skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, it provides tremendous insight.

Namely that we need a lot more effort put toward educational success for black children. The unemployment rate among young black males is particularly astronomical, and it correlates directly to failures in education and a skyrocketing in poverty rates. There has been a total failure across all aspects for the black community: education, employment, crime, family formation, etc.

You've got a huge swath of political parasites that abuse the black community, counting on their votes, while having done absolutely nothing to help improve the worsening rate of black poverty.

You've got shyster scumbags like Jessie Jackson and Al Sharpton, that also act as parasites on the backs of black people. Always ready to prey on cheap opportunism, while under their supposed community leadership results have gotten dramatically worse.

It all has to change. Separating out the data, reveals where the real problems are, and having a dialogue about it is the first step. So far, very few want to talk about it.

Another glaring problem, is that America has lost its blue collar jobs. That was a core channel for upward mobility from poor > middle class, and a required staple to hold onto a large middle class. The vast erosion of quality manufacturing jobs over the last 40 years has particularly slammed people that were mostly poor to begin with - their ability to move up has been stopped (and all that destroys with it).
This is because all that the insiders need is to make their private shares public, i.e. liquid (notwithstanding officer's planned sales/insider restrictions). Potential liquidity of the insider's shares is the primary objective of a modern internet IPO, like Twitter's.
That's actually not true. Modern high end CPUs are multiple times faster than the CPUs from 2008. The architecture changed too, not just the frequency.
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I don't think that this is a fair comparison since this is not blackface but Zwarte Piet (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zwarte_Piet) and I don't think that it has the same racial connotations as blackface does in the US.
So if it's illogical for companies to buy ad space on queries for which they are the top result...why would they (presumably) fork over even more money to have an attractive banner ad? If a user is searching explicitly for Southwest Airlines...which seems to be the most conceivable non-sinister scenario to show the SA banner ad...how does it help the company or the user to have the interface suddenly change?

Maybe the answer is, "Well, because companies --and their marketing people -- are dumb like that, so, if they want to throw money at us..." Still, seems like it adds more complexity to both the backend logic and the front-end, while at the same time, harming opposing viewpoints. For example, Scientology is the first organic result for a search for "scientology" and thus deserves the opportunity to have a banner ad. And yet the banner ad as presented by the OP would push Scientology's apparently-well-SEOptimized opponents well below the fold.

(not to pick on Scientology, it's just the one religion/group example in which its opponents are almost as well known as the organization itself)
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(Product Manager @ New Relic here)

We launched a bunch of stuff today, including a new Agent SDK that is designed for exactly this purpose. It's beta today and has limited functionality, but give it a shot and let us know how it goes for you.

https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/features/agent-sdk
> Valve's push for Linux gaming is one of key factors which will reduce MS grip on the desktop.

My wife uses windows because I can't convince her that google docs or openoffice are ok.
She just prefers MS Office.

Valve's push may get us better graphic card drivers, but I don't know anyone who uses windows over linux because of that (I know a few people who stubbornly use linux notwithstanding crappy drivers though)
Should be 'Large wind tunnel model of proposed design revealed', no new aircraft is being introduced. Looks a bit like Thunderbird 2, if you go back that far.
>Chromebooks aren't GNU/Linux.

It does use glibc and many other common software found in GNU/Linux systems. I'd say it's a GNU/Linux system.
This is so true, tablet/smart-phone are great portable devices, however I can not live without a PC/laptop, it's just I already had a few of them.
My first choice will be PC, then smart phone, the last one is tablet.
I get it, in principle, but in every project I've been in, actually nailing down the business logic itself is the tricky part, more than coding it up. It usually goes like this.

"I want it to work like A."
code it up, find twenty edge case potentials
"Well, 3, 5, 6, and 7 can be solved like this, let's guard to make sure 1, 3, 8, 9 never happen, 10-13 can never happen, and let me get back to you on the rest."
code it up, notice a few more edge cases.
Lather, rinse, repeat.

Along the way, one of the edge cases will show me that what they really want is B, and time and budget let me know if we start down that path.
This is incorrect. Completely out of context and actually quite the opposite to what happened.

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130814/14262524177/
If you interpret the title as referencing a general decline (as opposed to a specific decline in these metrics) and attempting to explain that decline with the charts presented, then perhaps you'd accept this as evidence of a decline: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=US+minus+China%2C+US+mi... ?

Edit: I realize this is a rather liberal reading of the title. I'd argue the title has been, not unexpectedly, sensationalized.
His answer doesn't surprise me terribly. It likely would be easier to stop criminals and protect innocent people from them if there were no 4th. To me, the more important question is "Do the potential benefits of repealing the 4th justify doing so in spite of the abuse that would result?"

When the answer to that question is "Yes", then we are truly in danger.
> I'm quite sick of the trend that things have to be dumbed down for the average user so that things look "slick."

This has been one of the primary complaints about the One Macintosh Way since the first Mac proved that 1984 was going to be like Nineteen Eighty-Four and its largest competition was systems built around command lines, such as the Apple ][ and Commodore 64. It's never hurt Apple yet, and their durable majorities in coffeeshops and design hausen don't look eager to abandon them over it now.

> At least, there, you have the option to get rid of GDM and Mutter, install OpenBox, and be merry.

You... you understand that Linux has more than one GUI! Are you a god?
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NOT very impressed because of SSL errors on https://www.ripple.com/
DARPA funded the work that took place at Carnegie Mellon and Stanford and other academic institutions. Google directly hired the winning teams.
When I heard the "is not monitoring and will not monitor" I thougth "We didn't, and we will not do it again"
I hadn't thought of that before. So bitcoin is like gold in this regard, when gold was used as currency.

It occurred to me that bank notes today are the ancestors of a receipt that promised you a certain quantity of gold. Cash is just a promise - an abstraction from the underlying thing of value.

Whilst bitcoins are limited, you can create as many promises as you like - you just need an extra layer on top of bitcoin. Does this solve the loaning problem?

You would still have bitcoin as the base, like the gold standard but with none of the physical limitations of actual gold and with people still being able to easily transact in bitcoins.

I'm not sure whether having two things that you can pay with - bitcoin / promise of bitcoin - would be implementable. Would it require another crypto layer on top of bitcoin, with some parallel blockchain?

Gold standard:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_standard

This is an interesting read about bank notes:
http://www.bankofengland.co.uk/banknotes/pages/about/history...
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If you have seen Fringe[1], you know where this is headed...
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain_implant#Television
If you want to read more, trash the ipads and push Michelet Histoire de France (19 vols) from project Gutenberg to your kindle.

Same here by the way, no tv, my laptops are my wife second hand ones, never owned an Apple device.
Maybe they redesigned their landing page, and it is no longer top for organic results for a search term they practically own, e.g., [Virgin America]?
Exactly. It used to be that Twitteriffic was the underdog but I think it's superior now. Too bad twitter views 3rd party clients negatively, hopefully they don't all get shut down in the future.
> I'm a a big fan of The Black Knight

"It's only a flesh wound!"
We have ended up with the same conversations on this spying lark far too often.

I appreciate the sentiment of those that want to protest against this and I can understand the spoon-fed arguments about how the NSA must go after the kiddie fiddlers, terrorists that want to blow up innocent kiddies (as in the ones that haven't been fiddled with, yet) and do all that mysterious national security stuff.

However, instead of same-old, same-old, can we work on a technological solution? Something that will work for you and I as well as Mrs Merkel?

We can let go the network analysis stuff, who is in contact with whom as right now there is no easy way to prevent the NSA slurping that stuff up. But, as for the content, can't that be encrypted properly, without the NSA having the key and without there being secret courts where keys get handed over in secret? It is just code we need, and with it we can get a reasonable compromise where our conversations are secure.
US population = 314M
Canadian population = 35M

35M/314M = ~1/9 not 1/3
While being able to read a financial statement is a step in understanding a business, I feel this comment needs to be knocked down a few pegs, so...

As an actual CFA charterholder, I can tell you any analyst I work with would have laughed out loud at someone bragging about passing level 1. It means you have roughly an undergrad level understanding of finance.
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My personal favorite feature of Theano is the automatic compilation to CUDA code (which would get about 8-15x speed-up over the optimized C code for the deep learning research I was doing).
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Felt the same. Couldn't use it with all the different textures, gradients, borders...
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To clarify the above, the video starts with the deep brain stimulation device turned on. The changes mentioned are due to the Parkinson's Disease effect showing themselves once the DBS device is turned off.
The less constrained by basic needs people are, the more important the social desires, like acknowlegement, cooperation, sharing and so on become. There is plenty of cach to go around in software, hence people act a lot less based on purely selfish, materialistic motives.
SOPA was supported by money, not ideology. This bill is narrowly targeted towards NPEs, by making their business model unprofitable. It’s not going to stop Qualcomm from extracting rents or Apple from going after Google.
What if I only want a smaller text in Tweetbot and not all over iOS?
(Anecdote, mid 2007 macs should be able to be upgraded to the very latest Apple desktop OS)
:O the background sparks are different every pageload.
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That's a really interesting video on this debilitating disease. Are there any notable examples of where DBS has failed or what could entail as "the risk" of undergoing such a surgery?

I have a friend whom I can refer about this procedure.
It feels slow with all the shaking etc. And easy list access is gone, you have to use the menu to access lists …
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There are no foreseeable negative consequences to having a government agency put microchips in our brains.
I'm pleasantly surprised that it's not already on the bottom of the second page, headed towards the third. Between the flagging brigades and "flamewar detectors," I'm sure it will get there sooner than later.
What LDAP implementation would you use?

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/663402/what-are-the-diffe...
Yes, but visually it works out. Though not as well as the TV graphic that reads, "Arsene Wenger: Arsenal Manager". That one is outright uncanny at a glance.
Yeah, I feel as though I've seen similar gimmicks in the past.
> every modern email client changes how email is displayed.

The point is, Linkedin is a third-party app. It broke the sandbox mechanism in iOS.
Given that Samsung hasn’t shipped any 4k displays so far, I suspect Apple would rather go with a manufacturer that has experience building them and with whom they don’t have such a complicated relationship. I’m thinking of 4k panel makers like AUO, Innolux, Sharp, and LG.
$11B seems like a low valuation. Groupon is still worth $6B and I don't think its anywhere near half as valuable as twitter. Twitter does have a problem trying to monetize the core business, the only way seems to be to charge celebrities and businesses to send out tweets(advertisements) but that will probably hurt them a lot.

But with all that data and all those users and celebrities there is so much possibility and directions it can go. If I owned them the front page would be all entertainment news, hire bloggers to scan through tweets and write stories about the latest gossip. Why let tmz and other entertainment news get all the ad revenue by writing about the info coming directly out of your site, twitter should be the #1 webpage for celebrity news/gossip. The kind of people who really use twitter are obsessed with this garbage, it seems only natural.
The purpose of a system is what it does.

The school system has two purposes. One of them is to keep the teacher's union going. Union teaching jobs are unequivocally awful -- less than 50% of people who get teaching certificates can bear to work in the field, left with student debt and no income to repay it. (It's a good racket for the union teachers who teach the teacher thought.) They get rapidly discouraged and burned out but at least they get a defined benefit pension... For now.

The other one is to kneecap people... Specifically from Kindergarten all the way to college I was taught that I could be bullied with impunity and never see anybody held to the account.

This normalizes bullying in the workforce, which is exactly what they want because they want you to be weak and controllable.

I'm going through this crap with my son. I went to a meeting with the superintendent and he was gushing over how much he wanted feedback from the mother of a "special" kid and how she was a partner in her education but he didn't care what I thought because there was a new paradigm and don't you know homework is obsolete and spelling too and how my input is definitely not wanted and won't be listened to.

And they wonder why people vote Republican...
Sure; Adam Langley, or Daniel Bernstein.
It seems ironic to me that this story has been submitted to Hacker News, a social news website at the center of Silicon Valley, an extraordinary fount of innovation unequalled worldwide. American "progress" or "success" will be determined much more by the pace of innovation than by the abilities of the general population.
Not sure how reliable this data is, but it seems to contradict at least some of the assertion that race alone has that implication: http://glpiggy.net/2013/03/19/a-sociologist-looks-at-race-di...

White in lowest income bracket are lower than black in top income bracket.

Unfortunately, this data (from 2003) seems to show a persistent handicap in all but the highest income brackets for black SAT test takers. I'm sure there are a million studies and a million opinions, but my personal view is that it's likely due to historic inequalities still manifesting in current generations, as opposed to anything else.

Many of my friends from the Russian immigrant community came from a very different economic background than I did. For me, my grandparents would never have understood if I did not pursue graduate work in some form. From my friend's parents point of view, college was optional. I'm willing to bet that from ethnic make up, all of us are virtually indistinguishable and may even be related on some level. Different families, different attitudes to education, different SAT scores...
your comment is calibrating, because it shows that there is a limit to how much privacy invasion the average american will stand for. Thank you for being so forthcoming.
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=%24200+1980+US+dollars+...

There are LOTS of under-$570 computers sold at major retailers today.
> I know everyone here wants to believe that

Factually speaking, some of us here don't want to believe that, especially if we work for Microsoft.
The racial component is not a property of genetics except insofar as one's race is evident to a white onlooker. So your implied reasoning is exactly backwards. It's 100 years of slavery followed by 100 years of oppression, conditions imposed on a set of people because of skin pigment.

This is the hand the US citizenry has been dealt. Or rather I should say this is the hand the US has dealt itself. If we as a country are behind because we've left a non-trivial subset of our own citizens behind, that's as much an indictment as anything else.
"in Minutes"... no.
If a developer redesigns and rewrites an application why are they not entitled to make their users pay for it again? You could just keep using the old version.

I think it's absurd that people complain about iOS apps being "yet another $5" given the amount of time it takes to make a beautiful application.

Given that iOS developers have no ability to offer upgrade discounts, I fully support them charging full price for new versions. They deserve it, especially given the hundreds of dollars people pay for new versions of Office, Creative Suite, etc each year.
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I expect to upgrade it near the end of this year.
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That's not evidence of a decline, see http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=US+real+GDP+over+time. That would seem to indicate that other countries are catching up, not that the US is declining. Also, in real terms, it doesn't look like the narrowing of the gap is accelerating (http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=US+minus+China%2C+US+mi...).
Disclaimer: Search Marketer

Advertisers see incremental value in advertising on their brand traffic for many reasons including directing traffic, controlling messaging, etc. plus in some cases have seen incremental gains in brand traffic. See this blog post for more details.

http://www.rimmkaufman.com/blog/the-cardinal-sin-of-paid-sea...

Therefore what is interesting to me about combining a paid brand banner ad and organic links is the limited control the advertiser has in directing their brand traffic or controlling the copy whether the headline or site links. They also lose the ability to report on that traffic as paid brand traffic which is probably fine to the advertiser as the traffic is then reflected as a corresponding increase in organic.

Again to spankalee's point it is an experiment so I am sure the functionality will develop over time.
Thanks for pointing out that 100 minus 33 equals 67.
Valve is not trying to, nor will it, replace windows.
Is this claim true? I thought the Feds were claiming that using any hosted email (Gmail, Hotmail, etc), is considered a 3rd party subject to subpoena.

> These communications are generally legally privileged and can’t be used as evidence in court – but only if you keep the messages confidential.
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You are wrong its a 1:0 for Snowden.
Now it`s not only the "common" people and how Merkel reacted is atypical for her.

Lets hope we see some actions out of this event at least the EU parliament set the first sign with voting against SWIFT.
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They may have been advised to be a bit more conservative, given how FB IPO went
Android phones came a year after the release of the iPhone. 5 years later, the iPhone still dominates web usage share.

I see a similar trend when comparing web usage share between Android tablets and iPads.
The German government and Amazon mainly. Germany has been phasing out at various levels of bureaucracy XP for Ubuntu, and Amazon uses it a lot now.
I really wanted to like new relic, but sadly their aggressive and pestering sales/account managers put me off. This was after we signed up!
I was considering the offering up the computer (asset) as payment, or, at the very least, collateral, on the charges. Since they're using accounting/banking terms for these charges anyway (how often do you see "Escrow" used in a court case?), no reason to not try to settle/close this as if it were just another probate/bankruptcy issue. :)
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Yeah, I don't get this. Snowden made a point of distancing himself from indiscriminate leakers like Chelsea Manning. But this kind of stuff isn't legally dubious invasions of American citizens' privacy - it's foreign heads of state. Leaking this kind of information only seems to damage the US internationally.
Usually, but not in this case.
OpenLDAP. But I don't want to derail into nits really - I'm looking at the broader question of "What offerings conclusively swing an enterprise away from Linux".
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Hey gang,

As part of a recent hackathon, I developed a Trivia engine and iOS app. The engine scrapes web pages and APIs to automatically generate questions (I have several thousand already).

The iOS app just got in the app store Monday night. Response has been solid so far. We're giving away a hat to the top scoring player each day.

Would love any feedback on the app (it's free). Android is on the way.

Website: http://www.playhattrick.com

App Store: http://bit.ly/winahat
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I should feel free to check my privilege, but this actually seems like an even-handed discussion. Scroll down to "Other Explanations for the Racial Scoring Gap on the SAT."

""" Clearly, one of the main factors in explaining the SAT racial gap is that black students almost across the board are not being adequately schooled to perform well on the SAT and similar tests. Public schools in many neighborhoods with large black populations are underfunded, inadequately staffed, and ill equipped to provide the same quality of secondary education that is offered in predominantly white suburban school districts. """

""" In many cases black schoolchildren are taught by white teachers who have low opinions of the abilities of black kids from the moment they enter the classroom. These teachers immediately write off black students as academic inferiors and do not challenge them sufficiently to achieve the skills necessary to perform well on standardized tests. """

The thing is, we're nerds. We ought to think more critically than "black people are disproportionately poor and perform less well academically, oh well, that's that." Pre-chewed explanations like that ought to be anathema, especially when they're deployed in the service of a cultural agenda.

But there's a disturbing tendency to ignore the US' complex and problematic history with racism. It's lazy. It's a cop-out.
Clickables:

Website: http://www.playhattrick.com

App Store: http://bit.ly/winahat
AFAIK even with OEM versions, only Win8 Pro edition comes with downgrade rights.
What platforms do this?

I'm pretty curious how they advertise the fact that they do something like this as well.