skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
By my count it's over 30 characters less "clean". The Java syntax obscures some meaning and requires a lot more boilerplate in favor of less magical (and thus complex) syntax.

I agree that this sort of first-class datetime-type representation may not be appropriate for every language, but myself, I find it refreshing and brilliant, and I'd love to see more languages support this sort of syntax instead of overloading strings or using complicated objects or APIs.

It's like comparing the power and ease of using regular expressions in Perl or Ruby versus in Java or Python. In Perl and Ruby, regexes are built-in to the syntax of the language itself. They're a truly first-class type, like strings and integers are in all four languages, and like lists and dicts/hashes/associative arrays are in Perl, Ruby, and Python.

I'd love to see datetime objects promoted to similar first-class native syntax support in this way in more languages. It won't be appropriate everywhere, but in the right language it'd be amazing.
Atmel's and Microchip's architectures are so different that I wouldn't expect any consolidation of platforms.
People are still willing to invest, but the issue is really that valuations got out of control and that's really hurting a lot of companies. For too many companies these days yesterday's glowing press release about being a 'unicorn' is today's oh $%#&! moment dealing with the ugly reality that sets in when valuations return to some resemblance of reality (e.g., employee stock options that become worthless, lots more tough questions about revenue and profitability and less awe over the hype).

Companies that have a solid product, real revenue (i.e., their revenues aren't just coming from other companies on life support from VC cash) are profitable (or close to being so) and have a valuation based on reasonable multiples of their profit will get through the coming rough waters just fine with only a few bumps. Startups that can't tick those boxes are in for a really rough ride ahead.

Somewhat ironically, the downfall of many of these startups will be that they ever allowed themselves to be valued so highly in the first place. A company that's reasonably valued at $20 million is going to be in a far better place than a unicorn once valued at $2 billion that's now valued at $500 million.
What a big steaming pile of political correctness. The author interviews a tiny handful of mediocre college students who blame their "color" for not getting hired right out of school by big, glamorous tech companies. Are we supposed to be sympathetic?

I remember my own struggles to break into the tech business, many years ago now. Although white and "privileged", i.e. no cultural barriers to entry, I found it very tough and had to jump through hoops, work my way up from semi-tech to actual development positions. I took night school courses on a credit card and got into debt. I bought whatever gear I could afford and stayed up until 3am writing code, then got up and went to my menial job.

The opportunities didn't just fall in my lap; I had to earn them. No glamorous technology titans came knocking on my door, begging me to come interview. I had to work for everything I got, and God, it was hard. It still is.

This same work ethic applied to everyone; I was on the chatboards in the late 80s, all through the 90s, and the 2000s, and the story is always the same. You have to have the right stuff if you want to build a career in technology -- be smart, creative, have some initiative, humility, humor, etc.

So maybe Black Americans don't get that in their upbringing. Maybe they're not taught to be smart, competitive, hard charging over achievers. Maybe they're not encouraged to be creative, to think outside the box, etc. I don't know. What I do know is, you can't compensate for that by handing people undeserved opportunities.

Affirmative action is a failure; it's nothing but a form of welfare. If Google reaches out and hires under qualified people from Howard or wherever, just to say it's trying to overcome "barriers" and achieve "diversity", that's all doublespeak that in the end means "We will hire a few token blacks because we have extra money. It will make us feel good, and it will fool them into thinking they made it. Whatever. We have to do it."
There's a difference between "come as you are" and "come join us". Diversity and assimilation are two different things.
No, traffic sent through tor is encrypted all the way to the exit node. From there, it's in the clear (how else would the data get to its destination on the open internet?)

VPNs are exactly the same. They're encrypted to your provider and cleartext from there. Except the VPN provider knows exactly who you are because they see the IP you're connecting to, in addition to the content. A tor exit node only sees the content, but does not know the source.

No matter how you're connecting, you need to ensure you are running encrypted protocols (SSH, https, ...) to protect against whoever relays your traffic. Tor, VPNs etc do not change this.
White is a class, not a race.

For example Irish people weren't considered white until they gained significant economic power. [1]

Interestingly enough it was somewhat at the expense of Black Americans at the time.

Today, Blacks have significant economic and political power, yet only a handful have achieved "white" status and they are almost all politicians (Pres. Obama) and military leaders (Colin Powell).

[1]https://academic.udayton.edu/race/01race/white13.htm
To be fair, that homogenous white European culture, with about 50 countries, 23 official languages in EU, 225 indigenous languages in whole of Europe, and every valley with its own, sometimes quite distinct, dialect and traditions. Here are some European dialect maps:

http://i.imgur.com/9btMHIT.png

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5b/Continen...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slovene_dialects

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/19/Polska-d...

etc/und so weiter/and so on/et ainsi de suite/...
Looks neat - will have to see how it compares against https://gyrosco.pe/
They aren't though.

Color isn't the defining factor on what TV shows you get to watch.
Honestly as complicated as it is, if you are a manufacturer it's your job to read and understand those standards.

Every spec has edge cases and little things that you need to watch out for, and if these manufacturers are missing pretty major pieces of this spec, well i'm not confident that they aren't missing parts for others as well.
Renesas is a huge microcontroller supplier that no one ever hears about for some reason.

Other major competitors are NXP/Freescale, ST, TI, and Infineon.
Indeed! I was making no comment on the quality of life in Switzerland which is clearly excellent. They have one of the highest GPDs per capita in the world (especially if you exclude a couple of the oil producers that exceed it).

I was merely commenting on the fact that Switzerland does, in fact, have taxes that are higher than what we have in the US.
I think the segregation you were talking about might be attribute to the first generation of immigrants. NYC and many other places have a longer tradition of accepting people from other contries. Many "people in color" in those cities have been there for generations. But in SV, many tech engineers are not born and raised in America. They tend to hangout within their own group for obvious reasons. Compared with NYC, SV has just started to welcome people from other countries.
>freshman CS classes have basically assumed prior (and thorough) computer experience

I imagine that it depends on the school but there's probably some truth to that. I've taken a couple of "Intro to Programming" type classes from top schools. I found the material quite manageable--but then I have a moderate amount of programming experience even though I don't do it for a living. I'm pretty sure that if this were the first time I saw a computer command line or wrote code, I'd have been lost. Freshman physics at those schools may be challenging but it doesn't assume a whole lot of prior exposure (other than an appropriate level of math).
Such a qualitative view of design--Nothing about measurement or business goals. I would argue that one design is better than another only if it can be shown to improve whatever business results you're looking to improve. Are you trying to increase 7-day retention? Get more people through the sign-up funnel? Increase conversion? Test the candidate design next to the old one and see if it's actually improving things. "A bunch of other designers think this is a great design" is not really good justification for spending development hours implementing it.
> like Star Wars and stuff like Pokemon

What an amazingly stupid generalization. Some of my favorite Pokemon and video game youtubers are black. Tons of black Star Wars fans exists too. It's pretty offensive to associate an entire group of people with certain preferences.
So... you either decide you want to be included and try joining in some of the team's shared interests, or you don't. I'm not sure what the problem is - it's no different than being in a regular group of friends when some of them decide to pick up a new hobby/show/whatever. You can either engage and join in, or you can choose not to. Don't whine or act like there's something wrong if you make the decision not to participate though.

If you go in and feel like an outsider and DO NOTHING ABOUT IT, there's nobody to blame but yourself. If you actively try to engage and they don't welcome you, you should probably find a new job where people aren't jerks.
Nobody's Going to Help You, and That's Awesome (2011)
> Yikes! This is brilliant innovation, but it should come with a pretty serious warning somewhere about the potential dangers of medical ultrasound. While the jury is still out about a lot of things, there are major reasons why the NHS in Britain discourages expectant mothers from having private "4D" scans and additional procedures.

This is an overstatement of the available evidence. The link you post says so itself:

> These studies have found no evidence that ultrasound affects mortality around the time of pregnancy or birth, or has any effect on childhood cancers. In randomised-controlled trials there has been ‘weak evidence’ that it may affect whether a child is right or left handed (known as handedness), which the reviewers say may be the result of confounding, rather than actual causation.

I cringe when I read well-meaning but irrelevant warnings like the one you gave. To me, these warnings are somewhere between naysaying and spreading FUD. The NHS wants to make sure that millions of people don't take unnecessary ultrasounds, since a tiny risk, multiplied by millions, equals a few unnecessary deaths/left-handed children. The individual risk of unnecessary ultrasounds, however, is extremely low compared to the usual risks of pregrancy and childbirth.

Many medical devices are unnecessarily expensive (and suprisingly badly designed, from a user-interface standpoint). There are already enough regulatory hurdles in place that prevent disruption of the medical device markets, let us not add to these hurdles by being overly cautious!
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The real story here seems less about race and more about how the CS program at Howard was mediocre (or at least didn't produce students that met Google's expectations) and one of the professors with a background of working for Google and attending an elite CS program realized it's deficiencies, improved it, and was able to get a bunch of students hired by Google by filling in their knowledge and experience gaps.

The school happens to be historically black but I'd be surprised if you found hiring statistics from a majority white school with a similarly ranked CS program to be substantially different.
Furthermore, in the situations where I cannot use JSX, I actually like the explicit nature of how you need to specify properties.

In fact, as a general comment, the article actually solidifies my choice of using React precisely because it's 'verbose' in the right way: it makes working with something (inherently?) messy explicit, and as a result much easier and pleasant.

As I learned how to work with React I've had quite a few moments where I got frustrated trying to get something done, only to realize that I was doing it wrong and that React was 'coaxing' me into doing things right. Very often, without trying, I'd do things in a way that suddenly made things 'click', where in the past my solution would've turned out messy, and where in the future even using other libraries/frameworks and applying what I learned will lead to a better result. I really think the 'pit of success' idea applies (which was mentioned in the initial video presenting React).
I have a dream where people are judged by the content of their character instead of the color of their skin.

Seriously. I'm tired of these people focusing only on skin color. Why don't we let it go, forget about skin color, and live together.
>> ...in France we try to assimilate people more...

Really? What about the Muslim immigrants in the suburbs, who are practically in a separate world from mainstream French, cut off and unable to get in on the lifetime jobs that the French middle and upper middle class enjoy? French-African entrepreneurs report that they have better luck doing business with Americans, who don't care what your race is as long as you pay on time. This is a well documented problem in France.
Show HN: Doublemoji – a Telegram game where players race to find matching emojis
But thats not what the article said.
>“It could be something as simple as, like, what they watch on TV or what kind of books they like to read. And those are just not TV shows that I watch or books that I read.”
It didn't say she thought those were books and TV shows that only people of other races like.
If neutrinos are their own anti-particle, they do not get their mass from the higgs field. Most particles have a 'dirac mass' which arises from a coupling with the Higgs Field. An alternative is to have a 'majorana mass' due to the interactions of the two majorana particle fields. As a consequence a super-heavy neutrino with very large mass would be predicted.
We (a group of designers) have been evaluating one note for remote collaboration. Aside from it's egress architectural shortcomings it is non-intuitive in a number of aspects.

'Good design' is sooo much more than the world view laid out in the article. For an organisation like MS, 50% of the job is defending a proposal against 'design by committee' and navigating group politics.

Don't get me wrong, it's a good article but only half the battle, if that!

One note has promise but it's clear that a lot of the design intent got ambushed as the product made it's way out the door.
Congratulations to the all the OCaml homies up in Cambridge! Well-deserved.
Ask HN: How do you talk to customers?
How do you go about getting to those customers. You might have few contacts in your target area, but it might take more than a few customers.

Do you just call company x,y,z and hope to get to person x or what specific steps do you take to get in front of your customer?
Frozen quantum gas tied into knots for the first time
Median income in San Jose is $80k, so 50% of all households make less than that. $100k does not mean you're barely capable of breaking even. For any reasonable amount of income, it is possible to spend in such a way that you're barely breaking even, of course.

But this whole meme of six figures is hard to keep afloat with is the worst kind of cringe-worthy "Oh poor well-paid me." My wife works at Habitat for Humanity in the East Bay. You don't want to consider what the low level employees there are making (and no, they aren't all living with their families or have spouses helping out).
I'm not sure how a first-generation immigrant with skin 80% as dark as a random African-American who celebrates Diwali instead of Christmas, follows cricket instead of (American!) football, and favors rice puddings to apple pies is actually statistically deserving of the "no longer considered minority" flag in America, financially successful or not.

It sounds more like some people are changing their criteria as they go along to lend the rhetorical power of a cry against Racism to a potentially-interesting point, an exercise in intellectual dishonesty which undermines the point if the listener realizes it. Perhaps if we used words to accurately describe the situation we could actually communicate.
It’s time to rethink how we identify disease-causing microbes
This is great! I recorded 3 songs of my own using it and by adding a complex bass and drum line made one of my songs actually sound almost good(im not a good singer); tricked my g/friend into thinking I joined a band.

I was using Voice Memos to remember/record my songs previously. Back in the day I use to use a my first Sony.. lol.
reminds me of two years ago, but ok, good throwback
I think that's stretching it. What she said is she doesn't feel like she has much in common with these particular people, not people of other races in general.

Most "engineering-types" would probably feel the exact same way if they were asked to join the sales team at their company. Talk about culture shock...
The CMS Is Dead. Long Live Hugo, Wercker, Prose.io and CloudFront
LHV Bank: We Support Bitcoin's Values
Oracle's Dilemma
Docker Buys Unikernel Systems, Plans to Mainstream Virtual Library OSes
Sadly, yaourt comes up empty-handed for all "APL" related searches – I have no interpreter on Archlinux. I also don't speak French, but I guess that's not really the point. Lastly, the linked file is byte code, which would be suspicious if I were the paranoid type, but since I'm not is only a bit annoying – I want to read the code!
Introduction to Windows shellcode development
Should this be closed in favor of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10945219 , or vice-versa?
Yes, this is the main reason. A startup is a much larger gamble for someone on a visa.
Seems to be very broken.
Mozilla co-founder unveils Brave, a browser that blocks ads by default
I'm not sure how to explain it in non-technical terms, but the problems of neutrinos and their mass is basically:

One is not allowed to add mass-terms to the Standard model (that is a term in the expression that explains the particle physics we know of), because they break symmetries that we know hold (gauge symmetry). So in order to add a mass-term it must be generated by a dynamical field -- the Higgs field -- such that those symmetries are still respected. Hence, the Higgs is able to give the mass-terms to the fermions.

However, the neutrinos are not like the other fermions. Fermions can have different chirality, but the neutrino only has one chirality. Due to the neutrinos being different, the Higgs field needs to be different in order to also generate mass-terms to the neutrinos (or another mechanism than the Higgs-mechanism must be used). Whatever that is, it is probable that it involves something that is beyond the Standard model.

Might be a bit technical, hopefully someone else can make it more understandable.
I really liked the guide for 'x versus y' that Vue.js provided. It was fair, honest, and actually resulted in me choosing React.js for a particular project while simultaneously leaving Vue.js on my radar for other projects.

(I vaguely recall Ractive.js doing something similar, which led me to make the opposite choice and use that instead of React.)
I'm not sure why anyone would consider that to be a positive, such a closed environment in terms of demographics.

Living with people of all races, genders, backgrounds, and sexualities helped me become the man I am today (I've lived with whites, blacks, asians, latinos, men, women, hetero and homosexual people, Americans, and French citizens).

Currently I spend a lot of time with my neighbors in Brooklyn. I'm probably one of the only people in the neighborhood who could be considered both a part of the local community (I know nearly every regular face on my side of the street) and a part of gentrification (I'm a white man who makes good money and is a part of the forces driving rent prices up).

Things get hairy sometimes. I'm offered a lot of things I don't particularly want, and had a few people conspire to potentially remove a few select items from my house. So I started going out in the city more, and now everything's back to the nice vibe it once was. I'm just as comfortable as I was before and that process of potential betrayal and silent forgiveness (I'm not sure my friend even knows I knew he was planning to pull the jux (as my friends from my hometown might say)) is just a part of who I am.

Facing adversities, interacting with new cultures, experiencing new experiences. That's what makes you a rich human being.

Not staying cooped up in your own home, where you bring your friends in from other neighborhoods, like the vast majority of young people here do. I'm convinced, while it may make the neighborhood a bit safer, it destroys the vibrancy of the same simultaneously.

And besides, can you really tell me who wouldn't want to be OG Cody Loco? At least for a little bit? ;-)
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If there is a tech bubble that bursts, I don't see how much of middle America would be affected. "So, the people in SV can't get 1-hour grocery delivery any more. How does that affect me again?"
Have you seen this?

http://www.tweag.io/blog/programming-r-at-native-speed-using...
would you mind sharing the blog post when you're finished? sounds very interesting!
How we fought bad ads in 2015
I decided to try messing around with React
You use 'SJW' as a slur.

Then, you try to implant the idea that there are 'concerns' against a person.

These are disgusting tactics from those at Gamergate.
WTF, Being in the industry myself I see a lot of non white people in the industry.

This could be used to reinforce the thought that the majority of people that care and judge based on color are mostly African Americans.

"More than 20 percent of all black computer science graduates attended an historically black school, according to federal statistics—yet the Valley wasn’t looking for candidates at these institutions."

Ah news for you , they are also not looking at candidates from my community schools.

Perhaps the article should be why you shouldn't attend a non racially diverse university or a university that doesn't attract employers in your field?
What about ruby? Even classes are objects.
You could've read his sonnets...
There is a precedent for open source data sets being called open source[1]. I've heard it before and I don't have a problem calling it that.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_science_data
Is that just because it's a description of a thing standing in (any) relation to itself? It doesn't seem to have anything to do with the physics, which is the interesting part here.
Which parts are not true:

1) Majority of employees at Google FB etc are graduates of top tech schools.

2) Majority of employees started coding and had interest in CS before college.

How likely you are to be good at CS if you never had an interest in CS before college :)? I have a lot of friends from Easternn Europe now working at Google, Apple, FB, but this anecdotal evidence does not change the fact that majority of SEs there are graduates of top tech schools.
Blood in the water. I'm proud of your melodrama.
Why is it important how tech is doing relative to other unrelated markets?

Edit: I don't know why I'm being downvoted for asking a question. I've many times seen a stock sector performance chart (I don't know the technical name) with most of the market red and tech lit up bright green.
A good article with a horrible, clickbaity headline. Howard's CS department head and even the students seem fully aware that "the problem" doesn't lie in evil Silicon Valley HR departments, but in the challenges of preparing kids who haven't coded until college.