skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I couldn't imagine going to a restaurant and getting a discount because the owner and I are both white.

What about a job? Or a political position? Or a promotion?
The reason it's creepy and off-putting is because there is no such thing as the female perspective, and the phrase smacks of someone who is creepy.
Why we "need" people to like our work.
https://vimeo.com/22053820
>resulting things like exploitation of mugshots for commercial profit and so on.

What? I personally think all defamation laws are bs, but regardless, what is wrong with publishing mugshots?
Yeah, that was my question as well. I've often thought about plugins that I would want to write for Xcode, but there seems to be no documentation.
Just How Did Apple “Journalism” Get This Bad?
It's kin selection, which is regular Darwinism.

"Natural" != "morally right"
That's because the cost of borrowing money is a lot cheaper than the tax hit that the company will incur if they repatriated cash back to the US. In most cases the tax rate is as high as 35%[1]. Microsoft, for example, reported that it would owe $19.4 billion if it repatriated its $60.8 billion in offshore holdings[2]. using the same numbers, Apple will have to pay $35 billion in taxes if they repatriated $100 billion in offshore profits earned (and already taxed) in foreign countries.

[1]http://appleinsider.com/articles/11/02/16/apple_lobbies_for_...

[2]http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-03-08/offshore-cash-hoard...

Companies do this all the time.

"Google Borrowing $3 Billion In First Ever Bond Offer"

http://www.businessinsider.com/google-bond-offering-2011-5
it's a diff of an alphabetical list, it's showing a few lines on either side of the name that was added.

So all the HTML5 spec contributors whose names start with the letters "mike" are called Mike.
I have a friend of Indian nationality who settled in the valley after finishing his education in India and has actually done pretty good for himself. I have heard him mention more than once how prejudice stemming from alma maters comes into picture at larger technology corporations based in the valley.
From what I understand, for engineers with less than 10 years of experience and who do not have a degree from a preeminent american university -- it is definitely an uphill journey into junior or middle management.
A few things here are impressive.

You have cleverly made the distinction of phones, rather than smartphones, in your assertion that Apple's supply chain isn't impressive in the act of shipping 0.6m iPhone/iPad devices each day for a quarter.

When all unit shipments are considered Nokia actually ships slightly fewer than 1m phones per day (2012 it was approx 340m units shipped) or 0.93m per day.

Apple doesn't manufacture phones, they manufacture smartphones. Same for a huge portion of Samsung's unit shipments. Same for a small portion of Nokia's shipment, but the real grist here is in how much easier it is to make a dumbphone than a smartphone. It's practically prefabbed for you.

Here's a dumbphone teardown: http://www.formymobile.co.uk/3310disassembly.php

Here's an S5 teardown: http://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Samsung+Galaxy+S+4G+Teardown/...

Manufacturing and assembling a dumbphone is easy, comparatively. Fewer components overall. Nothing fragile or fiddly requiring human QA (wifi). Nothing expensive (gorilla glass, capacitive screen) which hasn't had 20 years of mass-production driving its margins up.

So that's impressive.

Also impressive is shipping different devices in these quantities each year. Apple currently manufactures and sells iPhone 5 (16, 32, 64GB), iPhone 4S (16, 32, 64GB), iPod Touch (16, 32, 64GB), iPad (16, 32, 64, 128GB) and iPad Mini (16, 32, 64GB). Judging by revenue ($180 per iPod sold), a big portion of the 5m iPods sold in the quarter were iPod Touch.

Also impressive, I think, is that every two years, Apple ignores what its supply chain can do and goes back to the same 10-15 people to ask what they can do to improve on an already high quality device. Then they gut the supply chain and build it again from the ground up to make the better device.

They're in a tock rather than tick year for a new iPhone, but that just means that their supply chain managers and fabrication designers are in a tick year, preparing factories for what it will take to build iPhone 6 whilst iPhone 5.1 is still being shipped to 37 million people each quarter.

In brief, the impressiveness here is in the complexity of the devices; the breadth of different devices being manufactured; and the philosophy that leads to innovation not just in design but manufacture.

This is also true of Samsung. They are accomplishing astonishing things with their supply chain and, unlike Nokia, genuinely do ship well over 1m phones a day, of many more varieties than Apple.
Because there is a higher chance that I will enjoy a conversation with someone I share some background with. Call it an easy icebreaker.

Edit: Added 'easy'
That's not "modern" prejudice. That's traditional kin selection / tribalism / in-group prejudice.
What about Mikko?
Website plot sun position / daylight that will reach a Google map point.
Clicking the link just opens the client which handles it any way it wishes. However, the Bitcoin URI scheme is documented pretty well already: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/URI_Scheme
I think this is the crux of the article:

"Greenwald and Banaji are not suggesting that people stop helping their friends, relatives and neighbors. Rather, they suggest that we direct some effort to people we may not naturally think to help."
Are we going to have to whitelist every currency that will exist in the future? At least have a pay: schema so you do pay:bitcoin.com/... or something.
"Not every variable has a data type, e.g. void or function pointers."

A void pointer has type "void* "; a function pointer also has some appropriate type.

Not every object has a type (e.g., a chunk of memory allocated by `malloc()`), but if "variable" means "object created by a declaration", then yes, every object has a type.
Urgeous - Simple Posterous alternative?
A lot of Apple’s stash can’t be spent freely, with a lot of it in Braeburn Capital[1] and set aside in tax havens[2]. To use those funds would mean sacrificing a lot of it in taxes. They haven’t been willing to do so in the past, but today Apple announced it will return $100 billion to shareholders in the next few years[3]. Last year, Apple also launched a program in which it matches employee donations to charities, up to $25,000 a year per employee.

Of course, there will still be plenty left to build new offices, open new retail stores, and acquire companies[4] – as they have done in the past.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braeburn_Capital

[2] http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/mediatechnol...

[3] “Apple More than Doubles Capital Return Program – Total of $100 Billion to be Returned to Shareholders by End of 2015” http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2013/04/23Apple-More-than-Do...

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mergers_and_acquisitio...
It looks like at this time Spawn doesn't support the closures yet.
http://www.gocircuit.org/lang.html#worker-functions:
"The need for boilerplate will be removed in an upcoming Circuit Compiler"

From https://github.com/tumblr/gocircuit/blob/master/src/circuit/...:
"The worker function fn, whose type must have previously been registered with RegisterFunc"

And it looks like only function type id is communicated to worker:
https://github.com/tumblr/gocircuit/blob/master/src/circuit/...
> Even typing this out and thinking about someone telling me they would give me preferential treatment because I'm white makes me uncomfortable.

You need to shake that PC bullshit off. There is nothing wrong with freedom of association, nor with feeling good about being "white". Neither of those things is discrimination (or evil).

Not only are you just 8% of the world's population (and on a decline), but you're also part of a race (if you accept white as meaning of somewhat Eastern European decent) that has built some of the most impressive civilizations, empires, and cultures on this planet,... filled libraries with countless works on all subjects and matters,... ended slavery (a long world-wide practice that was mosty done by non-whites; and still is),... built and financed just about every part and institution in America (USA was 90% white even up to 1960; now about 62-72%),... invented, refined, and progressed just about every modern technology and field,... actively discriminated against your own race to help & better minorities,... and did a countless other exceptional things in abundance.

It's amazing how people will associate the bad things that some people did (the things that are all easy to do like kill and destroy - that all other races have done in abundance) to the white race, yet at the same time ignore all the positive things they did to advance the whole of humanity (things that are difficult to do - things that require quite a bit of work, self-sacrifice, intellect, and character/morality).
I've joined a YC company as a founder after the actual YC sprint and I would definitely echo much of what garry is saying here even for myself. Our other investors are good people, but none of them offer the accessibility and information even now, versus what we get from the YC partners and especially our fellow YC companies.
Then a lot of companies should wave their right to every line of code that an employee makes while under our employment, both during hours and off-hours. This is a term of employment that I've read that many american corporations work under
Please, tell me how you adopt the socioeconomic background of someone more well-off than you. I'm sure we're all dying to hear your advice in that matter.
That's an excellent set of points. Thank you for adding some real experience to counterbalance my speculations.

When it's viewed that way-- as not a fundraiser but a high-power incubator-- YC isn't a bad deal if you can capitalize on those synergies.

I have a lot of respect for Paul Graham and his Lisp advocacy in the mid-2000s can't be underestimated for its positive effect on programming. It was his essays that got me interested in Python, then Lisp and Ocaml, then Clojure and Scala. I'd certainly consider YC if I was sure I'd get a lot of personal attention from people like him.
I have both good and negative feelings on the subject.

The good feelings, come from the fact that I believe that people for the most part should be free to help their peers as they want, it is part of nature to strengthen your group...

Yet, it leaves a bad taste in the mouth, when circles that are supposed to be fair, and claim to be fair, aren't. It is specially bad when we are outside those circles...

On my case there are two ones that are particularly striking: One, I am not related to the US startup scene at all, I did not went to Ivy League universities, or anything close, I don't know anyone at MIT, Stanford or have a friend in the whole city of San Francisco...

This mean that getting investment is not easy...

Some people might say: "Oh, but anyone can apply to Y Combinator or to a VC!" well, yes... You can apply, but if you read around, many times "social proof" is required, and what is social proof?

Or the other case, is since I make games, I might want to compete for a award, yet brazillians mostly gave up on IGF, because most of IGF winners (and judges, and organizers) are somehow related to CMP itself (the organizer company) or Tig Source (a blog and forum ran by Derek Yu, winner and judge).

But IGF one is not exactly new, every year people bash it because of that, and every year a flamewar ensues in several forums... And some ex-IGF judges and founders sent me e-mails claiming that this is the reason they are ex-IGF in first place.
Be a good boss
What are you reading that has the details?

It would seem to me that read-only peers would have to have the ability to propagate writes across the network. Why would they have to identify the origin of the change if they obviously have cryptographically secure evidence that the change is valid?
I can agree on that.

The point I was trying to make is that &x would return a number not an assignable memory location. The reason it isn't an lvalue is because it doesn't return a memory address the way a variable assignment or dereference would.

I was probably a bit confusing in what I was trying to say.
I wonder if the attacks on Reddit are related to the orchestrated attacks on Bitcoin exchanges like Mt Gox? Might be a long stretch, but I don't think I've heard of such large scale attacks like this more than I have this year (and we're only 4 months in). Could be a training exercise perhaps?
Exactly. Needs another layer of abstraction to handle competing crypto currencies. BTC was the first, but won't be the last.
Is there a list of purported similarities or stolen lines somewhere?
There is a template called Xcode-Plugin-Template.
Install Alcatraz, install the template, and you're good to go :)

The template will set your new plugin up, so you'll be ready to start coding.

One IMPORTANT downside is that Xcode doesn't support ARC, so you'll want to write -retain, -release, -autorelease
Why? Is it not appropriate? I assumed I could offer hosting alternatives since my post's parent author was asking for "thoughts".

I don't work for Joyent, and I just signed up for them 2 days ago. Apologies if my post seemed like blatant advertising.
Let's be real... it's gotten pretty bad...
"Added to HTML5" is misleading. More specifically, the bitcoin scheme was added as a valid scheme that websites may register themselves as handlers for via navigator.registerProtocolHandler, a list that already includes mms: xmpp: webcal: tel: and other misc schemes. It doesn't specify any kind of support for the scheme for the browser.

See http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#whitelist...
1-Actually Dropbox lets everyone do just that, I can access the shared folder via the dropbox website whenever I want, download files in there and even access the old or deleted versions..something I see very unlikely in this case for now
Airtime As Currency (in Africa)
Alcatraz: Xcode Package Manager
It absolutely does return a memory address; it even has the type of a memory address ("int *"). You just can't write to it because it doesn't live in a writable location (an lvalue), for the same reason you can't write:

(x + 1) = 12

because (x+1) doesn't live in a writable location.
After being frustrated with half-assed CSS tools for far too long, I finally came across http://www.visualcsstools.com/. The interface is much to be desired, but as far as what it's capable of and how it accomplishes it, it's the best I've found.
How To Build A $30M Startup Without Spending Any Of Your Own Money
Minecraft: Nodus, Creative Mode, and an Unprotected Server
Ask someone who's been arrested in error.
I'll agree to "AWESOME" but won't give you "game changer."

The only way this will be a game changer is if we the audience hold media accountable for its content. I feel like if that was in the cards, there is plenty of readily available evidence to bolster claims of poor quality.

Moreover, is not the first app of this nature. Take the human-powered Newstrust.net (now run by Poyter I believe), which has crafted quantitive measures of "journalistic quality." It was another "awesome" model - but it's not widely used. No tool can hold news organizations accountable when its readers do not.
I guess Oscar Wilde was right when he said, "True friends stab you in the front" as is the case here. Six months is a long time to be nice and patient, stand up and report them to a credit agency. If the situation was reversed, you would most likely be in court as of 3 months ago.
I think I got a little ahead of myself here, sorry. Bram Cohen (who is known for inventing BitTorrent) has worked shortly with Valve on Steam. I can't find a source quoting Steam as using BitTorrent though, so let's assume that no.

Well, apparently Blizzard does. :) Quoting http://www.wowpedia.org/Blizzard_Downloader
False White House explosion tweet rattles market
It may not even matter whether it's good or bad, just that it's memorable.

And it's not quite "I am on a horse" memorable, but I think they'll get their money's worth from this.
It worked on me. Now I know that there's a Web site called Lawdingo that lets me search for lawyers based on the description of a legal problem. I will remember this because they are funny. (I especially liked the awkward handshake/fist bump nonsense.)
Shopzilla sends a bottle to make amends for trademark whine
First thing I thought, is someone really trying to pull one on HN? Very well done, I hope that someone tries it not realising what it is and becomes more aware.
Again, you're citing "right". I'm saying this is a case of complicated social interactions being benign in one case where the same kind of behavior would be discriminatory in others. You can make it right/wrong if you want to, but you're not going to solve anything by doing so.

And, it must be noted: if you really think hard about things (something that tech geeks, in my experience, are really bad at doing in a social context), you'll realize that your "wrong" filter always seems to be applied against some group other than the ones you're part of. Whether you realize it or not you participate in this kind of social game too, even to the exclusion of other groups. And it's not "wrong" when you do it either.
"A data type is a number of bytes to the compiler."

The size of a type is just one of its many attributes. Even if, for example, "long", "float", and "void* " happen to have the same size, they're still very distinct types.

"Integer data types are defined in the limits.h file. Float data types are defined via macros in the floats.h file."

Integer and floating-point types are defined by the compiler, guided by the hardware and the ABI for the platform. <limits.h> and <float.h> document the characteristics of the predefined numeric types.

"A pointer doesn’t hold a memory address, it holds a number that represents a memory address."

Sure, and a floating-point object is ultimately just a collection of bits -- but that's hardly the best way to think about either of them. Integers and pointers (addresses) are logically very distinct things, even if they happen to have similar representations. For example, the addresses of two distinct variables have no defined relationship to each other (other than being unequal); just evaluating (&x < &y) has undefined behavior.

C lets you get away with a lot of type-unsafe stuff, particularly if you resort to pointer casts, but it's fundamentally much more strongly typed than the author seems to think it is.
Doing product management in this space you have two axes to play on - when you deliver and what you deliver. In general I always find it's best to fix one and vary the other i.e.

a) you fix deadlines and you vary on what you ship, sacrificing quality, features etc. to hit a deadline.

or

b) you fix what you deliver, in terms of functionality, quality etc. and slide your delivery date until it's ready

Trouble starts when you're varying on both axes at the same time; mission creep on what you deliver - an ever growing list of features - and no date to force a resolution.
Aw heck yeah! Xcode never looked so good!
a bartender I once knew in a "late stage gentrification" neighborhood would feed me free drinks for listening to punk and not being a yuppie. Same subculture = discount
Even more so:
http://www.genome.gov/sequencingcosts/
That's pretty cool too! I had a less similar idea into which your Urgeous was a to-do feature (and never done...) My idea was WikiBlog (http://wikiblog.jugglethis.net) and was essentially an (optionally) anonymous blogging platform with posts (optionally) left unlocked and editable by others, like a wiki, and hence the name.

It never took off, but I do think there's merit to all these ideas. I always figured the biggest benefit of my concept was what Quora's blogs have just provided - instant audience. Rather than needing to write for months/years without anyone reading, you tag things with topics and people interested in those get your posts in their feed. That is a huge win in my book.
Yes, all of them! :-)

WhatWG HTML is the living standard, and the HTML5 (W3C) spec. is like a snapshot.

http://wiki.whatwg.org/wiki/FAQ#What_is_HTML5.3F
"Retailers don't want to expend money and other resources on security personnel and equipment. Unfortunately, they have to do so because certain individuals do partake in behavior that harms the store in one way or another."

Ideally you're right (If the metrics backed this up). The problem is when stereotypes become the metric, which is common, especially with minorities.
> Even the god in the fable you're referencing gave Noah advance notice of the flood.

Yeah, but it wasn't Noah's ToS violation that the god involved was addressing.
While I understand the fear of that, I can go to the store and see hundred of food products that has a "if not completely satisfied, send the package back with a recite and get 100% of the money back". People could buy it, eat the food, and then return the package to get the money back.

Have anyone heard of a food producer that gone bankrupt because of their 100% satisfaction guarantee? To my understanding, the amount of people who would go through such policy and send back the package is so extreme few that the numbers get lost in the sale statistic.
Haha, good ol' Star Wars planets here :p. I usually have them all start with the same letter... http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/List_of_planets
Go: Basically the same as C, but with better specification for type sizes, more rigid rules about automatic type conversion, no pointer arithmetic (you can do it using the unsafe package but it is highly discouraged by both the language design and idiomatic usage) and a compiler which can do type inference.

Also, when you get to manually allocated heap data (which this article doesn't cover) you don't have to worry about deallocations... usually.
Completely true. Our girl cat was a killing machine. Multiple gophers each weekend -- always presented them as presents. But she loves to eat and takes advantage of the fact the other cat doesn't eat as much. She's a pudgeball now and hasn't caught much in awhile (some of that is due to age...).
Entrepreneurship library ( must to read books )
It is referring to the registerProtocolHandler function. The function allows you to register handlers for custom schemes, so that you can do clever things with links like <a href="awesome://example.com">awesome</a>.

The "web+something" namespace is what we should be using for our custom scheme handlers, but there are a bunch of other web-related schemes that will be fine to use too... "bitcoin" is one of the OK ones.

It's not a big deal as far as I can see... basically any scheme that is popular enough or documented enough and isn't supposed to launch some external application could probably get white-listed if you asked nicely.
There is support, but there is apparently a bug in some instances. YOu either need to type out the full repo name, or use the "quick open" feature. The bug has to do with the listing of certain repos.