skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not a "pithatician", but methinks it has something to do with the word "pith" and its Variant "pithy". A quick google of said terms yielded the following points of note:

Pith is the central idea or essence of something. If you’re in danger, you could exclaim, “I would greatly appreciate it if someone would provide assistance.” Or, you could get right to the pith of your point by shouting, “Help!”

Following along this line of inquiry, one is led to consider the possibility (however remote) of this being an example of near-humour. Possibly of the genus: Pun, species: indirect. So, if one were to dress this up, it is perhaps alluded to as a Punnus Indirrectus.

Or, maybe Not. =D
App piracy is Apple's Achilles heel
That's a stretch :) taking the N back into the city is an exercise in rage suppression more often than not.
I also find it strange that a chip company is out on Kickstarter. From their website, though, apparently they started on an initial $2 million, which is peanuts for this industry. On some level I think it's an opportunistic marketing move, but it's possible that it was driven by necessity.

It's an interesting concept. If it's cheap enough, it's definitely useful as a DSP. But the custom instruction set is going to keep it away from general usage. They seem to be hoping to get their IP into a cellphone, but that's a seriously uphill battle.
Sounds awesome, but I have a few comments I'm going to braindump:

$750k seems really ambitious for a kickstarter project with such a niche audience. Is that realistic for 29 days, considering you need to sell 7500 units of the $99 pledge amount? At the end of day 7, Leapmotion had 15,000 applications for a free leap motion device and SDK, and that is a device with a much larger audience.

Do you have any investor lined up that would be willing to maybe match a Kickstarter total pledge amount of something realistic like $375k?

Have you considered approaching a fund like In-Q-Tel? This seems like the kind of project they would fund, since I imagine a lot of the best parallel computing work is being done in government-funded agencies and labs. I also imagine the government is probably the biggest employer of people working on parallel processing devices. With that in mind, getting a device like this into the hands of many, allows more people to get hands on exposure to parallel computing.

Overall, it feels like the funding strategy needs to be diversified, because I imagine it will be difficult to get $750k all from one source, with the exception of a VC fund whose thesis aligns with your goals.

Lastly, it feels like a project like this would be a bit too soon. Many developers who are playing with hardware have been playing around with the arduino for a few years, some are now graduating to the Raspberry Pi, which offers clear benefits over the Arduino because you can run tons of stuff simply not possible on the Arduino. However as the Raspberry Pi just came out, I imagine that most developers are still trying to get their hands on something like it and still don't feel the pain of trying to solve problems with it, that could only be solved with something like the parallella.

As a hobbyist, besides exploring parallel computing for its own sake, what other kinds of problems can I explore/solve with the parallella which simply wouldn't be possible on the raspberry pi? Sell a dream and possibilities here. I'm personally not familiar with what would only be possible on a parallella and I might feel more interested in this project if I know why I'd want it (besides learning pp for its own sake).
i don't see how some icy materials in the perm shadow of a crater pisses on his parade....
But didn't Google block Acer pretty recently? I understand that Acer was part of an industry group, but if Google is delivering a stream of improvements to Android can't they just lock up future updates?
WC2 was pretty good.
What's FF offer over Chrome? The Chrome tools are pretty freakin' badass these days.
One thing you should do at the start of a company is figure out how you will dissolve the company. Every time I've seen someone bring it up, it's shouted down as being negative. More than nine times out of ten, they regret this decision, as there is a bunch of fighting later.

But, like you said, no one wants to admit that they might fail.
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Do you count the leniency in assuming white people have more legitimate credentials?

And how often are people hiring purely by the program of study? Can you affirmative action your way into top honors or great job experience? For the latter, it appears it's the opposite.
Amen, that's the best search to run on these legal libraries. Or something like "we are fucked" or "shit," produces the best results. I came out to SV two years ago working on something similar, generating conversational webs between key individuals, selling to lawyers (as it turns out, we misidentified IP lawyers as the purchasers rather than the much more technologically conservative).

Looking at the site, you're selling full-site search rather than general email analytics or legal SaaS, so good for you! One difficulty we found in selling email analytics with a similar output was that we were selling to IT departments for a company-wide benefit. We found that the setup costs (time, especially) made it so that the IT department opposed the purchase, but we pivoted away from that market quickly after the first few customer development interviews.

Good luck!
I think I wrote that part while thinking about running around in Thief, hearing the guards call me a taffer. Memories... :)

But yeah, I agree--DX was a mishmash of a game. I liked how it experimented with some FPS conventions, though--it was very cutting-edge from a gameplay standpoint.

Agreed on the Flood levels in Halo--those are excellent, and arguably unparalleled in any other Halo game. I'm looking for stuff like that, to be honest! If I can man up I'll give Amnesia a shot, and what I've seen of Pathologic on YT looks very atmospheric.

I think that's actually a good list moving forward: Amnesia, Red Dead Redemption to cleanse the palette, then Pathologic. Maybe I'll finally get to Thief: Deadly Shadows after that.

Thanks!
The assumption that past discrimination justifies reverse discrimination is a dangerous one, and gives lots of opportunities for those who want to discriminate to justify it to themselves.

The US military addressed this exact problem by making extra resources available to black recruits who were interested in becoming officers to assist them in performing to the exact same standards that were required of whites. The result? They managed to achieve their diversity goals among officers. And the expectations that you should reasonably have of an officer do not depend on race.

I like the approach that the US military took to affirmative action. By contrast I object to the way that our educational establishment routinely makes much better resources available to help white students achieve in one set of schools, while shoving black students through grades regardless of achievement in a different set of schools. Which then lets us all cry about the horrible discrimination when employers fail to treat high school diplomas equally for white and black kids.
You're assuming you can continuously & linearly rank every single applicant. The labor market doesn't work that way. Typically, it's organized into tiers - you have your superstars, and then you have a pool of developers that are good enough, and then you have a bunch of clueless n00bs. Within a tier, it's rare to find significant, measurable performance differences. The studies showed a 10x difference in productivity between the best teams and the worst teams - that does not mean it applies to individuals, or that it means the best developer is 2x as good as the second best developer, at least on an industry-wide level.

(How would you stack-rank John Resig against Rob Pike? The two of them against Zed Shaw? The three of them against Guido van Rossum? Note also that even if you can stack rank their accomplishments, that won't necessarily reflect in their day-to-day performance. Guido van Rossum wrote Python, but he also wrote a bunch of AppEngine code that isn't all that much beloved.)
I'm seriously digging the positive, participation and hacking vibe in these comments!

The web and OSS is so amazing.
I agree that there probably was bias in her hiring. Positive? Negative? What is clear is that there is bias when it comes to the gamut of groups that you mentioned.

In certain circumstances, this bias manifests as favorable, and sometimes it is unfavorable. (A particularly company might go out of their way, or be negatively prejudiced, respectively.)

Also, some particular people are able to use bias to their advantage overall in their lives. Whereas other people are harmed by bias, overall, because they don't work around it.

It's a really tricky issue.
Realistic experience of time travel accidentally reproduced in Python
>Have you ever seen a white person not be good at their job? Yet you don't associate their failures with their race. Why do so with black people?

That's one of the better arguments against "affirmative action". Competent minorities and women are naturally lumped in with people working the system and pay the price in terms of reputation.
You're sort of right, but not 100%: It wasn't Apple that added a Unix core to anything -- it was really Steve Jobs at NeXT who did that, and then Apple just happened to buy NeXT.
Acer is free to use Android in any phone they want. They would just have to use a different app store than Google Play.

So, Android's openness is absolute. Google's openness (Google Play, Gmail, etc) is not.
> That conclusion can only be drawn by people who perform simplistic keyword matching and fail to comprehend what I've actually said.

Sure, I could have misread everything you've posted but imagine the lawyer for a potential failed hire reading your posts and slicing out exact paragraphs of your own wording:

> given biology and current culture, women of child-bearing age clearly are riskier hires

> Women have non-trivial odds of getting pregnant, sometimes unexpectedly

> In the event of pregnancy, moms usually require more time off than fathers, and are more likely to never return to their jobs.

> I personally have seen a couple of situations where a black person had credentials only because of affirmative action and did not deserve those credentials.

> I've also have seen multiple cases where a woman gets hired, gets pregnant, and then you lose that employee in a painful way.

> I have never witnessed anything involving a white person that was anywhere near being similarly egregious.

> white people were not given anywhere near as much leniency.

> Can you really blame an employer for leaning towards being risk adverse in this situation?

Call me full of shit. Say I'm blowing all this out of context. Whatever you want... but realize that those quotes are pretty deadly rounds of ammo to a lawyer. Don't believe me? Forward them to your HR department and see what they think.
Title should be "... better at blocking malware on the steaming pile that is Windows...". Chrome/Fox are just fine on my Linux box.
I'll confirm that this seems to be a case of people not knowing what the hell they did years ago... I looked at everything I had in my timeline, and there are only posts from people who have always, and will always, write only on my wall instead of messaging me privately.
Neat and your service looks interesting, but I don't call this 'fixed' yet. It did not seem to scale well.

Everyone is spawning at the same point. I just see a flood of dead users. Some jerk around a little and appear and disappear. But very little interaction.

Is it possible to multiple spawn points when demand is high and separate channels/servers for various areas that you switch as you move? (like Second Life)

I believe a node.js (or something else) version could be federated, and/or clients connect to various servers as they travel.

I know this is just a toy, but it would be interesting to see this work well at a large scale.
basically they are now on amazon's ground
>Can you affirmative action your way into top honors or great job experience?

Well, there's Elizabeth Warren...
It all sounds good on paper, the only problem is: Can you name one very successful startup that initially focused on developing country and later took over the world? Why?

Hypothetical question: What if instead of being brewed in Harvard, Facebook started from a Latin America university? Will people flock to join this network when it expands out of its university? Will you?
Wait, wait.

> Safety - Standardized smart pointers, nullptr, better type-safety

> Of course, those who use the language just avoid them and those who don't use the language keep bitching about them. Strange.

Dumb pointers are built into the language. They just look like an asterisk.

Smart pointers are, at best, something like `unique_ptr<...>`.

So C++11 continues to have the error-prone variant as the default, and you have to import a stdlib thing and put some ugly incantation on every pointer in your entire program to finally get memory safety. But you expect those who use the language to "just avoid" broken features like dumb pointers -- the features that have dedicated syntax, the features that take 92% less typing and reading effort, the features that have been around for twenty-nine years.

Your argument is that C++11 is great because they tacked on a bunch of stuff to fix the core language, and obviously I should just ignore the core language because the other facilities are so great. In fact, you deride anyone who uses the core language as merely not understanding C++ well enough or creating "poor design"—even though multiple inheritance has built-in syntax and component-based design does not. (Rust has no MI, and its traits look like they'll map quite well to components. Hm!)

You are blaming the user for not using the tool in a way it was clearly not designed, because that other way happens to work better. Maybe it's not just me. Maybe, just maybe, this tool sucks and you're so used to it that you can't believe anyone else would possibly not want to use it.

I'm interested in Rust because it lets me do systems programming without having to avoid the entire core syntax because it's all broken, without having to worry that whatever I'm doing might be bug-prone but only hanging around because C did it, and without having to deal with rhetoric like this implying that anyone who doesn't think favorite tool X is the height of perfection must just not understand it well enough. I've had my fill of that crap from the PHP crowd.
Not cool. Hacker news if for tech and science. Not any racist garbage.
ACLU forces government to reveal skyrocketing surveillance stats
It's a bit of a Spinal-Tap Moment... 20 years ago...
> You're wrong. It is fair. "Normal" recruiting promotion budgets are obviously paying more attention to right handed people. For example, if you market primarily to CS departments which are 90% right handed, then that is money largely spent on recruiting right handed people. Spending money specifically on recruiting left handed people brings the budget to parity.

Dividing up the population into two groups using your favorite method and then demanding that the amount spent on each of the groups is equal is ridiculous. Not only that, but mathematically you almost surely can't even satisfy two people that have that philosophy simultaneously.

What you want here is that the amount spent on a person is conditionally independent [1] of characteristics that are irrelevant to that persons performance given the characteristics that are relevant to that persons performance.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conditional_independence
The best way to explore that life, though, would be to get people near it so they can go looking for more of it.

If it's not sentient, it doesn't have a moral claim to the planet.
Ding ding ding! A stuffed animal for the man. :]
Boiled down it's just saying "Don't be a sheep" (Perfect Circle's "Counting Bodies Like Sheep" music video popped in my head).

I've read a lot of the posts on that site and it always amazes me how people's knee jerk reaction is "you don't know me - don't tell me how to live".

Geezuz Jump-roping Christ - panties have never been bunched up so quickly by so many by so few words.
In order for a collision to take place, we’d have to get a new connection from an existing client, AND that client would have to use the same port number that it used for the earlier connection, AND our server would have to assign the same port number to this connection as it did before.

Ephemeral ports aren't assigned to inbound connections, they're used for outbound connections. So, for the client-to-nginx connection, both the server IP and port are fixed (the port will be either 80 or 443) - only the client IP and port change, so for a collision all you need is for a client to re-use the same port on its side quickly.

For the nginx to node connection, both IPs and the server port are fixed, leaving only the ephemeral port used by nginx to vary. You don't have to worry about out-of-order packets here though, since the connection is loopback.

Note that only the side of the connection that initiates the close goes into TIME_WAIT - the other side goes into a much shorter LAST_ACK state.
Wait… so this really happens?
I think it would behoove wikileaks to try and dump documents of countries that the US considers hostile to suspect, such as Iran, Russia and North Korea.

So far Wikileaks has been releasing files that are largely from the US, but it needs to be more neutral in releasing files from all countries.

Wikileaks' US focus it hurting it. Other countries like England, Russia, Israel, China, India, etc. all deserve some time in the spotlight.

Personally, I would love to see more exposure of corruption by politicians in countries like Brazil. Putting corrupt politicians in prison would do more to bolster its image and support for it than its current crusade.
For the record, I was careful about what I wrote back in response to Adrian. He and I were good friends in college; since then he's been a little too interested in my life.

I don't really see my kids or car as signs of a less adventurous life. My kids are remarkable and have changed how I look at the world. Meanwhile, my car is just a car. It doesn't define me, nor do I get excited about new models. It's simply a means of getting places.

What Adrian doesn't know--and I feel little need to point out to him--is that I've done some pretty interesting things over the years. I quit a job that paid well, and then lived on almost nothing ($6,000 in the first year). Doing so was tough, but as a result we've been able to do a lot of new things.

We wrote a book; built some interesting sites, communities, tools; met a bunch of neat people; rallied some folks around a cause; yadda yadda yadda. Next year, we're going to try our hand at making a film. I've never done that, but I really want to try it out.

We've continually pushed our company in new directions, and out of our comfort zones. Along the way, we've succeeded a bit, and failed a bit. For some people, this wouldn't be interesting. For me, though, it's a kick. We come up with an idea; we act on it. As a result, I mostly get to do what I want, when I want.

I don't think my life is amazing, but I do generally feel pretty good about it. Additionally, I'm not asking others to live the same was as me. I just think these are discussions worth having (particularly when folks tell me how much they hate their jobs).
Well you think like that because there is no such a system/protocol/concept yet. User adoption has nothing to with being centralized. Imagine few "big" social players, implementing that new protocol, and/or forcing each other to implement that as well.

I also don't think that this will be "tent.is". They are making the same mistake(like diaspora), they are creating an application instead of designing the unique platform/api/protocol/standart/whatever.

If I were google I would create that unique protocol, truly implement it to google plus. Advertise google+ as a open, easy-to-switch social platform. Then, they can easily put pressure on facebook to implement this new thing too. People don't want to be trapped in these social networks with their data. People want to feel that they own and can do whatever they want with their data.

If you are trying to create a something new, "looking at what users are used to" is a wrong way to go. If you create something unique, great, and something people find useful, I am sure It will grow quickly. Plus I don't think average joe knew how to use email or facebook when they were first introduced to the world.

Again like an email. People own their data. Companies own and create value with their APPs/interfaces. And protocol is open for anyone to implement.

Simple mail transfer protocol: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc821

Internet message format: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5322
In Python We Trust - Interview with Guido Van Rossum
> The assumption that past discrimination justifies reverse discrimination is a dangerous one

I wasn't saying it was justified, I was saying it was a problem. One that doesn't exist if there was no discrimination.

Racial Discrimination is racial discrimination, there is no such thing as 'well justified' racial discrimination. Saying that "Well I know that Blacks' go through school easier so their degree means less" is no better than "They are black, I don't like them". It just helps people sleep better at night to think they have a 'good reason' for being racist.
Udacity CS373: A Review
I think they are testing the audience.
I don't understand how it could possibly be legal in the first place since it gives away information that they are not allowed to ask for, such as marital status and sexual orientation.

Wouldn't it be equivalent to divulging that and so much more?
Notch: "I'd rather have minecraft not run on win 8 at all than to play along."
Love all three that you mentioned, looking forward to Bioshock: Infinite.
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Personal insults are unnecessary. What I'm saying is, a filter that prevented you from downloading anything would score 100% on this test. That doesn't make it more secure, because users would just disable it.
The goals of VCs are very different than the goals of entrepreneurs. Their job is to return at least 3x cash-on-cash in 10 years with relatively low beta. Why should their standards be the same as those of entrepreneurs?

In fact, I wrote a blog post that's very relevant to this point:

http://diegobasch.com/traditional-vcs-and-first-time-entrepr...
This is my first blog post. Short and sweet, but I believe it conveys a powerful message. I plan on future posts to be more substance based, but I just wanted to rant for a minute about a problem that I see far too often.

Thanks for reading!
Thanks for sharing that website... it's a pity that it's only Apple, but that itself is pretty awesome!
No. That's not trying hard. They could have just made Android closed-source, which is easy and simple.

In this case, they don't want an OHA member to ship products with Android forks that break app compatibility. Amazon is neither an OHA member and its OS does not break compatibility. Even if it did, why would it hurt Google or Android anymore than, say, using a completely different OS?