skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because the perceptions of African-Americans are still conditioned by the economic devastation inflicted by 242 years of slavery, followed by an additional 103 of legal disenfranchisement and discrimination, followed by only 57 years a criminal justice and militarized police force that continues to inflict disproportionate harm on (yes, even innocent) African-American men living in the areas where until 57 years ago were the only place they could safely live.

History: without it, life is confusing.

On the other hand, other non-European minorities were excluded from the US all together, leaving less time for stereotypes to calcify. The IT industry itself has a strong presence in India and China, so cross-pollination is logical. It has not had a similar expansion into Africa, or we might see similar growth of African entrepreneurs.
Pandora contracted with Facebook and started showing what my friends were listening to (I had used the same emails in both).

That same day I quit Pandora. At that point in time, they did not even have a mechanism to kill your account, so I had to email the company personally.

I quit my Facebook account not long after.

I refuse to willingly partake in a surveillance society.
The first meal in LA has Hamilton Chen from Paperlinks and Nikhil Pandit from Graffiti Geo (sold to Loopt). The second meal has Joey and Yotam from Earbits and..me
In this case, "login" means roughly "we see a username / password pair and evaluate whether or not it is compromised given the current context."

(I work on the team that does these classifications.)
Those are the problems. But often in C++ you've still got problems with mixed collection types, knowing types at runtime, stability (Java's not perfect, but it's better), ability to replace running code at runtime, et al.

Getting Java's garbage collection tuned isn't trivial, but it's still easier than solving any of those problems in C++ at serious scale.
A Taschen style coffee table book of various tech founders at pivotal moments/stages in their careers. Glossy pages, big pictures, timelines etc.

It would make an excellent gift for entrepreneurs in our lives, plus I'd buy it for my younger brother to inspire him to study CS.

Make it an opportunity for indulgence, not a necessity.
Excellent! It has an implicit deadline AND its actually relaxing. Surfing the net, unless its social, does a little to relax your eyes, your brain, or your body's posture.

I don't have any physiological proof but moving away from the screen is the first step to a purpose-seving 'break'.
Yeah, networks would stick annoying stuff and ads around the borders. They're already insufferable the way they put intrusive, animated ads for their other shows at the bottom of the screen.
Sometimes the synchronicity of HN blows my mind. To wit:

I've been looking progressively harder for some kind of simple project management/task management tool. I've combed through quite a few so far (basecamp, hitask, wedooist, backpack, pretty much every service Google turns up). As of yet, nothing fits the bill.

Essentially I want to be a glorified secretary, but also the boss. I want to be able to get up in the morning, determine what needs to be done, then push "to do lists" to the appropriate people and let them take care of things. Most of the project management software is too complicated, or has far too many features, or is just plain awkward. Most of the task management stuff is too simple or does not allow multiple people to view/edit the list. Email is too cumbersome.

I think a number of the tools I've looked at have usable pieces. Worst case I'll have to adapt my vision to the tools that exist (ugh). But nothing has blown my mind.

So, lo and behold, I pop over to HN to kill some time and on the front page is a "collaborative, synchronized To-Do list" application. I'm going to give it a hard look, but if anyone has any other suggestions (or wants to build a tool!) let me know.
Silicon Valley is chum-tactic, so if you really care about the differential access problem for X, regardless of the value of X, make extra special effort to both tell X that Silicon Valley is chum-tactic and to introduce them to the right people.

Chum-tactic: the first filter applied to you, for press or investment or anything, is "Who sent you to me?" Some people think "Silicon Valley is a meritocracy" implies that the first filter would be merit. Ahem. Be meritorious, but make sure being meritorious makes an impression on someone who routinely has dinner with the people whose cooperation you need. (Hint: this happens spontaneously sometimes but that isn't the way to bet.)

P.S. Lots of the world and lots of situations work like this, with wide variations in local etiquette for what counts as an intro and what warrants one. "Who sent you?" is also the first filter for Chicago government contracting and Nagoya job offers.
ffmpeg has had both encode and decode support for alac for some time.
There does seem to be a line beyond which continuously manually tweaking the GC would be more work than manual memory management. GC allows you to get up and running faster, but the level of detail you need to know of the JVM to do manual tweaking of the GC implementation approaches the level of detail you need to be aware of in your app to do manual memory management.

That is to say, optimizing the JVM's GC settings and effectively writing/debugging C and C++ memory management seem to be wizardly-level tasks of about equal standing. TANSTAFL applies.
"1MW" is the proper case.

"1mw" would at least convey you are consistently irreverent of the proper case, or using an impractical onscreen keyboard, or in a rush to type this post. (We would understand.)

"1mW" on the other hand makes you look uneducated. Inconsistently inconsistent. You care about the case sometimes, but not always. You have no excuse to write it this way.
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Here's an excerpt from Rossi's report on today's results http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7sZHOQ6P-Rw. I hope to have a story up at PESN by 1 am Italy {+1GMT}
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So do you think I (a non-Indian) would be at a disadvantage applying to Khosla's outfit [1]? If Khosla looks for people "like him", that should be the case.

Similarly, would an Indian founder be at a disadvantage applying to Fred Wilson? Somehow, I suspect any disadvantage would be minor, if it existed at all.

In any case, your theory of who "them" is now drawn quite broadly. It's not so much people looking for others "like them", it's more like looking for people from within an arbitrary subset that includes widely disparate and dissimilar groups (White and Asian Americans, Chinese, Indians, Israelis, Europeans).

[1] Ignore for the sake of argument that I'm the only non-Indian in my company.
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Do you live in the valley? What do you bring to the table besides an idea? (my email is in my profile.)
I agree you need context, but login's is only meaningful logging in where to compromise an account. If the issue is brute forcing passwords then time is the only meaningful context. As to passwords, it's easy enough to prevent overly common passwords just prevent someone from using overly easy to guess passwords, and throttling failed loggins for a given act to 20 / hour per IP makes dictionary attacks all but useless anyone without a bot net.
Exactly. One of the reasons that Pons and Fleischman got into such trouble is that their calorimic measurements were very inaccurate. They also tried to measure neutron radiation but their equipment wasnt up to the task. McKumbe mentions that the quality of the palladium varies greatly from source to source. Since one theory is that the fine structure of the palladium forces the deuterium atoms so close that they fuse, I infer that the nature of the fine structure is important and could vary greatly from source to source. Impurities could be the key or the poison.
I always think that the important thing is that it's fun and the minute it doesn't meet that criteria it should be changed. Kids spend enough time at school learning things they "need" to know.

There is no reason all of childhood needs to be fun-and-games, and school can't teach them everything.

Chores are an easy example. (Though certainly something to avoid overdoing)
Maybe they're measuring milliWatts :D
Great post. I always learn something new when the SO guys share their experiences with .NET in a large scale web application. Thanks for the link to the memory profiler. Hopefully it will be better than struggling with windbg.
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I guess the problem is that I think people will want and expect parity between apps on the TV and apps on their phone and iPad. If the TV lags behind the iPad and iPhone, that could hamper the kinds of apps that could be developed for the iTV.

Of course this assumes that Apple opens up the iTV for app developers, not just for media companies who want channel apps.
Yup =) We've kissed and made amends...
I agree, the "privilege" expression is adversarial and will offend people you might want to get onto your side.

Personally, I instinctively ignore people who use it because it makes me think they either aren't serious about having a coöperative dialogue, or are as tactless as the people they're denouncing.

Incidentally, I've seen it around a lot recently. Is it new, or newly popularized?
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Shore answer, yes.

Are you a co-founder or an employee? Everyone's first job is to sell. So yes to recruiting, yes to pitching, yes to recruiting, yes to researching the market, yes to roadmaps. And in reverse, your biz co-founder should be helping you get the correct development tool licenses, supply you with photoshop designs, get hosting deals, etc. Think about deciding what cloud hosting you're going to use? This isn't about just technology because this decision shapes your COGS.

Quick Anecdote: When Google was hiring their first vp of marketing, the interviews were attended by their original vp of engineering. When the vp of marketing was hired the vp of engineering insisted that he split an office with marketing. This allowed for frequent communications between the two and gave them an advantage when creating products. Google's products were always a combo of engineering and marketing.
How can the number "307703" uniquely identify a container owned by a company that "owns more than 2.4 million boxes just like it"? (SSCC-18 codes are all-numeric.)
I'd recommend going down the dead tree route, if only to rest your eyes, also it helps walking somewhere else to sketch to get the blood flowing.
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Compassionate design solutions
I have a dilemma. I am given product definitions to design solutions around. The definitions should (in theory) contains SLAs, redundancy characteristics, "9's" of availability to adhere to, etc. Sometimes they don't.

When not, my solution will not include elements that would cost additional money for redundancy when there is no SLA to tie that to. Fine so far, right?

Ok, so now we deliver that solution to the implementation (and support) team, and they go nutty. As far as they're concerned, EVERY solution should have redundancy builtin, otherwise they're getting paged at 2am when the box (or VM, or whatever) falls over and they have to get it back up again.

I get it, I really do. I've been the guy who was there at 2am rebuilding the box, rewiring the network, restoring from backups, etc. Been there and done that.

But that shouldn't change my design. Should it? I want to be compassionate, but the business drivers dictate I design to resource-efficiency, which includes cash. Is this a communication problem?

I'm interested in your thoughts.
I can remember, what 20, no, 30 years ago, when the Connection Machine was going to be the harbinger of a new class of computers. We were all going to have to learn to deal with massively parallel programming.

And then I never heard of it again until years later this (http://longnow.org/essays/richard-feynman-and-connection-mac...) article about Richard Feynman popped up on the internet.

I still don't know why the CM never went anywhere. Inertia, scaling limitations, grabbed by the spooks and now only used by NSA for reading my email?
> would have been far better if they'd just thrown their weight behind FLAC

That would definitely be better, but the fact is that they can't (reasonably) re-write all of the previous iDevice firmwares to support FLAC, so open sourcing ALAC benefits all of the users with those devices. If open source codecs is the route Apple is going down, then perhaps they will ad support for FLAC to new versions of iOS, but for everyone not using those versions, this would still help. Throwing weight behind FLAC is good, just throwing weight behind FLAC is slightly less good. All that said, using lossless codecs on an iPod, like you said, is a bit overkill.

What I think would really be nice is if Apple would open source the music database on the iPod -- not being able to load an iPod from Linux/not iTunes (easily) is much more of an issue for me than support for a lossless codec.
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I'm vegetarian so I know your pain. We try to have veggie dishes whenever possible, but that restaurant is a barbecue joint...sorry. I'll see if there's anything they can make though.
I have to agree that my best semesters in college were the ones that I overcommitted myself (22-23 credits). I actually found the lack of downtime a way to stay focused and move from one project to the next. Likewise, my worst performing semesters were the ones where I only attempted 12 credits. I would find that having large breaks of time would cause me to get comfortable wasting time and then it would take moving a mountain to get me back into the groove.

During my 2 semesters of intense credits, I was able to have a social life too, but that consisted of eating with classmates during our study sessions and spending several hours in the library.

The only thing I regret from that experience was that I didn't challenge myself sooner.
Does anyone know if the Fire Code specifies that "mantraps" have to open in a fire alarm?

You should have to have an open path out in that type of a situation.
Why don't they just attach a radiation detector to each crane or something?
Very sound engineering attitude.

This container is emitting X, as long as we put Y tons of shielding around it and stay Z meters away it's safe.

Or we could just immediately rip it open and see what happens.
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Maybe the much-discussed Siri API will show up on Apple TV first!
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By having a 7-digit serial and omitting leading zeroes, perhaps?
Hamilton is awesome. I don't know Nikhil, but I can say that dinner with Hamilton will be full of great insights on people, products, business, and your ideas. He's an awesome guy, and I'd be grabbing this meal if I was down in LA!
Someone needs to make a for-pay service that lets me submit quality long form articles like this and get back a (quality) audio file that I can listen to on my commute home.
Well as long as they add more digits for longer numbers, I foresee no problems.
I totally agree that SYSCALL/SYSENTER/SYSRET are very cheap to execute. But these instructions only takes care of the ring switch and are not executed alone.

When you make a system call, a trap is issued that causes the hardware switch to kernel mode.

The hardware pushes onto the per-process kernel stack the pc, status word, and the kernel code takes care of saving the registers, esp, etc.. this is called a task context switch. Context switching between processes is much more expensive but task context switching is still considered a context switch.

When you are making a system call, it's still much more expensive then most of the work you are doing in your program hellepoll and hence it's your bottleneck. This is why you don't see your process's CPU at 100%.

On a related note, whenever you have a program doing a lot of network IO, you are essentially causing a lot of process context switches because each time you get data on the wire you cause a context switch because the kernel needs to handle this hardware interrupt.
Well this shows that JS is not at its limit yet in terms of perf yet. With Type Inference, the rendering goes from ~2 fps to ~30 fps - a pretty massive improvement. It shows that JS can be fast and we don't need to jump to a replacement just yet.
Multiple domain names are not a red flag. My GF is an artist and she registers a domain name or two every time she thinks of a new project.
The fact that Microsoft's solution failed is not a valid reason to assume Apple's won't.
They are turning away customers because of the same reason I put above.
We're going to find someone to add to the meal real soon =)
They never mention the intended destination. I am sure the intended recipient was investigated and all but it's a curious detail to omit in an otherwise, very thorough article.
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We want to build that tool, maybe you should work with us? :) I hope you come to love our product, what you are describing is what we are trying to build as a company. Give us feedback, please!
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But are these the people that will install Linux on a brand new machine directly out of a box, that has never been booted to Windows?
I don't get this reasoning. No, you do not "own" a jailbroken iPhone. When you truly own something, you can do what you want with each and every component, including its system software, up to and including selling or licensing it as your own property. The very foundations of copyright law will not permit you to do that.

Most people would agree that the core ideas behind copyright law are useful, necessary, and just, or at least they'd agree that there is no chance that the law's fundamental basis will change anytime soon.

So no, all you've done is make a minor change to the device's operation that allows you to do some things with it that weren't as easy to do before. That's great, but casting it as some kind of moral act of "ownership" makes absolutely no sense. If you didn't build it yourself -- all of it -- you don't "own" it.
You only strictly need to use code for transhipping containers on another carrier - if you own the container and the ship you don't need to label it - although it causes no end of problems if you don't!

What tends to happen is that an 'owner' will have multiple owner codes for different subsidiaries or companies they have taken over/merged.

The containers also have a lifetime of 10-20years so presumably you can reuse numbers of containers that have been lost or scrapped.
This requires the payer to create a paypal account which is a real problem.
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I wish I could favorite an artist somehow. Am I missing this option some place? It seems so obvious to me. I like listening to albums, not a random mix of tracks usually and want to be able to keep tabs on my go to artists.

Right now I have resorted to adding full albums to a new playlist so I can see artists names as there are times I can't recall every artist I've liked listening to in the past.
Here's a video that was just posted http://youtu.be/7sZHOQ6P-Rw
Hm, so you really think that people with hunting rifles are keeping the government in line?
I developed one of the featured TV apps. I think licensing is indeed one of the sticky points. One key point is that a lot of licensors may require DRM in their licensing terms. Google has a lot of room to grow in this area, and certainly will over the next year. Support for HLS is also another biggie, as it's not a POS like RTMP nor is it trivially copied like progressive download.
Parse announces Large File Support for Android
I would suggest a book by James Altucher (www.jamesaltucher.com) - Although he is a serial entrepreneur and is now an investment "guru", his previous two books have been just helpful for people in general. He has already alluded to having many more in the works so I think he would be an ideal candidate to contact. Congrats with the round and good luck!
NASA Confirms Satellite Hacked Twice
I remember reading in the Netflix API TOS that you cannot use the word "flix" in your application's name.
Well, is 30 fps the limit, or 60?
Tuning GC, by and large, lets you treat the whole system as a single abstraction. You monitor allocation rates and patterns, and adjust algorithms and generation sizes to meet your goals. But once you go to C++, you've dived into a world of itty bitty details; all the memory allocation behaviour is internal to the system, and if you want to change how it works, you have to do relatively severe cross-cutting stuff with overloaded new operator, allocator template arguments, etc. It's very invasive and easy to tie different parts of the system together inadvertently.

And when you go with C++ you've forsaken type safety (i.e. memory safety). That's a substantial thing to give up, IMO.
Because if it's sensitive enough to detect a bomb it will be set off by marble, bananas or a dozen other things.

So the port only checks containers likely to have radioactive contamination, like scrap metal, which they did and they found this - system worked precisely as it should.

You could have monitors on the cranes to detect very high levels of radiation, so high you don't even want to check it manual - as in this case, But these happen so rarely it's not worth it. And with 250 Million container movements a year what sort of error rate would you need to achieve?
At least in Oracle Java 1.6 update 24, which is supposed to have escape analysis enabled by default, it is a huge difference. I don't know if Java 7's analysis is smarter.
I know this article is long, but Wired writes such interesting and well-researched pieces. This story reads like an awesome thriller novel.
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originating in Saudi Arabia, the whole story sounds like a test run, done either by Al Qaeda or US DHS/CIA/etc.... (with neither coming out when the tab grew to $700K :)
I use it to connect - exactly. I've been able to join valuable groups, find competitors, develop partnerships, and follow conferences that I couldn't attend. I get updates about new technologies to use, industry updates. Seems like pastonrod knows what I mean. FB gives me poop diaper updates from friends. Not biz friendly really.
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You're assuming that the cost of goods sold (the price minus the margin) is a reliable indicator of the value you receive in the final product. That's a really questionable assumption given that the whole idea of company that converts raw goods into finished consumer products is to maximize the amount of value they add onto the raw cost of making the item.

You're basically saying you prefer to buy from the company that adds relatively little value to its products in the form of good design, efficient production or good sourcing of raw materials.

Let's say a company found a way to create goods with negative raw goods costs - such operations do exist, usually by converting trash or waste into a desireable product. (E.g. sewage into fertilizer pellets.) Is that a less desirable product than one that has a lower margin?
No - spec calls for 6 digits.
not entirely unfeasible... i hear they tracked down directv hackers through their use of electron microscope-like devices
Pandora on android routinely skips songs half way through for me. Its unusable.