production builds (or be off by default, to be turned on via user settings). That way we can still experiment, but we don't use experiments in production, and avoid creating a legacy compat problem on things that were not meant to be permanent.
I'm in full agreement and I've only been programming professional for about 2 1/2 years. Frankly, I'd rather work on some interdisciplinary problems like working on software related to bioinformatics. I had an interest in bioinformatics, but my university offered no undergraduate program nor any graduate studies on the matter. But right now, I'm stuck figuring out how to make flawed logic in a CRM not be so flawed without breaking the rest of the equally flawed logic that depends on it (oh joy). And I can't see any way out of my current situation. It just seems most companies are interested in easy problems they can try to patent rather than hard problems that could make them an f-ton of money.
I want a phone that has all that, and also makes coffee
I have subscribed to two subreddits that sort of cover this. The first is /r/SideProject. It is a place that people post their side projects and occasionally blogs/articles about their side project. The pros of it is that people don't frown on self promotion but the con is that there doesn't seem to be many comments going on to help improve your offering. The second is /r/lookatmyprogram although that sub seems to be dead. The bigger (if not the biggest) software subreddit is /r/programming but they state that "App demos should include code and/or architecture discussion." so you wouldn't be able to flat out promote.
Don't search by a pure opus or a BWV number then if you search Canzona in D + Insert Performance Details you'll find it.

Never had an issue finding what i wanted, i didn't mind to have to scroll and i treat Spotify's search just as i treat Google's search, the secret to finding stuff on Google is to figure out what the 100000 idiots that searched for the same thing before you actually searched for before ending up clicking on what you really want.

The 1st several results will be SEO's then couple of promoted ones then you'll find something that you can actually use, and Spotify isn't any different I'm pretty sure that record companies pay directly or by accepting lower fees in exchange for Spotify to promote their records, so yep Classical Halloween Bach from the Dead might be promoted, or it might be there because more people actually enjoy listening to it just as most people would probably enjoy TSO's version of Mozart's and Beethoven's works with a nice jam more than some dreadful orchestra from the Soviet days of eastern Europe.

Streaming providers aren't the Library of Congress don't expect them to give you exactly what you look for since they assume like any other search engine that you don't know what you are looking for and they also need to make some money on the side, but if you don't give up and are willing to waste 10 seconds you'll find what you want and then well just hit the bookmark button.

P.S.
If you want to listen to a specific performance why are you searching the work and not the "artist"?

For the most part there will be more performances for a given work than all the recordings a single orchestra can record in it's life time. Want to listen to a recording by Sydney's symphony orchestra? Search for Sydney Symphony Orchestra, click it scroll down till you find it not the other way around :)
Wondering the same. I got a weird Google Chat message through Hangouts a few months ago. Tried to uninstall Hangouts but it's a "system app" and can't uninstall it.
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Rule 7 - I could be wrong, but is it possible that Travis is a software engineer? I thought he talked about that in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMvdvP02f-Y starting 3:30. He said "...I started in engineer..."

Again, I also think this is a really cool article
Which version of Lucene are these built on?
Why so many food-related-delivery-service startups around YC? Yall hungry over there on the left coast?
Mein Kampf (with Linux cross compilers)
Just like the start menu was holding them back and had to be removed in Windows 8...
It's likely not the mentally disabled that are getting offended.
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i just use google cloud's HTTP Loadbalancer and AutoScale. it automatically spanws/remove's VM's based on load.
This analysis is probably way too sensitive to investment price and all sorts of hidden causal relationships.

The biggest problem is that "performs better" is thrown around a lot but never defined. My hunch is that performance is measured as a return on investment. For instance if First Round invested in a company at a $5M valuation and the company is now worth $100M, that's a 20x return. If they had invested at a $10M valuation, the return would only be 10x. So I suspect in their eyes the "performance" of the first investment is better. Could be wrong, but my point is there's no way to know.

Without knowing that it's hard not to look at their conclusions such as young founders do better and repeat founders cost more with a large helping of grains of salt.

A young founder is less likely to be a repeat founder. Therefore these founders will cost less, per the conclusion they reached. And if performance is measured as ROI then they will "perform" better even if underlying talent or company growth is constant.

So it looks as though there's just a lot of observational data without much insight.
user-select does need some improvements in browsers, but this MDN page is somewhat out of date.

It is now being standardized: https://drafts.csswg.org/css-ui-4/#content-selection

Browsers haven't fully converged yet, but at least we're starting to see what they are likely to converge to.
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Etymology and definition are two different things, and the latter can not be reliably inferred from the former.

Your argument presumes an inference of the definition from the etymology, which would perhaps not be an unreasonable approach if you were a future archeologist stumbling on the fragmentary remains of our society and the only information you had for interpreting the modern English word "feminism" was an idea of its linguistic roots.

But it is unreasonable when you actually have access to the modern world in which it is used.
A devastating loss indeed. Has cause of death been released? She was so young.

EDIT: Surprised by the downvotes. I'm leaving it, regardless. The question does not imply any lack of respect for the deceased. Those who think it does are wrong.
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Basically this. This whole "I'm racist, you're racist, can the world ever forgive us?" wave of pseudoempathy is a load of nonsense.
My guess is an applicant that stated the above would be allowed to work for free :)
Thanks for this and giving a place to donate.
Interesting and very ethical. Opposite of me. I don't see that a company should own your soul when you work for them. So doing a small amount of work for effectively beer money in your spare time is no problem. Even taking a second job is OK if it doesn't affect your first one.
Sure, 100% agree with you there! Facebook are very much into the nasty 'UI and UX Dark Patterns' game; the sort of things for which the 'lifetime achievement' award goes to RyanAir, of course. It seems like they are _trying_ to improve, now that people have noticed. But there's a big difference between:

1.) The Facebook and Google AIs are teaming up and following me and my friends and family around the web to see what we each had for breakfast.

2.) Facebook sort of tricked me into not clicking the button that said I won't not disallow them to keep all my personal information, and link it to my friends data too, if they can.
Yeah, if you associate with idiots. Hey check out my username, it's my actual name, too!
Blanket prohibitions on moonlighting are illegal in California AFAICT, unless it's framed as a conflict-of-interest avoidance issue. See http://codes.lp.findlaw.com/cacode/LAB/1/d1/4/s96, section (k).
The strawberry commission is also funding a start-up that is specifically focused on strawberry harvesting. However, the industry has done a lot with partial automation.

They have these multi-row picking support tractors that mean that the pickers don't have to spend much time walking with boxes (or running!! they are paid by weight or box) and can spend time doing the thing that is hard to automate.
Take home interviews are common in data science, and they are deeply exploitative. I have been asked to spend anywhere between an hour to a week on a project, and in most cases they simply decline to hire you without giving you any feedback. In the worst cases, companies like Knewton and Mattermark have given take home interviews that not only took a lot of time, but were related to the companies core business model. In other words, it's free consulting.

And finally, you aren't fooling anyone when you say that it should take 3 hours, or as long as they want to spend on it, while giving them 3 days. You are pressuring people to spend as much time on the problem as possible to "prove they are a good programmer." It's exploitative - you aren't paying us and the probability that we will get hired is extremely small. Think about how many companies we are interviewing with.
People wouldn't know unless they looked up their twitter page. People here are using "her" because the article uses "her."
https://twitter.com/noirinp
Anyone want to do a $1 bet on an over/under for how long until word lens can handle Chinese?
My two take-home experiences (one right out of college, one a couple years later) were fun, interesting, and much more laid-back than what you described. I would say if a company is placing such strict requirements on you and it is not a place you desperately want to work you should walk away. Hard for a recent college grad to do, but there are plenty of jobs out there.
This. It's sad to have this in the standard but with no vendors communicating their intention to implement it and no way to polyfill that doesn't involve significant overhead.

So close yet so far. This is JavaScript's curse.
Which parts of that post were so extreme that it would be wiser to say then anonymously, in your view?

The fact that so called "racists" are unable to freely[0] express even a moderate opposition to the mainstream narrative on racism, is the best proof that this narrative is at best incomplete.

[0] e.g. without fear of losing ones job.
It's not entirely clear to me, but this sentence from the article:

In the end, we were able to get our networks to give us significantly better results while running about as fast as our old system—great for translating what you see around you on the fly.

Suggests that they previously were not using neural networks, or were using less powerful ones.
Hyperloop! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperloop
This is one example [1]

[1] http://englishcowpath.blogspot.com/2011/06/euphemism-treadmi...

Just switch back to imbecile for the next 100 years? Problem solved? Clearly not, the underlying issue has nothing to do with the word but meanings that people attach to them and that is something that will not be fixed by outlawing the word as the meanings attached will shift to a new word.
> I'll give you some numbers less than 1% of patents are ever asserted, and only a fraction of them make it to a trial. The vast majority of patents lie fallow because there is no demand for their technology in the market. Now does that look like a serious problem anymore?

It sounds like you are arguing to abolish patents. The rest of the world is held hostage for under 1% of the patents issued? It doesn't sound like a serious problem to just do away with then all according to your stats.
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Gauging ability to operate under pressure is valuable too...ever tried to fix a bug on a device that was supposed to ship yesterday, under the pressure of the entirety of the hierarchy above you all the way up to the CxO?

It helps to know if the candidate you hire will handle that, or fall apart just when you need him/her to do the job he/she is paid for.
XAML is much better at solving the UI issue on the desktop. Notably, it allows you to use binding logic to ensure your data model for your application doesn't carry all the weight of the UI logic (such as coloring, resizing, en/dis-abling controls, and etc). So, your XAML contains all the logic that deals with UI and your data model (view-model) contains all the values to be displayed (and possibly some of the business logic tied to those values).
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Out of curiosity, what are the demographics of the people who made these suggestions?

Were they employed? Were they very desirable to companies? Were they very undesirable to companies? Did they have financial hardships? College graduates? College dropouts?

I think it's important to remember how diverse the hiring pool is, and which voices tend to be the loudest. I would argue that the advice most companies get are from very successful companies. Similarly engineers likely seek advice from very successful engineers.

Both these groups are in the minority I think, and would thus not be in the best position to dictate for the majority (strictly in terms of fulfilling individual needs that they themselves have not encountered, personally or otherwise).

Example: 10x programmer wants a hiring process that caters to 10x programmers.

Problem: Vast majority of programmers do not fall into this category, and would not benefit from such a system. Yet companies want 10xers, so they go with it anyways. Then they complain about how hard it is to hire programmers.
But isn't this the point of removing outliers, to avoid a single data point overly clouding the significance? To be fair, by similar logic they should arguably remove one or more of the least successful businesses, but all failures are generally 'equally unsuccessful' but no two successes are equivalent.
It's exactly like being good at academic test taking.

I'm very good at memorization (of facts, ideas/concepts, and procedures/algorithms) and that allowed me to do well in my younger years and in standardised testing, so I always just scoffed when I heard other people complain about how it was a poor proxy for knowledge / abilities.

Of course, now I'm terrible at pretty much all the standard ways of interviewing developers (...here's where you say I'm probably just a bad developer) and now I have all this past-due empathy for those I disregarded before.
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The "use a stupid heuristic as part of the evaluation function" is is, in fact, also an important part of Chess AI's mode (as Quiescence Search), through for different reasons.
Cellphones have existed since the 1980s. It takes time for technology to (incrementally) improve to a broadly usable state.
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We (http://timeblock.com) are building a SaaS app for our new working method TimeBlock.

To help our customers I an wondering if we should build and gove access to a discussion forum where they could ask questions, help each other and find motivation.

Would you recommend that we create such a site, and if yes - build on what platform?
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> I think Github is itself mostly white guys.

Why should race or sex even be a part of the equation of "Hire or Not?"

But don't worry. Github hired a bunch of women for their women-only area, Passion Projects. They only hire women, so it's a "Safe Space".

... and it appeases the feminists so that we don't have to hold to high standards of programming. They do the frilly 'social media' productions because you know "women are good at social".

Edit: And that's the problem with specialized woman-only hiring procedures. They look good from a PR aspect as well as an appeasement angle, but the message they deliver is "Women aren't as good as men, so we have 'special' programs for them."
Rather than pick a new project, however, they'll take the same project further, incorporating feedback from the 1st interview.

Is there still judgmental coding during the 2 hour interview?
Here's a pdf of a poster where someone did basically that, using computer simulations of course. Their figure 5 shows debris zones [edit: actually garbage patches] that are pretty close to Reunion

http://www.researchgate.net/profile/Charitha_Pattiaratchi/pu...

I'll update if I can find the other refs.

Update: To do this correctly, you'd need winds, and the approx windage of the object. Coast Guard search and rescue simulations take this into account. Wind can push objects on top of the ocean currents.
>The simple truth no one here wants to admit while they argue slippery slopes and excluded middles about how the only harm worth noting is total genocide: there is no real communicative value for github in allowing slurs on the site.

That's not actually the issue at hand. Github isn't actually supposed to communicate anything at all on their site, good or bad. They're supposed to act as a platform and a common carrier for others. This requires that they not be subject to a heckler's veto, as anyone can understand if they stroll down to a university campus and look at what happens when an unpopular political group attempts to hold a meeting in a classroom (eg: they get blockaded and shouted down by hecklers).

And by "unpopular", I don't mean "Hey let's throw slurs around for the lulz", I mean, "Anything to do with the Middle East, or the Radical Students' Union, or the Campus Republicans, or anything to do with the Middle East."
Sorry for the late response. My email is in my profile!
I am making a tool that showcases 10 new ideas/early projects each day. Sort of a combination of Yahoo news digest with Product hunt. With the purpose of helping form these new ideas.

For each of the ideas/projects, the maker can get feedback by asking multiple choice questions for viewers to answer.

Is this something you might be interested in using to promote and shape your side projects?
"Phoning it in", too.