skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Did the lack of diversity really hinder the creative minds of the last millenia? <

This is exactly the reason why I think this is probably a cause and effect confusion.

Better teams might attract a diverse crowd. Just like a better product can claim a more diverse group of users.

In fact it isn't even just about 'better products', it might just be the most popular product (without any specific reason behind it). For instance, you will find Windows users to be more diverse than Linux users, mostly because former is a lot bigger userbase than latter, and Linux usage requires users to be of a certain technical aptitude (hopefully 2016 will be the year Linux Mint becomes the majority OS) which is mostly shared by the majority demographic (i.e. White males).

The minority also overrepresents other areas. For instance, some brands of hair products are more popular on Asian males, than among non-asian males (possibly because it suits their hair type better). Where as fairness creams are more popular among Indian men and women, not because of some sort of physiological differences but because of cultural preferences.

The fundamental idea is that not all areas of life will reflect the population distribution of the demographics. When I went to a fountain pen show, most people were white. There is no pipeline failure there, there is no widespread discrimination going on against non-whites.
Twitter share price nosedives on news it is losing users
You are making assumptions about the intent of the author you have no ability to make. To be so reductionist as to refer to the author as merely a misogynist "white man" is bigotry and your comment adds nothing to the conversation. In fact, if anything, your reaction proves his point.
I'm not in NYC, and cyclists are somewhat less common where I live.
The FBAR requirement is not new. It's been around for decades. FBAR is part of the Bank Secrecy Act form 1970. The problem is the $10K threshold is not indexed for inflation.

The reason the fines are so high is to catch criminals & tax evaders.

If you have a couple of hundred in the bank you don't have a filing requirement anyway.
man this is scary for me, I'm about to have a baby girl (she already has a Gmail account), I know I'm far from the "dad doesn't get 'it'" phase, but it is still scary.

Do you have any tips to make this transition easy?
This was my thought the whole way through.. He's treating this teen like he needs to be more like her. It sounds like she's wasting her life while simultaneously wasting her friends' lives. There's no gain to this..
I would absolutely agree if several publishers were colluding to make it so an author couldn't publish. That is what happened during mccarthyism.

However in this specific case we're talking about one publisher not agreeing to publish. There's no presented information to assume collusion between publishers or some larger game at play to suppress this book or the author.

I absolutely think that private organisations can effectively ban something without government intervention. I just don't think that happened here.
I'm kind of disturbed by this and think that we will eventually look back on it as a sign of the primitive barbarism of today's society [0], but for nearly opposite reasons from the usual right-wing transphobic reasons: I suspect a substantial source of gender dysphoria -- if not the dominant source -- isn't a fundamental incompatibility of internal identity with biological sex features, but a fundamental incompatibility of internal identity with imposed social gender stereotypes where socially-perceived gender is tied to outward biological sex characteristics.

To the extent this is the case, this approach amounts to making children conform their outward sex characteristics to society's gender stereotypes that most closely correspond to their internal identity. Which may be less barbaric than trying to force them to conform their behavior to the gender stereotypes that most closely match their outward sex characteristics, but not much less.

[0] I do want to emphasize that, in saying that, I am not arguing against the idea that its the best approach we have available now, or that parents and clinicians shouldn't choose this approach; I'm saying that I strongly suspect that the reason that it may be the best approach we have available is a much more fundamental problem with our social approach to gender.
lock in a monstrous market so that they can what? advertise to poor people who can barely afford clean water and food? yeah, great strategy...
Polling works for current use cases, but products of the future aren't built around current use cases ;-)
PG's writings aren't the bible. Situations and verticals vary. You still need to use your reasoning after all and judge yourself. Case in point, PG himself agreed to this business idea which in your opinion contradict himself.
Every kid is different. You'll know what to do.
Andreessen's apology earlier today:

https://twitter.com/pngmarca/status/697490886037368832
Interestingly, even some Windows 95 applications require 16 bit support. For instance The Neverhood. Linux had a regression when it stopped working at tome point (which is now fixed):

http://news.softpedia.com/news/Linux-Kernel-3-14-Breaks-Wine...

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=36664

Not that it matters much anyway, since The Neverhood works in ScummVM now. But in practice Wine now better supports such application than any recent Windows itself.
from the article: "The ENCRYPT Act, sponsored by Democratic Representative Ted Lieu and Republican Blake Farenthold, would prevent any state or locality from mandating that a “manufacturer, developer, seller, or provider” design or alter the security of a product so it can be decrypted or surveilled by authorities, according to bill text viewed by Reuters.

The legislation is in response to proposals in recent months in New York and California that would require companies to be able to decrypt their smartphones manufactured after 2017, Lieu said."
You are not the typical user. You can just get an unlimited tarif and be done with it.
You seem to be responding to a different situation than the one presented here. At least according to the OP, this author wasn't taking a political stand — it was just a small plot detail. They didn't even ask him to change it. Somebody saw something they didn't like and attempted to punish the author in the most severe way available to them. This is their right, of course, but you have the right to do lots of lousy things, including burn books.
Yep, we exist. And I don't get downvoted much even when arguing (politely?) with people on the left.

Maybe the majority of tech people who live in hipster towns?
My primary bank account have some Internet/mobile banking features where you can see your current spending, some prediction till end of month.

It's just simple overview because I have more bank accounts (due to security reasons). Personally the best way how you can track your spending is to create own customized reporting system. It will require tune up at the beginning but it worth. At least you will learn how to think about entire process and your spendings, which information is valuable and which not. You will be able create some additional features (like spending categorization).

I have more personal "tracking tools" (spending, time tracking, writing, idea etc.) written in excel, some in power-shell, some of them in HTML and PHP.

Other point of view is your psychological attitude to money. If you are responsible with spending your head might be enough. From my experience, money invested to food, bills and mortgage are "sunk costs".

Detail mortgage tracking is different story. It is always good to know how much you can save with different payment attitude.
How are you supposed to solve it, and how would they know?
> Mac OS X x86_64 (10.8 or newer required)

10.8 and forward have serious problems. What specifically about stable versions of OS X makes LibreOffice incapable?
The broad scope of this topic won't be justified in a short comment like this, but it's general knowledge that the economy goes in cycles.

My special area are rare earth metal bonds and EU government bonds. The derivative markets are not a good direct indicator for stability (because they are unstable), but they set the bar for what one can expect.
If you look at the M1-data by the FED [0] (M3 is _censored_), you'll see how large the bubble really has become.
And this is consistent across all global markets.

Call me an apocalyst, I don't even care. Invest, crash and burn, have fun!

[0]: https://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/M1
How is it related to this? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8009663
I'm guessing by 'anyone' you mean advertisers. You are probably right. But it clearly has a lot of relevancy to these young people.
As an old-ass father of 3 that pokes here and there I can tell you that does happen. However, that is hardly the point of it. It is because everyone needs to be able to say and do things that aren't recorded. That go away. And kids need space to experiment and grow in ways they are not watched. Honestly, from what I can tell it is used far more for making funny faces and moments than anything else.

Besides, if you are concerned that they are showing each other their bodies you have more to worry about than snapchat because it is going to happen regardless. At least nobody has got an STD from snapchat.

And after the things I found when doing a backup of my 16 year old's computer I'm more concerned with the pictures that stick around than don't. We had a talk about why I never want pictures of naked teenage friends on my network.

But if you think you can stifle teenagers, you are wrong. You just push them into the shadows and you out of their life.
Larry finds liberal bias in any outcome in which his results aren't what he perceives they ought to be. He also is a poor writer (imo obviously; I've half-read two books before quitting because I was bored) who likes to write superman books and is offended by any reader that prefers moderately more complex fiction than when the reader was an 8 year old child. To top it off, Larry is in the midst of a 3-year (and counting!) tantrum that the Hugos include, and sometimes give awards to, anything but straight white men. So, you know, giant grain of salt.

ps -- Daniel Wilson wrote Robopocalypse [1] which I found a good read; so there's at least one publisher in the sci-fi realm that continues to publish robot apocalypse fiction

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Robopocalypse-Contemporaries-Daniel-H-...
Which "Cat In The Hat" desktop program are you referring to? The CITH section of the PBS site, or something different? If the latter, then my Google-fu is currently failing me and would appreciate a pointer.
> I absolutely think that private organisations can effectively ban something without government intervention. I just don't think that happened here.

Oh, absolutely. To be honest I'm not terribly interested in the specifics of this case, just the general idea that today, when so much communication happens on privately-owned platforms, corporate censorship is not censorship because only governments censor.
That's what I thought, too. I thought the core feature was 'self destructing messages/photos'.

I also presumed that a dedicated power user could preserve said photos forever, so I immediately wrote the whole thing off.
And ten years from now, the kids are going to want to have a space for themselves, after all the companies and old people are on Snapchat.
> Early on in my thinking about our mission, I traveled to India and was inspired by the humanity, spirit and values of the people. It solidified my understanding that when all people have the power to share their experiences, the entire world will make progress.

This is a great example of how virtue signalling can be a great way of promoting your brand to young progressives.

In 2016, what better example of 'humanity', 'spirit' and the 'values of people' is there than the inspirational social network, Facebook?
I agree, it could be problematic if you've made a mistake. At the moment HeadsUP! sends texts as a voice memo + a transcription.

Any suggests on improving this? :)

- Founder, HeadsUP!
And why exactly do you think Facebook is offering this service? (And, furthermore, why exactly do you think they are offering this service with access only to Facebook and Facebook approved sites, rather than to the Internet at large)?

[On edit: I seem to be getting a lot of downvotes on this post, yet no actual answers to the question]
Can anyone add practical experience with the API spec tools. This is a new name for me.

I had a look at the websites for each of the three tools the article specifically mentions

http://raml.org/
http://swagger.io/
https://apiblueprint.org/

I get the impression that these are code generating tools built from a specification file.

I have real world experience with two tools which fit that rough description. SOAP and google app-engine end-points.

I would unambiguously describe both as awful. Really horrible experiences with both. They tie your systems to large, and difficult to understand tool sets. SOAP wasn't obviously buggy, but app engine endpoints are unpredictable and the generated code produces some serious awkwardness.

I don't want to slap a label on these tools and dismiss them off-hand.

Anyone used them 'for the win'?
> It sounds almost too good to be true, but in the tech industry, if you can write great code you will succeed. <

Yes, but the narrative is that minorities who don't write better code as good as the members of majority because the former never had privilege to learn how to write good code.

Also do check out the articles which convinced Github that Meritocracy is not a good thing[1]. And the site 'Is Tech a meritocracy dot com" [2].

[1] https://modelviewculture.com/pieces/the-dehumanizing-myth-of...

[2] http://istechameritocracy.com/
Let's understand what negative interest rates mean for US Banks. It likely means an increase in low margin loans and reserves for those loans - to a universe of borrowers no bigger, possibly even smaller, than at present. Negative interest rates do not loosen reserve requirements. They do not loosen lending standards. They do put downward pressure on the host country's currency, perhaps less so for the United States, due to the level of global anxiety. They create a "race to the bottom" for currencies and interest rates that is structurally unhealthy. Now compare that to doubling or tripling SBA loans and weigh the risks.
I was told that Snapchat was full of naked pictures of cute younger women. For some reason it seems to be filled with short videos of startup executive types about my age driving around and getting coffee. Oh well.
If she has an iPhone, just auto-backup to the cloud might cost her much more bytes than the picture alone. (They actually shoot a short video for each picture.)
Sure, why not; it's not like it's illegal and unethical or anything. Go nuts.
Once the service obtains requirement status. Where everyone joins it becomes more real and more serious. E-Mail is serious, Facebook is serious, LinkedIn is serious but Snapchat is still innocent and fun.

Adding adults to a service is the sure fire way to run off the children.
This article is totes orthogonal in awesomeness to the usual stuff on this site. Enjoyed it a lot.
To be clear and fair, Free Basics is the East India Company of our day.
In this scenario I'm not pressured, just asked with the clear understanding that I'm being asked because of my ethnicity.

As I said, I can't speak to the experiences and perspectives of these women because the circumstances are very different.

On this topic of identity politics in the workplace I'm offering my perspective as a quasi-minority.
That's awfully cynical. I think they just wanted to send a message that diversity can pay dividends on it's own. Can't we just be happy for Slack and for these women?
Why on earth is wall street so hung up on user growth? Don't they still have a ton of monetization opportunities? I see no where near the amount of ads as facebook and I hear their ad targeting is pretty bad right now and despite all this, their revenue isn't bad at all.
Crocodilopolis – A library for parsing city data out of legal entity names
99% of people don't use Snapchat this way, at least from my experience
Can experienced with the code speak to how this is a 5MB addon? That smells like an order of magnitude more code than would be needed to block a fairly simple behaviour on fewer than 200 predefined URLs.
Ya, well, we're all gonna die one day too. (Maybe). I can't prove it though and I'm unsure of when. But please indulge my worrying about it's immanence. I am a glass half empty kind of guy.....

As for the apocalypse, I've been waiting since 1980. And its coming to the point I've about given up. I'm still eating long term dried food rations packed in 2006 and they don't taste very good. I'm kind of starting to suspect that things change but somehow life keeps right on going.

Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.

-Marcus Aurelius
Maybe they could have shipped additional supplies on the Soyuz up to transfer to the Shuttle, to keep the remaining crew alive for enough time to prep additional STS or Soyuz launches to bring them back. Or maybe send up some supplies for them to attempt a repair on the wing in-orbit.
The publisher absolutely has the right to not publish the book. It's also very possible the author is being a bit unreasonable and bitter. We are only getting one side of the story.

However, I read this more as a warning that there is a bias in the publishing world and to not look at currently-published works in the aggregate as an unbiased body of work.
Australia wants to introduce 'Netflix tax' on digital products
True, PG's writings are not the bible just as his agreement with this business idea doesn't mean it's a good idea.

I used my own judgement and concluded that this is a worthless idea, as competition is high and differentiation low. I referenced that article to give credit to the original author.
These are the investors that want quick cash now. They want to put all their eggs in one basket and cash out before everyone else does.
Charities are part of a market process. "For-profit firm" and "market" are not synonymous.
I get why you say they're evil, but their existence meant that moving from Win16 to Win32 to Win64 with minimal code changes was actually feasible without major rewrites. If those had instead been e.g. "static pascal MCIWndProc16(unsigned, unsigned, unsigned, long)", then you'd have had issues with some of those transitions. (In fact, you kind of did going from 32 to 64 bit, which is why "long" in Win64 is still 32 bits.)
Solving quadruple dependency injection problem in Angular
Not quite true -- there are many deployments with >30 nodes in the wild. Some deployments with >30 nodes did run into issues, but I think a lot of that is extremely user-specific (and if you get to that level, RethinkDB engineers will help with all the custom issues you might run into).
No offense but that's a stupid question. There are no Indian NFL players, do Indians think it's because they CAN'T get into NFL or do they think that Indians just don't like to play sports? I dare you to ask any Indian-American you know this question.
Very true, but there are some promising build tools like Rollup and React API-compatible alternative libraries with smaller sizes available for a payload-sensitive context.
Characteristically, Brooks in the `Mythical Man Month' has no nostalgia for bringing your program in punch cards to the data center, and sees timesharing as an unalloyed good.

(I think it's because the bad old days were still very fresh in memory when he wrote the essays.)
Ask HN: What are your money-machines?
What are your money-machines? Have you only one source of income or you diversified a risk to more of them?

What performance you machine have? It is "smaller" monthly generation or "bigger" quarter/half/year generation?
The whole appeal of Snapchat is that nothing is permanent, so you don't have to really think about what you're sending.
Vcsh is great, surprised more people haven't heard of it or used it
Thanks for the response. You can also encrypt EBS volumes using Amazon's KMS, so I'd research that. It will be an important feature for your potential enterprise customers.
Why it will crash is because there are certain startups valued at too high value for producing exactly nothing.

It won't be to apocalyptic, but it will hopefully bring the gold rush in the internet erä down. I'm not sure if it will be in 2016, however I'm really sure that once in a while the markets (not just the us) needs to cleanup from everything overvalued.
Also even when that happens, it will happen again, once in a while it must happen cause we (the humans) are just too dumb to learn from our mistakes.

the bad part of this, is actually that mostly renewable energy will also suffer from big market drops since investores will be scared a bit from 'new' technologies after a bigger hit into the market.

However what I'm telling is nothing special, it happens as there a people who handle everything based on their greed.
> To what degree gender is a social construct vs actually having non-minimal differences in the brain depending on your chromosomes is largely settled (IMO)

Gender (socially ascribed) is completely a social construct, consisting both of categorization by outward characteristics into some number of genders, and social stereotypical roles for those genders.

Biological sex features are entirely biological, but not entirely genetic (there are substantial environmental factors), and the genetic portion is more complex than most people thing -- and isn't strictly binary at a genetic level, even before the variations in phenotype due to other factors come into play.

Gender identity is complicated, and I don't think its at all well settled what the basis is; there's certainly some influence from the surrounding societies construct of gender, there's certainly some relation (beside just the biological sex features on which social gender constructs are overtly based) from biology (genetic and otherwise), and I don't think there is any good model of exactly what contributions of each type exist, what other contributions exist, etc.
I think there are 2 types of twitter users. The first type follows many accounts and skim through the tweets with no effort to go through all of them. This feature is a Godsend for them.

The second type of twitter users, like myself, follow a short list of people, and we actively curate this list so that we can read all the tweets in our timeline. I have just realized that it is in Twitter's best interest if everyone was in the first group - which is likely the majority of users.
Thanks guys, that helps a lot!
> Educate yourselves about the nim programming language

It's hilarious that nobody recognizes blatant trolling on HN
LOL ... sorry. Alt link: https://ello.co/teanee/post/CIe6nfLQNDpPlxNrCyezBw
I think by "age", the author means the framework hasn't evolved to incorporate newer ideas that have become popular and proliferated the front-end world.
Thanks! I'm also on twitter in case that helps (@laginimaineb).

As for Sunshine - I'm publishing a new (even broader) zero-to-TZ saga, complete with exploits, but I'm not going to create a product out of it. So ultimately, as long as there are people behind Sunshine who are willing to make it work with relative ease, I'm sure most people won't mind spending a few dollars to unlock their device.

As for the more tech-savvy crowd; I hope they choose to do it themselves with the exploits provided - it is much more fun that way, IMHO.