skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Trust me, I know how you feel. I was a National Merit Semifinalist while my friend with far weaker academics was an Hispanic National Merit Finalist and won a full-ride to her college of choice. As a white male, it was a little annoying going down the list of scholarships and having precious few open to me.

The thing to understand about racism is that it's a societal thing, not an individual thing. Discrimination against an individual can be racist, but only if it contributes to the racism of a society. (I know, the academic usage of "racism" is unfortunately a little different than the colloquial usage)

In your individual case, you might not be as privileged as the students around you, but your race certainly is. I don't know much about Canada, but Native Americans have quantifiably rough lives. On average they make less, are more likely to become alcoholics, and are less likely to make it through college.

It's not about what your ancestors did. People bring that up a lot but you shouldn't be held accountable for the actions of people you never met just because you're related to them. In fact, you aren't held accountable. But you still have to deal with the society we live in as a result of the actions your ancestors took. That society is deeply inequal, and by providing things like scholarships we're accelerating progress in equality that traditionally takes decades to come about.
Great job. Looking forward to checking it out!
Well, that's not true. I, for one, haven't work on any new feature in two years, only on fixing bugs and improving performance or safety.

If you have a pet bug that badly needs fixing, though, I can help you get started, if you are interested.
BlackBerry met with Facebook to discuss potential takeover
I agree with all the points you've made, and I haven't read this RFC beyond a quick skim, but consider:

-a lot of the time, a dearth of implementations of a new Thing is not because the new Thing is bad, but simply because people are change-averse and lazy, even in the face of an objectively better Thing, and

-I still consider this a quality submission; even if CBOR doesn't get adopted it's still neat to read. It's like watching one's government draft new legislation, except more relevant.
Thanks, will fix it tonight.
UI is very nicely done, but to echo some other sentiments here, I'm not sure it's $10 better than Adium. At $5, I'd just buy it to support great OS X developers, as I want to encourage this type of effort.
170 cycles...due to mainly keeping it plugged in.
Show HN: command line auditory mental math drills for OS X
Agreed! Way to apologize for your sex, race and orientation in one swell foop and act like it seriously informs someones decisions to go to parties, get out there, whatever. "Should I just go out tonight? Hmm, am I white, straight and male?" Derrrrrrrrrrp
I'd probably need my phone just to be able to find the place.
I just bought it, and I must say it is a very nice, slick, modern Mac app. I prefer it to chatting in Adium so far.

That said, I would like it much more if it supported more services than just XMPP. Supporting the Adium service plugin API would actually be a really nice way of doing this (from a user's perspective), but if not, a new API would do well also.
Interesting read on the scream. When I first heard it on TV, it just struck me as a goofy sounding "Yeah!"... I had a chuckle and that was that. I never understood how it got the legs it did.
It looks really good, and I really like the media embedding feature. However, $10 for a desktop app with no trial option, no phone app (cross-platform), for me it is tough to click the buy button. Would love to see a "launch" blog post to see how CTR/funnel looks like after launching on HN. Best of luck!
Does it actually integrate with Google Hangout? I stopped using Adium and switched to the Google Hangout Chrome plugin because Adium did not fully integrate with Hangout (messages I read on Adium do not get marked as read on the Hangout app on my phone). Chrome Hangout plugin works but I'd like something native.
Well you may not be, but many people are.
Plastikman.
Been on the alpha for this for a few months, absolutely in love with it. Good-looking chat clients are hard to come by.

Also, does all software require a free trial or something? I never got that memo.
Looks nice, but AIM, and esepcially Bonjour chat are essential day-to-day for me. Skipping on this app for now.
I would usually agree, but I happened to have some App Store credit so took the plunge and bought it anyway. Fairly impressed so far, but Adium is much more of a power-user's tool, so this isn't necessarily the best replacement for it.
>One of the best things I've ever done for myself is pack up and move to another country.

Having done this 4 times now, I can't tell you how true this is (as is the rest of fit2rule's post).

To anyone thinking about it, find a way to do it and take the plunge. There's no way in hell you'll regret it.
What does that even mean? Of course it is reachable without FTL travel. Besides time dilation which could make it a subjectively short trip, there is also cryogenics and other life extension techniques that could get us there.

If you accept any ship could get there, you might as well consider that space travel isn't the only technology that will advance.
What a sad life we've been leading!! CAN'T....GO.....ON.....
You are quite correct. Can't edit anymore, but that is the correct title of the show I was referring to.
Assuming that's true -- so what? Who cares what a bunch of people you'll never see or talk to again in your life think about you?

It's like Eleanor Roosevelt said (more or less: http://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/03/30/not-inferior/): "No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."

Not doing something you want to do because "they'll all laugh at me" is you giving your consent to being made to feel inferior. Their opinion only matters because you make it matter, by caring about it enough to let it stop you from doing something you want to do.

You may feel like their opinion puts shackles around your ankles, but really the shackles only exist in your mind. Stop believing in them and they disappear.
The absence of Datomic seems a tad suspect.
Riddling: a puzzle game for Ubuntu phones (and how it was made)
Looks slick, as others have pointed out. However, if your primary value proposition is "a modern messaging app," you've lost a great opportunity to capture new customers. We already have modern messaging apps, plenty of them to boot.

Why not change that up a bit to be customizable messaging, or the most elegantly powerful messaging on your Mac, or something more than just "modern" messaging?

Looks neat, regardless.
Not that I can tell. I am fairly sure that it only supports Hangouts as far as the XMPP interface to it that Adium uses.
There's at least 100 idea people working on it right now - I guarantee it. We've heard from a few of them ourselves.

As for it being successful - it depends on so so so many factors. It's impossible to know for sure, but it definitely has potential. Angel.co seems to be handling this idea very well.
On a related note, if you're not listening to the Think Distributed podcast[1], you're missing a terrific combination of research and engineering discussion around distributed systems. It routinely features a few of the Basho guys. The episode on causality, especially, was first rate.

[1] http://thinkdistributed.io/
> All of Uber's old school power users have gotten used to Uber and simply expect our service as a baseline at this point. What I mean is that as you have gotten used to Uber, your expectations of basic fundamental service have risen.

Yeah ... no. I got fed up with taxi service in SF about 2 years ago and started using Uber. At first I was astounded: very clean cars, very nice drivers who were accommodating and pleasant (all I want is a quiet ride without the radio blaring or the driver shouting into his phone the whole way). Best of all, the drivers were knowledgable about the city and didn't need me to tell them turn-by-turn how to do something basic like get across town. It was what I always wanted, and totally worth the extra cost vs. a regular taxi.

It's hard to put my finger on exactly when it started, but in the last few months the "black car" service has degraded to the point where it feels like the old taxi days. Usually the car is dirty, smells bad, the driver has the radio blasting loud (and doesn't exactly react all that well if I ask to turn it down or off), and the driver's attitude is frequently incredibly grouchy (I've had to listen to them complain about their jobs quite a bit lately), and worst of all, they don't know their way around the city at all.

Just to make sure I wasn't experiencing what Mr. Kalanick is suggesting in terms my expectations being calibrated differently, I have made it a point to take regular taxis a few times lately. Instead of a categorically different experience (which is how I would have described the difference between Uber and a taxi in the past), the only differences now between the taxi and the Uber "black car" service seem to be the price and the color of the outside of the car. Oh, and in some cases the regular taxi drivers actually know the city better than the Uber drivers.

I don't really blame Uber for all this, as I'm sure it's really hard to maintain that level of quality while growing at double-digit rates. But I do think they need to take a good hard look at the "black car" service and make sure the drivers know what kind of experience they are supposed to provide. It really should not feel like a taxi with a different coat of paint on the outside.
"But the job of a good attorney is to find a leg to stand on.

An attorney has taken the case."

That doesn't imply that the attorney who has taken the case is a good attorney. And he may just be doing it to get free publicity.
No lease contracts in .uk?

Do car leases work that way in the .uk, like if the car mfgr decides to sell the car out from underneath you even if you're up to date on payments they just send the repo guy out to take it without warning?
I can't wait for the Vybe 2, which by their own definition will be less intelligent than this model.
It's strange to realize that even at Warp 9, it still take a very long time to get anywhere much.

In the TV shows and movies, they never seem to spend more than a few days at a time going anywhere at warp speed.
A Cheat Sheet To Help Boost Your Productivity
Perhaps related, I took an Uber the other day with a driver who didn't know routes, nor English very well. I'm guessing Uber pays better than taxi companies.
Imagine a (very fictional) Yelp user who has 0 money, will never go to a restaurant again in his life, or buy anything at all for that matter. But he has perfect memory and can write excellent reviews of thousands of restaurants he's been to in the past.

Does he have any value to Yelp as eyeball for advertisers? No. If Yelp's audience consisted completely of people like him, no one would ever advertise on Yelp again, no restaurant owner would ever pay Yelp for premium whatever status thing they sell.

But our fictional user can write reviews that are consumed by other users. He is providing real value to Yelp, as a non-eyeball.

In the television case, this guy is completely worthless.

Facebook is a simpler example, because most people are both supplying content and seeing ads. If there were no content, no one would go there to see the ads.
Interesting that the default mode for so many people on hacker news is judgement. I'm here to learn so thank you for sharing your approach. I find it a refreshing way to engage users who are using the resources either way. Would love to hear more about it's impact over time.
Spanner can do partition-spanning transactions with a useful throughput.
I guess the gamble that the App Store spoiled us all in to abandoning our trials in favor of blind purchases is a bad one. In my mind, this app wants to replace Adium in my life, and while I'd like to let it try, I am also hesitant to throw $10 at a "maybe". If it were open to a trial, sure thing.

The psychology of HN's shared response is probably worthy of a blog post.
Nokia surges on Microsoft's home turf
Heck one rogue sys admin and fringe blogger are single handily
re-defining domestic and international politics.

Gosh, I hope not. As much as I admire Edward Snowden, I sincerely hope the new definition of domestic and international politics isn't "Live in fear of the whistleblower." It's a terribly sad day when doing the right thing by the public is left to one lowly sysadmin in the entire intelligence community. I'd like to think that someday we can get back to asking for less of the totally naked transparency we're now demanding of the intelligence community, because we can trust them to do their job without abusing their power. Others have pontificated on how the NSA can restore that trust. I don't know how, I just hope that someday they DO.
IMHO, unions are obviously a counterbalance against management but the truer axiom would be that power corrupts. So just as unfettered power on 'management's side can corrupt so it can on the unions side.
The following thread was the most informative discussion about the state of click-to-play that I found when I searched last month:

http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=2723831
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I went to a restaurant alone once. I was a teenager; this was almost 10 years ago.

I remember my conversation with the hostess going something like this:

Hostess: "So...just one today?"

Me: "Yep."

Hostess: "Oh.. Do you want me to bring you a magazine or something?"
Yeah absolutely, I initially want to start it small and slowly expand it to encompass a lot of those things with a variety of features.

When I initially had the random actor, a vast majority of the time I would land up on someone who only had 1 movie, so basically a dot on the graph, so I restricted the eligibility of the random page for the actor to have at least 3 films under their belt.
I've yet to try uber X here (in Atl) as there always seems to be an uber black far closer. I don't think I've ever waited more than 15 minutes. I'm seeing a few lyft vehicles around recently also. I do wonder if in ATL, the relatively smaller difference in price for uber x leads more people to just splurge on a black car.
Thanks for the correction. I forgot about Udall. He has been very good on this issue.
Does it support OTR? Is it built on libpurple?
But then again, nuclear medicine devices were never on the dollar menu.
People in my audience don't buy windows laptops :).

If I have to run windows, its in a VM, and only for cross browser testing purposes.
That is great. That is basically the point I am trying to make, which is that you should allocate some percentage of your time and energy to meet new people, which I think in particular in the startup world is not necessarily encouraged as much as it should be. However it sounds like you are well on your way :)
> This is crazy, intellectually debilitating blabber.

Would you care to elaborate on what's crazy and intellectually debilitating about the sentence you quoted? I know people that would agree completely with that sentence, so I'd be curious to hear your perspective and why you feel it's wrong.
quite obviously, no.
Check out Textual: https://github.com/Codeux/Textual

(No affiliation, just a happy user)
Scrolled through the whole front page, have no idea what this thing does other than be stylish and comfortable and work with my iphone.

I'm assuming the video says more...but don't hide the main functionality in a video.
It's no wonder he has such trouble socializing. When you wear self loathing on your sleeve like that, people will respond accordingly. It's wonderful to want to make a better world, but when everything you say, think, or do needs to be excused and caveated you can't help but internalize that.
It does sounds rather obvious. But, I can see myself thinking about this more consciously in the coming days because of this post.
From the FAQs:

> "Where can I change my status? You can't and don't need to. Flamingo automatically updates your status between Available, Idle, Away, and Offline by monitoring the idle time of your computer. And status messages? Come on, it's 2013."

...I do not like that one bit. Saying it's 2013 is very ignorant to how people use the "away" feature. I like manually setting if I'm away or busy, because I'm working and do not want to be disrupted. I think you guys should re-think your understanding of how people use Available/Away/Idle/Etc.
Looks cute. Another vote for a trial of some kind.

Not that I'm likely to switch from Adium to be honest; most of my friends are still on AIM.
Picture this: More visual Tweets
Hell, in the new movies, you can transport from Earth to the Klingon homeworld instantly, and fly there in like 20 minutes.
So I'm looking at their website, and I'm left with the question: what the hell is Vybe? So it's the smartest bracelet... what does it do? To my eyes, it looks like it vibrates when you get a phone call. Is that it? Nothing in their FAQ says "What is Vybe". That should be FAQ #1. Nothing in their features section says what Vybe does. All I'm left with is the impression that it vibrates when you get a call.

So if all it does it vibrate when you get a call... sure, that's nice, but why do I have to make that assumption?
Many modern languages in any field are almost as easy to write as Ruby or Python, have great open source support and a great community.

If you use Ruby or Python, you get extreme dynamism that makes things like ActiveRecord or dealing with external semi-structured data very easy (though you pay a performance cost).

If you use OCaml or Scala you get a lot of control over effects, making the code very safe and easy to reason about. And the type systems let you pull out high-level patterns in your code without going crazy, even when those patterns are very abstract, resulting in more concise and maintainable code.

From here go looks like the worst of both worlds.
Another commenter said there is no OTR, however I can't find anything that says this specifically. It could be doing it entirely transparently. It doesn't appear to be using libpurple, it contains XMPPFramework (https://github.com/robbiehanson/XMPPFramework) instead.
Why "Deliberate Practice" Is The Only Way to Keep Getting Better
Yeah, I'm sure good old George routinely assaulted people for wearing a t-shirt. Perhaps we should learn to tell the difference between comedy and effective politics.
If you feel like this, you should really file a bug (http://bugzilla.mozilla.org). If you need help with the intricacies of our bugzilla, ping me (I'm Yoric on irc.mozilla.org or irc.freenode.net).
I read through the whole page thinking it was a satiric play on the whole life monitor fad, especially since Fitbit just released a new bracelet model. When I realized it was a real product, I started thinking to myself what situations it would actually help with. I couldn't come up with any besides their beach/boating one, and the only reason that has potential is because I'd probably have my phone tucked away in a dry bag. ... Moreover, I couldn't think of any realistic circumstance where I'd be doing something away from my phone where I'd actually rather be notified that my phone is ringing than ignore it. Finally, bluetooth range wouldn't even cover my whole house, nor would it help with the more frequent circumstance of leaving my phone plugged into a charger on my desk while I walk around the office.

Who is the target audience?
I don't think the cost of living problem as such is solvable. When I point out that there are places in all five boros that are safe, affordable, and in reasonable commuting distance of the commercial parts of Manhattan I'm told that it is unrealistic to expect techies to want to live in such boring places. But it is very trendiness of e.g. Chelsea that makes it so expensive. The same exact criticism is even more potent when deployed for Austin or Chicago as an alternative.

Positional goods are never going to be cheap, if they were they would no longer be desirable.
Not dubious - speculative:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4534359

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6238297

Although, I certainly wouldn't bet against it long term.
While no system is 100% safe from viruses and malware, on my Linux machine I am guilty of not installing any AV. In the last decade or more, I have had no reason to -- although times may be changing. My web browser does not have flash, pdf readers are disabled, I'm always prompted on downloads, and Java can only run under user 'ohgodno' (and yes, it does have a passwd.)

In most cases if there is an issue with a Linux machine, you can wipe out a user and their files to remedy the problem -- the core system is very rarely impacted.
Questions for the passionate developer
Battery never dies?

Smell a lawsuit in 3 years
If YMMV, then why the need for the disclaimer?

Assigning 'privilege' to race and gender seems fairly lazy to me, considering there are so many ways that it may not actually be a privilege to everybody. You know what is always, without fail, a privilege? Coming from money. When I was growing up, the term 'privileged' could be used without argument that way.
Kickstarter for a Brainwave Lucid Dream Inducer
Slightly sensationalist. The story is driven by a plaintiff's lawyer and a consultant suing a large BigCo with deep pockets. So nothing new there. The tear-down into the ECU tho is slighty interesting.

Unintentional RTOS task shutdown was heavily investigated as a potential source of the UA. As single bits in memory control each task, corruption due to HW or SW faults will suspend needed tasks or start unwanted ones. Vehicle tests confirmed that one particular dead task would result in loss of throttle control, and that the driver might have to fully remove their foot from the brake during an unintended acceleration event before being able to end the unwanted acceleration.
I never set this on my chat clients, and find it very annoying that it's not always done for me. I think this one is just a matter of opinion. Perhaps a setting for it would be nice in the future, but for 1.0, I think they made a good decision.
That looks like it relates exclusively to patents (given the invention language). In any event, California law doesn't govern employment contracts / quasi-contracts entered into in another state.

If you were to 'trial' an employee who had signed a copyright assignment agreement with his current employer in a state where such agreements are enforceable, the prior employer would have a colorable argument that it owned any code written during that week.* If the employee had signed an agreement containing an "anti-moonlighting" provision, again in a state where such provisions are enforceable, the prior employer would have a cause of action against the employee for breach of contract and possibly against your company for tortious interference with a contract.

As I say in the sibling comment, I really think you should talk to your lawyer about this, particularly since the policy is now been subject to a fair amount of publicity that a disgruntled ex-employer might reasonably come across. Although I don't like your hiring policy, I have nothing against your company and would hate to read in a few months that you are bogged down in litigation.

*Federal courts have exclusive jurisdiction over copyright actions, but will apply substantive state law in interpreting and applying contracts. Which state's laws can be complicated, but the most likely one is where the employment took place.
"As soon as you are further than 50 feet from your phone, Vybe will begin to vibrate rapidly notifying you that your phone is no longer in range."

God forbid!
Are you based in Portsmouth? I'm a fellow Granite State techie, always excited to hear of others!
According to the developer, OTR support is planned. Referenced here: https://twitter.com/FlamingoForMac/status/395268991985676289