skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm assuming lots of people get pulled over for various infractions, and the Hispanics among them are the ~only ones who are unlicensed and are thus the ~only ones cited for being unlicensed. Other citation types appear less biased (I just scanned, I didn't do actual analysis, I'm trying to finish my RSA 2014 submissions right now).

There may be profiling in pulling over "old/cheap" cars more for the same violations, but I have a hard time telling if someone is white/hispanic/whatever in another car, particularly from behind. I can identify black vs. white from sides/front in a car, but doing so from behind is quite hard, too. So I am less likely to believe there's racial profiling in who is stopped; the greatest potential for racial discrimination would be in cite vs. not cite on specific violations committed (like, letting white people have a pass on speeding, while citing nonwhite people) after the car is already stopped. I don't think most police would let anyone have a pass on unlicensed/suspended, though, regardless of race (or, in some cities where immigration status prevents being licensed statewide, but the city/local people support undocumented/illegal people, maybe they'd be more likely to give an unlicensed driver who was otherwise not at fault a pass if stopped for something really not his fault like being in a non-at-fault accident.)
Oddly enough Chrome/Blink still has the String.prototype.blink method to create a blink tag from a string. If I recall correctly it's actually part of an ES (not DOM) standard.
The egos. A large segment of the software world seems to be composed of people who keep trying to one-up each others in their knowledge of esoteric trivia, and then once they've found something they know that nobody else does, suddenly everyone else is an idiot. /////

I have tried a lot but the being arrgant when you meet somene with similar skills is so tough to avoid. Plus the sheer chauvinism against non-techie people, makes me feel guilty too. What do you suggest to avoid the ego factor?
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Fancy a Little Bitcoin Arbitrage? Then have a little read of this... www.bitscan.co
As a CDN for static content Cloudflare is an easy win.
Caltrain only stops in Atherton on the weekends because they don't want the poor commuters being able to get in or out of Atherton during the week

FWIW Atherton was one of the least used stations on the Caltrain line, and the nearby Menlo Park and Redwood City stations get very good service. So eliminating service made a good deal of sense. I can't explain why they still stop there on weekends, though...
The Coast Starlight (http://www.amtrak.com/coast-starlight-train) has been running once a day between LA and Oakland for years, with a connecting bus to SF - here's its schedule: http://www.amtrak.com/ccurl/935/314/Coast-Starlight-Schedule... It takes about 12 hours if there are no delays. It's a lovely and relaxing trip, but that's a long time compared to flying or driving.

If you want to leave SF/Oakland later than 9 am or LA later than 10 am, you have to take some long bus connections (which aren't very fun) and the San Joaquin or Pacific Surfliner.
If you actually _want_ someone's password and you have access to their account, there are many things you can do, all equally easy.

The more interesting argument here is the "crime of convenience" - where someone didn't want the passwords, but just saw them laying around in plain sight. But that isn't actually the case in Chrome: it's like four clicks. You have to actually be trying to find them.
Damn, I seriously thought about posting this :)
Let's refrain from frequent comparisons until both of these beasts announce a complete and production ready version.
Why define C# abstract classes without abstract members
Are Hispanic people unlicensed at such a high rate relative to the general population that it would fit this data?

Also,

> I don't think most police would let anyone have a pass on unlicensed/suspended

is a direct contradiction to:

> Even if someone were unlicensed and caught, if you didn't have the cause to stop him for something else, he'd walk on the unlicensed driver charge.

Which you posted above.

[edited to fix bad c+p]
There are not a lot of poor white or poor black people in RWC/Atherton; it's mainly rich white/asian people and poor hispanic people, in my experience. Poor people are relatively more segregated by race in the Bay Area than I'd expect -- poor white people tend to be in various parts of the East Bay, poor black people in a few specific neighborhoods of SF and EPA and Oakland/Richmond, poor asians in some parts of the South Bay (and maybe Oakland?), poor hispanics in ESJ, parts of the Peninsula, south of Oakland, etc.

It seems like poor people are actually more segregated than rich people here -- aside from the general shortage of rich black people in general, the rich people I see in PA/Piedmont/etc. are a pretty representative mix of white/asian/hispanic/etc.
I love this book.

The keybind on this book are tailor to vim user and I change my caplock to ctrl cause of tmux.
presumably that was prostoalex's point
We were having a rather similar discussion around here just the other day. It boiled down to:

What if property rights were "packet switched" instead of "circuit switched"? (1)

We're still at the stage where our modems whistle at each other when it comes to "property". The future is going to be positively sci-fi.

(1) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circuit_switching#Compared_to_d...
Power outages in San Francisco
In a reasonable world, yes. In a world where IT is a cost center, this is what happens:

1) People work around it as much as possible.

2) When the pain is unbearable, you bring in a high-priced consultant, because your engineers say something about "recompile" and "refactor". Which you as VP don't understand, are scared of, and are not willing to spend the money on.

3) The consultant puts in a week or so to hack things together. It's much cheaper than the recompile/refactor thing, and so you as VP are a hero to your bosses.

4) Since the consultant is paid hourly, documentation seems kind of pricey. Let's skip that.

5) Lather. Rinse. Repeat.

I wish this was just Dilbert, but in quite a few companies, that's reality.
Article can still be found here: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Ahttp%...

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My experience at a YC startup

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This story needs to be told. I am an engineer turned business guy who recently left a cozy job at a top-tier tech company and joined a YC start-up. Needless to say I took a huge pay cut and a big risk. I talked extensively to one of the co-founders and he/she did an amazing job of selling me the opportunity. I got the sense that VCs were lining up for Series A (it was still early stage) and the company had amazing growth curve (numbers like growing 100% Mom etc.). Once i joined the startup, to my horror, I discovered a few things:

- The company tried to raise Series A earlier and failed.

- The numbers that were shared were not entirely true. It was kind of half-truth and part of the marketing pitch to VCs.

- The leadership was struggling with the vision of the company. It was pulled in many directions - sometimes ad-hoc based on customer feedback or angel advice.

- The culture was bad. Engineers were constantly told what to do.

- The quality of the people were much lower vs my previous company.

One of the first things I did was steer the company in the right direction from a strategy perspective. I constantly butted head with one of the founders but my strategies were clearly impacting the revenue numbers. For example one of the tactics doubled the weekly revenue. I wanted to have a significant impact so I was constantly asking the founders to work on the long-term vision and culture for the company. I also told them that VCs invested in talent and not the idea.

Then another round of raising Series A started. The “nos" started piling up. Our last hope said “no" 2 weeks back. And then I was asked to leave last week (though I was already planning to leave). I think they got what they needed out of me and now the first person to go would be the business guy (along with some other engineers and business folks). Actually the team is paying for the incompetence of the founding team.

I would add the disclaimer that my experience may not be reflective of every single YC startup. But I don’t want you to make the same mistake so this is my piece of advice before you join an early-stage startup:

- YC doesn’t necessarily mean sure shot success. Paul Graham is a human and bound to make mistakes.

- Talk to as many team members as possible before joining.

- Try to gauge culture by visiting the office quite often.

- Preferably join a startup where you know the people.

- If you don’t know the people, work part-time for some time before making a decision.

- Ignore marketing pitches by founders.

- Go for post Series-A. VCs have already done the vetting for you.

I just heard they are planning to raise more money via AngelList or FundersClub (not listed yet). If you are an individual investor, do your due diligence before investing via AngelList or FundersClub - don’t invest blindly.
Soylent's main goal isn't to be cheap food, but to be fast, fairly nutritious, foodstuff for people who don't want 'waste' their time cooking.
I suspect that might change in the near future if telepresence with large, 4K screens showing life-sized, full body representations of people became commonplace. It seems like a lot of the necessity of in-person conferences and meetings is still things like realistic eye contact and subtle body language cues.
so i work at One Kings Lane, which has an unlimited vacation policy. First, i should say that they the true to their word--i have actually seen people take four and five week holidays. Still, the usual seems to be two weeks, which it seems the devs take maybe two of these each year (perhaps more, not really sure).

At OKL, i suspect the policy is just an extension of their "ok, we are all adults here, so just act in the company's best interest at all times--we don't want to work in a soviet tractor factory, we assume you don't either" (my own words, if we had an employee handbook, i imagine it would say something like that).

at other shops, i have heard that the motivation for unlimited vacation is a little less wholesome. The idea is that use it to recruit, then once in the door, the manager can of course limit the employee's holiday because his approval is required. So there's very little to lose, and a lot to gain; when the employee is terminated (resigns, fired) the company does not have to pay out their unused vacation, which is often not a small amount (eg, i suspect a lot of people carry around 2 weeks).
How do you pick what goes on the front page and how long it stays there? Or is it just FIFO queue with most recent on top? If so, how do you throttle it and what's the backlog?

One thing that I don't like about BetaList (as a submitter) - there's no insight into whether your submission is going to be accepted and if it is, then when it's going to be featured. If you can make your site better for submitters, you will have an upper hand over BL, which is the competitor to measure up to at the moment.
Looks cool. Just submitted our litte side project phdtree: http://phdtree.org/
Retina MacBook Pro 15" 16GB/512GB SSD. Which I like mainly for the screen, use it at the simulated 1920x1200 res. It sucks that it can barely play flash or do other cpu intensive things without it getting fucking hot and loud. Its a shame because the GPU is pretty fast. Wish Apple could make a fucking decent thermal design.

Thinkpad X220 16GB/256GB SSD, Win7 Pro. I love it for its small size, long battery life, and ruggedness. Although I should warn you the plastic doesn't get on well with mosquito repellant, I learned that in Costa Rica last year. Also the trackpoint, 3 mouse buttons, and keyboard. It actually has a bigger keyboard than the rMBP despite being classified as a 12" laptop. Oh and a 3-year warranty where a guy comes to your house to fix whatever is wrong that only cost $100 or so. The screen is painfully tiny at 1366x768 though.

I guess I couldn't decide on one laptop, there are both good for different things. At home I sometimes plug into a 24" Dell 1920x1200 LCD and use a Kinesys Freestyle Pro keyboard and Logitech Anywhere MX mouse. That is nice for extended computer work.

My phone is a HTC First. Yeah the Facebook phone. Its a reasonable size, looks nice, you can uninstall all the facebook junk, and the battery lasts me 3 days. And I only paid $170 for it because no one wants them. Oh and the GPS and 3G work unlike my previous Galaxy Nexus.

Software-wise, I mainly use Debian under VMWare for work. And Firefox for browsing natively. The builtin sync feature is good. mutt and notmuch for email. I run irssi and bitlbee for jabber on a server, which I connect to with mosh.
Thanks for the question on byobu - I wasn't aware of it. Not sure what you're asking about though. It appears byobu adds status information -- it doesn't seem to change the aesthetics of the terminal?
Bitcoin: Tax Evasion Currency
The federal budget deficit is approaching a trillion dollars. What will this really accomplish?
1) Most Hispanic people in the Bay Area are US citizens or lawful residents, and licensed (and pay taxes, and are otherwise generally representative of everyone else). We're talking about the set of people who get caught for unlicensed/suspended, which is already a pretty small subset, and not representative of the overall population at all.

However, most unlicensed people are that way due to immigration status, which is almost entirely Hispanic people (since our illegal immigrants are essentially all Mexican or Guatemalan). Suspended license people are often DUI or other things like that, which I'd assume is much more universal. I don't know the breakdown between unlicensed and suspended; generally I think suspended/revoked are punished more harshly than unlicensed, partially because you have to be a fuckup to get your license suspended in the first place, and it's a bit more willful to continue driving at that point. If there were no legal way to get a license, it's a lot more morally defensible to drive anyway (although, insurance...); fortunately CA seems to make it possible to get a license anyway, so failing to do so is an affirmatively lame action.

2) No -- I meant if you wanted to prosecute someone for the unlicensed, but your PC to stop him originally was bad (i.e. you claimed he ran a red light, but it turns out he didn't), the court would let him walk (rather, it'd never go to trial).

If a cop had legitimate PC to stop, and then stopped and found suspended license, the cop would almost certainly cite/arrest/whatever for the suspended license.

Those are two entirely different cases. (It's pretty easy to generate legitimate PC to pull ~anyone over, though, due to how the vehicle code is written and how people actually drive.)

(Another unanswered question is "is there a variation in vehicle maintenance or driving rule compliance in different race/ethnicity drivers?" -- I tend to think there isn't. Even if you wanted to go by rich/poor, I've even seen plenty of expensive cars with maintenance issues, and obnoxious rich people with huge numbers of bikes on bike racks obscuring license plates, unsecured loads, etc. The only real distinction I've seen is that pickup truck drivers, in general, are the cause of almost all object-in-road problems.)
How are these valuations calculated?

For example, Instagram has an estimated value of ~$4.6 Billion, but it's actual value (based on purchase by FB) is ~$1 Billion. The page doesn't provide a clear link on how they estimated the valuations, either...

Edit:
If you click on one of them, then mouse-over the valuation on that page, if offers the following explanation:

"To calculate App Worth, we take into account many factors and metrics:

- User Estimates

- User Activity

- International Reach

- Revenue Estimates

- Sensor Tower Secret Sauce™"
Even doing that I still see the old logo on top (not the y7 logo but also not the logo in this thread). Strange.
And no poor non-Hispanic people driving through on El Camino, getting from A to B? I don't know the local geography, but I would assume that a main thoroughfare would get _some_ non-residents.
I have to say I agree with your point 1) in general.

But not with 2). Holacracy is not just a set of vague principles that you swear to apply as best as you can, or some bolt-on process to add to your box. It's a completely different way of governing a company, a different power structure, and its rules are specific and spelled out: http://holacracy.org/constitution

Whether it works or not is another question, but at least it's different. Then, sure, it's not a silver bullet: http://youtu.be/gltN3NuY5dc
How do you plan on getting traffic to your site?
horse-ebooks.com now goes to quotestatusjoke.com.

What does this iframe on quotestatusjoke.com do? http://quotestatusjoke.com/twitter/tw.php

The contents say:

> Now 07:27 - we work from 14:00

And a cached version says:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:M0v3DQU...

"1000_quotes|2441|2049|13240
1 - that matter, of National Review - there is not much reason to pay it attention. OK
0 - If a church offers no truth that is not available in the general culture - in, for instance, the editorials of the New York Times or, for OK

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Is this a site visitor-triggered cron job?
The only review for it says,

"The atmosphere itself is cool and they offer pcs for accessing the Internet, thus why it's highly visited by tourists. They offer sandwiches, coffee and alcoholic drinks. Unfortunately, you have to pay a fee to use the pc and R$10/hour to use wi-fi."

At least you know it's not a paid advert/comment just to get the site rolling.

As an aside, there really needs to be more places in Rio that offer free wi-fi and outlets. It's ridiculous how few places have either.

Also, R$10/hr (US$4.30/hr) to use wi-fi is really high, but we're talking about the posh Leblon, so...
Well, the person who changed the setting was warned. The warning does not appear on the main copying/scanning screen. And calling such a setting "normal" verges on criminal.

And even the support person didn't know about the consequences of the setting.

Also, it seems that the setting was also used when copying, not just when scanning (still seeking confirmation on that one), which would be quite useless.
Your links are broken; middle-clicking on a link does nothing. Also, please let me decide, if I want to open a link in the same tab (left-click) or in a new tab (middle-click). (Linux/Firefox)
Another phenomenon inspired by @Horse_ebooks is the proliferation of non-spam "Horse" accounts. As examples, @Horse_JS, @Horse_Recruiter, and @Horse_iOS each have their own flavour of topical absurdity.
wow i really like it, the way they write tutorials
It's too difficult to move dollars between exchanges.
Lyft and Sidecar do a good job of vetting drivers. This helps prevent passengers from dying while using the service. The high quality of vetting is shielding you from seeing the real issue: what if they didn't vet drivers? Wouldn't that be a public hazard? A few examples of good behavior does not disprove the need for laws that prevent bad behavior.
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One Year on Mars: The Curiosity Rover
What you actually need there is sleeper cars.

Imagine getting on the train at 7 in the evening, lying on your own bed reading books and drinking tea, sleeping actually then getting off the train at 9 in the morning at the railway terminal in another city.
One-Click Device Mockup
A manpage doesn't help you arrive at a workflow or show the forest for the trees or give field advice from someone that uses the tool or reveal ways to integrate the tool with other programs.
Real Pixels - Android app that solves one particular designer's pain
Support screenshots with Monosnap and S3
It comes from insecurity. A lot (not all, this is a gross generalization) of tech people are really insecure, because a profession where you don't have to deal with people tends to attract a lot of people who don't like to deal with people, and one of the most common reasons for not liking people is being insecure about our own worth.

The best way to avoid this is to not tie your self-worth to your technological prowess. Discover what you like to do (beyond programming), and go do it, and be willing to put yourself out there and enjoy things even if you don't get any outside approval for it. Oftentimes this makes people really anxious; therapists or talking things over with a solid circle of friends can be helpful for discharging the anxiety, but really you pretty much have to lean into it and accept that being good with computers is not going to make you better than anyone else or solve any other problems you might have.
Slide 5. Why can no one spell "Appelbaum"?
I hope that the push notifications for marketing aren't a crucial part of their business plan, because that's explicitly forbidden in the App Store.

Unfortunately I can't see much of a reason for places to start accepting Clipp tab payments without that incentive.
I agree with the author.
I like the idea. Apart from the excitement of actually changing the iconic logo, it will get Yahoo a lot of eyeballs in these 30 days and create some buzz around the site.
No, deflation is bad, period, for the economic actors who depend on deflationary currencies, and this is verified simply by looking at pretty much any historical instance of deflation.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deflation#Historical_examples

Notice how nothing good ever comes of deflation? That should be a hint. I would be highly suspicious of the unsourced "In Ireland" section:

http://byline.timetric.com/2010/11/25/ireland-deflation-debt...

though there were some upsides: http://marketmonetarist.com/2012/08/14/good-deflation-the-ca...

I'm not against Bitcoin per se, but all this anti-inflation crap is, quite simply, at odds with historical data to the point that it has become essentially "views differ on shape of planet". If economics is to be useful at all, it has no choice but to be empirical, and everything we've ever measured has always told us that deflation is bad.

Perhaps Satoshi simply felt it was easier to implement finite Bitcoins than a constantly increasing supply. I don't think he can be blamed for that. Bitcoin is, if nothing else, certainly intriguing.
More and more YC & 500 Startups companies are moving to SF downtown, and this investment graph will be more skewed to North. I guess.
The workshop scene in India is quite messed up at present. The organizations who provide workshops in colleges are not keeping up with the Internet. There is no company who teaches HTML5, CSS3 in workshops. In web development, most of the companies start with a CMS, like Joomla or Drupal.

We, web-developers ourselves, were quite frustrated by this fact. We did a survey on colleges and found that students who had attended these workshops rarely continued, and most of them dropped whatever had been taught in the workshop.

CampusHash was started aiming to change this. We want to change the status quo, and bring the latest technologies of the Web into the college ecosystem. This might seem naive to a non-Indian, but the college curriculum in India still lags 20 years behind.

So, we are trying to revolutionize workshops in India. Thanks.
No, you are not reading it right. There's no "because" in my comment.
No, lower profit margins will kill it. With current enterprise software pricing you can afford lots of flights as part of the sales process. With SAAS type models you can't.