skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From what I can tell the rating is random & anonymous. I took a picture of breakfast, don't have any friends using the app, and had 48 votes within a few hours. The app is really slick...
Won't someone please think of the transsexuals?
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Whoops - just saw that!

I guess I always figured Google would give AppEngine some separate allocation/reverse DNS like EC2.
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- spatially-connected visualizations of our internal sensor data (temp, occupancy, ambient light, and more)
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The price of $350 might be worth it to me if the full text for each URL was provided - it looks like you just get a short summary.
Just to get it out of the way: no one who has ever posted on Hacker News or has ever been even slightly associated with the Bay Area tech scene is the least bit racist. We are all 100.0000% meritocratic, and when we popped out of the womb we were instantly the most color-blind people in history. This is a given, and anyone who would say otherwise is a whiner who's just too lazy and stupid to code. (This, by the way, is also how we know that people here are not at all sexist or homophobic and have highly progressive views on gender. We're just that good.)

Now that that's out of the way, we can talk about the role of race in tech. I think it'd be useful to divide it into four categories.

1) Race as felt through through social structure. Minorities (defined as AA, Native American, and Latinos) have less access to educational resources than other ethnicities. This is a broader social injustice, and tech can't be held responsible for it. Tech is also hard at work to help mitigate this problem, though with varying levels of success.

2) Race as felt through choice of majors. Minorities disproportionately choose not to major in techy fields. This is in large part due to a combination of 1) and 3) (to follow). Even to the extent that minorities do have access to high quality education, it tends to be more liberal arts and non-techy. Minorities may also perceive that the tech scene tends to be less friendly toward them.

3) Race as felt through network effects. This, I think, is probably the biggest cause of the recent complaints. Everyone knows here how valuable having their social community overlap at least somewhat with the tech community is. Knowing someone who knows someone is how you get jobs and get involved in new projects. And you learn a whole lot through these informal interactions (having no CS background, I only learned about Lisp on a date).

People whom we know are usually of similar racial and class backgrounds. Not through any conscious decisions, but because of shared interests and the fact that people make friends through other nodes in their own social networks, nodes that have the same tendency of showing race and class similarity.

4) Racist prejudice. Examples of this are the null set, because no one here is at all racist.

In the end, though, 3) builds off of itself. You start out as an isolated island, and if you don't break out of it you'll never achieve your full potential. Once you do get pulled into it, though, the sky's the limit.

The question we should be asking is how to deal with 3).
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What does it matter to you if they use it in production? It's not like your house is going to burn down.
Seriously, now you are just spreading FUD. You even said a few posts up that there WAS durability.

With respect to the speed of writes, MongoDB has, at least, three other things going for it [that CouchdB doesn't]: 1) the journal file is append only, 2) updates can often be done in-place, 3) a binary protocol.
> culture is a big part of any startup, and a culturally-oriented incubator could attract people who mesh well together.

This reminds me of Ellen Spertus's argument that certain women might get a better CS education from an all-girls school. The idea is an all-girl environment completely removes such impulses as "I don't want to answer this question and be 'that girl'" or any external signals that link being female with being non-technical.
Steve Pavlina is insane and it taints all of his advice.
I know hacker news crowd is different and most you have not worked in traditional companies so to those who will say racism is practiced by minority, here is my one of the favorite anecdote. I understand anecdote is not data but I have a personal collection of self-experienced anecdotes ,spanning multiple years and client.

I work as an outsourced contracted consultant on a client which outsources to 2 outsourcing firms A(Indian) and B(Native). I work for firm A. Client had a seemingly untraceable problem which was not solved for more than a year.CTO personally used to come to my manager’s desk and express his frustration of not able to resolve the issues. End users were constantly complaining to him. So task force was prepared to which used to meet every day for hours and talk in circles with no resolution. They were not even able to devise an attack plan. I have some reputation for tackling this kind of stuff so they persuaded my managers and started inviting me to their meetings.

After couple of days of investigation I was able to devise a plan and find out the root cause and resolution to the problem. Actual was hilarious and sad at the same time. It was a bigger issue with overall design of the datacentres which was originally designed by vendor B. Millions were wasted because someone failed to understand how TCP/IP layers interact with each other.

I know communication is important so I kept everyone updated and prepared a detailed analysis in doc and ppt format. The moment my analysis was out, guess what Vendor B tried to blame internet for not behaving to make his solution work and client rallied behind him. When I shot down his bullshit argument , me and my firm were taken out of loop and separate meetings with vendor B started to propose potentials solutions. After couple of months of proposing bullshit they again came to us and we provided the solution. Guess what ? We were out of the loop again and solution implementation started by hiring a third vendor C(Native again!!) along with vendor B.
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Nobody EVER said it had to be. They had data. It was GOOD data, and they wanted to be paid for it, but they had to tell Google they had it so people could find it. It's how advertising works. Look what we have! Come buy it.
Meh. You could also tie the user to the device or browser and avoid a first time user entering the game with 2k points and the map nearly complete. Give a new user a good experience and maybe they will use your login mechanism and become a repeat user. Otherwise they might just think the game is broken and never return. I wondered why it said I had answered over 40 questions when I only answered 2. Makes for a poor user experience.
Are other Google products using the same layout engine or are they just copying the visual appearance? I'd like to have the same layout controls available in Docs, Calendar, Reader etc.
Clearing your cookies will fix this. But you'll need to do it every time. Can you say "Broken site" ?
Modernizr would be my choice.
Why Zynga's Mark Pincus Tried To Buy CNet
So my prime hobby is ham radio, and my prime mode is morse code. These days, we mostly connect computers to the radio to do logging and morse code keying (done through the LPT port). One popular program runs under windows. The big boys use another program that runs under DOS, and lately FreeDOS as a replacement. Running under windows, there is an annoying hesitation once every word or so that is due to whatever is going on in windows.

The solution, provided by the maker of the above-mentioned windows software is an external keying module. With this arrangement, windows sends characters to the hardware brick, which, latency-free, sends out the characters quite nicely. (Amazing how the trained morse-code ear can distinguish ms delays in character starts.)

Personally, I now think that way where a system has a component that is latency rich connected to a component that is latency-free. This of course has implications to the overall solution.
caught acknowledging

instant classic.
You NEVER said "annoying". You used the terms "mislead" and "deception".

THIS is annoying.
I really don't know why tablets don't have shorthand recognition.

Shorthand is fast.
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Calxeda reveal Cortex-A9-based system-on-chip and HP announces evaluation server and product plans.
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> That's going to require some work on the 80211 layer.

The 80211 guy retired so there's little chance of that happening.
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Showing different things to search engines and users is deceptive. You're misrepresenting yourself to the search engine.

I want search engines to penalize sites that put content behind firewalls, because those sites are less relevant to me. If the site is good enough to overcome that penalty because the content is so good that it gets enough google juice anyway, awesome. But they should still be penalized for hiding stuff behind the paywall.

It's not a moral judgment on paywalling content, it's a practical one. As a search engine user, I don't want Google to show me paywall stuff unless it's really, really good. So Google is making the appropriate ranking by penalizing paywalled content. But if you trick Google by showing googlebot something that you don't show users, that's obviously deceptive. Which I will make a moral judgment on.
Extremely precise description of every large old company I've worked at.
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I know it is easier to click a button on a web page than to make a phone call, but perhaps you should call your representative if this issue matters to you.
This is extremely cute, but a little ridiculous as a pay service :P.
I would ask people not to take the test immediately, but rather first spend time on the authors' distinction about implicit racial attitudes. Racial bias in this sense is entirely different than overt racism, but still as important. Admitting that you've unintentionally learned the statistical biases present in our culture is not admitting you're a racist. When you're ok with that statement (which can be difficult given the charged USian history of race!), take the test.
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> the idea that soon oil will run out, bringing about the end of society as we know it

That's not what peak oil means. The oil will never "run out". In a hundred years we will still be pumping oil out of Saudi Arabia.

A person can be surrounded by a whole world of air and still suffocate if their lungs are inflamed and full of fluid. A person is doomed if the effort of drawing a breath consumes more oxygen than derived from that breath.

Likewise it doesn't matter how many barrels of oil are in the ground or under the sea if producing a barrel of oil takes more energy than can be derived from that oil. It doesn't matter how many acres are covered in tar sands if the facilities to convert those sands to oil aren't built.

That said, the people in this article are crazy.
From what I've seen this is how the response has been to every petition thus far. They basically give an overview about the topic and some historical information but really say nothing and promise nothing. It's the equivalent of setting a trashcan in your office and putting a sign on it that says "Complaint Department".
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Don't get me wrong - I was not defending them - I was just curious if they were actually charging a real cancellation fee (which would be far more outrageous) than a refund fee. If they are at fault they should waive that imho - but just in general it's good to know that the refund clause exists.
If you want to cancel, cancel on the last day of service to prevent the fee.
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I totally agree. Stack Overflow is awesome and a great alternative to EE.

When I searched for a programming answer and EE came up, most times the questions and answers were relevant. I never opted to pay for the service, and I stopped clicking the links to EE because I didn't want to pay. However, that didn't mean they didn't have the relevant answer, and I just had to pay for it if I wanted it.

I don't find this deceptive, just a form of advertising.
The article seems to have various inaccuracies, like the ones quoted here, so I am not sure what to make of it overall.

> And if that weren’t enough to make you curious, Google didn’t just take WebKit’s Rending Engine and call it Chrome…

They didn't rebrand WebKit, they wrote a ton of code on top. This sounds like an unfair dismissal of Google's efforts.

> they created a new JavaScript Engine known as V8. This new JavaScript engine is perhaps the fastest engine available

Mostly true, but it depends on the benchmark of course.

> and Google chose to add engineering complexity by making it standalone/embeddable; incidentally making projects like NodeJS possible.

Not at all true. The JS engine in WebKit, JavaScriptCore, is also embeddable and used in various places (for example, Seed in GNOME). Ditto SpiderMonkey.

> The engineering energy that went into creating the V8 Engine Is no small matter, as it was written entirely in C++ and designed to convert JavaScript to machine code to increase speed.

True, but all JS engines I am aware of are written in C++ and compile to machine code (and they did so from around when V8 launched, in the case of JavaScriptCore and SpiderMonkey).
I have to agree with you about giving a design time to sink in. So many times have I been sent designs for me to start working and a few hours later they are sending me an email saying to stop work while they rework something. First impressions can be very powerful, good or bad, but I do think its important to not rush into an idea.

As for the eulogy, there have been so many amazing things said about Steve Jobs, my wife has been a massive Apple fan for a long time and when she read what Obama said there were a few tears.
Trying not to be overly critical, but the three games I looked at seem quite simplistic and the artwork is minimal. Putting a little more time into the artwork should pay off. These recent tutorials on Gamesutra could help:
http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/author/ChrisHildenbrand/6036/
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Interesting; I'm working on (and using myself) a similar approach to tracking eating habits: http://www.everyday.io/tour

Like theirs, there's no calorie counting in my app. Instead, you set goals like "no sugar", "no dairy" and use colored sliders at the end of the day to say how well you did with that goal. You can also snap photos of your food using the mobile app (Phonegap), but you don't have to - many people just write a list.

You can use my app alone, but you can also have buddies to share your updates with (and I highly encourage that, it makes it a lot more fun and makes you more accountable). When you're doing well (e.g. no sugar for 3 days), you can high five eachother, and if you haven't logged in a while, you can nudge.

It's cool to see more apps taking a new approach to improving eating habits... it's a good thing for the world. :-)
Stupid, stupid move. Lack of time stamping is a major problem on the web. This only helps content farmers.
In terms of effort:outcome ratio, it probably ranks somewhere under "voting" and somewhere over "arguing on the Internet". Your call.
I think you can be for net neutrality (the concept), while being against net neutrality (as proposed FCC regulation).
The core (i.e., non-AUR stuff) is pretty tock-solid. I switched from Gentoo to Arch a while ago, and the ease with which Arch can be managed is phenomenal.

I want an OS that:

* works

* stays the way I left it

* won't do things behind my back

* has a lot of packages for stuff that don't need to be built from source

Arch qualifies, Ubuntu doesn't qualify, Gentoo doesn't, Windows doesn't, and Mac OS X doesn't. If you're a user like me, Arch is for you.
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He's not talking about products, he's talking about work environments.
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Absolutely, I agree. That diffusion of culpability is what makes social ills like this so damned difficult to change.

I would say, though, that identifying a villain is immensely helpful in mobilizing opposition, even if the villain is more caricature than reality. Hitler is a great example; no one cared that the reality of the Nazi state was a diffuse and dreary bureaucracy of Eichmanns and Speers. It was Hitler's face that went on war posters.
Framework for Designing for Multiple Devices
Sure. My understanding is that you can't include GPL'd code in a project that is not itself licensed under the GPL. This may be an oversimplification, since you could potentially use the tools without actually including them in a project, but this is sort of a legal gray area that I don't fully understand (e.g. what constitutes inclusion of GPL'd code in a project?)
fyi, url's are giving 404's
> I think racism is about as far from a relevant issue as you can get. Honestly, the people who get bent out of shape about it are just as backwards as the few people who are still actually racist.

Haven't you just killed your company with this comment? Good Luck with any job interviews your company gives in the future. You appear to have left them open to claims of racist discrimination.
I'm sorry, I wasn't very precise in my language, I meant the industries working together to generate a more generic process that isn't tied to a specific industry. This would be done with the intention of building a Professional Software Engineer program.

Anything relying on the physical world obviously cannot be mathematically verified, however the mathematical rigor is still there in the modelling and testing.
Yep. It makes me wonder if they would pay more attention if maybe a patent troll came after them (I know, I know... it won't happen). They are using Drupal for whitehouse.gov and I'm sure other open source tech as well. There's got to be something in there a patent troll could claim. Maybe the petition software itself. Someone's got to have a patent on allowing people to submit a post and allowing people to vote on it. Hmm...
True, but it still does break google's requirement that the page Google sees must be the same as the one Google's user sees (which was the original reason they did this anyway).