skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>DDOS! Rootkits! Boot sequence! And the two guys are totally into the story, but the girl doesn't get it. I think that's sexist, and I'm not OK with it. Why would that be sexist? It's conveying the stereotype that women are "not technical," that they are not interested by computers, and when there is a "geeky" TV show they won't "get it."

Well, apart from a "stereotype" it's also a statistical reality. So what is an artist/writer/filmaker/etc who wants to depict the world AS IT IS to do?

We don't ask Tarantino or Michael Bay to show people being nice to each other and happy in their lives in their movies, in to change society to a more kind one.
Now you're thinking in right direction.
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There's probably a less confrontational way to phrase the question if you're looking to have a meaningful discussion.

Are you confused by the concept of affirmative action? It's not a new idea and there's a considerable body of academic research and opinions for and against it online.
The classified plan to shoot down a plane of college students [pdf]
I'll be very curious to see numbers on outcomes attributable to this effort.
That's a pretty bad metaphor. I am refusing OP's free beer, because I don't drink beer. I also question the need of giving away free alcohol. Instead, I take the free glass of water from the next guy.
Yes. We've been working on it for a while and are hopeful we can start alpha-testing it soon. There has been much discussion of this, including elsewhere in this thread (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10224045, and follow the links from there).

The last few times this has come up I have begun to feel a gnawing fear that everyone has an incompatible idea of what "mobile-friendly" and "responsive" means, and the disagreement about how it should work will never cease. I guess we'll find out soon enough.
Ahead-of-time JavaScript compiler
The fear is not unfounded of course, but I think there are two mechanisms at work here:
1. in the US the media blows these things up much more than in Europe. In fact there is a lot more attention for crime in general, while traffic accidents get much less attention.
2. Similar robberies do take place in Europe, but I think Europeans tend to shrug them off more, assuming there's only a very small chance it will happen to them.

Also, for some reason, whenever something bad happens, the US seems to respond with bigger countermeasures, more stringent laws and heftier punishments. Europeans are amazed when they read that children are sometimes threatened with tens of years of jailtime for relatively small incidents.
I see. It just that the concept just feels weird to me, targeting specifically a few types of people. I suspect having that here where I'm from (Portugal), would have been construed as being racist.
Again, not being a troll, just trying to understand.
I played this for half an hour earlier today. Great fun and superbly executed.

Just tried again on my tablet and unfortunately I just got the spinning loading bar. Not sure if it's just a bandwidth thing?
How eBay cheats sellers out of money
For the record, I didn't make the "6 digit salaries" claim. I'd be thrilled if world-class (or even top 5-10%) teachers could command those kinds of rates without having to teach in the richest school districts for decades.

I'd also note that those are salaries (and similar for others in this discussion) are for 187-day school calendars, or 37.4 weeks/year. Generously applying the same rate to a 46 week/year "full time" calendar puts the top end in Round Rock at over $78,000. The median household income in Round Rock is around $70,000[1], suggesting that it isn't outrageous for a couple of married teachers there to earn well above average, even without summer income.

Also, at least in MA, many teachers are not required to pay Social Security tax, but instead pay into a much more generous pension system. Other benefits are also competitive relative to the private sector.

Again, though, I'm all for teachers making more money so more talented people are encouraged to teach. But the tenure system is not the way to get that result.

[1] http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/48/4863500.html
Notice that it's Black and Hispanic, and not Asian? At least Asian women might have dedicated office hours ("We will start with Black and Hispanic founders and if successful we hope to launch future Open Office Hours for Women, Veterans, and International founders.")

Always seems like Asian men in the U.S. get the 'worst' of being a minority. Neither the societal advantages of white majority, nor the ability to access services available to Hispanics/Blacks or women.
Yup[0].

[0]: http://freetheanimal.com/2015/08/fall-bloodletting-iron.html
Discussed a few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10198015
I disagree. HN should not do this.
HOW ELSE WOULD A KID GET INVITED TO THE WHITEHOUSE WITHOUT PULLING STRINGS?

THE TEEVEE LADY TOLD ME THAT HE AND OBAMA ARE CONSPIRING TO >KILL THE PRESIDENT<
Slack (and on-premises open source variants like Rocket Chat and Mattermost) are much better for this kind of communication I think. I think chat will eat Facebook at Work, Yammer and all the other tools.
First, no, they do freak out for paying taxes for education, and it's pretty obvious that the hostility increases with age and as the elderly rely on social welfare programs. They get out and vote. Traditionally they vote down any education funding, as a cohort.

In my experience the people who claim the public schools are "broken" the loudest are the least qualified to make such an assessment. Also, public schools reflect the public, as in, you know, society at large. Saying that public schools are broken is essentially saying our basic local systems are broken, and that opens a whole new can of worms regarding inequality, poverty, and social priorities.

The significant problem with your "End of story" type solution is that there are schools which are tantamount to educational fraud based on their religious priorities, and there's no way public monies should enable that type of selectivity. Pay into the public system. If you can afford to keep your child ignorant through religious pursuits, or can afford the opportunity for a selective population experience by way of a private school, that's totally fine, always has been and always will be.

Stop forcing schools to listen to broken people.
By all means, paint 20 million people with the same brush.
Can we shut down GEMA while we're at that?
That definition makes no assumption about a groups contribution; as the definition is indifferent of the socio-economic system at hand (free-market, closed market, communal, etc) if the distribution of privilege and goods is different for individuals depending on race then there is a system of racism at hand.
Is it? I mean, even the people who survive the layoffs are going to know that the company doesn't give a shit about them, and as such, they're not gonna care about the company. People who don't care about the company aren't going to work as hard.
Anyone else snicker at the bit about page faults on page 8?

Apple is apparently now promoting the use of mmap:

> While this is a “solution”, it introduces the possibility of the user encountering page faults, which is an error/exception that occurs when the system is trying to access memory that is mapped into virtual memory but not actually loaded into RAM. This is something that, for the most part, has never existed on mobile devices.
What probably happened here is that the kid bought one of the many digital clock board kits available.[1][2] The problem is that these look just like the TV/movie version of bombs, because, of course, prop people use the same boards.

Not real bombs, though. Richard Marcinko, the founder of Seal Team Six, once wrote that he'd blown up a lot of things in his career and he'd never seen a count down timer with glowing numbers.

[1] http://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-make-a-digital-clock-...
[2] https://www.sparkfun.com/products/10930
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As well as Zuck inviting him to Facebook's HQ: http://www.theverge.com/2015/9/16/9338747/mark-zuckerberg-fa...
29 Growth Hacks to Sky Rocket Your Mobile App
I just experienced a moment of pride in the leadership of our country
> I also found this odd: "I missed the sugar and milk in my coffee " Wait, why were you eliminating milk?

Possibly, because people who drink sugar and milk in coffee tend to do so for taste, and find that either element on its own (or even both but in something other than the preferred balance) is not desirable, often worse than just drinking coffee black.
Writing Libraries for the Modern Web
Fluff tends to get flagged off the front page pretty quickly, so it may not turn out to be a problem. But if that does start to happen, please let us know. We can turn it off, or maybe turn it off on the front page.

I'm surprised that the green sites turned out to be controversial because I have found them helpful as a moderator and a reader, but in retrospect I can see why a visually noticeable change would be. We're not attached to this feature.
From the article:

Why doesn’t the Fed sell its Treasury bonds then?

Because there’s no one buyer big enough to purchase them. The Federal Reserve itself is now the world’s largest holder of US government debt, after its bond-buying programs pushed its holdings above those of China.

In an otherwise interesting and well written article, this is just an absurd statement. They are under no obligation to sell all of them. They can sell whatever amount is appropriate to lower the price (and raise the rate) to where they want it. Further, toward the end of the article, it is suggested that they might have trouble raising the long term rates even if they are able to successfully raise the short term rate . . . well, duh, sell some of the long term treasury bonds.
There's still a big difference between WhatsApp and the likes of Facebook when it comes to complexity. Last I checked, WhatsApp does not do face recognition, to pick an example at random.
What are the best practices to follow in a single-repo-multiple-projecrs world?
Some people recommend git submodule, others recommend subtree.

How do you guys manage alerts and messages - does every developer get a commit notification,or is there a way to filter out messages based upon submodule.

How does branching and merging work?

I'm wondering what processes are used by non-Google/FB teams to help them be more productive in a monolithic repo world.
BANKRUPTCY: Not ALL REASONS TO GO BANKRUPT ARE GOOD
So this is basically open to anyone (not just YC program people)? My wife here in Europe would love a helping hand with her new business.
I don't want to suggest that what the school and police did to this guy is anything but terrible, but I suspect that he'll actually be fine in the long run. If I were an admissions officer at MIT, I'd jump at the chance to admit someone with an essay "I was arrested for building a clock".

I think the bigger concern is all the people who get in trouble with the powers that be, and don't have media savvy parents with time or knowledge or connections to get something in the local paper and/or get in touch with civil rights organizations.
Torvalds Says Goodbye to EXT3
I'm not sure it is a question of 'might'. If you give any way for people to conduct illegal data trade online which protects them from prosecution, they will use it. But to me it still makes as much sense as banning cars because sometimes people drink and drive.
I noticed the moralistic hand wringing about the propriety of ad blockers.
The Irving ISD Student Code of Conduct, which the principle alleges the student to have broken, can be downloaded at http://www.irvingisd.net/Page/5183.

I couldn't find anything in there prohibiting a clock or other non-communication related electronic devices. I didn't read every word so maybe I missed something.

I did find the following under the prohibited items section: "Any articles not generally considered to be weapons, including school supplies, when the principal or designee determines that a danger exists."

But that would seem to create a dilemma in this situation. If it was a bomb it wouldn't be covered by that stipulation, but if it was a clock then no reasonable person could consider it to be dangerous.

If we're being charitable we could assume the principled believed it was a bomb at the time, in which case it would have been covered by other stipulations in the code. But if that is the case then I would think the school should have been evacuated. I don't know if that happened or not.

Also, good lord, I don't ever remember having to sign something like that document (it's a 44 page document that reads like a contract) when I was in school. Is it even legally binding to have a minor sign that?
Are you conflating the phrase "whites always get favoured" with the notion of "white privilege"?
A lot of Americans think this is racist too. It's basis is rooted in the fact that "white people" still haven't repaid "black people" for slavery.
The idea seems pretty awesome. But how often can you find better prices?
These are critical parameters that we're completely blind to. I'm pro-legalization myself, because I think the data will ultimately support it as being the best option, but we need to check that hypothesis with reality.
Thank you for publicly complaining about a completely-obvious-from-context idiom so sassily
They did mention they planned on later opening rounds specifically for foreign founders. But if you are based in the U.S., I think they'd consider you a hispanic founder and thus eligible for the current round, yes? I'm Brazilian too, btw, so kinda curious about this. Although I have no start-up aspirations just yet :-(
I think it tends to happen when big companies have too many mangers per employee but because of all the fiefdom battles cause of that excess the needed trimming never goes right.
FWIW: git submodules are not a single repo by definition. It's just a way to automate the checkout of specifically-versioned external projects without requiring hackery like packing tarballs into the project source. It has its uses, but it's definitely not what they're talking about here.
Good question! My best answer is that many members of these groups have an even harder time starting a startup. In addition to all the normal outreach we do to all startup founders (6500+ applied for the last batch) we also want to do targeted outreach to underrepresented groups in order to close the gap.
Attributed String for iOS 9 in Swift
Are Texas public schools not proof that public schools are not immune from this "teach the children ignorance and hate" thing you speak of? You have to think past stage-one if you want to meddle with peoples' lives on such a grand scale.
Haha.. I like your thinking..:) Thanks for the laugh..:)
Really? This article sounds very over simplified, but I haven't worked at google so I wouldn't know. I'm assuming if you want to change some much depended on library, there's a way to up the version number so you don't hose all your downstream users. That's the way it worked at Amazon at least. Also, I wonder why the people in the story think Google's codebase is larger than that of other tech giants, not that it really matters.
Group X is not well represented, due to many factors. We can't address those factors, but we can help Group X in our organization.
I don't know the reasoning behind the rules. I think it's safe to say that almost no couples distribute their parental leave so that the biological mother has less than 10 weeks leave, and few have significantly less leave for the mother than the father.

It's probably just an artifact of some sort; it has no practical significance. I'm pretty sure that the 49/59 weeks include delivery though.
Just apply anyway if you're European American, Asian-American, or have familial originals in the Balkans / Middle East / SEA. Playing the race card is a political move various corporations' head-honchos in the spotlight of society must submit to doing in America, but it doesn't mean they aren't willing to help someone who is a "gem in the rough" and earnestly needs their help just because that person isn't black / hispanic / woman.

But say you submit two applications of virtually same quality except one is stereotypical black/hispanic/woman, and the other stereotypical white, and the latter gets rejected, then you have a case regarding true racism, as oppose to just political correctness.
I've been using G1 for quite a long now and it doesn't do a major stop the world GC, unless in some very extreme theoretical situations I've never encountered yet. However sub-10-millisecond pause targets are still a challenge, but there is a lot of progress in this area still being made.
Agree with Sam's comment on this thread - we should do both
Symphony, a chat service from Wall Street, takes on Bloomberg
This isn't surprising to hear coming from Texas, the state where legislation has titles like "The Save Orphans of Firemen Act" but actually when you read it, you find out they just want to bulldoze some poor peoples' homes on the east side of town to build a dump. And the bill includes some gerrymandering in the Ferengi print. Texas is like that.
> but just for a second, consider that {insert for-profit college name} is providing a service that people want and that's why people are choosing it.

Are you aware of how extremely predatory many of these for-profit colleges have been? Their students aren't getting something they want.

I don't disagree with vouchers in general, but you can't just ignore the risks when using public funds to have private institution provide education.
That's a poor study to cite. If you took two people of any one race and sent them looking for jobs, probably as often as not one would fare much better than the other just because of individual variability. You get hired based on your interview(s), not your resume.
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> The solution to the excessive API change problem is to force
> whoever changes the API to fix all the consumers himself
> before the change is accepted.

This doesn't seem scalable. Let's consider the case of one api endpoint being changed by one developer, to add a new param to a function call. Further assume that this impacts hundreds of projects.

Does it really make sense to make one developer update those hundred projects? Not only will it take forever for it to get finished (possibly never if there are new consumers of this api coming online frequently), but the developer of the core api may not have any experience in the impacted consumers of this codebase. I think the end result of this policy would be nothing once written ever would get updated, and new apis would just be added all the time (api explosion).
You planning to open up such a thing for the handicapped as well?

I mean, until the ACA came along, I pretty much took a risk-aversion pattern career path so I wouldn't get thrown into the "prexisting condition" abyss, and I'm probably not alone here. Personally speaking, a lot of handicapped folk I've met through the years are quite clever, innovative, and determined, because starting life at the plate with a 3-2 count is a lot different than being on 3rd base, if you catch my metaphorical drift. Just curious.
Setup a donation page, I'll chip in.
Veterans? What does this word mean in this context? I would expect it to mean a military veteran (this is what wikipedia thinks), but it sounds very weird here.

PS. I'm neither living in America nor a native speaker so excuse my lack of knowledge
Crowds, Bubbles, and Crashes
I feel like this article assumes a ton of context. I guess Colorado has a tax free day today? I had to infer that from article, since it doesn't explain it, just references some "accounting error". Which might be the prediction being off? Who knows!
Let say you are a terrorist, would you try to bring a bomb through security like that?
Situation A: They mostly never check bags because they need to close the airport for it.
Situation B: They mostly check bags.

Just increasing the odds of being checked is a deterrent.

> A bomb in a security checkpoint is just as, if not more, scary and deadly.

Is it really? I'm not that good in physic but a plane that explode, or that's hijacked does at least 100 deaths, and has the potential to do even more. Could you do that at a security checkpoint?
The interest rate / inflation is largely low because the central banks are trying to keep it low / not trying to raise it.

The return from consumer savings accounts being near inflation / a near-zero real rate of return is because of the savings glut.

The two are related but not the same thing.
A look at the actual racial distribution of every major tech company hurts your point here.
>Well twitter is a project indirectly controlled by the NSA and other organizations across the world. Most of the accounts aren't even real and are probably used to push political narratives (everyone is a racist, everyone is a terrorist).

I noticed that myself! Almost every Twitter account I see is pushing the political narrative that everyone is a racist or a terrorist. I was wondering why Infosec Taylor Swift was suddenly going on and on about "killing the ragheads". Now that I know the majority of Twitter comments are propaganda, it makes sense. I feel bad for liking her music though, since that's probably agitprop as well.

>Ever notice how often the people who get arrested for terrorism have a twitter account?

I know, right? what are the chances of any particular person having an account on one of the most popular social media sites in the world? What do they say, "once is happenstance, twice is coincidence, three times is enemy action?" Well in this case 300 million times is obviously an elaborate government conspiracy.

> The "good ole southern boys" aren't posting on twitter and most don't even know how to use it, yet there's all this "racism". It's really just other world governments trying to cause social unrest.

I know! Americans in the South are clearly too stupid to know how to use a computer, and I can't understand why people are fooled into thinking racist or ignorant comments are actually made by racist or ignorant people. Must be the government.

And the US government is in the north.

Oh my God the pieces are coming together now....

>There is not enough evidence to say without a doubt that the US government manipulates American social media, but we can say without a doubt that they do have sophisticated software for the purpose of spreading propaganda, they do manipulate some social media,

Wait. The tone of this is not at all in line with the remarks at the beginning of your comment. This is a reasonable and measured statement.

They got to you, didn't they? They saw that you were about to blow the lid off the whole house of cards and replaced you with a government drone.

I thought Hacker News was the last place that was safe, but it seems there's nowhere left where the truth can be spoken. We're truly living in 1984 now.
Google is rumored to have an extremely powerful distributed compilation farm. It wouldn't surprise me if a single developer could make a change that affects the entire codebase and test it themselves.
This is open to all people trying to start tech startups
Seems like their alcohol taxes are far too low, considering how much more harmful alcohol is versus marijuana.
I'm a bit crestfallen to read this.

My initial reaction to hearing influential people were standing up for this kid was one of happiness but I can totally see the "hoax bomb" narrative getting extended to the President by some of the people I interact with here [edit: here where I am standing, not here on HN]: "Did you hear that this kid made a hoax bomb and took it to school and Obama invited him to the White House as a reward???"

On the bright side, maybe the anti-Obama knee jerk will be counteracted by the outrage "girl chewed PopTart into shape of gun, got suspended" stories tend to generate around here.