skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I spent two years as an LDS missionary in the Caribbean islands. Influence by slavery and indentured servitude, the most common races down there were African and Indian descent. White people were a rarity (so much so that it was common to hear people a block away yell out "White boy!" many times a day). Despite this, more than a few people would say things like "You're white. Things are easy for you." I thought this was crazy, since I was definitely a minority in the area, but now that I'm older, I see what they meant.
> Why is that important? I don't get it.

For various reasons.

I believe it can be done, thus because it can be done I don't see why it should not be done. Why keep two front-ends (two parsers even!), two separate IR generators etc in the system if you can have one?

I also think that such code can occur and occurs in real world applications as well. And I want any JS code go faster to its limit, without requiring people to rewrite anything.

It is true that dynamic compilation incurs certain overhead and requires warm up. But it is also true that AOT compilation is not cheap either (that is why a special API to cache generated code is being suggested).
So she quit because at an after-party, where the vast majority of attendees were men, there were exotic dancers?

Wow,
So is your idea that when there are mostly men at an event, exotic dancers will just naturally follow? Is your idea that events with mostly men are natural too, rather than being a result of, say, the lack of women in the industry?

"All group X" parties don't seem terribly threatening if group X happens to be under-represented and under-empowered in an organization. Similar parties are very threatening in the opposite situation. Consider a "white people's night out" in a company with lower minority representation - that would be a very bad thing (legal, morally and for company morale). Yeah, events for over-represented-group to get together and do things that might make under-represented-group annoyed are problematic. They send a message to a person in the under-represented group even if that person doesn't have problem with the activity per se.

Edit: Double wow, your wasn't top-voted when I started my reply.
Thanks for taking the time to read the article, Era86. This whole process has truly been humbling.
+1 to adding the SIMD Dart types into JS. This is how I like to see Google and Mozilla working together to improve the web. (WebRTC is another fabulous cooperation)
I appreciate you recommending these tools to me but they aren't going to benefit me if I only have a vague idea of what a "story", "use case", "acceptance test", "deliver", "deploy", or "unit test" mean. I only know how to write code. Is there a website or book you can recommend that teaches these things?
Argh, tough problem indeed. Short of a tattoo on the forehead, maybe Google Glasses or a geeky cap might work?
This is a huge win.

FundersClub: have you thought about including profit-sharing (instead of a payoff at "liquidity", which might never happen for a profitable lifestyle or mid-growth business that still manages to kick out profits for 20 years) as a mechanism for returning funds to investors on a more immediate basis? If there's transparency in compensation, you can actually make this very fair to investors, and more fair to employees than the current VC-istan model. It would, even more importantly, provide a template for financing of mid-growth businesses (a "fleet" of thousands of so-called "lifestyle businesses" focused on cultural health and ~20%/year growth instead of VC-istan's 150%) that are currently underfunded.

Here's an exposition of how that would be structured to make it fair to everyone: http://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/2013/03/26/gervais-macle...
"a lack of platform independence"

Platform independence is not an obvious goal for game developers. If it were, you would see the same game show up in every platform, but that's not what we see. Heck, only recently did we really see games show up for Mac. For high performance contexts, you want to be able to express algorithms in a way that takes full advantage of the hardware, and the lack of homogeneity in hardware demands a platform-dependent solution.
Agreed. I don't use a Kindle, but having a (optional, configurable) "Rate this book?" prompt when removing a book from my in-progress shelf would be very handy.
"Sites like Wefunder (disclosure: I'm a cofounder) and FundersClub put a lot of emphasis on vetting, for obvious reasons."

Yup, and this is essential.

The failure mechanic is that if you're successful, there will be a number of people who don't pass the 'vetting' but they want to participate. That demand will be met by people who don't do vetting, or choose to interpret vetting in a way that allows this person to participate.

A lot of the bad mortgages that were written in the real estate bubble were fraudulent, the "good" mortgage companies took care to insure that their customers could afford a mortgage and would be reasonably able to pay it back. The people who didn't qualify weren't served by them. Instead they were served by people who were less scrupulous.

This is the conversation we need to be on the look out for;

"Those guys turned you down because the rich folks don't want people like you getting in on this sort of deal and suddenly becoming rich like them, they are trying to keep you out by setting bars that says, 'Hey, if you aren't already rich you can't play here.' but that's not fair, is it? We are on your side, we're here to make you rich not to make rich people richer. Sure you can invest your 401k in so called 'index' funds, but with our clients will put it in a dozen different startups, anyone one could make you a millionaire and if two or more make it big, well lets just say I hope you remember the guy that made it possible for you. So are you in or not?"

Wefunder, FundersClub, the initial round of crowdfunding will all (hopefully) be great success stories. And if they are successful someone is going to create the "Countrywide" equivalent to them and fleece a ton of people. That is my fear and I don't know how to prevent it.
Nuclear Plant Shutdown Results in 4,319 Fewer Cancer Cases
The issue is that as a man, you don't have to. I know it seems weird, but as men we have a blind spot -- there's a lot of bullshit we have to deal with, but there's a lot of bullshit we don't have to deal with by the mere fact that we'r male.

Women in technical fields (and nearly every woman in tech whom I've befriended mentions this) get subtle cues that men don't even notice, because we're not the target.

(Worst yet is that women have a tendency to do it to each other as well!)

It's as if you have the bozo bit dropped on you before you've spoken a word, and you're continually fighting an uphill battle.
Click. Click. Ad. Click. Ad. Click. Click. Ad. ugh.
In further effort to conquer the literary world, Amazon buys Goodreads
Broad-Based S.&P. 500-Stock Index Ends at Record High
Instagram photos of famous people.
It's fascinating; in the areas I am familiar with, you can see the Portland-Seattle corridor and the Deseret region.

Reminds me of the cultural maps of the US.
People are inspirational because we're impressed and gratified that people like that exist. But we do not necessarily want to be like them.

That said, the characteristics that in one person lead to repeated failure can in another lead to success. My mother had a book called Cradles of Eminence which was basically a retrospective study of what kind of childhood lead to great fame later in life. One of their many interesting findings is that the fathers of many eminent people tend to be failure-prone. But not failure-prone in any way - failure-prone in that they dared too much and it didn't work out.

The reason why my mother had this book is that she was curious whether deliberately creating the circumstances that lead others to success would lead to success for her children. There is no way that I could summarize the result of her experiment - nor would I suggest that anyone else try her techniques - but I do have 2 half-sisters with Oscar nominations...
Thanks for the head-up, Sam. I'm going to dive into this and get this fixed asap.
Might be worth noting that even if a woman is there staffing a booth, that doesn't disqualify them from being technically inclined.
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The art inside a Google Image Search
I think that it is wonderful that people like him have lived.

I don't want to be like him.
So, they kill Reader, but somehow this is germane?
It's not that bad, just took a screenshot of bootstrap repo:

http://imgur.com/zpFpiFL

I mean we're talking about git here, does it need to have iPhoto like polish? I like SourceTree if I really need to spend time in a GUI, but gitk is great for just quick visual overview. I tried a demo of Tower a while back but it just felt like it was getting in the way.
> One student told him that her parents "want my full attention on grades and school." But such advice reflects an outdated reality, one in which a college degree was almost a guarantee of a good job that would be held for a lifetime.

I really don't think the outdated-ness of this advice has anything to do with the value of a college degree.The modern open dating offers lots of varied sex to those who can navigate it well. This seems like way more time intensive, especially in terms of displacing constructive activities like studying, than a committed relationship.
Women were being very clearly, intentionally objectified with the "booth babe" thing. Now, rather than something obnoxious and sexually overt, we have something that I'd call far worse in its subtlety: Using women for exactly the same purpose but in a much more approachable, casual, and probably effectively interactive way.

How did this happen? I seriously doubt it's because girls in bikinis stopped being effective. But when you can't get away with sexualized advertisement without being martyred, you're going to look for similarly effective marketing that won't offend the people throwing the stones, and in my opinion they've done exactly what we should have expected in this situation.

I'm not saying it's right or that women shouldn't expect to be treated as equals. I am saying that the tech community (and several others) have tried and are trying so hard to reject sex and sexuality and any application of it that might possibly offend someone that we're finally making it worse. Before it was just an obnoxious inability to be comfortable with ourselves. Now that we've gotten to the point where everyone knows how prudish and hyperconservative we are, they've also figured out how to keep marketing to us effectively without offending our delicate sensibilities. And we're still upset.

It's a shame that so many men have such a hard time conducting themselves well in mixed professional company. It's also a shame that we are so utterly unable to be men and women without pigeonholing ourselves and harassing each other over it. It's a sad situation.
Where in the World Are Windows Phones Outselling iPhones?
Hey man, not sure how worried about your info getting out there, but generally when people troll for 'proof' here I ignore it. Essentially it's just one more avenue for people to use against you, especially in regards to linking a name/identity to work and I generally (personally) try to keep them separate. Your choice, just something to think about... also, don't feed the trolls etc ;)
"This, from the company that shitcanned Google Reader because they wanted to “focus”."

--http://daringfireball.net/linked/2013/03/28/google-shopping-...
I'll take a look at this, Lee. Thanks for the resource!
"a throng of Java graduates who think they're changing the world by continually dumping crap specs over the wall and paying for subsidized articles to promote them."

Based on the media hype surrounding asm.js, it really sounds like mozilla fits the description
Google Introduces Same-Day Shopping to Compete With eBay and Amazon
I don't think you really need to import LLVM to use bytecode, nor do I think that bytecode must look anywhere like say LLVM bitcode.

I specifically listed freedom of choice as a bytecode benefit for implementors.

You can have bytecode and pipe it through a separate front-end into your JavaScript JIT compilation pipeline.

You can have a separate compilation pipeline as well, if you think it is better.
It seems that (P)NaCl could be pretty close if you can, for browsers without it (same as not having asm.js), compile the LLVM bitcode into Javascript, which I think is possible with Emscripten (also what compiles to asm.js).

You would probably want some sort of layer to abstract away the NaCl API so you can call the equivalents for asm.js, but I don't actually know that asm.js has equivalents.
Something Other Than Adaptation Could Be Driving Evolution
>Wow, that's by far the best looking Linux distro I've seen

Have you seen any Window Manager only (without Desktop Environment) desktops? They're very nice, even nicer than OS X or Windows. Examples:

http://www.anony.ws/i/2013/03/28/3BtzL.png

http://www.anony.ws/i/2013/03/28/dV2Ac.png
Google granted a patent on "Joining Tables in a Mapreduce Procedure"
Yes, how rude that a website operator wants to monetize their content.
(I added that after he posted, because s/he brought up a good point.)
I think the most interesting thing right now at the Federal Circuit is the complete change in make up of the judges. I think President Obama has or will have appointed half of the court. In 2009, Justice Roberts stated at the Supreme Court during oral arguments for a non-Federal Circuit case, "Well, they don't have a choice, right? They can't say, I don't like the Supreme Court rule so I'm not going to apply it, other than the Federal Circuit." The Federal Circuit is not regularly being overturned any more and that may be a reflection of the new court (just a guess here).

I think some of the recent cases on reasonable royalty show a Federal Circuit trying to reform the system a little bit.
I'm a sometimes Goodreads user. I'd use it more if it weren't maddeningly slow.

One thing that I had noticed about Goodreads was that Amazon was always at the bottom of the online store referral list. Because of that, I took them to be Amazon hostile or adverse (perhaps reading too much into that). But, I went to the site today and now Amazon is at the top of the online store referral list.
well, what I got from the article was that the person was saying "We aren't the whole internet, this is larger than what we normally see, but not by a huge margin." - which is to say, it's possible that other providers have seen larger DDoS attacks.
Running ad block, was confused why every 3 slides there was just this generic black and grey wavy pattern.

tl;dr install ad block
You're invited to a conference that's relevant to your position and your industry.

To a party relevant to your industry.

When you arrive, a number of hired twentysomething men are milling about wearing tight tee-shirts, padded crotches, and skintight jeans. They're dancing, drinking, flirting with you and your coworkers, and subtly drawing attention towards their ample bulges.

I'm pretty sure the dancers were not even allowed to drink and they didn't flirt with female participants, if they flirted with anybody at all.

Some people in the crowd are really getting into this, having their pictures taken with them. The room starts getting sweaty, the music amps up, and the paid gogo boys start thrusting their cocks in rhythm with the music.

And I guess at this point I'm supposed to imagine getting drunk, gang raped by gays and whatnot.

This "analogy" was a severe exaggeration of what really happened.
As was mentioned on this site before, burqa or bikini, there is always someone telling OTHER women how they must dress, how they must act, what they must be. It does not matter which sex the speaker is, they should respect the choice another makes.
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The few I've talked to were far too knowledgeable to be some sort of incognito booth babes.

Perhaps it's because of the negative stereotype that the more attractive a women is, the less intelligent she is, or at least less likely that she's a technical person. And perhaps it's not just men that make this assumption.
I've seen the booth-babe role performed exactly as you've described, by dressed-down but attractive women at other conferences and trade shows.

And, yes, I'm distinguishing from actual staff who do know the product/service/industry and aren't just contracted short-term to draw people in.

Given the article's description, I figured that's what was going on. But, not having been there, I could definitely be getting the wrong idea from an unfair characterization.

Though it still sounds as though the core problem is the low number of women in the games industry, rather than what marketing departments may have done to skirt 'booth babe' rules.
Does he address survivor bias elsewhere?

I've seen elsewhere that financial troubles often herald divorce. If the only marriages that can last are ones where someone's making a premium, then of course you'll see one.
a good sample - http://patently-useless.tumblr.com/
It's actually culture-specific; some cultures have it as bad, some have it as good. In any case, it's a bad choice. From [1]:

> Symbolism can be culture-specific. The check mark means correct or OK in many countries. In some countries, however, such as Japan, it can be used to mean that something is incorrect. Japanese localizers may need to convert check marks to circles (their symbol for 'correct') as part of the localization process.

[1] http://www.w3.org/standards/webdesign/i18n.html
I made a little graph of how I think this works: http://i.imgur.com/2rWGO4y.png
I was never a big reader of books before I joined Goodreads. I spent a lot of time reading tech books (mostly programming related) but never fictional books. Since joining Goodreads and enjoying the social aspect Ive read so many more books. I really hope Amazon doesn't destroy this service
I'd start with the slides from a powerpoint by ras on traceroute: http://www.nanog.org/meetings/nanog47/presentations/Sunday/R...

He really gets into how, with traceroute, you can get a glimpse of how everything fits together, beyond just "oh, this hop and now that hop". Also, Andrew Blum's book Tubes is a good casual look into how the world of data centers, IXPs, carriers, etc all fit together.
NaCL is gated on PNaCL. NaCL can provide optimal performance, PNaCL can provide portability.
The point being that he's confusing a committed relationship with having a marriage certificate. In Europe, of couples with children, > 30% are cohabiting. In Iceland it's > 60%. Do you suggest that 60% of cohabiting Icelanders are unhappy because they don't have a marriage certificate on hand?
copyright != patent.
I'd at least want the "can't get a date" group to be separated from the "had the option of marriage, but didn't pursue it" group.
That isn't a good analysis. I have found wikipedia itself to be the best source of movie data. For all titles I've searched (and not always mainstream or US releases), wikipedia has a better summary, a better plot description, more release info, and a better page layout. Perhaps it doesn't list all the production details such as who was the key grip, but you can easily jump to all the major cast and producer/director wiki pages. It just seems more complete and easier to read. Imdb now seems too specialized, like it's for the movie industry itself.
Ruining HN by turning every Google-related discussion into a snark-filled pile of garbage isn't going to bring Reader back. Can you guys consider moving on?
Note that you can't really say with certainty you couldn't have that without marriage (as you can have a relationship with someone without marrying her). In addition, there's also many single men who've done the same without marriage.
Your post was much more thoughtful and therefor conductive to reasonable discussion than the shitstorm we had last week.
I'm sorry, but this is one of the most link-baitish titles to a blog post I've seen in a while. It's a nice little chunk of wisdom about problem-solving and motivation, but it's certainly not showing me how to do 'anything'. The problem of me not being the starting quarterback for the Patriots is not going to be solved by following this advice, sadly.
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I was married at 22, wife was 21. Worked for me!

Beyond that, what can you say? If marriage is wrong for you personally, all the statistics in the world wouldn't and shouldn't convince you otherwise. Your not wanting to get married might be correlated with your being on the wrong side of those statistics.

If marriage is right for you, I doubt this kind of article is how you would find out.

A better article would have listed pros and cons. For instance, pro: the pool of candidates is larger when you're younger; con: the pool of candidates is better when it's smaller. Or whatever is really going on under the numbers. That would be interesting to know.
No need for body-shaming terms like "ugly women". In any case, the US civil rights, feminist and leftist movements have all sorts of successful case studies, if you are seriously interested in helping pursue this.
I would be up for doing the same.
Maybe societal views and expectations are an important factor in stability.
first comment on the article page:

"Good thing google is focusing like a laserbeam . . . on . . . I dunno."
I didn't mean to imply you had said that. Sorry if my wording gave that impression.
100%. I'm looking forward to auto-syncing my Goodread account to paper books I bought, e books on my Kindle, etc.
Show HN: Nestgrid xml editor & extensible user interface (GPL, w/ flash demo)
I feel like this has less to do with iOS and more with the challenges of testing client-side code vs server-side code. Even Android projects are quite tricky to test despite Java having a strong heritage when it comes to unit testing.

Part of it just comes down to the way the GUI framework (whether it's Cocoa or Android) cuts across all aspects of the application, making it difficult to isolate individual components to test. Add to that a bunch of asynchronous code (which is almost always necessary when you start dealing with the database/network/filesystem) and you have something quite tricky to automate testing for.

Most of the server-side code I've dealt with has been an order of magnitude easier to test, but I think a lot of that comes down to the nature of their respective domains.
To be fair, with Reader the thought probably was "we will aggregate online content created by others and will add ads to the result. Then profit!" This was replaced with "we will aggregate social content, the add lots of ads. Then profit!"

The thought with Express might go like this: "By pushing the envelope on buying things online, more people will buy thing online than offline, expanding the e-commerce universe. This would translate into higher advertising fees. Then profit."

In other words, they believe that expanding e-commerce will be more profitable than helping two dozen power users consume mostly as free content easier.
A valid point I'll have to keep in mind next time. I do use my real name here. I should probably think about changing that.
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We are a team of international students and we want to apply for the YC. Is it legal for us to do? Thank you in advance
I suggest that American results are more pertinent to Americans than European results are, and vice-versa. Did you see this article from a few days ago?

http://www.psmag.com/magazines/pacific-standard-cover-story/...
No ... it's a very well-kept secret. One that I apparently kept even from myself, but couldn't be repressed from my right pinkie and left pointer fingers.

(sorry dear)