skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some basic facts about college admission in the United States:

1) Most colleges admit large numbers of students who are officially reported as "race/ethnicity unknown."

2) The definition of "race" categories in current United States regulations is arbitrary, acknowledged by the Census Bureau to be unscientific, does not match categories used in any other country, and has changed several times in my lifetime.

3) "Jewish" has never been an officially regarded category in the United States for tracking data on the issue of college admission, but Jews once faced considerable barriers getting into many colleges.

4) The subset of United States high school students who are college-ready by what courses they have completed during high school has a much different "race" composition from the general United States population.

Several of the replies in this interesting thread ask questions about the system in the United States, so I will refer here to the definitive FAQ about "race" in United States college admission,

http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-admissions/13664...

so that those of you who like to look up reliable sources and check facts are able to do that about this contentious issue. The FAQ will have to be revised, of course, after the Supreme Court issues its opinion in a pending case (cited in the FAQ). Full references to the facts listed above can be found in the FAQ.

The collection of "Jewish Problems" (very tough mathematics problems reputedly given to Jewish applicants to Soviet universities) by Tanya Khovanova and Alexey Radul on arXiv

http://arxiv.org/abs/1110.1556

is directly on-topic for the main submission here. How many of those problems could you solve to get into university?
b2c: depending on your users, you may even prefer .co to .com - esp. if you target users like me.
b2b: generally careful here - except if you target startups like ours.

So yeh, directly correlated to your target being tech savvy or not I'd say.
The idea here is to force you to be reliant on the network; to move the processing onto their servers.

SimCity isn't a normal game, it's a SaaS game.
Tried to play BF2: BC yesterday, sure enough Origin was getting pounded. I'm not a huge gamer so it's not a big deal for me to say so, but I won't buy an EA game again.
I love how the anti-government mindset even blames greed based failures of private industry on the government.
This predictably happens at the release of almost every anticipated game that requires a central server connection. There is initial downtime and lag, angry gamers write lots of horrible reviews, then things eventually get better and nobody cares anymore that it used to be broken.
Save Your Eyes on Chrome
I am sure there are similar fixes for firefox, IE, etc. users.

But for Chrome, I just started using 'Hacker Vision' extension and it seems to work nicely: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hacker-vision/fommidcneendjonelhhhkmoekeicedej/details?hl=en-US

I also have the 'Nicer Inverter' extension running simultaneously (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/nicer-inverter/oichlckdgnbjkmhaebnnhibamjgpndkm?hl=en-US) -- this is actually my primary (always running) extension. I run 'Hacker Vision' for pages that 'Nicer Inverter' doesn't work on, e.g., Codeacademy.com).

Just thought it was a worthwhile tip to share with my fellow hackers. Save your eyes!
Right now I'd say that being jewish is ok compared to some other nationalities, as there are quite a few reports of people murdered on the street in major cities for looking like immigrants from Caucasus or being black, but I haven't noticed such reports about jews.
Twitter's secret auth keys exposed, allows for token circumvention
The answer was discovered long ago: online play. Starcraft had this interesting concept: you could enter a key to play in single-player mode, and even have some fun playing against the AI, but to play on Battle.net you needed a unique key. Online play is a whole different level of exciting from offline play, and Battle.net makes Blizzard a ton of money. Likewise with XBox Live for Microsoft.

That EA failed to realize that they could monetize an online Simcity regardless of whether or not people pay to play offline demonstrates a serious lapse of judgment.
He's already shown that he is willing to support his stuff without additional payment, he's done so with CodeMirror.

When taking on this project, he presumably factored it in, that he'd want to continue to support it. If not, well, those of us who chipped in probably won't chip in on the next thing he does. I'm willing to take that risk.

And even if he doesn't...so what? It's open source. Other people can continue the work, and if they want to do something ambitious enough to justify crowdfunding as well....more power to them.

You may be right that what he is doing isn't "in line with the OSS movement/culture." Richard Stallman would likely agree with you...he was never one for shades of gray. I would argue that if that is true, that the OSS movement/culture is the thing with the problem.
What EA could have done to help Sim City
I'm trying to figure out what you mean by this. There is no SimCity title on this list, nor has there ever been a "SimCity 2" to begin with. Unless you're talking about the just-released series reboot? Or maybe "The Sims 2" - which has no always-on DRM system to speak of?

In any case, if a game has always-on DRM, the publisher could always release a patch disabling it before shutting down the servers.
Eliezer probably didn't want to bother you with the whole sequence, but I will: http://lesswrong.com/lw/r5/the_quantum_physics_sequence/ This is a very interesting read overall, highly recommended.

Also, while Eliezer does sometimes plays with the argument from authority (like in the piece of humour you cited), I have never caught him actually using it to win an argument.

Oh, and one of the points (not the main one!) is to tell that those physicists, with all their authority, are wrong. (Well, at least those in favour of the Copenhagen Interpretation.)
I feel like it's more important that casual gamers are noticing and reacting to this. They don't listen to us xcore ones!
I'm a round 2 Startup Chile participant, and I'm surprised to say, I agree with most of this post, except their is a glaring exception. If you are in any half-decent start-up ecosystem (I'm now in Sydney, Australia) all the feedback, knowledge sharing, etc, etc is still available to you.

Therefore, that 'value' isn't unique to Startup Chile, and unless you live in a non-technology area (which I did before Startup Chile), is not reason enough to go.
I have my terminal emulator configured to set the URGENT ICCCM hint when it sees a bell character. When I realize a command I just entered is going to take a while, and I want to go look at something else on another workspace, I do this:

$ alias b='echo -e "\a"'

$ long_running_thing
^Z
$ fg ; b
[long_running_thing resumes]

Then when the job completes, the terminal bell will ring and my window manager will get my attention.
Pandora CEO announces resignation following record revenue and losses
Can someone post a mirror? Wired.com is blocked where I am.

Or even just post the text as a comment. Thanks.
But it is 2D.
There were expansions to spore?

Oh boy...
MWI certainly does make falsifiable claims. It's just that different interpretations of QM are extremely difficult to experimentally distinguish with any technology we are likely to have in the foreseeable future.

The only well-known interpretation of QM that is experimentally indistinguishable--in theory--from MWI is Bohm's Interpretation. And I think it would be a difficult row to hoe that Bohm's Interpretation is simpler than MWI, as Bohm's universe contains the MWI universe as a subset in the form of pilot waves that never collapse. I.e., the only difference between MWI and Bohm is that in Bohm, one of the "worlds" is granted reality, while the others are not.

Of course, there's nothing in MWI that grants all the worlds reality either. Someone can certainly remain agnostic about that. E.g., Stehphen Hawking has said that MWI is obviously true, though he is agnostic on the reality of the other worlds.

For more information on this, including a tutorial on all the linear algebra that you need to understand, see the book Quantum Mechanics and Experience by David Albert.
Yesterday (or was it the day before?) I found out that you can use the mouse wheel to enlargen photos on G+.
Here is a detail when using '!!:n' with ':p' when trying to iteratively construct a complex command. I want to emphasize the use of the up-arrow (which will show the interpolated arguments), as opposed to rewriting exactly what you wrote in the previous command, since the usage of ':p' will be interpreted by the shell as a command in itself:

$ echo a b c d
a b c d
$ echo !!:2:p
echo b
$ echo !!:2
-bash: :2: bad word specifier # there was only 1 argument in last command

However:

$ echo a b c d
a b c d
$ echo !!:2:p
echo b
$
<up-arrow pressed once will give the following prompt>
$ echo b
...and then a fun game becomes a deterrent to buying the newest games. Of course, if the game is still fun, why not just keep the servers running and keep making money in subscription fees? What is the point of demanding that people pay for a new game when you can just charge them for old games?
Wasn't there a Kickstarter project floating around earlier that was supposed to have the exact same functionality as this 'Phillips Hue'? Or are they the same?
Meh, it's just one founder talking about their experience. Nothing really new. There's good and bad. The bad outweighed the good for them.

It's obviously proven itself to have many "good" sides that I don't need to outline here.

Also, I'm always surprised to see writers have such poor proofreading skills.

> Remote work just unable to deliver that feature. And therefore is tougher for growing startups to implement.
LIFX will be another option for these sorts of projects. It's a Kickstarter project that exploded in popularity and is set to deliver in the next couple of months.

http://lifx.co/

I paid about $90-100 for two globes which makes it a bit cheaper than Hue. I think LIFX also does away with a base station and has some sort of mesh networking between bulbs?
Big Data is real. It's coming. There's no coincidence that the buzz is entering the feedback loop of our community consciousness. And it can do marvelous, marvelous things.
There is obviously no problem with hearing about these things. I am focussing on the language used which could be seen to feminise the people taking part in the series when in fact we know nothing about them other than they are women and that they are in tech. I doubt you could find any other tech series which uses language as seen in the link.

Really, I am focussing on the mundane ways in which "women = feminine = emotional" has been portrayed in the few words that were written on the new series.

If you are interested in the way gender is reproduced in this way I recommend this reading
http://www.mariabuszek.com/kcai/PoMoSeminar/Readings/BtlrPer...

It is a text by Judith Butler, probably one of the most influential living social theorists who writes on gender and focuses on 'the mundane', meaning language, acts etc

Anyway, I am excited to watch these. So, if you were involved - thanks.
Physicists would hardly be intimidated by being shown the algebra of Bayes's Theorem. I will take into account your de facto information that non-physicists may see the opening as an attempt to intimidate, but it was mostly aimed at people mathematical enough to own their own T-Shirts with equations on them, and hence to laugh at the joke.

Regarding the rest of your comment, this is addressed in the second linked post.
I am never going to get tired of being called no one.
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Freezedroid: Researchers discover cold temps can unlock secured Android phones
Windows. Turning it off and on again always fixes the BSOD.
That will sound more palatable when the royalty-free web can provide the technically superior solution.
I highly endorse this book. Best explanation of linear regression I've ever read. I think a good litmus test for stats books is whether they explain how minimizing squared error corresponds to maximizing probability given Gaussian-distributed errors, and, of course, whether they acknowledge the eternal light of Bayes shining in the background of all things.
To those saying that "this is discrimination is it is morally wrong" (and I don't think this event constitutes discrimination, but here goes):

1. Should we then do away with gender segregated sports teams?
2. Should other minorities (e.g. LBGTQ groups) no longer have support groups that focus on issues relevant to them?

Having groups that cater to certain minorities feels to me both necessary and useful. We are not all identical. You probably don't want to live in a world without exceptional and different people in it; it would be boring.

That means there are times when some of those people who are like-minded want to get together and support each other. In some cases, that means other groups need to be discouraged (because that minority would otherwise be overwhelmed, drowned out in a sea of majority voices).

Why are so many voices in our industry constantly fighting events like this?
You can always build it up again with the money you make. Cash out, but don't undersell it.
I'm looking forward to buying it, and I haven't bought a game in years. While there are definitely a lot of people out there who really wanted the game on day 1, and are very hurt that they might not be able to play it very much for a few days, I'm guessing the majority of people who will buy SC during its lifetime will not be affected buy it, will not care, and won't even be consciously aware that it's published by EA or its reputation.
Forecast is Cloudy with Cloud Computing
Super Mario Galaxy Problem
Russians simply do not trust anyone and discriminate other ethnic Russians over anything.

Better dressed - hate you
Better car - hate you
Not from Moscow, you're a village idiot.
Different to Hue. I'd just written a comment about LIFX when you posted: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5341347

LIFX is led by an Australian guy. Their email updates have covered their design process, prototyping in China and so on and they're getting close to delivering the first preorders.

There's a tech blog about how it will all work here:
http://lifxtech.blogspot.com.au/
That was five years ago. That's not really relevant anymore. It used to be a quick fix but many things have changed since then.
Pyroma 1.2 released – A checker for your package metadata
I'm not sure what you expected past "do something simple nobody will oppose, which may or may not actually solve anything, declare victory" :)
LIFX: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5341347
Hacker News itself does this.

> We restart HN every 5 or 6 days, or it gets slow (memory leaks). [1]

pg went into more depth about this somewhere, but I don't have the link on hand at the moment. Essentially, the software running it is riddled with memory leaks, but it's more time-efficient to simply reboot it every so often than it is to actually go in and fix it.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4730251
I definitely agree with this! Hell I use it to bring the temperature of the colors down to match the lighting during day and night. It's a brilliant program.
isn't Steam also DRM and hugely successful and very popular with the gaming community?
Not to say that the USSR was not anti-semitic in the 1970s, and after Stalin. But I think a great example to show that the revolution was not about any of that is that Ayn Rand Petrograd State University. A Jewish woman, thanks to the revolution.
>MWI certainly does make falsifiable claims.

Would you mind stating an example of such a claim?
Not to mention Venmo, Dwolla, PayPal, Interac Email Money Transfer...
Also, if you've done this:

you@somehost:~$ ssh otherhost
you@otherhost:~$ some_command

If you hit ^Z right now, it will tell the shell on otherhost to stop some_command and give you the shell prompt on otherhost back.

If instead you wanted to stop the ssh process and get the shell prompt on somehost, hit Tilde ^Z (you don't have to hit a new Return, but ssh only notices these escape sequences after a Return).

Also if you use ControlMaster and have a few xterms open all with sshs to otherhost, and then you exit the first ssh you happened to have open, it will seem to hang and not give you your prompt back. What's happening is that that ssh process is the "control master" and it's still open because you've got other sshs to the same host open. Hit Tilde & to background the ssh process and get your terminal back.

Yes, you could also hit Tilde ^Z and then 'bg' the ssh process.
I am familiar with step 3, but I don't even know where to begin with step 4. I guess it'll remain a mystery... 4ever.
>I see this sentiment expressed pretty often, but in this case it seems flawed. From what I understand, you can't build a city that does everything, instead you rely on the other cities in your 'region.'

How is this any different from a single-player RPG where you control a party of characters which all depend on one another's unique abilities?
I wished it was not only bugging me
Cheers for posting this!
Pandora up 20%, CEO of 9 years steps down
The common letters in 3 different languages
> I think it would be nice if wages rose faster than inflation.

It is nice, and there is a history of this happening.

> There's nothing that special about labor markets that prices shouldn't be set by supply and demand.

0. There is a significant imbalance of market power between the buyers and sellers of labour.

1. At the low end the price for labour has important welfare implications.

2. It is hard to create transparency about high end jobs.

> If the government e.g. the Fed isn't smart enough to constantly set the price, how are they smart enough to set a rule that would be permanently right?

The Fed is already setting a price, the price of money (Interest Rates), in a way deliberately designed to manage a balance between unemployment and inflation. They are smart enough to do a respectable job of this, and have managed inflation well.

> I kind of think the minimum wage should be more like a labor protection, ie set it 10-20% below the bottom 10% of the wage distribution. Basically for those cases where a local employer is a price-setter, as opposed to a price-taker, or a worker really doesn't have much choice of employer for some reason, or is a really bad negotiator, the employer can't totally abuse it. Just like they can't make you use a chainsaw without protective eyewear.

I agree, this goal of minimum wage policy is the welfare of low paid workers.

> If it's OK to fix minimum prices for labor, why not for anything else?

I am in favour of a minimum price for alcoholic beverages. Perhaps by a tax based on $2 per standard drink.
Interesting to know. I know nothing about the admin side of datacenters.

It was a whole subnet that was blacklisted. That said, they offered me a new IP from a couple different subnets as replacement, so I don't think it was too hard for them to do it. They would let me have an extra IP, but wouldn't let me run the two IPs concurrently for more than 24 hours.

This was especially frustrating since the subnet was blacklisted due to linode using generic PTR records by default. I needed a solution that didn't eat into my vacation time, so I ended up setting up a second server in the same datacenter and making it forward connections. That effectively got me a new IP for $20.

Just to be clear, I'm not complaining about it. I think they handled it fine. But I wouldn't hold them as some bastion of support perfection.
Really?

Is it too hard to ask for separate checks or figure out Basic Dining 101? Call me an old fart, but when I read about apps like this I want to do my Samuel L. Jackson imitation and say; "Arithmetic, m-----f-----, can you figure it?"
Such quotas were also in USA. Isaac Asimov originally applied to medical university, but was not accepted for being jew. Hi started writing sci-fi instead.
I had remembered from an earlier implementation that it would check everything and that we could approve transactions where numerics match but text part isn't the same; but possibly it was simply choosing what to do if street address was ok (for the number) but the postal code was wrong/missing, as here most people don't care about their postal code and may enter it wrongly.
I wonder what kind of insights could be gained by configuring a few Linkedin profiles with these characteristics:

- C++ developer

- Ruby developer

- Java developer

- COBOL developer

Feed in similar backgrounds, experiences, ages, and see which one picks up the most interest, and what kind of interest.

It'd be a bit mean to the recruiters out there, but, hmm... :-)
I found Christopher Bishop's book to have a good deal of knowledge in it. Plus, he compliments many ideas with graphical figures, which is a big plus. http://www.amazon.com/Pattern-Recognition-Learning-Informati...

Also, if you needed more information about optimization methods all of Stephen Boyd's books are really good, just check out his entire website for information. http://www.stanford.edu/~boyd/
That's only one of several signals they are tracking. There's also what you're ordering, where you're coming from, if you have a history on the site or not. Each one of those getting a pair of scores (likely_fraud, likely_legit) and the decision being made on the balance of probabilities at the time of purchase.

And remember that the goal isn't to absolutely eliminate fraud, it's to reduce it to the point where it has negligible impact on profitability.
The hodgepodge of languages that make up modern English
They said the overall process took 4 to 6 hours.