skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Being entrepreneur friendly is so central to VC marketing that this effort will likely pay itself as a PR expense.

Also, transaction fees are typically presented as being deducted from the capital being moved, as opposed to just charging the company. Of course, net it's the same. But language matters.
Kickstarter is staring to suck. I used to donate just like that. No. account etc.. Button click donate. Now I'm forced to create an account. Forced to use Amazon. I have a Paypall account. Not possible anymore. It sucks. I wanted to donate 50 dollar. I still might because I find it important to support all those people that care. There is NO need for Kickstarter at all to create barriers.
There are, in fact, many small features of Go that make it more safe than C in terms of runtime correctness. eg. it has much stricter rules about automatic type conversion (you can't assign one int/char type to another differently sized int/char type without an explicit cast), it has sane built-in string handling much less likely to result in buffer overflow style issues, you have to go way out of your way with the unsafe package to blow your foot off by doing pointer arithmetic, etc, etc. None of these small things by itself adds a lot over C or C++, but combined they really add up.

I did C/C++ programming professionally for more than 10 years (and come from a static language background) and I share the OP's view that compilable Go code is much more likely to be correct than code in other languages I've used, even static ones... the fact that the Go code compiled is of course no guarantee it'll be correct, but the Go compiler enforcing the rules of the Go spec does eliminate whole classes of common gotchas even ones that bite you in C/C++ and other compiled languages.
Yup, I'd like to see Stanford as well. I'd also like to see what the breakdown for asians that are US citizens versus foreign nationals or immigrants.

The other problem is that this article automatically assumes that private schools are "elite", and public schools aren't.

That's true for certain fields-law and finance, for example, are dominated by the ivy league schools. STEM, on the other hand, is a much more even distribution. Many of the engineering programs at most of the Big 10 state schools are considered to be some of the best educations you can get, and the UC system is full of very good programs. UIUC's CS program is considered one of the best in the nation, as are Purdue's ME and aeronautical engineering programs.
The key to the whole story is buried for some reason on the second page: "Prosecutors disputed this and maintained that chat logs recovered from Gonzalez’s computer described illegal carding activity that Gonzalez conducted and showed that Watt at least had broad knowledge of what Gonzalez was doing, if not the details. As Gonzalez and his gang hacked target after target, he sent Watt links to news stories describing the breaches, though he didn’t acknowledge in the correspondence that he was behind the attacks.

Watt’s attorney told Wired in 2010 that his client accepted 'responsibility for aiding people that he knew would commit wrongdoing. However, he is very disturbed by the government’s aggressive attempt to make him into more than what he is.'"

The article spends a page and a half making you think that he's just some innocent guy who wrote a program for a friend who ended up using it maliciously, when in reality he admitted that he helped Gonzales who he knew was going to use it to commit crimes.

This is open and shut aiding and abetting a felony. And not some vague made-up felony. A felony that actually deserves to be a felony. Without taking any affirmative measures when he found out to turn his friend in, and without cooperating with police when he was charged with helping in the scheme. Is it the mark of an innocent person to you that when he found out his software had been used to commit a crime, even then he didn't help the police? The judge did absolutely the right thing in not giving him probation in order to send a signal.
Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits discrimination on the basis of race to programs receiving government money.

Even were a given university to forgo all government money, it would lose it's tax exempt status if it discriminated on the basis of race (see Bob Jones University v. United States, 461 U.S. 574 (1983)).

So as a practical matter -- yes.
Alright, what's up with this weird article shuffling on HN lately? This was in the top position on the home page. I refresh the page, can't find it anymore, spend a few minutes checking my browser history, and suddenly it's at the bottom of the home page. This happens a lot lately, and it's confusing me. Could we at least get a moderator note when the article is moved or a different color to let users know it has been moved?

EDIT: Holy cow, now it's on the 2nd page. What the heck? (And I bet I'm never going to get an explanation either.)
Well... They probably do, I'd be surprised if they didn't.

But let's not pretend that Ivy League school operate on anything resembling merit. The reason you want to go to those schools is not their top-notch academics, which you can get that in many other places, but as a shortcut to the old-boys networks. Unfortunately those old-boys networks don't serve as patrons out of the goodness of their hearts, so they require that many of their otherwise unworthy offspring to get admitted.

It's a tough nut to crack. If Ivy Leagues started admitting based solely on merit, they'd lose much of what makes them desirable, hence they need to add vague criteria so admissions personnel can safely discard and let in the right people.

Basically, Harvard is Harvard not because the exams are tough, but because the scions of the rich and powerful go to Harvard. So how can you have both the scions of the rich and powerful go there AND admit people based on merit?
Totally understandable decesion, don't see anything wrong about it.
I believe the key here is not age, but skills. The author's quote "The young understand new technologies better than the old do" can be true, but not always. A developer who has learned perhaps 3 or 4 languages over the course of their career is much better suited to learning something new than a recent graduate with only classroom studies.

A bigger reason for perceived ageism is when technologists do not pay attention to their skills becoming dated. I see this quite a bit today with small companies more likely to use Python, functional languages, or Ruby than say Java or C#. For candidates that have been in large Java or .Net shops for 10-15 years, what they will view as ageism is likely something else. I wrote a blog about this just recently http://jobtipsforgeeks.com/2013/03/07/enterprisey/
Race is a proxy for all sorts of cultural differences, hardships, experiences, etc. Being an outlier of your group with similar cultural disadvantages is an indication of leadership. I read an article recently about the origin of extracurriculars in the college admissions process. Basically they turned from defining the system on a GPA/SAT basis to one that tried to predict future leaders. The college that lead in this change, Harvard, is now the most prestigious university in the world. It was precisely because they stopped defining "merit" based on just test scores that it is what it is today.

The point is, it has been a long time since merit was GPA/SAT scores for top-tier college admissions. The criteria changes frequently as kids pattern their lives after what they assume the current criteria is. If you are one of a million (Asian) kids with perfect GPA and SAT scores, well, you're likely not going to get in. You are not owed a spot in any sense.
Here in Amsterdam, NL the CoffeeCompany stores allow up to one hour of WiFi access per receipt. So you get a drink, the receipt contains a wifi password that will last you one hour. Need more? Get another drink.

...or grab a receipt someone left at your table. I've seen this happen.
With no limiting principle?
This is independent of school -- if someone like Steve Jobs didn't go to college for very long, he'd be fine (oh wait, he was).

I'm involved with Thiel Foundation/20 Under 20; I think in a few years, it's possible that at the top end, it's not going to be as key to go to college. However, as that happens, the value of going to Stanford, Harvard, Princeton, Yale, MIT, CMU, Caltech seems to be going up, relatively. It actually seems to be that the value of going to the next batch (other Ivies, Berkeley, UW^2, Virginia Tech, Georgia Tech, etc.) is going down, and the ones blow that is falling through the floor. Sort of the same thing that's happening to the economy as a whole -- the top 1% is doing exceptionally well, the next 4-9% is doing better, and the rest is falling apart.
The best I can imagine this notion of "hacking debt" is a "lack of hacking playtime", which the author belives may have bad consequences ; yet I deny that very notion.

Financial debt exists. Technical debt exist too (especially if you make a living maintaining old code :-). Lack of training exist (skills deteriorate)

Hacking debt ? Sorry, but once again "huh" ?? How is promoting a kind of glorified slacking helpful?

You seem to have a far better understanding of it than I may have, so please describe this "totally new" concept termed "hacking debt", and also provide some proofs or links about the detrimental consequences it might have.

Otherwise, I would like to take this opportunity to present you my new concern of "cinnamon-roll debt": I postulate that not frequently eating cinnamon rolls has bad consequences for a coder. Of course, I won't provide any proof. Also, I'll let people discuss that concept on HN to try and make some sense about it. I'll plug the term with A/B tested SEO words, like "technical debt". If it doesn't work, I'll present a new concept of "magical-rock debt" - about how not having a magical rock leads to coders burning out.

PS- you're right, the article does not directly infers that playtime will solve technical debt. It just says "people become less effective and eventually burn out". However after reading it again, my impression is still that it is presented as if it could be helpful, and as if "hacking debt" was a real problem. IMHO it's not, and it's bad advice.

Initially, I posted a TLDR with a simple analogy, then saw the downvotes and a lack of understanding, so I tried to provide more details to explain why I think the basic concept is wrong, besides the analogy. Yet, in the last 5 minutes I still see 4 downvotes.

Never mind.

I guess casting wild ideas is more recognised than examining how they could be wrong and proposing simpler fixes. There may be a market for lion-repelling magical rocks. I've got one and I've never even been chased by a lion! Also, it prevents burnout, and my productivity has never been higher!

I'm out.
That security concern is nonsense. Use {% verbatim %} as noted below for angular templates (there's plenty of backports for Django <1.5). I have django templates fill in runtime parameters (csrf_tokens, etc) all the time.
I haven't seen a lot of hate in that direction. As someone who uses ST almost primarily, my biggest complaint is that it's not open source and free, which is going to stunt it's growth and keep it from being a real competitor with Emacs or Vim.
If you're going to try Scheme and you're scared of emacs/vim, I'd suggest Racket. It's got a nice IDE (DrRacket) and a lot of the community is focused on teaching so there's a lot of resources for newbies http://racket-lang.org/learning.html
"Some hardline atheists can be as vindicative, presumptuous and arrogant as religious people and that attitude is a problem"

Atheists can be assholes? Why does that even need to be said? Atheists are people and run the same set of qualities that any human can possess.

"Parent isn't implying atheism is a religion by the layman definition (sthg along the lines of'a belief in sthg unprovable') but that its proponents behave like they were a part of sthg that looks like a religion."

Religion or lack thereof has nothing to do with being an asshole. Software "zealots" promote their fanatical opinions but they don't worship "software".

It's a crappy analogy when "asshole" would suffice.
See this old thread. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5477426

But also see the comment above. I am probably somewhat misinterpreting the data in the strict sense, in what I said above. About as many S&P 500 CEOs come from UW as from Harvard, but you have to consider student body size, so it's not quite the same thing. But I don't think this invalidates the general gist of what I'm saying, which is that you can go to a good State school and still expect to have a fine career.
I was made uncomfortable enough honestly reporting my racial background I can't imagine kids actually doing that. I am of mixed race, had a culturally non-White upbringing, but look as White as Wonderbread. College was a very weird experience, because I felt like I was either unfairly infringing on the challenges of the students who were obviously minorities at my school, or I had to ditch most of my upbringing and pretend to be as White as I look.
You'd have to define "qualified" first to answer that question... but anyway, that's not what overrepresented means.
Did she offer solution to fixing public education? because I haven't heard of one that sounds plausible, besides vouchers for charted schools.

Public education should more more of a guideline for what students should know in each grade, it doesn't have to be an actual building full of kids. Government sets guidelines for food safety, but there isn't a government building full of butchers slaughtering cattle.
I think it's also likely to reduce total legal expenditures. The investors previously did not see the legal bill and so their lawyers had less incentive to minimize fees.
It does seem wrong.

Kickstarter will have to solve this problem themselves.

If Barack Obama (or any other well-known, progressive politician) decided to start some sort of campaign drive there it would probably raise millions and millions. But he already has millions and can campaign elsewhere.

I fear that Kickstarter and other crowd funding sites are headed for this type of take over by people who already have funding and funding sources unless they specifically make rules against it.
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There's that payscale list of best ROI per college which mostly confirms this, but there are some colleges in the top 20 I wouldn't have thought of (Duke, Babson, Harvey Mudd).

http://www.payscale.com/college-education-value
> Asians comprise < 5% of the US population, so the first option strikes me as highly unlikely.

It doesn't strike me as highly unlikely.
Asians tend to have much higher education levels than Whites:
http://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/2012/tables/12s0229.p...
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This is some really awesome work. How much time do you spend analyzing social network information?

Do you think analyzing information about social networks will bring out real world insights about people and relationships?
I worked on the web side of a non elite but good universities student recruitment department. I would hear stories all the time of Asian parents coming in and handling their whole child's enrollment process. Many of the administrators found it kind of funny/horrifying/sad all at the same time.
I'm curious about the speed hit of these parsed expressions. Do you know if they are pre-compiled into anonymous functions, or if they are parsed on the fly?
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>- If you have a loyalty card, your free refill appear the same to them as if you bought something, so don't feel bad there.

The way Starbucks structures their loyalty program really says a lot about what behavior they want out of their customers, if we're to assume that a loyalty program's purpose is to incentivize customers to behave in a manner that's more profitable to Starbucks.

You get a loyalty point for every paid transaction. Doesn't matter if you buy a $1.50 bottled water or $100 on lattes for your entire team -- your standing in the program is based on simply how often you show up. There's a really low bar (5 transactions) to get free refills, which seems to encourage you to come into a Starbucks and linger for a while.

So they definitely seem perfectly happy with you coming in and spending a bunch of time there -- so long as you do it often!
Isn't your observation confirmation, rather than disproof?

How many developers does your shop have? How many architects? I imagine the ratio is something like 1 architect to 25-50 developers. Not every developer can graduate to architect.
I think this is worth figuring out for your local shop. But Starbucks!? Perhaps I'm the only one who doesn't think our top priority should be having more empathy for a billion dollar company.
Certainly, I don't mean to contradict the conventional wisdom :-p. Scaling out with ~$1500 2U servers makes sense a lot of the times.

I'm more concerned about another problem. There are people out there who think that they can scale out with Hadoop cluster built on top of Atoms (or more recently... ARMs). And while yes... there are some applications where that is a decent scaling strategy, I doubt it works in most cases.

But yeah, I know that wasn't your argument. I'm just musing a bit on random stuff.
The number and types of bills we got after closing an A-round was ... illuminating. Background checks on founders, in particular, was not something I would have guessed we'd be billed for.
rory.oneill3 might be an executive at Blackberry: http://clrk.it/image/0N1G0G3o2B43
It's pretty clear the point is not that discrimination against Asians is a secret. The point the author is making is that this kind of discrimination is wrong.
The article discussed this extensively: these well-rounded-ness requirements are arbitrary, having been introduced in the 20's with the sole purpose of keeping out jewish students. While it may very well be true that the average asian applicant plays less sports than the average white applicant, it doesn't have any relevance to the applicant's aptitude for computer science.
In the Myth of American Meritocracy[1] Ron Unz shows that non-Jewish white students face 5x as much discrimination as Asian students in comparison with their proportion of the general population, and 2x as much when compared with their proportion of national merit scholars.

I don't think it matters to anyone, though, because they're white kids.

[1]http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/the-myth-of-...
The logo looks awful and very un-Apple-like.
That ratio cannot possibly be > 1 considering that there are more White students than Asian students at these colleges.
The thinking from Spark's side might be:

-Pay own legal fees, saves portfolio company money

-Better terms/relationships with investments attracts more, higher-quality startups

-Higher quality startups will likely be the big hits VCs need to be successful

-Attracting high quality startups forces other VCs to work with us on future and larger investment rounds
You are going on tangent after tangent as if to prove something. No one said that "unrestrained by Constitutional limitations" are ok.

Suppose you have the right to exclude Blacks or Asians from your college (freedom of speech, associations or whatever)

Once you take even a penny of federal dollars, directly or indirectly, you may have to agree not to discriminate. So YOU give up that right voluntarily. No one forces you to take the government's money.
I doubt they'd do much better if the negative revenue companies all turned into zero revenue companies.
I would guess it's misuse of flagging.
I remember when the original Pizza Hut website allowing you to submit orders via the web was a huge deal:

http://web.archive.org/web/19961219205128/http://www.pizzahu...
Asians are fairly poorly represented compared to their raw "paper intellegence" in the business, cultural and politics of the United States. The following statements will include many generalizations, but I don't think it's a stretch to say that most Asians are studious, but rather shy, passive. Asians tend to generally not be viewed as "strong" personalities or leaders, but "born followers" that know how to get the job down quickly. It doesn't help that China always copies everything.

As much as stereotypes are deceiving and ill for our society, I tend to think they hold a small, but ruthless grain of truth in them. and i am Asian.
Looks interesting, but the use of "\" instead of "." is really a turnoff. Why do languages (I'm looking at you, PHP) think that using the backslash in any other way than escaping is a good idea?
In the now-ancient Cringely book called "Accidental Empires" the author relates the story of how the lead engineer working on 3COM's first ethernet card paused his assigned work to measure the reflectivity of his office's ceiling tiles while the seedling company awaited his fundamentally important work. This is the sort of hacking that, while off-task, is still often valuable. Every suit's nightmare and yes fairly irresponsible in the context, but this really is productive overall if it staves off boredom. It's indicative of what I would call a born engineer: curious, resourceful, and compulsively productive regardless of material as long as it's by choice.
Which part of the article says that Jews are over-represented? It says that blacks (and, to a lesser extent, Hispanics) are over-represented, but all it says about Jews is that they were under-represented and that this effect starting fading in the 50s.
You're focusing on reality. I'm talking about perception. 98% of the population does not know about the ubiquity of recording devices. After Google Glass, they will.
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Jews 'got around it' due to sustained media and political pressure in the 1950s - we didn't wait for anybody. Nor did Asians take our place - quotas against Jews in elite universities were largely lifted before the widespread adoption of affirmative action, which is when Asians' problems began.

If you want to do something about it, don't wait for some other minority group to come along and be the goat, organize. There's a lot more Asians than Jews in this country - you should be able to build an organization at least as effective as the Anti-Defamation League. And for god's sake, at least stop voting for politicians who support affirmative action. If you vote for politicians who discriminate against you, those politicians are going to quite reasonably conclude that you don't really care about being discriminated against.
You mean except for the part where they previously agreed not to do so?
Asians are not underrepresented relative to population-wide demographics, so it is only "obviously" discrimination if you assume that more Asians are qualified than students of other races. Otherwise, it is possible that these studies are failing to take into account some dynamic.

To play devil's advocate, for example: Asians may be more likely than other groups to apply to these schools. It may be that Asians with high SAT scores but weaker applications in other areas are more likely to apply to highly selective schools than comparable students of other races, which would lead to lower admission rates.

The numbers here wink suggestively, but they present a far from airtight case.
I don't disagree with your comment, but I want to note:

> Starbucks aims to be the "third place". Home, Work, Starbucks. That's what _they_ want

They're aiming to be your third place, the tension here is that it's becoming a second place for many. That places a different burden on the a coffeeshop than being a third place does.