skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think race acts as more of a red herring when it comes to this matter. This entire thread just sounds like privileged or talented people(nothing wrong with being either) fighting over admittance to elite universities. After all, people qualified to get into Yale, and this is a large number of applicants, will still get into a very good university.

Maybe the problem is that going to an elite school matters too much for arbitrary social reasons. We've all heard and read about how hiring at places, such as elite financial institutions, will simply discard any application from a person who didn't go to an elite university. No one wants to lose out on opportunity.

Why can't elite universities increase enrollment to increase the number of opportunities? They have the endowments for it. I'm not aware of any Ivy struggling to pay its bills.

If society thinks that people who attend these schools are a better value, then wouldn't it be of benefit to try to expand capacity?

It seems like an artificially created scarcity. Do top schools feel their brand is diminished if they start accepting 2k students vs 1.5k?
Google’s “Not Provided” Keyword Volume Keeps Rising
I thought the thread was about college admissions, which at their best, really ought to be about individuals, not groups.
Yep, you're exactly right. It's like replacing long form time wasters with short form time wasters. A context switch is a context switch whether it's from productive work to email or from productive work to IM.
I'm not certain that I agree with your point. I love computer science, and credit my interest in programming with the vast majority of my intellectual development, but that doesn't necessarily make it better at developing students intellectually than other fields. As I've grown older and made friends with people passionate in other fields (e.g. mathematics, physics, economics), I've learned that those people have developed similar powers of analysis and logic as I have. Through the lens of my conversation with them, and I can see the intricacies and thought processes of their fields of interest, which developed them much as the manipulations required in CS have for me. JMStewy makes a good point. For the literary-minded, literary criticism may be a great way of honing their abilities. For you and I, computer science and practicing on problems in the digital field train us well. I don't think we can say with statistical certainty that any field (let alone literary criticism) are optimal for the majority of students.
I've been trying to submit a bug with photo albums thumbnails disappearing while you upload from your iphone (seems to be some kind of memory problem or redraw not updating) and some suggestions for the UI/UX (if you choose the wrong image to upload on your phone it takes 5 taps to choose another image rather than 2 taps) but I can't find a page anywhere to send in a bug report or ask for a UI change.
I have a problem with the idea behind this - there's no proof that the coin is biased; even flipping it a hundred times and getting the same result is possible with an unbiased coin. All that statistics gives you is the probability of having a result at least this extreme with an unbiased coin. If this probability is low enough (often 1 in 20 or 1 in 100, but sometimes as low as 1 in 5), the "hypothesis" of the coin being unbiased is rejected, but this rejection will happen erroneously 1 in 20 or 100 or 5 times. As exemplified by the XKCD cartoon: http://xkcd.com/882/
SAP to Buy SuccessFactors for $3.4 Billion
That would appear to be correct. See http://www.gnu.org/s/stow, under "Latest news."
Well, something like that -- I wrote a check for SuccessFactors shares. I have a letter to this effect in my files.

Later, some mumbo-jumbo happened that "extinguished" the value of these shares. I'm guessing this was some kind of IP transfer, whereupon the "old SuccessFactors" went out of business, and the "new SuccessFactors" -- different company, same name -- arose.

Given how "old SuccessFactors" was being run, it doesn't surprise me.
Ask: What's The Startup Scene Like In Southern California?
I'll be in Southern Cal (L.A. and San Diego) next week and was wondering what the startup scene (both tech and non-tech) is like there.
Why on earth would a government ban a particular integer?

And what exactly does this entail? Are you allowed to utter the words? When you learn to count to 100 do you have to skip them?
Perhaps in an ideal world, but for better or worse we're currently stuck with everyone looking at ethnic distributions and being really upset about them. Affirmative action, for example, is probably the counterpoint to admissions being about individuals...
That's not really a good comparison. In both cases they're trying to put together the best team. Right or wrong, the idea is that having diversity of experiences improves the academic experience for everyone. I don't know why people have such a hard time understanding this. It's fair to disagree with the idea, but it's completely different from racism.
I don't think you even need to get into the "race is an illusion" argument to self-identify as a different race. I remember when I applied, all the applications asked the question with phrasing like "Which race do you consider yourself?" I wondered if there would be any consequence if I answered Black or Hispanic (I'm white). Probably not, I'd think, as they can't prove I don't "consider myself" one of those.

Surprising that it doesn't happen more often. Or maybe it does...
I've no idea why your first comment was downvoted. I've seen SAPs HCM interfaces and SuccessFactor's. The SF one definitely looks cleaner, more responsive (Web 2.0, Ajax and all). This is purely my own opinion. It may not be the case with all products of SF, but definitely the ESS/MSS modules. and you are absolutely right, these businesses lean more towards customer development, and hopefully, probably, catch up on other fronts(processes, eng quality etc) later. When I was there, SF had a pretty reasonable dev process and a reasonable codebase.
this is lame and I bet half the government officials in China don't even care about implementing such a policy.. heck, I bet 95% don't care, they just follow orders and fear rebelling. Heck, I bet just a handful of them care at most. I mean, it can't be that fulfilling to make censorship your life purpose.
> I don't think checking "Asian" or "not Asian" makes a huge difference,

Not checking this box shows an aspect of your personality, maybe the differenciator you're looking for.
I this would've happened a couple hours after the subway first opened years ago if it were legal.
Guessed all of mine correctly with Chrome on Mac. Scary.
No, but the hazzle to pay and setup and maintain a server/software is worth more then a few cents, at least for me.

Especially if what i would build with Jekyll wouldn't hae the benefits of a hosted service elsewhere.
Siri creates a whole new kind of annoying cellphone conversation
Yes, that is right. That's why it's a big deal, and worthy of HN.

Now, the situation would be better if 2.0.x had been released.

Troy Will, the maintainer, had put stow into maintenance mode, and basically stopped after 1.3.3. Kahlil Hodgson did a major rewrite that became Stow 2. The both contributed to it a bit, getting us to 2.0.2.

Stow 2.0.2 was considered stable, and though it could be downloaded from Savannah, Troy felt uncomfortable releasing it officially because he was unfamiliar with the code and felt he couldn't maintain it, or address any problems found. Kahlil wasn't willing to step up as maintainer.

So, 2.1.x marks Adam Spiers becoming involved in the project.

Here is the thread that sparked this: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/stow-devel/2011-11/msg000...

(I am the Luke Shumaker quoted in the beginning of the thread. I had an email exchange with Troy about this back in February, but it happened off-list)
You're probably thinking of stud (https://github.com/bumptech/stud). Haven't tried it but looks great on paper!

I currently run FreeBSD clusters with pf and varnish for load balancing, so relayd is my choice for SSL.
"In the mosaic of America, three groups that have been unusually successful are Asian-Americans, Jews and West Indian blacks — and in that there may be some lessons for the rest of us."

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/07/opinion/07kristof.html?_r=...

"Do African immigrants make the smartest Americans? The question may sound outlandish, but if you were judging by statistics alone, you could find plenty of evidence to back it up.
In a side-by-side comparison of 2000 census data by sociologist John R. Logan at the Mumford Center, State University of New York at Albany, black immigrants from Africa average the highest educational attainment of any population group in the country, including whites and Asians."

http://thesouthern.com/news/opinion/editorial/page/article_2...

I think it is more cultural than genetics.
It's because they're manually checking the page as it loads.

Once it's okay'ed, it'll load instantly the next time.

Seriously.
This guy "won him the title of president of the Black Student Union, despite not being, well, black" [1]

[1] http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/160/bill-nguyen-startups
Asahi.com
I had a 3 or 4 digit slashdot id, but the password is long forgotten and I no longer have access to the mail account that a new password is sent to.
"The UI is polarising"

What exactly do you mean by that? The UI in a browser shouldn't do anything but get out of the way and display the web page's UI.

Personally, I don't even want to see a menu bar unless I hit the ALT key - which is working nicely for me in Firefox right now.

And I don't notice any "laggy behaviour". Although I haven't run any comparison tests so maybe I'm missing out.
> You're wrong about plugins so I'll assume that you mean addons here, which use a completely different interface.

I personally found Chrome's plugin “API” to be pretty terrible… I use Vimperator on FF, and not only are the Chrome alternatives awfully lacking in functionality, I also need to have enabled JS for them to work. Safe?
Your use of a car analogy here couldn't be any better placed. The reason why Germany has such strict laws pertaining to copyright, patents and design is due to the flamboyant duplication of their own motoring industry.

It seems your analogy however is far off, this would be more like copying a vehicle verbatim, but changing the colour and hood ornament.

It was unsurprising that Germany (and various other courts outside of the USA + South Korea) have seen in Apple's favour, See: http://i.imgur.com/TmUj2.jpg (In fact it seems that the USA lawsuit is one of the lesser successful cases for Apple.)

So when you're copying even the docking mechanism, it's clear that intentions went from "flattery" to "duplicate", and perhaps even a little bit of "make it the same so we can cut into their sales", which is just a nice way of saying, "confuse dumb consumers into buying ours."

The foundation of most of these laws revolves around the idea of what an average consumer could reasonably be confused by or mislead to believe. So when not even Samsung's own legal team are able to make a absolute distinction between the two devices you can bet that consumers will be having a similar difficulty. See: http://blog.gsmarena.com/judge-asks-samsung-lawyers-to-tell-...

Also, a casual review of past samsung products also reveal that their design ethos has never approached this look and feel, while the iPad fits along the lines of many of their previous products, both in form but also material choices.
While your first point is valid, the fact that Apple completely refuse to allow any 3rd party browsers on iPhone/iPad/etc... puts them in a worse position competition-thwarting-wise than MS with IE.
Firefox 11 Targeted for SPDY Support
Awesome freebie, because "Coming Soon" pages usually suck..
I sort of agree with your general point, but I think there's something else going on too:

Actively favoring and caring about this kind of thing advances your career, social status, etc, in China (for some career paths, not all). There are incentives to care. Consequently, many people learn to care and become true believers. (Faking like you care is harder to get right than being genuine, and requires better thinking, and the people who can do that usually go for other jobs, so it's much rarer.)

Lots of people do more than follow orders, they internalize some of the values of the people they are trying to please. And they learn skills like figuring out which way the wind is blowing without being told, and figuring out how to convince themselves that is good, and then (if they are ambitious, or under pressure from their wife to make more money, or whatever) they may even try to get out in front of the thing, show their dedicated enthusiasm, take initiative, seek a leadership role, etc... All the while, they are not in general thinking about how they are secretly opposed to what they are doing, which would be unpleasant and get in the way of their success.
Most users never touch defaults. I'd bet you $100 million a year that AltaVista would stay default in the majority of Firefox installs, if it were released that way.
I may be wrong but I believe it is because emacs now supports color theming without color-theme.el
I don't know if this is a downside.

First a bit of background. I come from India where they practice reservation which I think would be considered much "worse" than affirmative action over here. The way the system works is that a certain percentage of seats are reserved for people from certain (usually lower castes). So for my engineering examination, I wrote a common exam conducted by the government along with about 80,000 other students from my state. Among the 80,000 about 35k or so did well enough to be given a "rank". The rank means exactly what you think it means.

Now, students are allowed to choose the college they want to go to in the order of their ranks. However, reservation means that people like me, who don't "have a reservation" have to choose seats from the general quota. The general quota was, believe it or not, 20% of all seats. Out of my class of 140 EE students, we had 29 students who came through the general quota. About 15 more seats were available to students who were willing to do without the government subsidy.

Side note: Because my education was subsidized by the state government, I paid about $300 dollars a year in fees. The ones who went without the subsidy paid about $1200 dollars a year. All

All the remaining 100 or so seats were reserved for people from one or another of the reserved castes. For people in the general quota, the lowest (highest numerically) rank admitted to my department was 114. For a person coming from a reserved quota, the lowest rank admitted was 29xx.

At the time I felt this was grossly unfair. I busted my ass to be ranked in the top 100 among 80,000 candidates to get into this place and these guys were admitting students who weren't even in the top 2000 simply because they were born into the right family.

Over time, I've come to realize that I enjoyed a great many privileges these other kids did not. I had sporadic access to the internet, I had parents who were reasonably supportive of my studies, I knew English really well. I didn't get the 90th rank simply because I was awesome. I got it because I was lucky enough to be born with (some) privilege in a third-world country.

Many of my classmates from disadvantaged backgrounds have gone on to become competent engineers. I realize now that they fully deserved their chance.
Wisdom is rare, and not easily discerned. Tread carefully.
By any chance, is this a honey pot post? Flag.
How does it actually work?
Google isn't exactly about the browser, they're all about search. Not renewing wouldn't make sense. Microsoft would benefit greatly by partnering with Mozilla and Google shouldn't let that happen from a business standpoint.

I think that despite Chroke's dominance Firefox isn't going anywhere. The article kind of made it sound like Mozilla was on the ropes which it's pretty far from. There will always be a market for those who want a browser from a company that is on their side and that's Mozilla. Chrome is aweso,e but there are going to be people concerned about the data collection that goes on. Chrome is out there to enrich Google. IE is infamous for being behind the times and just a crappy browser all around for standards, weird toolbars that install the,selves, etc. Then there's Mozilla. What ulterior motives do they have? From all I've ever learned they're just out there trying to build a kick ass browser and move the web forward. No search engine to support, no billion dollar software company to promote, just a humble browser maker in it for the users.

Chrome may overtake them in market share but I don't see Mozilla straying too far behind Google for the foreseeable future. IE share will keep tanking and Safari, while a great browser, will still be kind of a trailing behind cult classic.
I think it's mainly a matter of what you're used to. Each time my main computer has moved to a different font rendering tech (Aliased → ClearType → Apple) I've initially been spitting mad like you seem to be, but have ended up preferring it.
As a Chinese programmer: Please stop talking about it on HN. Save HN for us.............

EDIT:as being misunderstood I claim that I hate GFW as much as I love freedom and decent programs.
>>> Try vacuuming your Firefox database [1], syncing everything [2] and/or create a new profile [3] with only the extensions you actually use.

That's part of the problem. I'm a huge fan of Firefox, but I shouldn't have to manage these things in order to keep my browser fluid after six months of regular use.
Not true. You can get Opera for iOS:
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/opera-mini-web-browser/id3637...
An easy way to curb smart-phone thieves
Sprint.ly: New software development management tool from Joe Stump
> Why on earth would a government ban a particular integer?

See: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3309452
Misread "Markdness"... Would have been equally fitting :)
this is ridiculous. but it's good news and may help stopping chinas continuous espionage activities in ip networks. just name all your stuff 4, 6, 46, 64, 89 etc. and let their own firewall(s) do the work for you.
Update on a few things....
I don't think the spatial resolution of the LCD panel matters quite as much as the angular resolution relative to your eye. If your monitor is further away, you can get away with lower resolutions without being able to see individual pixels.
Rmtrash - avoid tragedies on your mac
Same here, my #1 reason for supplying -f is also to kill a git repo.
Thanks. So Bill Nguyen proved that it's possible to self-identify yourself under different race.

University Admission Committee may not mind such "self race re-branding" practice too, because university ratios of admitted minorities would be improving as well.
My app's referrers from the timeline have grown from a really really small # to only a really small #, so I think it is in fact gradually being rolled out, but I'm not sure.
"a member of HAPA, the Half-Asian People's Association"
I was under the impression that Hapa was a Hawaiian word for "a person of mixed race." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hapa
When did the Asians at Harvard decide to steal that one?
Nah, it's simpler than that.

"Both say they figure that cooking or freezing will eliminate any toxins."

You only need to do one or the other. Freeze then cook? That's like belt and braces - pointlessly over-cautious!
She gave you very valuable advise.
AT&T, Sprint Sued by Customers Over Tracking
Certain protections of design/research aid the consumer/society.

If all hard work is copied with no limitation, then this severely limits the amount of money you can spend on r&d to remain profitable.

Take medication for example, the r&d lead time is many years long and a huge culmination of factors, but duplicating a known-formula can be trivial.

How this applies to business: as society relies on competing bodies to spur innovation, there is a direct consequence if we remove the ability to compete:

If unfettered duplication of a product is legal, and this duplication can occur in a shorter timeline than the time required to acquire profit from the product(i.e when taking away the costs of development) then there is no business reason to ever develop the product to begin with.
The article says they are using Office Communicator, part of the Office suite, so I'd imagine they are going full-bore on that. Wonder if they are using SharePoint for the wiki, too.
Operators in Brazil have done this forever. The phone's ID is probably already sent along when you activate the SIM card, why would a company not do this?
He released the first open source driver for the kinect
I don't mean to make any particular assertions about one ethnicity or another. My point is simply that, given the (genetically driven) physical variance between ethnicities, I expect there is a reasonable chance of (genetically driven) mental variance as well. In what way? I have no idea, and no opinion.
Universities rush to claim .xxx domains
[NEW]I just ask my friends in China to visit the site and it turns out to be ok. Don't know how and when it recovered. Another funny story is python.org is blocked for a long time. Somebody say it is the version number 2.6.4; Somebody claim it's because GAE(could be set up as proxy); The other part believe it's because python.com...... We don't know which is the truth or neither of them.
Former CERN physicist became a quant
Russian Mars probe still unresponsive
A file opened in your text editor is unlikely to be able to steal your email

That's very untrue - macro viruses were a common problem for many years. I'd even argue that the web could be fundamentally safer than any OS, since it was practically born with sandboxing in mind.
If enough people stop talking about it in enough places, then the govt will have successfully edited the internet at large. Potential tragedy of the commons, limited mainly by outrage.
Napster No More
The article talking about high school, not college.

Anyway I find, that Americans a little bit confused about things like race, ethnicity and nationality.

Asking to fill nationality in official documents is legitimate.
Asking for ethnicity is borderline.
Asking to fill a race is barbaric.
Hmm, where to even begin....

I take it you've never ridden the subway.
You are right. I'm just try some self-mockery in my poor English. I believe it's neither legal or moral and I constantly encourage my friends to say something as I do.
What role does object relational mapping have in football?
looks like $1 iOS games with free newly released content is no more. Now we have to pay for each new set of 10 levels that I can finish in 1 sit. How does Tetris' gameplay style warrant new content to justify a 30$ game purchase anyway?
This is completely the wrong attitude. Should we stop using the number 64 in our software too? That's fucking insane. Get a VPN, leave the country, use tor, or otherwise figure out how to get around the firewall. You're asking us to essentially pretend, at high cost, that we are also behind the Great Firewall of China, and we will not do that.

Edit: It looks like you were joking. I get that. I just don't want this community to actually seriously sympathize with this concept.
YouTube gets its biggest makeover ever
I still spend time on there (especially when I've overdosed on HN startup scene stories) and have had an account since 2000ish. Providing you filter no lower than level 4, I find it's still as good as it has ever been.
Single-Purpose Web Sites That Do Exactly What They Say They Do