skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why not NonCodersCode?

There are plenty of poor, uneducated white girls and boys who could benefit from programs like this.

Oh, what's that you say? We already have enough people with their skin color in the computer science field? Shame on me! You're right -- ignore the white trash.

The (attractive, affluent, privileged) whites who enjoy ignoring white trash are right -- poor, uneducated whites are unimportant. In fact, poor, uneducated whites (especially the toothless ones) are less important and less worthy of help than attractive, affluent, privileged people with more melanin.
They're not saying that life developed there, they're saying that if there ever were martian life, this is one of the few places on the planet that has a (relatively) less-severe environment, and therefore a higher likelihood of finding surviving specimens.
That's the theory, but I've found many reasons to restart that I just do it automatically these days. The reasons are not limited to stupid webapps, jni, log4j stuff that outlives a deployment and ends up consuming all of PermGen.
Any piece of info in particular you wanted sourced, or just all of it? You might need to whip out Google translate.

Jakobsson, Anders; Oscarsson, Magnus; Karlsson, Karl - Göran. Det fria skolvalet hotar kvaliteten
Svensk skola. http://www.newsmill.se/artikel/2010/12/09/forskare-fria-skol...

About Sweden's plummeting PISA scores in reading:

PISA 2009 – Executive Summary, OECD 2010 page 15
Jumping straight to the comments right? ^^

Quotation:

> Birss said in his July 9 ruling that Samsung’s tablets were unlikely to be confused with the iPad because they are “not as cool.”
Dude, I'm a fairly new user with low karma but I'm going to burn every bit of it up in this one post so I'm going to try to make it good.

First, let me ask you a question. 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.

I'm going to tell you a little secret. Black people statistically speaking are intellectually inferior. You don't have to like it, I don't have to like it, the Hacker News zeitgeist doesn't have to like it but it's true.

The question is, what do you do about that. Do you pretend everybody is the same and give everybody equal opportunity sink or swim? That sounds good in the libertarian utopia but the fact is we live in the real world and if you do that you are going to have a class of people that will never reach parity no matter what happens. Left to their own devices, black people are incapable as a group to ever reach the cultural and social level of white and Asian people.

That being the case, you can either live with that which is a non-starter unless you want downtown SF look like downtown Johannesburg. So the only realistic option is to "stack the deck". Everyone that has ever thought about it for more than 5 minutes realizes that this has to happen in order for our mixed society to remain sane. The ivory tower "liberals" understand this far more than you realize and despite the public rhetoric of equality, behind the scenes, the dials are turned to make sure that despite the fact that blacks could never compete on merit, there is just enough stacked in their favor and just subtly enough that they have at least some chance. Thus programs like BlackGirlsCode.

And that's it. I don't like it. I wish blacks were on par intellectually but that just isn't the case and won't be anytime soon so I buy in to this "fix". Give it some thought and you might too.

BTW, before you get too far off on your own superiority remember that Ashkenazi jews (Einstein, etc.) are statistically a fifth to a full standard deviation above the average in mathematical and verbal IQ tests. Ever wonder why something like 50 percent of the nobel prizes go to them? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashkenazi_Jewish_intelligence

Bye bye Karma.
See my other comment: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4262430
It's pretty high-contrast, though. Presumably an algorithm could find interesting high-contrast, high-symmetry structures quite easily...
You're totally off here. curl,wget, etc are tools that make overly complicated the most common use cases. There are 900 million command line flag options, so figuring out how to do a post & set a particular header can be 10 minutes. 10 minutes is an awfully long time for learning how to perform an HTTP request! At least on the github page I can learn the 5 things I'd actually want to do in about 3 seconds. And it colorizes the json output to make it more legible? Sweet. That's called productivity.

Interestingly enough, people seem to search for curl tutorials much more than wget: http://www.google.com/trends/?q=curl+tutorial,+wget+tutorial...

Having something that makes life easier with less complication IS what tools are all about. That's called evolution. Why have the web when you could have gopher? Because it's _better_, even if you can 'accomplish the same things.'
Ok, cool. Everyone has their ideas, they all make sense (we're all reasonably rational people here) and, in an ideal world, I agree that we should not need or have these groups. Except... the under-representation is already there, so we have to deal with it. And I think BGC is a damn fine way to deal with part of it.

Is there anyone here who is NOT a white male and would care to comment?
Smash Your Brand
Cycle at a normal pace? When walking you can run or you can walk. The same applies to cycling. Everybody in the netherlands does this, and the same probably applies to denmark.
>I just signed up and tried to create a data visualization. But it looks like the only thing you can create is to signup through Facebook and then modify an existing infographic template.

You can create any infographic you want and link to (submit) it, you do not have to use the 'create an infographic' link.

I think that visual.ly is more about finding and sharing great infographics and data visualizations from around the web. Designers can upload their own work and showcase it to people who are into that kind of thing. Yes there are some bad infographics, like there are bad designs on dribble, but there are some great ones too.
it's a hassle but if you google the author's name, chances are high that you'll find their webpage that links to the pdf of the paper. They're likely to also have other resources like videos, and related reading.
WTF...I don't see how this is even related. Have you thought for a second that Scoble's family (his wife and kids) live with him?

In fact, everything that is related to Scoble "personally" is public. You want his direct email, direct phone, cell phone etc, you have it.
Isn't the mbp pretty annoying for Linux? That's what I've heard, at the very least, and some of my friends have had trouble (at least on slightly older mbps--certainly not the new high-res versions).
And that's fine. But you can't have it both ways...

If you believe in free speech, you have to accept people saying things you don't like.

If you believe in freedom to set criteria on who you accept for something, you should also accept "white men only private clubs" etc.
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I can see your point but I think it is pretty clear that most of the minority groups are at a disadvantage to start with (Asian and Jewish minority in US are exceptions, their income is higher than average, the proportion of Jewish representation in law schools, for example, is disproportionately higher, perhaps 35% at Harvard, but that's an exceptionally well-accomplished group).

If the parents don't have enough money to feed the kids, the first thing on the mind would not be the next programming language to learn, it would be about the meal for the next afternoon. Compare that kid to someone whose parents are able to afford the education of kids at the top, most expensive business school or law school of the country. They are not competing at an equal level. Unfortunately the average black happens to be much poorer than the average white (although there are more poor whites than the total number of poor blacks but that's because the blacks are about 13% of total, whites are about 72% of the total). [edited]

I don't think anyone in Brazil would have an event "Latina hackathon" but a "Latina hackathon" in US would be understandable.

http://www.post-gazette.com/stories/news/us/study-finds-medi...

Study finds median wealth for single black women at $5

Among the most startling revelations in the wealth data is that while single white women in the prime of their working years (ages 36 to 49) have a median wealth of $42,600 (still only 61 percent of their single white male counterparts), the median wealth for single black women is only $5.
Redhat really is the only good risk if you need RHEL and timely updates on a production system. CentOS is a great idea but after last year, I don't trust them any more than Oracle. Different kinds of mistrust, but still.
In the current situation white men don't need any help with this, they already dominate the scene. Not that I really mind, I am a white man.

But you could easily implement this plan and be lauded just by naming it something other than WhiteMenCode.

If this were a government welfare program it would be important not to be partial but this is self-help.

I think it would be very laudable to go to very white parts of Appalachia and found HillbilliesCode or whatever you wanted to name it.
+1. Probably curl also had bugs before (and still does). These get fixed over time, but that doesn't mean improving the interaction isn't worthwhile in the first place.
"Samsung wasn't cool enough to copy us." - sounds good to me.
Your comment is an ad hominem attack where you falsely accuse someone of making an ad hominem attack.
> Relying on tools or, in fact, any code you've not written yourself makes your system vulnerable.

Writing everything yourself, as opposed to widely, community tested open-source alternatives, makes your system vulnerable.

Your example seems to be at the farthest possible end of the spectrum from what I'm talking about.
Google Executives: Fight Drug Cartels in Mexico with Technology
Security updates are available in patch form pretty quickly, and can be compiled pretty quickly if needed. Has everyone in the tech media forgotten that people can actually compile RHEL/CentOS from Source RPMs?
Startup Advice: Hiring your first employee
A number of the core developers of Enyo were hired by Google - the ones that had done a bulk of the public commits. But some remain and they're now hiring to fill those positions.

See http://www.theverge.com/2012/5/24/3042441/hp-enyo-google
Right now I'm on an x220.

IIR I had some acpi driver issue--in fact, had to manually white list my model in it--and power management is mediocre, even with powertop. But it gets the job done decently enough.
When you were a child you were mostly driven by emotion. As you got older you learned to control your emotions. But for many people they over-control their emotions. That is, they worry too much what other people think about them instead of expressing their authentic desires.

Now that I'm in my forties, I definitely feel like I am more myself than I was in my twenties.
Poor uneducated people (yes including whites) are a disadvantaged group compared to rich people. We should set up a group targetting them.

There are numerous advantaged and disadvantaged groups. Some people are in 1 or 2 or lots. We should try to end all disadvantagness. I don't see a contradiction.
I love that Pingualuit crater was formerly called "Chubb Crater"
>No one invests hoping for a mere 3x return.

As in, in the VC sense where you expect most people to fail, etc, right?

'Cos any day of the week I'd like to have some access to 300% returns. Especially 300% in 6 months.
Hi HN.

As part of my internship, I've been writing blog posts for Growlab, a startup accelerator out of Vancouver. I'm trying to create more interesting content, beyond the likes of news which is happening in the office. If you guys can provide me with some feedback, it would be greatly appreciated.
I think the recent kernels have had improved power management. I've certainly noticed an improvement on my laptop running Fedora a while back.
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Interesting, I'm old enough to remember the Person dies in X country after playing Y game for Z hours.
http://games.slashdot.org/story/07/09/17/1653218/another-man...
http://games.slashdot.org/story/05/08/09/1628216/man-dies-af...
Are any of these even true?
You did a good job of the "for linux nerds, by linux nerds" thing. However, when you work for Oracle writing as a linux nerd just comes off as insincere. Your employer is actively working to hurt the linux community, and your continued employment implies your consent of their actions. Your target market needs to be other evil companies that don't care what Oracle does in the courtroom, not linux nerds. "Our product is good" is not a sales pitch that matters right now, because we don't care about your product. It may technologically be the best product for my use case, but that is irrelevant if i don't trust the company behind it. You can call it zealotry if you want, i call it trust and pragmatism. I'm not going to build a business on top of a product that might be used next week as a tool to sue me or my friends. This was the only deciding factor when I chose Postgres over MySqL earlier this year for my company.

If you want to market to linux nerds, you need to change the perception of the company, because that's what matters most right now. Stop being evil, and then we'll give your products a chance.
Very well done. I'll have to look up your smoke animations in the code.
On the contrary, the entire presentation is virtually indistinguishable.

http://www.thegalaxytab.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/galax...
Apple was not the first to produce a round-cornered rectangle
The thing is: the worst thing that can happen when you fall off your bike on a bike lane is maybe a broken bone. Compare that to cars...
I suggest you wait until the new GPU architectures come out at the end of the year or early next year. They all have OpenCL 1.1 support, including Mali T604, Adreno 320, Tegra 4 and PowerVR 6200.

Mali T658 coming out late 2013 will have 4x the performance of Mali T604, I believe thanks to the shared cache between the CPU and GPU, which should increase the compute performance.
But this is nothing more than naive pedantry. There is a very large economic demographic in this country that is apparently at a disadvantage. It's called black girls/females. It's not bald hispanic athiests, or freckle-faced Irish mormons or celebrity scientologists that have blond hair.

There is a real problem that can potentially be solved. You can play this game if you want but there is quite clearly a qualitative difference between groups like "black girls" and "bald hispanic men under 40." It's just ridiculous; it's sophomoric to conflate the two.

As to your last point, so the perfect is the enemy of the good? The end goal is to help real people, not sit in an ivory tower and debate about whether "race even exists" or any of this nonsense. If calling the group "Black Girls Can Code" allows the group to raise more money and help a very specific group of girls, then that is good.

I think there is a good reason to think that if there was a group called "Woman Can Code" that this particular group/demographic would not benefit as much as it might as it is currently labeled (perhaps less participation, perhaps drowned out by the others, etc). We can be pedantic and cry foul that "Wah, there is not a White Women group or a Native American Transgender" group but that doesn't end up helping anyone.

The world is more complex than that. "Bald Hispanic" is not a comparison to "black girls" any serious person would make.
Excellent analogy. Medical care (i.e. money spent) is given out to people who need it. The more you need it, the more you should get it.

Conversely, you don't give a cancer sufferer the same amount of money as you gave someone without cancer. Which is what people often suggest when projects want to help disadvantaged groups ("We shouldn't get BlackGirlsCode any more money than we give to WhiteGuysCode, otherwise it's RACIST!")
Well, regardless of how much you hate bankers, you'd hope like it to be zero--it's not a matter of national security, after all.

I wouldn't want the government to brazenly expand its powers regardless of whether I agree with the particular activity in question.
"Kind of like forcing a bully to stand up in class and say "Billy is not a poopy-face.""

The problem with this analogy is that no one serious for a second has ever doubted that Samsung copied the ipad, the court has simply ruled the iPad design is too generic to make it a protected design. That tablets are like refrigerators and car and airplane shapes - fair game for copying.
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The SL Wikipedia entry shows you the historical delays:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_Linux
Using Lasers and Antimatter to Trek to the Stars
The Sampler doesn't work on Chrome for Android. All clicks are detected roughly half the physical height of the screen above where the touch landed. Tested on a Galaxy Nexus.
This is a zombie argument that never dies, can we just down vote these into oblivion before this place turns completely into Engadget?

Apple didn't have a patent on round cornered rectangles.
I have and X220 and a T420 and they work perfectly.

The W5*0 series is also a solid choice.
I've been looking into git (or dvcs generally) for deployment and have realised that deployment is like the inverse (dare I say dual :) of normal version control.

vc: metadata (permissions) are irrelevant.
dep: metadata is critical

vc: version everything by default (explicitly exclude)
dep: version by explicit inclusion

I've have a doc with numerous links and notes that I should share sometime.
No - http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2011/09/22/protecting-the...

"Microsoft does not mandate or control the settings on PC firmware that control or enable secured boot from any operating system other than Windows.

[...]

A demonstration of this control is found in the Samsung tablet with Windows 8 Developer Preview that was offered to //BUILD/ participants. In the screenshot below you will notice that we designed the firmware to allow the customer to disable secure boot. However, doing so comes at your own risk. OEMs are free to choose how to enable this support and can further customize the parameters as described above in an effort to deliver unique value propositions to their customers. Windows merely did work to provide great OS support for a scenario we believe many will find valuable across consumers and enterprise customers."
Like Project Glass by Google?
Smoke animations seem to be created by animating images in JS:

http://timpietrusky.com/img/lab/smoke_1.png

http://timpietrusky.com/img/lab/smoke_2.png

http://timpietrusky.com/img/lab/smoke_3.png
Maybe Samsung is a dirty company but in this instance they were in the right. I've used the iPad and the Galaxy Tab. The Galaxy Tab certainly takes its inspiration from the iPad, but come on, so does everyone else! And there's only so many way you can design a rectangular slab of plastic and glass.
Just one problem besides metadata and dynamic changes is that git (and hg) don't version empty directories at all.

Sometimes this matters:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6554910/i-am-failing-to-r...
I have a Thinkpad E325, the AMD version. Everything just worked.
No offense taken.

I did report this to the API maintainers, who couldn't make heads or tails of it. I didn't file a Python bug because I honestly don't think Python is the problem.

But you are right, it is more responsible to pursue this until fixed rather than raise warnings.
http://www.google.com/patents/USD504889?printsec=drawing#v=o...

Yes, they effectively did. That design patent is what they've been using in force.
Very well done, and the show is recommended.
The poorest countries in Europe are ethnically Catholic. By your logic, catholics are stupid. Stupid mentally inferior JFK.
I doubt there is any crapware or really, and significant software difference in the Dell version beyond a desktop link. It seems extremely unlikely to me that they're doing much in terms of software customization. I'm sure you could get the laptop to dual-boot -- what are they going to do, modify GRUB2? --, but you'd need somewhere to install the other OS.

What they could do and which would be bad is use some sort of component which requires a non-free driver that's not supported well/anymore (so you're stuck with Ubuntu 12.x) or non-redistributable (ie. only available as part of Dell's iso). Let's say they ship a 100% proprietary and non-redistributable driver for NVIDIA's Optimus. But that seems very unlikely (if somewhat hilarous). And other than that I can't imagine any reason why you'd have any issue installing any other Linux distribution.
IANAP, but if this material is "jet black", i.e. absorbs most light, and also highly conductive, wouldn't it also be a great component for organic solar cells? Graphene is apparently already an interesting candidate for this application, promising lower costs of manufacture (if not higher efficiency).
I clicked on a few of the paper titles and they led me to a direct download link off google scholar. Maybe not every paper is free this way but it was for the papers I clicked on.
There's almost certainly no need to delete linux first: just install windows and then fix the bootloader.
And Apple just dreamed up the idea of a smartphone out of thin air? What about the touch screen? Multi-touch? Gridded icons? Rectangles? Apple is an imitator, a marketer, and a polisher of other people's ideas. Little more. Your blind worship is shamefully ignorant.

Exhibit a) http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bc/LG_...

This preceded the first iPhone.
Chrome will automatically pick up the search box on any site you've been to and add it to its dictionary, no configuration required.
There are more requirements for "safe" than "traffic free". In fact, there are arguments that 'safe' and 'traffic free' are semi-orthoganal, that is you can have safe conditions with traffic, and unsafe conditions without it. For instance, an unsurfaced road provides many ways in which a bicycle can easily be toppled - loose gravel/dirt, weird bumps caused by rocks, washouts, etc, hence probably not 'safe', at least compared to a smoothly paved surface which is kept obstacle free.
Quora is moving to Mountain View
Which business doesn't care? My business does. I know a lot of other businesses that do. It's time to alter the idea that corporations should be free from ethical concerns. Any Open Source supporter working within a company should be helping that company make ethical decisions about software. I'm not suggesting "never buy commercial software" here, I'm just saying that discouraging dealings with demonstrably unethical companies like Oracle is worth doing and it makes business sense.

That's the thing that always kills me about the mindset that ethics don't matter, when you're talking about business decisions. Why would you believe that a company that has repeatedly screwed customers and competitors won't screw you when there's even modest economic benefit to doing so? History indicates you will be screwed, at some point, by Oracle, if you rely upon them. And, by supporting them, you're supporting the ongoing damage they do to our community and the tech industry in general. That's lose-lose.

So, doing the right thing has a pretty good business case.
Sometimes people in the privileged group (male and/or white) don't like targetting based on race/gender when it's negatively affects them.
The key to high profits: product differentiation (economic principle)
Pointing the the CR repository when arguing that CentOS has timely security updates seems a little disingenuous; it's opt-in and poorly publicized.

http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories/CR/