skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And yet in regions with significant Asian populations you see poverty rates in excess of the white population (although generally better than blacks and Latinos).

http://www.arthurhu.com/index/apoverty.htm (from the '90s, possibly outdated)

http://datacenter.kidscount.org/data/acrossstates/Rankings.a...

http://diversityjobs.com/news/despite-having-more-household-...

http://www.asian-nation.org/demographics.shtml

Median income is only part of the story, especially when looking at national vs regional figures.
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In this case, they were fairly reasonable handicaps -- six to eight stones, though certainly large, is not unheard of. You could see that kind of difference between a low-level and a high-level amateur, for example.
Please add FreeBSD to the list of OS's you use for testing of compilation.

You have no idea how frustrating it is to have an open source project claim to run on unix like operating systems and not compile correctly on FreeBSD or Mac OS X...
I really need to write a post on "Shortchanging your blog readers by spewing opinion but disabling comments". Whats with this? DaringFireball is the worst of the lot. Is this some new trend?
Yes, there is always probability left for someone new to takeover. But it is really small, especially in this case. At least for now. While Google is making really smart strategic moves like android and chrome. And yes, Google will have LOTS of advantages in the next round for the position.
These are indeed very good designs, and it looks like a lot of thought has gone into the mockups (hopefully after a proper UX/UI thought phase).

Good luck on finding someone to continue it. I was just thinking that Mozilla's implementation of this same idea was proof that the idea has merit, and with as many "what's a good startup idea" posts as we see around here, there should be someone to pick it up.
So where do developers checkpoint their work until the official commit?

Either:

The smarter ones have to maintain a second source control archive (unless they are allowed to make personal branches, in which case the "public commit" is really just a merge, and probably a good thing),

or

the dumber ones just work without a net, loosing changes, and/or having to manually back out edit and test sessions that didn't go as well as hoped.

Oh, and I just realized I'm replying to the same guy about this.
Our focus was UI/UX. It took up a huge portion of our time. And yeah, I think this would be a great idea for someone to pursue.
Regarding the Necessity of Flash
There is a limit to what empirical study can reveal. I've always been uneasy about these studies from either side of the debate because they are almost always conducted by people who have no other connection to the black community.

That is, white researchers who live, work, and play among their white peers are drawing conclusions about a community they (socially) know nothing about. These researchers often have few/no black friends. Have never been to a predominantly black party. Never sat down in a black hair salon or barbershop and listened to the talk of the day.

How we expect accurate analysis that can lead to meaningful solutions is beyond me.

ETA:
Persistent poverty in the black community is the result of many things. Misplaced and legitimate distrust of white people, misguided government programs, low expectations, too high expectations, racist laws, stereotypes about black intelligence, black people's internalization of those stereotypes...

Anyone expecting a conclusive study that comes down on one side or the other, or that narrows the problem/solution to any one issue is living a pipe dream.
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I can't help but feel that all of that time and effort they spent criticizing and nitpicking could have been spent building something better. If this is something they really feel passionately about, rather than just a way to amuse themselves with angry rants, then all that energy could have been put to so much better use.

I guess it's easier to hate and claim to be taking the high ground than it is to actually put forth an effort to make the state of things better-which says more about them than it does W3Schools, and probably says a lot about human nature in general, really.

W3Schools is not without its many and varied problems, both in content and, as others have said, its own code base, but so is nearly every other tutorial or web programming site on the internet that's more than, say, a year old. The 'net is litered with old content that often can be difficult for new developers to filter out and know what's good and what's not. Just look at the volume of old, horrible PHP tutorials floating around, or even old Rails code. The main difference is that a lot of people will see W3Schools and assume it is associated with the W3, so they might take it as being a more reliable source.

I'm not sure how actively W3Schools is updated, but if they have a staff maintaining it and actively develop and write content for the site and they're not replacing the old with the new, then yes, that's just lazy and they should be doing better, but tutorial sites containing old, bad code and coding practices is certainly nothing unique to W3Schools.
1: create webcam-n-gun rig.

2: mount the whole setup on a walking robot.

3: ??

4: apocalypse
It's not really necessary, and so far the HTML5 spec hasn't done so. However, it would be useful if all browsers had at least one codec in common. GIF and JPEG became de facto standard image formats because all browsers supported them, even though there was no de jure requirement.
"[T]o be useful today, a web browser needs either (a) Flash or (b) H.264 with HTML5 video. Some browsers support both, but every browser needs at least one. In the name of “openness”, Opera, Mozilla, and now Chrome have chosen Flash."
As others have mentioned, this is priced into CPC. An increase in fraud will push more people to CPA.
And if you allow the customer to upgrade libraries themselves (or install any version they desire) you'll risk breaking the application. That can be even worse.
Adobe’s John Dowdell is Giddy Over Chrome Dropping H.264
The fun thing about lightweight, painless branching is that once you start to incorporate that into your workflow, it's never too early in a project to use it. Lately every new feature or fix I start to work on begins its life in a topic branch. You never know when you're going to be interrupted or need to switch contexts to work on something else (or even just scrap the whole idea) so having your repository mirror your mental process in a completely seamless way is invaluable.
I think what it actually means is that, despite there being evidence that the set-up was intended for illegal hunting activity, there is no evidence that it was intended for anything else (i.e. shooting people).
Thin wedge of Quora - how Quora can expand from the Q&A niche
I'm quite interested in this too. I have been trying to resist going too heavy on design on my new startup/app. Mainly been thinking about minimal designs as a positive thing after I switched from delicious to http://pinboard.in. Pinboard's interface is a joy to use and is super quick because it's so light.

Unfortunately I haven't been able to resist using TypeKit, larger text fields and rounded corners on my new project. Perhaps I should reconsider, but it'll certainly be more barebones than your average app. I guess barebone designs do make you focus on UX more and they'd also make transition from my Mockingbird mockups more straightforward.

Lighter and simpler designs would be a really positive trend if they were adopted more widely. I vote that barebones should be strongly encouraged.
A friend of mine was visiting his hometown over winter break. While he went to a nice private school, he also grew up in a pretty bad part of town, just about everyone else in his area went to these completely sub-par public schools. He tells me there are many problems (political and financial) with the teachers, and few kids are getting the instruction they need to pursue a higher standard of living than they were born into. The college we both go to has many low-income schools nearby and has put a lot of money into improving them, started some lab schools, and has many programs for students to volunteer at those schools. But like many other towns, there is no rich university nearby to help out with the schools in my friend's area. So when we got back from break, he asked me how feasible it would be to build a site very similar to crowdtutor, where the tutors are volunteering college students and the students are 6-12th graders who are dissatisfied with the education they are receiving. I think it would be awesome if whoever did build this (or something similar) offered options for tutors to teach free classes iff the students for their classes are lower-income students from schools that aren't meeting their needs. If it catches on, it could be great publicity too.
Daring Fireball doesn't present itself as a forum for comments. There's a very detailed post on why it doesn't accept comments - http://daringfireball.net/2010/06/whats_fair
I'm running an eLearning startup and we would LOVE to include this as part of our release/continue to build upon this functionality. Can you contact me at ericsimons@es40.net?
How many were thinking of replying with snarky comments like "You may want me to say crossword puzzle, but i like to talk a walk in the woods while doing the puzzle."?
try using openbsd sometime... :)
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As much as I agree... I'm not sure how much it's worth the effort until someone points out that your project definitely doesn't work. Even looking at silly stats like: http://distrowatch.com/stats.php?section=popularity - covering one popular rpm and one deb distribution, you're covering majority already (with only slight modifications if necessary). Mac users will expect their own packages anyways and you can't run Mac OSX legally without owning the hardware, which many developers don't own.

Regarding FreeBSD... lack of any good result in the first 3 pages of "freebsd packaging guide" search should explain a lot.
Nina Paley: The More You Share, the More Valuable Your Works Become
Because people are ready to pay so much for them?
Facebook shutting down on March 15 Rumor blazes internet
This time no celebrities going to die, But there is an interesting new death rumor spreading internet & it blazes the internet too. The insane rumor that Mark Zuckerberg said that Facebook is shutting down on March 15th spreads internet. Netizens started tweeting & a group has already started to stop Facebook from shutting down.
There is a similar site for Nook lending: http://bookfriend.me/

Note that Amazon/B&N only let you lend out your books one time, which really limits the lending feature...
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Oh man, there goes my startup idea :(
I'd have to agree. W3Fools seems more like sacrimonious, armchair opinions than anything relevant, hopeful or helpful.
Yes is there any?
How to complete Dropquest 2011 in 60 seconds
Many Debian developers agree: http://lwn.net/Articles/406301/ OTOH, it's nice to know that you can run in the same environment without changes for 2 years and not care about incompatible updates.
Anecdotal... Two parents with high IQs and academic professions have highly-achieving children (although the only accomplishment I was actually impressed with was the bronze medal in the Olympics...).

And the vaguely racist assumption that Asian students know their facts but have no imagination:

<<<<<<<<
When I ask the latter questions such as,
“If you were going to redesign programming language X, what would you do?”

They will tell me what X does in great detail but not answer the question.
American students are more likely to jump in with ideas about how to change X, replete with statements like “X sucks because…”
>>>>>>>>>

I went to school with the child of one of the original UNIX developers. He submitted a word processed paper in grade school (late 70's). I can remember him reading GEB in the back of Chemistry class. He has gone on to do wonderful things - and I never saw evidence of the 'Chinese Mom' upbringing... He always seemed to be a very balanced, healthy human being - doing what he wanted to do.

Richard Feynman didn't have a Chinese mother either...

So we all have these anecdotes - what Chua is talking about is something different. It is not merely anecdotal - it is why there is high unemployment and at the same time tech companies in NYC starving for engineers.

Thee is a link for me in the 'Chinese mom' argument (not Chua's per se but the tiger parenting her daughter pushes against) and Gladwell's Outlier's argument.

Even if you are a genius it takes "10,000 hours" of hard work. Some people are internally motivated enough to do it at a young age. Others need a 'Chinese mom' to turn the TV off and go through the piano piece one more time...
Yes, if you slice the stats fine enough you can eventually find some statement of apparent interest, but it comes from your stat slicing, not anything useful. You name the race and I'll find a location in the world where they have poverty rates in excess of some other race. It's not useful information.

This is why it's so important to first formulate a question, then consult the stats; examining the stats for questions is actually very dangerous, you'll always find something, but not necessarily something important. Particularly when you start moving the goalposts when the stats didn't say what you wanted them to say.
Patching in new versions isn't usually a huge deal, it's just not worth the trouble. Let's say we're using version 1.2, and we fixed a few bugs in it over the past year. Now version 1.3 is out. Should we upgrade?

Maybe 1.3 fixes a few bugs we haven't encountered yet. But that's unlikely. We've been using it for a year. Far more likely, as in practically a certainty, is that 1.3 will introduce some regression that won't be discovered until it affects some customer.

Not every bug in every program is a security vulnerability, and framing the issue that way distorts things.
Ask HN: Drop in programming confidence after only a few days off?
I just finished a 3 month programming project a week ago and then was in involved in marketing and administrative duties for a few days.

But the strange thing is, even though I'm using the same technology stack as before for my new project, I've been finding it really hard to get back into programming after this short break.

Maybe it's just because the new project is so different from the previous one that it takes a while to acclimatize. But today I actually resorted to taking some stimulant medication to see if that would help (it did!) because I was starting to feel so shitty about not being able to get the wheels moving.

Does anyone else experience kind of a crisis of confidence when they start a new project (I'm actually resuming a project I had worked on in the fall - but have forgotten most of what I did back then).
I thought this article's unnamed product was Yammer.
The 'greenest' way is not to shave at all.
Well of course they are, but it's crazy how that's even a question. In the USA guns are entertainment with playtoy status and people seriously believe they could perfectly well stop someone shooting at them by just having a gun handy and shooting them back. Like a video game.

In Arizona you don't even need a permit and if you sell a gun between two private people you don't even need to do any background checks, instant sale regardless of the buyer's mental status or intentions. There was a big gun show with private sales this weekend just 10 miles from that tragedy last week.
search for "freebsd porting guide".
Because of the higher costs of manufacturing and distribution, plus all the real estate to store the books.
Dropquest can be completed in 60 seconds. Here’s a list of the minimum number of steps required to do so: http://mathiasbynens.be/notes/dropquest-2011
Agencies won't be around much longer in any case. Disintermediation strikes again.
I heard him on "City Arts and Lectures" recently (a local program on KQED). He still didn't own a computer in 2010.
My wife (a physics professor) and I have been considering doing a tutoring service just like this - there's an immense need for it. I'd love to do the development, but we were both at a loss as to how to find an initial set of tutors. Also, how does this differ from other tutoring services out there?

I'd definitely develop it. I just don't know diddly about (the social end of) running it. Anybody interested in that end of it? michael@vivtek.com.
Can't fail? The industry is littered with companies that were once household names...
#hackers-india (OFTC), #lisp (FreeNode), #haiku (FreeNode).

I mostly talk in #hackers-india.
I find it amusing that 'illegal hunting activity' is not of 'direct concern' to law enforcement. Huh? It's illegal, right? Then why isn't law enforcement concerned? If it's not a big deal then why is it illegal?
Are they being made illegal because they are morally wrong, or because citizens should not have access to them?

Apparently defense contractors can still make these things:
http://robotstocknews.blogspot.com/2009/05/uks-sunday-times-...
Insurance is still insurance even if everyone pays equally into the system. The underlying principle of insurance is spreading risk to lower average cost. You can bill everyone the same amount and still have such a model. What you must mean is that social insurance isn't priced like commercial insurance, and that is true, but it makes sense to do it that way.

Commercial insurance tries to give least protection to those most at risk, to produce a higher profit margin. Social insurance tries to give maximum protection to those most at risk, to achieve some sort of ethical goal. Or in other words, commercial insurance is a form of business, social insurance is a form of charity. That's why social insurance costs least for those with the highest risk, and why commercial insurance is priced the other way around. They're still both insurance, just priced based on a different theory.

This difference is also why a commercial model of insurance can never be used efficiently for a social system (such as pensions or healthcare). Competition forces insurers to lower their prices, but the only way to do that and maintain profit is to lower pay-outs. How do you lower pay-outs? (1) provide less service to those that need it more, or (2) raise prices on those that need it more (risk-based billing, as you propose). The logical conclusion of that is that many of those that need protection are unable to afford it. That's not a "social" system. Social insurance is a charity, not a business.
Intelligence Squared Debate: The cyber war threat has been grossly exaggerated
Love is a neat game. Steenberg's toolchain for building the game, on the other hand, is incredible: http://www.quelsolaar.com/love/tool_video.html
"We are in the middle of a global economic contraction, it is not the time to be reducing spending"

I disagree. It's time to put Keynesianism to bed again. The only reason it came back to life was because it told politicians what they wanted to hear a couple of years ago. What it's time to stop doing is pretending that the solution to the problem is for the government to suck a dollar out of the economy to generate 75 cents of wealth and 50 cents of debt. In the real world, the Keynesian government multiplier is less than 1, and that cracks the entire theory wide open. And once you plug that number into the theory, it'll tell you the same thing.[1]

We absolutely need to cut government spending. Government can move dollars but it has proved incapable of generating wealth. It boggles my mind that after the past couple of years we're even talking about this. The final test of a theory is that it makes correct predictions, and the predictions based on Keynesianism have been repeatedly and continuously wrong. It's time to stop pretending it's because we're still not doing it hard enough.

[1] (Also, the multiplier is not a static universal constant. Like pretty much everything else economic, it reacts to conditions; if government were actually too small it might indeed be over 1 to grow it some more. So it's not that the optimal answer is to cut spending to 0, that's typical first-order thinking. It's just that today, the multiplier is way less than 1, and we've got a lot of shrinking to do before that's even close to changing.)
Why Google is not winning in Russia - and unexpected search comparison results
Ok - I wasn't clear on that one. I know they're called ports and would probably look for stuff like port creation / porting / port-something-else. Yet, it seems a bit weird to me that looking for freebsd packaging guide doesn't give you anything even remotely useful. (consider some developer who has a couple hours to spend, thinks about making a freebsd port, looks for packaging information and concludes that it's not even documented / not worth learning right now)
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Great UI / UX Looks like the money ... maybe another start-up who's main pain point is closely related would be interested crowdtutor good domain too ... would be interested in where all your work and effort goes ... flamechill AT gmail DOT com
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Generally, they seem to begin with (t-e)^2 which they rapidly note the orthogonality decomposition between "bias" and variance. The decomposition appears metaphorically in other error functions as well. This is often mentioned as a supportive point, but I'm not so sure it's meaningful.

Finding minimization of MSE difficult, frequentists choose to minimize bias first. The method of the MVUE produces a low MSE estimator from the class of unbiased estimators and thus, automatically, ignores low variance biased estimators which may or may not outperform the MVUE.

Frankly, though, the bias-variance decomposition seems too widely interpreted, especially as an expectation over all possible data instead of something considering the problem of inference with a known, fixed set of data. The difference here is thus philosophical and hard to mathematically analyze.
By all means, information wants to befree.Though"depanded"shouldbe fixed to "demanded"
"Such a system, if fully operational, could direct substantial -- and deadly -- firepower." That's the purpose of a gun, right? These reporters really get some people "all into a tizzy" over rather bland headlines. It'd be nice if they reported on real injustice once and awhile.
In FreeBSD to create a package you create a portfile, the packages come free at that point ...

But I understand your concern.
>It is saying that the FONT and CENTER tags were added to HTML after CSS was a public draft.

And all the other Netscape tags.
Chinese, Indians, and Koreans have a completely different history in America than African Americans. Your comment is simplistic and easily falls apart under basic levels of scrutiny.

Those groups mostly had the luxury of immigrating to America AFTER black people fought for the civil rights of ALL American citizens. They reaped the benefits of black struggles while experiencing very little of the viciousness of racism.

That's not to say that there is nothing to learn from these groups though.
Watch a swarm of flying robotic drones construct a tiny building
While the example code is horrible in many ways, this is the best tutorial I've seen theory-wise (although that's not counting the Minix book since I haven't been able to read that yet).

If you have any experience programming in C, which you should if you're attempting this, the horribleness is somewhat forgivable, and it's a good experience trying to write it on a nicer way, debugging your own kernel code, etc.
I love how he uses recent example of US citizens being hassled at the border to imply that it happened well into the past (a time when the borders were a lot more open).