skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Third-party academic research showing that Asian-Americans have to score significantly higher on the SATs than other students to gain admission to Harvard.

The reason given was that Harvard uses uses participation in non-academic events as a mechanism to exclude Asian students.

You can read about it, and the lawsuit filed, here:

http://www.wsj.com/articles/complaint-alleging-discriminatio...
what is the definition of a white whald idea
i googled ... but nothing quick came back
Yep, there were people I knew that went from bartending, to "web programming" for a year then back to bartending.

They got hired at ~100k/yr in the midwest to a company that didn't sell anything. This "bubble" is entirely different. It strikes me more as the vc bubble finally coming to the realization that not everything is worth investing in with rates as they will now be in the future.
Just look at Japan.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Ramapo_Central_School_D...

Read the history section.

Vigilante street patrols with vehicles made to look like marked and unmarked police vehicles, often under the guise of being affiliated with a volunteer ambulance service:

http://privateinvesigations.blogspot.com/2011/07/williamsbur...

http://gothamist.com/2010/06/05/pedestrian_struck_by_volunte...
Actually, living in city is (1) good for environment - no SUV trips, energy efficient buildings, and (2) good for soul - activities, theatres. I think love for suburbs (and then driving 30 miles to work and burning natural resources to catch up with city lifestyle) is mostly a US thing.
/See What Happens When You Put Ice Cube on This Place of Your Body
Customers for what?
There are _very_ few cases in which you should use the ! operator and all of them are tied to Interface Builder and non-finalized Obj-C APIs. Just use the if let construct or guards.
A Message to Slack Employees
I find the Chinese greenhouses described in the follow up intriguing: http://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2015/12/reinventing-the-green...
10 horsepower is more than 7 kilowatts of output. I think a typical car heater uses much less than this. Perhaps someone knows more precise figures.
I also thought the point made about innovation in production technology being the main driver of success in the auto industry as something that would be very attractive for Apple. Many, if not most, of their breakthroughs in the last few years have been in hardware manufacturing tech.
The author of this howto and I were best friends back in college. Good times.
As another deaf developer (severe-to-profound loss), this is absolutely on point. A lot of the traditional techniques that work for most companies don't work for me, especially when it comes to pair programming. I strongly dislike group stand-ups, because I never know who's going to talk next.

One of the other things I've found myself struggling with is when to tell someone that I have a hearing loss. I feel like if I do it in the first interview, I'll set off unconscious biases, and during the hiring meeting someone will think, "Well, he can't hear shit, which might make it harder to get things done over time", and I won't get the job. On the other hand, once I get that offer and accept, then they're already invested in me, and a little bit of extra effort would be worth it. I tend to go back and forth on it. Some interviews I say it straight up, others I wait until I get an offer, and sometimes I only mention it if I think it's interfering somehow with the progress of the interview or project (e.g., I find myself saying "what" a lot or mishearing what they said).

It's a tough problem, and I wish I felt more confident about how other people would respond to that knowledge. I usually feel... safer?... when I've already secured the position, but honestly, I've never had a bad reaction to it from anyone, so maybe I'm just overthinking things.

I'm rambling now. Anyway. Totally agree with the post.
Not at all a new observation. The Cambridge Keynesians of the post-WWII era deliberated various models of growth, income distribution and business cycles that had the curious property of assuming that the rate of growth is actually countervailed by the expansion of the capital stock. They assumed that modern capital goods were more fixed than variable, durable but also factor-specific and mostly inconvertible, hence a growing capital stock would actually lock you into path dependence and a higher rate of depreciation. The more you grow, the more you regress.

The Kaldor-Kalecki nonlinear dynamic business cycle model, the Kaleckian profit equation and Robinson's growth model are probably the most interesting results out of that era that still retain an influence on heterodox thinkers.

That said, one should be very wary of all such simplifying models since they all carry contestable assumptions. Nonetheless, they do pose intellectual curiosities.

I don't know if Robert J. Gordon explores this. The Post's review mostly rehashes the more naive dystopian arguments, so I'll have to check.
>but in just under a decade or so, electric cars are going to have range parity with gasoline ones.

Only if investment and breakthroughs continue. Moore's law worked out well because people kept buying computers constantly since they were useful even while much slower. When it comes to electric cars though, there is little incentive for consumers to buy them at the moment so there is a significant risk of investment petering out.
I actually wrote it myself, based on conditional random fields! I would not recommend doing this - it was mostly an exercise to learn how they work. I should probably have mentioned that I manually cleaned up the results a bit. I understand nltk has NER capabilities and python bindings, though.
This is a relatively recent development and certainly wasn't true for most of Ashkenazi history.
The divided world debate at Davos
Eh, I'm of two minds here.

1) sure, there was effort put into this and it likely wouldn't have been made w/out affiliate links, so clearly there's value provided.

2) it's pretty clear that a list like this is going to underrepresent books where an amazon link is less likely --- superior free alternatives to the books listed in some cases. Using affiliate links (and, as far as I can tell, only undisclosed affiliate links) suggests that getting an accurate "top 30" wasn't the highest priority.

So the affiliate links are a signal of intent, and intent affects accuracy in this case. But the list wouldn't have been written otherwise.

"You've figured out a way to post native content advertising to Hacker News" would be the equally uncharitable counterpoint to your mock quote.
For those in the US, UCL's one of the crunchier CS universities outside ImpBridge.
It'll cost money to hire a good hacker but if you can pay for it, onetimehacker@outlook.com can help you get this done in no time.
>Discounting multiple links by the same user is a good idea.

Yes, it looks like at least 14 of the "The Rent Is Too Damn High" links seem to come from the user "jseliger":

https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=site:news.ycombinator.c...
What's the context?
Which country are you in?
What are your skills?

If you're in the UK...

I've been contracting about 3 years now and started it the simple (and probably dumb) way - stick a resume up on jobsite.co.uk, wait for agents to call. Lots will. Be nice to them on the phone but be firm about what rates and locations you're willing to work. You'll get lots of useless ones who haven't even bothered to read it, but no matter, you'll learn to filter them out pretty quickly. Remember the good ones. Rinse, repeat.

I've had two contracts now through reputation, which is quite nice, but getting contracts from previous workmates isn't a panacea. One of them was the most boring thing I've ever done in my life (worse than shelf-stacking in a warehouse) and I quit after three weeks because I was literally unable to complete the work it was so dull. I told the client that I was poor value for money and a recent graduate would be a better choice. The other one was good though!

Also, make sure you're prepared for some time off between contracts, it's pretty much going to happen.
I've created a business that tries to do this before. Well, the business was an events aggregator in NYC, but we envisioned that would be one of the future features.

When you learn how to force people to check-in to a club and broadcast it, you'll have this app. Until then, it's really difficult.

I once had an idea was that you would open up the app and it would have two buttons: (1) MALE (2) FEMALE. Clicking one would check you into that club. This would solve what a lot of people want -- where are the people & who are those people?

Even something that simple though -- what's the reward for the user checking in? On Foursquare, it was awards and badges and stuff. If you could do that around night-life, you might have something.
To contact a professional hacker for hire contact onetimehacker@outlook.com
AMA for the Node.js Foundation Board of Directors Candidates
Develop a Winning Publicity Strategy
Who links to amazon for SICP?
I think whenever the line of thinking is, "X is such a huge market, even if we capture just 1% of it we would be rich!" that's a white whale.
A large number of my friends who are jewish Russian immigrants. I literally only know one Eastern European gentile. He claims everyone wanted to leave the Soviet Union.

I think churches also sponsored Russian immigrants in the 80s and 90s.

Update: I found this site[1].

Both the tsarist Russian and Soviet governments placed restrictions on emigration. In 1885 the imperial Russian government passed a decree that prohibited all emigration except that of Poles and Jews, which explains the small numbers of non-Jewish Russians in the United States before World War I. By the early 1920s, the Bolshevik/communist-led Soviet government implemented further controls that effectively banned all emigration. As for the second-wave White Russian refugees who fled between 1920 and 1922, they were stripped of their citizenship in absentia and could never legally return home. This situation was the same for the post-World War II DPs, who were viewed as Nazi collaborators and traitors by the Soviet authorities.

In contrast, the fourth wave of Russian immigration that began in late 1969 was legal. It was formally limited to Jews, who were allowed to leave the Soviet Union for Israel as part of the agreements reached between the United States and the Soviet Union during the era of détente. In return for allowing Jews to leave, the United States and other western powers expanded the economic, cultural, and intellectual ties with their communist rival. Although Jews leaving the Soviet Union were only granted permission to go to Israel, many had the United States as their true goal; and by 1985 nearly 300,000 had reached the United States.

After 1985 the more liberal policy of the Soviet government under Mikhail Gorbachev allowed anyone to leave the Soviet Union, and thousands more Jewish and non-Jewish Russians immigrated to the United States. Because Russia is an independent country with a democratically elected government, newcomers cannot justify their claim to emigrate on the grounds of political or religious persecution. This has resulted in a slowing of Russian emigration during the last decade of the twentieth century.

[1] http://www.everyculture.com/multi/Pa-Sp/Russian-Americans.ht...

Immigration history is fascinating. I'm reading about the other groups here: http://www.everyculture.com/multi/Bu-Dr/index.html
Breakthrough in cell transformation could revolutionise regenerative medicine
Also, attracting and retaining talent. Talented devs are only going to stay interested in writing ObjC for so long.
Bringing SQL Server into Agile Development
What a shame that we Americans, who pride ourselves on what we think of as our democratic, egalitarian society, are among the worst when it comes to contempt for certain professions.

Secretarial work is perfectly respectable work. Someone has to do it, and it's not something just anyone can do. Would the denigrators of secretaries prefer that no one answer the phones, no one answer the emails, no one keep an organization humming smoothly? Ridiculous.

Technology of course has reduced the body count; gone are the typing pools of yore, the large administrative offices full of (mostly) women typing and filing and answering phone calls.

Yet, there still exists the need, to some extent anyway. It's hard to imagine an organization other than, say, a 5-person start-up, getting by without a professional answering service and professionally composed correspondence, reports, well organized filing systems, as well as the intangibles that make office life more bearable, such as selecting plants and artwork, remembering people's birthdays, keeping the kitchenette well stocked, etc.
That's why I said it would be the beginning of the new state. It wouldn't happen overnight. But it's bound to happen.

The fundamental axiom of geopolitics is that when confronted with a threat, humans consistently identify with the people they are closest to and most like. Family first, then tribe, village, region, country.

The size of the threat begets a corresponding organizational response. We don't cooperate all that well with China now, but you can better believe that if there were a compelling reason to, like, say, aliens in our back yard, we'd figure it out in a hurry.
From the point of view of C, it seems that NULL is indeed always defined as 0. At least according to the C FAQ:

http://c-faq.com/null/machnon0.html

It might be that the internal representation used by the compiler is different, but from C a NULL pointer will always be equal to 0. See also:

http://c-faq.com/null/ptrtest.html
> Dumpbin /clrheader <binary file>

This will report the .NET runtime version for any CLR binary.
Yes, thank you. I am curious if there were other groups or it's only limited to Jewish students.
EV battery packs have heaters to keep the batteries from getting too cold. The Model S is the best-selling car in snowy Norway. I'm in Pennsylvania, it's below freezing every night in the winter (and often all day), and my Nissan Leaf doesn't mind at all.
I tried to register for Gun.io and the first thing they want me to do is to write proposal to see if I could communicate, for skillsets that I don't have in a field that I have no knowledge of (GRE over IPSec). I make another try and now it's to write proposal for framework that I never used with explicit "no 'willing to learn' proposals" in the body text. Maybe I'm just unlucky, but if they're asking me to BS on the proposal just to see if I could communicate, then I have to say this is definitely not a good first impression.
I've been playing around with MotionEye OS (https://github.com/ccrisan/motioneyeos/wiki) with a lot of success. I've only tried two cameras, but there is support for more.
The interesting thing here is that you can set the iframe size to a regular desktop-like size, and then use CSS3 transforms to scale the rendered page down to thumbnail size.
A message from Stewart Butterfield to all Slack employees
Thor Heyerdahl
America’s trapping boom relies on cruel and grisly tools
Too bad the Zionist subset is so intent on their solidarity with each other that they're conducting a slow ethnic cleansing of all other non-Jews on the lands that they occupy...
I subscribe to Adrian's email and I bought his bundle. I have never had so much fun with image processing. He definitely makes it easy.
Is GitKraken out now? Last time I checked it was still in beta, so I've been using Tower in the meantime.
Another point to that, is that the default assumption, even for a Tesla is that you can charge it at home during the night. For people living in a flat with car on the street, that means going to a charging station on a regular basis for a full charge.

That is beyond anxiety, it means planning your life around your car range, instead of the other way around. And with the current availability of charging stations, it also determine the place you are allowed to go, that's a very big drawback for people that use their car mainly on the weekend for leisure.
I guess the lesson is don't try to do something where loads of people are doing the same stuff if you're not differentiated. That said a year or so I ran into some guys doing a travel planning startup and they seem to be doing ok - Triphobo. Raised $3m. They are a little different I think. Not that I've surveyed the space. http://yourstory.com/2015/03/triphobo-raises-3-million-fundi...
Slack may fix email. Oculus may fix travel. The problem with these white whale ideas is that people don't realize "fix" == "kill".
As a non-programmer I find your list more interesting.
Thanks for the bug report! :)
For the full paper http://www.nature.com/ng/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/ng.3487....
Not to the NSA... ;-)
“He who takes offense when offense was not intended is a fool, yet he who takes offense when offense is intended is an even greater fool for he has succumbed to the will of his adversary.”
― Brigham Young

That said, I do think the GP has a point: it is possible to divide feedback according to the two sets of criteria mentioned, and that things go better when we craft our communication to be the nicer one (he called it critique, you call it constructive criticism).

I'm not going to use the fact that people should be able to handle criticism to give mean feedback. And I think that's the point he's making - we should choose to be nice.
New rules were instituted, requiring jobs to be advertised locally first : [1]

In addition, as a EP-holding business-owner, I was 'asked' to explain my plans to employ Singaporeans/PRs in the coming year.

OTOH, I don't see this as entirely unreasonable : After all, the USA does the same (for E-2 investor visas, for instance). Moreover, the Singapore visa turn-around time is only a few days (after an online application), whereas the US visa process makes one long for the friendliness of the DMV...

[1] http://www.mom.gov.sg/employment-practices/fair-consideratio...
> The problem with using metrics of what patients and parents think is this is not a good measure of what makes a good doctor or teacher.

I think it's natural to assume this is not a good measure. Let's take teachers. I don't believe a teacher can consistently fool parents into believing they've taught the kid a lot when the kid is obviously not learning. And bluntly, the teacher is supposed to be working for the parent. Why shouldn't the parents decide who they want teaching their kids?
I think the real answer to this sort of problem would be to set up a unit test that involves making a full memory dump and scanning it for private key material. The traps here are just too subtle to try to catch all the failure-to-zero bugs in any other way.
Every other commuter I see seems to solve this problem by reading while they're walking, head down, oblivious to their surroundings.
A typical car heater is "free" in the sense that the heat is generated using the engine coolant. An ICE-powered car as a small heat exchanger called the heater box in the passenger cabin. When the heater is on, a door opens and directs air through the heater box before being blown back into the cabin. As long as the car is running and the engine is hot, you get heat.
> In the Netherlands, which is the world's largest producer of glasshouse grown crops, some 10,500 hectares of greenhouses used 120 petajoules (PJ) of natural gas in 2013

On a recent tour of hydroponic growers in Almeria, Spain, I was told that province alone had 30,000 hectares in commercial greenhouses.
If not, I've wasted my nights and weekends for the better part of a year.
Bingo. As the saying goes, "I would have written a shorter letter, but I didn't have the time." (attr. Pascal)

Saying more with fewer words takes work, and not everyone does it, or can do it.
Don’t check SSL certs when fetching addons
A decade ago I was berating myself for my laziness and other personal factors that led me to going to a "backup" in-state tech school instead of the #3-in-nation that I tried for but could not get acceptance.

Now, seeing that the place I could not get into had quadruple the tuition as the in-state and almost double the room and board, I'm starting to believe that perhaps it was for the best that I did not get in that place.
It's sufficiently compatible to handle e.g. glibc, which is quite a feat, because it uses many and somewhat obscure gcc extensions.
Yes, that's sort of the point I'm (badly) trying to get across. I think the product speaks for itself. That said, I may have misinterpreted the tone of the article.
I'm with you. I don't see much growth. It's time to batten the hatches.

I'm not a Rebublican, but we have too many laws, and regulations. It's stifling in business, and on a personal level. Every day, I think, "What law, or potential fine will I possibly get today. Ever business decision is made with the legality of the move front and center. I don't like living like this. It's like they castrated me. I never thought America would turn into this.
Linux can easily be configured not to do that. Then malloc returns null, when the underlying mmap nicely fails, and this can happen when the address space is nowhere near exhausted.
> it's pretty clear that a list like this is going to underrepresent books where an amazon link is less likely

But the list was explicitly generated from Amazon links... wasn't that always going to be the case?
> Modern compiler optimizations make what you describe not a problem anymore.

Yes, it should get inlined, but I've seen this fail in a recent-ish GCC (4.6 to 4.8 or so). And there's still the issue of debug builds being slower even if the compiler works perfectly in optimized builds.

Operator overloading will only work with SIMD if you write your vector class using intrinsics or SIMD extensions anyway. If you're doing scalar loads and stores, you can't rely on getting SIMD instructions in the output.
What subject?
WhatsApp Is Nearing a Billion Users–Now It’s Time to Find the Money
The course I took promised both, so the problems the article has with speed reading courses are completely fair IMO. They're ridiculous and on par with claiming a pill will make you lose hundreds of pounds without any effort or work.

I've way more than doubled my reading speed from when I took a course 18 years ago. My retention is dramatically higher, as well. The main reason for the increased retention, however, had less to do with the course than a change in the way I consume information from books. If the technical book is worth reading, I read it at least twice. "Read" includes skimming/scanning techniques that I've gotten very good at over 18 years. Thinking "well, I can read 90% faster with these techniques" will result in retention that is very low if you change nothing else. The first read is rapid and haphazard (sometimes just to figure out if it's worth using the book as a source of information). The second read will be honed for specific information (and third and fourth).

That serves two points in favor of retention. By being able to get through a massive text in a weekend with multiple reads (versus a single read over a few weeks), that information hasn't become foggy from multiple long breaks/distractions--it's fresh. My second read is cover-to-cover, but focused with note-taking and doing exercises. Subsequent reads are surgically focused on areas where I am weak and are done more slowly.

Before, my learning was single-pass (with some section/chapter review). Because of the reduced time/effort it takes me read, I can do so in a multi-pass manner with careful focus on learning the material rather than on the act of reading.
Recruiters recruit people, so of course they want a resume. If you aren't a person a person that wants to be recruited or wants to recruit someone, a recruiter is the wrong person to talk to.