skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you'are getting a "join Google+" pop-up every time you access Gmail then there is something wrong.

That is definitely not the behavior I see on my alternate Gmail account which is opted out of Google+.
This is an awesome compilation. Thanks!

Few comments:

- Take the institution ranks (except the top 10) with a grain of salt. In theory conferences (eg. FOCS, STOC, SODA), the order of authors is alphabetical.

- Best student paper has a different meaning for theory vs systems conferences. In theory conferences, it is given to a paper who's all authors are full-time students. In systems conferences, it is given to a paper who's first author is a full-time student. So best student papers in theory conferences are particularly good reflectors of an institution's merit and should be included.

- A thought/idea: Most top conferences in CS tend to have inner cliques. So if you rank institutions merely by their program committee membership/chairship in these conferences, the resulting ranking might look very similar to this list. The differences between the two lists might be one way to bring out "rising star" institutions.
> But segregating based on color or gender or caste is never a good idea. What if a poor white or Asian or Hispanic kid wants to join this class?

Charities are free to focus on where the most need is based on the limited resources they have. There is a significant lack of women of color in US tech circles, so there is nothing wrong with a charity targeting that. Charity by definition won't be able to focus on everyone.

> To give an example: India is a deeply divided society, based on caste/religion etc.

This is a US-based charity targeting people of color living in the US. Comparisons between the US and India are not helpful here.

> Charities should never ever be based on color, gender, caste etc. Charity should be based on need and need only.

This is nonsense. Those that would benefit the most from this charity program already face discrimination and lack of opportunity BECAUSE OF their race and gender.

> It would be even more awesome, if she just taught all kids, instead of just black kids.

It would also be awesome if social barriers didn't exist at all and this kind of program wouldn't be needed, but we don't live in that world. That said, this program is absolutely doing good work and is right to target who needs this kind of assistance the most.
That's making the assumption that white people cannot possibly be poor and that black women cannot possibly be rich. I, for one, was poor most of my life and I'm white, albeit not in the US but just across the pond. There are plenty of white people who live in abject poverty. Deprivation of basic needs knows no colour, creed or gender. Why draw lines when it would benefit more people to refrain from doing so?

That's the problem with statistics - they work on large masses and derive means, medians and modes. There are real people who aren't accurately represented by such statistics and making decisions solely on said statistics is unfair to them.
Your commentary is factious. No matter how you enunciate ponctuation to try and establish reason. That simply makes it look desperately void. And stop asking other users to downvote people you don't agree with, that is just silly.
I think the biggest opportunity with Wikipedia, rather than social integration (which happens a surprising amount on my Facebook and G+, much to my delight), is semantic search and display.

Wikipedia's goals in the past five years, in my opinion, have been revolving around the desire to amass as much knowledge and meaningful content as possible -- which they've done to a rousing success. Now I think it's time for them to consider systemic ways of paring and presenting that content in ways that carry meaning and urgency in a way that reading a 30-page article about Roman antiquity doesn't.
> So a kid, who gets very low grades, can get into a good institution, just because he is from a lower caste, even if that kid's family is rich. On the other hand, a poor kid from a so called "higher" caste, can't get in, even after getting high grades, as there are only so many seats and competition is tough. This has wrecked havoc in the Indian society, as absolutely dumb kids get into good colleges, while bright kids are left out.

This vaguely sounds like affirmative action in the US.
If you look to the right of most of the google scholar links is another link that says "PDF at <site>" and you can download it from there. Very useful.
Read what a Skinner Box is. Realize that playing Runescape (I know, I know) is disturbingly Pavlovian.

Compile your first program earlier, because from there the slopes keep getting better, and the peaks have nicer views.
So, FUD then.
The caves and small places of Earth say otherwise. So do the intense environments on Earth that we've found life in. It's at least as plausible that life can hang on, sheltered in the smallest of places, as it can anywhere else. Micro organics often don't mind if you put them in a small place, with little sunlight, high or low heat, high or low oxygen, etc.

The biggest problem would be if the changes Mars underwent were too fundamentally anti-life for anything to survive whether it was in a cave or anywhere else.

In my opinion, we're going to find out on Mars that there are forms of microbes that can hang on in sedentary 'ready' state for a billion years, in extreme environments, just waiting to jump back to activity. Most of Mars will be barren, but there will be small pockets of microbes (most likely in a sheltered cave, under ice, or similar) in a form of extreme suspended animation.
I would watch and draw inspiration from Steve Job's 'Vision of the world': http://youtu.be/UvEiSa6_EPA

'Everything around you that you call life, was made up by people that were no smarter than you. And you can change it. You can influence it. You can build your own thing that other people can use'
Great Idea!

"Don't be afraid of being different - What seems now like a curse will be your biggest gift in some years"
Study physics, get lots of women, gamble, produce good science, travel, party hard, math first, don't listen to too many people.
Upvoted. Took me just a while to figure that one out.
Do white guys need more help in America?

Some do, yes. Depending on whether your concern is for actual living, breathing individuals, or for statistics and metadata about some collective.

Sure, it's easy to talk about how white men have "privilege" and are "over-represented" in some group, etc., etc., ad infinitum. But somewhere, out there, is a poor white male kid, growing up in some impoverished neighborhood, whose family can't afford a computer, who attends a slummy school with no computer education, and who would absolutely benefit from a "White Boys Code" initiative. And to that individual, all the statistics about white male privilege and over-representation mean bugger-all.

Note: none of this means I'm against the Black Girls Code initiative, BTW. I just think the person who posed the question above about "White guys code" has a point in a way. In this case though, if an individual wants to put their time, effort and resources into helping one specific group, well, that's their right. No one can save the entire world (except Bruce Willis, I guess), so we all have to pick our battles.
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just signed up. looks nice.
Why does power corrupt?
and 'What would you do if you weren't afraid'
Did you know that White people are statistically more likely to consider themselves superior to non-White people?

Also, it's obvious why Jews get more nobel prizes. Since they control the media and the banks, they get better education and better publication of their work. Duh! Don't believe me? Type in "jews control " in Google and check out the auto-complete results. Proof.
> Do you know ANYTHING about CentOS ?

Yes I know a thing or two about CentOS

Yes, they had that issue. And some people switched to Scientific Linux. That is not different than relying on Oracle and find out overnight that management changed and now the project is discontinued. In large companies whole department get laid off and focus changes.

Has Oracle tried to help. How about a donation first.

> I am surprised you think Oracle would give them any money at all.

I would be surprised but not for the same reason, but just because it is Oracle. It doesn't exactly have a good standing with the open source community. If it donated, I would be shocked. Instead if chooses to trample.

CentOS is well known, used by many, it had its issues, and it seems to me Oracle instead of trying to help is trying to strangle is replace it. I don't see that as a good move.
Behind Every Successful Person Lies a Pack of Haters
Considering how important you think blogging is, I'm surprised you don't feel the same about the quality of the content.
I grew up there, and before I got my driver's license, I biked everywhere. It was less than a 5 minute ride to the W&OD, which is a long, bike trail. It even hooks up with another trail (don't remember the name) that went to Ballston, so I could visit a friend I had that lived there. It was a 30 mile ride, with a total of about 1 mile not on a paved, well maintained bike trail.

I was in HS, so my solution for the shower thing was:

1) Gym showers at school (duh)

2) Anywhere else, I usually had a friend within a mile of it, since so much is mixed zoning, that would let me use their shower.
I'm going to assume you mean "What tools can a web entrepreneur use to check if his site can be hacked by script-kiddies".
There are a multitude of static analysis and penetration testing tools out there, free and licensed. Fortify (Static analysis), HP Web Inspect and IBM AppScan (penetration testing) are just a couple easy(ish) to use tools. On the free side of things, BackTrack comes with a plethora of security tools one can use to assess your site.
"One photo is not a demo."

So, now we are just degenerating to ye olde "No True Scotsman" defense. Face it, dude. Apple imitated and you fell for it. You've been told now crawl away with some dignity.
Are Big Banks Criminal Enterprises?
Got it. Thank you for clarifying. We'll work these features into the app.
While I agree with the sentiment of your comment, this reasoning is greatly flawed:

Odds of a person having a genetic mutation where they are immune to cholesterol when most people aren't: low

Odds of a person choosing to make a documentary: low

Odds of a person choosing to make a documentary about themselves going on an extremely high fat diet for 30 days: extremely low

Odds that this same person just happens to be one of these people who is genetically immune to cholesterol....... REALLY?

You have calculated the odds of any given individual creating a documentary about going on a high-fat diet and having a genetic mutation. However the claim you are trying to refute is that this particular individual has a genetic mutation. Since this particular individual is known to have made a documentary about themselves going on a high-fat diet, you must instead look at the conditional probability.

It is likely that making a documentary about going on a high-fat diet is totally uncorrelated with having a genetic mutation. This means that the probability of this person making a documentary about going on a high-fat diet is divided out of the final probability, which reduces simply to the probability that they have a genetic mutation.

Of course it could be possible that making such a documentary is negatively correlated with having a mutation, in which case your point stands. However I highly doubt this is the case.

However it could also be the case that making such a documentary is positively correlated with having a mutation, in which case your point is moot. It is more likely that this is the case, as this particular individual may have known beforehand that his body dealt well with fat; also, other individuals may have made a similar documentary but never published it because the outcome (getting fat) was as expected.
What is that hacked by chinese tag in the corner?
> Hey, Oracle is giving me this thing that sounds useful for free

We already have that, it is called CentOS. If giving something for free means trying to trample another open source project, then 'No Thanks, I think I'll pass'.
Jobs would say copying. Stealing is reserved for those who recognise the artistry behind the idea and integrating it into the very soul of the new work; copying is the duplication of an idea without more than superficial regard for its true meaning or purpose.
it's a great idea. definitely gotta clean up the UI a bit though but its pretty good. Hope it takes off! and if it takes off, hope you guys have enough people to buy and ship all this stuff lol
"You don't get it. By "not discriminating" you are essentially discriminating against everyone who isn't in the majority. People are not these ideal unxenophobic people. You say you grew up in a black neighborhood but I'm going to guess you are a white male yourself."

This a million times over. White men have certain inherent advantages over other demographic makeups in the Western world that it's laughable a white guy would feel offended by this small little group that's marginalized. It's like a rich person being offended that a non-for-profit just exists for poor people.
Not applicable to most games, but I did a puzzle game that uses HTML/CSS for layout, then enforced a fixed 2:3 ratio for the "content" area of the game, with each UI element using a percentage-based width/height. The great thing about this method is that the "graphics" are always crisp, regardless of screen resolution or pixel density.
Buy AAPL
By this logic, Flickr was an Instagram for pictures.
I wouldn't jump to the conclusion that the group is very exclusive. After all the women's hacker groups don't mind some men showing up, it's just that the focus is on catering to women. There's nothing wrong with small groups that pander to arbitrarily specific demographics, as long as the groups stay small.
I don't care if Apple directly aped the LG Prada or not but do not come in here thinking you can fool people into believing that Apple just innovated the modern smartphone out of thin air. It didn't happen. The fact that similar looking phones to the iPhone hit the market first should give you a clue to that.
The article says that the video is from [the National Security Archive][1]. Does anyone know where exactly the raw video can be downloaded?

[1]: http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/nukevault/ebb332/index.htm
Be excellent. Worry about yourself. If people don't like you, it's not about you, it's about them. Just focus on being the best you can be and you will be successful, happy, and have a ton of friends. Just be excellent.
See also this NY Times article about salt:

https://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/03/opinion/sunday/we-only-th...

The "eggs = cholesterol = bad" meme was apparently started by Lyndon Johnson, in an attempt to reduce demand (and therefore the price) of eggs.
Far safer. You have to remember that they're over three and a half miles from the explosion. They're just in a dramatic direction.
Copying a design is not necessarily illegal or "dirty". The benefits to consumers and society of companies mimicking each other can be huge.
True essence of an Entrepreneur
Let them. I still believe in the justice system enough to be willing to put this sort of thing to a legal test.
not sure how many people still use fltk [http://www.fltk.org/] but fluid is the name of their visual ui designer.
The product itself is appealing. The issue is the company behind it.

I don't disagree with anyone that is wary of Oracles motivation with this product. I also don't disagree that the product itself is nice. But given Oracles known interactions and history with open source an attitude of "fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me" isn't unwarranted.
What exactly do you disagree with?

> Everyone can be a minority if they decide to, depending on how you cut the population.

No, not if they "decide to". I think you mean that every person on the planet has minority status within any number of categorizations, but we're talking about categorizations that actually matter in terms of discrimination.

Or do you mean to argue that U.S. soccer fans, marathon runners, and male nurses (all minorities) have similar life experiences as racial minorities?

> To claim "white males" are a majority is just an arbitrary distinction you're making.

It's not arbitrary if it's a salient factor in determining a person's social and economic outcome.

> You fix it by being inclusive, and judging people on their merits.

Indeed. Interesting, though, that you're more concerned about how this group is acting in regard than how society at large is...
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What Code Editor Would Your Favorite Breaking Bad Character Use?
Fat Head (2009)

BBC Horizon: Why Are Thin People Not Fat? (2009)

- both very interesting programmes that contain surprising amount of cutting edge scientific information.

- both demonstrate how the Lipid Hypothesis has effectively been debunked and it is only now that it has taken 40+ years for this to edge into mainstream, despite copious anectodal and historical evidence to the contrary.

- Fat Head, in particular, also attempts to explain why this enormous gap in science even exists.
It's not just about how hard you work, it's about the decisions you make.

Also - don't be impatient.
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Not usually, which is why the dog thing is weirding me out.
You think you're being clever by mocking me? Just for the record the people that believe themselves the most clever are the ones least qualified to make the judgement.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect
> I don't understand how anyone can root for Samsung given Korean chaebol's long history of blatantly ripping off everything.

Maybe people want an iPhone sans all the DRM crap and Apple's censorship.
Can anyone point to studies showing that dietary cholesterol is bad for you? Or even that serum cholesterol is bad for you?

Before you brush me off, I am aware that high serum cholesterol is a predictor of heart disease. However, a more plausible explanation is that the body manufactures more cholesterol to fight an impending problem.

See e.g. http://blog.sethroberts.net/2011/04/12/statins-reduce-choles... for references.

(Analogy: if you can only look at the drain of a sink, you might conclude that water is likely to cause soap, because clean water almost always comes down before soap water does)
Actually 'Heart disease rates continue to stay the same' should be changed to 'increased'

In addition to heart disease there is a whole bevy of metabolic disorders that are on the rise (type 2 diabetes, hypertension, PCOS, fatty liver, etc.)

In the 80s the government told us to reduce our fat and cholesterol intake, and research shows that we did a bang up job of reducing it. But why are we continuing to get sicker and fatter?

The nutritional recommendations of the US and most of the world has to be one of the larges and most unethical experiments of all time.
Cue the endless comments from unqualified nerds who are convinced they and they alone know everything about nutrition science, and that all the commonly accepted facts are totally wrong. Complete with links to random Youtube videos of some dude who proves them right.
>Are poor, uneducated whites less worthy of help than wealthy, affluent blacks?

Of course not, but in most cases poor uneducated white people are not poor and uneducated because of the racial dynamics. In a lot of cases, the poor black women are poor because of the racial and gender dynamics.
I wouldn't tell myself anything. My life is far from perfect, but I wouldn't exchange it for some unknown life as a result of receiving some cryptic advice from future-me. I know that sounds like a cop out, but I honestly feel that way. I value the mistakes I've made as much as I do the triumphs. I don't think you can "advise" away mistakes in a way that provides the same value.
From the article: The thing is, in that particular explosion, those guys would have been in a pretty safe position. The bomb itself was a small one (by nuclear standards — 2 kilotons) and it was way, way above their heads. They weren't in a zone to be too affected by the immediate radiation. The bomb was small enough and high enough that it wouldn't have sucked up dust to produce much fallout. The remaining cloud would have been full of (nasty) fission products, but it would have been extremely hot and most of it would have stayed aloft until it cooled down, by which point it probably would have been spread more diffusely.
Hacker News commentary is turning into something I don't much care to read. (Including my own contribution here, ironcally.)
I am 21 now, but I would tell my 18 year old self to spend less time reading reddit/digg and start building more stuff.

And also, finish your projects and focus!
I thought that it was debunked decades ago that dietary cholesterol significantly increases bad serum cholesterol (i.e., LDL). Dr. Agatston, the famous cardiologist who invented what is now the standard test for coronary calcification, certainly claims that there is no reason to avoid eating eggs. (I don't know what he'd say about 25 per day, but that can't be a very balanced diet!)
Wow, first thing that jumped out at me from those pictures was that all the bicycles had at least a top chain cover, and most had no exposed chain around the crank at all. That has to account for a lot of the "riding in formalwear" since pants and dresses can get caught in the chain really easily otherwise.
If you think life is tough now, you ain't seen nothing yet!!
Send it to them!
Eh, yes you did:

What's the poorest country in the western hemisphere? Haiti. What makes it "special"? Now, what's the poorest most impoverished continent in the world? Africa. What makes it "special"? I think you get the picture.

You implied "poverty, ergo stupidity"
Be quiet. Listen more. Your dad is not a jerk.
exclusion != racism. Racism has power dynamics associated with it. If exclusion (or special inclusion programs as I would call it) leads to a more racially and gender balanced community it is a good thing.
http://www.google.com/mars/ ?

Or did you mean StreetView?
Learn more of/from the people you love, they won't be around forever.
Get out of broken relationships of any kind sooner.
Do more social sports.
Make a bit more of whatever, rather than learning more about it.
Unobtrusive Client Validation in ASP.NET MVC 3
Don't live for yourself
"Don't stuck in relationships just because is it comfortable." and "Don't stay in second tier cities."
Social skills are the most important skills. Strive to improve them. A well-connected likable person goes farther than a skilled one.
You know how you are the only one of your friends who knows how to use img tags on myspace? Learn web development and quit myspace.
Well, sure, but you're coming at it with the perspective that there's some reason the old worldview should be right.

Couldn't it be possible that you're like those that were arguing there was NO WAY the Earth could revolve around the sun?
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