skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm inclined to think that the company running the ads typed in a bunch of black sounding names as keywords for their ad campaign. Having run ads on google before I believe that would produce the result observed. I have no information that discounts the other possibilities though.
It's awesome to hear that an 86 year old woman is still programming!
Clients from hell
Geeks Are the New Guardians of Our Civil Liberties
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What common sense moral principle would such a law be based on?

I am at a loss to think of any. Without one, a law with such powerful enemies is not going to resonate widely enough to pass.
Nice! I am using this right now.
Referencing the below data... a rough estimate is black people are 2.3x more likely to be arrested. Given that it would make sense though it is REALLY awkward as a company practice. Not sure how I feel about that as advertising can also shape/reinforce reality.

Quick data:
White	Black
Arrested	7389208	3027153	10416361
Not Arrested	216164057 35902166	252066223
223553265 38929319

References:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_the_United_Stat...
http://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/2012/tables/12s0325.p...
> We were middle class, but not rich, so I had to borrow to afford a $44,000/year RIT tuition. It’s what everyone else does, right?

Yeah, there's your problem. I didn't spend 44K on my entire bachelor's degree. Neither did anyone else I know... It's dang stupid to burn that kind of money if you can choose not to.

edit & reading this after lunch: OK, I was a tad nasty there. Apologies for being nasty. But I stand by my point that there are other options that are considerably cheaper.
I'm finishing up my final semester -- double major in Marketing and CS -- and the one class that I can say was worth less than a free afternoon was Computer Skills for Business. A one-credit seminar that taught the virtues of Excel macros and what not.

The distinction in my mind is the definition of useful. Are we talking useful in careers or useful in life? I took six credits worth of British literature that probably won't be making my code any better, but the influence it had on the way I view the world and make decisions can't be replicated by an afternoon of hacking and Googling.
Out of interest, are all classes in US universities 10 weeks?
Skydive with a bike and ride back home
In activist circles, getting called out for racist or sexist behavior means you're kicked out, immediately, no questions asked.

Based on my understanding of it, the red/yellow card system is largely an effort in self-policing, in that they're based on the assumption that someone who receives a red card will learn and change their behavior.

This seems like a bad assumption. A better system might be to have a simple mobile app or website, run by the conference, that allows women (and only women) to report harassment by a particular person, causing that person to be immediately blacklisted.

This is severe enough that you won't see it being used as a joke, and it'll be effective at removing scuzzy people from conferences.
Reach out to your most active users and ask them if they want to help moderate for you.

Give them premium content or even just cool badges that other users can see in exchange.

Make it personal. Email them and ask for their advice. Listen to it even if you don't implement it all. People love to help and they love to be heard. If you do it right they'll like your game even more.
I'm sure you're not using a closed source binary anywhere in your day to day usage of computing devices.
I am a bit disappointed by the comments here. Several of them ask questions that are clearly explained in the actual paper - http://arxiv.org/abs/1301.6822 - which is linked at the bottom of the article (albeit broken because of a spurious colon). Some of them even ask questions that are explained in the abstract.
Makes much more sense than a metal propeller manufacturer organically discovering a web studio and intentionally aping its aesthetic.
This may have more to do with my ignorance of the possibilities out there, but as a soon to be college grad who would love to work in a growing community such as Chattanooga, where does one look for available positions? The sites often mentioned, like the one in the OP, usually highlight startups which are not publicly hiring. Are there startup job boards?
They aren't updated for iOS 6 yet, but I believe the developer is planning on updating them. You can email him for more information if you like - his email address is listed at the bottom of his website (http://gvexts.appspot.com/).
Chrome now has WebGL enabled for everyone that supports it, which is a big leap towards getting the majority of users on compatible browsers.
A lot of great discussion on this article popped up when it was first written: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4364370
Sweeney says there are essentially three possibilities. One is that www.instantcheckmate.com has set up the arrest-mentioning ads to be served up to black identifying names. Another is that Google has somehow biased its ad serving mechanism in this way.

A more insidious explanation is that society as a whole is to blame. If Google’s Adsense service learns which ad combinations are more effective, it would first serve the arrest-related ads to all names at random. But this would change if it were to discover that click-throughs are more likely when these ads are served against a black-identifying name. In other words, the results merely reflect the discriminatory pattern of clicks from ordinary people.

Keep in mind that the professor did not write this article, which buries her methods and conclusions. In her actual paper (http://arxiv.org/abs/1301.6822) she has possible solutions in the conclusions.
Awesome technology but christ that conversation was awkward. Can't wait to play with it though.
I'm inclined to go with the "more insidious explanation" that "the results merely reflect the discriminatory pattern of clicks from ordinary people". Though, I don't think it's necessarily discriminatory.

On the topic of *-sounding names...

I've worked at least one technical job where having having a "black" or even just generally "American" name would send a job application straight to the trash.

However, I'd expect any established employer to have an automatic background check / verification system in place, so a possibly suggestive Google search wouldn't be particularly relevant.

I'm thinking prospective dates are more likely to be Googling names than employers.
Whadda fuq, stay away from such esoteric cr*p...
Citation needed.

Do you really think that software pirates with jailbroken iPhones that have their phones loaded up with the latest popular apps would not spring the 20 bucks or so in the app store to buy them if it were hard to pirate them? The "no opportunity cost associated with piracy" canard held water in the days where lots of commercial software was reasonably outside the reach of your average individual who wanted to play with it. But saying that little Johnny that's playing Angry Birds for free would not have bought the game for a dollar anyway is, to be frank, complete bullshit.
There have been cache-based timing attacks on AES; these are hard to stop completely. To the best of my knowledge, this is not a knock on GCM specifically; but I'd be happy to learn more.
Nobody said it reflected the majority of males. Nobody said it makes the whole industry sexist. Nobody said everyone is sexist. Nobody is basing their opinion on one incident.

Tell me more about this "straw man fallacy", though.
Amazing work both teams. Video conf is still such a painful thing on the web despite everyone's repeated attempts to make it work. Anything that makes it easier and simpler for users is a huge win.
Indeed, I didn't. Note that the linked blog post didn't reference code theft specifically, and it's important to distinguish the two. Copyright violations are cut and dry, and should be condemned. Merely cloning a site design is not, and we shouldn't be lumping them together.
Did you get any funding at all?

Did you make at least $1 of profit? Gross?

The "meeting people" problem is asymmetrical. You have a bunch of people who want to meet new people. Unfortunately the type of people they want to meet already know so many people they are not looking to meet new people. Lots of people want to meet Katy Perry; She's probably a bit tired of people wanting to talk to her. How did you go about addressing this issue?
Hey guys, author here- this is an older post that someone reposted. I get alot of hate for this post, so let me sum it up here:

College was my biggest mistake. Not your biggest mistake. I'm not giving advice, just being honest about my experience. You have to "pay to play". Who knows if I would have been able to bootstrap myself without a year of college. All I know is I can't imagine the ridiculous amount of debt I'd be in if I finished.

It boils down to this: I wish that when I was 18 someone told me college wasn't the only option.
This article ignores two giant elephants in the room.

First, when faced with the problem of "big companies buying political influence", it decides to destroy "big companies" rather than "buying political influence". There are many industries and companies where the economics of the business essentially require large companies to be viable. Rather than going after the root of the problem -- buying political influence -- they propose to preemptively punish companies based on a weakly correlated metric without regard for if those companies are engaged in bad behavior. This kind of arbitrarily selective prior restraint is considered an anathema to a free society in every other context and should be here. There is nothing intrinsically bad about big companies and many small-ish companies have out-sized amounts of political influence.

Second, the idea of taxing gross income (and its relative, gross receipts) is not new and many variants of it have been tried in a variety of jurisdictions. Due to the experience of how those implementations actually work out in practice, it is often considered a poor way of structuring taxes. Not only are there many ways to structure around it but it also creates perverse incentives and favors certain kinds of businesses over others. In particular, it tends to put high-growth startups at a disadvantage relative to established companies. In fact, the obvious disadvantage to tech startups is one of the primary considerations for changing these types of taxes in jurisdictions that use them.

In summary, the proposal both ignores the underlying problem and finishes it off by proposing a "solution" that a cursory reading of literature would suggest is obviously defective. It is not clear why we should care about Richard Stallman's opinion on this in any case, since he obviously has very limited familiarity with the subject matter.
Agreed. I worked all four years doing odd jobs and some research assistantships. Working 20 hours a week while taking 18-21 semester units. End result was zero debt and adept time management skills.
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I disagree with you. Everyone has moments of weaknesses. Everyone has the potential to become depressed. Depression is caused by a combination of situational and dispositional factors. Let me give you concrete examples. There are people who are a bit prone to depression. These people would be more likely to feel depressed when exposed to stressors which won't trigger major depression in other people. However, when the stressor gets extremely severe, it would trigger depression even in people who are not prone to depression. A classical example of this is soldiers who suffer from PTSD after being in the wars. Most of them would never have such problem if they have not gone to war and have not been exposed to all these atrocities.
Anonymous is worse than useless.
I obviously never get comments like this (being a man in a male-dominated field), but I hear about some women in the industry getting it more often than others. I'm sure there's reporting bias, but at least some of the women I've talked to seem to think it's not a common problem for them at least (but happens to others).

I wonder if there are specific things which make it more likely for some women to be harassed like this. And, is relatively mild stupidity like this correlated in any way with more serious issues (either assault or serious job discrimination)?
I'm also getting this error.
Have you thought of using a javascript minify-er?
At least then it would be more obvious they copied you directly. It would also make it easier to inject javascript that would mess with the copy-ers.
No, this is a feature of RIT and a few other schools. Even RIT is switching to 15-week semesters this fall.
Storms of My Grandchildren by Dr. James Hansen.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1608195023

The author is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, a professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Columbia University and director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies.

The book walks through the science with detailed explanations why the science is sound. It is an eye opening read and framed as what the world will be like for our children.

Do give it a read.
For the record, it's unlikely that the outages were caused due to differences between the versions so much as they were caused by the changing load patterns on the cluster and the old Java version.
Weighing the End of Life
From my understanding (which is indeed limited), yes, give or take two-three weeks -- with the exception of summer or winter classes, which meet more frequently but for a lesser overall time period.

Still, the intensity of that course can vary, depending on the number of 'credit hours' it is worth: for example, a one credit class might meet for once a week, whereas a three credit class will meet thrice.
No, I went to a quarter based school which is not the norm.
An english lit degree may not be worth the money, but for the passionate, it absolutely is worth the time.
I had the impression that the biggest hurdle for multicast to happen on the internet is the insane memory requirements for routers to track all the multicast memberships (as well as being extremely open for abuse -- imagine one client subscribing to every multicast stream out there and never leaving, that would flood the incoming pipes for that ISP)
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This is a deflection fallacy. For one, I do speak out about other problems (and frequently, too), but when it comes to addressing the bigger problems, you should focus on the ones you can be most effective in.

Speaking out against sexism is extremely effective in changing the culture in our industry. Silence is not effective at all, in fact, it's causing harm at this point.
But hovering to see the label is not intuitive at all
> Or it is true, and 99.999 women just choose to be silent about their cases of sexism.

They are far more silent that you think. Ask some actual women about it some time.

> It is insulting when people attack males as a single group based on some edge cases.

You're right, that would be insulting, if it were at all what was actually happening in this plane of reality.
I feel like DataChannels are the best part of the WebRTC standard (or would be, if they were usable): a true p2p connection allowing transfer of arbitrary data without plugins or anything. This gives multiplayer games, file transfers, realtime chat and collaborative editors (let your imagination run wild...) and the only thing a server is required for is establishing the connection (and saving state). This functionality is much more exciting than simple video or audio chat.
People go for long contracts because the carriers will help pay for your phone if you do, and until recently, you got no discount for not signing up for a contract. So, I could pay $600 for my phone and $X/month for service with no contract, or I could pay $200 for my phone and $X/month for service with a two-year contract. If I'm not planning to switch carriers anyway, why not save $400?

This is starting to change, with T-Mobile leading the way toward giving people discounts if they bring their own phones or buy at full price. However, it's been the case for a long time that you could get service with no contract if you were willing to pay what it takes.
Well who is stupid enough to upvote these stories. Apparently there are a lot of confused people on this site.
Sounds great. My family and I took a vacation in and around Chattanooga a few years ago and we thought it was a great part of the country (from northern Virginia).

Your experience confirms this. I think the idea of "having" to be in Silicon Valley, or even other tech hotspots like Boston or the D.C. metro area (where I live) is just wrong.

The cost of living in those places ranges from high to insane, but there are lots of great places to live in this country. Physical proximity should be treated as less critical, because _it is_.

I hope it works out for you.
Sorry but your scenario is fallacious. Just because you got a scholarship does not mean it is possible for everyone to get a scholarship. There are only so many scholarships to go around and universities can only reduce their tuition by so much.

Additionally you did not list living costs, books, or any other additional charges you get hit with when going to school. Unfortunately the system depends on the majority of students paying the full price for tuition and housing. Don't try to pass off what happened to you as something that can happen to everyone if they pull up on their bootstraps hard enough.
> And frankly, I'm getting sick of people who don't even have a single scientific degree attacking scientists.

What about people without a single scientific degree supporting scientists?
This is absolutely true. It's almost always easier (and certainly less emotionally taxing) to just walk away entirely--especially when [the perception is that] the community will be either passive or against you after you act.
Some US universities operate on a quarter calendar (4 terms per year), while others use a semester calendar. Semester terms are roughly 5 months long. I am not familiar with any other calendar terms used in the US.
reach out to some of the companies on OP's page or feel free to shoot me an email with your background/passion & I'll def pass it along - btrautsc [at] gmail
x86/x64 reverse engineering, preferably in class.
They have not been reviewed to anywhere near the extent that AES and co. have been. So few people use them, which makes them less attractive targets for cryptanalysis, and so on.

Also, I'm under the impression that NaCl achieves impressive speeds, but at the cost of using implementations tuned to a specific CPU. This makes the amount of code that has to be reviewed considerably larger.
Of course it's true that sexism exists - plenty of women do choose to be silent on issues of sexism. It is an incredibly hard to bring up such a personal thing when you want to be taken seriously professionally.
0.33 nice...
You can set the title attribute to the same as the placeholder.
I find that alternative syntaxes like this for S-expressions tend to get really awkward when confronted with real-world Lisp code. For example, the following code sample†:

(define (pointless-function a z)
(let* ((numbers (map (lambda (n) (* n 2)) (range a z)))
(multiple-of-three? (lambda (n) (= 0 (mod n 3))))
(multiples-of-three (filter multiple-of-three? numbers)))
(printf "Your numbers are: ~s~%" multiples-of-three)))

AFAIK, this code only gets noisier when you introduce a paren-free syntax, as you need to introduce hacks to get around the simultaneous necessity and lack of parentheses.

† OK, I'll grant you, this function is not at all realistic. But I think the structure of the code is pretty lifelike. I didn't have any Lisp code at hand to use as an example, so I just banged out something that used let and lambda to illustrate that the structure of S-expressions can be pretty intricate.
When assuming that humans are causing the lion's share of it, among the best things to do is to encourage people to have no more than 2 kids, and for them to share the message.
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Hm. That's a weird trade-off, but whatever.

The thing is though: these guys aren't secret vigilantes. 25 years ago they'd be war-dialing every number in their city prefix ('cause Mom and Dad would get pissed if there were long distance charges on the bill) or moping around 2600 meet-ups trying to show off their homemade redbox.

Now a days they're running LOIC, or WordPress-backdoor-du-jour, or (if they're l33t) `wget --mirror` on some herp derp county website looking for dox. Lists like this are bound to get stumbled upon. When they do, they become currency on irc, redeemable for a modicum of street cred.

Eventually, it falls into the hands of whoever managed to register today's Anonymous twitter account and it gets shoehorned into the political agenda of some teenager who stole "Essential Bakunin" from the library, but hasn't gotten around to reading it.
I upvote them, because I find the entire Anonymous drama to be incredibly fascinating and highly topical to the HN demographic. What I do tire of is the 'damn buncha hoodlums' comment cacophony that offers no contribution to the discussion.
Discrete math.
When people press store / buy, have a 25% probability of redirecting to your store. In all other cases, do nothing.

This could stay hidden a lot longer.
I think you're getting downvoted because of the comment's tone, but it is noteworthy to point out how different the college experience can be in Europe vs the US in my opinion.
Maybe, maybe not. What's interesting about the HBO/Showtime/etc. model is that it specifically encourages programming diversity, as the original article discusses at least a bit. Many people are willing to pay the surplus on their cable bill just to follow their one or two favorite shows, and few of the audience watches all eight (or however many). What this means is that whereas when a network adds a new show, they're trying to maximize its viewership on its own to maximize ad revenue, HBO only cares about adding new viewers that aren't already a part of their audience -- if a new show is only of interest to people already in the target demographic of an existing show and, therefore, probably already subscribers, nobody new will subscribe and the show won't pay for itself. As an audience member of their content, then, you're not expected to watch all of the shows, but you get the opportunity to watch a few that are probably more-narrowly-tailored to your interests than would be expected of network programming.

So yes, I would like to just be able to buy Game of Thrones, but I'd also, personally, like to be able to just buy Deadwood or (on Showtime) Queer as Folk, and I think if every show had to justify itself to network executives on raw viewership numbers instead of on audience-broadening power, those shows would never get made; their audiences are too niche compared to their production costs. I certainly appreciate the opportunity to see at least some content that's not aimed primarily at 18-35-year-old straight men.

Of course, this is the kind of reasoning that justifies 100-channel cable packages instead of a-la-carte cable channels, so take what I'm saying with a grain of salt. But I think the expectation that a-la-carte show purchasing could really work, economically, is probably not realistic (and this without even getting into the issue that it'd be tough to pay for a $75-million Game of Thrones season at a dollar an episode).
Because the regulations and subsidies that are meant to assuage your concern harm millions of real people (mostly those in poverty), along with the environment. This grasping for the moral high ground is repulsive.