skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Crimea was one idea, so was a semi-autonomous state out near Birobidzhan.

The problem with saying that it was paranoia that some people in the Jewish community were trying to undermine the Russian government, is that, especially after the fall of the USSR, right wing Jews have openly boasted about how they HAD been working to undermine the Russian government, and were using the Jewish community in the USSR to do so. The documentary record of this is extensive in not only Hebrew but English. On the one hand, they brag about how they subverted and undermined the government - then on the other hand, they talk about how crazy and paranoid the USSR was for thinking there were plots against them from the Jewish community.

Many Jewish people bragging about how they helped bring down the USSR kind of undermines these arguments about how the idea that some members of the Jewish community were working to subvert the government is crazy. Because nowadays, they openly admit it.
Asians may be over-represented relative to their proportion in the population at large, but the question you should be asking is "are Asian applicants over- or under-represented among applicants with certain grades and test scores?"

This is a widely studied and easily Google-able topic. Private schools discriminate against Asian Americans is through the combination of Affirmative Action (favors non-Asian students), athletics (favors non-Asian students - completely bizarre to non-Americans) and legacy admissions (favors non-Asian students).

I attended a famous public high school where Asian girls (officially) had to meet a much higher grades+scores standard than others. Many lawsuits, so I'm not sure whether this is still in place.
As a counter point, I came to the United States in 1996 -- my dad and brother had H1-B visas and my mother and I had H4 visas. These are all non-immigrant issues, much less non-refugee. We have since obtained green cards and naturalized. My grandparents resisted coming to the United States until few years ago (when my grandmother passed away and we had to bring my grandfather over so that our family could take care of him) and warned me against talking to any "refugees" when I would come to the US.

I'll mention my grandparents perspective as it's not well known in the US but describes many Russian Jews accurately: essentially, they were culturally Jewish, but strongly secular. While they supported Israel the country (as they saw it as more civilized than its neighbors), they rejected the Hebrew language (preferring Yiddish) and the concept of Zionism (they rejected it as a form of nationalism, which they opposed having witnessed it Ukraine and Baltics).

Yet our own family's stories of anti-Semitism are very similar to those the "refugee" families we later befriended (contrary to my grandparents' advice) told us. It turned all out of them were just as secular (you can have our salo when you pry it from our cold dead hands...) as us, so it can't be ascribed to general anti-religious discrimination that happened during the Soviet times.

Keep in mind that today Jewish population in Russia is minuscule and -- due to greater openness and multi-way competition (between Israel, United States, Western Europe, etc...) for intelligentsia -- anti-Semitism in academia has gone down a great deal. I don't think that you can use the experiences of your Jewish family in today's Russia (which is effectively a different country even when compared against Russia of 1996) to come to any conclusions about anti-Semitism during the Soviet days.
12. "Sauron is a powerful Maia, and it's reasonable to
assume that he has powers which we aren't told about
which he could use against the eagles."

To me, things like this discount the use of the term "plot hole". It is unreasonable of us to expect that every single exception or problem must be codified and discounted by the author the moment any plot device is brought up. Yes some discussion is worthy. All things in moderation as they say, but the less the better.

In my opinion, there is no plot hole if there is no contradiction in terms the story has presented.

If it is possible for the author to come back and add in a line about why "such and such" wouldn't work, without introducing a contradiction somewhere else in the story, then it is not a plot hole.
EA bought Maxis when they weren't in great financial shape

I'm not familiar with the specifics, but if Maxis was in such dire straits, why did Wright become the largest shareholder of EA as a result of the takeover? And his partner became CEO for a while.
The only EA game I bought in the past decade was Worms for android. Never was able to run it ever. The entire experience was a pie in the face.

I will never buy from them again.
I unfortunately am cynical and don't believe that in the presence of so many commercial interests that free and open is going to reign supreme. The odds are simply too stacked against it.

Instead I would much prefer to see standards made available under low royalty, FRAND terms. This has worked to great effect for WiFi, USB, Bluetooth etc.

But of course that is looking harder to achieve with FRAND abusers like Google around.
Aged 20, 1890: 61. Aged 20, 2004: 77.

http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0005140.html
http://viewtext.org/article?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wired.com%2...
> If you want to make a comparison, compare Ruby and Python (both easy-to-use languages originally meant to make scripting more powerful and productive). Or Java and Scala (both languages run on the Java JVM).

But then the Ruby and Java comparison makes sense, as both languages run on the Java VM.

> But comparing Ruby and Java is like comparing oranges and Volkswagens.

It would be just like that, if oranges and Volkswagens were both general purpose programming languages, rather than fruits on the one hand and cars on the other.
here ya go:
http://pastebin.com/dG0cPYPa
Companies shouldn't give out inflationary rises.

Assuming they're happy with you they should pay the market rate - what it would take to replace you in the job you do at the level you do it.

If they do that you shouldn't have to worry bout being under paid, they shouldn't be worried about over paying you and for most roles it's pretty easy to work out.

Plus from a selfish point of view anyone in IT would have done better than inflation over the past decade.
The reasoning is reasonably well explained in the article, I think?

Noting there is an identical pointer in each object, assume this is a pointer to some kind of type definition struct. What will this have in it? There'll likely be a type name, some function pointers for standard operations, maybe a link to any more definitions, that kind of thing. This kind of arrangement is just something you do in C and C++. It's very common.

So take a look at what's at that address, under the assumption it's just a block of pointers. And then look at the first pointer (0x401 is obviously not a pointer). And in this case he got lucky, because it points to a suggestive string. (It could just as easily have pointed to another type definition, or something random. Though it's not uncommon for descriptors to have the name in the first field or two.)

Object type names are usually string literals so it's likely to point into the data segment of an EXE or DLL. (Maybe on Linux you can guess that from the address as well.) That's what the maps thing is all about - figuring out where the string might come from as a way of narrowing down the search.
While I have a number of complaints about the Steam client, the service itself is fantastic.
Integral to a web app is the use of the web. It's even semantically connected.
It's explicit.

But it's not even implicitly understood that a game need a web connection. It's not part of its integral operation. Why would it be?

TL;DR: Things on the internet obviously need a web connection. Things not directly related to the internet...shouldn't need one.
Dita Von Teese Flaunts the First 3D-Printed Dress You Might Actually Own Someday
Many problems are not magically solved by throwing more machines at them. The problem Minefold's blog post lazily describes as 'single point of failure' actually encapsulates certain classes of problems that are intrinsically singular; as it happens, friends lists are one of them.

No matter how much horizontal and vertical scaling you do, it will eventually be possible for a player to create a friends list that has so many friends on it that operations on it end up becoming prohibitively expensive. Friends list operations end up effectively being JOINs.
Cool, when did that happen?
Looks like it's available now - any confirmation that they stopped selling it over 'game issues', or if that was just conjecture to get more clicks?
Most single-player games that have an multi-player or online component also have an offline mode for single-player use.

This game should have been a combination of a basic single-player mode (campaign style, maybe with goals to accomplish, etc) in addition to a multi-player mode that would allow for online play with other cities.

At least with a single-player mode you know there is a part of the game you'll always be able to play, long after the online components have been discontinued.

Conceptually, the online mode sounds pretty intriguing but, obviously, was poorly executed.
No, you completely missed his point. His argument is that internet isn't immediately associated with games. So a web connection isn't implicit or explicit in playing a game.
i'm working with unix since years, but only on my server, and now for a little bit more then a year now on osx for 2 days a week.

and since one month i have my first own macbook. totally helpful to get in touch with some magic in the console.

thank to everybody, who makes my working life easier =)
I don't know about you, but I find that blatantly offensive. When terrorists use box cutters and pocketknives to slit your colleagues' throats, you don't move on so easily. And that is why I am so utterly slack-jawed at the decision to allow the same weapons that were used to kill so many people. In 2004, the 9/11 Commission found that terrorists used knives such as Leatherman tools to overtake the crew.

This is just as true everywhere else. Should we have security screening at malls, on busses, and checkpoints on public streets to make sure nobody's carrying a pocket knife?

On 9/11 the passengers had no idea that they were about to fly into buildings. Threatening to stab someone if the pilot doesn't open the cockpit would never work today; the assumption is that if a hijacker takes control of a plane then everyone on board is very likely to die.

I can only assume that the author thinks sharp objects should be illegal everywhere?
Node.js was released in 2009, the same year as Go. But Node uses a language released in the 90's, which at this point is arguably the most popular language in the world.

Go on the other hand was actually a new language, which took a while to stabilize. So I don't think this is really a valid comparison, especially if you're going to talk about library support.
There is such a thing as institutional sexism, but that is not the only kind. I have already linked to the definition if sexism. There are many possible manifestations if it, and you are only describing one of them.
Path's Latest Update Goes Badly Off Course
I think the bar for "heist" keeps getting lowered.
Wealth Over the Edge: Singapore
Indeed. But look at from EA's perspective. They already have your money, why do they care?
I don't have an anti-Google agenda. I just don't see why Google is actively trying to make life more difficult for consumers by promoting an inferior codec (in every way possible). I include Mozilla into that list as well.
Yes, indeed, those schools don't seem to have a quota.

However, this study appears to show a quota in place (starting around 2003) at the Ivy League schools.

http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/the-myth-of-...
How to Get Management Support for Content Marketing
> Women do not have enough power, as it stands, to impose a systemic oppression of men.

And men don't have enough power to impose a systemic oppression of women -- for that, they need women to cooperate in their own oppression. Women voluntarily rise to the challenge.

> Perhaps in the future, or in some female dominated societies, sexism against men exists...but not in the United States.

No. You may have meant effective, oppressive sexism, but not sexism per se. There's plenty of sexism directed at men.

"If men knew what women said about them in private, the human race would cease to exist." -- W. H. Auden
I'm sure if you think of any successful web site/app they use some type of framework, even if they made it themselves.
Not stupid, they just find something valuable that you don't. May be it is the gym, the trainer, peer pressure or whatever.
The way I see it, if your business cannot take 512MB of RAM and a bunch of storage space, and fails to convert it into 20$ a month, or any amount where $20 a month is actually a factor, you have a shitty business.
those other vlans/subnets were probably already on the switches and may have been used for extra capacity, security separation, or even something like internal backup use

you got lucky though, most of the time the entire network of shared hosting providers is blacklisted from sending mail. they may have just rolled out a brand new subnet or something
Nice how it works, eh? Product is good, love Jobs because he created the conditions to make it. Product is bad, hate the team that let Jobs down, because we know he's only ever involved in the good stuff.
I'm pretty sure that travelling to another country and joining an army currently at war with the US makes you fair game. In fact: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/8/1481
> Jews in the USSR would go to a top flight school in the USSR, get their diploma, then immediately go to Israel or the West and get paid a high salary.

Complete and utter anti-Semitic horse shit: my dad was prohibited from as much as leaving the Soviet Union to attend a scientific conference until 1989. Even so, he still did not want to leave the USSR or the post-USSR state until it was clear (after Soviet Union's collapse) that economic opportunities for our family were much better in the US (we finally moved in 1996).

Believe it or not, leaving everything behind and immigrating to a country with a completely different economic and political system, a different language, and often a need to work in a completely different industry is hard and often the last resort. My dad researched mathematics at a university in USSR, but that was simply not an option for him in US -- he ended working as a grossly underpaid engineering manager in a startup; yet he was lucky -- friend's dad had a Ph.D. in Economics, but ended up doing menial labour and later started a moving company. Going from masters/Ph.D. and "intelligentsia" to menial or clerical labour was the rule for immigrants, not the exception.

> Where could Jews get free education in the US? I'd like to get a free education at a top school in the US.

Except that while university education in USSR was cheap, it was not actually completely free: you could receive a stipend to help (if you qualify), but it was not guaranteed.

All Ivy Leagues provide need-based scholarships. Top-tier public universities can be extremely cheap (e.g., UT Austin) and many offer full-ride scholarships. Getting a STEM degree free of charge is very well possible in the United States.

Not to the mention, the idea that if a state pays for someone's education they subsequently own them is quite repugnant.
I would like to have seen SimMars (and SimCastle).

http://www.shacknews.com/article/60839/new-images-of-maxis-c...
it's usually achieved through luck, not engineering.
I wish I had read about this before I bought the game. I feel screwed over, I would have never bought the game if I knew it was like this.

There's something the game industry doesn't get in their zeal for control over users. (And lets be clear, this is about control, not just about piracy.) Here's what the game industry doesn't get: your barrier to entry is already exceptionally high. You might be able to get away with this in the short term, but it's a bad long term proposition, because I'm almost always going to choose convenience over quality (and I'm not alone). Asking me to pay $60, wait for a 12GB download, and have a very powerful rig is already a huge stretch. When you factor this mess in it's just not worth my time. I'd rather go get an indie game, or play a flash game. It's just not worth my time to deal with this, even if the game itself is impressive.
Absolutely none of this is going to happen.

They'd just see this as an issue with the server infrastructure , not the game. They'll just get more servers online, people will start to play and then the complaining will die down.

I dont think it will hurt their sales as much as you're implying anyway. I've just purchased it, knowing about the server issues, but also knowing it's going to come good soon enough.
I got a secondhand amBX system (just the lights) off of Craigslist a few months ago for cheap and it's been pretty cool. The Windows drivers were a pain to deal with but I got everything up and running in Ubuntu and it works much better.

Interesting issue is that when the power is plugged in for the first time (or the power is reset), the drivers in Ubuntu don't properly link to the device. The lights just flash continuously or don't turn on at all. I have to restart into Windows with the amBX plugged in which I guess does some sort of initialization to them. From there, if I restart back into Ubuntu, everything functions normally.

No issues with burn out so far. There's something pleasing about lighting up my room at night in bright colors. And it gets even better when used as music visualizations!
http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=taligent

I have a higher karma than you in a much shorter time. So logically that means I comment on a range of topics.

I continually comment on Linode because I don't believe that companies that deliberately hide security incidents should be praised.
>Additionally 50% of the population are subjected to sexism to a significant degree.

Agreed. Between the military draft and pandemic levels of deaths of young Russian males it's hard to think otherwise.
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Yes and Yes (or sooner).

Your experience and questions made us think a bit and we're putting together a list of changes to address some concerns:

1. By default it will add a simple Selenium test, which should be enough to get started, later though it will be possible (as it is now) to add more and more complex.
2. Prioritize or manually trigger 1st test run. Our main concern here is to avoid overloading server when new apps are added, right now the 60min interval is picked to spread the load.

Thanks for trying.
May you send me an email?
Give us all a break. I am just as 'invested' in this as anyone else is.

I am critical of VP8 because I believe in companies like Google, Apple, Microsoft etc working together to define standards in the common interest of the consumer. Google's entire behaviour with VP8/H.264 as well as their FRAND abuse goes entirely against this.

Standards are good for everyone.
Can someone help explain how exactly this works? It casts a shadow that is a valid QR code? How does it cast a shadow? On what does it cast a shadow?

It looks awesome and someone clearly worked incredibly hard on it. I just want to understand it better.
> "[A]t a time when the U.S. economy needs it most, our immigration policies are stifling innovation. The 2013 cap for the H-1B visas that allow foreign high skilled talent to work temporarily in the U.S. was exhausted by June 2012, preventing tech companies from recruiting some of the world's brightest minds."

I don't think anyone argues with this. Just set a lower limit of $200K per year and you can hire as many people as you want with no red tape and no limits.
Valve’s Steam Box, The Marriage of PC & Gaming Console
nope, i did this in a startup with three engineers and no budget to hire rockstars. i hired four entry-level engineers, selecting strongly for people who could learn quickly and readily adopt the best practices i wanted to train into them. it worked out very well indeed, at the cost of another two hours per day of my time for roughly six weeks. as part of the bargain, they were willing to put in extra hours learning ruby and posix apis in their own time to keep up with the training schedule.
It really underscores the basic way to write a plot.
Both the pro- and anti-eagle arguments make assumptions. The pro-eagle argument is built on assumptions about the limits of power.

We know that Sauron is unequaled in power among the Maia. We know that Sauron built mountain ranges. We know that Saruman easily overcame Gandalf. We know that Gandalf has powers that allowed him to overcome a Balrog.

Tolkien has made the artistic choice to shield our eyes from overt magical power. It is the nature Middle Earth that great magical power is a very real thing. The lack of clear evidence of the exact limits of magic is because Tolkien really did not want to discuss it, and that is not a good argument for simplistic assumptions.

Assuming the non-existence of great magical power in the hands of Sauron is just foolishness. It boils down to whether a guess about the limits of Sauron's power is more believeable than a guess about the potential extent.

I would further note that the Council of Elrond may have no firm knowledge either. In the end, they guess that secrecy is the best hope.
I found the Steve Jobs biography by Walter Isaacson deeply inspiring.
Previous discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4086805
US system is broken anyway. Even asking for racial origin on application form should be illegal. Here in Europe it is banned since Hitler.
Google, MPEG LA agree to royalty-free terms for VP8 video codec
An infographic on the ways men & women talk differently
A bunch of people I grew up with created a website for a fake, unpaid media internship. It got several hundred applicants, including three people who tracked down one of the peoples phone number and called him, demanding an interview.
It's great that this study has gotten so much attention in the general press (NPR story, prominent placement in Cell Stem Cell). Given the forum though, I'd like to point out that the idea that glia are of equal (or greater) importance to neurons is by no means new.

For years, it has been known that the number of neurons changes very little between lower-level mammals and humans, while the ratio of neurons:glia changes dramatically. We've also identified that direct mesenchymal stem cell (MSC) injection increased rodent cognition, and MSCs are known to differentiate almost entirely into glia in the presence of neurotrophic factors, such as in the CNS environment. Even base neuronal morphology changes little between mammalian species, while astrocytic morphology is readily distinguishable between species.

tl;dr - Nice to see it all come together, but I like to be pedantic and discuss where the impetus for this experiment came from.
Firefox supports H.264 on Mac via the QuickTime plugin.
I also found this blog post hard to read, random missing punctuation and grammar mistakes made it hard to follow.
I don't see much new in this one.
Good stuff, except this, ssh -x [username]@[ipaddress] is the opposite of what he wanted to do, it's ssh -X. -x disables forwarding.
I live in Texas. To select my state, I usually hit tt to select the second T state.

Also, if I type Tex and then click on the next field, it just drops my selection.

Not trying to kvetch, just feedback =p