skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you really want to take this line, then you should take action. I am from one of these counties originally, and there is a much larger percentage of the black population working side by side with whites than anywhere you'll find in Silicon Valley. In fact, if this is the mentality that presides, then why aren't there more blacks working at startups in SV or anywhere for that matter?

Edit: It should also be noted that Alabama has no comprehensive fair employment law or specific affirmative action requirements covering public or private employers.
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Geeky comment here but this.co would go great with some company/business looking to educate the masses on namespacing. If only...
Oops, hadn’t realised that was a metabug, just saw that it didn’t have any attached patches. Mea culpa.
Opera Web Pass Gives Pay-As-You Go Internet Access, No Data Plan Required
"Web browser maker Opera announced a new way for mobile operators to offer web access to subscribers who don’t have a data plan. The service, called “Opera Web Pass,” will instead allow subscribers to purchase temporary web access for an hour or a day, or even just purchase access to a particular online service like Facebook or Google+."
More supporters living in some areas doesn't change the number of supporters. So not sure how this is a secret weapon.
For what purpose are we designing the chicken?

If we're designing it as a food animal, I'd maximize the meat area and try to minimize the rest. I'd reduce the amount of body fat naturally carried. If possible, I'd take a page from "Top Secret"[1] and make the bird perform photosynthesis.

If we're designing a good prey, I'd make it smaller and give it better wings for flight.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Top-Secret-John-Reynolds-Gardiner/prod...
I dropped my blog URL into the app and it returned my Twitter link - so it works! I'm not sure I understand the utility though. I can't really think of a use case where I'd want to drop a bunch of URLs into an app just to get the associated Twitter accounts.
'Super-Earth' Exoplanet Spotted 42 Light-Years Away
Yes, at IFTTT we use this. I've been pleasantly surprised at the amount of traffic statsd can handle, even without sampling.

We also believe in measuring everything you can. We're interacting with many APIs across many boxes. Statsd + graphite are the tools we use to understand what's happing at runtime.

Graphite has a lot of warts, but it's really powerful once you get used to it. There are plenty of pretty interfaces you can put over graphite, but nothing really matches it for ease of ad-hoc queries.

Typically I'll use graphite to view ad-hoc metrics and build reports. When I find I'm repeatedly viewing a particular graphite report then I'll "hard-code" it in gdash [1] for the rest of the team.

We use this combo to track thousands of separate metrics and we've been pretty happy with it so far.

[1] https://github.com/ripienaar/gdash
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Thanks :) Let's hope so.

It's been in the making since December, if I don't remember it wrong. I have to give credit to the rest of my team too, of course.
That's really interesting. Does she prefer the codeacademy course over Udacity or vice versa? I only ask, because I've tried both and far prefer Udacity for several reasons. 1. It let's me be sloppy. As long as I end up at the right conclusion it lets me advance forward, but still shows me the "best" way to do it. 2. With code academy, I feel more like it's simple rote memorization where Udacity makes me think more. Not that one is per say better than the other, I just seem to click with Udacity better, and was curious what her thoughts were.
I'm currently mentoring someone using a method similar to this -- build steps of a project, be available for questions as they come up. We've covered basic OOP and are moving into more abstract concepts like FSMs. I'm curious about what happens next for someone who has learned to program decently well, but has no traditional formal education.

If going back to school is probably not an option for this guy due to other obligations (and finances) do you have any advice for the path from solid hobbyist into entry level professional?
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This article reads like an advertising pamphlet. It also awkwardly avoids mentioning that the university most often described as the center of tech entrepreneurship is Stanford. Boston seems to be developing an inferiority complex regarding Silicon Valley.
And a lot of people of Dutch descent are still farming in New York.
The anti GMO arguments include many that are agnostic to the details. That's not a flaw per-se. There are considerations beyond health and nutrition. For example, some may not want to financially support the patenting of nature, full stop. Again, a well-operating market would let such informed decisions be made. Again, the science angle is sort of irrelevant. The people who oppose labeling do so out of their financial interests, not the love of or respect for the idea of science.
Speaking as someone who went to a university that could also claim this title, I think there's a tendency to overstate these things because it makes a good story (case in point with this article). The difference between top-tier and mid-level universities seems a lot bigger from the outside. The truth is, there are smart people everywhere (and, conversely, dumb people too). Someone with a game-changing idea is almost as likely to come from somewhere completely "random" as to come from MIT.

I'm not saying there isn't a difference. The difference is definitely there. MIT is great, and is a pioneer in many respects (to pick just one example, their OpenCourseWare initiative is wonderful, and MIT's entrepreneurship drive is good too). It's just that the difference isn't as great as articles like this will claim, and it does a disservice to the people doing great work at other universities to say things like this.
As an iPhone user (4S) that all sounds pretty standard!

On a more serious note, I don't understand all the fuss about LTE. IIRC it's something like 20Mbps in practice, which is faster than most Internet connections in the US.

What is the use case for such bandwidth on a phone? YouTube already plays just fine with HSPA+.
That's also a good approach. The moving the bundler binstubs to a central location would work nicely as well, I imagine.
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Not everyone. And I know I won´t subscribe to anything.
Making the Best of a Bad Situation: Lessons from Tim Armstrong
Crashes for me. Chrome Version 22.0.1229.94 m. There are no upgrades for chrome. What should I upgrade on my computer?
So, no parents, grandparents, brothers, sisters, uncles, aunts, cousins, friends and others that may regularly need your help or just your company?
Engem - About.me done right.
How Did Science, Medicine, and the Environment Do in the Elections?
One way to avoid any confusion when timetabling things is to always schedule stuff for 23:59 or 00:01 -- then it's unambiguously inside one of the days.
Google+ posts are also public when posted as "public".
Exactly, it's a story at best. The article claims that Plankton -> Soil -> Slaves -> Black People don't move -> Obama support. The first 2 connections are obvious, but the second two do not necessarily connect in any rational way. It's like saying Bedrock -> Highrises -> ???? -> Obama. The first connection works, but the other two would be pure speculation at best.
> Rbenv forces you to learn the proper way of project management and it actually reduces complexity once people get over the small learning curve of using the correct tools for each thing.

Boy did you overreach on this one. What about rbenv constitutes the "proper way" versus a tool like RVM? If the argument is that RVM abstracts away too much of the underpinnings, then you've just a made a philosophical argument that is in conflict with much of the work that we do as developers.

RVM is simply an environment manager. One should always understand the environment that they're managing, but using tools to increase the efficiency of that management is not in violation of the "proper way". If abstraction of underlying complexity is bad, we shouldn't be using bundler, rbenv, or even init scripts and package managers. We should start all system processes with the direct invocation and build and install software by hand, lest we not learn the "proper way".

If we accept that abstraction is not necessarily a bad thing, then we can recognize that there's nothing about rbenv that is any more "proper" than RVM, and we can all use the tools we prefer.

I prefer not to have to append '--path=./somedir' every time I run `bundle install`.

I prefer not to have to prepend 'bundle exec' to every shell tool in my toolchain.

I prefer to have all my rubies and gemsets organized in a single location instead of spread out across my projects.

I understand that by using RVM a background process is altering my environment. I also know how to run `rvm info`, read the output, and understand the terms.

Those are my preferences. They're no more right (or wrong) than yours.
I don't believe your chronology is correct: affirmative action was first implemented in the U.S. in 1961, with widespread implementation not until the late 1960s, but there were already many poverty-ridden black ghettoes in the 1950s.

(And the areas talked about in this article have been full of grinding poverty for their entire existence, with most of their inhabitants being slaves prior to the 1860s, and then desperately poor from the 1860s to today.)
> Why funny?

Because those are pretty much all points on which the iphone 4 was derided/criticized by the android community 2 years ago?
I have a Nexus S (Samsung too) and I have dropped that phone many many times (I like the Swing the phone between my Fingers). That thing is stable, sure the cover springs of and the battery falls out but it keeps working and the screen still hole too.

Good Phone the Nexus S.
I lived in Cambridge for a while, and that's absolutely preposterous. The city is merely very full of itself and pretentious, and simply does not have an absolute concentration or monopoly on brains.

In fact, most of the "normal" population of Boston and Cambridge rather resent having to play host to the universities.

Harvard and MIT are practically adjacent by West Coast standards

Given that they're less than two miles away from each other, they're practically adjacent by any standards. You can ride the #1 bus for a while or the Red Line just two stops from MIT to Harvard or vice-versa.
I'm sorry but I don't understand which app you're talking about. The Hacker News plugin can't be embedded...
Can we use quantum entanglement to transfer energy without a physical connection? Could we transfer enough energy to charge an iPhone?
DC was ~1:10 Romney:Obama which is vastly different than Utah 3:1. Honestly, when you can pick the winner in 2016 without knowing either of the candidates that creates a huge divide. Because, it forces politicians to ignore those states.
Google Ventures beefs up fund size to $300 million a year
500 million users is more a little more demanding than 2 million users.
The claim is pretty absurd whichever way you look at it. As much as I love entrepreneurship, acing that doesn't necessarily make you the most important university in the world. Even if you narrow down the list of candidates to just 2 schools (as, surprise surprise, B Magazine seems to have done out of the gates), Harvard does pretty well in basic science and medicine for example - one would think those count for something...

It's just an opinion with a linkbaity title attached imho.
Missouri was a focal point of the political tensions created by slavery in the 19th century. The Missiouri Compromise led to its admission to the Union as a slave state, and during the Civil War substantial numbers of its citizens, like those of other border states served in both armies.
> 3. Non-removable battery also means no extended batteries. One of the first accessories I buy is usually an extra or extended battery.

That's not entirely true, it's less efficient but you can get charge packs or battery pack "case" which provide USB power to the phone, either on the go or to top up the battery.
According to The Verge, it was a choice between faster data on the one hand, and timely updates, better battery life, and lower price on the other.

I'm guessing for a lot of the Nexus's target market, and for Google, faster updates win out.

http://mobile.theverge.com/2012/10/29/3569688/why-nexus-4-do...
Nothing was lifted. The article was published on a different website with a larger audience. (That’s how people found it and posted it here, so don’t you dare question the value of republishing something.) I assume that NPR asked the author for permission to republish.

Why are HN readers trying so hard to be assholes about stuff like this?
Political Parties should be illegal. They just end up as gangs of charismatic people.
Boston has an inferiority complex about everything.

Admittedly, it's entirely justified in seeing how much-loved New York City's "entrepreneurial scene" has become, when NYC has maybe half the concentration of serious technology companies, universities and talent available in Boston... but has several times the money.
Literally speaking, of course not since the set of universities doesn't have a universally accepted ordering. The article is making the rhetorical point that at this particular moment other universities are following MIT in a direction which has historically been very alien to them and that this makes MIT the "most important" right now.
That's effectively the same as what I stated.

It's also still not a valid conclusion.

For example, you haven't addressed whether it's worth trying to undo bad things that happened long ago with other injustices, as opposed to simply being just from here on out.

For another example, you haven't addressed whether it actually works or not.

(Those two examples actually are related, because theory and practice actually are related, but I digress :) )
Thank you (and you too, DeepDuh)! I must get around to learning more keyboard-shortcuts :)
For many people, this is not actually a problem. I foolishly got a phone with 4G support last year, but I have yet to be in a city in which it actually works. I try it every time I go to a new city.

You know what would be even better than hardware support for 4G? Consistent coverage for 3G service.
The problem here is GNOME, Unity and XFCE really have different user interaction models (full disclosure: I prefer GNOME). At the moment that commend was made (2 years ago, btw), GNOME was toying with the idea of replacing status icons with persistent notifications, while Ubuntu was pushing the use of application indicators (which was the first huge division between the codebases).

Indicators (which are menus created though a DBus interface) simply have no place in the gnome-shell, so the library was not merged into Gtk3 (the reasoning was that only things common to all consumers belong there). Transmission uses indicators when available but falls back to using status icons when not available. This makes it a second-class citizen in gnome-shell, even though it works.

I think the issue was actually making transmission behave better under GNOME. The discussion in the bug report even provides a patch that doesn't alter the behavior of Transmission when running under other platforms.
I was inspired by this post when I first read it a few month ago. Since then, I've used a modified version of StatsD to send data to an in house realtime graphing engine. A lot of our tools are php backends, so it was super convenient to be able to drop the class in and start measuring things.

For anyone interested, I used wrote node.js process takes arbitrary statsd-compliant data point and serves a socket.io enabled front-end for 'zero-config', realtime graphing.

We've found it useful internally for taking quick measurements on various projects. I was going to productize or open source the whole thing, but then life got in the way. Maybe it will see the light of day someday.
I wasn't making a serious point, just highlighting how fatuous the parent comment was.
How Barack Obama Marketed His Way through the 2012 Election
Non-removable battery is a choice which a lot of people are OK with. If the battery doesn't deteriorate, at least.

No LTE doesn't affect people on non-LTE networks (eg all of Ireland) and isn't a deal breaker for people who mostly connect via wireless (eg all those people who are happy enough with highly restricted data plans).

If those two things contribute to the attractive price and/or design then for a big group of people these are good things. They still get a phone that works great at a low price without paying for features they can't or won't use.

This isn't the highest end phone on the market, but it puts a a lot of computer in your pocket at a price that people will be willing to pay.

What was the median price of a phone pre-iphone?
Just a little plug, I wrote this language-agnostic environment loader: http://direnv.net . Unline rvm it doesn't hijack all your shell builtins and is very lightweigh (keeps your prompt fast). I use it every day load load ruby/python/go/... projects in isolation.
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To me, this is the absolutely key phrase in the entire article.

" Some question the usefulness of the economic models the CPB uses, which (like all economic models) have never successfully predicted what the economy will do several years down the road."

The problem with any sort of fact checking agency in regards to economics, while useful, is far from a magic crystal ball. Economics is a pretty vague sort of thing that straddles the line between between the humanities and hard science. As a former economics student, I can tell you I've met very brilliant people who have adamantly disagree with one another, yet both have excellent insights. It's tough to definitely say that x plan is better than y plan, because there are so many what if scenarios and assumptions to rely on. That being said, I find it's generally better to trust whoever has articulated their plan better. Simply the act of extrapolating out their assumptions means that while they may be wrong, we can look and see if they've taken into account the metrics that matter.
This isn't a new competitor to iPhones etc. It's a platform for inventing the next set of web APIs. You're getting a phone that encourages apps to be web apps instead of locked in to one platform. Users can get any phone they want, with any OS they want. Web apps will not be crippled. They can access the phone functions, the camera, location etc. Since web apps are now first-class apps, developers can write one app that runs on all phone platforms. Users still get to pick a "native" app ecosystem they like, but they will also get first-class web apps that work on every phone.

My browser runs fine on my current phone, and MozillaOS is even closer to the metal. Both WebGL and "normal" web apps look good, and they've just started. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v...
Suggestion: Use "photosynth" techniques to fuse the video frames from the moving cameras into a 3D model of the room.
Absolutely, I get why they did it, and its a nice device (if a bit big for me). However I feel its more about getting it into as many markets as possible as well.
I wish there would be a Nexus version of the RAZR M. The battery life really is good. Certainly the best 4" Android phone out at the moment.
I'm talking about any given app which the developer embeds into his own article to create a seamless promotion.
The guys at MIT makes things that the guys at Harvard make money off of. If you compare the two universities by who is running the executive functions and owns the capital of the tech companies where MIT folks do the grunt work, I think you'd see Harvard comes out way ahead. This is not to say that MIT grads don't also go into these roles (there area lot of MIT-funded companies, like BBN, etc), but rather that Harvard grads are more likely to do so.
is it just me or is graphite a HUGE pain in the ass to setup? is there a better option for these graphs. I really want to use statsd in a few projects but it looks like im going to have to set aside 8 hours to figure out how graphite works (and i am a django developer)
It's really easy to drop the Nexus S. The back is too slippery.
If the 7am-noon trend is caused by the social factor of EST to PST working coming in to work, it'll likely be mon-fri, with spikes on mon and thu.

That is the usual pattern for sites that people check when they come in to work.
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Different folks, different strokes.

I think everyone should realise going into this that the entire premise of the article is ridiculous. I think very few people in academia would disagree with this. MIT may be the most important university in the world for technology or entrepreneurship.

But if you're a arts student is MIT 'the most important university in the world'? No, probably not. It is extremely easy to myopically focus on the fields that are relevant to your own interests, and prioritise accordingly.

Of course, it's a magazine article, not a paper. People shouldn't take it too seriously - I went to Harvard, I also cross-registered at MIT. I enjoyed my time at both places. I now interview and help recruit international students in the UK. If your primary readon for choosing a university is a magazine article, or a ranking, or anything other than your own personal feeling you're doing something wrong.
My screen broke somehow when it was sitting in my backpack. Not the best construction ever.
1) http://my.sket.sh/ Paste screengrabs, sketch & add notes, share link with friends (can share read-only version or collaborative version where you can sketch together in realtime)

2) http://my.groceries.io/ Input your grocery stores, then aisles in the order you travel through them. Then make your grocery list and eventually through use remembers which aisles to find your items

3) http://www.gifttracker.net/ Family members each have an account, enter gifts they want, and reserve gifts to avoid duplicates. NB doesn't run under https, been meaning to take care of this. If you want to try it out keep that in mind, pick a test password.
I was trying to work out the same thing. The no-communication theorem says that you can't transfer data using entangled particles -- but would that apply to energy as well? Not sure. Need a quantum physicist...
Yeah for instance when Apple did this design a few years ago it was mostly unacceptable among Fandroids and HN crowd. Now its good, because its Android.

Or the people who disliked it when it Apple did it are a different group of people that like it when an Android phone does it. Or they see it as an acceptable trade-off given the non-subsidized price of the Nexus 4.

But hey, don't let that stop you from pointing out such a grave injustice.
Absolutely.

I'm using oh-my-zsh with the bundler plugin, which aliases all binstubs to a function that prepends bundle exec if there's a Gemfile. It works very well in practice. rbenv handles the correct ruby version, Bundler loads the right gem, and it all falls back to the newest version on the system default ruby.

It's a few more moving parts behind the scenes than I'd prefer, but once configured it's completely transparent.
Yeah, definitely going to try that out my next mobile app. Great article.
+1

I've been using gnome 3.6 for the past month. I've been using Linux as my primary desktop for 18 years. I live in emacs. (unix cred established?) gnome 3.6 may not be perfect, but it works well. It's actually remarkable simple. I may go back to using awesomewm + gnome fallback, but gnome 3 is a solid desktop.