skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Um, you don't think that calling the given situation meritorious would be racist/sexist?

1. Construct a system to deliver engineering educations. For whatever reason, white males are overrepresented in this system.

2. Place those engineers at top engineering firms and startups, where they succeed.

3. Conclude that the system rewards effort and ability fairly, and therefore the current beneficiaries are the best and most deserving.

Step #3 is ignorant and stupid.

To cast this another way, this would be like going back to a pre-Jackie Robinson period of baseball history, or the pre-integration period in basketball history, and concluding that the best baseball players in the world are white.

Yes, in a very literal sense that is true, if you define basketball players as only those people who can right now play basketball professionally, in a system which is accessible only to a small subset of the population. Even if there were people playing amateur or street ball, who had great raw potential, without being able to enter programs where they could hone and refine their skill they would be inferior in many ways to the pros. And a person who would hew to that literal rendering would be considered myopic, shallow and intellectually dishonest.

Similarly, to say that the current crop of engineering talent represents the most deserving talent in the world is a backhand to all the people who are excluded from participating in the system to begin with.

So yes, you can't say "programming is a racist institution because it doesn't hire people who don't exist." You can, however, say that programming is a racist institution because it benefits from a lopsided system of selection, and then arrogantly declares that the selection system is fair, that those selected received no undue benefit in their selection, and therefore those selected are the best.
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This has been announced as open source as well, though it hasn't been released yet.
How often do you target the top item in the start menu (note that it would be the most frequently used) and how often would you target the one in the upper right in the screen (where at least I wouldn't put something I use often – the lower left seems more appropriate for that)?
Don't repress yourself.
If the auth is top of the art, why doesn't it have persona? :)
telapi, 2600hz, tropo to name a few (Plivo was mentioned as well)
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An example of where Rap Genius could naturally expand and add value was discussed on hn just yesterday.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4652309

Obviously not every text lends itself to the annotation format, but there is certainly value out there.
Although, I agree that the defense budget can and should be reduced significantly, there are a few points worth considering about DARPA:

1) DARPA is small portion of the defense budget. (Not quite Big Bird small, but small)

2) As I understand it, DARPA focuses on research and technology, but does not attempt to build commercial products or successful businesses.

3) DARPA has been an exceptionally well-run program for a variety of reasons. (Reasons probably not reproducible by a rapidly assembled stimulus-funded program that at least appears to have rewarded political contributors with grants.)

But the most important point is:

A123 was attempting to build commercial technology for everyday application in a large, mature, competitive industry with a complex international supply chain. There are already huge market-based incentives for success in this industry. It is difficult to see how a government program could do a better job (at picking winners and losers) than the existing market players. This is an entirely different situation than defense-related technology.
Why was Lala lackluster? Lala was a fantastic alternative to iTunes--full song previewing, effortless syncing with iTunes tracks, and cheaper songs than iTunes.
Lala.com became iTunes Match, which is pretty good. Perhaps Apple is going to integrate social imagery into iOS.
I've talked to some of their more critical engineers.

They're bailing ASAP. It's a shit-show there (at Color).
Seems to be the same John Tromp of the Computer Go bet. http://dcook.org/gobet/
For a modern software developer, news like this mean: focus on Android.
Well, nowadays you can see additional C/C++ and Java requirements for Web Developer position. The problem is, that some CEO's (or other persons, responsible for hiring) don't have any idea how to hire a programmer, and what he/she should know.
Thanks. It looks like I need to do a little self-study in statistics.
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and they won't let you block "unknown" numbers.
The silence of the suits
Individual DARPA grants are indeed much smaller ($10m is a good sized contract), but it's also free money. Guaranteeing a $100m loan is a much lesser commitment, on average.

As for the market--the market is good at figuring out how to extract maximum efficiency from existing profitable technologies. It naturally under-invests in forward-looking R&D. I'm pretty sure there was a paragraph about this in my Econ 101 textbook in college, in the context of Singapore's massive public investment in R&D and associated massive GDP growth.
The article heralds soy as having an uber-low glycemic index ... but doesn't note that soy appears to function as an endocrine disruptor in humans, something of concern for everyone but especially for children/infants.
More-or-less yes. I started compressing and obfuscating the code after https://github.com/dlowe/death/blob/7fcbcabb9f69bf0cdfff4651...

Sorry about the commit messages. Think of them as part of the obfuscation ;)
Thing is, they tech press do get it. Probably more than us. But we keep clicking through to their articles; that's how they make money.
I won't call you a hater, you're simply someone with a different taste in music.

Music comes in many forms, even individual genres come in many forms. You can't hate on all rap just because of some bad role models, just like you can't hate on all people of a group because of some bad apples.
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I Know, but I still think, that "more" part is not all about talent but practicing.

I believe with enough time, any programmer can create a web-page that looks decent.
I've seen some of the poor sods keep on writing comments (that people who did not switch on "show dead" cannot see) for over a year.

I switched on "show dead" and immediately came across a guy who seems to be hellbanned 463 days ago and still is posting ... now I feel heartbroken. I can only imagine what he would feel ...
There is for SMS: forward the spam SMS to the number SPAM/7726.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_phone_spam#Countermeasur...

Works with AT&T, Verizon, Sprint and T-mobile according to Wikipedia.
DARPA is $3.2 billion. Not exactly peanuts. It's well-run, but it's well-run with the understanding that it can throw away $50 million and not get anything and that's okay.

There was a logic to the AV123 investment. Battery technology is a major pressure point for all sorts of things, especially in the energy sector. The idea was to guarantee a loan to a private company who might be able to make major advances in the sector, as opposed to putting $50m in a government-run research project (which is much harder to sell politically).
And Google buying MOTO for $12B is good management? Motorola hasn't really produced anything of value since acquisition for Google aside from the patent pool.

$XXM is a drop in the bucket for Apple - they could fund 10x that without blinking if the patents were deemed to be worth it. They have 10000x that in the bank already.
It's a troll patent. Is it owned by a patent troll?
People still use SQLlite. Why? Because its suits a specific set of circumstances.

Postgres does the same---its an incredibly powerful database with a large suit of features that make application development both easy and sane. To the vast majority of projects where you won't outgrow a single server, it makes sense to use it.
Then there are those consultants who are simply overworked so they don't mind saying "I don't know" simply to avoid more work.

From my standpoint this has nothing to do with their pride, they can still be very proud and constantly 1-up each other in daily conversation. As long as a manager with potential new tasks isn't listening in. ;)
You can't trust benchmarks, unless you've either seen the code or trust the person posting the benchmark enough that he benched correctly. It's easy to benchmark something other than what you think you are benchmarking.
The building was pressurized such that opening a window only resulted in air leaving through the window.
I would say that the point is that there is a seed of tech which apple could acquire and put their army of eng on to make something along the same line of what color originally sought to do; Apple-instagram+facetime...

I would think that this is an exceptional acquisition that apple could make: no more color; a battle on instagram, facetime emulation and build upon the social image cloud idea that color started with...

and they wont be bogged down with colors staff - they will own all that color was, not what egos color is.
Uber TAXI automatically charges 20% gratuity + $1 fee so Lyft/SideCar will likely be cheaper, even if it's just because you can specify your gratuity.
It's made both the founder[1], John Sperling, and his son Peter billionaires[2][3].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Sperling

[2] http://www.forbes.com/profile/john-sperling/

[3] http://www.forbes.com/profile/peter-sperling/
I would argue (as I do in a separate comment) that A123 seems to fall more in the first category of increasing efficiency in existing profitable technologies (autos and batteries) than in the second category of (pure) R&D. It wasn't a research project. It was a company seeking to introduce a some new applied technology into an existing market (autos.)
They make you rate them, so you have to do that interaction anyways. Not really much more inconvenience if there was a slider or buttons there for tip %.
Oh, crap, my bad!
I think the focus is not enough, though I have to say it also took me some time to get used to the pink. We could actually make that into a pretty easy setting... Maybe I'll do it sometime when the pink pisses me off too much.
Probably a good way to build the next generation of Photo Streams in iOS.
It's not so much as greater supply as artificial price insensitivity as it relates to increased tuition rates. Because the federal government will continue to cover the loans, it creates incentives for institutions to collectively raise rates since they know students - i.e. their customers - are essentially price insensitive (borrowing future dollars to pay for an exorbitant education today).
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I'm not familiar with the specifics, why do you think they are not real all-star?
I get that this is supposed to be comedic satire. But it really does have the ring of truth to it.
Moxie's point is important, but one that is more important is the difference between anonymization and encryption. If your connection is not encrypted, it may be possible to determine who you are, but something being encrypted doesn't by nature mean that the users are unknown.

In this case, they know each other and communicate encrypted. In Tor's onion routing, the server and user don't "know" each other and they communicate via an encrypted channel. Thus, if someone listens to your tor connection, they still can't see your data [and/or guess at your identity].
[Just to play devil's advocate]

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Each person in the chain only posted a small part of the work, and each post includes annotations and commentary that would seem to grant it fair use protections.

Is likely going to fail under (4). ie, it fails not at the annotation-of-a-single-sample-in-isolation stage, but in the pre-meditated-compendium-cum-reproduction for profit stage.

You Tube, for the most part is a different example. They have a reasonable expectation that their content is intentionally UGC (original) or short-form (sampled) or a montage (also sampled, with transformation). The are multiple cases of ex-ante reasonable fair-use. So they can claim safe harbour.

Right now, ex-ante, that would be a tough argument for Rap Genius (given Harry Potter example). Their protoype looks to a plain observer like re-purposing in full the material (Annotated Linked Article), as a base upon which to add XYZ. Just like the NYTimes has to license a photo to annotate a story (they cant claim the story is annotating the photo=fair use), or else Getty images would complain. etc.

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Also, I do think you need to start with the presumption of a for profit business. If Wikipedia (or its foundation, etc) did a non-commercial version, I think then the analysis would change, fairly. The combination of extant materials/prototypes/early versioning, and their VC backing, etc. seem to put them in a different game.
>1. Eat something

>2. Not too much

>3. Mostly plants

There are a lot of diets that disagree with this, diets which many people find success in. For example the Ketosis diet says:

1. Eat as much as you want

2. Mostly protein and fat

3. And vegetables
Where'd you get a hold of that? If that's actually their board minutes (and it looks like it is) it could be quite damaging to post it in a public forum like this.
Sarcasm? I’m an iTunes Match user, and while I love the dream, the reality isn’t quite there yet. The experience is pretty choppy, even confusing. (No, I’m not talking about buffering streams.)
I would have liked to see Hacker News applauding Bill Nugyen for landing in such a way if these rumours are true. Colour has a team, with no products nor leadership and they're going to sell for tens of millions of dollars. To the most successful company on the planet.
Microsoft intentionally confusing consumers by being vague about Win RT
I'd be interested to see what the distribution of automated tickets is compared to police-issued tickets. The automated tickets provide a baseline of random lawlessness. Do police issue more tickets on the same days that more automated tickets are issued?
Well it is peanuts compared to the $700+ billion defense budget. (Which actually takes the wind out of the sails of those who use DARPA as an argument against cutting defense spending.)

I don't know the details of A123 or its target market, so I'm not qualified to comment on the ex-ante logic of the investment, but given the WSJ article it doesn't sound like a wise investment to me. The idea that the likely better investment (in terms of net social gain) in a research project is harder to sell politically is perhaps an indication of why the political process may not be the right one for this type of research. I just don't think the Obama administration was capable of rapidly creating something on par with DARPA as part of the stimulus and I think we would have we would have been better off if they had used that money to pay down the debt.
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just addressed that in another comment. another side effect is increased revenues to these institutions caused a rampant increase in spending across the board - personnel, buildings, facilities, departments, etc. - that are now no longer sustainable.
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I think he is being serious, not facetious...
38 “You have heard that it was said, ‘Eye for eye, and tooth for tooth.’[h] 39 But I tell you, do not resist an evil person. If anyone slaps you on the right cheek, turn to them the other cheek also. 40 And if anyone wants to sue you and take your shirt, hand over your coat as well. 41 If anyone forces you to go one mile, go with them two miles. 42 Give to the one who asks you, and do not turn away from the one who wants to borrow from you.

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Why is C# suddenly so popular?
American Radio Works just ran a program on UoP / The Apollo Group. Doesn't appear that there's a stream or transcript though.

University of Phoenix opened offices frequently in office buildings near freeways and other accessible areas to create physical points of presence. Most education remains online.

http://www.ideastream.org/programs/entry/48203
Quotes confused me a little.
How do you get a free month? This looks like it'd be fun to play around with.

Edit: Somehow didn't see the giant "subscribe now and receive a free 30-day subscription" on the homepage.
The main reason for building Airball was to teach myself backbone.js.
jaggederest is paraphrasing Michael Pollan's directive in In Defense of Food.

"Eat food, not too much, mostly plants". You could expand the first clause to "Eat real, whole, unprocessed food".
Frankly I am stunned that carriers even let those through in the first place. Has there ever been a person in the history of telephony who wouldn't prefer it if they could never receive calls from unknown numbers?

Then I remember that call centers probably rack up huge phone bills...
Backbone.js vs. MarionetteJS demo app
I don't think it's worth emphasizing the confidentiality aspects of Tor's "link layer" protocol, given that users really shouldn't conceptualize Tor as something which provides confidentiality for their traffic.

Or as the Tor project says, plaintext over Tor is still plaintext:
https://blog.torproject.org/blog/plaintext-over-tor-still-pl...
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According to this article and others those 6 patents are all still pending meaning they haven't yet been accepted by the PTO as valid patents. For less than $400 any of us can file a provisional patent with the PTO that would allow you to claim patent pending status. So unless Apple's lawyers are certain they'll be accepted they aren't worth much of anything right now.
I'm just waiting for someone to mention github.
Yes, although they seem to have much better marketing this time around (a good thing).
Has anyone with telephony industry experience written up a pros and cons and comparison chart between twilio, tropo, telapi, plivo, etc?
I eagerly await Gruber's 'pivot' on his opinion about Color, if Apple - the company that can do no wrong and is really playing 11 dimensional chess (as per his blog) - really acquired it.
Huh. It's gone now. I will just post elsewhere. I heard Reddit does not censor anything.

And yes, it's legitimate, May 2012 Board Presentation.
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It's cool to bring it up -- if you are asked.

When you use it as your main tactic for giving off an aura of competence due to the market fighting over you, it comes off as arrogant and makes you look foolish, especially when applying for junior level positions.

Wait till they ask, if they ask, it means they want to fight for your "interest" in working for them.
The best book I have read [out of probably 100+] on management is "The Effective Executive" by Drucker.

The book is pretty thin and was written mid-last century but still holds it's value versus all else we have now.

In addition to providing a framework and mindset on how to become an effective executive, the book also explains why/how it's possible to have shitty people be great CEOs and vice versa - because being effective has nothing to do with personal qualities [nice, kind, mean, etc].

I recommend reading this book to anyone who would like to become a better executive or who would like to better understand the other side of truth.
"And the database world is moving towards scaling horizontally rather than vertically."

I think that's an oversimplification. Two counterpoints:

* Database systems will always need to make heavy use of locality. The speed of light means that synchronizing access over long distances (even medium distances -- light only goes about a foot per nanosecond) will always be a challenge.

* Multi-core means vertical scaling is back in (if by "vertical scaling" you mean "scaling on one box"), and probably for a while.

Postgres is doing an excellent job at both.

I do agree with the less-exaggerated point that postgres really needs to improve its multi-machine scaling. But it's far from a solved problem on any system under discussion.
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Man, huge +1 that you reference Cheat Mode. If you are actually doing that, you are well on your way to a healthy lifestyle.

I've been advocating some form of carb-cycling diet for years (Cheat Mode, Carb Back-Loading and Lean Gains are all styles of carb-cycling). It. Is. Awesome. And the science backs it up too. In all my fitness books I advise this style of eating as well. Huge success with it for both me and the readers.

One note: I don't know how quickly you want to lose weight, but it notes in your blog that you were at 133kg. If you want to accelerate that and save your muscle (muscle sparring) at the same time, I suggest you change up the carb-cycling like this: 6.5 days of VLC (very low carbs, less than 30grams) and then have a very big carb night. This is essentially Keto with carb refeeds and it is great for shedding fat. Accelerate it further by doing some steady state cardio (walking on a treadmill) for 30 minutes 3-5 days a week. Don't do HIIT training EXCEPT the day after your carb refeed. HIIT will help you clear the glucose from your system on that day, but on any other day it will start to eat your muscle.

Now, however, if you are comfortable at that weight and want to do a more steady recomposition, you are doing the right thing. I just suggested the above if you wanted to lose fat faster.
Almost missed that, thx.
Well, their current office space is technically illegal as at least the ground floor is zoned for retail. Remember how they had that silly little handwritten note on the (always locked) door that said "hi! We're color, come on in and say hi!"? That, apparently was enough (undoubtedly with their sway with the local govt) to fulfill the requirement that all places zoned for retail be accessible to the public.
What size were the EBS volumes? Would be interesting how important the volume size is to performance.

If you only provision 1TB (or larger if they have them available now) EBS volumes then you'd have spindles dedicated to you whereas with smaller ones there might be a lot more variations because you share.

More background: http://perfcap.blogspot.com/2011/03/understanding-and-using-...
This "university" is on the cusp of losing its accreditation in a number of places. They have a bad reputation for preying on under qualified students who otherwise couldn't get in to college, taking their money and dumping them.

It is particularly pervasive in gi bill students.

Their business model though profitable has dubious ethical traits to it.

Disclaimer both my parents work at public universities and I've been around academia my whole life
My gods I hate "said to". Headline-writer "English" deserves to be consigned to the same cess pit as Church Latin and segmented memory addressing.
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